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Donald Trump casts his vote and says the election so far has been ‘fair’
Donald Trump voted on Election Day in Palm Beach, Florida. He told reporters afterward that the election so far “has been fair.”
WASHINGTON – Donald Trumpa defeated president in 2020 and a convicted felon in 2024, rthe White House exclaimed with a unique campaign that relied on a new kind of turnout operation that revolved around a familiar topic: the economy.
A much-maligned change operation produced enough young men, black men and Hispanic voters to gain the upper hand Vice President Kamala Harris in key battleground states including Georgia, North Carolina and Pennsylvania.
At an election similar to Trump’s victory over the former in 2016 Secretary of State Hillary Clintonthe result in 2024 also focused on immigration issues and the economy, particularly the high inflation rates in recent years under the Biden administration.
“We were still too close to inflation peaking,” said anti-Trump Republican strategist Liz Mair.
“And as we have seen in developed country after developed country around the world over the past year,” she added, “voters will vote for literally anyone who is not the incumbent, while still being snubbed about spikes in cost of groceries.”
While immigration was also a key issue, Republican strategist Rick Gorka said the election showed a state-by-state trend. “The economy trumps everything,” he said. “No pun intended.”
The task of getting new Trump voters to actually vote was part of a turnout format that raised questions during the Republican’s presidential campaign.
The Trump team outsourced much of its recruiting and door-knocking to private organizations. It also targeted what officials called “low propensity voters” — people who don’t show up to the polls often — as opposed to “swing” voters who could have opted for one of the major party candidates.
Still: it worked. Exit polls indicated that Trump increased his totals among a number of groups, particularly young men, black men and Hispanics.
The campaign employed strategies designed to attract different types of voters. Trump and his aides said the effort to appeal to young men — the so-called “bros” — is why he did that Joe Rogan’s popular podcast. Trump also campaigned in a number of urban areas with many people of color.
Trump found success with Hispanics despite a tumultuous final phase of the campaign that included insults against Latinos and Puerto Rico, uncomfortable comments about female voters, and violent rhetoric toward political opponents.
Before a highly publicized rally on October 27 at Madison Square Garden, an insulting comic strip mocked Puerto Rico as an “island of trash.”
Later that week, Trump said during a question-and-answer session with conservative commentator Tucker Carlson that a prominent opponent — former House Republican official Liz Cheney — should be dropped into a war zone.
During the final days of the campaign, Trump proclaimed himself a champion and protector, even as aides told him the statements sounded patronizing.
“Well, I’m going to do it whether the women like it or not,” Trump said at a rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin. “I’m going to protect them.”
In the complex world of presidential politicsthese Trump voters had many motives and came from many parts of the electorate. They also showed up despite their candidate’s many other problems, including four criminal charges and a conviction.
Trump claimed that the many accusations against him were politically motivated, telling a group of Spanish-speaking voters on October 22: “I hope the public understands. I hope so, because I thought the audience was incredibly smart. They get it.”
Trump, who was found guilty in a hush-money case in New York in May, is the first convicted felon to win the presidential election. He is also the first elected president since Grover Cleveland in 1892 to win an election four years after defeat.
Other challenges for Trump included: his 2020 election loss to President Joe Biden; his alleged involvement in the January 6, 2021 uprising; his two impeachments during his time in office; his adverse civil judgments in bank fraud and sexual abuse cases totaling more than $500 million; his conviction and possible prison sentence in a New York hush-money case; and intense opposition that included many members of his first government, including the former Vice President Mike Pence.
Trump’s continued threats to prosecute political enemies — and perhaps use the military to suppress demonstrations — led opponents to accuse him of authoritarianism and fascism.
During a campaign that essentially began the day he left office on January 20, 2021, Trump galvanized his base on hot-button issues, including inflation and the rising cost of living, transgender rights, tax cuts and reduced business regulations, and — most importantly in the final days of the campaign – illegal border crossings and crimes committed by migrants.
Political scientist Lara Brown, author of Jockeying for the American Presidency: The Political Opportunism of Aspirants, said Trump fueled deep divisions within the electorate by demonizing immigrants and political opponents.
Brown also said Trump convinced just enough voters that they had actually won the 2020 election and were robbed because of alleged voter fraud. The claims that led to the January 6, 2021 uprising, and unprecedented charges against the former president in Washington, DC and the state of Georgia on charges that he conspired to steal the election from President Joe Biden.
In addition to focusing on voters’ “economic concerns by playing on their fears around crime and immigration” and ignoring more recent good economic news, Brown said Trump “has won the way all authoritarians do — on fear, hatred and division. .”
Trump and his aides had predicted victory because voters believed the Biden administration was a failure and that the legal charges against the Republican nominee were politically motivated.
In assembling the winning coalition, the Trump campaign sought to narrow Harris’ huge lead among female voters, many of whom backed the vice president because of her support for abortion rights. They sought to shore up his support among longtime supporters, including non-college-educated whites and centrist Republicans.
Some of the latter group appeared to be swayed by statements of support for Harris from prominent Republicans, including former Vice President Dick Cheney and his colleagues. daughteronce a member of the Republican Party leadership in the House of Representatives.
Early in the campaign, Trump played up the economy and inflation. As economic statistics improved during the fall campaign — lower inflation rates, a booming stock market — he started talking more about immigration, especially crimes committed by migrants.
Mair said Trump won mainly because of economic problems and immigration. Another achievement, she said: Trump managed to “make people forget January 6.”