A handful of hours were enough, on the night of Tuesday, November 5 to Wednesday, November 6, for Donald Trump to be declared the new president of the United States to the detriment of his Democratic rival, Kamala Harris. With at least 277 electors, the Republican will return to the White House for four years, after having occupied it from 2016 to 2020. In the media on the other side of the Atlantic, the editorials of the day continue to be dedicated to the exegesis of the vote. , as we begin to outline its consequences for the future of the country.
In the eyes of Wall Street JournalThe kingmaker has a name: Joe Biden. The financial newspaper largely attributes Donald Trump’s victory to the mistakes of the outgoing administration. “Biden set the bar for the left to unite Democrats, instead of uniting the country”laments the newspaper, which makes a harsh assessment of his four years in office: “Decrease in wages when inflation soars, divisive cultural project based on identity politics, chaos on the southern border, collapse of deterrence capacity abroad. »
According to the editorial writers of the title, economic issues constituted Donald Trump’s best letter: “No matter how much the media trumpets that the economy is doing great, voters who depend on their salaries – not investments – see things differently. » However, they point out, Democrats could have taken advantage of the “threat to democracy” embodied by the Republican candidate and by his ” character “. But the Harris camp “Once again he exaggerated, his comparisons with fascism and Hitler are not audible”.
“It expanded the Republican electoral map”
In an article published by the conservative channel Fox News, political scientist Doug Schoen also believes that Donald Trump’s victory owes a lot to economic issues: it shows that voters want “a less present government, deregulation and lower taxes”. Furthermore, according to him, this victory “surprisingly strong” forces Democrats into a deep “reassessment”in particular because Kamala Harris had made the defense of the right to abortion an important axis of her campaign: according to Schoen, the election result shows the ” weakness “ of this lever.
He goes further. In your eyes, “The return to the White House of a Donald Trump clearly not without flaws also represents a repudiation of the “woke” policies of the Democrats, whether on the issue of transgender people, affirmative action or issues related to the role of parents in the traditional nuclear family ». Breitbart News, a controversial Trumpist outlet that sees Donald Trump’s victory as “The greatest comeback in American history”also believes, from the pen of Joel Pollak, that Kamala Harris “was heavily based on the issue of abortion rights and proposed few other projects”.
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