The United States voted: Donald Trump will be president again. A return to the White House, this time as convicted criminalthat the Republican candidate based on a hoax and an anti-immigration speech, during a breathtaking campaign in which he suffered up to two assassination attempts and in which, clearly, his multiple problems There were no victims.
Trump thus becomes the second president in the history of the North American country which will be re-elected for two non-consecutive termsmore than a century after Grover Cleveland in the 19th century, and the first to reach the Oval Office after being convicted in criminal trial.
He achieved this after an electoral career during which he almost lost his life twice: the first time in July, during a vote in Pennsylvania during which an attacker shot him, killing a participant in a gathering, and a bullet grazed his earof the now elected president, leaving a picture for story. The second time was in September, when an armed individual was arrested while trying to attack Trump. while playing golf at his club in Florida.
An unusual campaign during which the current vice-president, Kamala Harrisdespite inspired hopes among the Democrats, ultimately failed to overturn the predictions which already hovered over the candidacy of Joe Bidenthat He gave up in the middle of the fight after weeks of internal questioning over his fateful performance in the first debate against Trump. Some encouragement that Harris managed to come back until arriving at the polls with equal voting intentions, but that was not enough.
Trump wins in key states
The United States electoral map was dyed red one night in which Trump swept away and has, so far, been victorious in the “Hinge States” of North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Georgia – the latter two so far in the hands of the Democrats – and, in addition, the Republicans have regained control of the Senate and they also aspire to maintain the House of Representatives.
Pending the rest of the recount, Trump is only four votes away from the threshold of 270 needed to officially become president. The Republican, moreover, also wins in the popular votesomething he failed to realize when he won the election for the first time in 2016 against Hillary Clinton.
Trump declares his victory to the euphoria of his supporters
Wrapped by Elon Muskhis big supporter, Trump followed the results from Florida. Acclaimed by his supporters and accompanied by his vice-presidential candidate, JD Vance; his wife, Melania Trump; and his children – the youngest, Barron, voted for the first time in this election – proclaimed his victory to his supporters in West Palm Beach when only “Fox News” had broadcast it and promised to “cure” the country and “Make America Great Again”. “This will be the golden age of the United States,” he assured.
“I will fight for all of you, for your family and your future, with every breath, every day, with every breath of my body,” he said during his speech, in which he praised the owner of Tesla and “X” and elevated messianic rhetoric. after the attempts on his life this summer: “God saved my life for a reason. and that reason was to save our country and make America great again and now we are going to fulfill this mission together,” he shouted.
Meanwhile, in Washington, Harris canceled his speech When their disadvantage against Trump was confirmed, Democratic supporters left Howard University, the Democratic headquarters on election night, with elongated faces, seeing the options of having an African-American woman as president fade for the first time.
Hoaxes, xenophobia and legal problems
A few hours earlier, despite his confidence in the victory finally achieved, the Republican candidate once again raises the specter of fraudjust in case. On election day itself, he fueled the idea that there was allegations of “massive cheating” in Philadelphiarumors that local authorities were quick to deny.
He thus resorted to the same strategy that he used after the defeat that he never managed to accept in 2020 and which then resulted in the assault on the Capitol. A matter for which he still has a ongoing trial and with which did not hesitate to threaten in a low voice during the campaign, but it didn’t hurt him.
His guilty verdict at the trial for Stormy Daniels Affairstill waiting for a sentence which was postponed until after the elections and which earned him the infamous milestone of being the first former US president convicted in criminal trial. Cases to which is added another in Georgiafor attempting to interfere in the elections and another take classified documentsat his Mar-a-Lago mansion after his first term, a case the special prosecutor requested be reopened.
So, after a campaign in which he used the hoax and xenophobia as a throwing weapon until the last moment – he even baselessly accused the migrants eat domestic animals from his neighbors in Springfield, Massachusetts – Trump will return, even more emboldened, to the Oval Office. He does so with clear promises: stop immigration and change the policy regarding Ukraine. Trump 2.0 returns to the White House. The United States has before it four dark and uncertain years.
