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After businessman, showman, and dealmaker Donald Trump won the White House in 2016, leftists were crushed. They all thought it was Hillary Clinton’s turn. The wife of a former president, and a U.S. Senator and former Secretary of State under Barack Obama, wanted to break the “glass ceiling” and become the first female president of the United States.
But it wasn’t meant to be.
Trump stunned the world (and probably himself) to become President of the United States. He’d achieve many goals in his life, but running for president no doubt was the toughest challenge he faced. Trump was demonized from the outset and hampered by his own party. Then a world pandemic upended the country. Voters decided they didn’t like the way he handled it — and booted him out.
Trump lost to Joe Biden in 2020 and spent four years, while not exactly in the wilderness, dealing with criminal and civil cases against him. But it seemed the twice-impeached and indicted former president was not ready to retire from politics.
Trump was always going to run again, and he knew the nomination was his before he even started campaigning. Once again, Trump, perhaps the most divisive politician in the history of American politics, became the Republican nominee.
Despite chaos in the Democratic party’s campaign, with a cognitively impaired Biden dropping out of the race under pressure and the unpopular vice president, Kamala Harris, installed (not voted) as his replacement, Trump regained the White House in 2024. And regained it well.
In contrast to the 2016 and 2020 elections, Trump improved his numbers across the board. President-elect Trump handily won all seven battleground states. The incoming president flipped blue counties in red Florida and gained in blue counties across the country. Republicans flipped three seats to regain control of the Senate.
This was no repeat of 2020, where we didn’t know who was president until days later. Trump, the 45th president, unofficially was the clear winner early the next day as the 47th president.
President-elect Trump picked up support among blacks, Hispanics, and working-class voters. He made gains in blue-state cities, suburbs, and rural areas.
That is how frustrated voters were with the Biden-Harris administration. Harris offered nothing new in her campaign. She barely made herself available to voters and the media for tough questions. No one, not even her supporters, knew who she was or exactly what she had to offer. Voters wanted change — big change.
Now President-elect Donald Trump has a second chance. His way will be easier this time around, with a Republican Senate and a possibly Republican House of Representatives. Trump is a known quantity to lawmakers now. He also has a mandate. Trump swept the election, taking all the battleground states and gaining voters over his previous numbers. And he won the popular vote — something no Republican presidential candidate has done since 2004.
Stunning. Was this a landslide?
The 2024 election gave President-elect Trump a clear, clean, decisive victory.
The Bible exhorts us to pray for our leaders. Let’s keep President-elect Trump and leaders across the globe in our prayers.
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