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Trump White House victory called ‘the greatest political comeback in American history’
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Trump White House victory called ‘the greatest political comeback in American history’

From political pariah to president.

Four years after the Americans evicted then-President Trump from the White House and he left Washington two months later in political disgrace after trying to overturn his election loss, they sent him back to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

“It’s a political victory the likes of which our country has never seen before,” Trump said in his celebratory speech early Wednesday morning, pointing to his convincing electoral and popular vote victory over Vice President Kamala Harris.

And his running mate, Senator JD Vance of Ohio, called Trump’s victory “the greatest political comeback in American history.”

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President Donald Trump

Republican presidential candidate, former President Donald Trump, and former first lady Melania Trump walk onstage during an election night watch party at the Palm Beach Convention Center, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, in West Palm Beach, Florida. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump touted in his victory speech that his political movement was one that “nobody has ever seen before… this was the greatest political movement of all time.”

For an undisciplined candidate known for exaggeration, Tuesday’s election results seemed to prove Trump right.

“This is a historic political realignment,” said veteran Republican strategist Ryan Williams.

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Williams argued that Trump “essentially threw away the coalition Republicans had put together over the decades and doubled down on the voting blocs he thought he could connect with.”

“He just expanded the party in a way that no other candidate has been able to do before. And I think that’s why the polls missed this, because he changed the makeup of the electorate so radically,” Williams pointed out.

Donald Trump wins the 2024 presidential election

Republican presidential candidate, former President Donald Trump, arrives at an election night watch party at the Palm Beach Convention Center on Wednesday, November 6, 2024, in West Palm Beach, Florida. (Evan Vucci/AP)

For Trump, the 2024 campaign was a grueling two-year marathon. He announced his candidacy at his Mar-a-Lago club in South Florida days after the 2022 midterm elections.

And he launched his campaign amid criticism from many in his party that he was partly responsible for the Republican Party’s lackluster performance in the midterm elections.

But after a slow start, the former president eventually easily dispatched a field of Republican Party primary opponents — which briefly expanded to more than a dozen contenders last year — while he had a seat at the table in the Republican presidential primaries earlier this year .

Trump, who has been charged in four different criminal cases, saw his support rise and his fundraising soar in late spring this year after making history as the first former or current president to be convicted of crimes.

A month later, President Biden suffered a major setback after a disastrous debate performance against Trump in late June raised long-standing questions about whether the 81-year-old president could physically and mentally endure four more grueling years in the White House — and prompted led to calls from within his own party to resign.

Trump’s lead over Biden widened, and the former president received a further political boost after surviving an assassination attempt on his life during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, two days before the start of the Republican National Convention in July.

But the race was immediately turned on its head days later, when Biden ended his re-election bid and endorsed his vice president. Democrats quickly rallied around Harris, and her fundraising soared as her poll numbers soared.

The Harris honeymoon continued through the Democratic National Convention in late August and into September, when most pundits declared her the winner of the one and only presidential debate between her and Trump.

But as the calendar shifted from September to October, Trump appeared to regain his position, with polls showing the former president gaining momentum.

David Kochel, a veteran Republican strategist, noted that we are “still in a country where you are 70% wrong. Voters wanted to change who was in the White House.”

Kochel, a veteran of numerous Republican presidential campaigns, noted that while Harris “breathed some life into the campaign and some enthusiasm, the fundamentals did not change.” People are dissatisfied with the economy. They think the country is going in the wrong direction. they wanted to make a change and it turns out Trump won the change argument.”

“And he also ran a very effective swing state campaign with effective advertising that hurt her,” Kochel added.

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Williams also applauded the Trump campaign, saying they “had a strategy and stuck to it. They basically just said we were going with men… they doubled down on men… they had a consistent strategy for it, and It worked.”

And Williams argued that Harris “basically took Hillary Clinton’s 2016 playbook, copied it and made it worse.”

Kamala Harris

Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign rally at Carrie Blast Furnaces in Pittsburgh, Monday, Nov. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

And both strategists emphasized that Trump was able to overcome his many inaccuracies and controversial comments.

“We pay so much attention to the crazy things Trump says. All those things that people find inappropriate. Those things don’t matter,” Kochel argued. “He had a better strategy and an environment that played in his favor.”

And Williams emphasized that Trump “has a way of understanding the electorate and connecting with people in a way that no other politician does. He just speaks in his own way, and despite the fact that he tells many untruths, he is seen as sincere because he is not a polished politician.”

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