Former President Donald Trump has made a U-Turn to the White House almost four years after leaving Washington in disgrace and with an uncertain political future.
Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ) has predicted that former President Trump has won the presidency and secured a second term.
Trump reached precisely 270 electoral votes after DDHQ announced that he was the likely winner of Pennsylvania and Alaska.
In an election marked by a number of unexpected events, including two assassination attempts against the former president, a criminal trial involving Trump during the campaign, and a shift at the top of the Democratic ticket following President Biden’s withdrawal from the race, Trump defeated Vice President Harris.
He is the second president to lose the White House in history and the first to do so in over 120 years.
return to win it once more, following President Cleveland in 1892.
Following a roughly 100-day campaign in which he and Harris faced off, Trump secured the 270 electoral votes required to win the White House. Up until Election Day, polling in seven crucial battleground states showed little difference between the two candidates.
In the end, the former president prevailed handily, breaking the “blue wall,” holding North Carolina, and moving Georgia back into his column. He was predicted to win the popular vote by a slim margin, something Republicans have only done once since 1992 and something he did not do in 2016.
Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), the former president’s running mate, and he took advantage of voter dissatisfaction with rising prices, a spike in migration at
In addition to becoming the first president in over 120 years and the second to lose the presidency, exit polls revealed that Trump was making significant gains with Latino voters, strengthening his lead in rural areas, and running almost even with Harris among young men, a group that Trump’s campaign actively targeted.
In addition to extending the tax cuts he signed into law in 2017, Trump has promised to implement universal tariffs on foreign imports, roll back protections for transgender youth, shut down the Education Department, reduce environmental regulations, and carry out the largest deportation operation in the history of the country.
Additionally, he has hinted that he plans to try to fill his administration with supporters.