As the dust settles on what was a shocking election result for some, we ask how Trump’s decisive victory happened and what it means for the US and the world. Andrew Mueller speaks to ‘The Atlantic’ staff writer Tom Nichols, the US’s former deputy assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, Heather Conley, and co-director of the UCL Centre on US Politics, Julie Norman. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
At least one of the nightmare scenarios did not come to pass.
There has been no attempt by one of the candidates to deny the result of the 2024 US presidential election, no threat from his supporters to overturn it by force.
There didn't need to be.
This election was as close to a complete triumph for President Elect Donald Trump as he might have dared imagine.
He won the Electoral College handily and for the first time in three attempts is on track to win the pop popular vote.
He beat Vice President Kamala Harris across her so called blue wall of Midwest and Rust belt states and expanded his coalition of voters, even including significant numbers among cohorts, notably Latinos and women.
He had specifically promised to persecute Trump's Republican Party and it is now more than ever his Republican Party won control of the Senate and as of this broadcast, have a decent shot at capturing the House of representative.
The U.S.
supreme Court is pre stacked with sympathetic judges who have already decided that he is effectively above the law while in office.
Despite his already lengthy rap sheet of criminal convictions and pending further charges, the consequences will not be confined to the United States.
The consequences of US Presidential elections never are.
The weeks before Trump is inaugurated and the years after will be anxious ones for those countries accustomed to America's French and support.
Why have American voters re elected Donald Trump, despite what might appear a long and persuasive list of reasons not to?
How much weirder will his second term be than the first?
And what does everyone else do now?
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Many people have told me that God spared my life for a reason.
And that reason was to save our country and to restore America, America to greatness.
This will truly be the golden age of America.
The struggle for the soul of America has always been an ongoing debate and still vital today.