Nearly three weeks after the 2024 election, with almost all of the votes counted, it has become clear that Donald Trump won his second term in the White House by orchestrating a nationwide rightward shift in voting patterns that largely persisted across most of the 50 states, whether their electoral votes went to Trump or to his Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris.

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    7 hours ago

    No he got votes by promising stuff. And having a reputation for doing.(Whether actually or perceived doesn’t matter)

    The democratic party did not get the headlines because they decided to do the same old stuff of good governance while the headlines were dominated by whether they would hold Trump to account. … … And they didn’t do that. So they lost the headlines, and the election.