Donald Trump Elected President

Donald Trump was projected to become the 47th President of the United States early Wednesday morning, gaining 295 electoral votes and winning the popular vote as of the latest polling results. The President-elect managed to win over states that carried Biden in the 2020 election, such as Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan, all of which were once referred to as “the blue wall.” He was the first Republican to win the popular vote since 2004.

The roads for both parties this election cycle were characterized by the unique obstacles, including Biden’s mid-race dropout, Trump’s ongoing criminal cases, and back-to-back hurricanes that battered the southeast. 

Voices on the left took a somber approach, admitting defeat and warning readers to brace for what’s to come. Voices on the right congratulated Trump, and pointed out the weaknesses in the Harris-Walz campaign that led to its losses. 

The New Yorker (Left bias) published an article preemptively deeming the second Trump term the “Term of Revenge,” writing, “Trump has now achieved an unthinkable resurrection. This is the post-2020 Trump—an older, angrier Trump, who demanded that his followers embrace his big lie about the last election and whose campaign will go down as one of the most racist, sexist, and xenophobic in modern history. He will return to office unconstrained by the establishment Republicans who challenged him on Capitol Hill.”

A writer for the Washington Times (Lean Right bias) praised Trump for being a “dynasty killer,” writing, “A genial consensus that dominated Washington for decades stated that America’s century of greatness was built on largely unfettered free trade, generous immigration laws and an aggressive foreign policy that positioned the U.S. as the worldwide enforcer of those norms. Then Donald Trump came down the escalator in 2015 and unraveled it all. In less than a decade, Mr. Trump has rewritten the rules of American politics and taken on every major dynasty of the past half-century.”

Daniel McCarthy (Right bias) argued in the New York Times Opinion (Left bias) that “To his supporters, a vote for Mr. Trump meant a vote to evict a failed leadership class from power and recreate the nation’s institutions under a new set of standards that would better serve American citizens. Mr. Trump is no one’s idea of a policy wonk, but the role his voters want him to serve is arguably the opposite: an anti-wonk who demolishes Washington’s present notions of expertise. Mr. Trump’s victory is a punitive verdict on the authorities of all kinds who sought to stop him.”

A writer for The Daily Beast (Left bias) claimed “Trump’s 2024 presidential election victory means a wholesale rearrangement of U.S. alliances with the prospect of Trump kowtowing to Putin, who he calls a ‘genius,’ and breaking bread with Kim Jong Un, the leader of North Korea’s hermit kingdom, who Trump exchanged admiring letters with. His third nomination was about his own motivation to stay out of jail more than it was about the fate of the country.”