Donald Trump wins the 2024 election, pushing democracy to the brink
All of these legal entanglements do not bode well for Trump’s presidential campaign. And many believe that his White House hopes could be completely shattered by the convictions, especially in election interference proceedings and classified documents. However, the former president succeeded in delaying those cases, while his leading primary opponents, including the former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley and Florida governor Ron DeSantis, has struggled to gain attention as the Republican Party base remains in Trump’s grip. With little to gain from participating in the primary debates in 2023, former president strategically ignored them, and by year’s end it was clear he would secure the nomination again.
By early 2024, the 81-year-old Biden’s cognitive abilities were increasingly becoming an issue for his re-election bid; President increasingly easy to get caught off guard rhetoric—and afraid of the media—only emphasizes his aging. Then, in June, Biden gave a famous speech poor debate performance against Trump, raising widespread doubts among institutional Democrats about his ability to campaign and govern. The president’s prospects seem even dimmer after Trump survived a meltdown assassination plot at a mid-July protest in Butler, Pennsylvania, where he raised his fist in defiance as he bled from a bullet that grazed his ear.
At the same time, top Democrats are orchestrating a behind-the-scenes pressure campaign to get the president, whose popularity is in freefall, to stand down. And on July 21, Biden finally attention those calls, clearing the way for Harris to replace him as nominee. Immediately after Harris took office, the electoral map switch back in favor of Democrats—an unwelcome development for Trump’s campaign, already according to the report is hoping for an easy victory over Biden.
In July, shortly before being officially nominated at the Republican convention, Trump officially announced Vance as his running mate. While Vance initially had to respond bad comments in the past on women and children, the Ohio senator gradually gained status as Trump’s attack dog in interviews with the mainstream media. Vance also display rhetorical skills in the October debate with Walz, who at times faltered. For Trump’s September debate against Harris, the former president was widely seen as having performed worse than the vice president, who simultaneously highlighted his past improprieties and easily dismissed his mistakes.
In his attacks against Harris throughout the cycle, Trump has largely relied on Biden-era inflation and Harris’s past as a left-wing prosecutor, while also seeking to highlight perceived failures during her term as vice president. Perhaps most prominent among them is her handling of immigration — an issue on which Vance and Trump aggressively campaigned in the final months of the election. Their anti-immigrant criticism reached a moral low point in mid-September, when they suddenly began promoting a Racist, baseless lied that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating people’s pets. (Trump has previously claimed that immigrants are “blood poisoning” of the country, while Vance has amplified “Great alternative” theory.) Trump’s campaign, and the GOP, also put main resource behind anti-transgender ads.
In addition to his demeaning remarks, the former president also used authoritarian rhetoric throughout his campaign, vowing that “retribution” against his rival, with whom he is intimately “insects” that should be uprooted from the country. The former president also promised to weaponize the federal government against his political enemies, including Biden, anti-Trump Republicans, Democrats in Congress and members of the press. will. His authoritarian tendencies were on full display just a few weeks ago, when his former chief of staff John Kelly called back Atlantic that Trump, as president, expressed disappointment about his generals not showing the same loyalty as Hitler. (Trump has denied that this happened.) The subsequent reporting led Harris to publicly call Trump “fascist.”
During Trump’s first White House campaign in 2015, many Republicans expressed disagreement with his rhetoric, personality and behavior. And throughout his first term as president, top officials in his administration — as well as Supreme Court justices — blocked the former president from implementing many wish list items. his radical politics.
However, Trump’s second term that party assembled into an almost complete concertless likely to be divided by internal dissent. The former president will take power significantly expanded by the Supreme Court’s conservative majority just months before Election Day, granting presidents nearly total immunity from criminal prosecution — a ruling that further delayed the ouster trial DOJ election. (Meanwhile, the judge appointed by Trump Aileen Cannon fired secret documents case; she according to the report on the list of potential attorney general candidates.)
Trump also plan to radically reform the federal bureaucracy with civil servants who would pose little or no resistance to his political plans—which, among other things, include Mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, further erosion of reproductive rights, massive tariffs on foreign goods, crackdowns on political enemies, and a likely U.S. withdrawal from NATO .
