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How Donald Trump Won the 2024 Election
And analyzing how Kamala Harris lost
One could argue that 2016 was a fluke and 2020 was a reaction to the pandemic. But the 2024 election is different. It’s indicative of a different America. An America that Donald Trump won quite handily by expanding his base and likely for the first time.
In 2016, there were good arguments that James Comey’s 11th-hour commentary on Hillary Clinton’s emails had an .
In 2020, America was a leader amongst developed nations in , and Trump paid the price.
But now in 2024, after four years of higher inflation, wars around the world, and a poor approval rating for the sitting President, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris had an uphill climb. She did many things right, including focusing on the Blue Wall states that Clinton largely ignored in 2016. But unfortunately for Harris, she also made critical mistakes.
Meanwhile, Trump ran on straightforward messaging that tugged at Americans’ nostalgia for the country they had before the pandemic. This combination of Harris’s mistakes, which I , and how Trump seized on opportunities allowed him to expand his base beyond his performance in the past two elections.
