Donald Trump Re-elected US President
Donald Trump was elected to a second, non-consecutive term on 5 November 2024, winning 312 electoral votes to Kamala Harris's 226 and taking all seven battleground states. He also won the popular vote, by about 1.5 percentage points — the first Republican to do so in twenty years — and improved his share among almost every demographic group, including substantial gains with Hispanic and young male voters. The campaign was without modern parallel. He had been impeached twice, had disputed the 2020 result, faced four criminal indictments, was convicted on thirty-four felony counts in New York in May, and survived an assassination attempt at a rally in Pennsylvania in July. Joe Biden withdrew from the race on 21 July after a debate performance in June that raised questions about his capacity, and Harris was nominated without a primary contest, with 107 days to campaign. The decisive issues, on most analysis, were inflation and immigration. Prices had risen roughly twenty per cent over the term, and while inflation had fallen by 2024 the price level had not, which incumbents worldwide were punished for that year. Republicans also took the Senate and held the House. The second term began with mass deportations, sweeping tariffs, the dismantling of federal agencies including USAID, withdrawal from the Paris Agreement and the WHO, and pardons for those convicted over the events of 6 January 2021. The Supreme Court had ruled in July 2024 that presidents have substantial immunity for official acts. The New York conviction was upheld with no penalty imposed, and the federal cases were dropped once he took office. He is the second president to serve non-consecutive terms, after Grover Cleveland.
- Year: 2024 CE
- Category: Political
