US Presidential Election 2024 Donald trump victory inflation migration social media swing states
US Presidential Election 2024: The results of the US presidential elections have been declared. Republican Party candidate Donald Trump will become the President of America by winning the election for the second time. Donald Trump has secured 294 electoral votes. Whereas his rival and Democratic Party candidate Kamala Harris has won 223 electoral votes. Trump has won four out of seven swing states of America. These include Georgia, North Carolina, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
There are a total of 538 Electoral College votes in America, 270 votes are required for majority. Georgia and North Carolina have 16-16 electoral votes. Whereas Pennsylvania has the maximum of 19 electoral votes. Apart from these three, other swing states are Nevada, Michigan and Arizona.
Leaders and heads of state around the world congratulated Trump, but when Donald Trump left power in the year 2021, hardly anyone expected that Trump would once again become the President of the country. Political pundits who were adept at American politics had even declared that the sun had set on Trump’s political innings. But what were the reasons that Donald Trump again took control of America’s power? Let us know what were the reasons that made Trump taste victory once again.
unemployment issue
Inflation and unemployment were the biggest issues in Joe Biden’s government. Earlier this year, America’s unemployment rate had become the highest in two years. According to the US Labor Department, the unemployment rate increased from 3.7% to 3.9% in January this year. Along with this, in the initial years of Joe Biden assuming power, inflation broke the back of the citizens. Its disadvantage was that the pace of the American economy slowed down.
Robindra Sachdev, President of Think Tank Imagine India and author of the book ‘Trumpotopia and Kamlatopia’ on the politics of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, said in a conversation with ABP News, “Donald Trump targeted the youth. Such is the situation among the youth of America right now. He is frustrated about unemployment. There was no enthusiasm among the youth for Trump that he can take tough decisions. “By projecting this image, we attracted the youth towards us.”
Trump’s image as a candidate who does not want war
America has been stuck in the middle of war for a long time. The long austerity of the American army, sometimes in Afghanistan, sometimes in Iraq and then in Syria, had created a feeling of irritation among the American voters. After this, the citizens also did not like America’s entanglement in the Russia-Ukraine war. This patience came to an end when America gave Israel free rein against Hamas and Palestine. Joe Biden was embarrassed a lot regarding this war also.
Meanwhile, Joe Biden developed his own image as a leader who does not want war. Robindra Sachdev says, “Regarding the Gaza war, Trump had already been saying that if he had been the President, he would not have allowed this war to start. Now even during the election campaign, he directly said that when he became the President, If this happens then it will stop the war between Israel and Hamas because Trump had said some valid things that why do we go to other countries and fight in our own country. This should be improved. The best thing was that he succeeded in awakening the ego of American citizens with slogans like Make America Great Again.
migration issue
In the first three years of the Biden government, the number of illegal refugees in America had increased to 63 lakhs. Throughout the election campaign, Trump used this issue as a weapon against the Biden administration. He said that this is happening because of the bad immigration policy of the Biden government.
Trump promised the Americans that he will build the wall between America and Mexico which he had promised in the last term. Robindra Sachdev says, Trump had said that he would send back the immigrants living without documents in America. These simple promises also reached the hearts of the citizens. Trump had emphasized that it would be better to protect our borders than to get involved in a war thousands of miles away.
Loyal voters supported Trump
Donald Trump’s fans were the fiercest warriors for his victory. Donald Trump has a large fan following in America. During the elections it kept working like an army. The biggest quality of Trump’s supporters was that they always supported him. In bad times, when Donald Trump fought cases in the courts, these supporters were with him. Apart from this, when Donald Trump was shot, his craze among his fans increased even more.
Trump got relief from the label of racist and anti-minority
Donald Trump’s image has remained anti-black. When he became President for the first time in 2016, he got 8 percent votes of black voters across the country. This time almost 8 out of 10 black voters supported Kamala Harris. But this figure is in favor of Trump compared to the last election. Nearly 9 out of 10 black voters supported Joe Biden in the 2020 election. In the 2020 election, approximately 6 out of 10 Hispanic voters voted for Joe Biden. But this time this figure was divided 50-50.
Foreign affairs expert Robindra Sachdev says, “The male population of people of Latin origin in America went in favor of Trump. The African-American vote bank expected a change for themselves. They also expected from the Democratic Party but He gave up on the hope of change and went to the other side. Although only a part of it came in Trump’s favor, but small things lead to big victories.”
Muslim-Americans or Arab-Americans have always traditionally voted for the Democratic Party, but due to the flames of war rising in West Asia, these voters have decided that they will ‘punish’ Biden-Harris. These voters did not vote for Trump but did not vote for Kamala Harris, Trump got the direct benefit from this.
Elon Musk and the wonders of social media
Billionaire businessman Elon Musk was much talked about in the US elections. Musk has openly supported Donald Trump. Especially in swing states where Trump was lagging a little. He had announced for 7 swing states that he would give 1 million dollars as a gift to one voter every day. The state of Pennsylvania was most important in this. Trump defeated Kamala Harris here by about 3 percent votes.
Robindra Sachdev says, “We cannot say much about the impact of Elon Musk’s money. But it can be an important link. The way every registered voter of Pennsylvania is given an amount of 100 dollars as compensation for signing an online petition. Granted, it worked quite well.”
Robindra Sachdev says, “However, the biggest benefit was the creation of an environment in favor of Trump on social media. The direct credit for this goes to Elon Musk. You have a person with you who has platforms like Donald Trump also got the benefit.”
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