Donald Trump’s Triumphant Return to the White House

WSJ Opinion: Free Expression

Gerard Baker, Editor at Large, The Wall Street Journal

Society & Culture, News

4.6 • 591 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

In one of the greatest comebacks in political history, Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election, winning all seven battleground states and seemingly scoring a popular vote victory over Kamala Harris. And with a Republican majority in the Senate and possibly the House as well, a second Trump administration will come into office with the expectation of a robust legislative mandate to roll back the progressive policies of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and chart a new populist course. On this episode of the Free Expression podcast, RNC Chairman Michael Whatley gives Gerry Baker an inside look into how this victory was secured despite Donald Trump’s felony convictions and other challenges, how Trump’s outreach to the Latino community become a major factor on Election Day, and how the Republican party is once again the “Donald Trump, America First ” party. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	From the Opinion Pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Free Expression with Jerry Baker.
0:07.7	Hello and welcome to Free Expression from the opinion page of the Wall Street Journal.
0:12.5	I'm Jerry Baker, editor at large of the journal. If you're not already subscribing to Free Expression,
0:17.3	please do sign up at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:22.2	This week, he's back.
0:24.5	In what can be called, without some of his traditional hyperbole, one of the greatest
0:30.2	comebacks in political history, Donald Trump triumphed over Kamala Harris in the
0:35.1	2024 presidential election. But Trump didn't just win, becoming only the second president in American history to be elected to non-consecutive terms of office.
0:43.3	He secured one of the most comprehensive victories the Republican Party has achieved in decades.
0:48.3	Now counting continues as we record this on Wednesday lunchtime,
0:52.3	but as it stands it seems he's on course to win
0:54.8	all seven of the states that were up for grabs, battleground states, and he's on course to become
1:00.4	the first Republican to win the popular vote since George W. Bush in 2004. He led his party
1:07.4	to take back control of the Senate, and the GOP also looks to have a pretty solid
1:12.3	chance of retaining control of the House, a sweep, a trifecta, whatever you want to call it.
1:18.6	But perhaps most impressive of all was the breadth and the depth of Trump's presidential victory.
1:24.1	He advanced the Republican vote deeply in both blue and red states, notching up a 13-point
1:30.8	margin of victory in Florida, once seen as a swing state, a 14-point advantage in Texas,
1:37.4	cutting the Democratic lead in Illinois, true blue Illinois, to just five points, and in New York
1:44.0	to just 12.
1:45.0	The exit polls indicate that he won as much as 45% of Latino votes,
1:50.0	perhaps more than 20% of black men,
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