Election Earthquake: How Donald Trump Dominated 2024 | 12.29.24
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2024 was a landmark year in American politics, with a presidential campaign that saw unprecedented twists and turns and culminated in the most stunning electoral comeback in modern history. In this special end-of-year edition of Morning Wire, we're going to take a step back to look at the bigger picture, as what was once breaking news makes its way into the history books. I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley. It's Sunday, December 29th, and this is your Morning Wire Year in Review.
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Looking back, unprecedented might be the word of the year for 2024. Donald Trump was reelected to the presidency after a narrow defeat in 2020, becoming the second president to serve two non-consecutive terms and the first in more than 100 years. For the first time in American history, a major presidential candidate was convicted on felony charges. The other major candidate, Joe Biden, dropped out of the race less than a month before his party's convention. And the future of that political party is now totally up in the air. Joining us to discuss all of this is Daily Wire researcher and contributor Michael Whitaker. So, Michael, let's start at the beginning. How did we get here?
That is an excellent question, certainly one the Democratic Party is going to be asking itself for a long time. But it's worth remembering that not too long ago, the Republicans were the ones in the political doghouse. Back in 2012, after then-Governor Romney lost decisively to President Obama, people on both sides of the aisle believed that Democrats had created an unbeatable coalition of working-class voters, various minority groups, and college-educated whites. A party autopsy suggested that to win over new voters, the Republican Party would need to double down on fiscal conservatism, but moderate its stances on social issues, especially immigration.
Well, that unbeatable coalition somewhat evaporated, it sounds like.
Oh, exactly. Donald Trump came onto the scene in 2015 and flipped that advice on its head. Trump has dominated headlines since he came down that golden escalator in 2015. He's arguably been the main character of American politics for the last decade. But at the time, almost no one in the commentary thought he had a snowball's chance in hell.
Donald Trump has been saying that he will run for president as a Republican, which is surprising since I just assumed he was running as a joke.
And Donald, as long as I have you here, it's pronounced huge, not youge. And here's another one. It's pronounced I am f***ing delusional, not I am running for president.
And none of those people are laughing anymore.
Exactly. Trump's hardline stance on immigration, brash and confrontational style, and break with traditional orthodoxy on trade and foreign policy have drawn widespread criticism from the left and the right, but also have proved incredibly popular with large parts of the American electorate. Trump made significant gains with working class voters and tilted the Republican Party in a more populist direction, breaking the Democrats' Midwestern blue wall in the process. His ability to market himself to low propensity voters through popular podcasts, most notably his appearance on Joe Rogan, also won him a lot of support with young voters, especially young men. And Trump made significant gains with Black and Hispanic voters as well, who Democratic strategists have counted on as key pillars of their party. While some wrote off his victory in 2016 as a fluke, many prominent voices on the left are now saying that the Democrats need to go back to the drawing board.
Donald Trump is smarter than me, you, and all the critics. You know why we know? Because he has the White House, the Senate, the House, the court, the popular vote, and we're still saying, well, how is this God? We look like idiots to ordinary people. You're totally right.
All the excuses that have been made for so long to kind of explain away Trump and the support he has built throughout the country are sort of over, right? Like all the people who, you know, this is not normal. This is not who we are. You know, normalizing Trump is the great sin of this era. I feel like all that is over.
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