US Election: Trump lured key Democrat demographics to secure presidency

Harris banked on this issue and it appealed to 18- to 29-year-old women, where she made inroads,

said Egan

A lot of what Americans care about is bread and butter domestic issues,

Egan said

Trump did pretty well with minorities, that's unusual for a Republican candidate,

Campbell said

I think a lot of it came down to the fact that prices remained high under Biden,

J. Miles Coleman, an analyst with the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, told DW

Trump made an aggressive pitch to 18- to 29-year-old men across different ethnic groups and was successful,

Michelle Egan, a professor of politics, governance and economics at American University, told DW

But the shock and surprise this year are nothing compared to what it was like in the US in 2016

when Trump first won ... Campbell told DW

Elections in this country are almost always a referendum on the incumbent administration and Harris didn't divorce herself enough from that,

he said

Jimmy Carterformer President

I think a full investigation would show that Trump didn't actually win the election in 2016. He lost the election, and he was put into office because the Russians interfered on his behalf."

Speaking in 2019 former President Jimmy Carter said

You won't hear from the vice president tonight, but you will hear from her tomorrow."

Speaking overnight at Howard University in Washington, D.C., a historically Black college that Harris studied at, her campaign co-chair Cedric Redmond said

The scope of the victory — electoral swing state domination, popular vote victory, and a Republican-controlled Senate — represents a decisive rejection of the Biden-Harris administration."

In a post on X Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor who Trump defeated in the Republican Party primary, said

We also have won the popular vote, that was great. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Winning the popular vote was very nice, very nice, I will tell you. It's a great, a great feeling of love."

He said

I believe former President Donald Trump's high rate of candidate endorsement success, very similar to his own recent election success, represents a primary focus on both developing and implementing policies and identifying and supporting candidates reflective and supportive of policies geared toward strengthening and improving the economy and achieving much greater and more effective safety and security of our internal domestic environment,

William Hall, a professor of political science and business at Webster University, told Newsweek

This is a magnificent victory for the American people, that will allow us to make America great again,

Trump said upon learning the election results

We overcame obstacles that nobody thought possible,

Trump said

That didn't seem to be the case,

Frey said

What stuck out to me is the the younger population did not move, did not stay as strongly, with the Democrat Harris as they did [with] Biden,

William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution told DW