ANDREW NEIL: Truly we now live in The Age Of Trump...
and it may be more lasting than many realise Follow DailyMail.com's presidential election live blog for all the latest news and updates By Andrew Neil, Daily Mail Published: 02:17, 7 November 2024 | Updated: 02:29, 7 November 2024 e-mail 1 View comments It is a comeback for the ages. Donald Trump will be the first US President to serve two non-consecutive terms since Grover Cleveland, another New Yorker, in the late 19th century.
But Trump's triumph is more convincing, more consequential than that of his illustrious predecessor. Apart from being on course to win a comfortable majority in the electoral college which picks the President – as the Mail went to press the estimate was 312 to 226 – it looks like he will win a majority of the popular vote, too, (72million to 67million) something no Republican has managed since George W. Bush's post-9/11 victory in 2004.
Even when Trump beat Hillary Clinton in 2016, she was three million votes ahead in the popular vote. So 2016 was no fluke, no aberration, no last gasp of old, dying white men, as so many liberal commentators claimed at the time. Rather it was a major stepping stone to the creation of a new multi-ethnic voting coalition which is now the dominant force in national US politics .
The Republicans didn't just win back the White House on Tuesday. They also reclaimed the Senate , with a working majority. Republican appointees already dominate the Supreme Court .
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