By Illinois Review
President Donald Trump – the 45th and now 47th President of the United States stunned the political elites on Tuesday night – winning both the electoral college and popular vote – marking one of the greatest political feats in history as Vice President Kamala Harris underpreformed in every county across the country.
“Many people have told me that God spared my life for a reason. And that reason was to save our country,” President Donald Trump told the crowd full of supporters packed into the Palm Beach County Convention Center during the early morning hours on Wednesday. “This will forever be remembered as the day the American people regained control of their country.”
So far, Trump has 277 electoral votes while Harris sits at 224. 270 was needed to win, and Trump is expected to gain even more votes after Arizona, Nevada and Michigan finalize their results. Trump also won 51 percent of the popular vote in a stunning and shocking upset.
In Illinois, Trump was only 418,000 votes short of winning the Democratic-controlled and very blue state. In 2020, Trump lost the state by 1.25 million votes to Joe Biden, but this election was a different story where he outperformed both Harris and Biden across the board.
Harris proved to be a terrible candidate and Democrats will be second guessing their strategy of replacing Biden with her at the last minute. CNN anchor Jake Tapper was left stunned when shown a map on live television that Harris didn’t outperform Biden in a single county in the country.
“Holy smokes! Literally nothing? Literally not one county?”
Exit polls showed Trump gaining massive ground with Hispanic and Black voters – earning the support of 54 percent of Hispanic men over Harris 44 percent. By comparison, Biden won Hispanic men by a 23-point margin over Trump in 2020 – but on Tuesday, that all flipped. Trump earned 45 percent of the Hispanic vote – a figure unheard of in modern presidential election history for a Republican. In key swing state races, Trump also doubled his support among Black voters from the previous election.
