Donald Trump sweeps Kamala Harris

Donald Trump's overwhelming victory over Kamala Harris in the presidential elections. 

The leader of the Republican Party already had the polls in his favour in the last stretch of the electoral campaign in a surprising way, when it seemed that the voting intentions gave a total equality between the two candidates until precisely the last week of the electoral campaign. 

The Republicans will dominate the White House and also appear to regain control of the Senate and maintain a minimal majority in the House of Representatives, probably after the last surge in the popular vote collected by the Republican Party. All this is in addition to a conservative majority in the Supreme Court, something very valuable for Donald Trump due to the court cases that have plagued him in recent years. This parliamentary dominance will allow Donald Trump to easily form a government, according to forecasts.

After the Republicans won important seats in Ohio and West Virginia, the Democrats have lost control of the Senate, which is bad news for the progressive American party. 

Donald Trump was exultant: ‘This is very big. A movement like we've seen before. The greatest political movement of all time, which is going to reach levels never seen before. We are going to heal our country. I will not rest until we have a prosperous and secure America. It's going to be the golden age of America’.

‘Look at what we have done. We've made history,’ said Donald Trump. 

The absolute happiness of the Republicans is normal because it was expected to be a certain technical tie between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. Moreover, the progressive candidate of the Democratic Party emerged victorious from the famous television debate in September in which she cornered the Republican leader with solid arguments and an aggressive discourse that cornered her rival.

Donald Trump came in using issues that could hurt Kamala Harris, such as immigration control or the fight against inflation and various economic problems. The Democratic candidate used clear arguments to hurt Trump during the election campaign, such as his judicial problems for the regrettable assault on the Capitol, the case of the porn actress Stormy Daniels, electoral interference in the state of Georgia or the case of the classified documents kept by Trump after leaving the White House. These were issues in which Harris felt comfortable and which won her the television debate in September. 

But in recent times, Donald Trump reversed the situation and became a clearer leader in the polls, something that was endorsed in the result of the presidential election. A close result was expected, but the electoral difference was large and the victory was falling on the Republican side in several states such as North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona, Georgia and the rest of the states, without complete recounts in several cases, but with a significant advantage that tipped the victory to Trump. 

Donald Trump captured a large part of the so-called hidden vote and triumphed with the popular vote, support that has given him this electoral victory over Kamala Harris and that returns him to power in the White House. 

The result has been so favourable to Donald Trump that he has even won the popular vote, something he had not achieved until now. 

There is a difference between the popular vote and the electoral vote, something that needs to be understood when it comes to understanding how the president is elected and why, on some occasions, a candidate who gets fewer votes nationally can win the presidency. 

The popular vote is the total citizen vote in presidential elections. It represents the direct will of the people, i.e. every vote of every person. When a candidate is said to have won the popular vote, it means that he or she won more total votes nationally than his or her opponent. 

However, unlike some other direct election systems, the popular vote in the United States does not decide who will be the next president. The popular vote is important, but it is only one step in determining who will be allocated votes in each state's Electoral College. 

It is the electoral vote that actually determines the president of the United States. To elect the president, the country uses the Electoral College, a system of delegates representing each state who cast the votes that actually decide the election. 

Each state has a specific number of electoral votes, which is based on the number of its representatives in Congress: the sum of its senators (always two per state) and its representatives in the House of Representatives (which vary according to the state's population). In total, the Electoral College has 538 votes. 

To win the presidency, a candidate needs a majority of these electoral votes, i.e. at least 270 electoral votes. 

Donald Trump was very close to those 270 electoral delegates after the victory in key states such as Georgia and North Carolina and managed to reach that figure and was on his way back to the presidential chair.

The news marks a turning point in American national politics. Above all, due to the belligerent and aggressive tone of Donald Trump, who has raised various arguments such as making America great again and fighting against insecurity, the threat to him of immigration and other problems such as inflation. 

On the international front, there are many open fronts and fears about Donald Trump's more isolationist policy, something that could affect the aid given, for example, to Ukraine in the face of the Russian invasion or the Middle East issue with the harsh war being waged by Israel in the Gaza Strip and on the border with Lebanon. It is expected that, with Donald Trump back in office, the United States will scale back its unequivocal support for Ukraine, and that there will be less cooperation even with NATO, as well as more support for the hard line imposed by Benjamin Netanyahu at the helm of Israel in the armed conflicts currently raging in the Middle East. All of this while recalling how Donald Trump has maintained good relations in the past with more autocratic leaders such as Russia's President Vladimir Putin or North Korea's top leader Kim Jong-un, both of whom are highly contested internationally for obvious reasons.