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Donald Trump Returns to Power, Ushering in New Era of Uncertainty<\/em>, The New York Times, November 6, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The US presidential election, along with elections for the US Senate, House of Representatives and state and local offices and issues was held yesterday. Donald Trump won the presidential election and is now president-elect. Two front-page articles from The New York Times follow, one focussed on the US and one on the impact around the world:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Donald Trump Returns to Power, Ushering in New Era of Uncertainty”<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By <\/strong>Shane Goldmacher<\/a> and <\/strong>Lisa Lerer<\/a>, Nov. 6, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He played on fears of immigrants and economic worries to defeat Vice President Kamala Harris. His victory signaled the advent of isolationism, sweeping tariffs and score settling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Donald J. Trump rode a promise to smash the American status quo to win the presidency for a second time on Wednesday, surviving a criminal conviction, indictments, an assassin\u2019s bullet, accusations of authoritarianism and an unprecedented switch of his opponent to complete a remarkable return to power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Trump\u2019s victory caps the astonishing political comeback of a man who was charged with plotting to overturn the last election but who tapped into frustrations and fears about the economy and illegal immigration to defeat Vice President Kamala Harris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His defiant plans to upend the country\u2019s political system held appeal to tens of millions of voters who feared that the American dream was drifting further from reach and who turned to Mr. Trump as a battering ram against the ruling establishment and the expert class of elites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a deeply divided nation, voters embraced Mr. Trump\u2019s pledge to seal the southern border by almost any means, to revive the economy with 19th-century-style tariffs that would restore American manufacturing and to lead a retreat from international entanglements and global conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, Mr. Trump will serve as the 47th president four years after reluctantly leaving office as the 45th, the first politician since Grover Cleveland in the late 1800s to lose re-election to the White House and later mount a successful run. At the age of 78, Mr. Trump has become the oldest man ever elected president, breaking a record held by President Biden, whose mental competence Mr. Trump has savaged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His win ushers in an era of uncertainty for the nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To roughly half the country, Mr. Trump\u2019s rise portends a dark turn for American democracy, whose future will now depend on a man who has openly talked about undermining the rule of law. Mr. Trump helped inspire an assault on the Capitol in 2021, has threatened to imprison political adversaries and was denounced as a fascist by former aides. But for his supporters, Mr. Trump\u2019s provocations became selling points rather than pitfalls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As of early Wednesday, the results showed Mr. Trump improving on his 2020 showing in counties all across America with only limited exceptions. Mr. Trump had secured the necessary swing states \u2014 including Georgia, North Carolina and Pennsylvania \u2014 to guarantee him the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the White House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Republicans also picked up at least two Senate seats, in Ohio and West Virginia, to give the party a majority in the Senate. Control of the House of Representatives was still too close to call.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a victory speech in West Palm Beach, Fla., Mr. Trump declared that he was the leader of \u201cthe greatest political movement of all time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe overcame obstacles that nobody thought possible,\u201d he said, adding that he would take office with an \u201cunprecedented and powerful mandate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Trump seemingly had to win two races this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, he overcame Mr. Biden, who quit the race after a halting debate performance raised questions about the president\u2019s fitness to serve four more years. Then, he defeated Ms. Harris in a caustic 107-day crucible of a campaign that was ugly, insult-filled and bitter. Mr. Trump questioned Ms. Harris\u2019s racial identity at one point and frequently denigrated her intelligence. They clashed over wildly divergent views of not just the issues facing the country but also the nature of democracy itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Trump has systematically sought to undercut some of the country\u2019s foundational principles, eroding trust in an independent press and the judicial system and sowing doubts about free and fair elections. He has refused to accept his loss four years ago, falsely claiming to this day that a second term was stolen from him in 2020. Instead of hindering his rise, his denial took hold across a Republican Party he remade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, Mr. Trump has vowed a radical reshaping of American government, animated by his promises of \u201cretribution\u201d and of rooting out domestic opponents he casts as \u201cthe enemy within.\u201d He has pledged to oversee the biggest wave of deportations in U.S. history, suggested deploying troops domestically, proposed sweeping tariffs and largely advocated the greatest consolidation of power in the history of the American presidency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aboard his plane, Mr. Trump watched President Biden\u2019s announcement that he would drop out of the presidential election.Credit…Doug Mills\/The New York Times<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pointing to the mob of Trump supporters who sacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, violently trying to prevent the certification of his defeat, Ms. Harris\u2019s campaign loudly cautioned that Mr. Trump in a second term would be \u201cunhinged, unstable and unchecked.\u201d But voters heeded neither her warnings nor those of some of the most senior former Trump administration officials and military advisers who testified to his autocratic instincts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After nearly a decade as the dominant face of the Republican Party, Mr. Trump and his blunt-force approach to politics seemed to lose their shock value. Instead, for millions of disillusioned Americans mistrustful of institutions and of a political system that they felt had failed them, his agent-of-chaos persona became an asset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Trump\u2019s campaign had aimed to put together a new political coalition anchored not just by blue-collar white voters but working-class Black and Latino voters, as well. By Wednesday morning, there were some early signs the campaign had succeeded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2024 election is the second time Mr. Trump has defeated a woman trying to break through the nation\u2019s highest gender barrier \u2014 the presidency \u2014 after he prevailed over Hillary Clinton eight years ago. His history of sexual misconduct, along with his three appointees to the Supreme Court and their role in ending the constitutional right to an abortion in 2022, transformed the race into a referendum on gender and women\u2019s rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But abortion may not have been as salient an issue as it was in the 2022 midterm elections. Florida on Tuesday became the first state since Roe v. Wade was overturned to reject an abortion-rights ballot measure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Polls heading into the election showed a country divided at historic levels along gender lines. Men, including many younger male voters, powered Mr. Trump\u2019s popularity, as women were at the heart of Ms. Harris\u2019s coalition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was also the first election in which a major candidate was a felon. Yet the specifics of Mr. Trump\u2019s crimes were rarely broached by Ms. Harris, who instead tried to focus on kitchen-table issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In May, in a criminal case brought by the Manhattan district attorney, Mr. Trump was found guilty of 34 felony counts for covering up hush-money payments made to a porn star during the 2016 race. In a sign of the extraordinary circumstances facing him, Mr. Trump awaits sentencing tentatively scheduled for later this month, just as he will be ramping up the presidential transition process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The race featured more than $1 billion in television advertising alone, as Ms. Harris, 60, offered herself as the vanguard of a new generation of leadership focused on the middle class, rolling out a series of policy plans to tackle grocery prices, housing costs, child care and elder care. She flipped her position on the border, promising a crackdown after arguing when she ran for president in 2019 that it should not be a crime to enter the United States without authorization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Trump cast her as responsible for many of the country\u2019s problems, countering with an array of sloganeering tax cuts: no tax on tips, no tax on Social Security, no tax on overtime, among them. He denigrated her as a \u201cstupid person,\u201d and called her \u201cfailed\u201d and \u201cdangerously liberal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ms. Harris called for turning the page on the divisive Trump era. \u201cWe are not going back,\u201d she said, and crowds chanted the line back. But she could never fully wrest the mantle of change away from Mr. Trump, given her perch as the current president\u2019s second-in-command.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Biden administration may have accelerated the country\u2019s recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, engineered a softer landing than most economists expected and passed a raft of sweeping legislation tackling manufacturing, climate change and infrastructure. But rising food and housing prices caused a painful economic pinch that packed a political punch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Trump also promised to disentangle the country from conflicts abroad, a turn toward isolationism that found a fresh audience with a war raging in Europe between Russia and Ukraine for nearly three years, and with the Middle East on the precipice of a wider conflagration. His election raises questions about the future of NATO and the American backing of Ukraine; Mr. Trump has long spoken glowingly about President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seeking to blunt the political backlash faced by his party since the Supreme Court overturned Roe, the landmark decision guaranteeing a federal right to an abortion, Mr. Trump adopted a stance of leaving abortion rights to the states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ms. Harris outmaneuvered and baited Mr. Trump at their only debate in September.Credit…Hiroko Masuike\/The New York Times<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Trump formally declared his candidacy nearly two years ago, just days after the 2022 midterm elections. The reality, though, is that he barely stopped running after losing the 2020 election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He withstood a ban by social media companies after the violence of Jan. 6, corporate donor boycotts, a $454 million civil fraud judgment against him in New York and multiple indictments, including one for a conspiracy to defraud the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Trump crushed his Republican rivals into submission. In the 2022 congressional primaries, he unseated eight of the 10 Republican lawmakers who had voted for his second impeachment. Then he swept through the 2024 presidential primaries, winning every state but one after refusing to debate his opponents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His supporters rallied behind him as a candidate of destiny even before a would-be assassin\u2019s bullet grazed his ear in July, at a rally in Butler, Pa., days before the Republican National Convention. \u201cFight, fight, fight,\u201d he shouted as he pumped his fist in the air and blood dripped down his face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eight days later, Mr. Biden, isolated at his Delaware home after testing positive for Covid, withdrew from the race. Ms. Harris\u2019s entry unleashed a burst of money and momentum. The Democratic Party quickly consolidated behind<\/a> her as she closed the polling gap with Mr. Trump. In September, she outmaneuvered and baited him<\/a>at their only debate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Mr. Trump\u2019s enduring appeal helped him navigate a bitter final phase that included his former White House chief of staff saying that Mr. Trump met the definition of a \u201cfascist.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The label did not stick for many voters. Instead, come January, he will again take office as commander in chief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See more on: 2024 Elections: News, Polls and Analysis<\/a>, Donald Trump<\/a>, Kamala Harris<\/a>, President Joe Biden<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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“Four More Years of Unpredictability? The World Prepares for Trump\u2019s Return.”<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Damien Cave<\/a> and Catherine Porter<\/a>, Nov. 6, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damien Cave reported from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and Catherine Porter, from Paris, with contributions from more than a dozen Times reporters around the world.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donald J. Trump has said he would transform America\u2019s relationship with allies and adversaries. He has pledged to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours, increase tariffs and deport millions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With Donald J. Trump\u2019s sweeping election victory on Tuesday, the world is now preparing for another four years of unpredictability and \u201cAmerica first\u201d protectionism that could reset the ground rules of the global economy, empower autocrats and erase the assurance of American protection for democratic partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite a lack of substantive foreign policy debate in the campaign, Mr. Trump has made several statements that \u2014 if turned into policy \u2014 would transform America\u2019s relationship with both allies and adversaries. He has pledged to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours, a promise many assume amounts to the withdrawal of American aid for Ukraine, which would benefit Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More broadly, he has made clear that he intends to make the world\u2019s most powerful country more isolationist, more combative with tariffs, more openly hostile to immigrants, more demanding of its security partners, and less engaged on global challenges such as climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many believe the impacts could be greater than anything seen since the start of the Cold War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt accelerates the already deep trend of an America looking inward,\u201d said James Curran, a professor of modern history at the University of Sydney. \u201cAllies are going to have to save the multilateral furniture while it\u2019s still around \u2014 they have to hope that America buys back in.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By now, after witnessing his first term, the world already knows that the only certainty with Mr. Trump is uncertainty<\/a>. He has often said that keeping the world guessing is his ideal foreign policy. And as the votes were counted, some officials around the world responded with public reassurances, stressing that elements of their relationships with the United States would not likely change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani of Italy told Sky News that he believed Trump had \u201ca natural sympathy for Italy\u201d and that he was \u201cconvinced that we will work well with the tycoon\u2019s new administration.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Mexico, President Claudia Sheinbaum emphasized this week that there would be \u201cgood relations\u201d with the United States because of the need to work together to address immigration and drugs, just days after Mr. Trump threatened to impose tariffs on Mexico of between 25 percent and 100 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In Kenya, Ndindi Nyoro, a lawmaker with President William Ruto\u2019s governing coalition, said he thought Mr. Trump\u2019s economic policies would be better for African countries, many of which are struggling with growing inflation and crushing debt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cRepublican policies have always been better for Africa & the Global South,\u201d Mr. Nyoro wrote on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

India has also been watching the American contest with interest and little concern, trusting that as the world\u2019s most populous nation and fifth largest economy, it would still be courted as a counterweight to China<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n