From political pariah to presidency.

Four years after the departure of the Americans…President Trump from the White House and he left Washington in political disgrace two months later, after trying to overturn his election defeat, they returned him to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

“This is a political victory that our country has never experienced before,” Trump said in his celebratory speech early Wednesday morning, highlighting his convincing electoral and popular victory over Vice President Kamala Harris.

And his running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, called Trump’s victory “the greatest political comeback in American history.”

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Former Republican President Donald Trump and former first lady Melania Trump take the stage during an election night event at the Palm Beach Convention Center, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, in West Palm Beach, Florida. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump, in his victory speech, touted his political movement as “a movement that no one has ever seen before…it was the greatest political movement of all time.”

For an undisciplined candidate known for his hyperbole, Tuesday’s election results appear to prove Trump right.

“This is a historic political realignment,” said veteran Republican strategist Ryan Williams.

Trump defeats Harris to win back the White House

Williams argued that Trump “essentially threw out the coalition that Republicans had built over the past few decades and reached out and doubled down on the voting blocs that he thought he could connect with.”

“He just expanded the party in a way that no other candidate has been able to do before. And I think that’s why the polls have failed to do that, because he has changed dramatically the composition of the electorate,” Williams said.

Former President Donald Trump, Republican presidential candidate, arrives at an election night event at the Palm Beach Convention Center, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, in West Palm Beach, Florida. (Evan Vucci/AP)

For Trump, the 2024 campaign was a grueling two-year marathon. He announced his candidacy at his club in Mar-a-Lago, South Florida, days after the 2022 midterm elections.

And he launched his campaign amid criticism from many in his party that he was partly responsible for the Republican Party’s lackluster performance in the midterm elections.

But after a slow start, the former president ultimately easily dispatched a field of GOP primary opponents — which briefly expanded last year to more than a dozen contenders — as he led list earlier this year during the Republican presidential primaries.

Trump, who has been indicted in four different criminal cases, saw his support surge and fundraising skyrocket in late spring this year, after making history as the first recognized former or current president guilty of crimes.

A month later, President Biden suffered a major setback after a disastrous debate against Trump in late June, which reignited long-standing questions about whether the 81-year-old president was physically and mentally fit for another four grueling years in the White House — and sparked protests calls in his favor within his own party. to withdraw.

Trump’s advantage over Biden in the polls widened and the former president was further strengthened politically after surviving an assassination attempt at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, two days before the start of the Republican National Convention in July.

But the race was instantly upended days later, when Biden ended his re-election bid and endorsed his vice president. Democrats quickly coalesced around Harris, and her fundraising exploded as poll numbers soared.

Harris’ honeymoon continued through the Democratic National Convention in late August and into September, when most pundits declared her the winner of the one and only presidential debate between her and Trump.

But as the calendar moved from September to October, Trump appeared to regain his footing and public opinion polls indicated the former president was gaining momentum.

David Kochel, a longtime Republican Party strategist, noted that we are “still in a country where 70 percent of people are on the wrong track. Voters wanted to change who was in the White House.”

Kochel, a veteran of many Republican presidential campaigns, noted that while Harris “has breathed some life and enthusiasm into the campaign, the fundamentals haven’t changed. People are unhappy with the economy. They think that the country is going in the wrong direction and they wanted to make a change. And it turns out that Trump won the argument for change.

“And he also ran a very effective swing state campaign with effective advertising that hurt him,” Kochel added.

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Williams also applauded the Trump campaign, saying they “had a strategy and stuck to it. They just said we’re going with men…they doubled down on men…they had a consistent strategy for that , and it worked.”

And Williams argued that Harris “basically took Hillary Clinton’s 2016 playbook, photocopied it and made it worse.”

Democratic Presidential Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign rally at Carrie’s Blast Furnaces in Pittsburgh, Monday, Nov. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

And both strategists emphasized that Trump was able to overcome his many inaccuracies and controversial comments.

“We pay so much attention to the crazy things that Trump says. All these things that people find inappropriate. These things don’t matter,” Kochel argued. “He had a better strategy and an environment that worked in his favor.”

And Williams pointed out that Trump “has a way of understanding the electorate and connecting with people in a way that no other politician does. He just speaks his way, and despite the fact that he tells a lot of untruths, he is considered authentic because he is not a refined politician.

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