USA 2024, Trump elected 47th president. 'It will be the Golden Age, America will be great again, I will stop the wars'

0ttimism spread quickly to Trump's election night headquarters in West Palm Beach and to his Mar-a-Lago residence, also in Florida. Supporters and party donors began to converge en masse, before dawn, at the convention centre to cheer Trump's victory.

Kamala Harris, on the other hand, let it be known during the night from her headquarters at Howard University, Washington, that she would not be speaking in the heat of the moment but would address the country on Wednesday.

Harris, the Vice-President and Democratic nominee, did worse than Joe Biden in many constituencies and was also below the results of Hillary Clinton who lost to Trump in 2016. Trump, on the contrary, outperformed his own performance in 2020 and in many cases also in 2016. If confirmed by the final tallies, this time the Democrats cannot even claim a symbolic victory in the country: Harris may in fact have been defeated by Trump not only in large electorates, but, in contrast to Clinton, also in the overall popular vote. The America that voted, with a high turnout, has in short chosen Trump.

Analyses of electoral flows will better explain in the coming days what the reasons for Trump's victory were, in which groups of voters the tycoon found the most support.

Certainly The Donald won the bet, against everyone: against the progressives and the liberals, against the moderate conservatives who turned their backs on him, and also against his own staffers who throughout the campaign asked him to restrain himself, to stay on the issues of the debate, not to indulge in vulgarity and verbal violence. Trump won, as we saw him in the rallies, out of the box. He certainly did better than in the past among ethnic minorities.

For Vice-President Harris, there is the almost certain certainty, which had already emerged during the count, that she was disproportionately penalised by the votes cast against Joe Biden's administration: in a wave of discontent that Trump was able to exploit to his advantage by attacking the Democrats on the issues of the economy and inflation, as well as on security and illegal immigration.

In addition, as the data as they are released show, the women's votes on which Harris relied were not enough to offset the underlying prejudices against the first woman and against a black woman running for president. Only 54% of women voters supported her, less than the 57% achieved by Biden four years ago. While Trump's charisma has taken a toll on males and especially younger males.

The vote for Congress in turn brought successes for the Republicans. They actually won a majority in the Senate, snatching at least two seats from the Democrats, enough to flip control of the upper chamber. They won in West Virginia, a seat made vacant by the retirement of moderate Democrat Joe Manchin, and in Ohio, where veteran progressive populist Sherrod Brown lost to Bernie Moreno, a Colombian-born car dealer entrepreneur and Trump follower. Democrats are very unlikely to pick up seats in other races. The Senate is only renewed by a third of the 100 total seats.

In the fully re-elected House, the situation is more uncertain: the Republicans have an outgoing majority of five seats and have currently won one more seat, but some twenty seats - from California to New York - have not yet been decided.