Donald Trump, despite who he is, has won the 2024 presidential election and will retake the White House for a second term.

Trump's win became official early Wednesday morning after media outlets called Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, giving him enough Electoral College votes for the White House.

Republicans made every mistake they could along the way in nominating Trump again, but Democrats threw them a lifeline in mismanaging Joe Biden's exit from the race and making Kamala Harris campaign from behind most of the way. Instead of persuading Americans to vote for Harris, they spent their efforts persuading them to vote against Trump, and that was not enough for Americans.

In the end, Biden took the presidency from Trump and gave it right back to him.

Trump required a special level of incompetence from the Democrats to win, and boy, did he get exactly that.

Democrats did their best in their pivot from Biden, but it was too little too late. In their 2020 quest to beat Trump at all costs, they boxed themselves into a corner by propping up a mentally unfit octogenarian purely for the sake of winning that election, then didn't realize it was time to change........

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