It's Trump
The Associated Press called the election for Trump Wednesday morning.
In These Times Staff
One of the most turbulent and agonizing election seasons in modern U.S. history is over.
Donald Trump was re-elected to The White House after winning Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and other key battleground states.
The Associated Press called the election for Trump Wednesday morning, noting that “with a win in Wisconsin, Trump cleared the 270 electoral votes needed to clinch the presidency.”
The Left, organized labor and movement groups will now face the difficult task of moving this country in a more progressive direction and challenging a system of corporate capitalism that puts profit above all else.
Before Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, Trump had already won the swing states of Georgia and North Carolina, and Republicans had secured majority control of the U.S. Senate.
In Senate battleground states, according to the AP, Republicans had won in Florida, Nebraska, Texas and Ohio, where Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) was defeated by conservative Bernie Moreno.
As the political terrain over the next four years comes into clearer view, the results will have far-reaching consequences for working-class Americans, no matter how (or whether) they voted.
Throughout this race, In These Times has provided indispensable coverage and analysis from the perspectives of workers and organizers behind movements for social, economic, environmental and racial justice. We also honed in on how U.S. support for the genocide in Gaza impacted the race, the ongoing fight for reproductive freedom, as well as the anti-democratic, authoritarian plans from the far-Right.
You can find some of the important highlights of our election coverage surrounding Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, below.
In solidarity,
In These Times staff
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