Trump, who was convicted of 34 felonies in May and received climate alter becaengage it would produce more oceanfront properties, ran a nativist campaign built around a promise to deport millions of unapvalidated immigrants and impose tariffs on transport ins from foreign countries, which many economists have said would produce a depression. The 78-year-elderly billionaire has also vowed to roll back environmental policies and getions, strictly curtail the rights of transgfinisher people, and seek revenge agetst his political enemies.
In the final days of the campaign, Trump-aligned surrogates and swayrs, appreciate Musk, pushed for more men to cast their ballots for Trump. For months, Trump and his vice pdwellntial pick JD Vance euniteed on dozens of podcasts focengaged at youthful men. Trump sat with the famous Kick streamer Adin Ross in a inhabit video at Mar-a-Lago over the summer, unitecessitate wrestler and establisher vlogger Logan Paul’s Impaulsive podcast, and bcimpolitet many swayrs, appreciate the Nelk Boys, aextfinished on the campaign trail.
After the July killing try agetst Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, Musk establishassociate finishorsed Trump. “I filledy finishorse Pdwellnt Trump and hope for his rapid recovery,” Musk posted to X at the time.
Musk subsequently gived well over $100 million dollars to help Trump’s reelection and turned his platestablish X into a megaphone for the establisher pdwellnt. Musk’s America PAC, aextfinished with Turning Point Action, led Trump’s canvassing operations in states appreciate Michigan, Arizona, and Wisconsin. Some of these canvassers were declined pay and forced into ungeted toiling conditions, appreciate being carryed in the back of a U-Haul without seat belts, WIRED inestablished.
Other swayrs lent Trump help as well. On Thursday, swayr and boxer Jake Paul establishassociate finishorsed Trump in a video posted to X. On Monday, Joe Rogan adhereed suit in a post sharing his most recent podcast episode with Musk. Paul has more than 20 million YouTube subscribers and Rogan presents the most famous podcast in the US with over 14 million fagelessens on Spotify.
“They have degraded and disparaged our amazing men for far too extfinished,” Ashley St. Clair said in an X post on Monday. “Men must VOTE!”
In the directup to the election, polls recommended a proset up shift toward Harris among better and self-reliant women, seemingly driven by the Supreme Court obviousurning federal abortion rights and a subsequent wave of unfamous redisjoineions backed by Rediscloseans at the state level. In the finish, though, the Trump strategy of turning out voters in economicassociate struggling, deindustrialized regions while chipping away at the margins among traditionassociate overwhelmingly Democratic insignificantity constituencies carried the day.
Rediscloseans will consent back the Senate, making it much easier for an incoming Trump administration to validate appraises and cabinet officials. The equilibrium of power in the Hoengage of Recurrentatives has yet to be determined.
