The scale of Donald Trump’s victory was confirmed on Saturday with the capture of Arizona, which allows the Republican billionaire to win a stronghold in key states at a time when the transition is being prepared, promised “peaceful” by Joe Biden.
The outgoing president will receive his worst political enemy on Wednesday in the Oval Office, who is beginning to speak on the composition of his future government, to prepare for his historic return to power.
After four days of counting, CNN and NBC channels declared Donald Trump the winner in Arizona, a southwestern state that is traditionally Republican but which narrowly swung in 2020 in favor of Joe Biden.
He had already won the six other key states: Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan and Nevada.
If they do not change the outcome of the election, the 11 electors won in the last “swing state” at stake provide new proof of the incontestable victory of Donald Trump against Kamala Harris.
He is also now almost guaranteed to win the popular vote against the Democrat. He will then be the first Republican president in 20 years to achieve this feat, proving wrong the pollsters who predicted the opposite.
And he will be able to rely on the Senate, which the Republicans took back from the Democrats, and possibly on the House of Representatives, where his party is on track to retain the majority.
Passing the keys of the White House to the Republican will be an immense humiliation for outgoing President Joe Biden, accused by his camp of having, out of pride, facilitated this resounding return.
After weeks of campaign without progress, the latter withdrew from the race in July, weighed down by his age, 81 years old, in favor of his vice-president.
Democratic tenor Nancy Pelosi told the New York Times on Saturday that “if the president had exited (the race) earlier, there might have been other candidates,” adding that Joe Biden’s immediate support for Kamala Harris had prevented a primary from taking place.
The former President of the American House of Representatives, however, praised the “craze” generated by Kamala Harris during her campaign.
The vice president, who described her opponent as a “fascist,” failed to convince Americans that she understood their economic and security concerns.
Badly beaten after a bitter campaign, she assured that she planned to “help” Donald Trump during this period.
Joe Biden also pledged to ensure a calm transfer of power to his worst political enemy, hoping to “lower the temperature” in a country on edge.
A situation very different from 2020, when Donald Trump refused to recognize his defeat and boycotted Joe Biden’s inauguration ceremony. And this after his supporters stormed the Capitol, temple of American democracy, to prevent the certification of the Democrat’s victory, on January 6, 2021.
Four years later, the real estate mogul, who was the target of two assassination attempts during the campaign and was indicted and convicted in criminal and civil cases, will make an incredible return to the White House.
His first mandate was marked by a waltz of ministers and advisors who successively fell into disgrace. The question now is what the Trump 2 administration will look like.
He made his first major appointment on Thursday: Susie Wiles, architect of his campaign, will be his chief of staff, an ultra-strategic position which had never been occupied by a woman.
The rest should be announced in the coming weeks. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., nephew of the assassinated president and former independent candidate aligned with Donald Trump, could be entrusted with responsibilities in public health.
Another key figure is expected to be billionaire Elon Musk, who campaigned very actively for Donald Trump. The president-elect could charge the richest man in the world with profoundly reorganizing the federal administration.
The Republican, on the other hand, indicated on his Truth Social network on Saturday that he would not recall his former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, expected to lead the Pentagon, nor the United States ambassador to the UN under his mandate Nikki Haley , who became his rival during the Republican primaries, to be part of his government.
Donald Trump promised Americans to make their lives better through tax cuts and customs duties. The Republican also said he would carry out “massive” expulsions of irregular migrants.
