A handful of hours were enough, on the night of Tuesday November 5 to Wednesday November 6, for Donald Trump to be declared the new president of the United States to the detriment of his Democratic rival, Kamala Harris. With at least 277 electors, the Republican will therefore return to the White House for four years, after having already occupied it from 2016 to 2020. In the media across the Atlantic, the editorials of the day are still devoted to the exegesis of the vote, while beginning to outline its consequences for the future of the country.
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In the eyes of Wall Street Journalthe kingmaker has a name: Joe Biden. The financial newspaper largely blames Donald Trump’s victory on the errors of the outgoing administration. “Biden set the bar to the left to unite Democrats, instead of uniting the country”deplores the newspaper, which draws a harsh assessment of its four years in office: “Decline in wages when inflation soars, divisive cultural project based on identity politics, chaos on the southern border, collapse of deterrence capacity abroad. »
According to the editorialists of the title, economic issues constituted Donald Trump’s best card: “No matter how much the media trumpets that the economy is doing great, voters who depend on their salaries – not investments – see things differently. » Yet, they note, Democrats could have taken advantage of the “threat to democracy” embodied by the Republican candidate and by his ” character “. But the Harris camp “overplayed his hand here again, their comparisons with fascism and with Hitler not being audible”.
“He enlarged the Republican electoral map”
In an article published by the conservative channel Fox News, political scientist Doug Schoen also believes that Donald Trump’s victory owes a lot to economic issues: it shows that voters want “a less present government, deregulation and lower taxes”. Furthermore, according to him, this victory “surprisingly strong” forces the Democrats to a deep “reassessment”notably because Kamala Harris had made the defense of the right to abortion a major axis of her campaign: according to Mr. Schoen, the result of the election shows the ” weakness “ why lever
He goes further. In his eyes, “the return to the White House of a Donald Trump who is clearly not without flaws also represents a repudiation of the “woke” policies of the Democrats, whether on the subject of transgender people, affirmative action or issues related to the role of parents in the traditional nuclear family ». Breitbart News, a controversial Trumpist media outlet which sees Donald Trump’s victory as “greatest comeback in American history”also believes, from the pen of Joel Pollak, that Kamala Harris “relyed massively on the question of the right to abortion while proposing few other projects”.
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