The 2024 American election “looks a bit like that of 2016” believes Professor Luc Benoit à la Guillaume

The 2024 US presidential election “looks a bit like 2016” estimates on France Bleu Normandie Luc Benoit à la Guillaume, professor of contemporary American civilization at the University of Rouen (Seine-Maritime), after the claimed victory of Donald Trump . “We remember that in 2016, to everyone's surprise at the time, Trump won the states close to the Great Lakes: Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, etc. So we have a bit of the same scenario. So the difference is is that at the time, [Hilary] Clinton still won the popular vote. There, it would seem, also based on projections, that Trump will also get more votes at the national level than Kamala Harris. There is obviously a sanction vote aspect in relation to the mandate of the outgoing president. In any case, that’s what Trump focused his campaign on.”

“There was a very strong mobilization of voters in general” explains Luc Benoit to Guillaume, “with participation levels equivalent to those of 2020, approximately two out of three voters, which, for the United States, is high. Trump's divisive side mobilizes his electorate, but also mobilizes people in the opposing camp who don't like it.”

For Luc Benoit à la Guillaume, Donald Trump claims victory at the end of a extremely negative campaign . “His campaign was an apocalyptic vision of America: the big cities are cutthroats, the Haitian immigrants eat cats and dogs, the economy is a disaster. All this is still largely false since the United States United States are almost at full employment and have a growth that makes Europe green with envy. We have a vision of America which is diametrically opposed. This is what, I find, is very striking. is that it is not only that there are different projects, it is that there is a complete disagreement on the observation. It is as if there were two alternative realities which are juxtaposed and which do not. cannot communicate.”