Trump wins the election and a second chance

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Donald Trump, meet Grover Cleveland, the only other President in U.S. history to win a second term after losing his first bid for re-election.

It’s a remarkable accomplishment and a political comeback for the ages. How he’ll use it to achieve a legacy larger than the divisiveness of the last eight years is the question for the next four. To say the former President has been a portrait in resilience is the political understatement of the 21st century.

He was all but written off as a future candidate after the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, including by us. But Democrats helped to revive him with their one-sided Jan.

6 investigation and their partisan use of lawfare. The Bragg indictment in New York on jerry-rigged charges may have sealed Mr. Trump’s path to the nomination.

The courage he showed after the first assassination attempt was also a defining campaign moment. His victory on Tuesday in the end wasn’t as close as the polls suggested. He won back states he lost in 2020, and he did so with a coalition that included more young voters, and more black and Hispanic men.

He reduced his margin of defeat in states he lost by enough that he may even win the national popular vote. It’s a bigger win than in 2016. Yet Mr.

Trump’s comeback wouldn’t have been possible without the policy failures of the Biden Administration and Congressional Democrats. He won again because President Biden failed to deliver the unity and prosperity he promised, and because over four years voters have soured on the results of his progressive policies. Mr.