If Donald Trump pulled off the unimaginable — and wholly unexpected — victory eight years ago over Hillary Clinton, what was this?
The Democratic nominee — Vice President Kamala Harris — couldn’t topple The Don, the former president who Democrats impeached twice and charged in jurisdictions across the country. That’s to say nothing of two failed assassination attempts.
Trump lived up to the words he uttered in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13 after his first assassination attempt. He showed “fight.” What’s more, he showed resolve.
In doing so, he likely wrested the title of “The Comeback Kid” from former President Bill Clinton.
“America’s comeback begins today,” South Carolina Republican Party Chairman Drew McKissick said in a statement. “Democrats tried everything to stop President Trump: from the weaponization of our Justice system, to attempting to throw him off the ballot, and even turning their back on Joe Biden to convince voters that their policies aren’t the problem.
“The American People saw through the lies and decided to put our country back into the hands of a real leader, President Donald J. Trump,” McKissick added.
With an early morning Wednesday call that Trump had won the state of Wisconsin, the former president capped an improbable return to the White House. The win sent liberal media pundits into a tizzy, trying to explain how a man given no chance to win won — for a second time, nonetheless.
Trump becomes the first president since former Democratic President Grover Cleveland’s victory in 1892 over incumbent Republican President Benjamin Harrison to win non-consecutive terms as the nation’s chief executive.
“I think that we just witnessed the greatest political comeback in the history of the United States of America,” Ohio Sen. and Vice President-elect JD Vance said during remarks Wednesday morning.