Donald Trump’s victory on Tuesday was broad enough and deep enough that there can be no doubt – he has a mandate to Make America Great Again. And it’s huge.
For the first time since 2004, and for only the second time since 1988, the Republican candidate for president won a majority of the popular vote.
By winning all seven acknowledged battleground states, he won 312 Electoral Votes – more than any Republican candidate since the heyday of the 1980s, with the Reagan and Bush wins in 1980, 1984, and 1988.
By running so strong and helping to gain as many as five Senate seats – in Montana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and possibly Nevada – he helped flip control of the U.S. Senate to the GOP and brought in more GOP Senators than any winning GOP candidate since Ronald Reagan in 1980.
He did it on the strength of his support not just from white working-class voters, but from black and Hispanic working-class voters. He flipped a border county in Texas with a 97 percent Hispanic population, ending a 128-year-long winning streak for the Democrats; his support among black voters – particularly black men – surged compared to four years ago, and helped fuel victories in Georgia and North Carolina, two states with high percentages of black voters, and Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin, where black voters in major urban areas used to be the bedrock of the Democrat base.
Yet it wasn’t just blacks and Hispanics. His inclusive MAGA message scored with other minorities, too – so well, in fact, that he won in Dearborn and Hamtramck, Michigan, the two cities with the highest percentage of Arab Americans anywhere in the country.
It’s clear the American people want a return to normalcy. They want the border secure. They want the government to stop crippling them with debt and inflation. They want to protect our children from the insane gender confusion agenda. They want to protect girls and their right to compete in sports without having to deal with confused boys. They want to keep boys out of girls' locker rooms. They don't want World War III. And they want our country and our people to be the priority of the government.
Simply put, they want America to be great again.
I honestly think God saved America Tuesday night. In my lifetime, I've never heard people talk about the need to pray about an election the way they did for this election. It happens every election, but it has never seemed as significant as it was this time. I am thankful God gave us the chance to right the ship and to be a beacon of hope for the world once again.
Ours is not a left-wing country. And we want leaders who serve us, not leaders who hate us. We want leaders who lift us up, not leaders who tear us down. And the American spirit is alive and well. They tried to stamp it out, but they failed. They tried to divide us, but we are, first and foremost, the UNITED States of America. Most Americans don’t want to be fighting with each other all the time. We want to take care of our families and communities, innovate, be free to worship and speak freely, and live our lives unburdened by… oppressive government.
Trump spoke to that yearning for a return to normalcy. He promised a return to it – and because we had recently spent four years with him as president, we had a direct comparison available to us. We could compare what life was like under Trump to what life has been like under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, and we could make a reasonable prediction about what life would be like under Trump or Harris for the next four years.
Trump won big. By winning a race for the White House so he could be restored to the office, he did something that’s only been done once before in our entire history, more than a century ago. He is not just a candidate with a strong grassroots backing, he is the leader of a movement that aches to Make America Great Again. Unlike his opponent, he laid out a governing agenda, explaining what he would do: secure the border, build the wall, tame inflation, develop American energy, restore our manufacturing base, extend tax cuts, strengthen our military, protect girls and women from boys and men invading their sports, and fight the woke agenda, among addressing others issues.
Donald Trump just reignited the American Dream. It’s going to be a busy four years.
Jenny Beth Martin is Honorary Chairman of Tea Party Patriots Action
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