Three reasons Trump triumphed

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Trump also greatly improved his standing with black voters, and especially in key swing states.
48% : In Wisconsin, for instance, NBC exit polls show Trump doubled his share of the black vote, winning 20% of that contingent, up from 8% in 2020.
41% : She was flummoxed by even the mildest of inquisitions, such as that posed by CBS' Bill Whitaker, who reasonably asked why she flip-flopped on issues she embraced in the 2019 Democrat primary, like Medicare for All and banning fracking.
28% : Trump campaigned for all Americans, instead of the "slicing and dicing" favored by Kamala Harris.
24% : By contrast, Trump campaigned with purpose, promising to reduce inflation, roll back harmful regulations, deport criminals in the U.S. illegally, dump unpopular climate mandates and lower taxes.
23% : Harris warned that Trump was a threat to democracy, but voters saw his opponents weaponize the Department of Justice and try to lock up their political adversary, stiff the 14 million Democrats who voted for Joe Biden to be their candidate in the primaries, propose to "reform" the Supreme Court and do away with the filibuster, and persuade social media companies to censor their opposition.
12% : A telling Gallup poll conducted just weeks before the election showed 52% of the country felt they were worse off under the Biden-Harris administration than they were under Trump; only 39% indicated they were better off.

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