How Trump won -- and how Harris lost -- the 2024 election

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71% : Trump, meanwhile, made strides in his promise to assemble a multiracial working-class coalition, winning 45% of Latinos and 55% of Latino men -- records for a Republican presidential candidate -- while making gains in blue states and pushing his margins among non-college-educated and middle-income voters to new heights, according to NBC News exit polls.
59% : "Breaking from the improvisational chaos that defined his 2016 and 2020 campaigns, Trump "made it clear from the beginning: He wanted a professional operation," said Chris LaCivita, who along with fellow senior adviser Susie Wiles co-managed a campaign that was widely seen as more disciplined and competent than his previous ones -- even if Trump himself remained as allergic to staying on message as ever.
46% : "It was probably impossible for any Democrat to win, and probably any Republican could have won, because Harris made probably the best possible attempt to win it and Trump made the best possible attempt to lose it."Indeed, on his third run for the presidency and after nine years as a fixture of American life, Trump is positioned to be the first nonincumbent Republican of the century to win not just the Electoral College, but also the most votes.
32% : Less than four years ago, after the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, Trump was cast into the political wilderness by his own party, as Republicans turned to new faces they thought could harness Trump's energy but with less of his baggage, like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
29% : Republican voters had other ideas, sticking with Trump, the former reality TV star, who reclaimed his image as an outside change agent and faced prosecutions and two assassination attempts.
11% : This account of how Trump won and how Harris lost is based on more than 35 interviews with operatives and officials from both parties and campaigns, many of whom were granted anonymity to offer immediate candid observations about what went right or wrong.

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