2024 in review: The election as told through Tribune editorials

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

90% : This is dangerous claptrap, and Vance knows it very well.Nov. 6: Donald Trump wins the presidential election.
56% : On the day after the birthday of Abraham Lincoln, the nation's first Republican president, Wisconsin Republican Mike Gallagher's surprise Feb. 10 announcement that he would retire from the House of Representatives when his term ends has set us wondering.March 4: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that individual states can't unilaterally bar Donald Trump from appearing on ballots on the grounds of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.
48% : What mattered most to those with whom we spoke Thursday night was to ensure that Donald Trump was keeping guard on behalf of America -- even, we were told over and over, at the "gates of hell."
41% : And, adding insult to injury for Democrats, it's likely that the result of the election also will deliver Trump from his myriad legal challenges.
37% : That's the way to handle Trump.
35% : That puts this issue to bed in the best possible way, and Trump should return the favor by noting that not everything in Washington is some Deep State plot against him.
34% : The messy realities of human existence, whether for presidents of the United States or anyone else, aren't what political conventions are designed to convey.
33% : Trump was mostly just himself, energetically narcissistic, cavalier with truths, cruel of tone, bereft of empathy.
30% : Trump for president is a matter for the voters.
23% : After the disastrous debate with Trump, we anticipated that would be how things went with Biden.
20% : On a night in which Democrats otherwise delivered the message they intended and effectively prosecuted the case against another term for Donald Trump, it left a sour taste.Oct. 1: Unlike rival ABC News, CBS News says that it expects debate candidates to fact-check each other.
10% : There was the disastrous-for-Democrats debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, the sudden switch by the Democratic Party to nominate Kamala Harris, the contrasting conventions, campaign ups and downs and, of course, the ultimate triumph of Trump himself.
8% : In a debate with Donald Trump, disaster strikes for Joe Biden.

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