'Powerful motivator': Sociologist explains ways 'fear-based messaging' keeps GOP in power

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57% : President Donald Trump with Vice President JD Vance and House Speaker Mike Johnson during the 2025 State of the Union address on March 4, 2025 (Wikimedia Commons) Republican Donald Trump's narrow victory over Democrat Kamala Harris in the United States' 2024 presidential election was far from the "historic landslide" that Trump and many of his allies claim it was.
24% : Nonetheless, the 2024 election results -- including the fact that Trump carried key Rust Belt states like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan -- remain a major source of frustration for Democrats.
21% : Trump, according to the Cook Political Report, defeated Harris by roughly 1.5 percent in the popular vote -- which is a close election, not a double-digit landslide by President Ronald Reagan in 1984 or President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932.

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