{"id":15293,"date":"2024-11-08T14:50:32","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T14:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=15293"},"modified":"2024-11-08T14:50:40","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T14:50:40","slug":"the-global-trend-that-pushed-donald-trump-to-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=15293","title":{"rendered":"The global trend that pushed Donald Trump to victory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s victory in the 2024 election was powered by a remarkably consistent nationwide trend<\/a> of voters turning against the Democratic ticket. Vice President Kamala Harris performed worse than President Joe Biden did in 2020 nearly everywhere: in big cities and rural areas, in blue states and red ones.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“What happened on Tuesday is part of a worldwide wave of anti-incumbent sentiment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2024 was the largest year of elections in global history; more people voted this year than ever before. And across the world, voters told the party in power \u2014 regardless of their ideology or history \u2014 that it was time for a change.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“One credible answer is inflation. Countries around the world experienced rising prices after the Covid-19 pandemic and attendant global supply chain disruptions, and voters hate inflation<\/a>. Even though the inflation rate has gone down in quite a few places, including the United States, prices remain much higher than they were prior to the pandemic. People remember the low prices they\u2019ve lost, and they are hurting \u2014 hurting enough that they see an otherwise-booming economy as a failure<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As much sense as the inflation story makes, it remains an unproven one. We\u2019ll need a lot more evidence, including detailed data on the US election that isn\u2019t available yet, to be sure whether it\u2019s right.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2024-elections\/383208\/donald-trump-victory-kamala-harris-global-trend-incumbents<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s victory in the 2024 election was powered by a remarkably consistent nationwide trend of voters turning against the Democratic ticket. Vice President Kamala Harris performed worse than President Joe Biden did in 2020 nearly everywhere: in big cities and rural areas, in blue states and red ones.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“What happened on Tuesday is part of a worldwide wave of anti-incumbent sentiment.
\n2024 was the largest year of elections in global history; more people voted this year than ever before. And across the world, voters told the party in power \u2014 regardless of their ideology or history \u2014 that it was time for a change.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“One credible answer is inflation. Countries around the world experienced rising prices after the Covid-19 pandemic and attendant global supply chain disruptions, and voters hate inflation. Even though the inflation rate has gone down in quite a few places, including the United States, prices remain much higher than they were prior to the pandemic. People remember the low prices they\u2019ve lost, and they are hurting \u2014 hurting enough that they see an otherwise-booming economy as a failure.<\/p>\n

As much sense as the inflation story makes, it remains an unproven one. We\u2019ll need a lot more evidence, including detailed data on the US election that isn\u2019t available yet, to be sure whether it\u2019s right.”<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2024-elections\/383208\/donald-trump-victory-kamala-harris-global-trend-incumbents<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[221,372,1316,222,170,386],"class_list":["post-15293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-donald-trump","tag-election","tag-inflation","tag-president","tag-trump","tag-voters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15295,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15293\/revisions\/15295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}