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Several “winners” and “losers” emerged in 2024 as the year wound down after Republicans took control of Congress in November’s elections and several prominent Democrats ended up on the losing side.
WINNER – President-elect Donald Trump
Media pundits largely wrote off Trump after he left office, arguing that his political career was over in the wake of the January 6, 2021 Capitol riots and House impeachments. This criticism intensified after he found himself facing charges in several different jurisdictions and battling several prominent Republicans during the Republican primaries.
However, Trump weathered the political storm as he survived two assassination attempts and regained the White House in November in what many described as the greatest political comeback in American political history.
From left: VP Kamala Harris, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown, VP-elect JD Vance
Trump will be sworn in as the 47th president of the United States on January 20 for a term that will be bolstered by Republican control of the House and Senate for at least the next two years.
LOSER – Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz
President Biden made history this summer when he dropped out of the presidential race amid pressure from many within his own party and essentially handed the reins to his vice president despite calls to hold an open primary process.
After several months of campaigning along with a $1 billion spending blitz, Harris finally failed to make the case to voters that the policies of the Biden-Harris administration should continue through four years of Harris’ presidency.
Harris lost both the popular vote and the Electoral College to Trump, and Republicans after the vote gained enough seats to retain control of the House and regain control of the Senate.
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Democratic vice presidential candidate Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, arrive at a campaign rally in Philadelphia on August 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Harris was widely criticized for his decision to select Walz as his running mate, with many political pundits arguing that Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro was the optimal choice. Walz had been labeled by many media outlets as a personable and popular governor who brought “Midwestern charm” to the ticket, but he also consistently brought negative attention to the campaign with a series of gaffes and controversial statements about the his past military service.
“Historically, vice presidents have little impact on the fate of a presidential candidate,” Rob Bluey, president and executive editor of the Daily Signal, told Fox News Digital last month.
“But in the case of Tim Walz, it turned out to be a disastrous decision that doomed Kamala Harris from the moment she made it. Not only was Walz ill-prepared for the national spotlight and media scrutiny, but Harris overlook some better options. Given how little Americans knew about Harris or his political positions, they were right to question his judgment on this big decision.”
WINNER – Elon Musk
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO officially endorsed Trump shortly after the former president survived being shot during a failed assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July.
Musk quickly became a fixture on the campaign trail and spoke at a rally at the site of the assassination attempt.
“As you can see, I’m not just MAGA. I’m Dark MAGA,” Musk he joked at the rally in October, a nod to the Dark Brandon meme. He called the upcoming November 5 election “the most important election of our lifetime.”
Over the past few months, Musk has positioned himself as a key voice in the Trump administration and has been seen at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida several times — some outlets have reported that he lives in the property- and its influence. it has grown to the point where liberal pundits are accusing him of being the “co-president”.
Musk, along with former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, were tapped by Trump to lead the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency, which has already made waves in Washington, D.C., with elected officials on both sides of the aisle supporting to the agency’s stated goal of cutting. government waste.
LOSER – George Soros
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Left-wing billionaire and philanthropist George Soros (Jason Alden/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The Soros money machine that has supported progressive lawmakers and district attorneys across the country suffered significant losses in blue California on election night as voters overwhelmingly rejected progressives on the crime issue.
California voters voted overwhelmingly in favor of Proposition 36 that overturned key provisions of Proposition 47, which was touted by Democrats in the state as progressive crime reforms that would make the state safer .
When Proposition 47 was passed in 2014, it downgraded most felony thefts to misdemeanors if the amount stolen was less than $950, “unless the defendant has prior convictions for murder, rape, certain sex crimes, or certain gun crimes”.
Progressives suffered another major loss in Los Angeles, where District Attorney George Gascón, who co-authored Proposition 47 and had the support of Soros, was overdue by former federal prosecutor Nathan Hochman, since crime was considered one of the main issues of the election cycle.
In another loss for Soros-backed prosecutors in the Golden State, Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price was rememberedless than two years after taking office, following backlash over his alleged soft approach to crime.
Oakland’s Democratic Mayor Sheng Thao, who was facing heat from constituents amid rising crime, was also removed from office after her recall effort passed with 65 % of votes
In San Francisco, where crime has been a top concern for voters, Democratic Mayor London Breed he lost his re-election campaign.
“I think this is broader than just a message from people who care about crime,” Cully Stimson, senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation and co-author of the book “Rogue Prosecutors: How Radical Soros Lawyers Are Destroying America’s Communities.” he told Fox News Digital.
“This is a massive mandate and a cry for help from the general population that we want our state back, we want our counties back and we want our cities back and our failed social experiments have had enough time, and they are an absolute, abysmal failure”.
WINNER – Vice President Elect JD Vance
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Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, the vice president-elect, leaves the Senate chamber as lawmakers work on an interim spending bill on Capitol Hill on Dec. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
The popular narrative among left-leaning pundits during the presidential election cycle was that Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, would alienate voters with a personality they found distasteful.
Contrary to that narrative, Vance established himself as a formidable force in conservative politics, appearing on a variety of podcasts, holding frequent press conferences and putting on a debate performance that several polls suggested he won.
Vance had a 34% favorability rating when he joined Trump on the ticket. This number skyrocketed over the next few months, and He reported clear real policy by mid-November that his favorability rating had soared to 44%.
“I thought people would be more nervous about JD Vance,” MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow said he told Semafor this week.
Vance, 40, will be the third-youngest vice president in U.S. history when he is sworn in next month. Since Trump is barred by the Constitution from seeking another term in office, Vance is already seen as the favorite for the 2028 Republican presidential nomination.
“We’re getting four more years of Trump and then eight years of JD Vance,” Donald Trump Jr. said. in October during the campaign.
The youngest Trump, who is a powerful ally of the vice president-elect, is very popular among the MAGA base.
“The vice president is going to be in the cat seat, there’s no doubt about it,” Republican consultant Dave Carney recently told Fox News Digital.
LOSER – Democratic Senate incumbents
On their way to taking control of the Senate, Republicans successfully unseated several Democrats who had spent decades in the chamber.
Sen. Sherrod Brown had represented Ohio in the Senate since 2007 before losing in November to his Republican challenger, businessman Bernie Moreno. Brown, considered one of the most vulnerable members of the Senate heading into the election, had tried to paint himself as a moderate to Ohio voters who ended up voting for Moreno in a state that Trump won by 11 points.
Democratic Sen. Bob Casey, who comes from a prominent Pennsylvania political family, has represented the state in the Senate since 2007 and was long considered one of the toughest to beat until he lost to his Republican challenger Dave McCormick in November.
McCormick, a 59-year-old businessman, defeated Casey by a razor-thin 0.2 percent margin after riding Trump’s endorsement and dissatisfaction with the economy that Biden and Harris presided over for four years.
“We’ve heard a common refrain. The one message we’ve heard over and over again is that we need change. The country is going in the wrong direction. We need leadership to get our economy back on track to get this horrible inflation under control,” McCormick. he said after the election.
Montana Sen. Jon Tester, who also joined the Senate as a Democrat in 2007, suffered a similar fate in November after losing his seat to former Navy SEAL Tim Sheehy.
Tester had taken more moderate positions in recent years, openly breaking with the Biden-Harris administration on several issues over the years, but it was not enough to persuade voters in Montana, where Trump won by nearly 20 points.
Fox News Digital’s David Rutz, Paul Steinhauser and Cortney O’Brien contributed to this report.
