WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — Donald Trump is returning to the White House and will become the 47th president of the United States.
It was clear most of America wanted Trump back in the White House with 312 electoral votes compared to Kamala Harris who had 226 electoral votes.
So how did Trump win and what can a second Trump presidency look and feel like?
David Ramadan, a professor at George Mason University and former Virginia Delegate joined DC News Now to provide some insight.
Trump swept all 7 swing states including the blue wall.
Ramadan provided his opinion on how Trump was able to take those states and get voters to pick him.
“There were two surprises in there. One was the women vote; the white suburban women vote that was expected to break for Kamala Harris, it broke for Donald Trump. Mothers prioritize the cost of food over their woman’s rights and the second and the biggest surprise was the Latino voters. Latinos working class Americans just like all race class Americans prioritize their pocketbook today, their monthly budgets today versus immigration rights that gave Donald Trump 3% to go over,” he added.
Ramadan also talked about what could change in Trumps second time in the oval office.
“Unknown really unknown. If he goes and applies what he promised he would do, we’re up for a very tough four years specially North Virginia and the DC Metropolitan areas because he had promised to get rid of 100,000 re-classified hundred thousand federal workers at a minimum,” said Ramadan.
The polls for months said the presidential race was razor thin, but it turned out otherwise. Are polls still believable?
“Not really. Once again the polls were wrong this time. They were way off in 2016, they corrected in 2020. They were pretty much on the spot in 2022. They were all over the place again. The night before the election, 8 of the 10 major national polls gave Kamala Harris two to three points ahead in those swing states,” said Ramadan.
Ramadan chimed in on what could be next for the democrats following the loss of the White House.
“They go back to where they used to have their strengths. They lost the working-class Americans,” said Ramadan. “They need to go back and grab the old, the good ole Reagan democrats in the past. Those are the ones that tend to be conservative but they vote democrat,” he added.
In the DMV region, there were some big wins for Democrats including in Virginia.
Democrat Suhas Subramanyam kept the 10th congressional district blue and Eugene Vindman was declared the winner in Virginia’s 7th district.
Ramadan said there were no real surprises.
“Suhas Subramanyam is now congressman elect. First Indian-American from Virginia. So very happy to see him do that,” said Ramadan. “And Vindman is the 7th was a tight race but it was leaning his way and ended up going his way as well,” he added.
So is Virginia solidified as a blue state or is it still purple?
“I always say you need to have two major elections back to back before you move it from one color to another. So we had the gubernatorial election and you got Governor Youngkin Republican, then we had the midterm election of the Virginia house Senate, which went all democratic,” Ramadan said. “Now we have a democratic vote for the presidential, that’s two in a row every therefore at this point, I classify it as a blue state that doesn’t mean doesn’t go back to purple,” he added.
