Donald J. Trump Wins the Presidency in the Greatest Political Comeback in U.S. History

By: Donald V. Watkins

Copyrighted and Published on November 6, 2024

An Editorial Opinion

Last night, America witnessed the greatest political comeback in U.S. history. Donald J. Trump will return to the White House as America's 47th president.

I have studied Donald Trump's political instincts since he came down the escalator in Trump Towers in 2015 and declared himself as a candidate for the presidency.  Two weeks later, on August 1, 2015, I published an article titled, “Donald Trump’s Newest Art of the Deal – Winning the American Presidency.”  In the article, I predicted that Trump would win the presidency.

On March 20, 2020, I predicted Trump's defeat in 2020, which was caused solely by Trump's mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

On October 31, 2021, I published an article titled, “Will Trump Win the Presidency in 2024?”  In the article, I predicted that Trump would win the presidency in 2024.  I made the following observations in this article:

• Democrat Joe Biden won the presidency in November of 2020 by seven million votes. To be clear, Biden won the election solely because he was the "default" candidate for independent voters who turned away from Trump in six swing states. Without COVID as a factor in the race, Biden would not have won the presidency.

  
  

• Today, Joe Biden is sinking in a number of national polls. At the rate Biden is sinking, he is likely to be a one-term president like Democrat Jimmy Carter and Republican George H.W. Bush.

  
  

• Barring divine intervention from God, Donald Trump will be the likely Republican nominee in 2024. If Joe Biden runs again, I predict that he will lose to Trump. If Biden foregoes re-election and Kamala Harris runs for president, I predict that Trump will rout her in the November 2024 general election.

  
  

• The outcome of the 2024 election will boil down to five or six swing states, again. I do not think Biden can win re-election. At this juncture, Kamala Harris does not appear to be a politically viable stand-in as the Democratic nominee.

Overcoming Adversity

Since Trump assumed the presidency in January 2017, he has survived: (a) betrayal by former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly, (b) backstabbing from rogue cabinet members like former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, (c) two Congressional impeachments, (d) personal exposure to COVID-19, (e) an FBI raid on his Mar-a-Lago home, (f) numerous law enforcement and regulatory investigations, (g) two state court criminal cases, (h) two federal court criminal cases, (i) two assassination attempts, (j) civil lawsuits and staggering court judgments that were designed to collapse his New York-based business empire, (k) a ban from Facebook and Twitter, and (l) Republican primary challenges in 2020 and 2024 from an army of GOP hopefuls who were determined to drive Trump from the party. 

No presidential candidate in U.S. history has faced and overcome this amount of orchestrated and coordinated political and law enforcement adversity.

Democrats Blew Their Chance to Win the 2024 Presidential Race

On July 4, 2024, I reported that Joe Biden was dropping out of the race for president.  On July 21, 2024, Biden dropped out of the race.  This event provided Democrats with a window of opportunity to win the race for the White House.

In my article, I warned Democrats that Michelle Obama was the only potential nominee who could beat Donald Trump.  I also published a credible national poll confirming this fact.

Even though I am a registered independent voter, I suggested that Democrats draft Michelle Obama at the Party’s nominee at their August national convention in Chicago.  My advice was ignored, as convention delegates jubilantly selected Kamala Harris as their nominee.

Kamala Harris never had a chance of beating Donald Trump.  Harris had no track record of accomplishing any significant achievement in any public office she has held.  Charitably speaking, the Harris presidential campaign was built around a mirage of so-called "accomplishments" that was carefully crafted out of thin air by slick political consulting firms. 

After more than 100 days of campaigning with mundane boilerplate speeches, swing state independent voters still felt they did not know Harris.  What is worse, Harris repeatedly failed to aggressively court undecided independent voters in the swing states.

Democrats blew the 2024 presidential race and have only themselves to blame for Kamala Harris losing in a blowout.

Meanwhile, lame-duck President Joe Biden needs to spend the rest of his days working on son Hunter Biden's pardon and organizing documents for his presidential library while he still has lucid moments.

Kamala Harris needs to graciously fade from the national political scene. Last night's election defeat caps two unsuccessfully runs by Harris for the White House.

America is ready for a woman president, but that person is not Kamala Harris.

Regardless of one's political affiliation, Donald J. Trump must be congratulated for achieving the greatest political comeback of all time!