A realignment — if Trump can keep it: 2024 results signal a new political era
By Henry Olsen
Published Dec. 25, 2024, 11:43 p.m. ET
Donald Trump’s victory, combined with Republicans regaining the Senate majority and keeping control of the House, made 2024 a bad year for Democrats.
Signs suggest it could be something even worse: a historic defeat that puts Republicans in the political driver’s seat for a generation or more.
That’s because the exit poll showed that more voters said they were Republican than Democrat — for the first time in a presidential election since 1928.
Such a result hasn’t happened since talking pictures were new and Babe Ruth clobbered homers in the original Yankee Stadium.
No one alive today has ever voted in a presidential race where this has occurred.
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