ROCKVILLE CENTRE, NY — With Election 2024 behind us, one political expert analyzed why President-elect Trump was victorious against Vice President Harris and previews what his next term could look like.
“Young people, usually a core demographic for the Democratic party, split about 50-50 between Trump and Harris,” Matthew Record, an assistant professor of American Politics and Public Policy at Molloy University, told Patch. “Men, in particular, of all races, which is unusual, because men of color, especially Black men, don’t usually vote Republican.”
Trump received 73.4 million votes, 4 million more than Harris.
Since the election, there were rumblings that President Biden took too long to exit the race, a factor that could have, ultimately, damaged Harris.
“Maybe Biden needed to drop out last year and the Democrats could have had a proper primary,” Record said. “It’s impossible to know, especially at this early juncture.”
While attempting to envision the new Trump administration, Record said, “We’re going to have a Trump that is either, much more untethered, in terms of his own personal impulses, or maybe even more likely than that, much more tethered to the kind of institutional apparatus that we see in the Heritage Foundation or Project 2025.”
Watch the full “Patch Weekly Spotlight” interview with Molloy University’s Matthew Record below.
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