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The end of the year is a natural time to take a look back at the previous twelve months, and 2024 was one that will go down in the political record books. After being left for dead politically and surviving several actual assassination attempts, President-elect Trump Completed an unimaginable comeback. He stands on the brink of reassuming the presidency in a way that few could have imagined four years ago.
While the president-elect is the clear winner in 2024, he is not the only one. Here are three more.
J.D. Vance
“Hillbilly Elegy” The author began the year as A New Senator from Ohio He finishes as the front-runner for the 2028 presidential nomination.
The family of former President Trump joins him on stage as balloons drop after his speech at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 18, 2024. (Reuters/Brian Snyder)
Of course, a lot can happen in four years, and serving as Trump's second-in-command can be unpredictable (just ask Mike Pence), but there's no doubt that the Buckeye State senator's stock has skyrocketed.
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Along the way, Vance demonstrated his intelligence and political acumen. He overcame his previous criticism of Trump to win the coveted contest against a field of formidable opponents. He put to rest lingering questions about his only Senate run in which he ran behind the rest of the ticket in Ruby Red Ohio.
Vance's steady, warm and likable presence at the vice presidential debate, which came on the heels of Trump's volatile performance against Vice President Kamala Harrishelped give undecided voters the permission to pull the lever for the GOP ticket.
President-elect Trump and Vice President-elect J.D. Vance attend the 125th Army-Navy football game at Northwest Stadium on December 14, 2024, in Landover, Maryland. (Kevin Deitch/Getty Images)
At just 40 years old and fluent in the language of the modern Republican Party, Vance is in the bird clerk's seat for the foreseeable future.
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Dave McCormick
In 2022, McCormick narrowly came up short in the Republican primary for the U.S. Senate race in Pennsylvania. Of the more than 1.3 million votes cast in the primary, McCormick was just one vote 951 votes He succeeded Dr. Mehmet Oz, who lost to John Fetterman overall.
Two years later, McCormick is now senator-elect from the Keystone State. He not only won a seat in the Senate and has a Republican majority. By overthrow Democratic Senator Bob CaseyIt ended a political dynasty that stretched back to the 1960s to the outgoing senator's father, who served as governor and state auditor.
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In his campaign, McCormick led the charge against Democratic opposition to fracking, a process involved in Pennsylvania's booming natural gas industry, which has become a headache for Democrats everywhere. By Election Day, both Casey and Harris were forced to abandon their previous opposition to fracking, which just a few years ago had been a rallying cry from Democrats everywhere as part of their extreme and misguided green agenda.
With the oil and gas industry supporting nearly half a million Pennsylvania jobs, Casey's election-year turnaround was undermined by his 17-year voting record, but McCormick deserves credit for taking the fight to the incumbent.
Similar to 2016 and 2020, Penn State was the best Battlefield state At the presidential level. With 19 electoral votes, the Commonwealth is poised to remain at the center of the action in the years to come.
Republican Senate candidate Dave McCormick speaks during a campaign rally at a restaurant in Pennsylvania. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
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Common sense and political appeal
During the Biden presidency, voters were routinely told not to believe their own lying eyes. Prices were not that high, and inflation was temporary. The border was secure and President Biden's stamina could rival that of “anyone, any day of the week.” That he was able to deliver the State of the Union address without falling flat on his face was held up as an example of Biden's ability to serve in the most powerful job in the world for another four years.
Then came the astonishing debate in June in Atlanta, when the façade ended. In the bright lights of the debate stage, far from those in charge, the country witnessed a seemingly diminished commander-in-chief. Unable to provide a coherent sentence.
The president did his best to hold on, but by the next month, even his fellow Democrats had seen enough. Biden has dropped out of the race, but questions remain about those who orchestrated the cover-up, not just among his staff but also by the White House press corps responsible for holding the president accountable.
President Biden faced intense calls for him to step down after a disastrous debate performance. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)
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It's fitting that the year 2024 ends with Annie Linsky and her colleagues at The Wall Street Journal Sound the alarm about Biden's condition With their June story titled “Behind Closed Doors, Biden Shows Signs of Slipping,” they published a startling follow-up expose titled “How the White House Fared with a Shrinking Biden in Power.” Unlike the June story, which was attacked by Democrats like “Morning Joe” as “false and biased” and by the White House as a “total editorial failure,” the latest part was welcomed with resignation as Biden still has another month to go in the election. helmet.
And just as 2024 will be studied in political science classrooms for years to come, these three winners are poised to remain major players into the future.
