The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has extended its congratulations to the United States President-elect, from Republican Party, Donald Trump, and the Vice President-elect, J.D. Vance, on their victory in November 5 presidential elections.
In a press statement signed and released by the General Secretary of the NPP, Justin Frimpong Kodua, the NPP described the win as a decisive endorsement of the Republican Party’s vision and principles by the American people.
“The NPP also congratulates the United States of America for chalking yet another significant milestone in its democratic credentials following the peaceful conduct of the elections,” he stated.
He further noted that America had set an example, expressing hope that Ghana would draw valuable lessons from this as it approaches its own presidential elections on December 7.
“It is no secret that the NPP has a longstanding close relationship with the Republic Party and shares a lot of things in common with the Republicans including the great ELEPHANT symbol, political orientation and ideology, as we both belong to the global alliance of centre-right political parties, the International Democrat Union (IDU),” he added.
Support for centre-right ideals
Mr Frimpong expressed the NPP’s enthusiasm over the increasing global support for centre-right philosophies. He hoped the NPP would also be victorious in the December elections as both parties pursue bold solutions for their countries.
“We wish the Trump administration the very best in their tenure of office as the incoming Bawumia administration, by God’s grace, hopes to build on the already fruitful relationship between the two political parties and nations for mutual benefits,” he said.
Trump’s win
Donald J. Trump’s victory over Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election marks a historic and improbable comeback for the former president, who left office in 2021 after failing to overturn the 2020 election results.
Afterward, he became the first former president to be charged with either state or federal crimes, with four separate indictments, one of which resulted in conviction.
“We overcame obstacles that nobody ever thought we could,” he said on election night after a bitter, bruising campaign. He vowed to fight for every family and for their futures. “This will truly be the golden age of America,” he vowed.
Trump was projected by CBS News to have won the battleground states of North Carolina, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — surpassing the electoral vote threshold of 270 by 6 votes with a total of 276. Votes were still being counted in the other battleground states of Michigan, Nevada and Arizona when Trump secured the presidency.
Exit polling showed Trump won overwhelmingly among White voters without a college education and made inroads with Black and Latino men.
Throughout his two-year campaign, Trump hammered President Biden, and later Harris, on inflation and the economy. It’s a message that resonated with voters, whose views on the economy were more negative now than they were in 2020, despite the pandemic that brought the economy to a halt during his presidency.
Battleground
Nationally and across the battleground states, on the question of whether voters were better off now than they were four years ago, more voters said they were financially worse off.
In Georgia, independent voters broke for Trump in Georgia, 54% to 43%, according to CBS News exit polls. This is a group that backed Mr. Biden in 2020 by 9 points. The economy was their top issue.
Harris and Trump attracted equal support from independents in North Carolina, but that meant the vice president was winning a smaller share than Mr. Biden did in 2020. Even with that edge, North Carolina was the lone battleground state Trump won that year.
Trump also ran hard on immigration — as he has for nearly a decade — and vowed at nearly every campaign event that he’d carry out mass deportations if he’s reelected. Exit polling showed that voters also believed Trump would do a better job of confronting illegal immigration at the southern border.
Trump had an unshakeable base of voters, and in this election, he was able to attract new voters who were undecided — low-propensity, young male voters — turned out for him.
Trump is the first convicted felon to win the presidency. Sentencing for his federal conviction in the New York “hush money” trial is set for Nov. 26, and raises questions about how a president-elect would be punished under the law.
He also faces criminal charges in three other cases whose futures are now in doubt. At 78, Trump is the oldest person to be elected president — breaking the record held by President Biden, who withdrew from the 2024 presidential race in July amid questions about his age and competency. Mr. Biden was also 78 when he took office in 2021, but on Inauguration Day, Trump will be several months older than Mr. Biden was when he was sworn in.
On his path to the presidency, Trump also survived two assassination attempts, one during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, when a gunman’s bullet grazed his ear, and a separate incident at his West Palm Beach golf club on September 15 when a suspect fled after the Secret Service opened.
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