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Free Beacon Flash Forward: How Trump Won Re-Re-Election in 2024

Four more more!
July 30, 2018

Nov. 5, 2024

The result was never in doubt, but patriotic Americans were nonetheless relieved and elated when U.S. Journalist General Sean Hannity officially announced Donald J. Trump had won an historic third term as president, easily defeating Democratic nominee Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her running mate, figure skater Adam Rippon.

Citizens flocked to recently erected Trump monuments in cities across the country to celebrate, belting out the Star-Spangled Banner and chanting, "Four more—more!" President Trump joined vice presidential nominee Ted Cruz and his wife, Heidi, to address a victory rally at Trump Stadium in Foxboro, Mass.

"Four years ago we promised to Keep America Great, and you know what? I think we did a pretty good job," Trump told the crowd of supporters. "How about those liberals? Truly awful people, a disgrace to this beautiful country. I think they're probably feeling just a little bit, oh, I don't know, how does it go again? Are they owned or what? 'Own the libs.' That's the catchphrase. And you know what? We're going to keep it that way. We're going to keep it that way. We used to say 'Keep America Great.' How about 'Keep the Libs Owned'? Do you like it? I like it, I like the sound of that."

Also in attendance at the Foxboro rally were Senators Curt Schilling (R., Mass.) and Alex Jones (I., Texas), New York City Mayor Hope Hicks, U.S. Attorney General Louie Gohmert, Surgeon General Dr. Sebastian Gorka, White House Press Secretary Greg Gianforte, and Apprentice: White House finalist Tomi Lahren.

After concluding his rousing victory speech, the president boarded Air Force One en route to the USS Donald J. Trump, currently docked off the coast of El Salvador. There, aboard the Navy's first-of-its-kind aircraft carrier/luxury cruise line, Trump planned to accept the unilateral surrender of the street gang MS-13.

In exit poll interviews, nearly all of Mr. Trump's supporters explained their votes by citing the Media Reform Act of 2021, which led to the wildly popular imprisonment of CNN correspondent Jim Acosta, among others, at the Donald J. Trump Detention Center and Resort in Guantanamo Bay. Other reasons included the federal soccer ban and the "Schwinns for Benjamins" buyback program to keep dangerous cyclists off the streets.

Trump's victory silenced the skepticism of some pundits who had questioned the wisdom of replacing former Vice President Mike Pence on the Republican ticket. The move did not come as a surprise, especially after a 2022 "hot mic" incident in which the president was overheard describing Pence as "boring." Mr. Cruz, who had conducted a behind-the-scenes campaign to be named Pence's replacement, was ultimately selected after the former senator from Texas agreed to publicly acknowledge his father's role in the John F. Kennedy assassination.

Trump will become the first president since Franklin D. Roosevelt to serve more than two terms in office, an achievement made possible thanks to last year's successful campaign to repeal the 22nd Amendment. In the end, the outcome of the bitterly fought election was not even close, with Trump winning 43 of 49 states.

Democrats Ocasio-Cortez and Rippon had hoped to win at least 10 states, but conceded their humiliating defeat long before polls closed on the West coast. They were, however, declared the winners of the "shadow election" in the People's Republic of California. Independent candidate Hillary Rodham, who ran a presidential write-in campaign from her cell at the federal supermax penitentiary in Florence, Colo., came in a distant third.

Read more: How Trump Won Re-election in 2020