With 95% of votes counted, Mr Trump had increased his vote share in 89% of counties compared with 2020. That was true even in reliably blue states: in New York, for example, he secured 44% of the vote as of November 7th (with some counties left to count),

Trump had also teased his second term would be “nasty a little bit at times, and maybe at the beginning in particular”. The mass deportation of illegal immigrants was pencilled in for day one. Records over the past 25 years show unified governments – where both chambers of the legislature are of the same party as the executive – sign a quarter more bills into law.