What did 2024 tell us about US voters?

As year comes to an end, Trump’s resurgence reveals voting trends that could define US politics in the years ahead.

The year may be coming to an end, but the extraordinary political events of the United States election season will cast a long shadow into 2025 and beyond.

There were many historic moments: from President-elect Donald Trump’s unprecedented conviction in his New York hush-money trial, to President Joe Biden’s surprise – and very much delayed – exit from the race, to two assassination attempts against the soon-to-be president-elect.

And, of course, there was Trump’s victory in the November presidential election – a return to the very top for a man who many thought was finished politically when he lost the 2020 election, and refused to accept the result.

With the dust settling on Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris, several trends have emerged over what does and does not motivate voters in one of the most influential countries in the world.

Trump did sweep the battleground states, making for an Electoral College map on election night that was strikingly red.