{"id":27608,"date":"2025-02-06T20:54:53","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T01:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=27608"},"modified":"2025-02-09T19:30:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T00:30:58","slug":"why-was-trump-elected-will-he-maga-or-the-opposite-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2025\/02\/06\/why-was-trump-elected-will-he-maga-or-the-opposite-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Why was Trump elected? Will he &#8220;MAGA&#8221; or the opposite way?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/AW020625-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/AW020625-2.jpg\" alt=\"Why was Trump elected? Will he &quot;MAGA&quot; or the opposite way?\" class=\"wp-image-27598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/AW020625-2.jpg 320w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/AW020625-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/AW020625-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/AW020625-2-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Why was Trump elected? Will he &#8220;MAGA&#8221; or the opposite way?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump was elected because roughly 1\/3rd (31.9%) of 242.2 million eligible voters voted for him, while slightlly fewer (30.9%) voted for Harris. Whether or not his executive intrusion into congressional powers makes America great again depends on whether one&#8217;s definition of &#8220;great&#8221; involves the executive branch holding such broad powers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump was elected because roughly 1\/3rd (31.9%) of 242.2 million eligible voters voted for him, while slightlly fewer (30.9%) voted for Harris. Whether or not his executive intrusion into congressional powers makes America great again depends on whether one&#8217;s definition of &#8220;great&#8221; involves the executive branch holding such broad powers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27608"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27632,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27608\/revisions\/27632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}