Donald Trump's White House: Why Donald Trump Will Win A Second Term

By Michael Clinton

On the night of November 7, 1876, as the results of the Presidential election between Samuel Tilden, the Democratic governor of New York, and Rutherford B. Hayes, the Republican governor of Ohio, began to come in, America, in its centennial year, was barely holding together. Reconstruction was faltering. The economic collapse that followed the Panic of 1873 had left millions out of work, and provoked strikes and labor unrest across the nation. The outgoing Republican Administration of Ulysses S. Grant had been embroiled in a series of corruption scandals. A few months earlier, Sioux warriors had defeated General George Custer and his troops at Little Bighorn. Hayes, whom Henry Adams described as a "third-rate nonentity," had earned the Republican nomination, in large part, by being the one candidate all factions of the Party could agree on. Tilden and the Democrats seemed poised for an easy victory. As the historian Eric Foner writes in "Reconstruction," his history of the period, "political corruption and the depression became Tilden's watchwords; issues many Republicans feared would suffice to carry the election."Before Election Day was over, it was clear that Tilden, who, in his previous career as a Gilded Age corporate lawyer and reorganizer of bankrupt railroad lines, had earned the nickname the Great Forecloser, would comfortably win the popular vote. He needed only a single vote in the Electoral College to put him over the top, and results were outstanding in Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana, where white citizens routinely used violence, intimidation, and fraud to keep their Black neighbors, most of whom were loyal to the Republican Party of Abraham Lincoln, from voting. With the prospect of Democrats taking the White House through disenfranchisement at hand, Republicans moved to steal the election outright. "With your state sure for Hayes, he is elected," Party leaders said in an Election Night telegram to their cronies in the three Southern states. "Hold your state."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08HT9PXYZ
• ISBN13: 9798685813701
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 46 Pages
• Weight: 0.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.0" x 8.0"