Donald Trump’s decisive presidential victory this week caps a turbulent four years out of office for the Republican leader. During his time away from the White House, Trump went from embattled one-term president facing internal Republican challengers and multiple trials to a resurgent president-elect with a broad mandate from voters nationwide.
Trump was at his most vulnerable in the wake of the attack on the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, when even top Republicans were questioning his leadership and actions around the certification of the 2020 election.
Those questions, however, were short-lived.
The former president faced primary challengers — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Trump's own former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley. But it quickly became clear that Trump’s hold on the Republican base remained dominant. Four criminal indictments, one of which resulted in a felony conviction, did little to damage his popularity and played into Trump's own narrative that he was being...
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