NPP’s Victory Isn’t Tied to US Elections, Our Sister Party is the Republicans – Kofi Tonto

Kofi Tonto, an aide to the NPP’s presidential candidate, has urged Ghanaians to stop drawing comparisons between Ghana’s elections and those in the United States.

Speaking on the Lawson TV/Radio ‘Ghana Se Sen’ Morning Show, Tonto dismissed the notion that the NPP’s fortunes are tied to the outcomes of US elections, particularly the assumption that whenever the Democratic Party wins in the US, the NPP wins, and when Republicans win, the NPP loses.

He emphasized that the NPP’s sister party is the Republican Party, and their success is independent of Democratic victories in the US. Commenting on Donald Trump’s historic comeback, Tonto said that anyone who closely followed the US elections would not have been surprised by Trump’s victory.

“The US election was all about the economy. Trump presented clear, tangible plans to stabilize the economy, while Kamala Harris struggled to offer concrete solutions. Instead, the Democrats shifted focus to abortion and human rights, but the average American wasn’t concerned about those issues. That is the level of absurdity Americans have reached,” Tonto told Kwame Tanko

“Trump’s focus on the economy resonated with voters, especially those who felt their financial situation had worsened over the past four years,” he continued.

He further pointed out that even Muslim communities, whom Trump had once banned from entering the US, endorsed him in this election, signaling the depth of the dissatisfaction with the Democratic agenda.

According to Tonto, the Democrats’ failure to address pressing issues like the economy and human rights cost them the election.

President Donald Trump has been reelected to his non-consecutive second term. He is only the second president to have achieved that after Grover Cleveland.

He will be inaugurated on 20 January, and he will become the 45th and 47th President of the US.

President Trump from the Republican party is projected to win with 312 electoral votes. He is likely to sweep all seven swing states: North Carolina, Georgia, and Pennsylvania have already been called for him by the Associated Press; and he is leading in Nevada, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Arizona.

Unlike in 2020, there are a lot fewer mail-in ballots left to be counted that would swing those states to the Democrats.

He is currently up in the popular vote by 3.6 points, as of the time of writing this, so he is also set to become the first Republican to win the popular vote in a presidential election since George W Bush in 2004.

President Trump beat Vice President Kamala Harris from the Democratic Party. She has yet to make a concession speech. However, she did reportedly make the traditional concession phone call to the winning candidate. Harris also refused to come out to address her supporters gathered at Howard University in Washington DC—just like former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did not talk to her supporters after her loss to Donald Trump back in 2016.

President Trump, on the other hand, was evidently very happy to make his speech to his supporters in Palm Beach, Florida.

‘This was a movement like nobody’s ever seen before. And, frankly, I believe this was the greatest political movement of all time…And now it’s gonna reach a new level of importance because we are going to help our country heal. We have a country that needs help. And it needs help very badly. We’re gonna fix our borders, we’re gonna fix everything about our country…This will truly be the golden age of America…Many people have told me that God had spared my life for a reason…It’s time to put the divisions of the past four years behind us. It’s time to unite…Success will bring us together,’ President (and now President-elect) Trump said on the stage at his campaign headquarters, surrounded by his friends and family.