Donald Trump is due to return to the White House as the 47th President of the United States after his sweeping victory against Kamala Harris at the po

What is a tariff? Google searches for term tariff spike after Donald Trump elected as president

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2024-11-15 19:00:10

Donald Trump is due to return to the White House as the 47th President of the United States after his sweeping victory against Kamala Harris at the polls last Tuesday. He busted through the Democrats’ hard-fought Blue Wall, claiming every swing state to secure 312 electoral college votes to Ms Harris’ 226.

Republicans have flipped the Senate, they look certain to retain the House, and Mr Trump is poised to win the popular vote, too — something no Republican candidate has done, not even he did in his first campaign, since 2004.

And yet, while he apparently convinced more Americans to vote for him and his hardline promises to fix the economy and immigration — by enforcing tariffs and launching a mass deportation campaign — it seems voters are only now looking into the 78-year-old’s politics.

Google searches for the term “tariff” have spiked after the election, as have queries about “Trump’s tariff plan” — spiking more than 1650 per cent since the election. Searches for “who pays tariffs” have risen 350 per cent since the election.