The signs pointed into the direction of the Republicans, when Musk joined the campaign and when Zuckerberg revealed what he revealed. The other sign was Tulsi Gabbard and RFK giving up their own candidacy and party. Which for me meant, that part of the powers in play turned towards Trump to secure their money and also to be safer towards possible hostile actions from the other camp. Still, the outcome was far from being clear, since fraud and disturbance of the legal process must be calculated in.

In the lower ranks you've got people like Charlie Kirk and his followership, who did a hell lot of grass-root work to convince the populace, in particular students on campuses. His live show on yt yesterday was being deleted during me watching it and cannot be found on his channel. On the intellectual front you've got figures like Jordan Peterson. Even though they have the whole legacy media against them, they have big money against them, they seemed to have compensated it by hard work and a mindset of never surrender.
Which the other camp does not have in terms of regular people. The lefties are not known for being hard working folks, they may also have relied on the fact that they were in the stronger position and not have left the bed or cozy couch on election day.

One may think of Trump and his team what one wants. But since there were only two choices for the American people, they chose for what they think of clean capital instead of socialism. Americans mean it when they say that they "come first". We here in Germany seem to think the opposite (on the surface).

P.S. read my comment here, also.