Donald Trump will be the winner of the U.S. presidential election, according to the Associated Press, meaning he will return for a second non-consecutive term in the White House.
Donald Trump, the victor of the U.S. presidential election, will be taking office for a second non-consecutive term.
In a campaign that was both amazing and controversial, Trump defeated Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris. For a leader who was thought to be done after the chaotic and violent conclusion of his first term, his victory also represents an amazing comeback.
On Wednesday morning, only hours before the election was announced, Trump told his supporters that he had secured “an unprecedented and powerful mandate.”
Trump, the Republican nominee, has won 292 electoral votes to Harris’s 224 after winning the crucial battleground states of Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. To win the president, at least 270 of the 538 electoral votes must be cast.
In Arizona, Nevada, and Alaska—the three states the Associated Press has not yet contacted—Trump was ahead as of Wednesday afternoon.
A convicted criminal who attempted to win back his defeat in the last election, Trump’s victory ushers in an unpredictable new age in which his former chief of staff and detractors have labeled him a “fascist.”
Republicans may even maintain their narrow majority in the US House of Representatives and are poised to retake the Senate. Trump’s legislative agenda would be easier to implement if he had complete control of Congress.
The rest of the globe has been closely observing to determine the possible effects of a second Trump presidency, especially old friends like Canada.
Trump has pledged a transactional approach to alliances like NATO, huge deportations of undocumented immigrants, and sweeping taxes on imports from other countries. Along with inciting concerns of retaliation against his political rivals, whom he has referred to as “the enemy from within,” he has even advocated using the U.S. National Guard against demonstrators and other detractors.
Trump has returned to the leadership of the Republican Party less than four years after hundreds of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, to stop U.S. President Joe Biden’s election from being certified. The protesters were incensed at Trump’s unfounded allegations of massive voter fraud.
However, during Biden’s presidency, Trump was able to mobilize voters who were angry about the high cost of living due to high inflation. After an uncompetitive primary, Republicans who had previously criticized and blamed him for the attack on January 6 finally put their support behind Trump.
Trump improved on his 2020 election performance in Tuesday’s election by eroding Democratic support among a number of categories, especially young men.
For the first time in his three presidential runs, he also took home the popular vote.
Since then, Trump has been charged with four crimes, two of which are connected to his attempts to rig the 2020 election, which Trump and his supporters have denounced as “lawfare” and election meddling.
In May, a jury in New York found him guilty on 34 felony counts of fabricating company records to sway voters in the 2016 race. The Nov. 26 sentencing date in that case, along with the other criminal cases against him, is now uncertain in light of Trump’s victory.
Democrats and Harris put up a lot of effort to win over independent and undecided voters who were turned off by Trump’s rhetoric and scandals. Several prominent Republicans, some of whom worked with Trump during his first term, endorsed her.
Democrats, who had looked to Harris to turn around their party’s prospects, have suffered a crushing blow as a result.
Biden, who faced economic challenges and growing global problems during his presidency, as well as growing concerns about his age and fitness as he sought reelection, was expected to lose badly to Trump.
Democrats were alarmed by Biden’s weak debate performance against Trump in June, in which he seemed weak and unable to finish sentences. After three weeks, Biden gave in to mounting pressure to withdraw from the contest, and Harris was swiftly chosen to succeed him without a primary.
Harris had to explain how she would be different from the unpopular Biden administration she worked in, even while her rise increased Democrats’ enthusiasm and brought in a record US$1 billion from contributors in only three months.