Donald Trump returns triumphant to the White House and with more strength and support than eight years ago.
The Republican achieved a resounding victory over Kamala Harris that allows him an epic return to the presidency of the United States.
Trump, who won the 2016 elections and lost the 2020 elections, won with a quick advantage over Harris, who just over 100 days ago replaced Joe Biden as a Democratic candidate.
According to projections, Trump won the key states of North Carolina, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michiganwhich allowed him to already exceed the minimum of 270 electoral votes that return him to the presidency.
“It is a magnificent victory for the American people that will allow us to make America great again,” Trump said before the official confirmation when declaring himself the winner in a speech in Florida before his followers and surrounded by his family and his running mate. , J.D. Vance, future vice president.
“We are going to help heal our country,” said the 78-year-old Republican, who promised a new “golden age.”
“The United States has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate,” he added.
Harris’ campaign had announced several hours earlier that the candidate would not speak while votes were still being counted. And nothing was heard from her throughout the morning.
Trump is the second president to achieve two non-consecutive terms after Grover Cleveland in the 19th century.
In the four years that he was out of power, he overcame all the controversies and his legal problems and returned to a White House from which he left in January 2021 shortly after the assault of his followers on the Capitol on the day that Biden’s victory was certified. and a defeat that he never accepted.
He returns with even more radical rhetoric against immigration and promising economic improvement after years marked by high inflation. Among his proposals is a mass deportation of undocumented migrants, to stop what he calls an “invasion” of the country and end the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East.
Harris could not emulate the triumph of Biden, who after a poor performance in the first debate against Trump and pressure due to doubts about his ability due to his advanced age, gave way to his vice president, who as Hillary Clinton In 2016 she failed in her bid to be the first female president.
The polls predicted a technical tie and that it would take time to know the result, but the victory ended up being faster than expected by winning North Carolina and flipping Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, states in which he had lost to Biden in 2020.
With these victories and by confirming victory in traditional bastions, such as Texas and Florida, for example, he exceeded the 270 votes necessary in the absence of the results of other states that are already irrelevant.
The Republican’s victory is on an even larger scale than in 2016 since, unlike that year against Clinton, Trump has also won the popular vote.
“He is a 78-year-old man who faces four criminal cases (in one he has been convicted and awaits sentencing in three weeks), a handful of civil cases, insulted various demographic groups and has countless scandals in the last eight years“recalled Gary O’Donoghue, BBC correspondent in the United States.
“Return to the White House for a second term It is an extraordinary achievement in political terms,” he added.
Trump will also have in his favor that the Republicans regain control of the Senate, which was in the hands of the Democrats, which will allow him to advance his political agenda.
Advantage from the start
The night was even more peaceful than many expected.
Trump defended his victory in North Carolina. He then flipped Georgia after losing it to Biden in 2020 and then he did so with Pennsylvania, and finally Wisconsin, which allowed him to secure the keys to the White House.
With this, it exceeded 270 votes in the Electoral College in the absence of knowing the results of several states, including three that were going to be key and no longer mattered: Michigan, Arizona and Nevada.
Trump adds 294 electoral votes by winning in:
- Indiana (11)
- Kentucky (8)
- West Virginia (4)
- South Carolina (9)
- Oklahoma (7)
- Missouri (10)
- Tennessee (11)
- Alabama (9)
- Florida (30)
- Arkansas (6)
- South Dakota (3)
- North Dakota (3)
- Wyoming (3)
- Texas (40)
- Louisiana (8)
- Utah (6)
- Montana (4)
- Mississippi (6)
- Ohio (17)
- Kansas (6)
- Iowa (6)
- Idaho (4)
- North Carolina (16)
- Georgia (16)
- Pennsylvania (19)
- Wisconsin (10)
- Alaska (3)
- Michigan (15)
Harris has 223 votes after winning:
- Vermont (3)
- Maryland (10)
- Washington DC (3)
- Massachusetts (11)
- Delaware (3)
- Rhode Island (4)
- New York (28)
- Illinois (19)
- Colorado (10)
- California (54)
- Oregon (8)
- Washington (12)
- Hawaii (4)
- Virginia (13)
- New Mexico (5)
- Minnesota (10)
- New Jersey (14)
- New Hampshire (4)
Harris won California, the state with the most electoral votes (54), while Trump won in Texas (40) and Florida (30), which is now confirmed as a Republican stronghold.
But the most important victories were achieved by the magnate in Pennsylvania, Georgia and Wisconsinwhere he had lost four years ago, and in North Carolina, a state in which he had already won in 2016 and 2020 and which was now expected to be very close.
Although some results remain to be known, it is already confirmed that Trump will return to the White House in a historic political return.
Trump does it again
Analysis by Anthony Zurcher, BBC US correspondent
Donald Trump did it again. Eight years after his surprising victory against Hillary Clinton and four after Joe Biden removed him from the White House, the former president is the new president.
His victory represents a significant comeback for a man who left the presidency amid the chaos of January 6, 2021, with his reputation seemingly destroyed.
After being condemned by his Democratic rivals and some Republicans, he began a four-year return journey that returns him to the top of power in the United States.
At times Trump seemed unfocused and aggressive in his speeches, but he surrounded himself with a very professional team. Polls reveal that Americans trusted him on two key issues such as immigration and the economy, and his campaign hammered home that message.
While Trump seemed uncomfortable about how to handle the Democratic change from Biden to Kamala Harris a few months before the election, the former president found how to do it and navigated that wave of rejection against whoever holds power, in this case against Biden and his vice president, Harris.
Now he will have another four years to govern, but this time with a much more developed political organization, eager to make his campaign promises come true.
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