FLORIDA: After a bitter election campaign, US voters seem to have delivered Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump a second non-consecutive stint in the Oval office.
As for electoral college numbers, which determine the winner in this election, Trump is leading with 267, on the brink of a landslide victory, while Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris is trailing with 214 votes.
As far as swing states are concerned, Trump has secured four battleground states.
After securing a sliding majority in the 2024 US Presidential election, Republican Donald Trump on Wednesday addressed his followers at Palm Beach Convention Centre, citing the victory as political and “a movement like nobody has seen before.”
After securing a sliding majority in the 2024 US Presidential election, Republican Donald Trump on Wednesday addressed his followers at Palm Beach Convention Centre, citing the victory as political and “a movement like nobody has seen before.”
Mike Johnson’s statement came as Donald Trump won one of the most crucial swing states of Pennsylvania, putting him just four electoral votes shy of defeating Kamala Harris to win the White House.
Another win in Alaska or any of the outstanding battleground states — Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona or Nevada — would send the Republican former president back to the Oval Office for a second historic term.
So far, Trump has also flipped Georgia, which had voted for Democrats four years ago, and retained the closely contested state of North Carolina. Trump also won Florida, a one-time battleground that has shifted heavily to Republicans in recent elections. He also notched early wins in reliably Republican states such as Texas, South Carolina and Indiana.
Meanwhile, Democrat Kamala Harris won Virginia, a state Trump visited in the final days of the campaign, and took Democratic strongholds like New York, New Mexico and California. Harris also won New Hampshire and an Electoral College vote in Nebraska that was contested by Republicans.
The crowd at Harris’ watch party at her alma mater, Howard University in Washington, began to file out after midnight after a top Harris ally sent supporters home, with no plans for the Democratic vice president to speak
“We will continue overnight to fight to make sure that every vote is counted. That every voice has spoken,” Cedric Richmond, co-chair of the Harris campaign said. “So you won’t hear from the vice president tonight, but you will hear from her tomorrow. She will be back here tomorrow,” Richmond added.
“We’re going to help our country heal, we have a country that needs help and it needs help very badly,” he said while doubling down on his promise to crack down on illegal immigration.
Trump then seemed to refer to an attempted assassination on him at a rally in Pennsylvania back in July as he said: “Many people have told me that god has spared my life for a reason and that reason was to save our country and to restore America to greatness and now we are going to fulfill that mission together.”
