Washington – Former President Donald Trump was on Wednesday morning projected from the Associated Press to comply with enough votes on the election college to win the presidency.
The first sentenced Felon, who had been elected to the Oval Office, had won four of the most significant seven linen states at 8 a.m. in which he and the democratic candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris, had spent most of the time until 2024.
North Carolina, GeorgiaPresent Pennsylvania And Wisconsin voted for Trump and gave him 277 votes from the election college compared to 224 for Harris.
Michigan, Nevada and Arizona still explained without a winner. But even without her Trump – who will be the 47th President of the nation and who was 45 years elderly – had more than enough of the 270 votes required to win the election college.
Trump is still charged with election subscription in connection with his actions in connection with January 6, 2021, an attack on the US Capitol.
GOP -Senat
The Republicans also took control of of the US Senate, the Trump guarantees a relatively sleek way to confirm his appointments to the dishes and the cabinet in the coming months.
From Wednesday morning, the Republicans grabbed 52 seats in the Senate and the Democrats had 42, said the AP.
Montana Senator Jon Tester, a long -time centrist democrat who saw in 2024 as the most endangered senator of his party. was suppressed by Republican Tim Sheehy in a top -class race that the AP appointed on Wednesday morning.
The control of the US house had not yet been called, but the Republicans led there on Wednesday morning, 198-180.
If you were keeping control of the chamber, this would set up an extraordinary republican trifecta in Washington, which could probably accelerate the laws, including taxes, debts, reproduction rights and immigration.
Harris is expected to appeal to the nation on Wednesday that its campaign co-chairman Cedric Richmond told a crowd who had gathered on Tuesday evening for an election observation party at her Alma Mater, Howard University in Washington, DC
All results are unofficial until local election officers across the country Check and certify The result in the coming days and weeks.
Trump legal problems
Trump’s long presidential campaign was interrupted by a full legal schedule, which still contained two national cases runningAnd cases in Georgia and New York. The former president was convicted in New York in May for 34 crimes in which annual reports were imitation in connection with the main allowance paid to a porn star before the 2016 elections. His conviction is planned for November 26th.
His long appointment against the Wahler -Subversion from 2020 against him finally received a victory in front of the Supreme Court of the United States when the conservative majority decided on personal actions.
After the case of the election subscription had been returned to the subject, the US special lawyer Jack Smith presented novel evidence to underline that Trump changed the results of the 2020 presidency to a personal capacity and together with his private lawyers. Trump stated several times that he would displace Smith if he was elected to another presidency.
Trump’s refusal to admit President Joe Biden to the 2020 presidential competition finally culminated on January 6, 2021 in the violent attack of his followers on the US Capitol.
With his followers in West Palm Beach, Florida, formerly on Wednesday, next to his running colleague Ohio Senator JD Vance, Trump thanked “Thousands of friends in this incredible movement that nobody has seen before.”
“To be honest, I think that was the greatest political movement ever. There has never been anything like that in this country, ”said Trump.
Trump promised to “heal” the country and that his second presidency “will really be the golden age of America”.
“We overcome obstacles that nobody thought possible,” said Trump.
A roller coaster race
Trump had spent most of his re -election against President Joe Biden, who leaned out of the race in the summer after a catastrophic debate performance.
The Trump team had to find this into a novel campaign with a candidate, the Trump – against Harris.
Harris, who observed himself as an outsider, tried to position herself as a novel generation of leadership and through her political plans for housing, health care and business, and offered a novel chapter for Americans.
She strongly advocated her support for reproductive rights and the threat to democracy that would bring a second Trump presidency, and quoted the immunity function of the Supreme Court.
Ultimately, Trump’s core campaign issues of immigration and criticism of the economy seemed to have influenced voters, and she did not have to say one of the voices of the swing state who offered her a way to win.
When it became clear in the behind schedule Tuesday that they were wearing the White House in key countries that biden in 2020 Watch the party in waves leave When their chances of winning further narrowed.
Ashley Murray contributed to this report.
This report is updated.
Last updated 9:06 a.m., November 6, 2024
