Former President Donald Trump is heading again to the White Home — he is simply been declared the winner of the 2024 election, and can grow to be the forty seventh President of the US.
FOX Information was first to name Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris shortly earlier than midnight on the west coast because it projected him going over the required threshold of 270 electoral votes.
Even earlier than it was official, although, Trump was on stage — alongside together with his VP J.D. Vance — in West Palm Seaside talking about his subsequent time period as POTUS.
He vowed to assist the nation heal after a nasty marketing campaign season, and gloated about profitable not solely within the electoral school, but in addition the favored vote … and the actual fact the GOP now controls each homes of Congress.
Trump thanked his spouse Melania, who was there by his facet, and likewise Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Dana White, Elon Musk and even U.S. Open golf champ Bryson DeChambeau.
It is a historic victory for Trump … he joins Grover Cleveland as the one presidents to go away the White Home and return for a second time period 4 years later … with Cleveland doing so greater than 130 years in the past, within the Eighteen Nineties.
He is additionally the primary convicted felon ever to be elected president. Though his sentencing in New York state had been scheduled for later this month … that will probably be placed on ice, now that he is gained the marketing campaign.
The race was known as Tuesday evening as Trump piled up victories in a number of swing states … together with Georgia and North Carolina.
As of midnight on the west coast, VP Harris had not formally conceded the race.
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