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Republican Donald Trump claimed victory in the 2024 presidential contest after Fox News projected that he had defeated Democrat Kamala Harris, which would cap a stunning political comeback four years after he left the White House.
"America has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate," he said early on Wednesday to a roaring crowd of supporters at the Palm Beach County Convention Center, flanked by his vice presidential running mate, Senator JD Vance, Republican leaders and members of Trump's family.
He also spent several minutes praising Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, who pumped some $120 million into backing Trump's campaign. Trump has said he will appoint Musk to lead a government efficiency commission.
Other news outlets had yet to call the race for Trump, but he appeared on the verge of winning after capturing the battleground states of Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Georgia and holding leads in the other four, according to Edison Research.
Harris did not speak to her supporters, who had gathered at her alma mater Howard University. Her campaign co-chair, Cedric Richmond, briefly addressed the crowd after midnight, saying Harris would speak publicly on Wednesday.
"We still have votes to count," he said.
Trump had 267 Electoral College votes to 224 for Harris.
The former president was showing strength across broad swaths of the country, improving on his 2020 performance everywhere from rural areas to urban centers.
Republicans won a U.S. Senate majority after flipping Democratic seats in West Virginia and Ohio. Neither party appeared to have an edge in the fight for control of the House of Representatives where Republicans currently hold a narrow majority.
Trump went into Election Day with a 50-50 chance of reclaiming the White House, a remarkable turnaround from Jan. 6, 2021, when many pundits pronounced his political career to be over. That day, a mob of his supporters stormed Congress in a violent attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
Trump picked up more support from Hispanics, traditionally Democratic voters, and among lower-income households that have keenly felt the sting of price rises since the last presidential election in 2020, according to exit polls from Edison.
Trump won 45% of Hispanic voters nationwide, trailing Harris with 53% but up 13 percentage points from 2020.
About 31% of voters said the economy was their top issue, and they voted for Trump by a 79%-to-20% margin, according to exit polls. Some 45% of voters across the country said their family's financial situation was worse off today than four years ago, and they favored Trump 80% to 17%.
Global investors were increasingly pricing in a Trump win late on Tuesday. U.S. stock futures and the dollar pushed higher, while Treasury yields climbed and bitcoin rose - all flagged by analysts and investors as trades that favor a Trump victory.
© Thomson Reuters 2024.
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PepperLunch
Whatever anyone's personal opinions on Trump, to win in this situation is impressive. All the celebrity endorsements for Kamala, the mocking of the world, being convicted, to win in those circumstances is some feat.
JJE
More importantly he is right - he does have a huge mandate to implement the policies he articulated.
Shaping up to be the popular vote too.
Harris certainly got fired!
Steven
Yes, Yes, Yes,
Make American Great Again
Congratulations
dagon
How this libertarian, Randian billionaire axis bought this election will be the main take away.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-18/vance-musk-thiel-and-silicon-valley-s-embrace-of-trump-s-maga-movement
Musk's million dollar a day lotto to the desperate will be an exemplar of this.
Five Families
JLE-Harris certainly got fired!
I'll say. She really did. And will be shown the door with a quickness.
This will go down as the greatest comeback in American politics.
We enter a new age. Hope is restored.
You can not doubt now. Donald Trump loves America.
Blacklabel
After “Fox News” projects?
he won. It’s very clear,
despite CNN refusing to show 270 on their screen like doing that means it didn’t happen.
are Democrats denying the results of a safe and secure election? After refusing to concede?
why did the counting of all the Senate races stop?
burgers and beers
What a comeback for Trump. All the leftie whipped up hysteria about a " fascist dictator and end of democracy" , all the lawsuits, even the assassination attempts could not stop this guy. He sure has grit and determination. US will have a great 47 , and what a team he put together. Elon, Vivek, RFK, Tulsi...winning combination. Good for the US , good for the world and peace.
burgers and beers
On the upside, we won't have to put up with Orange Treadmark in four years. It will be someone different and less popular."
Vance will be a great replacement once Trump calls it a day. Left will learn to cope with that too.
Lord Dartmouth
WONDERFUL NEWS! I hope Democrats and Republicans can come together now and rebuild America.
Steven
Blesseder are the peacemakers
Matthew 5:9
Congratulations
Concerned Citizen
A David v Goliath victory. Love him or hate him, you gotta hand it to Trump.
Five Families
Whats is up with CNN?
You have to dig deep through misinformation articles just to get a "yeah it looks like he won" LOL
Repulicans here. Great day for us. Victory! 4 years in the making. Wonderful Joyous feeling!
Futures looking bright. Did you see the global markets? Everything is up. I mean up big!
The ramification on Democrats is going to be immense.
Mike_Oxlong
Despite relentless attacks against him in the MSM, the lawfare used by the Dems against their top political opponent, and two assassination attempts - The Donald's comeback is historic. Vox populi, vox dei,
WiseOneIn Kansai
Oh, . . what most of the world has dreaded will now be a reality!!!
He's back. .........Can't wait until 4 years passes by quickly!!
Five Families
I am down with stiff drink tonight and just enjoying all of this. Congrats to our 47th POTUS and VPOTUS and all who won an office. Red baby red.
Chabbawanga
The democratic party will now begin a campaign of blame. They will blame everyone and anyone who didnt like their message. They should have run with a populist message like Bernie Sanders was from the beginning of Old Man Bidens campaign. The people are unhappy, we need to fix that, not this superficial campaign of "joy" and Trump bashing.
Unfortunately, if Trump does implement these insane economic tariffs the damage will be felt across the world, not just the. US.
Lord Dartmouth
There's one person who's going to be even happier than Trump today: Joe Biden! Boy, has he earned some serious gloating rights....
Anyway, congratulations, America!
dagon
Insania vulgi.
It is the madness of crowds that can be won over by wealth.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fox-news-projects-donald-trump-defeats-kamala-harris-become-47th-president-united-states
Trump also drew support from top business leaders like Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick. Lutnick told Fox News Digital that many Wall Street leaders had privately committed their support to Trump.
Financiers voted in Trump with their wealth and those who believe Trump is for workers against an 'elite' are deluded.
rcch
[ Trump claims 'powerful mandate' after Fox News projects he has won US presidency ]
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[ Republican Donald Trump claimed victory in the 2024 presidential contest after Fox News projected that he had defeated Democrat Kamala Harris, which would cap a stunning political comeback four years after he left the White House. ] —So much reluctance to declare what the world already knows: Donald Trump is the 47th President of the United States (and we are witnessing the greatest political comeback in American history). Congratulations, Mr. President.
finally rich
Trump has been winning and winning for almost a DECADE.
I believe his only big defeat was in that election it took DAYS to count the ballots.
Isn't great we all got to know the outcome of this election within 24h?
Five Families
I read a comment earlier. Got me thinking.
Do you really think Democrats regret taking Biden off the ticket?
The other.
How much of what Biden said and his behavior affected this election after being removed from the ticket from his own party?
Thoughts?
Democrats really did not bring the A game with Harris. I mean facts are facts.
She interviews poorly. She can not give solid answers. Had really no plan.
I think America saw this. Must have right?
This is a huge win. I wonder if Trump won the undecided vote?
bass4funk
This is a historic win, the Dems threw everything they could at this guy since 2016 and after all of the impeachments and social media bans, failed assassination attempts the Dems and swamp failed and also women didn’t break for Kamala the way they would have hoped, so many people were closet Trump voters, cursed him, but when their families backs were turned ended up voting for Trump.
finally rich
And believe me or not, one of Kamala's campaign ads actually asked women to secretly vote for her and LIE to their own husbands about their choice. Kamala's campaign was full of these brilliant ideas.
Also remember when she pretended to be talking with a supporter on the phone (all smiles) just to turn round her iPhone accidentally revealing it was actually on Camera mode? -- this was just a few hours ago.
Peter14
A travesty of justice when a criminal is elected to President. For a man who hates democracy and a free press, who wants to rule for life and lock up or kill off future opponents like his mate Putin, to get into the white house reflects poorly on Americans that would vote for just such a tragedy.
The only winners in this is Russia and North Korea. So sorry for Ukraine who will be thrown to the sharks.
A leaderless world for the years ahead. Gutted by imbecilic Americans. Dems should have jailed him years ago for Jan 6th, so failure to do that is on them.
Five Families
@bass4funk
Trump voters, cursed him, but when their families’ backs were turned ended up voting for Trump.
I admit it. This was me. I almost fell for the misinformation. I am not the biggest Trump supporter. I like Vance and I like him a lot. I am a bit ashamed. They almost got me. But I went down red down line and prayed it would all work out. And it did. @Bass4funk. What an effort you put forth and never wavered off your man Trump. Since I have visited here and commenting here. Thats should be recognized. I took to heart your commenting thought over many you wrote, and helped me to make the choicses I made. Thank you.
Roger Gusain
Looking forward to seeing more of Melania - love her cheekbones and cute accent. And good riddance to Lady Macbeth, aka DOCTOR Jill Biden.
browny1
Big win for Trump. Good Luck to him.
Seems won on the economy for many, swinging Latinos (catholics), god fearing folks, people squirmish about a woman leader they don't really know - all with a Big touch of Bro-ism to lubricate the fans.
Now it's on him to perform.
His latest pledge of a couple of hours ago was to "Make a promise, Keep a promise".
This will be interesting. Get those Tariffs hitting. Make 'em pay, Make it in America; etc.
4 years will tell.
Mark
once again we can tell left wing ideas never works in reality and they only live in their own fantasy. Bravo! and yes, finally American need not to share their lands with illegal immigrants anymore
bass4funk
I think the people didn’t buy it.
If he hated Democracy he wouldn’t have ran for office, and Trump hates the lib one-sided msm, they were never fair to him, did whatever they could to take him down, even now msnbc have not called the race, are these people just dumb?
I disagree because they all wanted Harris to win.
BS, we have a leader that will and should put America first and the world rightfully second
And that comment of anger and hate is exactly the reason why they lost. Well, now they have 4 years to dwell on it. It could also be possible that Trump might get another Supreme Court pick.
dobre vam zajebava
well it seems that DT clearly won in these elections.
daito_hak
@Peter14
Stop it, you are grotesque. This is precisely the type of thinking you are having why the democrats lost that election. Instead of debating about policies and admitting that Biden mandate was catastrophic for the majority of the American population, that Harris was accountable for it and that choosing Harris just for being a woman instead of being competent is a monumental mistake, they kept insulting the people not thinking like them and their candidate, calling them fasciste and being Nazi. Pathetic!
Five Families
@imbecilic Americans.
Wow! Are we supposed to feel bad? Guilt?
Do you hear that America? The sore losing left speaks.
It’s this kind of stuff that makes it personal for me and personal for those who voted for Trump.
You have lost Peter, Democrats and most in your party have been FIRED!
Deal with it.
finally rich
The left installed unfit people to be in charge of the country, TWICE, without even think about the consequences.
Oh they fought so hard in 2016 to grab the presidency no matter what and what they delivered to America and the World? These people are extremely short sighted.
Never again. 4 years was enough. The democratic party is over.
bass4funk
@Fivefamilies
Wow, thank you. I appreciate the comment. I wasn’t excited about Trump when he announced he was running, the reason for me, not liking him was because I just thought he could not win against Hillary, so I was waffling in the beginning about supporting him, but I know the man is not perfect, but I’ve been following him for years, and the guy really loves America, so I thought they have to support him because he’s not a globalist and he’s putting America first before every other nation, I think that is something as Americans we need, we don’t need a globalist president and then the way he expanded the party by taking in liberals, Democrats, independence, thatwas brilliant, all I want is fairness for all Americans and I want more and better prosperity, and I don’t think you should go in jail all of your enemies, he didn’t do that when it was president the first time and he’s not gonna do it the second time, he’s not going to institute an abortion band, and he’s not going to sign into law project 2025 despite what little girls think, he’s not going to be a dictator, he’s not going to jail all of his enemies, he’s not going to get rid of NATO.
I think people just need to relax. It’s not the end of the world. We survive four years with them, and we can do four more years.
Alongfortheride
Americas biggest clown! (Can't use the word I want to use on here)
Blacklabel
I think they are delusional enough to think if they just stop counting and don’t confirm anything that that people will just forget this landslide victory ever happened.
5 more Senate losses for Deme await the final counting:
never wavered, told all the leftists here exactly how it would go.
yes, they should have just kept Biden. I think part of the plan was to get Kamala out of the way of others with this obvious loss. And no one has ever cared about expendable Tim Walz.
Newsom and Shapiro and Whitmer accepted this swap out easily. Suspicious.
nero
Muhh Fox news.
Well he already had Alaska in the bag. NYT published that his lead in Wisconsin is simply to big for Kamala to catch up. The only reason he declared victory was so he could go to bed.
Hawk
Congratulations to the Republicans. It looks like it'll be an interesting next four years. Although I hope we won't have quite so many Trump articles here on JT going forward. Perhaps if they could limit themselves to every third time he opens his mouth, instead of an article every time?
And I don't generally make comments like this, but what's up with his daughter-in-law's face/eyes?
Five Families
@bass4funk.
Yeah, no problem at all. When I read what you just wrote. Exactly how I felt too.
Everyone just needs to relax and chill.
What Dems were doing and how they were running things was not working. Our party just stepped in and pushed the breaks.
I feel hope. Optimism. I just want to live well and the cost of living to cost much less.
isabelle
As I said on another thread, I respect the nation's decision through the democratic process, but I wonder how many of those people who voted for Trump understand how badly he threatens that process?
I'm particularly disappointed that so many women would vote for a convicted sex-attacker, who will take away their rights to their own bodies. That alone is stunning, before you even consider Trump's other criminal activities, and wholly self-serving behavior.
And as a resident of Japan and citizen of the world, four years of Trump abandoning allies and free nations to fawn over dictators is not something to look forward to.
You spelled "Vladimir Putin" wrong.
finally rich
It will be quite the opposite!!!
Remember the first year or so Mr. Trump was away?
All the sudden the media didn't know how to report as the muscle memory kept pushing orange man bad for so many years.
Many outlets should be celebrating tonight.
They will have plenty to report on for the next 4 years.
Just wait until they realize the MAGA came back to stay forever.
Elon? Barron? It will be a complete meltdown for so many years to come!
finally rich
Plot twist: the 1st female President they wished so hard.... will come from the Trump family :)
Geeter Mckluskie
Why is it that left leaning articles all need 3 or 4 writers to write a single article?
owzer
lolz @loser liberals get rekt
dutch
MSNBC and CNN, like toddlers, simply can't enter 270 into their little computers.
The next week will see the most astonishing mental health crisis in history.
They are not taking the landslide well.
They thought the news was telling them the truth.
chotto_2
Half of America prefer an ajudicated rapist and a convicted felon rather than someone who's not.
Role on January 2029.
Toblerone
Van Jones on CNN was weeping and gnashing his teeth because “women of colour” didn’t get “one of their own” elected. Identity politics - vote according to skin colour. I hope he and his stupid mindset gets thrown out with the rest of the bilge water the Democratic party is going to have to dump if it wants to survive.
bass4funk
No doubt, what I look forward to is when Trump fires Christopher Wray from the FBI, they went overboard, they’re out of control, and that agency needs to be gutted and cleaned out, no more Merrick Garland, no more of these political investigations and targeting political opponents. Finally, he will be able to institute voter ID now that he will have a super majority and then we can go back hopefully to normal ballots, we will be going back to fossil fuels again, something that I’m really looking forward to doing whatever he has to to get the economy off the ground.