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Shortly after 2 a.m., Mr. Trump took to the floor surrounded by his family, close aides, and far-right Ohio senator J.D. Vance, his nominee for vice president.
“This is a move that no one has ever seen before,” President Trump said. “I believe this is the greatest political movement in history. There has never been anything like it in this country, and it will continue to be important as we help our country recover. You will reach a new level.
“We’re going to fix our borders. We’re going to fix everything about this country… I won’t rest until we have the strong, safe, prosperous America our children deserve,” This will be a true American Golden Age.”
By 5:37 a.m. ET, the Associated Press had called on Wisconsin to support Trump, with the state’s 10 electoral votes giving Trump a total of 277 votes, the 270 needed to win the presidency. significantly exceeded.
Republicans also took back the Senate, but control of the House remained uncertain as of Wednesday morning, with many of the most competitive races yet to be called.
Harris, 60, has championed reproductive rights and personal freedom, and supported national legislation codifying access to safe abortion. Her loss was a devastating and anxiety-inducing blow to her supporters, reminiscent of Hillary Clinton’s disastrous defeat in 2016. She was scheduled to speak later Wednesday.
But Trump’s most unlikely comeback is now complete. Many analysts believed that Joe Biden’s defeat in 2020 marked the end of his political career, especially since the election was stolen on January 6, 2021. Fueled by his lies, an angry mob of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, resulting in Mr. Biden taking office. Second impeachment.
But Trump’s grip on the Republican Party, although briefly shaken, remained firm. The thrice-married New Yorker accused of sexual abuse remains an unlikely hero to evangelical Christians and the white working class, and polls show he has a strong lead among African American and Latino voters. This suggests that it has received a large amount of support, albeit a small one.
Four criminal cases, including a 34-felony conviction for concealing hush money from adult film performer Stormy Daniels, would have been devastating to other politicians, but they were not enough to “take America back.” It only seemed to strengthen President Trump’s position of “making it great.” (MAGA) Base.
Trump spewed insults as he defeated his challengers and won the Republican presidential nomination for the third time in a row. He survived an assassination attempt at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, just before the July convention, but many of his allies fled as a sign from God (in September, another would-be assassin killed Trump (He was arrested at one of his Florida golf courses).
Meanwhile, after a disastrous performance in the debates, Joe Biden stepped down as the presumptive Democratic nominee in July and named Harris as his successor. Her “politics of joy” seemed to provide a jolt of energy to the Democratic Party and change the trajectory of a race that had been slipping away.
The contest took place over 100 days, the shortest period in modern memory, against a backdrop of hurricanes at home and wars overseas. Trump has received significant support from Elon Musk, the world’s richest tech entrepreneur, who has given millions to voters in battleground states who have signed petitions related to his political action committee. donated dollars.
The race was very close until the end. But Trump’s landslide victory suggests that his arguments – often crude, rambling, insidious and racist – still resonate with voters who are disillusioned with the political establishment. There is. It also negates Biden’s legislatively productive presidency and his dire warnings about the dangers a Trump presidency poses to American institutions and global security.
The election results threaten to spark unrest and large-scale protests across the United States. President Trump ran on the now-familiar campaign theme of xenophobic populism, which labeled illegal immigrants as “animals” with “bad genes” who “taint the blood of the country” and It promised the largest scale of deportations. He complained that the United States was “like a trash can” to the rest of the world.
The former president also embraced increasingly dystopian rhetoric, denouncing his criminal charges as a political attack and vowing “vengeance” against his perceived enemies. He made ominous statements threatening to send troops into the country against the “enemy from within” and promised amnesty for his supporters jailed in the January 6 uprising.
Trump will be the first president to serve non-consecutive terms since Grover Cleveland, who served from 1885-1889 and 1893-1897.
As vice president, Harris will preside over a joint session of Congress that will certify the election results in January. Her successor as vice president will be Vance, a 40-year-old senator who, unlike former Vice President Mike Pence, has refused to acknowledge that Trump lost four years ago.
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