After a tight race that stretched into the early hours of the morning, former President Donald Trump outlasted Vice President Kamala Harris to win the 47th presidency of the United States.
The victory is a stark rebound for a man who was convicted of 34 felony charges not even six months ago and faced an array of criminal charges ever since leaving the Oval Office in 2020.
For the more than 60 million who cast a ballot in favor of the Harris/Walz ticket, today is a tough pill to swallow, as many mourn the campaign’s promise of a new chapter.
Yet Trump prevailed in a victory that was not all that dissimilar to his 2016 win over Hillary Clinton. After decisively carrying the battlegrounds of North Carolina and Florida and then flipping Georgia red just after midnight, Trump’s path to the White House rode on clinching Pennsylvania, or locking down certain combinations of Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, and Nevada.
At the Harris watch party at storied Howard University in Washington, D.C., saddened rally supporters began to drift away after a campaign leader addressed them and said Harris wouldn’t speak publicly until later Wednesday, AsAm News wrote.
In the wee hours of the morning, just a handful of points from reaching 270 electoral votes, Trump declared victory for his “Make America Great Again” movement, which he declared the greatest in history, and himself. Addressing Americans and emphasizing a desire to unite the nation, he said his administration would ring in a “Golden Age of America,” wrote TANTV.
Once he won Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, the 45th President of the United States was declared the 47th.
Republicans also took control of the Senate, while the outcome in the House of Representatives is not yet clear.
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