He Republican Donald Trump claimed victory in the 2024 presidential race after Fox News projected she had defeated Democrat Kamala Harriswhich would crown an amazing political comeback four years after he left the White House.
“The United States has given us a powerful and unprecedented mandate” he said early Wednesday to a roaring crowd of supporters at the Palm Beach County Convention Center.
Other media outlets had not yet given Trump victory, but the Republican leader seemed on the verge of winning after winning the most disputed states in Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Georgiaand maintain the lead in the other four, according to Edison Research.
Kamala Harris He did not address his supporters, who had gathered at Howard University, his former college. Her campaign co-chairman, Cedric Richmond, briefly addressed the crowd after midnight, saying Harris would speak publicly on Wednesday.
“We still have votes to count,” he said.
The former president showed his strength in wide swaths of the country, improving its 2020 results everywhere, from rural areas to urban centers.
The Republicans won the majority in the Senate after defeating Democrats in West Virginia and Ohio. Neither party appeared to have an advantage in the fight for control of the House of Representatives, where Republicans currently hold a narrow majority.
Trump arrived on election day with a 50-50 chance of regaining the White House, a notable change from the January 6, 2021when many experts ended their political careers. That day, a mob of his supporters stormed Congress in a violent attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
Latinos increase support for Trump
Trump garnered more support among Latinos, traditionally Democratic voters, and among lower-income households who have greatly noticed the rise in prices since the last presidential election in 2020, according to Edison exit polls.
Trump got the 45% of Latino voters nationwide, behind Harris, with 53%, but 13 percentage points more than in 2020.
About 31% of voters said that the economy It was their main problem, and they voted for Trump by a margin of 79% to 20%, according to exit polls. About 45% of voters nationwide said the your family’s financial situation It was worse today than it was four years ago, and they went for Trump by a margin of 80% to 17%.
Global investors increasingly took Trump’s victory for granted. The US stock futures and dollar rosewhile Treasury bond yields rose and Bitcoin advanced, all assets identified by analysts and investors as benefiting from a Trump victory.
In the Howard Universitywhere a large party had been organized in Harris’ honor, supporters left en masse, anticipating that the vice president would not address the crowd after the preliminary results of the election day
Trump improves his 2020 results
Trump won a higher share of the vote than four years ago in almost every corner of the country.
By midnight, officials had nearly completed their vote count in more than 1,600 counties – about half the country – and Trump’s quota rose about 2 percentage points compared to 2020, reflecting a widespread, though not especially profound, shift in Americans’ support for the president they ousted four years ago.
It improved its numbers in counties on the urban peripheries, rural regions and even some large cities that are historically bastions of Democratic support; in high-income and low-income counties; and in places where unemployment was comparatively high and where it is now at historic lows.
Harris had opted to achieve large margins between the urban and suburban votersbut his support in those places was far lower than that of President Joe Biden in the 2020 elections.
Nearly three-quarters of voters said American democracy is threatened, according to exit polls, underscoring the depth of polarization in a nation where divisions have only deepened during a fiercely contested race.
Trump employed increasingly apocalyptic rhetoric while stoking unfounded fears that You can’t trust the electoral system. Harris warned that a second Trump term would threaten the foundations of American democracy.
Hours before the polls closed, Trump claimed on his Truth Social social network, without evidence, that there was “a lot of talk in Philadelphia about massive FRAUD,” repeating his false 2020 claims that fraud had occurred in big cities dominated by Democrats. In a later message, he also claimed there was fraud in Detroit.
