With the victory in Pennsylvania, Georgia and North Carolina, Donald Trump has closed all avenues for Kamala Harris to have a chance of winning the elections. The tycoon, who governed between 2017 and 2021, will return to the White House starting in January with greater popular support than in his previous elections in a country that appears much more divided
Donald Trump managed to win the popular vote in Pennsylvania, Georgia and North Carolina, cementing a clear path to victory in the United States presidential elections. As soon as the FOX News network announced that in the first of those states, the territory that would define the entire contest, was left in the hands of the Republican candidate, the former president took the stage of his campaign command in Palm Beach, Florida, to declare himself the winner.
And he is right. The counting of votes until after 2 in the morning (Venezuela time) on November 5 suggested that the only way for her rival Kamala Harris to have a chance of victory was for her to win the “blue wall” made up of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. But it won’t happen. Pennsylvania is a lost cause for the Democratic candidate and the other two states are waiting to confirm their preference for the tycoon. Since 1992, these three states have voted for the same candidate.
In addition, Trump won other key states: Georgia and North Carolina, and everything indicated until Wednesday morning that Arizona would also be painted red. In the case of Arizona, the bets are still open but even with a victory there for Harris the score does not work for him.
Donald Trump spoke having 267 of the 270 Electoral College votes necessary to be proclaimed. It is a matter of time, according to all projections. In addition, the Republican standard-bearer increased his own record in the popular vote (which he lost in 2016 and 2020), to surpass the current vice president there as well.
In his first speech to the crowd that celebrated his victory, Trump thanked his family and his running mate JD Vance. He promised to “urgently fix” the country’s problems.
“It is an unprecedented movement, the most important political movement in history,” the candidate described his victory this Tuesday. «We are going to help our country. We are going to fix our borders, we are going to fix everything that is wrong in our country. We made history for a reason, we overcame all obstacles and achieved something incredible. “It is a victory that allows us to make America great again.”
Applause sounded. And he continued: «It is a political victory that our country has never seen before, nothing like this. “I want to thank the American people for the extraordinary honor of being elected their 47th president and their 45th president.”
For 20 minutes, Trump spoke calmly and with teleprompter assistance, stating that he will “fight” for American families. «With every breath of my body. I will not rest until we have delivered the strong, secure, and prosperous America that our children deserve and that you deserve. “This will truly be the golden age of America.”
He spoke about migration, one of the first points he touched on, stating that he wants to organize it so that only those who can do so reach that country “but through legal means”; just as he maintained that the economy will be his priority.
JD Vance, his running mate, called tonight’s results “the greatest political comeback in the history of the United States” and assured that “under the leadership of President Trump, we will never stop fighting for you, for your dreams, for the future of their children. He also promised an “economic resurgence.”
Trump improved his own numbers nationwide
A pattern is clearly emerging in preliminary results from more than 1,300 counties in the United States: Donald Trump is surpassing his 2020 margins. Although most of these counties are not in key states, the trend toward Trump is consistent. The Republican managed to close gaps with respect to the difference in the results against Joe Biden in 2020, making it difficult for Kamala Harris to win in many states by contrasting the rural vote with the urban vote.
Compared to 2020, Trump improved his voting in 92% of them, according to Politico calculations. On average, the change in these counties has been almost two points in their favor.
Although these numbers may be adjusted slightly as final ballots are tallied, the trend is clear and concerning for Democrats. Trump’s biggest improvements have come in Florida, a state that has tilted to the right in recent election cycles. But he has also made gains in traditionally Democratic areas, such as northern Virginia suburbs, including Loudoun and Prince William counties, which had previously shown growing resistance to his candidacy.
Trump even managed to convince large groups of voters classified as “double opponents.” That is, voters who have a bad opinion of both candidates. It is estimated that 8% of the national electorate falls into this category. According to exit polls from television channels, Trump won in that group with a lead of 23%, or with a lead of 14 points according to tracking by the AP agency.
Already in 2016, Trump had managed to convince those who did not think highly of him to still vote for him. In the latest polls, the former US president appeared with an unfavorable opinion among 54% of the electorate, with 55% saying that his positions are very extreme.
Kamala Harris’ silence
Before the media began to allocate Pennsylvania for Donald Trump, Kamala Harris had already decided that she would not speak tonight from her campaign bunker in Washington, located at Howard University where she studied. The announcement was confirmed by one of his allies in a message to the crowd that quickly left the place.
The CNN network, in an analysis of the behavior of the Democratic vote in these elections, determined that Kamala Harris’ candidacy did not manage to improve the numbers of votes that Joe Biden obtained in 2020 in any county in the country.
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