Nov 6,2024: Bagging 295 electoral votes and most swing states, Republican Donald J Trump raced towards a victory.The 78-year-old won wider margins than before, despite a criminal conviction and two impeachments while in office.
Defeated Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris told supporters on Wednesday that “we must accept the results” of the US election, while promising to help Donald Trump as he heads back to the White House.
Presidential Results: “God Spared My Life For A Reason,” Says Trump
“God spared my life for a reason,” says Donald Trump as he recalls an assassination attempt in his “victory speech”.
“And that reason was to save our country and restore America to greatness. And now we’re going to fulfill that mission together,” he tells supporters.
“The task before us will not be easy, but I will bring every ounce of energy, spirit, and fight that I have in my soul to the job that you’ve entrusted to me,” he adds.
Donald J. Trump’s projected victory over Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election marks a historic and improbable comeback for the former president, who left office in 2021 after failing to overturn the 2020 election results.
“We overcame obstacles that nobody ever thought we could,” he said on election night after a bitter, bruising campaign. He vowed to fight for every family and for their futures. “This will truly be the golden age of America,” he vowed.
Throughout his two-year campaign, Trump hammered President Biden, and later Harris, on inflation and the economy. It’s a message that resonated with voters, whose views on the economy are more negative now than they were in 2020, despite the pandemic that brought the economy to a halt during his presidency. Nationally and across the battleground states, on the question of whether voters are better off now than they were four years ago, more voters said they are financially worse off.
Trump also ran hard on immigration — as he has for nearly a decade — and vowed at nearly every campaign event that he’d carry out mass deportations if he’s reelected. Exit polling showed that voters also believed Trump would do a better job of confronting illegal immigration at the southern border.
Trump has had an unshakeable base of voters, and in this election, he was able to attract new voters who were undecided — low-propensity, young male voters — turned out for him.
Immigration was a constant in all of three of Trump’s bids for the White House. He promised mass deportations for migrants and promised to establish the death penalty for any migrant who kills a U.S. citizen.
