The magic number to win the White House is 270 electoral votes.
Reports from NewsMax revealed Trump’s victory early Wednesday after his victory in four of the seven key states: North Carolina, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. But the victory was awarded to Pennsylvania with its 19 electoral votes and later to Wisconsin with 10 electoral votes, making a total of 280 electoral votes. These four of the 7 states gave him victory, which means a clear setback for his rival, Democrat Kamala Harris, who decided not to speak to her followers when she learned of the trend of the results.
Fox News also declared the former president the winner.
Georgia, which has a significant African-American population, had been in the hands of Joe Biden in the 2020 US presidential elections. This state provides 16 large voters for Donald Trump.
The Republican candidate has so far won: Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Nebraska. Also preliminary reports indicate that he won in Idaho, Ohio, Texas, North Dakota, South Dakota and Louisiana, Wyoming, Montana.
Democratic candidate Kamala Harris won in Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington DC, the country’s capital.
Trump speaks after knowing results
The Republican claimed this Wednesday “a political victory never seen before” in the United States, in a speech after the presidential elections that pitted him against Harris.
“We have made history,” he proclaimed to his followers in West Palm Beach, Florida. “We are going to help our country heal,” the Republican added shortly after the Fox News channel, popular among conservatives, proclaimed him the winner. It is the only American media to have given a final result.
Trump, accompanied by his family and the vice presidential candidate, JD Vance, celebrated his victory as the expression of his MAGA (Make America Great Again) movement.
“A movement like no one has ever seen. The largest political movement that has ever been seen in this country,” he declared from his electoral headquarters in West Palm Beach (Florida).
The Republican also applauded the forcefulness of his victory. Major media projections show Trump as the virtual winner of the elections, and predict that the Republican Party will have control of both chambers of Congress.
“America has given us a powerful and unprecedented mandate. We have taken back the Senate,” Trump declared before thanking Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson.
Bukele congratulates Trump
The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, was the first to congratulate this Wednesday the “president-elect” of the United States, Donald Trump, who is currently leading the projections for victory in the White House elections, although the count has not yet been made. has finished, but it has already reached 270 electoral votes.
“Congratulations to the president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump. May God bless and guide you,” Bukele wrote on his social network account X. Bukele, an admirer of the magnate, accompanies his message with an image of both shaking hands.
The leader of the House of Representatives, Republican Mike Johnson, congratulated “president-elect” Donald Trump this Wednesday, after learning that he reached 280 electoral votes.
“There is hope and tomorrow in America again! Donald Trump is now our president-elect, chosen by the American people for a time like this,” Johnson said. Fox News is so far the only network that has given Trump a winner.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a staunch Trump supporter, rejoiced this Wednesday at the first results of the US presidential elections, in which the Republican candidate surpassed his Democratic rival, Kamala Harris.
China reacts
China hopes for “peaceful coexistence” with the United States, a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs declared this Wednesday, at a time when Donald Trump is the virtual president of the United States.
“We will continue to focus and manage China-U.S. relations based on the principles of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and win-win cooperation,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said.
