Former President of the United States of America (USA), Donald Trump has crossed the 270 electoral votes mark needed to win the 2024 US presidential election.
Top Society reports the Republican presidential candidate has won 277 electoral votes in results declared so far while Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has received 224 electoral votes.
While Trump has received 70,878,816 (51.0%) of popular votes in results of the US presidential election monitored by TNG, Harris has won 65,967,483 (47.5%) of popular votes.
Trump will become the 47th President of the United States of America (USA) in what is the greatest come back in the political history of the U.S. after he was first elected the 45th President of the US in 2016.
“America has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate,” Trump said early on Wednesday to a roaring crowd of supporters at the Palm Beach County Convention Centre in Florida.
TNG recalls Trump, 78, was voted out of the White House four years ago as his political career appeared to be over after his false claims of election fraud led a mob of supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, in a failed bid to overturn his 2020 defeat.
However, he swept away challengers inside his Republican Party and then beat Democratic candidate Kamala Harris by capitalizing on voter concerns about high prices and what Trump claimed, without evidence, was a rise in crime due to illegal immigration.
Harris did not speak to supporters who had gathered at her alma mater Howard University. Her campaign co-chair, Cedric Richmond, briefly addressed the crowd after midnight, saying Harris would speak publicly later on Wednesday.
“We still have votes to count,” he said.
Republicans won a U.S. Senate majority, but neither party appeared to have an edge in the fight for control of the House of Representatives where Republicans currently hold a narrow majority.
Voters identified jobs and the economy as the country’s most pressing problem, according to Reuters/Ipsos opinion polls.
Many Americans remained frustrated by higher prices even amid record-high stock markets, fast-growing wages and low unemployment.
With the administration of President Joe Biden taking much of the blame, a majority of voters said they trusted Trump more than Harris to address the issue.
