US Presidential election results 2024: With Republican Donald Trump being on the brink of becoming the 47th President of the United States, US House Speaker Mike Johnson said “Trump is now our President-elect”.
“House Republicans stand ready and prepared to immediately act on Donald Trump’s America First agenda”, Johnson said, Reuters reported.
Mike Johnson’s statement came as Donald Trump won one of the most crucial swing states of Pennsylvania, putting him just four electoral votes shy of defeating Kamala Harris to win the White House. Another win in Alaska or any of the outstanding battleground states — Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona or Nevada — would send the Republican former president back to the Oval Office for a second historic term.
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So far, Trump has also flipped Georgia, which had voted for Democrats four years ago, and retained the closely contested state of North Carolina. Trump also won Florida, a one-time battleground that has shifted heavily to Republicans in recent elections. He also notched early wins in reliably Republican states such as Texas, South Carolina and Indiana.
Meanwhile, Democrat Kamala Harris won Virginia, a state Trump visited in the final days of the campaign, and took Democratic strongholds like New York, New Mexico and California. Harris also won New Hampshire and an Electoral College vote in Nebraska that was contested by Republicans.
Kamala Harris cancels Howard address
The crowd at Harris’ watch party at her alma mater, Howard University in Washington, began to file out after midnight after a top Harris ally sent supporters home, with no plans for the Democratic vice president to speak, AP reported.
“We will continue overnight to fight to make sure that every vote is counted. That every voice has spoken,” Cedric Richmond, co-chair of the Harris campaign said. “So you won’t hear from the vice president tonight, but you will hear from her tomorrow. She will be back here tomorrow,” Richmond added.
(With inputs from Reuters, AP)