Donald Trump, elected president of the United States after his electoral victory last Tuesday, It has also won the six electoral votes corresponding to the state of Nevadaaccording to the latest projections from the CBS and NBC news channels. With the votes from 97% of voting centers in Nevada already counted, the former Republican president had 50.8% of the total, according to CBS. Only the state of Arizona remains to conclude the recount.
With Nevada’s six electoral votes, his count stands at 301, 31 more than the 270 needed to reach the White House.
It is the first time since 2004 that a Republican candidate has won in Nevadaa state that turned its back on Trump in the 2016 elections, in which he won against Hillary Clinton, and in the 2022 elections, in which he was defeated by the country’s current president, Democrat Joe Biden.
In Nevada, a state with a large presence of Latinos and whose economy is based on tourism and hospitality.
After confirming his electoral victory, Trump has made his first appointment. This past Thursday he announced that Susie Wiles, the shadow director of his campaignwill be his chief of staff in the White House in his second term.
Wiles will be the first female chief of staff, one of the most important positions in the US Administration, which is responsible for coordinating the members of the presidential cabinet.
“Susie Wiles helped me achieve one of the greatest political victories in American history and was an integral part of my successful 2016 and 2020 campaigns,” Trump said in a statement. The president-elect described Wiles as a “strong, intelligent, innovative and universally admired and respected woman.”
“It is a well-deserved honor to have Susie as the first female chief of staff in American history. I have no doubt that she will make our country proud,” he declared.
Wiles is a veteran of Florida politicsran Trump’s campaign in that state in 2016 and helped Ron DeSantis win the 2018 Florida gubernatorial election.
According to PoliticalWiles has been his chief of staff de facto for more than three years and had a lot of weight in getting the Republican candidate in these last elections to be Trump and not DeSantis.
Wiles was the personal secretary of Secretary of Labor Raymond Donovan when he was being investigated for his alleged ties to the mafia. The latter ended up resigning after the special prosecutor refused to charge him.
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