The technical tie that the polls showed has not translated into a close election day. The Republican candidate donald trump, will return to the White House four years later after destroying his rival, Kamala Harrisin an election in which the Democratic Party is affected by having lost all the states in dispute and being very far from the Republican Party. With the first results that secured his victory, the magnate appeared before the thousands of followers who were waiting for him in Florida, where he assured that will “heal” the country and “stop the wars”, a promise that he has been repeating for months and that have helped him to repeat his 2016 electoral victory.
The victory of the Republican in the majority of swing states or hinge states has been key to consolidating his return to the Oval Office. In the absence of officially knowing the winner in the states of Arizona and Nevada, the confirmed victories in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin give the Republican more than 290 electoral votes, of the 270 necessary to proclaim himself the new president. It remains to be seen if it will exceed the 304 obtained in 2016, something that current projections in the territories that have yet to close the result indicate that it will be the case.
The night was a party from the first moment for Trump and his main donors and friends such as Elon Musk or the owner of the UFC, Dana White, who celebrated the final result in Florida with him. With the main disputed states already closed, the former president appeared to the rhythm of God Bless the USA, by Lee Greenwood, before thousands of Republican supporters who were already calling him president. An exuberant Trump affirmed along with his family and his vice presidential candidate, JD Vance, that the movement he had created “was historic.” “The largest political movement that has ever been seen in this country,” he declared before acknowledging that a “golden era” was beginning in which he intends “heal” and “fix” the country. A time in which he says he sees himself capable of “stop the wars.”
Regarding the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Trump has hinted that he will end the war by cutting off the tap to kyiv and seeking an agreement with Vladimir Putin, whom he has admitted to admire in the past. After knowing the results, the Administration of the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyeffusively congratulated Trump and demanded “a just peace”an old motto of the Republican Party. For its part, Russia assured that it had no illusions and recognized that the political elites in the United States, regardless of their political affiliation, are all “anti-Russian.”
Regarding the Israeli offensive on Loop and tensions throughout the region, It is not clear which way he will press the new Trump Administration to the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahuone of the international leaders who have the best relationship with a former president who already in his first term demonstrated his desire to apply policies that benefit the Jewish State. Something that happened with the transfer of the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem or the publication of a peace document that Palestinians criticized as unfair and biased.
“The United States has given us a powerful and unprecedented mandate,” Trump said, emphasizing that his party has “recaptured” the Senate and “seems” on track to maintain control of the House of Representatives. This would allow the mandate that will begin on January 20 to be much more pleasant than the one he had four years ago, since he would control the executive, legislative and judicial branches, after the latter had a conservative majority in the Supreme Court thanks to the appointments which he himself did during the first legislature.
This fact will not be trivial, since Trump will take office in front of the Capitol, a place from which he has been for four years. A mob of followers attacked after the tycoon accused Joe Biden of electoral fraud. An accusation that he has not been able to prove and that has generated several legal cases. In addition, he will be the first American president to occupy the Presidency with judicial convictions that are pending ratification.
A silence that confirms the electoral debacle
With territories still to be awarded, the map of the results shows a tough Democratic defeat. And of the seven pivotal states, Harris has only managed to improve Biden’s results in Wisconsin, Georgia and North Carolina, although They have not allowed him to change the electoral result and he ended up losing them to Trump. All of these territories have fallen into Republican hands, including Nevada. A very different result than what the polls showed in recent weeks.
It was precisely at the moment when the American media began to give Pennsylvania to Trump that the Democratic Party decided announce that Harris would not appear. “We still have votes to count. We still have states that haven’t been declared yet. We will continue to fight through the night to make sure every vote is counted,” said Cedric Richmond, co-chair of Harris’ campaign. Shortly after, those territories were colored red, definitively removing all possibilities for the Democrat.
More than 12 hours after the Republican victory, Kamala Harris called Trump to congratulate him for winning the elections and close this chapter. A conversation in which, according to a Harris advisor, the importance of a peaceful transfer of power was discussed. The only consolation at this point for the Democrats is to win the House of Representatives, something complicated at this point in the count, although it could take at least a week to happen.
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