{"id":51832,"date":"2024-11-06T13:48:38","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T13:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/trump-makes-comeback-to-u-s-presidency-in-historic-win\/"},"modified":"2024-11-07T09:45:30","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T09:45:30","slug":"trump-makes-comeback-to-u-s-presidency-in-historic-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/trump-makes-comeback-to-u-s-presidency-in-historic-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump makes comeback to U.S. presidency in historic win"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Republican Party candidate, who lost to President Joe Biden in the 2020 election, secured several battleground states, including Pennsylvania, Georgia, and North Carolina, to surpass the 270 electoral votes needed to defeat his Democratic rival in this year’s polls.<\/p>\n

As of Wednesday afternoon, Trump had garnered 277 electoral votes, surpassing the 270 threshold and dimming Harris’ hopes of becoming the first Black woman and first female U.S. president. Harris is trailing Trump with 224 electoral votes.<\/p>\n

With Trump leading Harris in the Electoral College and holding a popular vote lead of more than five million, the Associated Press and major networks such as CNN have called the election in Trump\u2019s favour, though the world awaits the final official results.<\/p>\n

This historic victory makes Trump the first U.S. president to secure a non-consecutive win in over a century, a feat last achieved by Grover Cleveland 132 years ago. <\/p>\n

Early on, Trump declared victory as the 47th president of the United States as it became increasingly clear he would defeat Harris.<\/p>\n

Addressing his supporters at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, Trump described his ballot triumph as a “magnificent victory for the American people” that would usher in a “golden age” for the country.<\/p>\n

“This will truly be the golden age of America. It will make America great again. There was no other path to victory,” he told his supporters. <\/p>\n

Trump promised Americans he would make them \u201cvery happy\u201d and \u201cvery proud\u201d of their vote. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a country that needs help, and it needs help very badly,\u201d Trump said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to fix our borders. We\u2019re going to fix everything about our country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump, who has promised to spur economic growth by boosting tariffs and trade and decisively deal with illegal migration, was also ecstatic that Republicans had regained control of the Senate in this year\u2019s election.”<\/p>\n

“The number of victories in the Senate is incredible. You\u2019ll have great senators, and it looks like we will be keeping control of the House of Representatives too,” he added.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, dejected supporters of Harris, who had gathered at Howard University for an election watch party, left after Trump took an early lead in the election, which had been described as neck-and-neck. <\/p>\n

The mood dampened further after Harris\u2019 campaign co-chair Cedric Richmond announced that the candidate would not address them, suggesting that she would speak about the election later on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

“We still have votes to count. We still have states that have not been called yet. We will continue overnight to fight to make sure that every vote is counted, that every voice has been heard. So you won\u2019t hear from the Vice President tonight, but you will hear from her tomorrow,” Richmond told the supporters.<\/p>\n

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Former United States President Donald Trump will return to the White House after a sweeping, historic victory against Vice President Kamala Harris in the election held on Tuesday, November 5, 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000076754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[192],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-51832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-wycliffe-nyamasege"],"bylines":[{"id":192,"name":"Wycliffe Nyamasege","slug":"wycliffe-nyamasege","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":131}],"contributors":[{"id":192,"name":"Wycliffe Nyamasege","slug":"wycliffe-nyamasege","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":131}],"featured_image":{"id":2000076754,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/download_4_.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/download_4_.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/download_4_.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/download_4_.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/download_4_.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/download_4_.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000076754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51832"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=51832"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=51832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}