US Election Results 2024: Republican candidate Donald Trump on Tuesday won the US presidential election, defeating Vice President Kamala Harris, marking a stunning comeback and reclaiming the White House just four years after his previous term ended, Fox News projected. Trump will be the first president to serve two non-consecutive terms since Grover Cleveland in 1892 and only the second in history.
According to races called by the Associated Press up to 01.05 pm (IST), 267 electoral votes had gone to Republican candidate Trump and 214 to Democratic Party's Harris.
Trump was first elected president in 2016, defeating former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and vowing to "Make America Great Again." He lost re-election to President Biden in 2020 during the global coronavirus pandemic but re-claimed the White House in 2024 after a nearly two-year campaign, vowing to "Make America Great Once Again."
Trump victory in swing states
Trump has already won the swing states of North Carolina, Georgia and Pennsylvania. He is also leading in several other states.
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. 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.
The Trump campaign bet that it would cut into Democrats' traditional strength with Black and Latino voters, with the former president going on male-centric podcasts and making explicit racial appeals to both groups. Nationally, Black and Latino voters appeared slightly less likely to support Harris than they were to back Joe Biden four years ago, and Trump's support among those voters appeared to rise slightly compared to 2020, according to AP VoteCast.
Trump, 78, would be the oldest president ever elected. He would also be the first defeated president in 132 years to win another term in the White House, and the first person convicted of a felony to take over the Oval Office. He survived one assassination attempt by millimeters at a July rally. Secret Service agents foiled a second attempt in September.
(With agencies input)
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