Donald Trump has won the U.S. Presidential election in a likely landslide as the Republican wins or is ahead in all seven swing states and the popular vote in a historic comeback. The Telegraph has more.
Donald Trump has declared victory in the U.S. Presidential election, taking to the stage in Florida to address the nation.
The Republican said he had won an “unprecedented and powerful mandate” after taking the key swing states of North Carolina, Georgia and Pennsylvania, while appearing on course to sweep Wisconsin and Michigan in a landslide.
The 78-year-old is also on course to win the popular vote.
Appearing onstage in Palm Beach, Florida alongside his family, running mate J.D. Vance, and UFC head Dana White, Trump told supporters: “This was, I believe, the greatest political movement of all time.“And now it’s going to reach a new level of importance because we’re going to help our country heal… we made history for a reason tonight.”
He added: “Every single day I will be fighting for you… this is a magnificent victory for the American people that will allow us to make America great again.”
Mr. Vance declared that Trump had mounted “the greatest political comeback in the history of the United States”, while Mr. White told the crowd: “The machine… couldn’t stop him.”
The Republican did not mention Kamala Harris in his speech.
Ms. Harris’ results night party at her alma mater in Washington D.C. ended early when her team confirmed she would not address the nation tonight.
Republican strategist Dennis Lennox says:
You really can’t overstate the significance of Trump’s restoration as the first President in the modern era to win a second, non-consecutive term. Forget Nixon or Cleveland. This is the biggest comeback in American political history, given how many times he was considered down and out.
The state of play as at 9am (GMT) this morning:
The Republicans have also taken control of the Senate and are very likely to consolidate control of the House giving the party control of Congress.
The result once again confounds the pollsters, who had consistently put Harris ahead nationally and in many of the swing states. Even as late as the exit poll they were reporting a high female turnout boosting Harris with voters’ priorities said to be Democrat talking points.
Last week a shock poll by Ann Selzer predicted that Harris would beat Trump by three points in Iowa, a red state, sending betting odds into a spin. In the event, Trump won Iowa by 14 points – the poll was 17 points out. A red-faced Selzer said she will be “reviewing” why her poll got it so wrong.
“The poll findings we produced for the Des Moines Register and Mediacom did not match what the Iowa electorate ultimately decided in the voting booth today,” Selzer said in a statement. “I’ll be reviewing data from multiple sources with hopes of learning why that happened. And, I welcome what that process might teach me.”
But this keeps happening, to the point that many wonder if opinion polls don’t function more like regime propaganda than actual barometers of public opinion, giving Left-wing leaders a false veneer of popularity. More likely pollsters just aren’t very good at correcting for the biases in their polling methods. But the problem is so persistent that one wonders if they don’t in fact like it that way, despite frequently winding up with egg on their faces.
Reflecting on Trump’s victory, the Telegraph‘s Camilla Tominey says Kamala Harris ran the worst Presidential campaign in modern American history and only has herself to blame.
For the truth of the matter is that, despite the fawning celebrity patronage, the social media sycophancy and favourable news coverage – Harris ran the most dreadful campaign in modern Presidential history.
Between giggling fits and comedy skits, her offer to the American people was completely lacking in substance – amounting to little more than an “anyone but Trump” overture.
She actively avoided media scrutiny, and when she did agree to be interviewed, spent much of the allotted time trashing Trump rather than detailing what she would do differently.
Asked what she would alter about Joe Biden’s Presidency, which saw prices shoot up by 20%, employment levels fail to return to pre-pandemic levels, and interest rates increase sharply, she effectively replied: “Nothing.” She claimed to be the “change” candidate when all she was really offering was more of the same.
Her position on both the war in the Middle East and the war in Ukraine was clear as mud – while on the home front, she had no credible answer to how to restore living standards, or fix any of America’s other domestic problems. A pronoun-stating virtue signaller, she has flexed her progressive muscles with lots of female friendly abortion rhetoric – and yet contradicted her supposedly pro-sisterhood stance by refusing to distance herself from gender ideologues and trans extremism.
Trump capitalised on this wokery – telling voters: I’m for you, Harris is for they/them. It cut through.
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