Donald Trump will be president of the United States again

There was nothing that could be done for Kamala Harris.With a clear victory, Republican Donald Trump will return president of the United States.

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The polls showed them to be very close, but the results were of a completely different nature.The hopes of the Democrats led by Kamala Harris they crash against a popular vote that chooses Donald Trump as 47th President of the United States.For him it will be the second and last mandate, after the one that lasted from 2017 to 2021; at the time he had won the presidential election against Hillary Clinton.

The results of the US presidential elections of November 5, 2024

The US presidential elections are essentially fifty different elections, one for each state, to which a certain number is attributed big voters.While the vast majority of states are essentially predictable, the game is all played in the seven swing states: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.This means that the candidate who wins is not always the one who receives the most votes:in 2016, for example, Hillary Clinton had won around three million more preferences but just 227 electors, compared to Trump's 304.

On November 5, 2024, however, the result was unambiguous.The Washington Post tracks the shift in votes compared to the 2020 elections: Republicans are gaining support everywhere, especially in large cities and their suburbs, but also (albeit with a more moderate deviation) in smaller centres.The first of the swing states to be awarded to the Republicans, when it was 03:40 in the morning in Italy, was North Carolina.Just before 07:00 it was the turn of the Georgia, where the vote was slowed down by various bomb scares, and then of Pennsylvania which, with its 19 electors, was inevitably decisive.

The Republicans control the Senate, the race for the House is still open

The Republicans snatch the majority from the Democrats Senate, with 51 seats assigned out of a total of 100 (34 to be renewed in this electoral round, given that the mandate lasts six years).On the morning of Wednesday 6 November, with the counting not yet finished, the seats were "overturned" (flipped) both went to Republican candidates:Bernie Moreno (Ohio) and Jim Justice (West Virginia). Bernie Sanders, candidate as an independent, remains senator from Vermont.

The situation is more uncertain Room, where – again on the morning of November 6th – the New York Times The Republicans still have the advantage with 191 seats compared to the Democrats' 170, but the threshold for obtaining a majority is 218.It will still take days to complete the counting operations and therefore arrive at a certain result.Of note, on the democratic front, is the reconfirmation of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the election of Sarah McBride, the first openly transgender person in Congress.

Currently, six judges are also nominated by the Republican Party Supreme Court out of nine, including President John G.Roberts.Each judge has a life term;when a position is vacant, the president of the United States appoints his successor with the consent of the Senate.

Donald Trump towards his second term, with overwhelming consensus

At 78 years old, Donald Trump will be president older in the history of the United States.And also the first to take office after one criminal conviction, relating to the falsification of documents for buy porn star Stormy Daniels' silence about a past relationship.Now we need to understand what the fate of the others will be processes still open against him, linked to the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, to the attempt to overturn the outcome of the 2020 vote in Georgia, to the confidential documents that he allegedly stole.

“God spared my life for a reason,” he said Donald Trump referring the attack he survived last July, in the middle of the election campaign.“And the reason is to save our country and make America great again.And now we will carry out this mission together,” he continued, addressing supporters waiting for him in West Palm Beach, Florida.“The task before us is not easy, but every ounce of energy, spirit and fight in my soul I will put into the task you have entrusted to me.”Kamala Harris has not yet released any statement.