VOA News | Wednesday, November 6, 2024 
Donald Trump wins US presidency for second time

Former U.S. President Donald Trump has been elected as the country’s 47th president, defeating Vice President Kamala Harris to earn a new four-year term in the White House starting in January. In a tightly contested race, Trump secured at least 277 of the possible 538 electoral votes in Tuesday’s election, giving him the necessary majority to become only the second U.S. leader to win nonconsecutive terms, after Grover Cleveland in the 1890s. Trump, at 78 the oldest elected U.S. presidential candidate, claimed victory early Wednesday as he thanked his supporters at a rally in Florida. “This was a movement like nobody’s ever seen before, and, frankly, this was, I believe, the greatest political movement of all time,” Trump said. Trump, who vowed in his campaign to deport millions of undocumented migrants living in the U.S. back to their homelands, pledged to “fix our borders” with Mexico and “fix everything in our country.” Trump also said he would work to deliver a “strong, safe and prosperous America.” A Harris campaign official told a crowd of her supporters in Washington that she would not address the gathering overnight but would speak later Wednesday. Harris, 60, the Democratic candidate who joined the race late after President Joe Biden dropped out in July, was trying to become the first woman elected to the U.S. presidency and its second Black president after Barack Obama. A Harris campaign official told a crowd of her supporters in Washington that she would not address the gathering but would speak later Wednesday…Read more