Hours after all polling stations in the US closed yesterday morning (Vietnam time, ie 5.11 US time), the vote counting process took place faster than some observers expected. By yesterday afternoon, media outlets such as CNN, Fox News, and NBC News announced that former President Trump had won the election.
Mr. Donald Trump and his wife Melania at an event in West Palm Beach, Florida on November 6.
The Road to the White House
Yesterday afternoon, Mr. Trump gave a speech to supporters at the convention center in West Palm Beach, Florida. During the event, Mr. Trump declared victory in this year's election, saying: "I want to thank the American people for the extraordinary honor of being elected your 47th president." He pledged to bring "a golden age" to America.
"We have made history, because we have overcome obstacles that no one thought possible. The task ahead of us will not be easy, but I will bring all my energy, spirit and enthusiasm to the job you have entrusted to me," Mr. Trump told the crowd, congratulating his running mate, Ohio Senator JD Vance, and praising billionaire Elon Musk, a Trump ally during the election, as a "new star."
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Meanwhile, Mr. Trump's opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, did not give a speech after watching the vote results at Howard University in Washington DC as originally scheduled, but will instead speak on the evening of November 6 (US time).
According to NBC News, Ms. Harris's assistants have shifted from hoping for the Democratic candidate to winning, to preparing a plan to deal with Mr. Trump's policies in case he wins a second term. US House Speaker Mike Johnson also declared Mr. Trump the President-elect, emphasizing that the Republican Party in the House is ready and prepared to act immediately according to Mr. Trump's "America First" program.
Trump supporters in Wisconsin celebrate after vote counts emerge
"Red" the battleground states
Mr. Trump made the above speech after many American media outlets projected that he won Pennsylvania, a state that observers had initially said could decide the outcome of the presidential election. The company specializing in tracking US election results Decision Desk HQ was one of the first units to project that Mr. Trump would win the presidency with 270 votes. Fox News also announced Mr. Trump's victory early, before the former President spoke in Florida.
As polls closed and officials began counting votes, results from traditionally Republican and Democratic states came in relatively early, with few surprises. The real heat began when votes in the battleground states were counted.
Of the seven battleground states that are considered to have a major impact in this year's election, Mr. Trump only won North Carolina in 2020. However, the Republican candidate has caused the states to "reverse", winning electoral votes in North Carolina, Georgia, Pennsylvania (with a difference of about 100,000 - 200,000 votes compared to Ms. Harris), Wisconsin (with a difference of more than 30,000 votes), while maintaining advantages in Michigan, Arizona and Nevada (as of yesterday afternoon), predicting an "all-red" result in the battleground state.
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Before the vote count, the race between the two presidential candidates was considered tight and unpredictable. As a result, some observers were surprised by the speed of vote counting and results announcement in battleground states, saying that places like Pennsylvania could take more than a day to find a winner. By yesterday afternoon, major US media outlets had projected that Mr. Trump had won the full 270 votes, thereby winning the US presidency.
Jim Messina, who was former President Barack Obama’s campaign manager in 2012, said the Democrats had trouble communicating with their constituents, which led to a loss of support. Messina said the Democrats had failed to effectively reach out to rural, young and Latino voters.
According to an NBC News exit poll in Pennsylvania, 42% of Latino voters voted for Trump, a significant increase from 2020. Support for Trump among voters under 30 and those without a college degree also increased in the battleground state. Michigan and Wisconsin also saw higher Latino support for the Republican candidate than four years ago.
Trump supporters celebrate in West Palm Beach, Florida on November 6.
The mood of some Democratic voters in Arizona when witnessing the election results
Election Day Incidents
Several incidents occurred on Voter Day, including fake bomb warnings at polling stations in battleground states, forcing some polling stations to be temporarily evacuated. The FBI blamed the claims on Russian agents, while the Russian Embassy in Washington DC denied that any insinuations that Moscow interfered in the US election were malicious slander, according to Reuters.
Apache County, Arizona, experienced a problem with its voting machines. Some voters in Apache County had to wait more than two hours because of the problems, and many locations ran out of spare ballots while the machines were down. Meanwhile, Milwaukee, Wisconsin officials announced that they had to re-run 30,000 absentee ballots after a technical problem with their vote counting machines. Before the election, state officials had anticipated variables that could affect the voting process and had increased security measures, such as ensuring technical equipment, surveillance cameras, and law enforcement at polling places. However, some incidents were considered inevitable, and US officials focused on minimizing external impacts that could affect the integrity of the election.
Republicans get good news in congressional elections
In addition to the predicted victory for Donald Trump, the Republican Party also won in the US Senate election, helping the party hold 51 out of 100 Senate seats, regaining the majority from the Democratic Party after 4 years. The race in the House of Representatives will wait for a party to win 218 seats to gain a majority. According to CNN, as of yesterday afternoon (Vietnam time), the Republican Party won 201 seats in the House of Representatives, compared to 177 seats for the Democrats. This could lead to a "unified government" scenario, when the president and the majority of senators in both houses of the US Congress are of the same party, creating conditions for the passage of policies that benefit the Republican Party.
World leaders congratulate Mr. Trump
Leaders of many countries and international organizations have congratulated former US President Donald Trump after Fox News projected that Trump would win the 2024 US presidential election. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky congratulated Trump, emphasizing on X: "I appreciate Mr. Trump's commitment to the 'peace through strength' approach to global affairs. This is exactly the principle that can practically bring a just peace in Ukraine closer."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu congratulated Mr. Trump on his historic return to the White House, according to Reuters. The presidents of France, Turkey, the prime ministers of the UK, India, the Netherlands, Spain, the Czech Republic, and Romania were among the first leaders to send congratulations to Mr. Donald Trump. The Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the leader of the European Union (EU) also soon congratulated Mr. Trump.
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