Trump leads the US presidential election – important swing states remain – news Urix – Foreign news and documentaries

With the victory in Wisconsin, Donald Trump has received the last electors he needed to secure the world’s most powerful position. He is charged with several offences, he survived an assassination attempt this summer and in January he will be inaugurated as the 47th President of the United States. – Here the voters simply wanted change. So says Are Tågvold Flaten, political scientist and editor of the website AmerikanskPolitikk. He believes that Trump’s election campaign has made an incredible turnaround. Are Tågvold Flaten, political scientist and editor of the website AmerikanskPolitikk. Photo: Private – If you look and compare the results with 2020, you can say that Harris and the Democrats have done a worse job than they did last time. He has so far won 27 out of 44 states and secured 277 electors. Kamala Harris has won 19 states and has 224 electoral votes – it was not enough to become America’s first female president from a minority background. The presidential election is not the only thing the Republicans have won, on Wednesday morning, the AP news agency reports that the Republicans also get a majority in the Senate, with 51 representatives against the Democrats’ 42. The Democrats thus lose power in the Senate for the first time in four years. Here you can follow the election results. Trump has won on the economy Eirik Løkke, adviser at Civita and an expert on the US, says that what the Trump administration has done right is that they have gained greater appeal among Latin Americans and black voters. – Harris has not managed to mobilize so many Latin American and black voters. At the same time, Løkke emphasizes that Trump has retained many of the white, male voters from the working class. Eirik Løkke, consultant at Civita and connoisseur of the USA. Photo: Hanna Johre Løkke also points out that abortion has not been as important to many voters as the Harris camp had hoped. Thus Harris lost the election. A final factor that Løkke highlights is the economy. – Trump has had great credibility on the economy, and it has been an important issue for a majority of voters. A record number of people have voted – I think Georgia is a pointer to where this election is headed, said USA expert Sofie Høgestøl to news early Wednesday morning. With that, Haugestøl showed that Trump won the swing state of Georgia, a state in which he is also accused of election fraud. He also won the swing states of Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Wisconsin. In Michigan, Trump leads on Wednesday morning with 52 percent to Harris’ 45 percent. The average readings from site 538 in the decisive swing states have been very even with extremely small margins. Before election day, 80 million Americans have pre-voted, making the election historic with a record high number of votes. In 2016, Donald Trump received 63 million votes. Now he has already received 70 million. Kamala Harris will not say anything publicly tonight American time, writes AP, citing an anonymous source close to the White House. As Republicans celebrate at election vigils across the United States, Democrats have begun packing up: Polling stations in the swing state of Nevada closed nearly three hours behind schedule due to long lines. The reporting of the results from Nevada has therefore been delayed. In Nevada, Trump leads Harris by almost five percentage points when 91 percent are counted, Wednesday morning. Confident Trump Just before 08:30 Norwegian time, Trump appeared on stage at the Republican election vigil in West Palm Beach, Florida. – I want to thank the people for being elected as their 47th president, he said to cheers from the hall. news’s ​​numbers provider AP had not yet named a winner of the election. However, several American TV channels had done so. After the supporters had waited for several hours, the protagonist himself appeared on stage at the election vigil in West Palm Beach. Before the election results were clear, Trump was clear that he was going to accept the election results, no matter who won, as long as it was carried out without cheating. – If I lose an election, if it is a fair election, I would be the first to admit it. So far I think it has been fair, the former president stated. He himself cast his vote at home in Palm Beach, Florida. Then Trump said he is optimistic and urged his supporters to vote. – I feel very safe. I hear we’re doing very well everywhere,” Trump said after voting. Here it was announced from the stage that Donald Trump won the swing state of Georgia. In the middle of the race, a series of fake bomb threats were sent to polling places in many states, many sent from Russian email addresses, according to the FBI. None of the threats were deemed credible, and police arrested a man in Washington who smelled of gasoline and was carrying a flashlight and a flare gun, Reuters reported. Published 05.11.2024, at 15.58 Updated 06.11.2024, at 12.59



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