Former president set to return to White House after campaign that revealed a divided America
Donald Trump has reclaimed the U.S. presidency, winning critical swing states as his Republican Party also took control of the Senate.Republican control of the Senate would give Mr. Trump a largely free hand to govern. Control of the House of Representatives remained undecided and could take days to resolve.
World leaders began offering their congratulations to Mr. Trump early Wednesday morning even as votes were still being counted. “Congratulations President-elect Trump on your historic election victory,” British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said in a statement. “I look forward to working with you in the years ahead.”
The Republicans picked up Senate seats in Ohio and West Virginia. Bernie Moreno’s defeat of incumbent Sherrod Brown in Ohio continued the Republican ascendency in the state at the heart of the U.S. Midwest’s manufacturing belt. U.S. election results map: Follow Donald Trump and Kamala Harris’s presidential battle, state by state
Abortion measures defeated in Florida, passed in Colorado, N.Y. amid record push to enshrine rights post-Roe Canada, meanwhile, has been bracing to either persuade Mr. Trump to exempt it from his promised global trade war or match Ms. Harris’s pricey industry subsidies. A Trump victory could also trigger fraught discussions over NATO, in which Canada has long failed to spend as much on defence as it has promised, and have implications for asylum demand in this country if Mr. Trump makes good on his mass deportation promises.The marathon contest has proved one of the most turbulent in U.S. history. Mr.
She has also tried to strike a personality contrast with Mr. Trump, playing up a laughing, smiling persona.Just under 40 per cent of registered voters cast early ballots, less than during the pandemic election of 2020 but significantly higher than in most elections. Republican voters were getting in on the action, unlike in 2020, when many of them stayed away because Mr. Trump had claimed the system was rife with fraud. In that election, Democrats outnumbered them in the early vote.
One wild card was Arab-American voters, particularly in Michigan and Pennsylvania, who usually vote Democratic but may have sat the election out in protest of Mr. Biden’s continuing to supply weapons to Israel amid its invasion of Gaza.While the Democrats relied on a classic get-out-the-vote apparatus, powered by thousands of staff members and a legion of volunteers, the Republicans outsourced theirs to third-party campaign groups, including a super PAC bankrolled by billionaire Elon Musk.
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