Donald Trump to return to the White House as 47th President of the United States
President-elect Donald Trump will return to the White House as the 47th president of the United States after winning the presidential election Nov. 6, according to The Associated Press.
The AP called the presidential race at 5:34 a.m. after Trump secured Wisconsin’s 10 electoral votes, which brought the Republican president-elect past 270 electoral votes, defeating Vice President Kamala Harris in the race to the White House, according to the AP. As of Nov. 10, Trump has 312 electoral votes and Harris remains at 226, according to the AP.
Trump gave his victory speech at the Palm Beach Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida during the early hours of Nov. 6 to tell the nation that he wants to “help our country heal,” according to a report by Fox News.
While this election may be viewed as a “comeback” win for the Republican president-elect, it also has ushered in a new era of historic results to the political arena, according to the AP and The Washington Post.
One of the shocking results from the election is that the seven key swing states — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — all favored the GOP president-elect, which has not happened since 1984, according to the New York Post.
Additionally, Trump is the second U.S. president to successfully run for two nonconsecutive terms, with former President Grover Cleveland being the first to do so in 1884 and 1892, according to the AP. Additionally, Vice President-elect JD Vance will be the first Marine veteran and the first member of the millennial generation to serve as vice president, which means the 40-year-old has added a new chapter to America’s history books, according to The Washington Post.
However, Trump’s slew of criminal charges is also unprecedented for the U.S. since the country has never had a president in office with ongoing court cases, according to the BBC. The president-elect will appear in court this month regarding his “34 felony counts of falsifying business records,” and the court case about Jan. 6 will likely be resolved soon, according to the BBC. The case involving Trump’s “efforts to overturn the 2020 election” in Georgia and the case regarding the “alleged mishandling of classified documents” when Trump was no longer president are ongoing, according to the BBC.
“It’s well established that a sitting president can’t be prosecuted, so the election fraud case in D.C. District Court will be dismissed,” said former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani, in a report by the BBC.
Steve Sadow, one of Trump’s lawyers, said that the president-elect’s court cases may not gain much traction once Trump officially takes office since he will be protected by his position as president, according to the BBC.
The election also resulted in the GOP winning the Senate, with Republicans taking 53 seats and Democrats securing 46 of the seats, according to the AP. The last time that Republicans took the Senate was in 2020, according to PBS. The Senate will choose a new leader in the second week of November since Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is retiring from his current position, according to NBC.
The results for the U.S. House of Representatives are still currently in progress. All of these facts were accurate as of Nov. 11.
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