***UPDATE***
Within the hours since this story was first revealed, the important thing swing states of Michigan and Wisconsin had been nonetheless counting votes along with the states of Nevada, Arizona, and Alaska. Early this morning, the state of Wisconsin was formally known as. NewsOne studies that Donald Trump was declared the winner of the 2024 election with 277 electoral faculty votes to win the presidency for a second time period. This win has been declared the “biggest political comeback in American historical past.”
When you threw up in your mouth a bit bit, we completely perceive. Hell, should you projectile vomited, we perceive that too. Two of the aforementioned states, Wisconsin and Michigan had counted over 90% of the full votes round 5 a.m. EST whereas Nevada had tallied 84% of their votes, Arizona had solely tallied 54%, and Alaska had 73% of their votes reported.
Sadly, none of those numbers had been useful to Vice President Harris as Trump held sizeable leads in all 5 states.
That is the primary time a Republican candidate has received each the favored vote and the electoral faculty since George W. Bush did it 20 years in the past in 2004.
***END UPDATE***
Though the voting public was warned quite a few occasions that this presidential race could be very shut, it was obvious very early within the night that there have been no phrases that might assuage folks’s overwhelming nervousness. For nearly her whole marketing campaign, Vice President Harris introduced herself because the underdog not solely as a result of she knew the power of the malignantly misguided MAGA crowd however as a result of she solely had 107 days to persuade America to forged a vote for her.
The night time opened with all eyes firmly affixed on the contentious swing states of Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia and Arizona. The states within the South and Midwest that had been anticipated to go to Trump did, early and sometimes. The states that had been anticipated to go to Harris did as nicely. There wasn’t a “shock” till MSNBC known as the state of Georgia for Donald Trump seeding him 16 valuable electoral votes within the race to 270. President Biden received Georgia in 2016 by a really slender margin for a state that’s deeply crimson traditionally.
Shortly after midnight, VP Harris’ marketing campaign co-chair Cedric Richmond spoke tepidly to a crowd of supporters on Howard College’s campus to announce that Madam VP wouldn’t be talking however that she would deal with the nation the following day.
We gotta maintain it a buck, Richmond’s tone of voice didn’t precisely symbolize a present of confidence for these hoping to see Harris grow to be the primary girl to steer the USA as president. That mentioned, elections aren’t received or misplaced based mostly on tone of voice or physique language. The one factor that issues are votes that had been forged, and there are nonetheless loads of these to be counted.
Till then, we wait. We drink. We smoke. We eat. We tweet. We textual content the group chat, however we wait. Keep in mind, the 2020 election wasn’t known as till three days after election day.