WEST PALM BEACH—Former President Donald Trump won the 2024 election, Decision Desk HQ predicts, completing what is likely the biggest political comeback in American history.
Despite suggestions that the race would be incredibly close, Trump took off with an early lead, quickly winning majorities in the key swing states of Georgia and North Carolina, and showing early dominance in Pennsylvania.
When the race was called just past 1:00 a.m. on the east coast, Trump had won three of seven swing states — Georgia, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania — putting him at 270 Electoral College votes. He is set to take the stage at his election night party early morning on Wednesday.
Campaign officials and advisers celebrated Trump’s victory late into the night on Tuesday and early Wednesday in West Palm Beach, Florida, at an election night party for the former and future president.
Trump, who also won the 2016 presidential election, will return to the White House after a four-year absence, after Harris and President Joe Biden won in 2020.
For years, critics on the right protested that Biden’s mental acuity made him unfit to serve as president. Media and top Democrats turned a blind eye to the president’s decline until this summer, when he was ousted as the Democratic nominee and replaced with Harris.
Harris accepted Trump’s victory in remarks made late Tuesday night, expressing deep disappointment that her party would not take the White House, and warning, as she has throughout the election cycle, that Trump will bring fascism to the United States.
This presidential election cycle has been one of the most vitriolic and aggressive in American history. Trump faced not one but two assassination attempts, and was shot in the ear by an assassin who narrowly missed the president’s head.
In a tense moment, the bloodied Trump fell to the ground as the Secret Service dove to protect him. He then rose, and in a historic, viral moment, defiantly shook his fist to the crowd, shouting, “Fight, Fight, Fight!” Trump supporters saw the moment as a show of strength, and a refusal to give in to political persecution.
Trump ran on a platform that promised to Make America Great Again. He has promised to seal the border and stop the immigration crisis by carrying out the largest deportation operation in American history. He promises to “make America affordable again” by ending the inflation Americans have seen throughout the Biden administration.
He’s also promised to make America the dominant energy producer in the world, to turn the United States into a “manufacturing superpower,” to cut tax on tips for workers, clean up American cities, strengthen and modernize the military, and more.
The next president similarly promises to defend the Constitution and fundamental American freedoms, such as freedom of speech, of religion, the right to keep and bear arms, and more.
He promises to cut federal funding for any school pushing radical ideology, whether racial, sexual, or political, upon children, and to keep men out of women’s sports.
Trump also has vowed to prevent another world war, to restore peace in both Europe and the Middle East, and to deport “pro-Hamas radicals” active on American campuses. He promises to secure American elections, and to end the weaponization of the government against United States citizens.
His campaign platform’s final promise is to “unite our country by bringing it to new and record levels of success.” Republicans also took back control of the Senate, clinching at least 51 seats.
