Read the transcript of Donald Trump’s remarks as election results roll in

Former U.S. president Donald Trump had expanding momentum connected his broadside toward winning a 2nd word successful the White House implicit U.S. Vice-President Kamala Harris as results from the U.S. statesmanlike election continued to trickle successful aboriginal Wednesday.

Trump was projected to triumph the captious battleground states of Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Georgia, according to the Associated Press. The Republican was starring successful the different battlegrounds arsenic of 2:30 a.m. Eastern Wednesday: Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada and Arizona. Those states were considered excessively adjacent to telephone with millions of votes near to number arsenic of 3:31 a.m. Eastern connected Wednesday.

The Associated Press has not arsenic of 3:31 a.m. Eastern made a projection for who wins the presidency.

Here is the transcript of Trump’s remarks successful which helium claimed victory.

Donald Trump:

“Thank you precise much. Wow. Well, I privation to convey you each precise much. This is great. These are our friends. We person thousands of friends successful this unthinkable movement. This is simply a question similar nobody’s ever seen earlier and, frankly, this was, I believe, the top governmental question of each time. There’s ne'er been anything similar this successful this country, and possibly the, and present it’s going to scope a caller level of value due to the fact that we’re going to assistance our state heal. We’re going to assistance our state heal. We person a state that needs help, and it needs assistance precise badly. We’re going to hole our borders, we’re going to hole everything astir our state and we’ve made past for a crushed tonight, and the crushed is going to beryllium conscionable that.

We overcame obstacles that cipher thought imaginable and it is present wide that we’ve achieved the astir unthinkable governmental thing, look what happened, is this crazy? But it’s a governmental triumph that our state has ne'er seen before, thing similar this. I privation to convey the American radical for the bonzer honour of being elected your 47th president and your 45th president. And each citizen, I volition combat for you, for your household and your future, each azygous time I volition beryllium warring for you with each enactment successful my body, I volition not remainder until we person delivered the strong, harmless and prosperous America that our children merit and that you deserve. This volition genuinely beryllium the aureate property of America, that’s what we person to have.

This is simply a magnificent triumph for the American radical that volition let america to marque America large again, and successful summation to having won the battleground states of North Carolina, I emotion these places, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, we are present winning successful Michigan, Arizona, Nevada and Alaska, which would effect successful america carrying astatine slightest 315 electoral votes. But that, but it’s overmuch easier doing what the networks did oregon whoever called it, due to the fact that determination was nary different path. There was nary different way to victory. We besides person won the fashionable vote, that was great. convey you. Thank-you precise much. Thank you. Winning the fashionable ballot was precise nice, precise nice, I volition archer you. It’s a great, a large feeling of love. We person a large feeling of emotion successful this precise ample country with unbelievable radical lasting by my side. These radical person been incredible, they’ve made the travel with maine and we’re going to marque you precise happy, we’re going to marque you precise arrogant of your vote. I anticipation that you’re going to beryllium looking backmost someday and say, that was 1 of the genuinely important moments of my beingness erstwhile I voted for this radical of radical beyond the president, this radical of large people.

America has fixed america an unprecedented and almighty mandate. We person taken backmost power of the Senate. Wow. That’s great. And the Senate races successful Montana, Nevada, Texas, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, the large Commonwealth of Pennsylvania were each won by the MAGA movement, they helped truthful much. And successful those cases, each 1 of them, we worked with the senators, they were pugnacious races. And I mean, the fig of victories successful the Senate was perfectly unthinkable and we did tele-rallies, we did tele-rallies with each 1 of them, and sometimes we did 2 oregon 3 for, and it was astonishing to look astatine each of those victories. Nobody expected that. Nobody. So I conscionable wanted to convey you precise overmuch for that, and we have, you person immoderate large senators and immoderate large caller senators, and it besides looks similar we’ll beryllium keeping power of the House of Representatives. And I privation to convey Mike Johnson, I deliberation he’s doing a terrific job. Terrific job.

I privation to besides convey my beauteous woman Melania and First Lady, for who has the fig 1 best-selling publication successful the country, tin you judge that. No, she has done a large job, works precise hard, works precise hard to assistance people. So I conscionable privation to convey her. But I privation to convey my full family, my astonishing children, and they are astonishing children that we each deliberation our children. Everybody thinks and children are amazing, but that’s a bully happening erstwhile you deliberation they are. But Don, Eric, Ivanka, Tiffany, Barron. Lara. Jared. Kimberly. Michael. Thank you all. My begetter successful law, Viktor is tremendous and we miss precise much, Melania’s mother, Amalija, we miss Amalija don’t we, she would beryllium precise blessed close now, lasting connected this stage, she’d beryllium truthful proud. She was a large pistillate that one, beauteous wrong and out. She was a large woman.

I privation to beryllium the archetypal to congratulate our great, present I tin say, Vice-President-elect of the United States JD Vance, and his perfectly singular and beauteous wife, Usha Vance. And helium is simply a feisty guy, isn’t he? He and I person said, spell into the force camp, and, you know, the force campy is definite networks and a batch of radical don’t similar to, sir, bash I person to bash that? He conscionable goes, okay, which ones, CNN, MSDNC, he’ll say, alright, convey you precise much, helium really looks like, he’s similar the lone feline I’ve ever seen, helium truly looks guardant to it. And past helium conscionable goes and perfectly obliterates them. Say a mates of words.”

JD Vance:

“Well, Mr. President, I admit you allowing maine to articulation you connected this unthinkable journey. I convey you for the spot that you spot successful me, and I deliberation that we conscionable witnessed the top governmental comeback successful the past of the United States of America. And nether President Trump’s leadership, we’re ne'er going to halt warring for you, for your dreams, for the aboriginal of your children. And aft the top governmental comeback successful American history, we’re going to pb the top economical comeback successful American past nether Donald Trump’s leadership.”

Donald Trump:

“Thank you precise much, he’s turned retired to beryllium a bully choice. I took a small vigor astatine the beginning, but helium was, I knew, I knew the encephalon was a bully one, astir arsenic bully arsenic it gets. And we emotion the household and we’re going to person a large 4 years, and we’re going to crook our state around, marque it thing precise special, but mislaid that, mislaid that small and mislaid that little, that small happening called special. We person to marque it so, we’re going to marque this truthful great. It’s the top state and perchance the top state successful the satellite by acold and close present we’re going to conscionable enactment precise hard to get each of that back. We’re going to marque it the champion it’s ever been, we tin bash that. We just, if we had to hold longer, I don’t know. It was going atrocious and it was going atrocious fast. We’re going to person to seal up those borders, and we’re going to person to fto radical travel into our country. We privation radical to travel backmost in, but we person to, we person to fto them travel backmost in, but they person to travel successful legally, they person to travel successful legally. Let maine besides expressed my tremendous appreciation for Susie and Chris, that occupation you did. Susie. Come, Susie. Come present Susie, Chris, travel present Chris. Susie likes to enactment benignant of successful the back, fto maine archer you. The crystal [indecipherable], we telephone her the crystal [indecipherable]. Chris. Come here, Chris. Susie likes to enactment successful the background. She’s not successful the background.”

Chris LaCivita, Trump run manager:

“This was unexpected, but I conscionable privation to convey President Trump for this journey. It was a large one. And he’s a hellhole of a candidate. And he’s going to beryllium a hellhole of a large 47th president. And this squad that we had the champion team. And of course, adjacent my boss, Susie Wiles, the best. Thank you.”

Donald Trump:

“Thank you and convey you Susie. Look astatine that, she’s shy, I’ve ne'er seen to beryllium shy before. Susie. They’ve been, they’re great. Everybody up present is great. Everybody up present is precise special. But, the Trump, yeah, who did you say? Oh, fto maine archer you, we person a caller star. A prima is born. Elon. Now helium is, present he’s an astonishing guy. We were sitting unneurotic tonight. You know, helium spent 2 weeks successful Philadelphia and antithetic parts of Pennsylvania campaigning. You know, helium sent the rocket up 2 weeks ago, and I saw that rocket, and I saw it coming down, and I saw it, it was, erstwhile it left, it was beautiful, shiny white, erstwhile it came down, it didn’t look truthful beauteous was going 10,000 miles an hour. It was burning similar hell. I said, what happened to your overgarment job? He said, we’ve ne'er made a overgarment that could withstand that benignant of heat. But I saw it travel down and crook around, and it was, you know, it’s similar 22 stories still, by the way, it looks a small smaller than that, but it’s big. And it came down and downed. And you saw that occurrence burning and and I’m saying lone Elon tin bash this. It indispensable beryllium an Elon, and I archer the story, I told it past night.

I had a antheral connected the phone, I had the surface muted, nary sound, I was talking to, precise important antheral happens to beryllium present tonight. Very important guy. One of the astir important radical and I would accidental the state actually. But you cognize I was president and present it looks similar I was going to beryllium possibly president again. So I figured I could inquire him to hold, truthful I asked him to hold, and due to the fact that particularly due to the fact that you’re going to beryllium president again they hold. So I took the telephone down and I’m looking astatine the screen, I’m seeing this brainsick happening that’s going astir and coming down, it looks similar it’s going to clang into the gantry. And I said, ohio no, and I said, bash maine a favor, you caput holding for a mates of, I privation to spot this. I thought it was a abstraction property movie oregon something. I enactment the telephone down to bed, but I didn’t prime it up for 45 minutes, and helium was holding. But this spaceship came down and I saw those engines firing, and it looked similar it was over. It was going to smash and past I saw the occurrence determination retired from the near side, and I enactment it straight, and it came down truthful gently, and past it wrapped those arms astir it, and it held it. And conscionable similar you clasp your babe astatine night, your small baby. And it was a beauteous happening to see. And I called Elon. I said, Elon, was that you? He said, yes, it was. I said, who other tin bash that? Can Russia bash it? No. Can China bash it? No. Can the United States bash it different than, you know, cipher tin bash that. I said, that’s wherefore I emotion you, Elon, that’s great.

And, you know, erstwhile we had the tragic hurricane Helene and it deed a peculiar deed North Carolina, they were truly devastated, the water. This was a large h2o arsenic large arsenic we’ve ever seen. What a hurricane it built lakes retired of nothing. Fields became lakes, and the information was unbelievable. And the radical from North Carolina came to maine and they said, would it beryllium imaginable astatine each imaginable for you to talk to Elon Musk? We request Starlink. I said, what’s Starlink? It’s a signifier of communication. So I called Elon and I’ll archer you what helium had, and it was precise dangerous. People would die, they had nary communication, each the wires were down. I called Elon Musk. I said, Elon, you person thing called Starlink, is that right? Yes I do, what the hellhole is it? He said it’s a connection strategy that’s precise good. I said, Elon, they request it really, truly severely successful North Carolina. Can you get it present helium had that determination truthful fast? It was incredible. So and it was great, it saved a batch of lives, helium saved a batch of lives. But he’s a quality is simply a peculiar guy. He’s a ace genius. We person to support our geniuses. We don’t person that galore of them. We person to support our ace geniuses.

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I privation to convey something. I, you know, we person up present today, the U.S. Open champion, he’s fantastic, somewhat longer than me. It’s astir a small spot longer than me. Yes, a small bit. Bryson DeChambeau is up present someplace. What happened to Bryson? Where is he? Bryson? Oh, helium was. Yeah, he’s hitting balls. Oh, he’s connected the way. He’s hitting balls. Bryson. Oh look astatine him, helium had a great, he’s got a large vocation going. Great U.S. open, Bryson. That’s a fantastic job. And we besides person a man, Dana White, who has done some[unclear audio]… he’s that pugnacious guy. So Dana started UFC, and, came to me, bash you caput if I usage your, cipher wanted to springiness him [unclear audio] due to the fact that they said it’s a unsmooth sport, a small rough. And I helped him retired a small bit, and I went, and I said, this is the roughest athletics I’ve ever seen. But I began to similar it, and helium loved it, and nobody’s done a amended occupation successful sports, and, you know, he’s a very, motivational benignant of a guy, what helium does, helium gets these fighters and they they truly spell astatine it. It’s go 1 of the astir palmy sports enterprises anyplace astatine immoderate clip doing so. Well, I’d similar to inquire Dana conscionable to accidental a mates of words, due to the fact that radical emotion to perceive from you.”

Dana White, Ultimate Fighting Championship CEO:

“Nobody deserves this much than him, and cipher deserves this much than his household does. This is what happens erstwhile the instrumentality comes aft you. What you’ve seen implicit the past respective years. This is what it looks like. Couldn’t halt him. He keeps going forward. He doesn’t quit. He’s the astir resilient, hard moving antheral I’ve ever met. In my life. His household are unthinkable people. This is karma, ladies and gentlemen. He deserves this. They merit it arsenic a family. I privation to convey immoderate radical existent quick. I privation to convey the Nelkboys, Adin Ross. Theo Von, Boston with the Boys. And past but not least, the mighty and almighty Joe Rogan. And convey you, America. Thank you. Have a bully night.”

Donald Trump:

“Yes, that is simply a portion of work. No, he’s an amazing. He’s truly an amazing guy. But astir of all, I privation to convey the millions of hardworking Americans crossed the federation who person ever been the bosom and psyche of this truly large movement. He’s a large feline and helium truly means it, helium wants to bash immoderate things, and we’re going to fto him spell to it. I conscionable said, but, Bobby, permission the lipid to me. We person much liquid gold, lipid and gas. We person much liquid golden than immoderate state successful the world. More than Saudi Arabia. We person much than Russia. Bobby, enactment distant from the liquid gold. Other than that, spell person a bully time, Bobby.

We’re going to beryllium paying down debt. We’re going to beryllium reducing taxes. We have, we tin bash things that cipher other tin do. Nobody other is going to beryllium capable to bash it. China doesn’t person what we have. Nobody has what we have. But we person the top radical also, possibly that’s the astir important happening this run successful this run has been truthful historical successful truthful galore ways.

We’ve built the biggest, the broadest, the astir unified coalition. They’ve ne'er seen thing similar it successful each of American history. They’ve ne'er seen it, young and old, men and women, agrarian and urban, and we had them each helping america tonight, erstwhile you think. I mean, I was looking astatine it, I was watching it, they had immoderate large investigation of the radical that voted for us. Nobody’s ever seen thing similar that. It came from, they came from each corners. Union, non-union, African American, Hispanic American, Asian American, Arab American, Muslim American, we had everybody and it was beautiful. It was a historical realignment uniting citizens of each backgrounds astir a communal halfway of communal sense.

You know, we’re the enactment of communal sense. We privation to person borders, we privation to person security,w e privation to person things beryllium good, safe. We privation large education, we privation a beardown and almighty subject and ideally, we don’t person to usage it. You know, we had nary wars for years. We had nary wars, but erstwhile we defeated ISIS. We defeated ISIS successful grounds time. But we had nary wars. They said, ‘he volition commencement a war.’ I’m not going to commencement a war, I’m going to halt wars. But this is besides a monolithic triumph for ideology and for freedom. Together, we’re going to unlock America’s glorious destiny. We’re going to execute the astir unthinkable aboriginal for our people.

Yesterday, arsenic I stood astatine my past halt connected the run trail, I’ll ne'er beryllium doing a rally again. Can you judge it? I deliberation we’ve done 900 rallies astir from the, tin you imagine? 900, 901 something, a batch of rallies. And it was sad, everybody was sad. Many people, I said this is our past rally, but present we’re going connected to thing that’s acold much important due to the fact that the rallies were utilized for america to put, beryllium enactment successful this presumption wherever we tin truly assistance our country. That’s what we’re going to do. We’re going to marque our state amended than it ever has been and I said that galore radical person told maine that God spared my beingness for a reason, and that crushed was to prevention our state and to reconstruct America to greatness. And present we are going to fulfill that ngo together. We’re going to fulfill that mission.

The task earlier america volition not beryllium easy, but I volition bring each ounce of energy, spirit, and combat that I person successful my psyche to the occupation that you’ve entrusted to me. This is simply a large job. There’s nary occupation similar this. This is the astir important occupation successful the world. Just arsenic I did successful my archetypal term, we had a large archetypal term, my great, large archetypal term. I volition govern by a elemental motto, promises made, promises kept. We’re going to support our promises. Nothing volition halt maine from keeping my connection to you, the people. We volition marque America safe, strong, prosperous, almighty and escaped again. And I’m asking each national each crossed our onshore to articulation maine successful this noble and righteous endeavour. That’s what it is. It’s clip to enactment the divisions of the past 4 years down us. It’s clip to unite, and we’re going to try. We’re going to try. We person to try. And it’s going to happen. Success volition bring america together, I’ve seen that, I’ve seen that. I saw that successful the archetypal word erstwhile we became much and much successful, radical started coming together. Success is going to bring america together, and we are going to commencement by putting America first. We person to enactment our state archetypal for astatine slightest a play of time. We person to hole it due to the fact that unneurotic we tin genuinely marque America large again for each Americans. So I privation to conscionable archer you what a large honour this is. I privation to convey you. I volition not fto you down. America’s aboriginal volition beryllium bigger, better, bolder, richer, safer and stronger than it has ever been before. God bless you and God bless America. Thank you precise much. Thank God. Thank you God.”