The 2024 statesmanlike predetermination cycle came to a adjacent successful the aboriginal greeting hours connected Wednesday, capping disconnected a chaotic run rhythm with President-elect Donald Trump is projected to triumph the presidency and spell backmost to the White House connected Jan. 20.
Following speculation that the predetermination results could resistance retired days, Fox News Decision Desk is projecting a Trump triumph aft notching cardinal wins successful a fistful of battleground states.
Fox News Digital compiled the biggest predetermination surprises connected Tuesday evening into Wednesday, including Harris calling it a nighttime without addressing supporters, and Florida Republicans celebrating the nonaccomplishment of an termination amendment.
TRUMP VOWS TO LEAD ‘GOLDEN AGE OF AMERICA’ IN VICTORY SPEECH: 'FIX EVERYTHING'
Trump wins election
Republican statesmanlike nominee and erstwhile U.S. President Donald Trump takes the signifier to code supporters astatine his rally, astatine the Palm Beach County Convention Center successful West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., November 6, 2024. (Brian Snyder / Reuters)
Trump became the projected victor of the 2024 predetermination rhythm aboriginal Wednesday morning, aft securing cardinal battleground states specified arsenic Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
He vowed to pb the "golden property of America" successful his triumph code successful Florida.
"Every citizen, I volition combat for you, for your household and your future. Every azygous day, I volition beryllium warring for you. And 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," Trump said.
The president-elect called his run the "greatest governmental question of each time" portion vowing to "fix everything astir our country."
"There's ne'er been thing similar this successful this country, and possibly beyond. 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," helium said.
"We're going to assistance our state here. 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 possible," helium added to cheers from the crowd.
‘Get immoderate sleep’: Harris skips addressing ticker party
Supporters respond to aboriginal predetermination results astatine Democratic statesmanlike nominee U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris' predetermination nighttime rally during the 2024 U.S. statesmanlike election, astatine Howard University, successful Washington, U.S., November 5, 2024. (REUTERS/Daniel Cole)
Vice President Kamala Harris and her run called it an aboriginal nighttime connected Tuesday. The Harris-Walz run chair Jen O'Malley Dillon encouraged supporters to spell location and "get immoderate sleep" up of 11 p.m. connected Tuesday, which was followed by Harris skipping an code to her supporters.
HARRIS WILL NOT SPEAK FROM HOWARD UNIVERSITY ON ELECTION NIGHT AS PLANNED
"Those of you who were astir successful 2020 cognize this well: It takes clip for each the votes to beryllium counted – and each the votes volition beryllium counted," O'Malley Dillon wrote successful a dismal enactment to Democrats Tuesday evening. "That’s however our strategy works. What we bash cognize is this contention is not going to travel into absorption until the aboriginal greeting hours. We’ll proceed to support you each updated arsenic we get much information. This is what we’ve been built for, truthful let’s decorativeness up what we person successful beforehand of america tonight, get immoderate sleep, and get acceptable to adjacent retired beardown tomorrow."
Harris held the ticker enactment astatine her alma mater, Howard University, wherever supporters flocked to the field earlier results began ticking towards a Trump victory. The run soon reported that Harris would not talk to supporters oregon the federation the nighttime of the election, and would alternatively present remarks connected Wednesday.
Attendees look connected astatine the lawsuit held by U.S. Democratic statesmanlike nominee Kamala Harris during Election Night, astatine Howard University, successful Washington, U.S., November 5, 2024. (REUTERS/Mike Blake)
The campaign’s co-chair, Cedric Richmond, alternatively delivered little remarks.
"We inactive person votes to count, we inactive person states that person not been called yet We volition proceed overnight to combat to marque definite that each ballot is counted, that each dependable has spoken. So you won't perceive from the vice president tonight. But you volition perceive from her tomorrow," Richmond said, up of Trump's eventual victory.
President Biden notably did not articulation the Harris ticker enactment astatine Howard University connected Tuesday, alternatively staying astatine the White House and congratulating down-ballot Democrats who came retired of their races victorious. Biden kicked disconnected the 2024 run rhythm moving for re-election, but dropped retired of the contention successful July arsenic concerns mounted implicit his intelligence acuity and age.
Schumer ‘fired’: Republicans projected to instrumentality Senate control
Republicans are connected way to instrumentality power of the Senate, with Ohio Sen.-elect Bernie Moreno declaring Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is "fired."
"Chuck Schumer: Thanks for the assistance successful the primary, but you’re fired, buddy," Moreno told supporters successful his triumph speech. "With Donald Trump and J.D. Vance successful the White House, we’re gonna person a caller agenda. We’re gonna beryllium pro-immigration not pro-invasion. We’re gonna beryllium an energy-dominant nation."
Fox News projects the GOP volition instrumentality power of the Senate, arsenic the enactment volition clasp astatine slightest 51 seats, capable for an outright majority.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat from New York, during the Democratic National Convention (DNC) astatine the United Center successful Chicago, Illinois, US, connected Monday, Aug. 19, 2024. The contention for the White House volition scope a fever transportation this week, with Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican nominee Donald Trump battling for momentum, and attention, astir the Democratic National Convention successful Chicago. (Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Nebraska was the authorities to officially extremity the scales – pursuing Moreno flipping longtime Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown’s spot successful Ohio – wherever Republican incumbent Sen. Deb Fischer is projected to decision autarkic challenger Dan Osborn.
Trump takes Georgia, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, North Carolina
Media outlets that spent overmuch of 2024 sounding the alarm the President-elect Donald Trump is simply a menace to ideology didn’t instrumentality it peculiarly good erstwhile it became wide helium would decision Vice President Kamala Harris connected predetermination night. (Getty Images)
Former President Donald Trump is projected to triumph a bevy of battleground states, including Georgia, North Carolina and the arguably apical battleground of the 2024 cycle, Pennsylvania.
Speculation mounted successful the weeks starring up to Election Day that the ballot number could resistance retired for days successful a fistful of states, including Pennsylvania, wherever 2020's ballot took 4 days to tally. Despite delayed polling hours successful immoderate Pennsylvania and Georgia jurisdictions, the states managed to tally votes overnight Tuesday, handing Trump victories successful cardinal battlegrounds.
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Both the Trump and Harris campaigns placed heightened accent connected campaigning successful the Keystone State, arsenic good arsenic successful Georgia and Wisconsin, repeatedly holding rallies and run events to physique support. Despite polls showing Trump and Harris were cervix and cervix successful polls up of the election, Trump ended the rhythm victorious successful the battlegrounds, which launched him to victory.
Florida rejects termination rights amendment; California gets pugnacious connected crime
Gov. Ron DeSantis (FL) takes the signifier connected Day 2 of the Republican National Convention (RNC), astatine the Fiserv Forum successful Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S., July 16, 2024. REUTERS/Mike Segar (REUTERS/Mike Segar)
On the authorities level, voters successful Florida voters rejected an amendment that would have created a law close to abortion, portion voters successful California approved of a ballot measurement that cracks down connected crime.
In Florida, voters rejected Amendment 4, which stated, "No instrumentality shall prohibit, penalize, delay, oregon restrict termination earlier viability oregon erstwhile indispensable to support the patient’s health, arsenic determined by the patient’s healthcare provider."
DeSantis signed the Heartbeat Protection Act into instrumentality past year, which banned astir abortions aft six weeks of gestation. Amendment 4 would person overturned the pro-life law.
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In Florida, law amendments indispensable get 60% of the vote, not a elemental majority, to pass. Amendment 4 received bulk enactment among voters but failed to conscionable the 60% threshold.
After its nonaccomplishment to pass, pro-life and spiritual groups celebrated the quality arsenic a monolithic triumph for the pro-life movement.
"The defeat of Amendment 4 successful Florida is simply a immense triumph for the full state, particularly its astir vulnerable. Proponents of Amendment 4 utilized the aforesaid playbook they person successful different states which relied connected fearmongering and disinformation backed by a backing vantage of tens of millions of out-of-state dollars," Brian Burch, president of CatholicVote, said successful a statement.
In California, voters approved of Proposition 36, which volition ace down connected theft and cause trafficking successful a authorities that has been battered by transgression for years.
Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom opposed the ballot initiative, saying up of the vote: "Prop 36 takes america backmost to the 1980s, wide incarceration — it promotes a committedness that can’t beryllium delivered."
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A decennary ago, voters successful the authorities approved California's Proposition 47, which reduced shoplifting charges regarding the theft of $950 oregon little from felonies to misdemeanors. Voters' support of Prop 36 connected Tuesday reverses Prop. 47.
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 27: California Governor Gavin Newsom stands with histrion Danny Trejo (L) and SAG-AFTRA National Executive Director Duncan Crabtree-Ireland ata property league astatine Raleigh Studios unveiling a immense enlargement of California’s Film and Television Credit Program connected October 27, 2024 successful Los Angeles, California. Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass announced a connection which would grow the programme to $750 cardinal annually, a large summation from the $330 cardinal presently allocated, amid sluggish movie and TV productions successful Hollywood and crossed California. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
Crime has spiraled successful California successful caller years, astir notably successful 2021 and 2022, erstwhile smash-and-grab crimes deed a fever transportation successful the state. Criminals were repeatedly caught connected camera storming high-end section stores with crowbars and different weapons successful bid to smash show cases earlier stealing merchandise and fleeing.
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Police groups and others successful the authorities pinned blasted for the transgression trends connected Proposition 47.