US election results: Donald Trump has won the US election, achieving a landslide victory in swing states. His rival Kamala Harris won 226 electoral colleges, while Trump won 295, crossing the majority threshold of 270. He will be the second Republican to win a second term in 20 years. George Bush, Republican, was president from 2001 to 2009.
As for swing states, Trump has already won the swing states of Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and is leading in the other two – Arizona and Nevada.
Kamala Harris conceded defeat early in the morning. In his speechThe Democratic leader said that while she conceded the election, she did not concede “the fight that fueled this campaign.”
In a speech that lasted less than 15 minutes, Harris admitted it was painful to lose but urged his supporters to “keep fighting.”
“The outcome of this election is not what we wanted, what we fought for, what we voted for, but listen to me when I say that the light of the American promise will always shine as long as we will never give up for as long as we continue to fight,” she told her supporters.
Mr. Trump’s victory, following one of the most hostile campaigns in modern US history, was all the more remarkable given his unprecedented criminal conviction, was almost assassinated and the former chief of staff warned that he was a “fascist”.
Donald Trump said he would be willing to concede defeat after Tuesday’s vote “if the elections were fair,” while expressing concerns about the use of electronic voting machines. Trump, however, declared himself “very confident” in his ability to win back the White House, after voting on election day in Florida, in one of the most controversial American elections in decades.
