World leaders raced to praise Donald Trump as he claimed a stunning US election victory over Kamala Harris, while financial markets also rose. Here are the first reactions, with the presidential election result still to be confirmed: – Israel – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called it a historic return...
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The campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has said that the vice president won’t address supporters on election night, as the path to the White House narrowed for her. “We still have votes to count. We still have states that have not been called yet,’’ Harris campaign co-chair...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has extended his heartfelt congratulations to President Donald Trump on his re-election as the 47th President of the United States of America. President Tinubu in a statement by his Special Adviser on Information & Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, said he looks forward...
The polling stations in the United States (U.S.) have been declared now all closed. Since the U.S. spans several time zones, the closing of the polling stations took several hours. The winner of the presidential election had not yet been decided, although two major battleground states have been called...
Donald Trump was on the verge of a decisive victory over Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election Wednesday, in what would be the most stunning comeback in US political history. Fox News declared Donald Trump the winner of the US presidential election early Wednesday — the only network...
Republican Donald Trump won eight states in Tuesday’s U.S. presidential election while Democrat Kamala Harris captured three states and Washington, D.C., Edison Research projected, but the outcome of the race remained uncertain with critical battleground states unlikely to be called for hours or even days. The early results were...
Former president Donald Trump is projected to win the state of West Virginia, US networks CNN, NBC and CBS have projected. There have been no surprises so far in the early states to be called by the broadcasters. Most of the pivotal swing states, like Pennsylvania, are still voting,...
The unpredictable and razor-close U.S. presidential election culminates on Tuesday with voters across the deeply divided country deciding whether Kamala Harris or Donald Trump should be sent to the White House in January. Harris, the sitting Democratic vice president, and Trump, the Republican former president who is seeking a...
A presidential election unlike any other in U.S. history enters its last full day on Monday. This is as Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, and their campaigns scramble to get supporters to the polls in a contest each portrays as an existential moment for America. Even after the astonishing blur...
With a few days to the November 5, 2024, U.S. presidential election, the campaign tempo has reached fever pitch, with the two candidates, Vice-President Kamala Harris (Democrat) and former president, Donald Trump (Republican) in a dead run to the finish line. The final national New York Times/Siena poll, published on 25...
Former U.S. president Donald Trump said he regreted leaving the White House after he lost the 2020 presidential election, which he never conceded. “We had the safest border in the history of our country the day that I left. I shouldn’t have left. “I mean, honestly, because we did...
In a matter of days, America’s democracy might self -correct and present a rough and bulky casualty. Mr. Donald Trump’s presidency is unlikely to be revalidated for a second term. As the various polls indicate once again, the American electorate seems poised to deal the disruptive Mr. Trump a...
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump fought it out Saturday in the swing states on the final weekend of the tensest US election of modern times, with the Democrat urging voters to “turn the page” on the Republican’s scorched-earth brand of politics. With only three days left in the campaign,...
Donald Trump’s supporters are seizing on comments made by President Joe Biden, whom they said called them garbage, while Biden said he was referring to the demonisation of Puerto Ricans. The controversy on Tuesday came days before the Nov. 5 presidential election in which Biden’s Vice President Kamala Harris...
Tech billionaire Elon Musk has so far donated about 119 million dollars in total to support Republican Donald Trump’s presidential election campaign. By mid-October, the Tesla boss had transferred 43.6 million dollars to the organisation America PAC, which is primarily focused on winning hotly contested swing states such as...
Democratic U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris held a marginal 46 per cent to 43 per cent lead over Republican former President Donald Trump, with a glum electorate saying the country is on the wrong track, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found. Harris’ lead in the six-day poll, which closed on...
Former union leader Dan Osborn’s independent run for U.S. Senate in deeply Republican Nebraska has shown unexpected strength and if he pulls off an upset victory could make the Navy veteran a Washington wild card next year. A series of recent polls has shown Osborn within striking distance of...
Democratic candidate Kamala Harris put her Republican rival Donald Trump on the defensive in a combative presidential debate on Tuesday with a stream of attacks on his fitness for office, his support of abortion restrictions, and his myriad legal woes. A former prosecutor, Harris, 59, controlled the debate from...
Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump and Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris will on Tuesday meet to debate, a phenomenon that could prove pivotal in their pitched battle for the White House. The ABC News-hosted debate at 9 p.m. ET (0100 GMT on Wednesday) takes place just eight weeks...
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are holding dueling campaign stops in the crucial battleground state of Pennsylvania this weekend, as new polling shows the US vice president making major gains ahead of her big moment at next week’s Democratic National Convention. Trump will hold a rally in...