Donald Trump has declared victory in the United States presidential election as he addressed jubilant supporters in Florida on Wednesday morning – but votes in key states are still being counted.
At the last count, Trump not only won majority vote but he is only four short of the required 270 electoral college votes. With 195 votes, Democratic Part candidate, Kamala Harris require a miraculous 75 votes put of the remaining 78 electoral college votes to topple Trump.
At West Palm Beach, he told crowds: “Look what happened – is this crazy”? – adding: “I want to thank the American people for the extraordinary honour of being elected your 47th president.
“I will fight for you and your family and your future, every single day I will be fighting for you with every breath in my body”.
He told the crowd he had won a “magnificent victory for the American people” while claiming he had also won the popular vote, something he failed to secure during his 2016 and 2020 presidential bids.
“Winning the popular vote was very nice, it’s a great feeling of love”, he said.
The 78-year-old also told his supporters that “this will truly be the golden age of America”.
Trump has won in the key battleground states of Georgia, Pennsylvania and North Carolina – and is leading in several others – narrowing Kamala Harris’s path to victory significantly.
“We overcame obstacles that no one thought possible”, Trump said as family, including “my beautiful wife Melania” and his “amazing” children, stood next to him.
“We’re going to help our country heal, we have a country that needs help and it needs help very badly”, he said while doubling down on his promise to crack down on illegal immigration.
Trump then seemed to refer to an attempted assassination on him at a rally in Pennsylvania back in July as he said: “Many people have told me that god has spared my life for a reason and that reason was to save our country and to restore America to greatness and now we are going to fulfill that mission together.”
