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Donald Trump has now clinched victory in Nevada, handing him another six electoral college votes and his sixth battleground state win.
The Associated Press called the race early on Saturday morning, with Trump securing 50.7 percent of votes to Kamala Harris’s 47.4 percent, with 96 percent of votes counted.
Trump now has a total of 301 electoral college votes, with only Arizona – the final swing state – left to be called.
Republicans have also taken control of the Senate, however the House is still up for grabs four days on from the election. As of Saturday morning, 212 Republicans had been elected compared to 200 Democrats, meaning Trump could be given full control of two branches of government and the levers of power in Washington.
Meanwhile, the president-elect has already begun preparing for the Oval Office.
He named Susie Wiles as his new White House chief of staff and is thought to be looking to rehire Tom Homan to handle immigration. Homan, a Project 2025 contributor, served as the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement between 2017 and 2018 and is considered a key architect of the first Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” family separation policy.
‘Your body, my choice’: Women report rise in online misogyny following Donald Trump’s victory
Women are facing a barrage of deeply misogynistic comments online following Donald Trump’s US presidential election victory.
In the wake of the former president’s shocking political comeback, women have reported men are writing “your body, my choice” on their social media posts, among other troubling reproductive rights remarks.
The slogan “my body, my choice” was originally popularised by feminists defending reproductive choices as rights in the Sixties. However, the phrase has now been co-opted for the adverse effect.
Lydia Spencer-Elliott9 November 2024 12:40
Mapped: Here’s how the presidential election results look now
Rachel Sharp9 November 2024 12:21
Donald Trump wins swing state Nevada
Donald Trump has now won the swing state of Nevada.
The GOP president-elect had 50.7 percent of votes to Kamala Harris’s 47.4 percent in the state when the race was called by the Associated Press early on Saturday morning.
In total, 96 percent of votes have been counted in the state.
With Nevada’s six electoral college votes, Trump now has a total of 301 electoral college votes.
He has now won six battleground states, with only Arizona left to be called.
Rachel Sharp9 November 2024 11:55
Trump promised voters their incomes and net worth will soar. Economists are not convinced
They turned to him for a solution after finding themselves unable to afford the necessities for their families in a cost-of-living crisis, but concerns have already been raised the Republican billionaire won’t deliver.
Rhian Lubin9 November 2024 11:00
What Donald Trump’s presidency could mean for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle amid US visa row
Trump took to the stage in Florida in the early hours of Wednesday morning to address the nation, celebrating his “unprecedented and powerful mandate” after sweeping through key swing states, including North Carolina, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan.
His victory coincides with a precarious visa battle for the Sussexes, which may be complicated by their strained relationship with the president.
Athena Stavrou9 November 2024 10:00
VOICES: I was the only pollster to predict the Trump landslide – this is how I did it
The Wednesday before election day I was in Detroit. After months of conducting interviews, focus groups and surveys, I asked my last question of a voter in this election.
Sheree is a Black 31-year-old single mother. She voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016, sat out 2020, and was undecided in 2024. Throughout our 90-minute interview, we discussed her concerns about Donald Trump (“He’s just so aggressive”), Kamala Harris (“Fake”), the border (“A real disgrace”), education (“I don’t want my daughter to be worrying about sharing a bathroom with a boy”), and the economy (“I just feel stuck”).
But despite never having voted Republican before, when pushed for a preference, Sheree told me she was leaning towards Donald Trump. The primary reason? The economy: she simply felt better off under the Trump administration than she has under that of Joe Biden. She also felt that the former president was more authentic than Harris. “Donald Trump might be a wolf. But he’s straight about it. Kamala is a wolf in sheep’s clothing,” she said.
James Johnson 9 November 2024 09:00
Donald Trump would ‘certainly’ do trade deal with UK, says Boris Johnson
The former prime minister said the US president-elect is offering “economic hope” but that the Government would be “too pathetic” to try to secure a deal.
Meanwhile, Nigel Farage said the UK needs to “roll out the red carpet” for the incoming president and said that America is “our most important relationship” in terms of trade.
Pa Political Staff9 November 2024 08:00
Abortion pill website crashes after Trump election win as Americans rush to stockpile medication
Women have been told not to panic as the website of the leading mail-order abortion pill provider in the US has crashed in the hours after Donald Trump’s election victory as Americans rushed to stock up on medication.
Dr Rebecca Gomperts, founder of Aid Access, told The Independent the platform received 10,000 requests for medication for terminations in the 24 hours after Trump’s win – almost 15 times more than the 600 or so requests they tend to get per day.
The leading abortion rights activist said soaring demand caused their website to crash for two hours last night, but it is now back up and running again.
Maya Oppenheim9 November 2024 07:00
Feds bring charges in Iranian murder-for-hire plot to assassinate Trump
A fugitive Iranian government operative is accused of hiring a pair of New Yorkers he met in prison to carry out an assassination plot against a critic of the regime and allegedly admitted to FBI agents that he’d also been tasked with finding a hit squad to kill President-elect Donald Trump.
Farhad Shakeri, 51, claimed he was asked in September by regime officials to “put aside his other efforts… and focus on surveilling, and, ultimately, assassinating, former President of the United States, Donald J. Trump,” according to a criminal complaint unsealed Friday in Manhattan federal court.
Shakeri countered that this would cost a “huge” amount of money, to which his regime contact replied, “[W]e have already spent a lot of money .. . [s]o the money’s not an issue.” Shakeri said he was given a deadline of mid-October.
Justin Rohrlich9 November 2024 06:00
Olivia Rodrigo removes song from TikTok after Trump campaign uses it in victory video
Kevin E G Perry9 November 2024 05:00
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