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2024 US Election Results. Main Points
The US presidential election, which is said to be the most fierce in recent decades, is over. According to the AP, Republican Donald Trump currently has 267 votes, while Democrat Kamala Harris has 224 votes. Fox News reported that Trump received 277 votes (270 is needed to win), and Harris - 226 votes. Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson declared Donald Trump the winner. Elected President of the United States. And Trump himself, in an address to supporters, called himself the 47th President of the United States. • Donald Trump declared in an address to his supporters that he had won an "amazing victory" in the election for the benefit of all Americans. He promised to usher in a "golden age" of America. Trump also expressed confidence that the Republicans had established control over both the House of Representatives and the US Senate. Read more about Washington in the Kommersant article. • Republicans are still leading in the Senate elections (51 seats, Democrats - 43). In the House elections, Republicans won 183 seats, while Democrats won 154 seats. • More than 80 million Americans voted early (in person or by mail). According to the poll, 41% of registered Democrats and 39% of registered Republicans did so. • Kamala Harris voted by mail, while Donald Trump and his wife voted at a polling station in Florida. • American entrepreneur Elon Musk traveled to Florida to meet with Trump after voting in the presidential election in Texas.
Scranton, Pennsylvania. People line up at a polling station in New York City. A polling board is set up in Times Square on Election Day in Palm Beach, Florida. U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump and his wife Melania pose at a campaign headquarters in Washington, D.C. Presidential candidate Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff (second from right) board a plane with campaign staffers returning from a rally in Philadelphia, New York. A man wearing a hat with "Early Voting" and "I Voted" stickers in Rochester, New York. A voter wearing a T-shirt with a photo of a young Kamala Harris leaves an "I Voted" sticker at the grave of voting rights activist Susan B. Anthony, New York. A man and his daughter at the New City Theater in Scranton, Manhattan, Pennsylvania. People line up at a polling station in New York City. A polling board is set up in Times Square on Election Day in Palm Beach, Florida. U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump and his wife Melania pose at a campaign headquarters in Washington, D.C. Presidential candidate Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff (second from right) board a plane with campaign staff after returning from a rally in Philadelphia, New York. A man wearing a hat with "I Voted Early" and "I Voted" stickers in Rochester, New York. A voter wearing a T-shirt with a photo of a young Kamala Harris leaves an "I Voted" sticker at the grave of suffragist Susan B. Anthony in New York City. A man and his daughter at the New City Theater in Manhattan • The Navajo Nation has filed a lawsuit against Allachee County to keep a theater open in Arizona, MSNBC reports. Multiple voting problems were reported at polling stations, including faulty equipment and missing ballots. • A software glitch made it difficult to scan ballots at Pennsylvania polling stations. Accordingly, voting hours were extended. • In the US, a polling station in Battleground, Gwinnett County, Georgia, was evacuated due to a bomb threat and reopened after the information was not confirmed, CNN reported. • The FBI has detained a Michigan man who threatened to shoot supporters of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump if he won the election, ABC reported. The suspect was taken into custody in Canton City. • A natural gas leak led to the closure of a polling station in Michigan, the Associated Press reports. Voters were moved to other polling stations. • Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said it does not matter to Russia who wins the US presidential election, since the US “prefers to confront Moscow one way or another.” • If Donald Trump wins, he will help end the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, and Kamala Harris is expected to follow the line of incumbent President Joe Biden.