Election 2024 live: Trump allies tussle for cabinet jobs as Harris concedes, telling voters to ‘never give up’
Donald Trump has won a historic second term in the White House in a shocking political comeback four years after leaving office, comfortably beating Vice President Kamala Harris.
The Republican surpassed the magic number of 270 Electoral College votes early on Wednesday morning after winning key battleground states.
He also won 51 percent of the popular vote, picking up 72.5m votes to Harris’s 68m as she fell well short of Joe Biden’s 2020 total of 81m.
The president-elect will now consider appointments to his second administration, as his conservative allies and campaign surrogates begin jostling for position in the hope of securing a top role.
Harris called Trump to congratulate him on his victory yesterday afternoon, speaking of the importance of a peaceful transfer of power and his serving as a president for all Americans.
In her subsequent concession speech at Howard University, the Democrat said that, while she concedes the election, she does not concede the fight that fueled her campaign.
“The fight for freedom, opportunity, fairness, and dignity of all people, and ideals at the heart of this nation… that is a fight I will never give up.”
