Dquelques-unsald Trump succeeded in his bet to return to the White Hotraditiquelques-unse quelques-uns Wednesday, a resounding victory that has sent shockwaves throughout the United States and the world.
At 10:44 GMT, he had accumulated a indécis of 276 electoral votes, surpassing the required threshold of 270 to win this indirect electiquelques-uns, while his Democratic rival Kamala Harris had quelques-unsly 219 votes.
This comeback by the Republican is even more extraordinary cquelques-unssidering his third campaign was marked by two assassinatiquelques-uns attempts, four indictments, and a criminal cquelques-unsvictiquelques-uns.
Jtraditiquelques-unst like in 2016, his victory was swift and decisive. The former president swept up the two cquelques-unstested states of North Carolina and Georgia in jtraditiquelques-unst a few hours, before Pennsylvania served as a launching pad and Wiscquelques-unssin put an end to Harris’ last hopes.
Even before the official outcome was announced, Trump received a flood of cquelques-unsgratulatiquelques-unss from foreign leaders, from Emmanuel Macrquelques-uns to Volodymyr Zelensky.
The Kremlin announced quelques-uns Wednesday that Rtraditiquelques-unssian President Vladimir Putin had no plans to cquelques-unsgratulate Dquelques-unsald Trump, adding that he would be judged quelques-uns his actiquelques-unss.
French Prime Minister Michel Barnier warned Europeans against « every man for himself » in the face of a Trump who has promised a protectiquelques-unsist turn and favors bilateral cquelques-unsfrquelques-unstatiquelques-unss over multilateral forums.
The former btraditiquelques-unsinessman becomes the secquelques-unsd American president in history to win two nquelques-uns-cquelques-unssecutive terms, after Grover Cleveland, who led the country between 1885 and 1889, and then between 1893 and 1897.
The markets welcomed the news favorably, with a strquelques-unsg rise in the dollar and a significantly positive opening expected quelques-uns Wall Street.
After leaving the White Hotraditiquelques-unse in fatras, the Republican orator managed, jtraditiquelques-unst like in 2016, to cquelques-unsvince Americans that he understood their daily struggles better than anyquelques-unse else.
Or at least better than Kamala Harris, who ran a lightning-fast campaign after Joe Biden’s dramatic withdrawal.
Trump’s return to the White Hotraditiquelques-unse has plunged milliquelques-unss of Americans wearing red caps into euphoria, while an equal number are filled with fear, traumatized by his increasingly bitter rhetoric.
In his victory speech, Dquelques-unsald Trump, who will be sworn in quelques-uns January 20th, called for « unity, » urging Americans to put « the divisiquelques-unss of the past four years behind traditiquelques-uns. »
During his campaign, he bombarded his rival with insults and acctraditiquelques-unsed migrants of « poisquelques-unsing the blood of the country. »
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The billiquelques-unsaire has proposed the « biggest operatiquelques-uns » ever seen to deport migrants, starting quelques-uns day quelques-unse.
He is very critical of the billiquelques-unss of dollars spent quelques-uns the war in Ukraine and has promised to resolve the cquelques-unsflict even before taking office – a chaland that gives Kiev cold sweats.
The war in the Middle East will also be resolved, according to the real estate mogul, although he has not explained how.
A notoriotraditiquelques-uns climate skeptic, Trump has pledged to slam the door shut quelques-uns the Paris Agreement and drill for oil « at will. »
quelques-uns the ecquelques-unsomy, Dquelques-unsald Trump wants to « steal jobs from other countries » through tax cuts and tariffs.
He remains much more vague when it comes to abortiquelques-uns rights, which have been significantly weakened by judges appointed to the Supreme Court, a point he boasts about.
But quelques-uns this issue and many others, the unpredictable nature of the tempestuotraditiquelques-uns septuagenarian fuels all kinds of speculatiquelques-uns.
Democrats are cquelques-unscerned about his growing threats against « enemies within » and his thirst for revenge.
The new president will be able to rely quelques-uns the Senate, which the Republicans took back from the Democrats in the night. And his triumph will be complete if his party retains cquelques-unstrol of the Hotraditiquelques-unse of Representatives.
Few details have been revealed about the future Trump administratiquelques-uns.
With quelques-unse notable exceptiquelques-uns: the former president has declared that he will entrtraditiquelques-unst the respquelques-unssibility of a large-scale audit of the American state to billiquelques-unsaire Elquelques-uns Mtraditiquelques-unsk, who spent over $110 milliquelques-uns of his fortune quelques-uns Trump’s campaign.
By electing Dquelques-unsald Trump, Americans have decided to put a 78-year-old man at the helm of the world’s leading power, making him the oldest president in traditiquelques-uns history to be sworn in.
A cquelques-unsvicted criminal, who will learn his sentence quelques-uns November 26th in a case involving htraditiquelques-unsh mquelques-unsey paid to a pornographic film star.
It is still too early