Donald Trump inches closer to victory

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Fox News has projected that Republican Donald Trump has won the U.S. presidency, defeating Democrat rival Kamala Harris, marking a stunning political comeback four years after he left the White House.
Other media outlets have yet to call the race. He has won  267 of the 270 votes he needs to win  the presidency to Harris’  214.
In West Palm Beach, Florida, where Trump was expected to speak to his supporters at a convention center, the crowd cheered and chanted, “USA! USA! USA!” as Fox News declared him the winner.
Trump already won the swing states of North Carolina and Georgia and holds leads in several others, according to Edison Research.
The former president was showing strength across broad swaths of the country, improving on his 2020 performance everywhere from rural areas to urban centers.
Republicans also won a U.S. Senate majority after flipping Democratic seats in West Virginia and Ohio.
Neither party appeared to have an edge in the fight for control of the House of Representatives where Republicans currently hold a narrow majority.
Trump went into Election Day with a 50-50 chance of reclaiming the White House, a remarkable turnaround from Jan. 6, 2021, when many pundits pronounced his political career to be over.
On that day, a mob of his supporters stormed Congress in a violent attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
Trump picked up more support from Hispanics, traditionally Democratic voters, and among lower-income households that have keenly felt the sting of price rises since the last presidential election in 2020, according to exit polls from Edison.
Trump won 45% of Hispanic voters nationwide, trailing Harris with 53% but up 13 percentage points from 2020.
About 31% of voters said the economy was their top issue, and they voted for Trump by a 79%-to-20% margin, according to exit polls. Some 45% of voters across the country said their family’s financial situation was worse off today than four years ago, and they favored Trump 80% to 17%.
At Howard University, where a large watch party was being held for Harris, supporters were leaving in droves, anticipating that the vice president would not address the crowd on Tuesday night.
Cedric Richmond, a co-chair of the Harris campaign, briefly addressed the crowd and said Harris would not speak. “We still have votes to count,” he said. “We still have states that haven’t been called yet.”
Trump used increasingly fiery rhetoric, all the while stoking groundless fears that the election system cannot be trusted. Harris warned that a second Trump term would threaten American democracy.