Fox News declares Donald Trump winner of presidential race

Donald Trump projected to become 47th US President

Fox News has declared Donald Trump will be elected as the next President of the United States.

“The Fox News Decision Desk projects former President Trump has defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in a stunning victory, delivering him a second term in the White House after a historic election cycle filled with unprecedented twists and turns and two attempts on his life,” Fox News stated.

Trump will be the first president to serve two non-consecutive terms since Grover Cleveland in 1892 — and only the second in history.

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Trump stuns Harris to become 47th president of the United States

For the first time in his three presidential campaigns, Donald Trump is slated to win the popular vote.

by ERIK UEBELACKER
November 5, 2024

(CN) — Former President Donald Trump will return to the White House as the 47th President of the United States.

The race was called for the Republican just before midnight Pacific Time on Tuesday after a grueling election season that included two assassination attempts and a historic last-minute candidate change.

At 78, Trump is the oldest person to win the U.S. presidency. And he’s just the second to win nonconsecutive terms — Grover Cleveland did it, too, more than a century ago.’

Trump is also the first convicted felon to win the nation’s highest office. In June, a Manhattan jury found him guilty of falsifying business records to cover up a hush-money scheme related to his first presidential run in 2016.

Trump’s opponent, Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris, had her eyes on becoming the first female president in American history. In a historic turn of events, Harris replaced sitting President Joe Biden as the party’s nominee after Biden dropped out of the race in July.

Going into Election Day, the race looked like a coinflip, with all eyes on seven battleground states: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Trump outperformed in every state, clinching the presidency and — for the first time in his three presidential campaigns — the popular vote, too.

Shades of 2016 emerged just after midnight in Washington on Wednesday, when Harris' campaign co-chair Cedric Richmond announced that Harris would not be addressing the crowd at her election party at Howard University. The race hadn’t yet been called, but by that point, momentum had swung heavily in Trump’s favor.

It was strikingly similar to the scene at Hillary Clinton’s election party eight years ago at the Javits Center in New York City.