Donald Trump elected as the next President of the United States

After Fox News Decision Desk projected Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris to become the 47th president of the United States, world leaders sent out their seal of approval.

"Dear Donald and Melania Trump, Congratulations on history’s greatest comeback!,"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wrote in a post on X.

"Your historic return to the White House offers a new beginning for America and a powerful recommitment to the great alliance between Israel and America," the post continued.

"This is a huge victory! In true friendship, yours, Benjamin and Sara Netanyahu."

Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine, also congratulated Trump on his victory.

"Congratulations to @realDonaldTrump on his impressive election victory!," Zelenskyy wrote on X.

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Former President Trump's projected win in Pennsylvania represents the largest margin of victory in the commonwealth for a Republican presidential candidate since former President Reagan's win in 1984.

Trump was besting Vice President Harris 50.87% to 48.17%, or 2.7%, as of 3 a.m., according to the Fox News Decision Desk.

In 1984, Reagan won Pennsylvania by 7.35% against Democrat Walter Mondale.

Former President George H.W. Bush won the commonwealth by 2.31% in 1988.

Former President George W. Bush did not win Pennsylvania in 2000 or 2004.

Trump won Pennsylvania in 2016 by .72%.

Fox-projected winner Donald Trump gave his honest reaction to the Republican party taking the Senate majority during his victory speech in Palm Beach, Florida.

"We have taken back control of the Senate--wow, that's good," said Trump to his supporters early Wednesday morning.

"And the Senate races in Montana, Nevada, Texas, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, were all won by the MAGA movement, they helped so much. And of those cases, every one of them we worked with the Senators--they were tough races--I mean the, the number of victories in the Senate was absolutely incredible," said Trump."And we did tele-rallies, we did tele-rallies with each one of them," Trump continued.

"Sometimes we did two or three per, and it was amazing to look at all of those victories, nobody expected that. Nobody. So I just wanted to thank you very much for that. You have some great senators and some great new senators, and it also looks like we'll be keeping control of the House of Representatives."

Projected President-elect Donald Trump said "God spared [his] life for a reason" during his victory speech at Trump Headquarters early Wednesday morning.

Trump has experienced two assassination attempts during the 2024 election cycle.

The first came at his July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, that left firefighter Corey Comperatore dead. Trump ended up securing the battleground state of Pennsylvania in a major victory that propelled him over the 270 electoral votes needed to win the election.

The second attempt came while he was playing golf at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Sept. 15.

"Many people have told me that God spared my life for a reason, and that reason was to save our country and to restore America to greatness," Trump said. "And now we are going to fulfill that mission together."

Eric Trump posted a photo of his father, Fox-projected winner Donald Trump, on social media site X early Wednesday morning ahead of his victory speech.

Trump will be addressing a crowd of supporters in Palm Beach, Florida to formally announce his victory as the 47th president of the United States.

The former and future president successfully took swing states North Carolina, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin in Tuesday's election.

Democratic Attorney General Bob Ferguson

Fox News can project that Democratic Attorney General Bob Ferguson will become the next governor of Washington. He defeats former Republican congressman and sheriff Dave Reichert.

Fox News contributor Juan Williams voiced Democrats' disappointments Wednesday morning as former President Trump racked up several electoral victories.

Speaking on a panel before the race was called for Trump, Williams said Democrats were "dispirited at this moment."

"I think that there is even recriminations now among Democrats as to Biden and whether Biden should have dropped that earlier or not," Williams said. "Would a white male have done better? Obviously Trump has defeated two women and now a Black woman. So there's all these questions."

"But to my mind, it seems to me incredible that a guy who let it resurrect insurrection against the United States government is potentially now, you know, like a phoenix going back into the Oval Office," he added. "It's unbelievable."

Vice President Kamala Harris will not be responding to former President Trump's projected win until tomorrow, her team has announced. She will speak towards the election results. (Getty)

Vice President Kamala Harris will not be responding to former President Trump's projected win until tomorrow, her team has announced. She will speak towards the election results.

Fox News Decision Desk projected Trump would win the Oval Office early Wednesday morning, after projecting he would win Wisconsin.

Trump will be the first president to serve two nonconsecutive terms since Grover Cleveland in 1892 — and only the second in history. Trump was first elected president in 2016, defeating former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and vowing to "Make America Great Again." He lost re-election to President Biden in 2020 during the global coronavirus pandemic but re-claimed the White House in 2024 after a nearly two-year campaign, vowing to "Make America Great Once Again." 

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MSNBC host and Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart said Tuesday night he was “mystified” over President-elect Trump’s gains in the election from 2020.

“I’m mystified in some ways, simply because we’re talking about a twice impeached, four times indicted – convicted on 34 felony counts – former president,” he said. “That’s one bucket,” he added. “In another bucket you have all the things he’s been saying on the campaign trail … I am mystified that despite all of that he’s gaining support compared to 2020."

He added, “It’s gets back to the point that … Who are we as a country? We’re starting to find out and from what I am seeing right now, I’m not sure I like it."

Fox News Decision desk projected that Trump would win back the presidency late Tuesday.

Jewish voters have been very “alarmed” by the direction of the Democratic Party and have not felt safe, said political analyst Harley Lippman.

Jewish voters in Florida and elsewhere have felt the party going in the wrong direction, particularly as antisemitism has increased, Lippman said on “Fox News @ Night.”

“They see the liberal leftist as not standing with the Jewish people in the fight against antisemitism,” he said.

Gianno Caldwell, a political analyst for Fox News, noted that Harris should have selected Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro as her running mate.

“They have picked Josh Shapiro if they wanted to have a stronger standing,” he said. “They didn't and they turned their back on Jewish voters.”

Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier said there is a realignment of the Republican party and that Election Day is starting to feel like 2016.

“This is a major realignment where people could look at all the mass media, all the media covering that, one way, and say ‘I don’t believe it, I do not believe that, and I am going to vote how I want to vote,” Baier explained.

Baier and the rest of the panel discussed being “saddled” with Kamala Harris who they felt was the weakest choice the Democrat Party could run with.

VP Kamala Harris picked Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to be her running mate. (Montinique Monroe/Jim Vondruska)

The Fox News Decision Desk can now project that Vice President Harris will win Minnesota. Her running mate, Tim Walz, serves as the state’s governor.

Vice President Harris will not address the crowd at Howard University in Washington, D.C., tonight.

Instead, Harris-Walz Campaign co-chair Cedric Richmond, gave remarks at the university.

Harris is expected to speak tomorrow. Harris planned to watch the election results from her alma mater, Howard University on Election Night.

Three sources close to Harris expressed concern that Harris’ path to victory may be too narrow to overcome.

One source at the Harris friends and family party says “Her path is so narrow and she is not doing what she needs to do in PA, MI, WI….The exit polls I saw hours ago are all accurate, they need to suddenly outperform those. Don’t believe that will happen.”

Asked about this, a second source close to Harris told Fox News’ Jacqui Heinrich, “I 100% agree… The path to victory is very difficult…His numbers are higher than expected in counties where he should be losing by larger margins in PA and MI.”

A third source close to the campaign said, “I think we’re losing this.”

The Fox News Decision Desk can now project that former President Trump will win Pennsylvania.

This is the most important victory for Trump so far. He is now three electoral votes away from winning the presidency.

The Harris campaign identified Pennsylvania as one of three Rust Belt states on its “clearest path to 270 electoral votes.”

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In Pennsylvania, 6-in-10 voters favor expanding fracking, and these voters back former President Trump by more than 2 to 1.

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Pro-Trump business tycoon Elon Musk is predicting a Democratic drubbing in the 2024 presidential election.

"Last election, I didn't know a single independent/swing voter who was voting for Trump. This time, I don’t know anyone who isn't. And one person after another has confided in me that they’re voting for Trump, but they're afraid to say so publicly, because it will affect their friends/job/customers," Musk noted in a post on X.

"Crushing defeat is coming for the oppressive, big government machine represented by the Kamala puppet," he added.

Musk, who endorsed Trump earlier this year, has suggested that celebrity endorsements will not enable Vice President Kamala Harris, the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee, to win the White House contest.

"Even if everyone in music & entertainment endorses the Kamala puppet, it won’t matter. The public sees through it," he opined in a social media post.

Trump has said that as president he would establish a "government efficiency commission" to audit the federal government and recommend "drastic reforms." He said that Musk has agreed to helm the task force.

This is an excerpt from an article written by Fox News' Alex Nitzberg.

Alaska, the Westernmost state, become the last in the United States to close its polls at 1 a.m. ET on Election Night.

Former President Donald Trump is not endorsed by any U.S. presidents aside from himself, with former Republican President George Bush declining to support anyone in the race. 

Despite past conflicts with several Republican lawmakers, many of the GOP elected officials in the House of Representatives and Senate have announced their support for Trump and his running mate Sen. JD Vance. This includes Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, with whom Trump had a longstanding feud, and House Speaker Mike Johnson. Some notable GOP non-endorsers in the Senate include Sens. Mitt Romney, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Bill Cassidy and Todd Young. And while they haven’t gotten behind the Republican nominee, they have also stopped short of supporting Harris. 

Trump has the support of nearly all Republican governors , with the exception of two. Gov. Phil Scott, a moderate Vermont Republican, said he wouldn’t back Trump but wasn’t sure about Harris. As for Gov. Eric Holcomb of Indiana, he will still be supporting his pick in the GOP primary, former Vice President Mike Pence. Pence has also notably held off endorsing his former running mate. 

Fox News' Julia Johnson contributed reporting.

"Kamala Harris has been using a different tune on the campaign trail, literally," Fox News' Brooke Singman said. "The contrasting moments from her Labor Day rally show Kamala Harris using a southern accent with many on social media referring to her as that Looney Tunes character, Foghorn Leghorn."

On Labor Day, Vice President Kamala Harris visited Detroit and Pittsburgh on the same day.

In Michigan, Harris was accused of using a southern accent while speaking to rally goers.

"To clear things up, Kamala Harris was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, not the South," Singman added. "The fake drawl had many on social media calling her out saying it was cringe and saying she was just using that accent to try to get voters."

"This isn't the first time Kamala Harris has been accused of using a fake accent," Singman said.

In July, Harris visited Atlanta, where she showed off a Southern accent."

In 2021, she took a swing at a French accent while on an overseas visit," Singman said. "That one landed just about as well as the southern one did."

Read on for more 2024 Election Day news, results and analysis from Fox News.

The Fox News Decision Desk can now project that former President Trump will win Georgia.

It is the first battleground to flip to Trump, and a significant victory for the 45th president. He adds sixteen electoral votes on the road to 270.

A rally for Vice President Harris at Howard University on Election Night emptied out after the Vice President announced she would not be speaking to the crowd.

Vice President Harris will not address the crowd at Howard University in Washington, D.C., tonight.

Instead, Harris-Walz Campaign co-chair Cedric Richmond, gave remarks at the university. Harris is expected to speak tomorrow.

Harris planned to watch the election results from her alma mater, Howard University on Election Night.

Three sources close to Harris expressed concern that Harris’ path to victory may be too narrow to overcome.

One source at the Harris friends and family party says “Her path is so narrow and she is not doing what she needs to do in PA, MI, WI….The exit polls I saw hours ago are all accurate, they need to suddenly outperform those. Don’t believe that will happen.”

Asked about this, a second source close to Harris told Fox News’ Jacqui Heinrich, “I 100% agree… The path to victory is very difficult…His numbers are higher than expected in counties where he should be losing by larger margins in PA and MI.”

A third source close to the campaign said, “I think we’re losing this.”