Recap: Trump declares victory, claims ‘powerful mandate’

The Hill Staff
·1-min read
Recap: Trump declares victory, claims ‘powerful mandate’

Former President Trump has secured a return to the White House, according to a Decision Desk HQ projection.

The call came shortly after DDHQ projected Trump as the winner in Pennsylvania, marking a victory in a coveted battleground state that was increasingly seen as the center of gravity in the presidential election.

Around 2:30 a.m., Trump took the stage at a party in West Palm Beach, Fla., to thank supporters.

After he was projected to win North Carolina and Georgia, the path to the White House for Vice President Harris narrowed, though her campaign said late Tuesday she was not out of the race yet.

One outcome came into sharper focus very late: Republicans were poised to take control of the Senate, with wins in Ohio and West Virginia. Control of the House was too early to call.

A spate of bomb threats disrupted voting in several places. At least five states reported fake threats, something the FBI later attributed to Russia.

Trump declares ‘unprecedented mandate’ after winning presidency for second time

Republicans capture Senate majority

Follow live updates from the final day of the presidential election here.

Copyright 2024 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to The Hill.

Latest stories

  • Joe Biden Calls Himself 'Stupid' For Not Doing 1 Donald Trump Thing

    The president said he "learned something" from the president-elect.

  • Trump Must Pay $500M Civil Fraud Fine, President Or Not: NY AG

    The New York attorney general’s office told Trump’s lawyers there was “no basis” for the president-elect to evade paying the massive civil fine.

  • Mitch McConnell Says Trump Win Puts Americans In A 'Very Dangerous World'

    The GOP's outgoing Senate leader said he plans to spend his final two years in office pushing back against the Trump-fueled isolationism within his party.

  • Opinion - Elon Musk and Donald Trump: A modern-day Teapot Dome scandal waiting to happen

    So much for America First!

  • 'View' Co-Host Promises To Wear MAGA Hat On Air If Trump Accomplishes 1 Thing As President

    The former Trump White House communications director resigned in 2020 but vowed Monday to celebrate him on "The View" if he kept one particular promise.

  • Jimmy Kimmel Knows Why Trump Sent Don Jr.’s Fiancée Kimberly Guilfoyle Packing

    Although Donald Trump Jr. and right-wing media personality Kimberly Guilfoyle have not officially broken up their engagement, rumors are spreading after Trump Jr. was spotted in Palm Beach on Monday with another woman: model/influencer Bettina Anderson. The pair’s romance is reportedly an “open secret” in the area. As Jimmy Kimmel explained in his monologue Tuesday, “The first boy has not made an announcement about the status of his relationship with former Fox Newser Kimberly Guilfoyle, but som

  • Elon Musk Gloats as Trump Announces Billionaires Will Be Exempt From Normal Environmental Rules

    SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is dancing with joy now that his new father figure has promised him that he will no longer have to abide by pesky environmental rules. On Tuesday, president-elect Donald Trump announced in a Truth Social post that the government would be for sale after all, promising that any company investing $1 billion in the US government would "receive fully expedited approvals and permits, including, but in no way limited to, all Environmental approvals." "GET READY TO ROCK!!!" Trump ex

  • Russia tells citizens to avoid travel to the West - and responds to Donald Trump's call for Ukraine ceasefire

    Russia has issued a travel warning to its citizens as it said tensions with the US are "teetering on the verge of rupture".

  • China sends largest naval fleet in decades to region, threat level severe, Taiwan says

    TAIPEI (Reuters) -China is deploying its largest navy fleet in regional waters in nearly three decades, posing a threat to Taiwan that is more pronounced than previous Chinese war games, the Taiwanese defence ministry said on Tuesday. Speaking in Taipei, defence ministry spokesperson Sun Li-fang said the scale of the current Chinese naval deployment in an area running from the southern Japanese islands down into the South China Sea was the largest since China held war games around Taiwan ahead of 1996 Taiwanese presidential elections. China's military has yet to comment and has not confirmed it is carrying out any exercises.

  • Trump Vows To Build More Monuments And People Have Thoughts

    The former-and-future president didn't elaborate on who he thought should get a monument, so people on social media made their own nominations.

  • ‘Disturbing’: Dutton slammed on flag pledge

    Peter Dutton has made a controversial election pitch as the country edges closer to Australia Day, but that decision has been slammed as dismissive.

  • Satellite Images of Syrian Ports Reveal Russian Movements, Damage to Vessels

    Before and after imagery of various Syrian ports and airfields reveals Russian military movements and damage to Russian naval vessels, after the fall of the Assad regime.In satellite imagery sent to Storyful from Maxar Technologies, warships can be seen docked at a Russian naval facility in Tartus, Syria. On Tuesday, December 10, those ships are gone.Other satellite imagery taken on Tuesday shows at least two Russian frigates redeployed off Syria’s coast.“Most of the Russian naval vessels have departed their traditional positions at their base in the port of Tartus,” Maxar said. “Two Russian frigates have redeployed offshore of the port, between 7 to 12 kilometers (4 to 7 miles) west and northwest of Tartus.”More images taken on Tuesday at Latakia, another Syrian port city, show destroyed Syrian warships “reportedly caused by recent airstrikes that were designed to destroy the former regime’s naval fleet,” Maxar said.Late on Tuesday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said they had carried out strikes against “strategic weapons stockpiles” in Syria, including the Al-Bayda port and the Latakia port, “where 15 Syrian naval vessels were docked.”Russian aircraft, helicopters, and other military equipment remained in place at the Khmeimim airbase near Latakia, according to Maxar images. Large groups of cars, trucks, and people can be seen gathered at the adjacent civilian side of the airfield. Credit: Maxar Technologies via Storyful

  • Trump Calls Resignation of FBI Director A 'Great Day For America'

    Christopher Wray is resigning before Donald Trump has a chance to fire him.

  • Major City Eyed as Ground Zero for Trump’s Mass Deportations

    Alina Habba, the lawyer who President-elect Donald Trump says will serve as an Oval Office counselor, falsely claimed Tuesday that Trump did not separate migrant children from their families in his first term, a day after his top incoming border official admitted “it may happen” again. “I’m not looking to separate families at all,” Tom Homan, who Trump plans to appoint as his “border czar,” told a GOP holiday party in Chicago on Monday evening. “That’s not my goal. My goal is to enforce the law,

  • RFK Jr. Reportedly Makes Phone Calls To Push Key Appointment For Family Member

    It's Donald Trump who makes the decision, but RFK Jr. is actively promoting a family member for another post.

  • Spare Trump prison in hush money case, prosecutors urge

    Prosecutors have urged Donald Trump's request to throw out the Stormy Daniels hush money case so it does not impede his ability to govern again as US president.

  • For one Alabama family, Trump’s anti-trans rhetoric nearly cost them their son’s life

    Once news outlets called the election for Trump in the early hours of November 6, panic ripped through the LGBTQIA+ community and hotlines saw a dramatic surge in calls. Michelle Del Rey reports

  • Biden says he’ll veto bill that would let Trump nominate more judges

    President Joe Biden and key Democrats have come out against a once broadly bipartisan bill that would create 63 new permanent judgeships now that President-elect Donald Trump would be the one to fill 22 of them.

  • Russia blasts US transfer of $20 billion to Ukraine backed by frozen assets

    "The provision by the U.S. Treasury Department...of $20 billion using income from operations of 'frozen' Russian sovereign assets essentially stolen by the G7 countries is simply robbery," a statement on the ministry website said. The statement said U.S. President Joe Biden's administration was trying "in a Russophobic frenzy to introduce as many anti-Russian sanctions as possible before it transfers power to D. Trump's team on January 20th". "Russia possesses sufficient capabilities and levers for a retaliatory seizure of Western assets within its jurisdiction, which in such a case would be used to enhance industrial potential and implement infrastructure projects in Russian regions."

  • There will be 'very large wall' between Trump Org and US government, Eric Trump says

    ABU DHABI (Reuters) -The Trump Organization, Donald Trump's family business, will have a "very large wall" separating its business activity from the U.S. government, the president-elect's son, Eric Trump, said in an interview with Reuters in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday. The bulk of the Trump Organization's business is in the United States, although it has significant interests overseas, including in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. During his first term, Donald Trump retained ownership of the Trump Organization but placed control of the sprawling business empire in the hands of his sons Eric and Donald Jr.