US election 2024: Trump wins

al Jazeera:

US election 2024: Trump wins, Harris expected to concede defeat

By Nils Adler, Stephen Quillen and Alice Speri

Published On 6 Nov 20246 Nov 2024

• Donald Trump has been elected United States president for a second term nearly four years after leaving office, with projections showing the Republican comfortably clearing the 270 electoral vote threshold required to win the White House.
• His Democratic rival, Kamala Harris, has yet to concede defeat but is expected to make an address to supporters later on Wednesday.
• A number of world leaders have rushed to congratulate Trump after he declared victory in the November 5 election.
• The Republican Party has also reclaimed control of the Senate.

Donald Trump ‘leaned into people’s sense of anxiety, sense of fear’

Trump’s win defied many expectations about how the race would play out, and how close it really was.

“Our polling was off. We didn’t have good, accurate information,” Nadia Brown, the director of the women’s and gender studies programme at Georgetown University, told Al Jazeera. “Many people predicted that this race would be really, really close and that we might be two, three days after the election to figure out who won. That clearly wasn’t the case.”

“Americans were really unhappy with Democratic politics and policies and were not ready to vote for the first multiethnic, Black woman as president,” added Brown.

“And maybe Kamala Harris did too much to reach out to moderate Republicans and even some pretty right-wing Republicans like Liz Cheney, at the detriment of talking to people that have traditionally been the Democratic base.”

But it was also the campaigns’ messages that made a difference.

“Research shows that certain demographics of Americans respond to a mode of priming, trying to make people feel afraid, or feel anxious … It motivates some to turn out to vote,” she said.

“Donald Trump was really leaning into people’s sense of anxiety, sense of fear, in some cases, sense of hopelessness,” she added.

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Let’s have a look at what’s happened so far

• From Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, leaders worldwide have congratulated Trump on his election victory.
• Kamala Harris is expected to call Trump to concede defeat in the presidential election, NBC News has reported, citing two Harris aides.
• Along with their presidential victory, Republicans have also regained control of the Senate, flipping at least three seats to secure a majority with 52 out of the chamber’s 100 seats.
• In the wake of Trump’s victory, futures markets in the US have surged early this morning, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average has climbed 2.85 percent and the S&P 500 nearly 2 percent.
• Afghanistan’s Taliban government says it hopes for a “new chapter” in relations with the US after Trump’s presidential election victory.
• The leader of Hezbollah says the results of the US presidential election will have no impact on any possible ceasefire deal to end the Israel-Hezbollah war.