Donald Trump Projected to Win 2024 Presidential Election
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 30: Former U.S. President Donald Trump appears in court for his hush money trial at Manhattan Criminal Court on May 30, 2024 in New York City. Judge Juan Merchan gave the jury instructions, and deliberations are entering their second day. The former president faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first of his criminal cases to go to trial. (Photo by Steven Hirsch-Pool/Getty Images)
Donald Trump is projected to be the 47th President of the United States. His running mate J.D. Vance will join him as the projected Vice President.
The race hasn’t officially been called. But by Wednesday morning (November 6) major media outlets showed Trump got over the 270 threshold to win the Electoral College vote.
The 2024 U.S. election cycle has resembled a political powder keg, one full of major incidents and polarizing rhetoric. In July, President Joe Biden made the historic decision to drop out of the race for re-election and instead endorsed his Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic candidate. Harris sailed easily to the nomination and a head-to-head matchup with Trump, who had never lost his grip on the Republican Party even after his 2020 loss to Biden.
Over the last three months, the election cycle has seen everything from two assassination attempts against Trump to Trump’s hateful rhetoric against non-white immigrants to plenty of memes that featured “childless cat ladies,” and immigrants eating pets, a false claim Trump said during his debate with Harris.
As the President, Trump will now get his chance to focus on the things he campaigned on, including strict immigration policies, mass deportation, ending work permits for undocumented immigrants, slapping tariffs on foreign goods and ending taxes on Social Security.
Donald Trump will be inaugurated as President on January 20, 2025.