By CatholicVote | Created at 2024-11-06 10:26:42 | Updated at 2024-11-06 18:30:35
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CV NEWS FEED // Former President Donald Trump cruised to what appeared to be a comfortable Electoral College victory on Tuesday, defeating Vice President Kamala Harris on his way to become the nation’s 47th president-elect.
Heading into the November 5 election, experts’ forecasts largely showed a neck-and-neck race between Trump and Harris. However, the actual vote tally conveyed a different story.
As of Wednesday morning, the Trump-Vance ticket is poised to sweep all seven of the battleground states. Most media outlets have already called North Carolina, Georgia, and Pennsylvania for him – and the remaining swing states of Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada, and Arizona are all but certain to break his way.
In addition, the former president is also projected to have won the popular vote, making him the first Republican nominee in 20 years to accomplish this feat.
Since becoming the Republican nominee for the third consecutive election cycle, Trump survived two assassination attempts – including one on July 13 in which a bullet struck his ear and came just inches away from ending his life.
At the same time, Trump had also endured an unprecedented amount of legal accusations levied against him by political opponents – which many critics have described as “lawfare.”
“This was a movement like nobody’s ever seen before,” Trump told a jubilant crowd of his supporters and volunteers during his victory speech early Wednesday morning. “Frankly, I believe this was the greatest political movement of all time.”
“And now it’s going to reach a new level of importance because we’re going to help our country heal,” he emphasized:
We have a country that needs help, and it needs help very badly. We’re going to fix our borders. We’re going to fix everything about our country. We’ve made history for a reason tonight. And the reason is going to be just that.
“We overcame obstacles that nobody thought possible,” Trump added. “But it’s a political victory that our country has never seen before.”
Trump’s running mate, vice president-elect JD Vance soon joined him on stage stating: “I think that we witnessed the greatest political comeback in the history of the United States of America.”
“And under President Trump’s leadership we’re never going to stop fighting for you,” Vance continued. “For your dreams, for the future of your children.”
“And after the greatest political comeback in American history, we’re going to lead the greatest economic comeback in American history under Donald Trump’s leadership,” he stressed.
