By Daily Mail (U.S.) | Created at 2024-11-06 17:13:26 | Updated at 2024-11-06 19:29:03
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Donald Trump spent Wednesday morning recharging his batteries and getting used to his status as president elect by receiving and returning calls from world leaders, according to a source in Palm Beach, Florida.
With Vice President Kamala Harris expected to concede defeat with a speech later in the day, he cut a low profile after his stunning return to power.
His senior staff, family, and friends partied at Mar-a-Lago until 5:30am, celebrating his improbably comeback.
'They are letting him make the phone calls he needs to make,' said an insider.
'That's the important thing, right? He has to talk to world leaders, accept their congratulations and hear what their priorities are. And that's what he's doing right now.'
Donald Trump took the stage at 2:26 am on Wednesday morning to declare victory
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was among the first to speak with the president elect.
'The conversation was warm and cordial,' Netanyahu's office said.
Trump took the stage well after 2am on Tuesday morning to declare victory and one of the most extraordinary resurrections in American political history.
He had been counted out after losing the 2020 election, after his supporters ransacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan 6., and after being convicted in a New York court of business fraud.
Yet, he became the first Republican to win the popular national vote since George W. Bush as he connected with voters, and pulled in enough black, and Hispanic support to defeat Harris.
Her supporters at a party in Washington D.C. were told to go home on Tuesday night. And she is now expected to deliver her concession speech later Wednesday.
It was a bitterly disappointing night for her and her supporters, after most polls suggested she had a narrow lead.
Trump was holed up at his Mar-a-Lago headquarters on Wednesday morning
However, a DailyMail.com/J.L. Partners poll forecast a Trump win, giving him a three-point advantage.
On Tuesday night, his campaign team exuded quiet, nervous optimism that turned to euphoria as first North Carolina, then Georgia, and then Pennsylvania, the biggest battleground prize of all, fell his way.
'We made history for a reason tonight, and the reason is that we overcame obstacles that nobody thought possible,' Trump said when he took the stage at a West Palm Beach convention center.
'And it is now clear that we've achieved the most incredible political thing.'
