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Trump wins presidency for second time, completing improbable comeback
The Hill ^ | 11/06/24 1:25 AM ET | BRETT SAMUELS

Posted on 11/05/2024 10:46:48 PM PST by conservative98

former President Trump is projected to win the presidency, securing a second term nearly four years after he left Washington under a cloud of ignominy and with an uncertain political future, according to Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ).

DDHQ made the call after declaring Trump the projected winner of Pennsylvania and Alaska, which got him to exactly 270 electoral votes.

Trump defeated Vice President Harris in an election that saw a number of unexpected developments: A criminal trial involving Trump during the campaign, two assassination attempts against the former president and a change atop the Democratic ticket after President Biden dropped out of the race.

He becomes the first president in more than 120 years to lose the White House, and then to come back and win it again, after President Grover Cleveland in 1892.

Trump secured the 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House following a roughly 100-day sprint of a campaign between him and Harris, with polling in seven key battleground states showing very little separation between the two candidates right up until Election Day.

The former president ultimately won a convincing victory, flipping Georgia back into his column, holding North Carolina and shattering the “blue wall.” He was projected to narrowly win the popular vote, something he failed to do in 2016 and that Republicans have only done once since 1992.

The former president and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), capitalized on voter discontent with higher costs, a surge in migration at the southern border and instability abroad during the Biden administration to pitch voters on a return to his policies.

Exit polls showed Trump making huge gains with Latino voters, bolstering his margins in rural areas and running nearly even with Harris among young men, a demographic Trump’s campaign aggressively courted.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


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1 posted on 11/05/2024 10:46:48 PM PST by conservative98
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To: conservative98
EPIC


2 posted on 11/05/2024 10:47:50 PM PST by jdt1138 (Where ever you go, there you are.)
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To: conservative98

FoxNews Calls it for Trump, winning Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.

God bless America and Trump


3 posted on 11/05/2024 10:48:22 PM PST by KingofZion
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To: conservative98

The Hill staff is on a suicide watch after all the anti-Trump articles that they put out over the past year and then having to write this one.


4 posted on 11/05/2024 10:48:41 PM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: jdt1138

No speech by Kamala. She shouda took her loss like a man. Hillary couldn’t either. Is this the best women have to offer?


5 posted on 11/05/2024 10:49:18 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: conservative98
IMG-6188
6 posted on 11/05/2024 10:49:26 PM PST by broken_clock (Go Trump! Prayers answered!)
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To: conservative98

*third time


7 posted on 11/05/2024 10:49:34 PM PST by cableguymn (They don't want peace they want skeletons )
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To: conservative98

Deep state is conceding.


8 posted on 11/05/2024 10:49:46 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: conservative98
"a surge in migration at the southern border"

Interesting way to describe an invasion facilitated by traitors within.....

9 posted on 11/05/2024 10:51:34 PM PST by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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To: jdt1138

Totally epic. Had someone written a novel with this plot it would have been considered too far fetched.

Yet, here we are.

I am so happy!


10 posted on 11/05/2024 10:51:53 PM PST by spetznaz (Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
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3rd time


11 posted on 11/05/2024 10:52:08 PM PST by Gene Eric
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Nope.


12 posted on 11/05/2024 10:52:58 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: ifinnegan

Good.


13 posted on 11/05/2024 10:53:10 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Seriously. As things went down hill through the evening, a large number of her supporters remained on site at Howard Univ, waiting to hear comfort and hope from her. They were unceremoniously told to get lost. Typical rat using people until they can do you no more good, then kick them to the curb


14 posted on 11/05/2024 10:53:55 PM PST by j.havenfarm (23 years on Free Republic, 12/10/23! More than 8,000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: conservative98

Stupid loses!


15 posted on 11/05/2024 10:55:10 PM PST by Paul R. (Bin Laden wanted Obama killed so the incompetent VP, Biden, would become President!)
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16 posted on 11/05/2024 10:55:23 PM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: conservative98

Sky News Australia said that Harris was a no show at her rally and the people there were told to go home and that Harris will address supporters tomorrow...

She could not even show up and face her own supporters....


17 posted on 11/05/2024 10:58:54 PM PST by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: j.havenfarm

Pretty typical of Tonsil Bruiser 9k, she got her start using and being used.


18 posted on 11/05/2024 10:59:26 PM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: cableguymn

FDR four times
Trump three times


19 posted on 11/05/2024 10:59:51 PM PST by Cottonhill (Cottonhill)
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To: KingofZion

Does this mean that Trump won all of the swing states?


20 posted on 11/05/2024 11:01:11 PM PST by Jean2
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