ABC News projects Trump to win at least 279 electoral votes.
Former President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Nov. 5, 2024.Former President Donald Trump is projected to win the presidential race by ABC News, defeating Vice President Kamala Harris in a frenzied contest to stage an improbable historic comeback.
His return to the White House also suggests that Democrats were not motivated enough by the prospect of electing the first female president and that its base's fury over the Supreme Court's revocation of constitutional abortion protections has waned since 2022. Democrats, meanwhile, will likely have to sift through the rubble to understand what voters found so unappetizing about them that they'd choose instead to support a twice-impeached convicted felon who had already been voted out of office once.
Perhaps more than anything, though, Democrats will be on the lookout for any form of retribution from a candidate who repeatedly dubbed his detractors the "enemy from within," though he never went after Hillary Clinton after leading chants of "lock her up" in 2016.Republicans across the spectrum panned Trump after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack by his supporters on the U.S. Capitol to stop certification of the 2020 election, with even allies like Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.
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