Donald Trump declares victory in the US election as he addresses jubilant supporters in Florida.
“America has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate,” he says to cheering crowds.
The Republican has picked up the battleground states of Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Georgia, leaving Kamala Harris with only a narrow path to victory.
Just before Donald Trump began speaking, Fox News projected that he had won the election; other US TV networks are yet to do so.
A return to the White House would be an extraordinary comeback for Trump after he lost to Joe Biden in 2020.
Kamala Harris’s campaign says she won’t speak today, as dejected supporters left her watch party earlier.
Meanwhile, Republicans are projected to take back the Senate.
Most probably Donald Trump will be the next president of the United States. He will be only the second man in history to serve two non-consecutive terms as president.
At 78 years old, Donald Trump is facing multiple scandals over his career, multiple court cases – criminal and civil, a conviction, a sentencing in three weeks’ time, and escaping death but a fraction from an assassin’s bullet.
However, it looks like a majority of the American people to send him back to Washington into the White House.
