Trump wins. Again.

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🗓️ 6 November 2024

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Summary

Former president Trump is projected to win the White House – again. Martine Powers takes you through what we know about the results of a historic election.

Very early Wednesday morning, former president Donald Trump stepped on stage in south Florida and claimed victory. Sounding surprised about how the election had gone, the former president promised to “fix everything” and praised his supporters, saying this was “the greatest political movement of all time.”

This morning on Post Reports, we’re walking you through what happened overnight. Later today we’ll be back with another episode diving deeper into the results, and what the second Trump presidency might look like.

This morning’s show was produced and mixed by Rennie Svirnovskiy with help from Peter Bresnan and Elana Gordon. It was edited by Renita Jablonski with help from Maggie Penman and Monica Campbell. Thank you to Aaron Blake, Dan Balz and Mo Rodman.

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0:00.0	It is just before 6 a.m. Eastern Time, as I'm recording this. Republican former president Donald Trump is projected to win the White House for a second time. And Republicans have taken back control of the Senate.
0:16.0	Thank you very much. Wow.
0:18.8	U.S.S. U.S.S. U.S.S. U.S.S. U.S.S.A. U.S.S.A.
0:25.6	A little after 2.30 this morning, Eastern time, Trump walked out on a convention center stage in Palm Beach, Florida.
0:33.6	He had just been projected as the winner of Pennsylvania's electoral votes.
0:38.4	He was surrounded by a big group.
0:41.2	Staffers, lots of family members, his wife, Melania Trump, stood next to him.
0:46.1	They smiled and looked out at a huge crowd.
0:50.0	Trump seemed surprised.
0:52.7	Political thing.
0:53.6	Look what happened.
0:54.8	Is this crazy?
1:01.6	But it's a political victory that our country is never seen before, nothing like this.
1:08.2	I want to thank the American people for the extraordinary
1:11.0	honor of being elected your 47th president and your 45th president.
1:25.9	Trump's path to victory started to take hold after 11 p.m. That's when North Carolina was declared
1:32.8	a win for Trump. It was the first swing state to be called. Then, after midnight, Georgia was called
1:39.5	for Trump, another swing state. Not long after that, Vice President Kamala Harris's campaign co-chair, Cedric Richmond,
1:47.6	spoke to a large crowd of her supporters.
1:50.2	They were gathered at her alma mater, Howard University, in Washington, D.C.
1:54.9	We will continue overnight to fight to make sure that every vote is counted, that every voice has spoken.
2:05.6	So you won't hear from the vice president tonight, but you will hear from her tomorrow.
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