Trump wins historic second term
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump has won a historic second four years in the White House. He becomes the first former president to return to the White House in more than 130 years and, at 78, the oldest man elected to America's highest office. Claiming victory at a rally in Florida on Wednesday morning, Trump told supporters that he would usher in “a new golden age” and "restore America to greatness".
(Photo: Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump takes the stage following early results from the 2024 U.S. presidential election in Palm Beach County Convention Center, in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., November 6, 2024. REUTERS/Callaghan O'Hare)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service. This is James Kamara Sami coming to live from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. And it was when the result was called in this Midwestern state just over three and a half hours ago that Donald Trump knew for certain he had won the US presidential election and would be returning to the White House. |
| 0:22.6 | The 45th President of the United States will now also be the 47th. |
| 0:27.6 | It's the first time anyone has won non-consecutive US elections |
| 0:31.6 | since Grover Cleveland in 1892. |
| 0:35.6 | At the age of 78, he also becomes the oldest person elected to the highest office in |
| 0:40.4 | this country, perhaps too old to be called a comeback kid, but a comeback of historic proportions |
| 0:46.3 | this certainly is. After a campaign which saw Donald Trump injured by an assassin's bullet, |
| 0:51.7 | a new democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, |
| 0:54.8 | swapped in at a late stage |
| 0:56.2 | and which Mr. Trump's opponents |
| 0:58.1 | have framed as a moment |
| 0:59.4 | when democracy itself was on the line. |
| 1:02.8 | In this edition of Newsout, |
| 1:04.0 | coming live from Solly's Grill, |
| 1:05.9 | a diner in northern Milwaukee. |
| 1:07.9 | We'll be looking at why Donald Trump |
| 1:09.4 | won the election. |
| 1:10.4 | We'll get reaction to the result from the at why Donald Trump won the election. We'll get reaction |
| 1:11.0 | to the result from the United States and from across the world. And we'll ask what the return |
| 1:16.4 | of a leader whose stock in trade is unpredictability and norm-breaking might mean, not just for |
| 1:22.3 | Americans, but for the billions across the globe affected by decisions taken in the Oval Office. |
| 1:28.4 | Well, this is what Donald Trump said when he acknowledged his victory at his headquarters in Palm Beach, Florida. |
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