In the early morning of the 6th local time, the Republican presidential candidate and former President Trump of the United States delivered a speech at the Palm Beach Convention Center in Florida, announcing his victory in the 2024 presidential election.
According to the latest estimates released by The Hill, Fox News and other American media, Trump has won more than half of the electoral votes and is expected to lock in the victory of this US presidential election. However, other mainstream American media have not yet released similar reports. The counting of votes in the US presidential election is still ongoing.
According to the campaign team of Democratic presidential candidate and Vice President Harris, Harris will not give a speech to her supporters for the time being, "will speak tomorrow." According to CNN on November 5, Jen O’Malley Dillon, head of Harris's campaign team, said in an email to employees that night that she did not expect the election results to come out tonight. She said that the voting results would not be announced until a few hours later.
The US presidential election adopts the Electoral College system, and the 50 states allocate electoral votes according to population proportion. Winning at least 270 of the 538 electoral votes is considered winning.