The Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump is self-assured to win the US election after picking up three key battleground states.
Trump won in Pennsylvania, Georgia and North Carolina, capturing three of the seven heavily contested battlegrounds and coming within a few electoral votes of winning the presidency.
Republicans reclaimed control of the Senate, picking up seats in West Virginia and Ohio. Top House races are focused in New York and California, where Democrats are trying to claw back some of the 10 or so seats where Republicans have made surprising gains in recent years.
“America has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate,” he said to jubilant supporters in Florida as he declared a “magnificent victory”
Just before Trump spoke, Fox News projected that he’d won the election; other US TV networks are yet to do so
Trump’s victory in Pennsylvania has put him three electoral votes short of winning the presidency. He could win the White House by capturing Alaska or any remaining swing state.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the UK’s Keir Starmer have been among the first world leaders to send their congratulatory messages to Donald Trump – as he appears to be on the edge of winning the US presidential election.
As Trump makes a comeback as the 47th President of America, a kenyan-born Huldah Momanyi Hiltsley has made history by securing a seat in the Minnesota House of Representatives with over 64 percent of the vote.
Hiltsley contested against Wynfred Russell, a Liberian-born community leader and former Brooklyn Park City Council member.
In her acceptance speech, Hiltsley stated, “I stand here as the first Kenyan-born person ever elected in the U.S. This victory belongs to all of us; it is a testament to the resilience and strength of immigrants.”
