Published on November 6, 2024 at 10:46. / Modified on November 6, 2024 at 10:48.
It’s a little before 2:30 a.m. in Florida when the first notes of Lee Greenwood’s song, God bless the USAecho through the Palm Beach County Convention Center. To the sound of the song, the one played to all those who acquire American nationality, the former and future Republican president arrives on stage accompanied by his wife Melania, his children and grandchildren as well as the one who the one who is to become vice president, JD Vance. “We have written History,” declared Donald Trump without waiting for the results to be made official, claiming a victory that Fox News, an American channel popular with conservatives, had been the first to announce a few minutes earlier.
Because it only seems to be a matter of small hours before the billionaire signs the greatest comeback in the history of American politics by winning a majority of voters as well as, as he predicts, the popular vote . A consolation prize that the majority of pollsters nevertheless promised Kamala Harris. On stage, the former president said he was sure of winning 315 electors out of the 270 required to win the presidential election. “This is the golden age of America, there was no other way,” he says. Deceiving, once again, the majority of polls which announced the victory of the Democrat in a pocket handkerchief.
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