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The leader of the Republicans in the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, has already congratulated “president-elect” Donald Trump.
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Donald Trump wins a crucial victory in the key state of Pennsylvania, US media report.
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The pro-Republican television channel Fox News declares Donald Trump the winner of the presidential election. It is, at this stage, the only media to do so.
07:36
Kamala Harris wins New Hampshire (four electoral votes) while Donald Trump wins the last electoral vote in Nebraska.
In total, the Democrat has 214 votes and the Republican 247.
07:40
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a loyal supporter of Donald Trump, expressed his joy at the first results of the American presidential election. On Facebook, he welcomed the advance of his “friend” in his race against Kamala Harris.
07:12
With his victory in the key state of Georgia, Republican Donald Trump now has 246 electors, compared to 210 for Democrat Kamala Harris.
07:03
The Republicans regained control of the Senate. A little more than a third of the upper house of the American Congress was renewed, on the sidelines of the presidential election.
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Democratic candidate Kamala Harris will not speak overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday, said one of her advisors, Cedric Richmond, specifying that she would address “to the nation” during the day. “There are still votes to be counted”he argued, while Donald Trump currently leads the race.
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Questioned by our correspondent Alexandre Mendel, Vish Burra, assistant to former Donald Trump advisor Steve Bannon, is confident about the Republican's victory in the key state of Pennsylvania.
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Donald Trump wins the key state of Georgia, the second major setback for his Democratic opponent after the swing state of North Carolina.
This state, which was narrowly won by Joe Biden in 2020, provides 16 new electors for the Republican candidate.
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At this point, Republican Donald Trump is in the lead with 227 voters, compared to 172 for Democrat Kamala Harris.
Here are the states already won by the two candidates, according to projections from major American media, cited by AFP:
- Trump won Alabama (9 electors), Arkansas (6), South Carolina (9), North Carolina (16), North Dakota (3), South Dakota (3), Florida (30), Idaho (4), Indiana (11), Iowa (6), Kansas (6), Kentucky (8), Louisiana (8), Missouri (10) , Mississippi (6), Montana (4), Ohio (17), Oklahoma (7), Tennessee (11), Texas (40), Utah (6), West Virginia (4) and Wyoming (3).
- Harris won California (54), Colorado (10), Connecticut (7), Delaware (3), Illinois (19), Maryland (10), Massachusetts (11), New York (28), Oregon (8), Rhode Island (4), Vermont (3), Washington DC (3) and Washington State (12).
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Donald Trump won the swing state of North Carolina, which he had already won in 2016 and 2020, according to NBC, ABC and CNN media. The Republican candidate thus obtains 16 new electors in this key state.
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The American presidential election is causing the dollar to jump, stimulated by the first states won by Donald Trump. The prospect of a Republican return to the White House, with his promises of tax cuts and deregulation, is already shaking international financial markets.
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At 4:32 a.m. this Wednesday (French time), while the first results seemed to favor Donald Trump, the founder of Tesla and SpaceX Elon Musk expressed his satisfaction on the X platform, posting a laconic but significant tweet: “Game, set and match. »
It's D-Day: tens of millions of Americans were called to vote on Tuesday, November 5, to decide whether Kamala Harris or Donald Trump will lead the world's leading power.
After polling stations close, vote counting will begin across the country. The process differs from state to state and could take several days, particularly in the event of legal appeals and litigation.
This election, which promises to be particularly close in view of the most recent polls, follows a spectacular campaign, marked by the sudden entry into the running of Joe Biden's vice-president, after the latter's withdrawal from the race presidential election due to his state of health, and by several assassination attempts against the former Republican president.
