After four days of counting, the CNN and NBC channels declared, during the night from Saturday to Sunday, Donald Trump the winner in Arizona, traditionally Republican but who had narrowly swung in 2020 in favor of Joe Biden. The 11 electoral votes won in Arizona do not change the outcome of the election but confirm the scale of Donald Trump's victory against Democrat Kamala Harris. The Republican has already been declared the winner in six other key states: Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan and Nevada.
Donald Trump, who will be inaugurated on January 20, also leads Kamala Harris by almost four million votes in the popular vote, a shock for Democrats pushed into difficult introspection. If this trend is confirmed at the end of the count, he will be the first Republican president in 20 years to achieve this feat, proving wrong the pollsters who predicted the opposite.
“The election was decided on dissatisfaction with the economic situation”
In addition, he will be able to rely on the Senate, which the Republicans took back from the Democrats, and possibly on the House of Representatives, where his party is on track to retain the majority.
Donald Trump specifies his future government
After this overwhelming victory, the billionaire clarified his future government on Saturday. Donald Trump thus ruled out the possibility of recalling his former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the United States Ambassador to the UN under his mandate Nikki Haley to be part of the government that he must form after his election to the House White.
« I will not invite former Ambassador Nikki Haley or former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to join the Trump administration, which is still in training “, the president-elect wrote on his Truth Social network.
« I have greatly enjoyed and enjoyed working with them in the past and would like to thank them for the service they have provided to our country », added the Republican billionaire, matching his message with his slogan “ Make America Great Again ».
US presidential election: Donald Trump's next steps
The names of the two leading figures of the first Trump administration (2017-2021) have been circulating since the latter's election during the ballot held on Tuesday. Mike Pompeo, former director of the CIA, was notably tipped to take the helm of the Pentagon. This ” falcon » coming from the right wing of the Republican Party had quickly won the trust of an inexperienced president on the international scene, while taking care not to overshadow him. He notably supported the withdrawal from the 2015 Iranian nuclear agreement and the unexpected rapprochement with North Korea.
But his political positions have recently proven to be very different from that of the billionaire. In July, he unveiled a plan for Ukraine that was the opposite of the arguments on which Donald Trump campaigned. This plan involved new arms transfers and sanctions against the Russian energy sector. The same month, he was also recruited by the Japanese steel giant Nippon Steel to plead its case in the takeover of US Steel, which Donald Trump promised to oppose.
For her part, after having carried the voice of Donald Trump on the international scene for two years, Nikki Haley had become the final obstacle between the ex-president and the Republican nomination, by running in the primary, before give up in March. During her campaign, she played the card of change of style and generation, warning of a risk of “ chaos » in the event of a new Trump presidency. The assassination attempt against the candidate this summer reshuffled the cards and she finally came to support him during the Republican convention in mid-July in Milwaukee.
(With AFP)
