Trump declares victory on cusp of historic White House comeback
Donald Trump has declared victory over Kamala Harris in the US presidential election as he stands on the cusp of a historic political comeback.
The Republican told his ecstatic supporters at a campaign party in Florida that they would usher in “a new golden age for America”.
The BBC’s US partner CBS projects Trump has vaulted to a commanding lead in the seven battleground states that will decide the winner of the election. He would be the first former president to return to the White House in more than 130 years.
In more good news for Trump, his party is projected to win majority control of the Senate.
Trump is projected to win the key swing states of Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Georgia. CBS says Wisconsin is leaning towards Trump and he is ahead in the other so-called Rust Belt state of Michigan. The results are not final.
He also has a lead in Nevada, while the race remains tight in the other sun belt battleground of Arizona.
As expected, Trump has swept conservative strongholds from Florida to Idaho, while Harris won liberal states from New York to California, CBS projects.
The Democrat had been expected to address a crowd on election night at Howard University in Washington DC, where she was an undergraduate, but it emerged after midnight that she would not appear. BBC
