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WASHINGTON - Donald Trump spoke to his supporters at his election night watch party in West Palm Beach, Florida, early Wednesday morning after FOX News called the 2024 presidential election for him.
"I want to thank the American people for the extraordinary honor of being elected your 47th president, and your 45th president, and every citizen. And I will fight for you, for your family, and your future. Every single day I will be fighting for you, and with every breath in my body. I will not rest until we have delivered the strong, safe, and prosperous America that our children deserve, and that you deserve," he said. "This will truly be the golden age of America. That's what we have to have. This is a magnificent victory for the American people that will allow us to make America great again."
FOX News called the election for Trump at 1:46 a.m. E.T. after the key swing states of North Carolina, Georgia and Pennsylvania had all been called. The Associated Press called the race at 5:35 a.m.
Donald Trump's speech to supporters after election called by FOX News:
DONALD TRUMP: These are our friends. We have thousands of friends in this incredible movement. This is a movement like nobody's ever seen before. And frankly, this was, I believe, the greatest political movement of all time. There's never been anything like this in this country. And maybe. And now it's going to reach a new level of importance because we're going to help our country heal, help our country.
Here we have a country that needs help and it needs help very badly. We're going to fix our borders. We're going to fix everything about our country. And we made history for a reason tonight. And the reason is going to be just that.
We overcame obstacles that nobody thought possible. And it is now clear that we've achieved the most incredible political - look, what happened is this crazy.
But it's a political victory that our country has never seen before. Nothing like this.
I want to thank the American people for the extraordinary honor of being elected your 47th president, and your 45th president, and every citizen. And I will fight for you, for your family, and your future. Every single day I will be fighting for you, and with every breath in my body. I will not rest until we have delivered the strong, safe, and prosperous America that our children deserve, and that you deserve. This will truly be the golden age of America. That's what we have to have. This is a magnificent victory for the American people that will allow us to make America great again.
And in addition to having won the battleground states of North Carolina, I love these places, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. We are now winning in Michigan, Arizona, Nevada and Alaska, which would result in us carrying at least 315 electoral votes. But that. But as much as you're doing what the networks did, or whoever called it, because there was no other path, there was no other path to victory. We also have won the popular vote. That was great.
Thank you. Thank you very much.
Winning the popular vote was very nice and very nice. I will tell you the great, a great feeling of love. We have a great feeling of love in this very large room with unbelievable people standing by my side. These people have been incredible. They've made the journey with me, and we're going to make you very happy. We're going to make you very proud of your vote. I hope that you're going to be looking back someday and say that was one of the truly important moments of my life when I voted for this group of people. Beyond the president, this group of great people.
America has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate. We have taken back control of the Senate, wow, that's great. And the Senate races in Montana, Nevada, Texas, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, were all won by the MAGA movement. They helped so much.
And in those cases, every one of them, we worked with the senators. They were tough races. And I mean, the number of victories in the Senate was absolutely incredible. And we did tele-rallies, we did tele-rallies with each one of them. And sometimes we did two or three. And it was amazing to look at all of those victories. Nobody expected that. Nobody. So I just wanted to thank you very much for that. And we have you have some great senators and some great new senators. And it also looks like we'll be keeping control of the House of Representatives.
And I want to thank Mike Johnson. I think he's doing a terrific job. Terrific job. I want to also thank my beautiful wife, Melania, and first lady, who has the number one bestselling book in the country? Can you believe that? She has done a great job, works very hard. Works very hard to help people. So I just want to thank her.
But I want to thank my whole family, my amazing children. And they are amazing children. Now, we all think our children are amazing, everybody here thinks their children are amazing. But that's a good thing when you think they are. But Don, Eric, Ivanka, Tiffany, Barron, Laura, Jarrett, Kimberly, Michael, thank you all. What a help.
My father-in-law, Victor, is tremendous. And we miss very much Melania's mother, Amalija. We miss Amalija now. She would be very happy right now standing on this stage. She'd be so proud. She was a great woman, that one, beautiful inside and out. She was a great woman.
I want to be the first to congratulate our great, now I can say Vice President-Elect of the United States, JD Vance. And his absolutely remarkable and beautiful wife, Usha Vance. And he is a feisty guy, isn't he? You know, I said 'Go into the enemy camp,' and, you know, the enemy camp is certain networks and a lot of people don't like to - 'Sir, do I have to do that?' He just goes, 'Okay, which one?' CNN, MSDNC. He'll say, All right, thank you very much. He actually looks like, he's like the only guy I've ever seen, he really looks forward to it. And then he just goes and absolutely obliterates them.
Say a couple of words.
JD VANCE: Well, Mr. President, I appreciate you allowing me to join you on this incredible journey. I thank you for the trust you placed in me. And I think that we just witnessed the greatest political comeback in the history of the United States of America. And under President Trump's leadership, we're never going to stop fighting for you, for your dreams, for the future of your children. And after the greatest political comeback in American history, we're going to lead the greatest economic comeback in American history under Donald Trump's leadership.
DONALD TRUMP: Thank you very much. He's turned out to be a good choice. I took a little heat at the beginning, but he was. I knew, I knew the brain was a good one. About as good as it gets. And we love the family. And we're going to have a great four years and we're going to turn our country around, make us something very special. We lost that, lost that little, lost that little, that little thing called special. We have to make it, so we're going to make this so great. It's going to, it's the greatest country, and potentially the greatest country in the world by far. And right now, we're going to just work very hard to get all of that back. We're going to make it the best it's ever been. And we can do that. We just, if we had to wait longer, I don't know, it was going bad and it was going bad fast. We're going to have to seal up those borders and we're going to have to let people come into our country. We want people to come back in. But we have to we have to let them come back in. But they have to come in legally. They have to come in legally.
Let me also expressed my tremendous appreciation for Susie and Chris. The job you did. Susie come here Susie, Chris, come here, Chris. Susie likes to stay sort of in the back. Let me tell you, the ice maiden. We call her the ice maiden. Chris, come back. Susie likes to stay in the background. She's not in the background.
CHRIS LACIVITA: This was unexpected. But I just want to thank, obviously, President Trump for this journey. It was a great one. And he's a hell of a candidate and he's going to be a hell of a great 47th president. And this team that we had, the best team and of course, even my boss, Susie Wiles, the best.
TRUMP: Thank you. And thank you, Susie. Look at her, she's shy. I’ve never seen her be shy before. They are great. Everybody up here is great. Everybody up here is very special.
Who did you say? Let me tell you, we have a new star. A star is born, Elon (Musk). Now, he’s an amazing guy. We were sitting here tonight. You know, He spent two weeks in Philadelphia and different parts of Pennsylvania campaigning. You know, He sent the rocket up two weeks ago and I saw that rocket. And I saw it coming down. I saw, when it left it was beautiful, shiny white, when it came down it didn't look so pretty, it was going 10,000 mph and it was burning like hell. I said, what happened to your paint job? He said, we've have never made a paint that can withstand that kind of heat.
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