Election 2024 live updates: Biden vows to ensure a peaceful transition to Trump in address to nation
President-elect Donald Trump considering appointments to second administration after Kamala Harris delivers gracious consession speech, urging supporters not to lose heart
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Your support makes all the difference.President Joe Biden assured Americans that there will be a “peaceful and orderly” transition to the next Trump administration in a speech in the Rose Garden at the White House on Thursday.
“Yesterday, I spoke with President-elect Trump to congratulate him on his victory, and I assured him, I will direct my entire administration work with his team to ensure a peaceful and orderly transition,” Biden said in a short speech in front of staff and press.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump is celebrating his election win by beginning the process of choosing who will join his second administration, as his conservative allies and surrogates jostle for position in the hope of securing a top role.
Trump’s defeated adversary Kamala Harris called to congratulate him on his victory on Wednesday afternoon and subsequently delivered a concession speech at Howard University, in which she said that, while she concedes the election, she will not give up the fight that fueled her campaign.
“The fight for freedom, opportunity, fairness, and dignity of all people, and ideals at the heart of this nation… that is a fight I will never give up,” the vice president said.
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Donald Trump has clinched victory in the 2024 presidential election, sweeping several critical swing states to secure 292 Electoral College votes in a dramatic and historic night for America.
The Republican eliminated his Democratic rival Kamala Harris’s chances of making history as the first female president, and will now return to the White House in January 2025 to serve a second term.
Trump cemented his nationwide victory as the announcement of Wisconsin’s results took him over the line to surpass the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency.
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Olympian Simone Biles calls on Biden to take action before term ends
US Olympic champion Simone Biles has a message for President Joe Biden following Donald Trump’s win over Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election.
Mr Biden,
I need you to stand up, straighten your back and make some things shake before your departure
xoxo the women in america 💙
Absent from family photo, Melania speaks out for first time since Trump’s election win
Former First Lady Melania Trump commented publicly for the first time since her husband’s election victory.
Hours after President-Elect Donald Trump clinched enough electoral votes for a second term, Melania posted on X on Wednesday evening about the former first couple’s coming return to the White House.
Despite being by her husband’s side to vote and as he claimed victory, she was absent from a family photo of “the whole squad” that even included Elon Musk.
Kelly Rissman reports.
Melania speaks out for first time since Trump’s win - but is absent from family photo
Melania was missing from a family photo on Wednesday that even Elon Musk was a part of
China’s Xi Jinping reacts to Trump win
State media in China reports that President Xi Jinping said of Donald Trump’s win that the international community expects “both countries will respect each other, coexist peacefully, and achieve win-win cooperation”.
He added that US-China cooperation is a long-term goal and reiterated “both countries gain from cooperation and lose from confrontation”.
With reporting from Reuters
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California voters unexpectedly look set to reject a proposed constitutional amendment that would end involuntary labor in state prisons, despite the proposition facing little public opposition and coming to the ballot with strong support from state leaders.
As of Wednesday evening, nearly 55 percent of voters were in support of rejecting the amendment, compared with just over 45 percent in favor of supporting it, with over half of the estimated vote total reported, according to The New York Times.
The lack of enthusiasm comes as something of a surprise in deep-blue California.
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