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Donald Trump claimed victory and pledged to “heal” the country Wednesday as results put him on the verge of beating Kamala Harris in a stunning White House comeback.....Read Full Article>>

His exuberant speech came despite the fact that only Fox News had declared him the winner, with no other US networks having made the call so far.

As jubilant supporters cheered and chanted “USA”, Trump took to the stage at his campaign headquarters in Florida along with his wife Melania and several of his children.

“We are going to help our country heal,” the Republican former president said.

“It’s a political victory that our country has never seen before.”

US networks have called the swing states of Pennsylvania, Georgia and North Carolina for the 78-year-old, and he led the Democratic vice president in the others although they have not been called yet.

“You won’t hear from the vice president tonight but you will hear from her tomorrow,” Cedric Richmond, Harris campaign co-chair, told a watch party in Washington as supporters left.

In a further blow to Democrats, Trump’s Republican Party also seized control of the Senate, flipping two seats to overturn a narrow Democratic majority.

A Trump victory threatens to cause shockwaves around the world, as US allies in Europe and Asia fear a return of his nationalist policies and his praise of autocrats like Russia’s Vladimir Putin.

But the US dollar surged and bitcoin hit a record high while most equity markets advanced as traders bet on a victory for Trump as the results rolled in.

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Polls for weeks had shown a knife-edge race between Harris and Trump, who would be the oldest ever president at the time of inauguration, the first felon president and only the second in history to serve non-consecutive terms.

Trump also faces sentencing in a criminal case over hush money payments on November 26, while the controversy over his denial of his 2020 election defeat by Joe Biden still persists.

But in the end victory came surprisingly quickly.

The mood shifted sharply at Harris’s watch party in Howard University — her former college and a historically Black university in Washington — as the results came in.

In contrast, the celebrations intensified at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida and the watch party nearby.

Tech tycoon Elon Musk, who has backed Trump and stands to lead a government efficiency commission under him, posted a picture of himself with the Republican.

“Game, set and match,” Musk said on X, the social media network he owns along with the Tesla electric vehicle firm and the Space X company.

Millions of Americans had lined up throughout Election Day — and millions more voted early — in a race with momentous consequences for the United States and the world.

They were deciding whether to either hand a historic comeback to Trump or make Harris the first woman in the world’s most powerful job.

In a stark reminder of the tension — and fears of outright violence — dozens of bomb threats were made against polling stations in Georgia and Pennsylvania.

The FBI said the threats appeared to originate in Russia, which is accused by Washington of trying to meddle in the election. The threats were all hoaxes but succeeded in disrupting proceedings.

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Harris, 60, had aiming to be only the second Black and first person of South Asian descent to be president.

She made a dramatic entrance into the race when Biden dropped out in July, while Trump — twice impeached while president — has since ridden out two assassination attempts and a criminal conviction.

She hammered home her message that Trump was a threat to democracy and her opposition to Trump-backed abortion bans.

Trump has vowed an unprecedented deportation campaign of millions of undocumented immigrants, in a campaign full of dark rhetoric.

The election is being watched closely around the world including in the war zones of Ukraine and the Middle East. Trump has indicated he will cut aid to Kyiv’s battle against the Russian invasion.

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US election: Polling stations closed

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The polling stations in the United States, US, have been declared now all closed, NAN reports.....Read Full Article>>

Since the US spans several time zones, the closing of the polling stations took several hours.

The winner of the presidential election had not yet been decided, although two major battleground states have been called for Republican Donald Trump.

The former president seems to be closing on victory.

He had already addressed his supporters, thanking them for their support during and after the campaigns.

To win, a candidate needs 270 votes from electors across the country

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The All Progressives Congress, APC, said former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has continued to gaslight Nigerians, inciting outrage and enabling street protests against the administration’s reform policy plan.....Read Full Article>>

This is even as the party claimed that Atiku is restless since his electoral loss in 2023.

This was stated by Felix Morka, National Publicity Secretary of APC.

The statement comes after former Vice President Atiku Abubakar stated that Nigerians were inundating him with inquiries on solutions to Nigeria’s current challenges.

Atiku said President Bola Tinubu’s government should be humble enough to borrow from his ideas to solve the country’s challenges in the interest of the Nigerian people.

However, APC described Atiku’s policy prescription as a disappointing rehash of the same old disastrous policy approaches that brought Nigeria to its knees.

According to the party, Atiku’s policy starkly failed to acknowledge complex contradictions, past mistakes and the extreme urgency of the moment.

“Since his electoral loss in 2023, presidential candidate of People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has been restless.

“Atiku’s policy prescription was a disappointing rehash of more of the same old disastrous policy approaches that brought our country to its knees, to begin with, under the PDP’s long rule.

“Atiku’s policy offering starkly failed to acknowledge complex contradictions, past mistakes and the extreme urgency of the moment.

“His gradualist approach to subsidy removal and foreign exchange reforms have been tested before and failed to produce any significant outcomes. Specifically, his preferred managed-floating system unfairly favors opportunists and cronies who exploit and fleece the system for personal gain to the extreme detriment of the Nigerian people.

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“But Atiku has continued to gaslight Nigerians, inciting outrage and enabling street protests against the administration’s reform policy plan that is designed to rebuild the country’s economy that he helped to destroy as a two-term Vice President under PDP’s wasteful years.

“President Tinubu remains committed to implementing bold, forward-looking and effective policies that address Nigeria’s complex challenges at their roots. President Tinubu’s reform agenda, tough as it may be, is required to build a strong, resilient, vibrant, prosperous and sustainable economy for present and future generations of Nigerians.

“Atiku’s relentless and indiscriminate condemnation of the administration’s policies for selfish partisan political mileage is hypocrisy taken too far. Nigerians expect and deserve more statesmanship from a former Vice President of the Federal Republic,” the statement partly read.

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The All Progressives Congress, APC, has said the former presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, would have done more of the same old failed policies.....Read Full Article>>

APC National Publicity Secretary Felix Morka said Atiku never prescribed anything regarding unified exchange regime and fuel subsidy removal.

DAILY POST recalls that Atiku had reeled out a number of measures he would have adopted to salvage Nigeria’s economy if he had emerged president.

DAILY POST also reported the former Vice President described Tinubu floating the exchange rate system as an overkill, urging the President to be humble enough to borrow from his ideas.

Reacting, Morka maintained that Atiku is aware that price increase is inevitable.

Morka stated this in a statement titled, “Atiku would have done more of the same old, failed policies.”

The statement posted on X reads: “@atiku Abubakar is well aware that price increases are an inevitable consequence of implementing a unified exchange regime and removing petrol subsidy. There’s no magic bulwark against that. Atiku did not prescribe any.”

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