Live reaction: World reacts to Trump’s 2024 election victory over Kamala Harris

NBC has reported that VP Harris will be calling president-elect Trump on Wednesday to concede the election.

Harris will also give a speech at 4pm EST.

He becomes the first president in over 130 years – and only the second in history – to win a non-consecutive second term.

His defeat of Vice President Kamala Harris marks a remarkable return for a twice-impeached president, who left office in 2021 on the back of claims that he had incited an assault on the U.S. Capitol building, and who was convicted earlier this year on multiple counts of business fraud.

Donald Trump has pulled off an astounding political comeback and regained the White House as he’s declared the winner of the 2024 U.S. presidential election.

He becomes the first president in over 130 years – and only the second in history – to win a non-consecutive second term.

His defeat of Vice President Kamala Harris marks a remarkable return for a twice-impeached president, who left office in 2021 on the back of claims that he had incited an assault on the U.S. Capitol building, and who was convicted earlier this year on multiple counts of business fraud.

The Utah senator, known as a prominent ‘Never Trump Republican,’ issued a message congratulating the president-elect on Wednesday.

Shares of Tesla soared Wednesday following an election that will send Donald Trump back to the White House, an outcome that had been strongly bacled by CEO Elon Musk in the closing months of the race.

Tesla stands to make significant gains under a Trump administration with the threat of diminished subsidies for alternative energy and electric vehicles doing the most harm to smaller competitors.

Tesla dominates sales of electric vehicles in the U.S, with 48.9% in market share through the middle of 2024, according to the Energy Information Administration.

Tesla shares jumped 13 percent Wednesday while shares of rival electric vehicle makers tumbled.

Trump’s team is pledging that the second won’t look much like the first one Trump established after his 2016 victory.

The president-elect now has a 75-day transition period to build out his team before Inauguration Day arrives on January 20.

One top item on the to-do list: filling around 4,000 government positions with political appointees, people specifically tapped for their jobs by Trump’s team.

That includes everyone from the secretary of state and other heads of Cabinet departments to those selected to serve part-time on boards and commissions. Around 1,200 of those presidential appointments require Senate confirmation, which should be easier with the senate now shifting to GOP control.

Democratic National Committee Chairman Jaime Harrison is not expected to seek renomination when the party holds a leadership vote early next year, according to Reuters.

Harrison, who came under criticism for his strong backing to keep Joe Biden in the 2024 race, signaled his plans to leave the position before Tuesday’s disappointing results for Democrats, sources said.

Harrison is expected to hold an all-staff meeting on Wednesday to discuss the results and why they fell short of his public expectations and also to discuss a potential timeline for a leadership vote, which is expected to come before April.

The somber hosts of MSNBC’s Morning Joe were left stunned by Donald Trump‘s political comeback and even admitted it was clear he appears to know best what Americans really want.

The Amazon founder reacted to the US election results on Wednesday morning.

Jon Michael Raasch, Political Reporter in Atlanta for DailyMail.com

Kamala Harris has yet to concede the 2024 election to Donald Trump, and the pressure on her to do so is mounting.

The Democratic nominee has not addressed the outcome of the presidential election, which the Associated Press called as a victory for Trump around 5:30 am ET on Wednesday morning.

Now the Harris campaign is announcing that Harris will deliver a speech at her alma mater Howard University in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday afternoon.

The Democrat was supposed to make a cameo at the college on Tuesday evening but opted not to leave her vice presidential residence as results came in showing Trump ahead.

President Joe Biden has been conspicuously silent after the election as well.

The sitting president was reportedly watching the results come in with family and close friends at the White House late on Tuesday evening.

But Fox News’ Peter Doocy reported around 11 pm ET that lights within the executive mansion had been slowly turning off room by room, indicating that its occupants were heading to bed before the race was called.

Former President George W. Bush said he and his wife, Laura, ‘join our fellow citizens in praying for the success of our new leaders at all levels of government.’

Some top former Republican officials, including Bush’s vice president, Dick Cheney, had endorsed Harris. But Bush remained neutral.

Bush also thanked ‘President Biden and Vice President Harris for their service to our country.’

‘The strong turnout in this election is a sign of the health of our republic and the strength of our democratic institutions,’ said Bush, who called the election a ‘free, fair, safe, and secure election.’

Bitcoin jumped nearly 8% to a record $75,345.00 in early trading on Wednesday, before falling back and was recently trading at around $73,700.00.

Trump was previously a crypto skeptic but changed his mind and embraced cryptocurrencies ahead of the election.

Axelrod made these comments at around 3 am ET, so the race hadn’t officially been called yet for Trump.

The S&P 500 and the Dow rocketed to record highs on Wednesday morning. The Nasdaq, the third of the main indexes, was sharply up too.

Meanwhile, the small cap Russell 2000 soared a staggering 6.2 percent to its highest level since early 2022 as domestic-focused stocks expect to benefit from an easier regulatory and tax regime, as well as be less exposed to likely import tariffs.

The former Republican congresswoman, who is the daughter of former VP Dick Chaney, had endorsed Kamala Harris for president.

Former First Daughter Ivanka Trump has made an appearance at her father’s Mar-a-Lago election party as insiders reveal she is considering a return to politics.

An unidentified source told Page Six that Ivanka would join former President Donald Trump at his private club for the election results, and another source later confirmed she was present with her husband, Jared Kushner.

The two have remained noticeably absent from Trump’s campaign, with some even mocking Ivanka when she posted the 16 lessons she has learned as she turned 43 just hours before the presidential election, while her siblings were out campaigning for their father.

Delevingne launched into a furious tirade where she urged her friends to inflict ‘four years of hell’ on Republicans as Donald Trump is elected President.

The supermodel, 32, led a legion of liberal luvvies in the UK including Paloma Faith and Dawn O’Porter, who shared their ‘devastated’ reactions as they woke to the news of Trump’s election night sweep.

Supermodel Cara, who has a home in Los Angeles, sent out a defiant ‘message to her friends’ not to despair, but rather to focus on defeating Republicans, who she described as ‘fascists, misogynists, bigots and liars’.

Ivanka Trump, 43, made an appearance at her father’s Mar-a-Lago election party to witness the Republican leader’s astonishing political comeback.

President-elect Trump had a huge circle of support with him on stage, including from his other daughter Tiffany, 31, his sons Eric, 40, and Donald Trump Jr, 46 and his granddaughter Kai, 17.

• Abortion measures were on the ballot in nine states.
• In three — Nebraska, Florida and South Dakota — efforts to write abortion rights into state constitutions failed.
• Meanwhile Missouri viters overturned one of the nation’s strictest abortion bans, protecting the right of an abortion up until viability.
• In Arizona, which currently bans abortion past 15 weeks, voters backed a measure to protect abortion rights up until viability. Though there’s no defined time frame, doctors say viability is sometime after 21 weeks.
• In Nevada, New York and Colorado, voters reaffirmed abortion and reproductive rights.
• An abortion rights measure in Montana had yet to be called.

CNN’s Jake Tapper was left stunned after preliminary analysis showed that Kamala Harris failed to convincingly outperform Joe Biden across any state.

The Vice President not only lost to Donald Trump, but appears to have unperformed across the board compared to Joe Biden in the 2020 election.

Analysis by CNN at around 2am (ET)  Wednesday revealed that Harris failed to out perform her boss by three percent in any state.

Jon Michael Raasch, Political Reporter in Atlanta for DailyMail.com

Though Republicans have been named the winners of the White House and Senate, dozens of races in the House of Representatives may take days if not weeks to call.

Donald Trump was projected as the winner of the 2024 election by the Associated Press at 5:34 am ET on Wednesday morning after the outlet declared the Republican had won the critical swing state of Wisconsin.

The GOP also gained control over the Senate after flipping multiple seats red, with some races still yet to be finalized and pick-up opportunities still on the table.

Republicans now need to maintain control over the House to have a full supermajority in Washington, D.C., which would have major consequences for Democrats.

Democratic Arizona Rep. Ruben Gallego, an Iraq War veteran, took an early lead over well-known former television news anchor and staunch Donald Trump ally Kari Lake in Tuesday’s election for U.S. Senate.

The race in a state with a recent history of close elections is among a handful of contests that will determine how large a Republican majority Trump will work with in the Senate when the president-elect returns to the White House next year. The GOP clinched the Senate majority Tuesday night, retaking it from Democrats who held it for four years.

In a break with tradition, Lake and the Arizona Republican Party did not hold an election night party. She posted about results in the presidential race and shared complaints from others about the pace of vote counting in Maricopa County but did not say anything about her own race.

The winner of the Senate race will replace Kyrsten Sinema, whose 2018 victory as a Democrat created a formula that the party has successfully replicated since.

Above, Lake speaks with the media outside the Mesa Convention Center polling place on Tuesday

VP Kamala Harris is expected to address her supporters later on Wednesday at her alma mater, Howard University, in Washington DC, NBC reported.

It’s not clear at what time Harris will deliver the speech.

Harris had planned to celebrate election night Tuesday at Howard, but her supporters were left waiting as it was announced she would not make a speech as Trump’s win became evident shortly after midnight.

The American rapper, 32, unleashed an expletive-laden rant towards Trump’s army of supporters as the Republican leader closed in on a historic win to cement his return to the White House.

Trudeau congratulated Trump in a post on the social platform X and included a picture of the two of them in the White House during the President-elect’s first term.

Trump as president called Trudeau ‘weak’ and ‘dishonest’ and attacked Canada’s vital trade. He threatened tariffs on cars and imposed them on steel.

Senior Trump adviser Jason Miller appeared on Good Morning America on Wednesday and shared what’s next for the Trump team.

Miller said Trump is ‘doing great’ this morning after his electoral win.

‘He wants to heal the country. This is the time when we put aside political divisions.

‘We bring Democrats, Republicans, people awho aren’t involved in politics, together.’

Trump cannot run for re-election again after being elected to two non-consecutive terms.

The US Costitution’s 22nd Amendment dicatates that presidents can only serve a total of two terms, or eight years – a precedent set by George Washington.

It reads: ‘No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of President more than once.’

Harris did not come out on stage at her alma mater, Howard University, where she planned to celebrate election night.

Hillary Clinton also waited until the next day to concede the 2016 election.

Below, supporters of US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Harris react during an election night event at Howard University in Washington.