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Donald Trump wins the elections in the United States after a close campaign and will be president again
The Republican candidate, Donald Trump, was proclaimed this Wednesday the winner of the elections in the United States and will return to the White House, after a close electoral campaign, to become the 47th president of the country.
Trump exceeded the 270 electoral votes necessary to proclaim himself victorious against his rival, the Democratic candidate and vice president of the Government, Kamala Harris.
According to the US suffrage system, the president is proclaimed by the Electoral College, a body made up of 538 delegates who elect the states according to their population.
The winning candidate in each state, even by a single vote, takes all his compromises with the exception of Nebraska and Maine and the one who reaches 270 wins the elections.
Before the total results were known, the former president had already attributed the victory against Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris during a rally before his followers in Palm Beach (Florida), after checking his good partial results and winning the popular vote.
It will be the first time in more than a century that a former president becomes one again (he already ruled between 2017 and 2021) after losing elections (those of 2020) and also the first time that a convicted criminal reaches the Presidency of the country.
First conciliatory speech
Accompanied by his family and campaign managers, the former president assured from Palm Beach that he will govern for everyone and that “together” they will make a better United States.
“Success will unite us, and we will start by putting the United States first. I won’t let them down,” he said during a speech of less than half an hour at the Palm Beach Convention Center (on the east coast of Florida).
The former Republican president thanked each of his family members and Americans in a statement that had a mostly conciliatory tone and in which he invited to “put behind the divisions of recent years.”
Trump celebrated his good results in key states such as North Carolina, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, and boasted himself for having regained the majority in the Senate for the Republicans, while control of the House of Representatives remains in the air.
Before finishing the recount and after some important data on the voting trend throughout the country became known, Harris decided to cancel the speech he was scheduled to offer at the end of the election day and postponed it until this Wednesday, according to his campaign.
Trump gets the popular vote
The Republican has also won the popular vote (more than 71 million votes compared to Harris’ 66, according to preliminary ballot data), something that the Republicans had not achieved in 20 years, since the 2004 elections in which the Republican George W. Bush achieved 59 million votes against the democrat John Kerry’s 55.4.
In the 2016 elections, Trump arrived at the White House after having won the electoral vote (306 votes), but in popular vote he was almost three million below (63 against 65.8 million) of his then rival, the Democrat Hillary Clinton.
The billionaire’s victory has been met with increases in the stock markets around the world, while most political leaders have congratulated Trump and wished that his mandate prioritize international cooperation.
International
Man arrested after deliberately driving into seven children in Osaka
Japanese police arrested a man on Thursday after he rammed his car into a group of seven schoolchildren in an apparent deliberate attack in the city of Osaka.
The children, who were on their way home from school, sustained injuries and were taken to the hospital. All seven remained conscious, according to local authorities.
An Osaka police officer, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the suspect is a 28-year-old man from Tokyo. The officer shared statements the man made after his arrest: “I was fed up with everything, so I decided to kill people by driving into several elementary school children,” the suspect reportedly said.
The man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.
The injured children, aged between seven and eight, included a seven-year-old girl who suffered a fractured jaw. The six other children—all boys—suffered minor injuries such as bruises and scratches and were undergoing medical evaluation.
Witnesses described the car as “zigzagging” before hitting the children. One witness told Nippon TV that a girl was “covered in blood” and the others appeared to have scratches.
Another witness said the driver, who was wearing a face mask, looked to be in shock when school staff pulled him from the vehicle.
Violent crimes are rare in Japan, though serious incidents do occur from time to time. In 2008, Tomohiro Kato drove a two-ton truck into pedestrians in Tokyo’s Akihabara district, then fatally stabbed several victims. Seven people were killed in that attack.
Internacionales
Clashes erupt during may day protests across France amid calls for better wages
May Day protests in France were marked by a heavy police presence and clashes between demonstrators and law enforcement in several cities.
In Paris, Lyon, and Nantes, thousands took to the streets to demand better wages, fairer working conditions, and to voice their dissatisfaction with President Emmanuel Macron’s government.
While the majority of the demonstrations remained peaceful, isolated confrontations broke out in some areas. Protesters threw objects at the police, prompting the use of tear gas and resulting in several arrests.
Videos showing police crackdowns circulated widely on social media, drawing criticism from labor unions and human rights advocates, who denounced the authorities’ response to the protests.
International
Kristi Noem credits Trump for mass migrant deportations by mexican president
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem claimed that Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has deported “more than half a million” migrants due to pressure from former President Donald Trump.
During a cabinet meeting highlighting the “achievements” of Trump’s administration in its first 100 days, Noem asserted that under the Republican leader’s influence, “Mexico has finally come to the table” to negotiate on migration and fentanyl trafficking.
“The president of Mexico told me she has returned just over half a million people before they reached our border,” Noem stated, criticizing media reports that suggest the Biden administration deported more migrants than Trump’s.
“I wish those deportations were counted,” Noem added, “because those people never made it to our border—she sent them back because you made her.” She went on to thank Trump: “They never made it here because they got the message—because you were so aggressive.”
Noem has made controversial claims about Sheinbaum in the past, prompting the Mexican leader to refute them.
On April 1, Sheinbaum responded to one such statement by declaring, “The president answers to only one authority, and that is the people of Mexico,” after Noem said on Fox News that she gave Sheinbaum “a list of things Trump would like to see” and that Mexico’s actions would determine whether Trump granted tariff relief.
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