The results of the presidential election on November 5, 2024, at which the Republican Donald Trump won, became official after counting the votes of the board of electors at a joint meeting in Congress.
Trump, who won the most important presidential race of the last period in the United States, will take the presidential chair for the second time. At a joint meeting of the Congress, the final procedure for the electoral process was completed.
At a joint meeting, chaired by the US Vice President and the Democrats candidate in the elections on November 5, Kamaly Harris, votes of the Electoral Collegium of the States were alternately read out.
During the meeting, at which the election results were procedured, the members of the Congress applauded the winner after the announcement of the name of each state, and excessive moments arose from time to time.
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After the vote count, it became officially known that Trump, who gained a total of 312 votes in the college of electors, won the presidential election. Democrat Harris received the votes of 226 delegates.
Declaring the voting results, during which votes of 538 delegates were calculated, Harris said that “Trump won the 47th Presidential Elections of the President of the United States.”
Congress members stood and applauded when the victory of Trump and the elected vice president Jay Di Wans was announced, while the democrats applauded only the results of Harris.
4 years ago, on January 6, 2021, the raider seizure of the Congress during a meeting on registering elections at a joint session in Congress caused great disputes and split in American public opinion.
Trump will take the oath for the second time on January 20 and take the post of US President.