Donald Trump gave his victory speech in West Palm Beach, Florida after he was declared the winner of the 2024 presidential election, beating Vice President Kamala Harris.
His full speech reads thus: ‘Thank you very much. Wow. Well, I want to thank you all very much. This is great. These are our friends. We have thousands of friends in this incredible movement.
IT IS THE GREATEST COMEBACK IN U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
‘This is a movement like nobody’s ever seen before and, frankly, this was, I believe, the greatest political movement of all time. There’s never been anything like this in this country, and maybe the, and now it’s going to reach a new level of importance because we’re going to help our country heal.
‘We’re going to help our country heal. We have a country that needs help, and it needs help very badly.
‘We’re going to fix our borders, we’re going to fix everything about our country and we’ve made history for a reason tonight, and the reason is going to be just that.
‘We overcame obstacles that nobody thought possible and it is now clear that we’ve achieved the most incredible political thing, look what happened, is this crazy? But it’s a political victory that our country has never seen before, nothing like this.
WHO IS THE 47TH AND 45TH ELECTED PRESIDENT OF U.S.?
‘I want to thank the American people for the extraordinary honor of being elected your 47th president and your 45th president.
‘And every citizen, I will fight for you, for your family and your future, every single day I will be fighting for you with every breath in my body, I will not rest until we have delivered the strong, safe and prosperous America that our children deserve and that you deserve. This will truly be the golden age of America, that’s what we have to have.
‘This is a magnificent victory for the American people that will allow us to make America great again, and in addition to having won the battleground states of North Carolina.
‘I love these places, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, we are now winning in Michigan, Arizona, Nevada and Alaska, which would result in us carrying at least 315 electoral votes.
‘But that, but it’s much easier doing what the networks did or whoever called it, because there was no other path. There was no other path to victory. We also have won the popular vote, that was great. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you.
‘Winning the popular vote was very nice, very nice, I will tell you. It’s a great, a great feeling of love. We have a great feeling of love in this very large room with unbelievable people standing by my side.
‘These people have been incredible, they’ve made the journey with me and we’re going to make you very happy, we’re going to make you very proud of your vote.
‘I hope that you’re going to be looking back someday and say, that was one of the truly important moments of my life when I voted for this group of people beyond the president, this group of great people.
‘America has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate. We have taken back control of the Senate. Wow. That’s great. And the Senate races in Montana, Nevada, Texas, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania were all won by the MAGA movement, they helped so much.
‘And in those cases, every one of them, we worked with the senators, they were tough races.
He continues, ‘And I mean, the number of victories in the Senate was absolutely incredible and we did tele-rallies, we did tele-rallies with each one of them, and sometimes we did two or three for, and it was amazing to look at all of those victories.
‘Nobody expected that. Nobody. So I just wanted to thank you very much for that, and we have, you have some great senators and some great new senators, and it also looks like we’ll be keeping control of the House of Representatives.
‘And I want to thank Mike Johnson, I think he’s doing a terrific job. Terrific job.
‘I want to also thank my beautiful wife Melania and First Lady, who has the number one bestselling book in the country, can you believe that? No, she has done a great job, works very hard, works very hard to help people.
‘So I just want to thank her. But I want to thank my whole family, my amazing children, and they are amazing children, that we all think of our children.
‘Everybody thinks, and children are amazing, but that’s a good thing when you think they are. But Don, Eric, Ivanka, Tiffany, Barron. Lara, Jared, Kimberly, Michael. Thank you all.
‘My father-in-law, Viktor, is tremendous and we miss very much Melania’s mother, Amalija, we miss Amalija don’t we, she would be very happy right now, standing on this stage, she’d be so proud. She was a great woman that one, beautiful inside and out. She was a great woman.
WHO IS DONALD’S TRUMP VICE?
‘I want to be the first to congratulate our great, now I can say, Vice-President-elect of the United States JD Vance, and his absolutely remarkable and beautiful wife, Usha Vance.
‘And he is a feisty guy, isn’t he? He and I have said, go into the enemy camp, and, you know, the enemy camp is certain networks and a lot of people don’t like to, sir, do I have to do that?
‘He just goes, OK, which ones, CNN, MSDNC, he’ll say, all right, thank you very much, he actually looks like, he’s like the only guy I’ve ever seen, he really looks forward to it. And then he just goes and absolutely obliterates them.’
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