US Presidential Election, 2024 - [VOTE]

[Shannon]

Trump will win

Why am i awake and watching bbc US results? #jetlag

[-:Undertaker:-]

Not yet officially called but FOX News have and he's made a victory speech. Other sites all but acknowledging it.

President Donald J Trump spent the night with Elon Musk and Nigel Farage MP watching the results come in.

It's now pretty certain he's the 47th (and formerly 45th) President of the United States of America, until 2029. That makes him the second, and first since Grover Cleveland in the 1880s, president to be re-elected in a non-consecutive term. A hugely historical moment. He's also now defeated the two-only women candidates for president that have stood - torpedoing the idea that minority voters care about identity politics above all else.

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[LUCPIX]

Holy shit

[-:Undertaker:-]

It looks like he's won all the swing states in a landslide. He's also won the popular vote.

He and his Vice president, JD Vance, will inaugurated on the 20th January 2025 as the 47th President.

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The results (in terms of electoral college votes) are in.

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Just musing to myself but the main benefits of a Trump presidency for Britain is likely to be the completion of an Anglo-American FTA (Free Trade Deal) which has been stalled by the Biden administration since 2021. Another benefit in terms of our influence abroad will be the pressure that Trump will put on other NATO members who aren't paying the required 2% of GDP on military spending, effectively freeloading from the British, American and other taxpayers. For the alliance to work, each member must contribute - a basic rule of any club.

We'll likely see an official State Visit by the King and Queen to America now that they're recommencing international trips in 2025. It wouldn't surprise me at all if it is during the 250th birthday celebrations next year that President Trump is planning to hold - he's a huge Anglophile after all with his mother being Scottish, and I can imagine having Their Majesties stateside for it would be the cherry on the cake for him.

[-:Undertaker:-]

Here's behind the scenes showing just how much he adores Britain.

If our leaders across both main parties, and the SNP in Scotland, had any diplomatic skill or savvy about them at all whether they agreed with him politically or not, they'd be showering him with the likes of honorary knighthoods (President Ronald Reagan was given one) and whatever else they could think of. But they're too pig-headed and politically shallow to even contemplate that, instead making daft comparisons with him to Adolf Hitler - like a Sixth Form politics student would. The missed opportunities despite having such a pro-UK president in office are huge.

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