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Closely watched and expensive race was considered referendum on whether Democrats can win in rural statesUS election 2024 – latest updatesUS election results 2024: live map and trackerSenate and House results 2024: live maps and trackerRepublican Tim Sheehy won the Senate race in Montana on Wednesday, denying the Democratic incumbent, Jon Tester, a fourth term and boosting the Republicans in an upper chamber they will control with Donald Trump in the White House.This closely watched race was also considered a referendum on whether Democrats can win in largely rural states, which have moved to Donald Trump’s far-right brand of Republicanism. Continue reading...

Public congratulations but private foreboding as heads of state, ministers and diplomats express hopes for cooperation and peaceUS elections 2024 – live updatesUS election results 2024: live map and trackerWestern leaders raced to respond to the return of Donald Trump to the White House with a powerful mandate to put his policy of “America first” into action once again. But many of the public congratulations could do little to disguise the private foreboding of what the next four years will augur for European security, populism and the world economy.Viktor Orbán, the Hungarian prime minister and the European leader closest to Trump, was one of the first to hail his ally’s victory. He posted on social media: “The biggest comeback in US political history! Congratulations to President @realDonaldTrump on his enormous win. A much-needed victory for the world!” Continue reading...

Former president will return to White House after sweeping key early battleground statesUS election results 2024: live map and trackerSenate and House results 2024: live maps and trackerMontana voters chose to protect the right to an abortion in their state constitution, reports the Associated Press (AP).The ballot initiative sought to enshrine a 1999 Montana supreme court ruling that said the constitutional right to privacy protects the right to a pre-viability abortion by a provider of the patient’s choice. Though there’s no defined time frame, doctors say viability is sometime after 21 weeks. Continue reading...

Former president defeats Kamala Harris as voters send Republican back to White House for second termUS election 2024 – latest updatesUS election results 2024: live map and trackerSenate and House results 2024: live maps and trackerDonald Trump has been elected the 47th president of the United States in a stunning political resurrection that sent shockwaves through America and around the world.Trump becomes the first convicted criminal to win the White House. At 78 he is also the oldest person ever elected to the office. Continue reading...

A historically brief campaign began with a surprise pullout and ended on the site of Trump’s 2020 attack on democracyUS election 2024 – latest updatesUS election results 2024: live map and trackerSenate and House results 2024: live maps and trackerKamala Harris’s campaign was seen by many of her supporters, and others across the world, as having the potential of saving American democracy from an existential threat and a sign that US politics might be returning to a more normal state of affairs.With a Donald Trump victory on Wednesday morning, that potential disappeared. Continue reading...

Trump’s campaign was possibly one of the most extreme, with violent rhetoric and a profound sense of grievance, but he resonated with enough people to winUS election 2024 – latest updatesUS election results 2024: live map and trackerSenate and House results 2024: live maps and trackerDonald Trump’s shock return to the White House has delighted his tens of millions of supporters in the US but stunned the rest of the country and much of the fearfully watching world.Few would have imagined such a scenario when Trump left office in disgrace in January 2021, in the wake of the attack on the Capitol in Washington DC and facing a long list of legal travails. Continue reading...

To elect Donald Trump once may be regarded as a misfortune; to elect him twice looks like crazinessUS election 2024 – latest updatesUS election results 2024: live map and trackerSenate and House results 2024: live maps and trackerSometimes fear triumphs over hope.Donald Trump’s shocking victory in the 2016 US presidential election was described as a leap into the political unknown. This time there is no excuse. America knew that he was a convicted criminal, serial liar and racist demagogue who four years ago attempted to overthrow the government. It voted for him anyway. Continue reading...

I still have faith in America. But we must mobilize to protect those at risk if Trump achieves his worst impulsesUS election 2024 – live news updatesUS election results 2024: live map and trackerI won’t try to hide it. I’m heartbroken. Heartbroken and scared, to tell you the truth. I’m sure many of you are, too. Donald Trump has decisively won the presidency, the Senate, and possibly the House of Representatives and the popular vote, too.I still have faith in America. But right now, that’s little comfort to the people who are most at risk.Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is a professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few and The Common Good. His newest book, The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It, is out now. He is a Guardian US columnist. His newsletter is at robertreich.substack.com Continue reading...