US elections results: Trump ahead of Harris in swing states of Georgia and North Carolina

President Donald J. Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris spoke by phone earlier today where she congratulated him on his historic victory,

Trump campaign communications director Steven Cheung confirmed

After four years under Kamala Harris, Keystone State voters are eager for President Trump to fix what Kamala Harris broke,

Trump's Pennsylvania campaign spokesman Kush Desai said in a statement

Kate Bedingfieldformer White House communications director

I think you look at the places where she [Harris] underperformed Biden's vote, you look at the breakdown with different ethnic groups, racial groups across the country, it's hard to point to one place where she really—it would almost be sort of easier to look at the result and say, OK, well it was clearly her underperformance in Dearborn, it was clearly Gaza that didn't bring Michigan home for her,

Bedingfield said

Kate Bedingfieldformer White House communications director

I think certainly there is an anti-incumbent sentiment across the country but also globally,

Kate Bedingfield said on CNN

She told him that she would work with President Biden to ensure a peaceful transition of power, unlike what we saw in 2020,

O'Malley Dillon said in an email to campaign staff

Kate Bedingfieldformer White House communications director

Certainly, no question, VP [Kamala] Harris was facing those headwinds,

Bedingfield added

Allan Lichtmanpresidential historian

Unlike Nate Silver, who will try to squirm out of why he didn’t see the election coming, I admit that I was wrong,

Lichtman wrote, adding

Iowa called for Trump. Polling is a very compromised enterprise. It would be great to see people start ignoring it,

he wrote on Tuesday evening

I’ve been the outlier queen so many times,

Selzer, whose polling correctly foretold Barack Obama’s triumph in the Iowa caucuses in 2008, told the New York Times

One of the trippy things about the polling enterprise is [the] fraught relationship they have with traditional journalism, complaining of their breathless coverage that does not understand polling methodology, but also soliciting that coverage for business purposes.”

In a later post, he wrote

Thank you for believing in the promise of America,

Richmond said

This is a movement like nobody’s ever seen before,

Trump said

I will not rest until we have delivered the strong, safe, and prosperous America that our children deserve,

he said, claiming

America has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate,

he told supporters

China may create some events to give her (Harris) a show of force,

Wang said

Frankly, this was, I believe, this was the greatest political movement of all time. There's never been anything like this in the history in this country and maybe the earth,

he began

I would like to thank the American people for being elected your 47th president,

he added, vowing to fight for "every citizen."

Good morning Hungary! On the way to a beautiful victory,

Orban wrote on Facebook early

J. D. Vancevice President

We just witnessed the greatest political comeback in American history."

Vance said

I took a like heat in the beginning" for choosing Vance, but now he knew that the former venture capitalist had the right "brain" for the job

He then added