Donald Trump has accepted Joe Biden’s invitation to a meeting. Kamala Harris congratulated her opponent. All developments in the news blog.
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3:32 a.m.: Israeli Prime Minister Bejmanin Netanyahu congratulated Donald Trump on his election victory on Platform X; “Dear Donald and Melania Trump, congratulations on the greatest comeback in history! Your historic return to the White House represents a new beginning for America and a strong commitment to the great alliance between Israel and America,” he wrote. He also signed on behalf of his wife Sara.
2.12 a.m.: Donald Trump also receives congratulations on his election victory from his first vice president Mike Pence, who became a critic. Pence wrote on the online platform X that he “sincerely congratulates” Trump and his family.
The 65-year-old Pence had tried to become the Republican presidential candidate himself. He described Trump as unfit for office.
1:43 a.m.: Former US President Barack Obama congratulated Republican Donald Trump on his victory in the US presidential election and emphasized the importance of a peaceful transfer of power. “This is obviously not the result we were hoping for,” the Democrat said Wednesday. “But part of living in a democracy is recognizing that our position will not always prevail and being willing to accept a peaceful transfer of power.”
Obama called defeated Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and her running mate Tim Walz “two exceptional public servants who ran a remarkable campaign.”
12:30 a.m.: US President Joe Biden has praised Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, who was defeated in the US presidential election, for her “integrity” and “courage”. “What America saw today is the Kamala Harris that I know and deeply admire. She was a great partner and public servant full of integrity, courage and character,” Biden said on Wednesday after his vice president’s speech at Howard University in Washington .
0.24 a.m.: Election winner Donald Trump has accepted US President Joe Biden’s invitation to the White House. The meeting should take place “soon,” said a spokesman for the Republican. President-elect appreciates Biden’s call.
Biden congratulated Trump on his election victory by phone and extended the invitation. Trump ran against the Democrat in the 2020 election and lost, but has not accepted the defeat to this day. At that time, Trump not only did not invite Biden to the White House, but also stayed away from his inauguration.
11:15 p.m.: Donald Trump also secured the state of Alaska with three voters in the US presidential election. The AP news agency reported this on the basis of voter surveys and initial vote counts the day after the election.
Alaska is considered a Republican bastion, even though a Democrat recently occupied the state’s only seat in the House of Representatives. The three voters in the sparsely populated state at the northwestern tip of the USA went to Donald Trump with a clear majority in 2020.
10:40 p.m.: The Democrat Kamala Harris won the US presidential election in the state of Maine and thus received two electoral votes. Of the two districts that are also being counted and each send one voter, one each went to Harris and her opponent Donald Trump, who won the election overall and became president. The AP news agency reported this based on voter surveys and initial vote counts.
In the 2020 election, Joe Biden had a lead of about nine percentage points over Trump in the northeastern state. In Maine, just like in the state of Nebraska, there is a special feature in the electoral system: Here, unlike in the other states, all voters do not go entirely to the winner. In addition to two electors who are based on the overall state results, two additional electors are determined based on the results in individual electoral districts.
