Trump Declares Election Victory in Speech to Supporters

TIME

Republican former President Donald Trump claimed victory in his race against Democratic candidate Vice President Kamala Harris for the White House.

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00:00I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free.

00:06And I won't forget the men who died.

00:09Thank you very much.

00:13Wow.

00:13USA!

00:14USA!

00:15USA!

00:16USA!

00:17USA!

00:18USA!

00:19USA!

00:20USA!

00:21USA!

00:22USA!

00:22Well, I want to thank you all very much.

00:24This is great.

00:25These are our friends.

00:26We have thousands of friends on this.

00:29Incredible movement.

00:32This was a movement like nobody's ever seen before.

00:37And frankly, this was, I believe, the greatest political movement of all time.

00:46There's never been anything like this in this country and maybe beyond.

00:51And now it's going to reach a new level of importance because we're going to

00:58help our country heal.

01:00We're going to help our country heal.

01:01We have a country that needs help, and it needs help very badly.

01:07We're going to fix our borders.

01:08We're going to fix everything about our country.

01:11And we made history for a reason tonight, and the reason is going to be just that.

01:18We overcame obstacles that nobody thought possible, and it is now clear that we've

01:24achieved the most incredible political thing.

01:28Look what happened.

01:29Is this crazy?

01:32So I want to thank the American people for the extraordinary honor of being elected your

01:3847th president and your 45th president.

01:46And every citizen, I will fight for you, for your family, and your future.

01:52Every single day, I will be fighting for you and with every breath in my body, I will

01:59not rest until we have delivered the strong, safe, and prosperous America that our children

02:05deserve and that you deserve.

02:07This will truly be the golden age of America.

02:11That's what we have to have.

02:17This is a magnificent victory for the American people that will allow us to make America

02:24great again.

02:25Oh, look at that.

02:29We also have won the popular vote.

02:33That was great.

02:35I was proud of that.

02:52Thank you very much.

02:53I cannot.

02:54Winning the popular vote was very nice, very nice, I will tell you.

02:59It's a great, great feeling of love.

03:01We have a great feeling of love in this very large room with unbelievable people standing

03:07by my side.

03:09These people have been incredible.

03:11They've made the journey with me, and we're going to make you very happy.

03:17We're going to make you very proud of your vote.

03:20I hope that you're going to be looking back someday and say that was one of the truly

03:24important moments of my life when I voted for this group of people beyond the president,

03:31this group of great people.

03:36America has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate.

03:43We have taken back control of the Senate.

03:47Wow, that's great.

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