Republican candidate Donald Trump emerged as the winner of the 2024 United States presidential election on Wednesday.
OsunDailyNG reports Trump defeated Democrat candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris in the keenly contested poll.
Following the victory, Trump gave a victory speech in West Palm Beach, Florida at a gathering which had thousands of his supporters in attendance.
He appreciated Americans for voting for him as their 45th president and again as their 47th president.
Trump described the victory at the polls as a victory for the American people. He promised to prioritize America and make the country great again.
Below is the text of what he said, as well as speeches by his running mate, JD Vance and other members of his campaign team.
โThank you very much. Wow. Well, I want to thank you all very much. This is great. These are our friends. We have thousands of friends in this incredible movement. This is a movement like nobodyโs ever seen before and, frankly, this was, I believe, the greatest political movement of all time. Thereโs never been anything like this in this country, and maybe the, and now itโs going to reach a new level of importance because weโre going to help our country heal. Weโre going to help our country heal. We have a country that needs help, and it needs help very badly. Weโre going to fix our borders, weโre going to fix everything about our country and weโve made history for a reason tonight, and the reason is going to be just that.
โWe overcame obstacles that nobody thought possible and it is now clear that weโve achieved the most incredible political thing, look what happened, is this crazy? But itโs a political victory that our country has never seen before, nothing like this. I want to thank the American people for the extraordinary honor of being elected your 47th president and your 45th president. And every citizen, I will fight for you, for your family and your future, every single day I will be fighting for you with every breath in my body, I will not rest until we have delivered the strong, safe and prosperous America that our children deserve and that you deserve. This will truly be the golden age of America, thatโs what we have to have.
โThis is a magnificent victory for the American people that will allow us to make America great again, and in addition to having won the battleground states of North Carolina, I love these places, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, we are now winning in Michigan, Arizona, Nevada and Alaska, which would result in us carrying at least 315 electoral votes. But that, but itโs much easier doing what the networks did or whoever called it, because there was no other path. There was no other path to victory. We also have won the popular vote, that was great. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Winning the popular vote was very nice, very nice, I will tell you. Itโs a great, a great feeling of love. We have a great feeling of love in this very large room with unbelievable people standing by my side. These people have been incredible, theyโve made the journey with me and weโre going to make you very happy, weโre going to make you very proud of your vote. I hope that youโre going to be looking back someday and say, that was one of the truly important moments of my life when I voted for this group of people beyond the president, this group of great people.โAmerica has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate. We have taken back control of the Senate. Wow. Thatโs great. And the Senate races in Montana, Nevada, Texas, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania were all won by the MAGA movement, they helped so much. And in those cases, every one of them, we worked with the senators, they were tough races. And I mean, the number of victories in the Senate was absolutely incredible and we did tele-rallies, we did tele-rallies with each one of them, and sometimes we did two or three for, and it was amazing to look at all of those victories. Nobody expected that. Nobody. So I just wanted to thank you very much for that, and we have, you have some great senators and some great new senators, and it also looks like weโll be keeping control of the House of Representatives. And I want to thank Mike Johnson, I think heโs doing a terrific job. Terrific job.
โI want to also thank my beautiful wife Melania and First Lady, who has the number one bestselling book in the country, can you believe that? No, she has done a great job, works very hard, works very hard to help people. So I just want to thank her. But I want to thank my whole family, my amazing children, and they are amazing children, that we all think of our children. Everybody thinks, and children are amazing, but thatโs a good thing when you think they are. But Don, Eric, Ivanka, Tiffany, Barron. Lara, Jared, Kimberly, Michael. Thank you all. My father-in-law, Viktor, is tremendous and we miss very much Melaniaโs mother, Amalija, we miss Amalija donโt we, she would be very happy right now, standing on this stage, sheโd be so proud. She was a great woman that one, beautiful inside and out. She was a great woman.
โI want to be the first to congratulate our great, now I can say, Vice-President-elect of the United States JD Vance, and his absolutely remarkable and beautiful wife, Usha Vance. And he is a feisty guy, isnโt he? He and I have said, go into the enemy camp, and, you know, the enemy camp is certain networks and a lot of people donโt like to, sir, do I have to do that? He just goes, OK, which ones, CNN, MSDNC, heโll say, all right, thank you very much, he actually looks like, heโs like the only guy Iโve ever seen, he really looks forward to it. And then he just goes and absolutely obliterates them. Say a couple of words.โ
JD Vance
โWell, Mr. President, I appreciate you allowing me to join you on this incredible journey. I thank you for the trust that you placed in me, and I think that we just witnessed the greatest political comeback in the history of the United States of America. And under President Trumpโs leadership, weโre never going to stop fighting for you, for your dreams, for the future of your children. And after the greatest political comeback in American history, weโre going to lead the greatest economic comeback in American history under Donald Trumpโs leadership.โ
Donald Trump
โThank you very much. Heโs, heโs turned out to be a good choice. I took a little heat at the beginning, but he was I knew I knew the brain was a good one, about as good as it gets. And we love the family, and weโre going to have a great four years, and weโre gonna turn our country around. Make it something very special. It lost that, lost that little, it lost that little, that little thing called special. We have to make it, so weโre gonna make this so great. Itโs gonna. Itโs the greatest country, and potentially the greatest country in the world by far and right now weโre gonna just work very hard to get all of that back.
โWeโre gonna make it the best itโs ever been. We can do that. We just, if we had to wait longer. I donโt know. It was going bad and it was going bad fast. Weโre gonna have to seal up those borders, and weโre gonna have to let people come into our country. We want people to come back in. But we have to, we have to let them come back in, but they have to come in legally. They have to come in legally. Let me also express my tremendous appreciation for Susie and Chris. The job you did. Susie, come. Susie, come here. Come, this is Chris. Come here, Chris. Susie likes to stay sort of in the back. Let me tell you, the ice baby. We call her the ice baby. Chris, come here, Chris. Susie likes to stay in the background. Sheโs not in the background.โ
Chris LaCivita
โThis was unexpected, but I just want to thank, obviously, President Trump for this journey. It was a great one and heโs a hell of a candidate and heโs going to be a hell of a great 47th president and this team that we had the best team and of course, even my boss, Susie Wiles, the best. Thank you.โ
Donald Trump
โThank you, and thank you, Susie. Iโve never seen her be shy before. Susie, theyโve been, theyโre great. Everybody up here is great. Everybody up here is very special. But what did you say? Oh, let me tell you, we have a new star. A star is born, Elon. No, he is. Now heโs an amazing guy. We were sitting together tonight. You know, he spent two weeks in Philadelphia and different parts of Pennsylvania campaigning. You know, he sent the rocket up two weeks ago and I saw that rocket and I saw it coming down. I saw it. It was when it left. It was beautiful, shiny white. When it came down, it didnโt look so pretty. It was going 10,000 miles an hour and it was burning like hell. I said, โWhat happened to your paint job?โ He said, โWeโve never made a paint that could withstand that kind of heat.โ And, but I saw it come down and turn around. And it was, you know, itโs like 22 stories still, by the way, it looks a little smaller than that, but itโs big. And it came down and down and you saw that fire burning and. And Iโm saying only Elon could do this. It must be an Elon.
โAnd I tell the story I told it last night. I had a man on the phone. I had the screen muted, no sound. I was talking to a very important man. Happens to be here and that very important guy, one of the most important people in, I would say the country actually. But you know, I was president and now it looks like I was going to be maybe president again, so I figured I could ask him to hold. So I asked him to hold. And because, especially because youโre gonna be president again, they hold. So I took the phone down and Iโm looking the screen. Iโm seeing this crazy thing thatโs going around and coming down. It looks like itโs gonna crash into the gantry. And I said, โOh, no.โ And I said, โDo me a favor. Do you mind holding for a couple of? I want to see this.โ
โI thought it was a Space Age movie or something. I put the phone down but I didnโt pick it up for 45 minutes and he was holding. But this spaceship came down and I saw those engines firing and it looked like it was over. It was going to smash and then I saw the fire pour out from the left side and it put it straight. And it came down so gently and then it wrapped those arms around it. And it held it. And just like you hold your baby at night, your little baby. And it was a beautiful thing to see, and I called Elon, I said, โElon, was that you?โ He said, โYes, it was.โ I said, โWho else can do that? Can Russia do it?โ โNo.โ โCan China do it?โ No.โ โCan the United States do it? Other than you?โ โNo, nobody can do that.โ I said, โThatโs why I love you, Elon, that.โ
โAnd you know, when we had the tragic Hurricane Helene. And it hit it, particularly it hit North Carolina. They were really devastated. The water. This was big water. As big as weโve ever seen, water hurricane. It built lakes out of nothing, fields became lakes. And the danger was unbelievable. And the people from North Carolina came to me and they said, โWould it be possible at all possible for you to speak to Elon Musk, we need Starlink.โ I said, โWhatโs Starlink?โ Itโs a form of communication. So I called Elon. And Iโll tell you what he had, and it was very dangerous. People would die. They had no communication. All the wires were down. I called Elon Musk. I said, โElon, you have something called Starlink. Is that right?โ โYes, I do.โ โWhat the hell is it?โ He said, โItโs a communication system thatโs very good.โ I said, โElon, they need it really, really badly in North Carolina.โ He got that there so fast. It was incredible. So, and it was great. It saved a lot of lives. He saved a lot of lives. But heโs a character. Heโs a special guy. Heโs a super genius. We have to protect our geniuses. We donโt have that many of them. We have to protect our super geniuses.
โI want to thank some of the, you know, we have up here today, the U.S. Open champion, heโs fantastic. Heโll be slightly longer than me. Itโs a bit, a little bit longer than me, just a little bit. Bryson DeChambeau is up here someplace. What happened to Preston? Where is he? Bryson. Oh. Heโs hitting balls. Heโs on the way. Heโs hitting balls. Bryson. Oh, look at him. He had a great, heโs got a great career going, great U.S. Open. Bryson, thatโs a fantastic job. And we also have a man, Dana White, who has done some job. Heโs a tough guy. So Dana started UFC and came to me. โDo you mind if I use your?โ Nobody wanted to give him a ring because they said itโs a rough sport, a little rough. And I helped him out a little bit and I went and they said, โThis is the roughest sport Iโve ever seen.โ But I began to like it and he loved it, and nobodyโs done a better job in sports and you know, heโs a very motivational kind of a guy. What he does, he gets these fighters and they they really go at it and itโs become one of the most successful sports enterprises anywhere at any time doing so well, Iโd like to ask Dana just to say a couple of words cause people love to hear from him.โ
Dana White
โNobody deserves this more than him, and nobody deserves this more than his family does. This is what happens when the machine comes after you. What youโve seen over the last several years. This is what it looks like. Couldnโt stop him. He keeps going forward. He doesnโt quit. Heโs the most resilient, hardworking man Iโve ever met in my life. His family are incredible people. This is Karma, ladies and gentlemen. He deserves this. They deserve it as a family. I want to thank some people real quick. I want to thank the boys Adin Ross, Theo Von, Bussinโ with the Boys. And last but not least, the mighty and powerful Joe Rogan. And thank you, America. Thank you. Have a good night.โ
Donald Trump
โYes. That is a piece of work. Now heโs an amazing, heโs really an amazing guy, but most of all, I want to thank the millions of hard working Americans across the nation who have always been the heart and soul of this really great movement. Weโve been through so much together and today you showed up in record numbers to deliver a victory, really, really probably like no other. This was something. This was something special. And weโre gonna. Weโre gonna pay you back. Weโre gonna do the best job, weโre going, weโre going to turn it around. Itโs got to be turned around. Itโs got to be turned around fast, and weโre going to turn it around. Weโre going to do it in every way with so many ways, but weโre going to do it in every way. This will forever be remembered as the day the American people regained control of their country.
โAnd, so I just want to say that on behalf of this great group of people, these are hardworking people, these are fantastic people and we can add a few names like Robert F Kennedy Jr. He came out. And heโs going to help make America healthy again. And now heโs a great guy and he really means it. He wants to do some things, and weโre gonna let him go to it. I just said, โBut Bobby, leave the oil to me. We have more liquid gold, oil and gas. We have more liquid gold than any country in the world. More than Saudi Arabia. We have more than Russia. Bobby, stay away from the liquid gold. Other than that, go have a good time, Bobby.โ Weโre gonna be paying down debt. Weโre gonna be reducing taxes. We have, we can do things that nobody else can do. Nobody else is gonna be able to do it. China doesnโt have what we have. Nobody has what we have.โBut we have the greatest people also. Maybe thatโs the most important thing. This campaign, this campaign has been so historic in so many ways, weโve built the biggest, the broadest, the most unified coalition. Theyโve never seen anything like it in all of American history. Theyโve never seen any. Young and old, men and women, rural and urban. And we had them all helping us tonight. When you think, I mean, I was looking at it. I was watching it. They had some great analysis of the people that voted for us. Nobodyโs ever seen anything like that. They came from, they came from all quarters. Union, nonunion, African American, Hispanic American, Asian American, Arab American, Muslim American, we had everybody and it was beautiful. It was a historic realignment. Uniting citizens of all backgrounds around a common core of common sense. You know, weโre the party of common sense.
โWe wanna have borders. We wanna have security. We wanna have things be good, safe. We want great education. We want, we want a strong and powerful military and ideally, we donโt have to use it. You know, we had no wars four years. We had no wars. Except we defeated ISIS, we defeated ISIS in record time. And, but we had no wars. They said, โHe will start a war.โ Iโm not going to start a war. Iโm going to stop wars. But this is also a massive victory for democracy and for freedom. Together, weโre going to unlock Americaโs glorious destiny. Weโre going to achieve the most incredible future for our people.
โYesterday, as I stood at my last stop on the campaign trail, Iโll never be doing a rally again, can you believe it? I think weโve done 900 rallies approximately from. Can you imagine? 900, 901 or something. A lot of rallies. And it was sad. Everybody was sad. Many people. I said, โThis is our last rally,โ but now weโre going on to something thatโs far more important because the rallies were used for us to put, be put in this position where we can really help our country.
โThatโs what weโre going to do. Weโre going to make our country better than it ever has been. They said that many people have told me that God spared my life for a reason. And that reason was to save our country and to restore America to greatness. And now we are going to fulfill that mission together. Weโre gonna fulfill that mission. The task before us will not be easy, but I will bring every ounce of energy, spirit, and fight that I have in my soul, to the job that youโve entrusted to me.
โThis is a great job that, there is no job like this. This is the most important job in the world. Just as I did in my first term, we had a great first term, a great, great first term. I will govern by a simple motto: Promises made, promises kept. Weโre going to keep our promises. Nothing will stop me from keeping my word to you, the people. We will make America safe, strong, prosperous, powerful, and free again.
โAnd Iโm asking every citizen all across our land to join me in this noble and righteous endeavor. Thatโs what it is. Itโs time to put the divisions of the past four years behind us. Itโs time to unite, and weโre gonna try. Weโre gonna try. We have to try. And itโs gonna happen. Success will bring us together. Iโve seen that. Iโve seen that. I saw that in the first term, when we became more and more successful, people started coming together. Success is going to bring us together and we are going to start by all putting America first.
โWe have to put our country first for at least a period of time. We have to fix it. Because together we can truly make America great again for all Americans. So I want to just tell you what a great honor this is. I want to thank you. I will not let you down. Americaโs future will be bigger, better, bolder, richer, safer and stronger than it has ever been before. God bless you and God bless America. Thank you very much. Thank you very much.โ