Former President Donald Trump declared victory early Wednesday morning, after Wisconsin and Pennsylvania put him over the top in the race for the White House.

“Many people have told me that God spared my life for a reason,” Trump said, referring to the summer attempt on his life that left him bloodied and left one supporter dead and two others injured.

Fox News projected Trump to win at least Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, as well as Georgia and North Carolina, which gave him more than the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency. He is the first to win the presidency in two non-consecutive terms since Grover Cleveland in 1892, setting him up to be the 45th and 47th president of the United States.

“This will truly be the golden age of America. That’s what we have, this is a magnificent victory for the American people that will allow us to make America great again,” Trump said in his speech. “We’re gonna make you very proud of your vote.”

Trump was flanked by his family at his campaign victory party in West Palm Beach, Florida. He was joined by vice presidential candidate Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, who also made remarks.

“We just witnessed the greatest political comeback in the history of the United States of America,” Vance said. “And after the greatest political comeback in American history, we’re going to lead the greatest economic comeback in American history.”

Trump also remarked on down-ballot races, which appear to give him a

Nevada voters are projected to pass a ballot amendment requiring eligible electors to present a form of photo ID when voting and reject a separate initiative seeking to bring ranked-choice voting to the state.

According to The New York Times, preliminary results show the Voter Identification Initiative (Question 7) passing with 73 percent of electors voting “yes” and 27 percent voting “no.” At the time of this article’s publication, approximately 78 percent of votes have been tabulated.

As The Federalist previously reported, Question 7 would require eligible voters to present a valid form of photo ID when voting in person. Those voting by mail would “have to verify their identity using the last four digits of their driver’s license or social security number or the number provided by the county clerk when the voter is registered to vote,” according to Ballotpedia.

In Nevada, constitutional amendment proposals produced by citizen-led signature collection campaigns must be passed by voters in two consecutive general elections to amend the state’s founding document. This year’s election will be the voter ID initiative’s first appearance on the ballot, which means it will need to be approved by voters during the state’s next general election to add it to the Nevada Constitution.

Meanwhile, Nevadans rejected Question 3, which sought to implement a top-five ranked-choice voting (RCV) scheme in the state’s elections.

Often referred to as “rigged-choice voting” by its critics, RCV is an election system in which voters rank candidates of all parties in order of preference. If no candidate

As election night drags on, Donald Trump’s victory is imminent, and Kamala Harris’ path to one has vanished. The New York Times’ election “needle” shows Trump with a greater than 95 percent chance of winning. It all comes down to some of the so-called “blue wall” states Trump carried in 2016 — and he leads in them again. Corporate media are finally starting to acknowledge Trump’s Pennsylvania win, Fox News has put Wisconsin into Trump’s column, and Alaska hasn’t been called yet, meaning the race is over.

So why are so many voters still afraid to go to bed?

Democrat media won’t call the blue wall states of Wisconsin and Michigan, and they won’t call the race. Even though they know Trump will reach more than 270 votes they won’t concede official defeat.

But Americans are old enough to remember the last presidential election, which came down to the exact same states. In 2020, voters went to bed on election night or early Wednesday morning without final results but with Trump leading by comfortable margins in the key battleground states. Corporate networks wouldn’t call the race because of some outstanding ballots, but Republicans rested confidently, and for good reason.

In the middle of the night, however, things changed. In Wisconsin and Michigan, dead-of-night vote dumps went 100 percent for Joe Biden and zero percent — not a single ballot — for Trump, as my colleague John Daniel Davidson wrote at the time. In Michigan, ballot tickers brazenly posted 138,339 magic