With Daniel Payne

CNA Staff, 6 November 2024 / 05:45

Donald Trump on Wednesday He won his re-presidential bid by defeating his Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, becoming the first president in nearly 130 years to achieve non-consecutive victories in the White House.

Many news outlets called the race for the Republican president-elect Wednesday morning. Fox News had called the race for Trump hours before.

As of early Wednesday morning, Trump had a 276-219 lead over Harris in the Electoral College and a 5 million-vote lead in the popular vote.

“I believe this is the greatest political movement of all time,” Trump said in Florida early Wednesday morning. “There has never been anything like this in this country and perhaps beyond.”

“And now it will reach a new level of importance because we will help our country heal,” he said.

“Every citizen, I will fight for you, for your family and for your future,” he continued. “I will fight for you every day. And with every breath in my body, I will not rest until I deliver the strong, safe and prosperous America that our children and you deserve.”

The victory effectively caps Trump’s four-year effort to retake the White House after losing his first reelection bid to President Joe Biden in 2020.

Trump spent much of Biden’s term bolstering political support among Republicans and conservatives; while fending off multiple legal challenges from state and federal prosecutors, one of which resulted in a felony conviction.

The GOP president-elect has sought to build a broad coalition of allies and supporters, especially in the final year of the race, when he garnered endorsements from such prominent figures as Elon Musk, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Buzz Aldrin and Peter. Thiel.

Trump also made an aggressive appeal for Catholic votes. to dispute He said Harris was “very destructive to the Catholic Church” and harshly criticized Harris for it. skipping the annual Al Smith dinner in New York.

In July, the president-elect selected Ohio Senator J.D. Vance as his running mate. Vance, a Catholic one of the most openly religious America’s leading politicians have made faith a central part of their campaign, warning Catholics Harris’ alleged “anti-Catholic bias” and the fact that many Catholic voters “I feel abandoned” by Harris and Biden.

On Wednesday, Vance called Trump’s victory “the greatest political comeback in the history of the United States.”

“We will never stop fighting for you, for your dreams, for your children’s future,” Vance said, promising an “economic comeback” under the Trump administration.

Trump himself “The World is Everywhere with Raymond Arroyo” he saidHe announced in October that he would continue to support religious freedom during his second term, describing it as “a stance I have taken from the beginning.”

Meanwhile, in September, Trump’s campaign “Catholics for Trump” campaign launched Coalition that emphasizes the defense of religious freedom, traditional values ​​and the sanctity of human life as priorities of its agenda.

Daniel Payne is senior editor of the Catholic News Agency. She previously worked at College Fix and Just the News. He lives in Virginia with his family.