Your Shortcut to... the US Election Part 5: The result

It’s been run and done - the US presidential election for 2024 has delivered victory to the Republicans and Donald Trump, and defeat to the Democrats and Kamala Harris. This week, we’ll get you across where Trump won and who voted for him, along with what the experts are saying about Harris’s defeat. And we’ll take a look at what comes next, including for the criminal cases pending against Trump… 

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Reading: The thing that best sums up Trump’s victory are the swings he achieved in those key states. Axios has a series of graphs that show at a glance how the trend was in his favour. 

Reading: This election has been huge not just in America but also around the world - and in space. The American astronauts on the International Space Station got to vote, so in the interest of levity, here’s an article on how that works. 

If you’d like to listen to Parts 1-4 of our series, here are the links to do that:

Part 1: How US elections work

Part 2: The big domestic issues

Part 3: The international issues

Part 4: Getting ready to vote

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