US election results 2024 LIVE updates: Trump declares ‘golden age of America’ in Florida speech after winning three of seven swing states in grim outlook for Harris, Democrats

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton have congratulated Donald Trump on his election win.

“Congratulations to President Donald Trump on his election victory. Australians and Americans are great friends and true allies,” Albanese wrote on social media platform X.

“Working together, we can ensure the partnership between our nations and peoples remains strong into the future.”

Meanwhile, Dutton congratulated members of the Republican Party on forming a new administration.

“The United States has been an overwhelming force for good in the world. When our close ally is strong and at its best, the world is at its best,” Dutton said in a statement released shortly after Trump claimed victory.

“May the years ahead be some of the most defining for our alliance in which, driven by tests of our times, the necessity of deterrence, and the cause of securing peace through strength, we unleash the defence, industrial and economic opportunities of AUKUS at speed and scale.”

France’s Emmanuel Macron and Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu were among the first world leaders to also congratulate Trump on social media.

Netanyahu described Trump’s win as “history’s greatest comeback” and a new beginning for America and a “powerful recommitment” to its alliance with Israel.

“This is a huge victory,” he wrote on X.

In a brief statement on social media, Macron said he was ready to work with Trump “as we did for four years”.

“With your convictions and mine. With respect and ambition. For more peace and prosperity,” he said.

A 30-minute speech is considered pretty short for Donald Trump, and he finished his remarks in just under that time.

His jubilant, rambling remarks didn’t appear to include any mention of his opponent Vice President Kamala Harris, or current President Joe Biden, but he did zero in on the broad coalition of voters who supported him, mostly for economic reasons.

“I want to just tell you what a great honour this is, I want to thank you, I will not let you down,” Trump concluded.

“America will be bigger, better, bolder, richer, safer and stronger than it’s ever been before.

“God bless you and God bless America, thank you very much.”

Donald Trump has claimed he was “spared” to save the United States and praised the wide cultural mix of his voters calling it the “biggest, broadest, most unified coalition in American history”.

Trump was shot during an assassination attempt at a campaign rally in the battleground state of Pennsylvania in July. He received a minor injury to his ear during the attack.

The former president said he was saved so he could save his country.

“I said that many people have told me that God spared my life for a reason,” Trump said.

“And that reason was to save our country and to restore America to greatness, and now we are going to fulfil that mission together.

“The task 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 you have entrusted to me.

“This is a great job, there is no job like this.

“This is the most important job in the world.”

We will take a brief break from Donald Trump’s speech in Florida to report that Associated Press has just declared Kamala Harris has won Minnesota.

No Republican presidential candidate has carried Minnesota since Richard Nixon in 1972, although Trump came close in 2016 when he fell just 1.5 percentage points short of Hillary Clinton.

That puts Harris on 224 votes in the formal AP tally.

Donald Trump has continued his victory lap heaping praise on billionaire Elon Musk.

“We have to protect our super geniuses, we don’t have many of them,” Trump said of Musk after celebrating his space program and the use of Starlink during Hurricane Helene in North Carolina.

Trump also said Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would be free to “make America healthy again”.

He also took a sporting detour to praise US Open golf champion Bryson DeChambeau and UFC chief executive Dana White who has been an outspoken supporter of a second term for Trump.

“Nobody deserves this more than him and nobody deserves this more than his family does,” White said.

“This is what happens when the machine comes after you, what you have seen the last several years, this is what it looks like.

“You couldn’t stop them, he keeps going forward, he doesn’t quit, he’s the most resilient hard-working man I have ever met in my life … he deserves this.”

White also thanked podcaster Joe Rogan who endorsed Trump on the eve of the election.

Donald Trump has used his speech to praise “vice president elect” J.D. Vance.

“He turned out to be a good choice,” Trump quipped.

Trump even shared the stage with the Ohio senator and inviting him to speak to the crowd and describing him as a “feisty guy”.

“I appreciate you allowing me to join you on this incredible journey. I thank you for the trust that you have placed in me,” Vance said.

“I think we just witnessed the greatest political comeback in the history of the United States of America! Under Donald Trump’s leadership, we’re never going to stop fighting for you – for your dreams, for the future of your children.

“After the greatest political comeback in American history, we’re going to lead the greatest economic comeback in American history under Donald Trump.”

Donald Trump has declared he will be elected president.

He is on the verge of victory according to AP which has him on 267 votes, three short of 270.

“It’s a political victory that our country has never seen before, nothing like this,” Trump said.

“I want to thank the American people for the extraordinary honour of being elected your 47th president, and your 45th president.

“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, that is what we have. This is a magnificent victory.”

Donald Trump says he will lead the US into a golden age.

Trump is speaking on stage in Florida with a large following of key supporters behind him including vice-presidential candidate J.D. Vance.

“This was a movement like no one has ever seen before. And frankly, this was I believe, the greatest political movement of all time, there’s never been anything like this in this country and maybe the earth,” Trump said.

“And now it is going to reach a new level of importance because we are going to help our country heal. Help our country heal, we have a country that needs help and it needs help very badly. We are going to fix our borders, we are going to fix everything about our country.

“This will be the golden age of America.”