Harris calls Trump to congratulate him on election victory

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate and Vice President Kamala Harris called Republican Donald Trump to congratulate him for winning the 2024 presidential election on Wednesday, reported Xinhua, quoting U.S. media.

Early Wednesday morning, Fox News first projected Trump would win more than 270 Electoral College votes, the threshold needed to clinch the presidency.

Speaking at his election headquarters in West Palm Beach, Florida, Trump quickly declared victory in the 2024 U.S. presidential election, calling it "a political victory that our country has never seen before."

The Associated Press, along with some other major U.S. news outlets, projected Trump's victory a few hours later.

As votes continue to come in, Trump seems to have swept all the seven key swing states in this year's presidential election. Results first became clear in North Carolina and Georgia around midnight on Election Day. As of Wednesday afternoon, all the three "Blue Wall" states -- Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan -- flipped to Trump, as they did in 2016.

Harris' office announced earlier Wednesday that she will deliver a concession speech at 4 p.m. ET at Howard University, her alma mater in Washington D.C.