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Donald Trump has defeated Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, NBC News projects.
The Republican former president has vowed a revenge-filled second term that could now come to fruition. His Project 2025-linked agenda is potentially set to further restrict reproductive rights and more, both through executive actions and judicial nominations. In his first term, Trump nominated half of the Supreme Court’s Republican-appointed majority, which just granted him broad criminal immunity and cleared the way for him to take office again, despite the Constitution’s ban on oath-breaking insurrectionists doing so.
Trump had been criminally charged with attempting to subvert the 2020 election he lost to Joe Biden. Now he likely won’t ever face trial on those allegations, at least not federally, because he’s expected to dismiss his two federal cases — the other being the classified documents case in Florida.
Trump also has two pending state criminal cases, with the Georgia election interference case tied up on a pretrial appeal and his sentencing in his New York fraud case set for later this month (unless that gets further delayed). Though he can’t pardon himself in state cases or dismiss them as president, Trump is not likely to face state trial while in office, either.
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