Biden speech live: President to address nation from White House in first public appearance since Trump’s historic election win over Harris

Watch our live stream as Joe Biden addresses the nation in his first public remarks since Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris in the 2024 U.S. election.

Joe Biden has described Donald Trump’s election win as a victory for some and a loss to others.

A country chooses one or the other. We accept the choice the country makes.

You can’t love your country only when you win. You can’t love your neighbour only when you agree.

President Joe Biden is addressing the nation in the White House Rose Garden this morning.

Biden is following in the footsteps of former President Barack Obama – who also addressed the American public from the White House after Trump defeated his former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.

The 81-year-old commander-in-chief extended the olive branch to the president-elect a week after calling his supporters ‘garbage’ and hours after he was confirmed as his successor.

The White House confirmed Biden and Trump spoke on the phone on Wednesday afternoon and ’emphasized the importance of working to bring the country together’ as well as a ‘smooth transition’.

It was a similar tone Kamala Harris took when she called the 78-year-old to finally concede the election after Trump swept the majority of the swing states.

Trump and Biden frequently exchanged very personal jabs during the campaign, with the Republican targeting the president’s decline and the Democrat saying he was the sort of person he would like to ‘smack in the a**’.

We’re expecting to hear from the President imminently.

We will bring you a live stream and all the developments when the president appears.

Her father is yet to be sworn in for his second term as president, but it appears some are looking further ahead to who could succeed him.

Some social media users are backing Ivanka Trump to make a run for the White House in 2028 after she joined her father on stage in West Palm Beach during his historic election victory.

One woman wrote: @IvankaTrump we want YOU for 2028!!! That would be so lovely having you make history with being Americas 1st woman president AND you are a Trump… just one of my random thoughts.

Another said: ‘Im calling it now, first women president will be Ivanka Trump in 2028’.

While a man added: ‘kamala was as thick as mince. Ivanka Trump could win it’.

Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter in Las Vegas, Nevada

Presidential election results are still unknown in the western swing states of Nevada and Arizona.

The Associated Press has still not called the race one way or the other as of Thursday morning – though it doesn’t matter since Trump has more than enough Electoral College votes to take a victory without the two states.

With 90 percent of the vote counted in Nevada, Trump is ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris by 3.8 percent.

And with 69 percent tabulated in Arizona, Trump leads by 5.5 percent.

With the other 48 states already counted, Trump has won the 2024 election with 295 Electoral College votes so far.

J. Ann Selzer, a famed pollster previously known for her accurate predictions in Iowa, told the Des Moines Register on Tuesday she was ‘thinking about how we got where we are.’

‘The poll findings we produced for The Des Moines Register and Mediacom did not match what the Iowa electorate ultimately decided in the voting booth today,’ she said.

‘I’ll be reviewing data from multiple sources with hopes of learning why that happened, and I welcome what that process might teach me.’

Selzer’s poll for the Register and Mediacom days before the election predicted Harris would win by +3 percentage points.

But Donald Trump went on to trounce the vice president by over +13 points in the Hawkeye State.

Devastated Democrats have rounded on George Clooney after the actor demanded that Joe Biden quit before Donald Trump’s election victory.

A furious blame game has erupted in the wake of Trump’s emphatic win over rival Kamala Harris, with lifelong Democrat Clooney being especially criticised for his influence during the election.

The Ocean’s Eleven actor, 63, notably penned an op-ed for the New York Times in July where he called on Biden, 81, to abandon his presidential campaign, writing: ‘We are not going to win in November with this president.’

Read Jacqueline Lindenberg and Natasha Anderson’s full report here:

Donald Trump’s campaign pollster said there was one key difference between the candidate who lost in 2020 and who won in 2024: He had tasted the bitterness of defeat and was prepared to do whatever necessary to retake the White House.

So when John McLaughlin and key campaign figures developed a strategy to cut off the four demographic pillars supporting Democrats, he was listening.

‘Trump, is still Trump, but if you told him something you know that he needed to do to win he was gonna do it,’ McLaughlin told DailyMail.com.

Read Rob Crilly’s exclusive report here:

A devastated Kamala Harris told her scores of tearful fans to keep fighting as she conceded election defeat to Donald Trump in Washington, D.C.

The emotional vice president admitted ‘this is not what we wanted’ as she took the stage at Howard University, almost 12 hours after the race was officially called for the former president.

Harris, however, also vowed to help with the peaceful transfer of power even as she said she would continue the battle after Trump’s dominant victory.

The people surrounding Joe Biden blame Nancy Pelosi for Kamala Harris’ election loss as Democrats have begun to bicker over who caused the party’s disaster.

It came as the president, 82, reacted to Harris’ concession speech at Howard University Wednesday.

The blame game went into overdrive last night, as Biden confidantes told senior White House reporters they hold the former Speaker of the House responsible for him being pushed out of the race.

Read Stephen Lepore’s full report here:

Joe Biden will today address the nation from the White House in his first public appearance since vice-president Kamala Harris’ loss to Donald Trump.

The President will speak from the Rose Garden at 11am Eastern Time.

Yesterday, Biden gave his reaction to Harris’ teary-eyed concession speech.

What America saw today was the Kamala Harris I know and deeply admire. She’s been a tremendous partner and public servant full of integrity, courage, and character.

The Democrats will be hoping to win four seats in California which could prove crucial in preventing a Republican supermajority in Congress.

But as of today, the Republican candidates are ahead in all the race although some of the leads are tight.

Here’s the state of play:

• California’s 45th: Republican Michelle Steel is currently leading against Democrat Derek Tran by a margain of five points with 70 per cent of votes counted
• California’s 41st: Republican Ken Calvert holds a narrow lead of less than three points over Democrat Will Rollins
• California’s 22nd: Republican David Valadao has a 10 point lead over Democrat Rudy Salas with more than 50 per cent of votes counted
• California’s 47th: Republican Scott Baugh holds a slender lead of less than half a percentage point against Democrat Dave Min

Keep track of the 2024 election with our catalogue of maps and charts that show Donald Trump’s dominant victory over Kamala Harris.

We also have the full Senate and House of Representative results which will be updated as soon as races are called.

If Republicans win back the House, they would control the legislative, executive, and the judicial branches of the federal government fully during Trump’s first years in office, giving him sweeping control after he was voted out just four years ago.

Republicans may also take more robust action against transgender issues involving schools and sports, which Trump and the GOP have spoken about often on the campaign trails.

Already with control of the Senate Republicans will be able to dictate approvals of federal judges and cabinet positions like Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense.

If a Supreme Court vacancy arrises, the Senate handles that, too.

During Trump’s last presidency the Senate was controlled by the GOP, and the former president was able to help appoint three of the court’s nine sitting justices – which has had a major impact on the ideological slant of the body.

Though Republicans have been named the winners of the White House and Senate, some races in the House of Representatives may take days if not weeks to call.

The GOP also gained control over the Senate after flipping multiple seats red, with some races still yet to be finalized and pick-up opportunities still on the table.

Republicans now need to maintain control over the House to have a full supermajority in Washington, D.C., which would have major consequences for Democrats.

Read Jon Raasch’s report here:

All eyes turn to the battle for the House of Representatives today as Donald Trump and the Republicans inch towards a clean sweep in the 2024 U.S. election.

More than 30 races are yet to be called with the GOP requiring 10 more seats to secure a majority in the lower chamber.

Join us today as we bring you the latest developments on the results plus all the latest political news from across the country.

You can also keep track of the full 2024 election results with our catalogue of maps and charts that show Donald Trump’s dominant victory over Kamala Harris.