Republican Donald Trump today claimed victory in the 2024 US presidential elections after various American media houses projected that he had defeated his Democrat rival Kamala Harris.
Speaking to a roaring crowd of supporters at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in Florida, Trump said “America has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate”.
He also heaped praise on his running mate JD Vance and his Indian-American wife Usha Chilukuri Vance.
“I want to be the first one to congratulate — now I can say Vice President-Elect JD Vance. And his remarkable and beautiful wife, Usha Vance,” he said.
Both were present on the dais along with Trump’s wife, Melania Trump.
Vadluru, a quiet village in Andhra Pradesh, is the ancestral home of Usha Vance, who will become the US Second Lady — and the first who is not white — if Donald Trump is elected again.
She met Vance at Yale Law School and the couple married in 2014 and have three children.
He is a “feisty guy”, Trump further said while praising 40-year-old JD Vance.
“We’ve made history for a reason tonight, and the reason is going to be just that we overcame obstacles that nobody thought possible,” Trump said. “It’s a political victory that our country has never seen before.”
