The President-elect of the United States of America, Donald Trump, will be sworn in as president after an inauguration on Monday, 20 January 2025.

 Trump will take over from the administration of the 46th president, Joe Biden.

Trump, earlier in the day had assumed leadership in the electoral process after clearing the threshold of the 270 Electoral College votes required to clinch the White House.

The victory of the 45th President in those swing states currently sees him with 277 electoral votes against 224 for the Vice President of US, Kamala Harris.

Polls had predicted a much tighter race, but it appears that anger fuelled the Republican’s remarkable comeback from defeat in 2020 and widespread condemnation of his refusal to accept the result.

Meanwhile, at the time of filing this report, Harris, who contested on the platform of the Democratic Party, is yet to accept defeat in the presidential election.

The campaign co-chair for Harris, Cedric Richmond had announced early on Wednesday that Harris would not speak to supporters gathered at Howard University as the campaign awaited additional election results.

According to Richmond, more votes count are still expected, and concentration is on fighting to make sure all votes are counted.

Attendees at Howard University were then advised to leave, though many remained optimistic for a Harris victory.