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Latest US elections: Trump will soon address ‘jubilant’ supporters – as he wins key states | US News
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Latest US elections: Trump will soon address ‘jubilant’ supporters – as he wins key states | US News

Optimism is so great in the Trump camp that election coverage has shifted to music

Confident? They even cut television coverage of the election to broadcast it on the YMCA.

It’s MAGA music to celebrate and, for them, it’s good.

Donald Trump supporters attend the Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida. It’s the Trump Watch Party, well-dressed and well-attended.

A crowd of several hundred people is there and continues to grow.

They said they would win and they are starting to feel it.

In a room the size of two football fields, they watched the reports on large television screens, cheering every time the characters fell into their path.

Close races in places where there shouldn’t be any — Virginia, for example — fuel the belief that it’s their night.

Donald Trump himself is expected to make an appearance here overnight to deliver a speech. Much has been said about his victory, whatever the situation in the voting centers. By the time he gets here, he might have some results to play with.

His advisers say their mood has shifted from “cautious optimism” to “optimism.”

Mike Johnson, the Republican speaker of the House of Representatives, is flying to Mar-a-Lago tonight — a sign that elevates talk of victory beyond the hype.

A senior Trump adviser suggested that Trump is currently in talks with campaign aides to come to West Palm Beach to deliver his speech. If the data continues on this trajectory, we could expect it as soon as possible – potentially before midnight.

Another aide told NBC he hoped the states of North Carolina and Georgia would be called soon. If the numbers in Pennsylvania look good for Trump early in the morning, his team believes it would be a good backdrop for him to “close out the night.”