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    How battlefield gains fueled celebration of Trump’s ‘improbable’ night

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    WEST PALM BEACH, Florida – Donald Trump supporters who gathered in South Florida began the evening with cautious optimism — and ended it in celebration the threshold of a historic victory.

    “Look what happened!” Trump told his followers in the early hours of Wednesday morning. “Is he crazy?”

    Many of his supporters who gathered at the Palm Beach County Convention Center for his watch party spent five to eight hours anxiously waiting for results to come in from swing states.

    As state after state went to Trump, optimism turned to confidence and then euphoria. trump card gave a speech after winning Pennsylvania, he got 267 of the 270 electoral votes he would officially need to win the White House. He has a clear path in the other states that have not yet been called.

    “It’s exciting,” said Jovita Carranza, a U.S. treasurer and administrator of the Small Business Administration during the first Trump administration, sitting at a table in the back of a cavernous ballroom. “The numbers are coming in strong.”

    “There are people here who have worked really hard to get those numbers,” Carranza said of the revelers around her. The convention center drew supporters of the former president in addition to his top campaign staff, such as co-campaign managers Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita.

    The supporters were amazed how far Trump has comeafter a contentious presidency, two impeachments, indictments in four separate criminal cases, a criminal conviction, costly civil lawsuits and defeat in the 2020 election. The most shocking moments of the 2024 presidential election also came over the summer, when Trump faced two assassination attempts, including a shooting at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania in which a man, Corey Comperatore, was killed.

    “All that stuff,” said Stephen Hamilton, 58, a businessman who said he flew to Palm Beach County from his home in New Jersey to be a part of history.

    Trump “is a very tough guy,” Hamilton said. “Resistant”.

    The sound system at the watch party alternated between ’70s and ’80s rock-and-roll and television news coverage of the election. The crowd’s rising cheers reached a crescendo at 1:47 a.m. EST, when Fox News projected that Trump had won enough electoral votes to win the presidency for a second term.

    Some Trump supporters said the night reminded them of his own win 2016 over former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

    Others said there was no comparison.

    “I don’t think he remembers anything,” said Hogan Gidley, a press spokesman in Trump’s first White House. “This is the most incredible and improbable comeback story in the history of American politics.”

    Trump supporters at the event dismissed Trump’s legal accusations — and criticism from Democrats and even some GOP rivals — as disingenuous attacks.

    The former president has long claimed, without evidence, that prominent Democrats were involved in his four indictments. However, the president still faces a conviction in his New York criminal related hush money payments, as well as state charges in Georgia and two federal cases.

    One of the speakers early Wednesday morning — Ultimate Fighting Championship CEO Dana White — told the crowd that “this is what happens when the car comes after you.”

    Trump “continues to move forward,” White said. “He’s the most resilient man I’ve ever met in my life. That’s karma, ladies and gentlemen. He deserves it.”

    A number of former Trump officials came to the watch party, as did a cross-section of “Make America Great World.” They include Corey Lewandowski, the former 2016 campaign manager who was rehired as a 2024 campaign adviser in August, and Trump’s former lawyer Rudy Giuliani.

    There were people in American flag shirts and leather biker vests. Others appeared in business suits and evening dress.

    “We look forward to seeing President Trump become president again,” Larry Snowden, president of an organization called Club 47 USA, said earlier in the evening.

    Snowden, 78, a retired business executive who lives in Boca Raton, Florida, said he didn’t even consider the possibility of Trump losing: “My mind is just going to accept that he’s going to win.”

    Others were more cautious.

    “I was hoping,” said Miriam Campos, 82, a retired banker who lives in Miami Lakes.

    As the senior Trumps made the rounds at the watch party in Palm Beach County, they reflected on the political journey that began with a 2015 announcement speech at Trump Tower in New York City.

    “Historical; unprecedented,” said Lewandowski.

    “No one has ever seen a movement like this,” Lewandowski, reflecting on the consensus Republicans appeared to be building on Election Day. The GOP also scored victories in critical Senate races and is set to take control of the upper chamber next year. “It was incredible.”

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