The swing state of Arizona has been projected by Sky’s US partner network, pushing the final electoral college vote tally to 312 for Trump. Elsewhere, reports have emerged that the president-elect is yet to sign required ethics agreements required for office.
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A government emergency worker has been fired after telling her disaster relief team not to go to homes with signs supporting President-elect Trump.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has been working in Florida to assist people in the wake of Hurricane Milton.
FEMA called the actions of the woman “reprehensible”.
It said more than 22,000 FEMA employees adhere to the organisation’s “core values” to help disaster survivors regardless of political affiliation.
“Recently, one FEMA employee departed from these values to advise her survivor assistance team to not go to homes with yard signs supporting President-elect Trump,” FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell said in a statement.
She said the employee had been fired and the matter referred to the Office of Special Counsel.
“I will continue to do everything I can to make sure this never happens again,” Ms Criswell said.
Sky News commentator Adam Boulton says there was already fresh unease among British politicians about how safe we really are as tensions grow around the world.
But Donald Trump’s re-election and his “America First” priorities have increased those pressures.
Read more below…
British government officials are taking advice on the possible impact of Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs on the UK economy.
The president-elect has previously said that he would increase rates on goods imported into the US from around the world by 10%, rising to 60% on those which come from China.
Officials at the Department for Business and Trade have commissioned advice and forecasts on several economic scenarios that could unfold in the second Trump presidency.
A government source said: “As anyone would expect, we monitored the US election campaign closely and made sure we were well prepared for any outcome.
“We will continue to monitor developments, take advice and build relationships with counterparts to ensure we are placing Britain in the best possible position.
“We look forward to working closely with President Trump’s team to strengthen UK-US trading relations to support businesses on both sides of the Atlantic.”
The former UK ambassador to the US, Lord Kim Darroch has written in The Observer newspaper that he expects Mr Trump would carry out his “threat” of tariffs.
He said: “I think Trump will impose tariffs on all US imports immediately and say ‘if you want them lifted, offer me something to rebalance trade’.
“The EU will almost certainly retaliate; and the UK will face a difficult decision. Do we match EU retaliatory tariffs? Or do we seek a bilateral deal, like a free trade agreement?”
Meanwhile, Kemi Badenoch, the leader of the Conservative Party has written in The Sunday Telegraph that the return of Mr Trump to the White House is a “golden opportunity” for Britain to secure a trade deal with the US.
Sky’s US partner network NBC News has projected that Donald Trump has won the swing state of Arizona.
It is the last state to deliver their results – and confirms Trump’s complete sweep of all seven battleground states.
The president-elect will now pick up the state’s 11 electoral college votes, bringing his total to 312 versus Kamala Harris’s 226.
Some 270 electoral college votes are required for victory.
Mr Trump narrowly lost the state to Joe Biden in 2020 but won by four points in 2016.
The political landscape of the Sun Belt state has shifted considerably in recent years.
Once firmly controlled by the Republicans, it has elected a Democrat governor and two Democrat senators since 2016.
The UK could face a £22bn hit to its exports if Donald Trump imposes a 20% tariff on imports, analysis suggests.
Trump has promised tariffs of up to 20% on goods from other countries and 60% on all imports from China.
UK exports to the world could fall more than 2.6% due to lower trade with the US and knock-on effects globally, economists at the University of Sussex’s Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy (CITP) said.
Speaking on Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips, New Jersey governor Phil Murphy said Trump’s tariff plan is “a very bad policy”.
“I don’t know that it makes sense or that he would pursue it against allies like the UK,” he said. “My gut tells me no.”
Can a Labour prime minister get on well with a Republican US president? Or a Conservative PM with a Democrat in the White House?
Long before the accusations of Starmer’s Labour meddling in the Trump-Harris election, the Tories were accused of dirty tricks in the Bill Clinton-George HW Bush presidential election of 1992.
And there have been some big fallings out: over Suez, Vietnam and the Caribbean island of Grenada.
Our chief political correspondent Jon Craig takes a closer look at these and some of the rosier moments here…
Notable Republican figures Nikki Haley and Mike Pompeo will not be part of a second Trump administration, the president-elect has said.
He released this statement on Truth Social…
Haley was at one stage among the favourites to lead the Republican ticket this year, before Trump swept aside competition to earn the presidential nomination.
Pompeo is a former secretary of state under Trump, but some supporters of the president-elect have suggested he has not done enough in this campaign to back his former boss as strongly as he could have.
A bit more on Joe Biden and Donald Trump’s meeting next week…
The sitting president was asked about what he would say to the president-elect, but he would not be drawn on any details.
“I’m going to see him on Wednesday,” he said, not answering any further questions.
Biden spoke after leaving a church service in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, where he had travelled for the weekend.
By David Blevins, foreign correspondent
Lake Worth Beach in Florida is 1,000 miles from Washington DC but it feels like a million.
The sea is turquoise blue, the breeze whipping up the waves, dozens of people basking in the sunshine.
There’s a whiff of coconut from the beach bars, all of them packed on a warm Saturday morning.
The US election earthquake seems far from their minds, but they’re more than happy to talk politics.
“Trump baby,” “Trump, of course,” “Trump all day,” is the most common response, when you ask.
That’s not surprising when the president-elect’s adopted home, Mar-a-Lago, is just around the corner.
They’re not naive about how he’s perceived, but the word we heard a lot was “but”.
“He’s an a*****e, I get it,” one local resident told us, “but his policies are way better”.
“He’s a loose cannon,” said another sun-worshipper, “but people like a wild card, world leaders don’t know what he’ll do next”.
“People said he’d be a dictator, that he’d throw Hillary Clinton in prison, but he didn’t,” added a woman sitting nearby.
The Sunshine State has turned a deep shade of red – Trump’s win here up 12% since 2016.
On these golden sands, there’s talk of a “Florida wave”, a political surge, rolling towards Washington.
Floridians shaped Donald Trump’s election campaign and are likely to shape his administration too.
But even here, at the centre of his political orbit, there are fears about what the next four years will bring.
When I asked two middle-aged women what concerned them most they answered in unison: “women’s rights.”
They don’t do small portions in the bistros on the beach, every meal served is a mountain.
Their neighbour, the 47th President of the United States, has a mountain of expectation on his shoulders.
I wish I had a dollar for everyone in this Trump town who told me he’d “Make America Great Again.”
The Democrats talked a lot about “the soul of America” but don’t appear to know what that is.
Perhaps it’s the free spirit you find on this coast, far removed from the corridors of power in Washington.
As Donald Trump begins to prepare for his return to The White House, our US correspondents James Matthews, Martha Kelner, and Mark Stone reflect on his historic election victory.
From criminal convictions to a defiant fist pump after his near assassination, it has been an extraordinary campaign for the president-elect.
Having spent the year crisscrossing the country, the team share their most enlightening encounters with voters in the run up to election. They discuss how Trump was able to broaden his base and why two of the Democrats’ top issues of abortion and democracy ultimately fell flat.
And ahead of his January inauguration, we hear what America and the world can expect from the first few months of a second Trump presidency.
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