President-Elect Donald Trump has declared a decisive victory in the US presidential race, having won over key democratic and republican party battlegrounds.

Trump secured 295 electoral votes while Harris won 226 of the 270 votes needed to secure her win.

The results have also secured the Senate in favour of Republicans.

Vice president and candidate Kamala Harris, meanwhile, delivered a concession speech on Wednesday rallying her supporters to keep fighting.

Our reporter Tunicia Phillips is in Washington DC.

In an emotional speech in which Kamala Harris conceded to her loss against former president Donald Trump earlier, she committed to a smooth transition of power in the White House.

With a race hardly as tight as scores of polls and even Republicans anticipated --Trump is set to become the 47th president of the US and only the second to win two non-consecutive terms and the first convicted of a felony.

Harris told weeping, mostly women, supporters at Howard University in Washington to not despair or throw hands in the air but instead to roll up their sleeves.

Tunicia Phillips, Bush Radio, Washington DC.

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