World reacts to 2024 presidential election results

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

91% : With former President Donald Trump significantly ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris in the race for the White House and claiming victory, French President Emmanuel Macron offered his congratulations to Trump in post to X."Ready to work together as we have done for four years," Macron said, referring to Trump's first term.
67% : Orban congratulated Trump on "his enormous win," which he described as a "much needed victory for the world.
60% : MORE: Election Day 2024 live results: Trump projected to win Pa., third swing stateUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy lauded what he called Trump's "impressive election victory."
57% : "Former Russian President and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev wrote on Telegram that Trump "has one quality that is useful for us: as a businessman to the core, he mortally dislikes spending money on various hangers-on" and "idiotic allies," suggesting his election may be a curb on American aid to Ukraine.
51% : "British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in a statement congratulated Trump on a "historic election victory."
41% : Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban -- a longtime conservative ally of Trump -- posted to X early Wednesday celebrating what he called "the biggest comeback in U.S. political history."
40% : "Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan described Trump as a "friend" in his congratulatory post to X."I hope that Turkey-U.S. relations will strengthen, that regional and global crises and wars, especially the Palestinian issue and the Russia-Ukraine war, will come to an end," Erdogan said.
27% : "The question is how much will Trump be forced to give for the war," Medvedev -- who is now the deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council -- wrote.

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