Donald Trump defeats Kamala Harris to return to White House as nation’s 47th president
Donald Trump has defeated Kamala Harris to become the 47th president of the United States, capping an improbable comeback for the resilient Republican whose first term ended with his supporters attacking the U.S. Capitol — and who then faced a litany of criminal charges and two assassination attempts on his way back to the White House.
The Associated Press called the race for Trump Wednesday morning after declaring victory for him in Wisconsin.
“This is the greatest political movement of all time,” Trump said in his victory speech. “We have a country that needs help, and it needs it very badly.”
Trump is just the second U.S. president ever to return to the Oval Office after losing reelection four years earlier. (The first was Grover Cleveland in 1893.) To pull it off, Trump overcame a series of obstacles that might have derailed other candidates, including the bullet that bloodied his ear at a July 13 rally in Pennsylvania.
The fact that Trump won anyway is a testament to his iron grip on the Republican Party and his enduring appeal to voters who prefer his polarizing style to Harris’s more conventional approach.
Tens of millions of Americans chose Trump on Tuesday, fortifying the populist, isolationist shift in GOP politics that he has ushered in. Like his Republican predecessors, the president-elect is still promising to ease energy regulations, shrink the federal bureaucracy, and pass massive tax cuts—including no tax on tips, overtime, or Social Security benefits for seniors.
But much of the rest of Trump’s “America First” agenda would seem unfamiliar to country-club conservatives reared on Ronald Reagan.
Vowing to protect U.S. workers and raise hundreds of billions in revenue, Trump wants to force companies that manufacture their products overseas to pay an overall 10% tariff on all foreign imports and a 60% tariff on products from China—a move that most experts say will increase prices, inflation, and the deficit.
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