Trump is elected 47th president, soundly defeating Harris to retake White House

• Trump, who won the electoral college in 2016 but not a majority of votes, was also on track to win the popular vote.
• His closing campaign slogan — “Kamala Broke It. Trump Will Fix It” — emphasized Harris’ role in the Biden administration and aimed to position him as the candidate of change.

Donald Trump was elected the 47th president of the United States on Wednesday, fulfilling his promise to shatter America’s political status quo after he refused to accept his loss to Joe Biden four years ago and inspired a mob of supporters to violently storm the U.S. Capitol.

The Republican president-elect’s victory over Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris — after an extraordinary campaign in which he was convicted of felony charges and survived two assassination attempts — was decisive: Trump trounced Harris in all the “blue wall” and Southern battleground states and maintained leads in Arizona and Nevada, prompting a torrent of anguish among Democrats.

As Trump secured 295 electoral votes to Harris’ 226, Democrats could not take comfort in winning the popular vote, as they did when Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in 2016. With more than 139 million ballots counted, Trump had 4.8 million more votes than Harris.

“This will forever be remembered as the day the American people regained control of their country,” Trump told a crowd at around 2:30 a.m. Wednesday from a stage adorned with star-spangled banners at his campaign headquarters in West Palm Beach, Fla.

Trump, who won by appealing to Americans’ anxieties about the economy and immigration and slamming Democrats as excessively “woke” and out of touch, said the election represented a “massive victory for democracy and for freedom.”

“The people who voted for us, they came from all quarters — union, non-union, African American, Hispanic American, Asian American, Arab American, Muslim American,” Trump said. “We had everybody, and it was beautiful. It was a historic realignment, uniting citizens of all backgrounds around a common core of common sense.”