By: Randy Chow 🇺🇸
Image via Damon Higgins/ Palm Beach Post
Republican Donald Trump defeated Democrat Kamala Harris to become the country’s 47th president.
Trump’s campaign overcame a number of obstacles, including felony convictions, assassination attempts and allegations that he attempted to overturn the 2020 election, which led to his impeachment.
He managed to regain at least three of the states he had lost in 2020: Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The victory in Wisconsin brought Trump over the 270 electoral vote finish line.
Trump thanked his supporters in Palm Beach County, California, after he was declared the winner.
“We’re going to help our country heal,” he said. “And it needs help very badly. We’re going to fix our borders, we’re going to fix everything about our country.”
The Republican campaigned on lowering taxes, creating more jobs for American workers, securing the border and strengthening immunity and other protections for police officers, according to his campaign website.
He is the second president to win nonconsecutive terms since Grover Cleveland in 1892 and Trump is the first convicted felon to win the presidency.
In May, Trump was convicted on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in a hush money case.
He will be sworn back into office on Jan. 20, 2025.
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