Trump elected the 47th president of the United States

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

74% : "I want to thank the American people for the extraordinary honor of being elected your 47th president and your 45th president," Trump told throngs of cheering supporters in Florida even before his victory was confirmed.
65% : It was a formula Trump perfected in 2016, when he cast himself as the only person who could fix the country's problems.
62% : "We've been through so much together, and today you showed up in record numbers to deliver a victory," Trump said.
55% : "Trump is the first former president to return to power since Grover Cleveland regained the White House in the 1892 election.
53% : Upon taking office again, Trump also will work with a Senate that will now be in Republican hands, while control of the House hadn't been determined.
51% : With a win in Wisconsin, Trump cleared the 270 electoral votes needed to clinch the presidency.
42% : Trump will inherit a range of challenges when he assumes office on Jan. 20, including heightened political polarization and global crises that are testing America's influence abroad.
41% : When he becomes president on Jan. 20, Trump could appoint an attorney general who would erase the federal charges.
38% : There will be far fewer checks on Trump when he returns to the White House.
37% : The results cap a historically tumultuous and competitive election season that included two assassination attempts targeting Trump and a shift to a new Democratic nominee just a month before the party's convention.
34% : "In his second term, Trump has vowed to pursue an agenda centered on dramatically reshaping the federal government and pursuing retribution against his perceived enemies.
34% : Weeks later, a second assassination attempt was thwarted after a Secret Service agent spotted the barrel of a gun poking through the greenery while Trump was playing golf.
33% : His face streaked with blood, Trump stood and raised his fist in the air, shouting "Fight!
22% : With Trump dominating the Republican contest, a New York jury found him guilty in May of 34 felony charges in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through a hush money payment to a porn actor who said the two had sex.
19% : Trump is subject to additional criminal charges in an election-interference case in Georgia that has become bogged down.
14% : Trump seized on frustrations over high prices and fears about crime and migrants who illegally entered the country on Biden's watch.
10% : In state after state, Trump outperformed what he did in the 2020 election while Harris failed to do as well as Joe Biden did in winning the presidency four years ago.

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