Donald Trump defeats Kamala Harris to become the next US president, NBC News projects

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

69% : Speaking to his supporters Wednesday morning, Trump claimed he had won "an unprecedented and powerful mandate.
64% : It was a formula Trump perfected in 2016, when he cast himself as the only person who could fix the country's problems, often borrowing language from dictators.
57% : As the 2022 midterm election approached, Trump used the power of his endorsement to assert himself as the unquestioned leader of the party.
54% : /Trump is the first former president to return to power since Grover Cleveland regained the White House in the 1892 election.
54% : Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the California Republican who at the time led his party in the U.S. House, visited Trump soon after he left office, essentially validating his continued role in the party.
51% : With a win in Wisconsin, Trump cleared the 270 electoral votes needed to clinch the presidency.
51% : With a win in Wisconsin, Trump cleared the 270 electoral votes needed to clinch the presidency.
50% : But from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, Trump - aided by some elected Republicans - worked to maintain his political relevance.
49% : As he prepares to return to the White House, Trump has vowed to swiftly enact a radical agenda that would transform nearly every aspect of American government.
48% : While Harris focused much of her initial message around themes of joy, Trump channeled a powerful sense of anger and resentment among voters.
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.
42% : This time, Trump has said he would surround himself with loyalists who will enact his agenda, no questions asked, and who will arrive with hundreds of draft executive orders, legislative proposals and in-depth policy papers in hand.
41% : When he becomes president on Jan. 20, Trump could appoint an attorney general who would erase the federal charges.
40% : When he arrived in Washington 2017, Trump knew little about the levers of federal power.
38% : There will be far fewer checks on Trump when he returns to the White House.
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.
34% : The midterm election prompted questions within the GOP about whether Trump should remain the party's leader.
33% : "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.
33% : His face streaked with blood, Trump stood and raised his fist in the air, shouting "Fight!
28% : Trump easily captured his party's nomination without ever participating in a debate against DeSantis or other GOP candidates.
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% : This campaign often veered into the absurd, with Trump amplifying bizarre and disproven rumors that migrants were stealing and eating pet cats and dogs in an Ohio town.
19% : Trump is subject to additional criminal charges in an election-interference case in Georgia that has become bogged down.
9% : Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who challenged Trump for the Republican nomination, lamented that the indictments "sucked out all the oxygen" from this year's GOP primary.

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