Donald J. Trump, once and now president-elect, completed an improbable political comeback by defeating Vice President Kamala Harris on promises to jump-start the economy and deport undocumented immigrants by the millions.
Trump’s victory over Harris, who was the first woman of color to win a major party’s presidential nomination, early Wednesday morning. She took the reins of
the Democratic campaign after President Joe Biden abandoned his bid for a second term, a decision made after a disastrous June debate.
In the afternoon, she addressed supporters at Howard University in Washington and promised a peaceful transfer of power.
“It was the greatest political movement of all time,” Trump said just before 2:30 a.m. Wednesday at a rally in West Palm Beach, Florida. “Now it will take on a new level of importance as we help our country heal.”
Trump’s route back to the White House went through Pennsylvania, Georgia and Wisconsin, states he won back after losing them in 2020. He remained locked in close contests with Harris in Michigan, Arizona and Nevada as he tried to close his Electoral College lead. College.
It was a campaign unlike any other, led by a unique figure in American history. Trump emerged victorious despite facing a dozen Republican primary challengers, four impeachments, a felony conviction, a finding that he was responsible for sexual abuse, a possible assassin’s bullet and the Democratic nominations for president and vice president.
Voters elected him to lead the way forward, despite warnings from the left and his former aides that he would rule as an authoritarian.
