Trump elected as US president in stunning comeback

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Donald Trump was elected president, capping a remarkable comeback four years after he was voted out of the White House and ushering in a new American leadership likely to test democratic institutions at home and relations abroad.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Donald Trump was elected as the next U.S. President, according to projections by major

00:07U.S. media outlets, as he capped a remarkable comeback four years after he was voted out

00:12of the White House.

00:13The 78-year-old Republican candidate recaptured the White House on Wednesday by securing more

00:18than the 270 electoral college votes needed to win the presidency.

00:23Edison Research projected that Trump won 70.7 million votes against 65.7 million votes

00:31garnered by his rival Kamala Harris of the Democratic Party, with 87 percent of the total

00:36votes tallied.

00:38The former president's victory in the swing state of Wisconsin pushed him over the 270

00:43threshold.

00:45America has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate.

00:53We have taken back control of the Senate.

00:57Wow.

00:58And the Senate races in Montana, Nevada, Texas, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin.

01:14The great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania were all won by the MAGA movement.

01:21They helped so much.

01:23Frankly, this was, I believe, the greatest political movement of all time.

01:29There's never been anything like this in this country.

01:32Trump's victory was greeted by a roaring crowd of his supporters at the election night party

01:36held at Palm Beach County Convention Center in Florida.

01:40Besides Wisconsin, Trump was projected to have also won the swing states of North Carolina,

01:46Pennsylvania and Georgia.

01:48Trump's political career had appeared to be over after his false claims of election fraud

01:52led a mob of supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol on January 6th in 2021 in a failed

01:58bid to overturn his 2020 defeat.

02:02Trump served as the president from January 2017 until January 2021 after winning the

02:072016 election.

02:10He is the second president in U.S. history to be elected in non-consecutive terms after

02:15Grover Cleveland in 1892.

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