Four years after he left in disgrace, 45th president of the United States Donald Trump will return to the White House as the 47th president, a result once again proving him to be impervious to electoral gravity and reestablishing him as the center of the political universe.
After a summer of upheaval in the presidential race, Trump’s decisive win promises to reverberate from the hills of West Virginia to the halls of the Kremlin. He immediately throws a cloud of uncertainty over U.S. commitments to Ukraine and NATO, recalling the chaotic nature of his first administration. And he shows that, for all of his political flaws and legal troubles, he is the one true constant of modern American politics.
Despite a turbulent close to his campaign in the final weeks, Trump did better than his 2020 margins in the vast majority of counties. Networks and the Associated Press called the race for Trump Wednesday morning just after 5:30 a.m. ET, once a final slate of votes in Wisconsin came in and the state was placed in the Trump column. He looks like he could win every battleground state. He even looks like he’ll win the popular vote.