How Donald Trump defied the odds AGAIN to win shock election landslide – and leave Kamala Harris’s campaign in the dust
DONALD Trump sensationally defied the odds to be re-elected as US President after a nail-biting election.
The outspoken Republican defeated his humiliated rival after one of the most tense build-ups to polling day in history.
The race to the top sat on a knife-edge for weeks, with pollsters struggling to call who would scoop the win.
Despite being built up of 50 states, the result once again came down to those seven all-important swing states where voters are fearlessly divided.
With more than 50 per cent of the votes, Trump, 78, has pulled off a stunning comeback that many doubted he could do.
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Both Harris, 60, and Trump spent their pre-election evenings cramming in last-minute rallies on the campaign trail before heading to cast their votes on Tuesday morning.
Trump’s odds looked good early on as he secured victories in Indiana and Tennessee - plus his home state of Florida, which alone bagged him a mammoth share of 30 of the votes.
It comes as...
- JD Vance said the victory is the "greatest political comeback in American history."
- Kamala Harris refused to speak to the media as Trump took the lead.
- Harris' team said the Vice President will speak on Wednesday.
- Trump won battleground states Georgia, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania, according to the .
- Trump's team started to celebrate early with a chant when he won North Carolina.
- Republicans took control of the Senate after Ted Cruz was re-elected in Texas.
- Firefighters were forced to help recount 30,000 votes when polls faced election night chaos.
Early counting of critical swing states showed him doing significantly better against Harris than he did when losing to Joe Biden in 2020.
A sense of jubilation started filling the air at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort by around 10pm ET (3am UK time) when he narrowed the gap in Pennsylvania.
White and Musk were among the allies Trump surrounded himself with at his beloved Mar-a-Lago, with red roses seen cutting through the middle of long, set tables.
But as roars of delight echoed around the private Florida club, silence fell upon Kamala's camp in Washington DC as hopes of victory appeared to be slowly slipping away.
Trump then flew over yet another hurdle around 1am (6am UK time) by snapping up Georgia - making it a tall - yet not impossible - order for Harris to carve out a path to success.
The Republican flipped the state back after Biden, 81, took it in 2020 - one of the keys to the Democratic win.
But the real crunch moment of this historic night came at 1.30am ET (6.30am UK time) when Trump took the most prized swing state Pennsylvania - all but guaranteeing his overall crushing election victory.
His win in the crucial state could well have been who are understood to have made an exception to their beliefs to vote for Trump.
Speaking on stage he said: "Every single day I will be fighting for you, with every single breath in my body.
"I will not rest until we have delivered the strong, safe and prosperous America that children deserve.
"And that you deserve. This will truly be the golden age for America.
"Frankly I believe this was the greatest political movement of all time."
Trump - who beat Hillary Clinton in 2016 before losing to Biden four years ago - is the first president in more than a century to serve nonconsecutive terms.
His presidency and ventures since have been marred by controversy, with the businessman caught up in a series of scandals and legal battles.
'World will need to recalibrate' after Trump's historic election victory
Dr Alan Mendoza, executive director for the think tank Henry Jackson Society, told The Sun that the world will need to adjust after Trump's US election win and that lesson can be learned from the ex-president's former stint in the White House.
He said: “Donald Trump’s comprehensive victory means that US allies and enemies alike are going to have to recalibrate their positions to reflect that, it is now going to be his global agenda that the world moves to.
"It would be a mistake to assume that anything – whether the end of the war in Ukraine or the future of the Middle East – is a foregone conclusion.
"The history of the first Trump administration from 2016-20 shows that those who engage and respect the USA did well, while those who denigrated and challenged it did badly.
"Lessons can be learned from that, about how to position internationally to make sure that countries are in the driving seat of history rather than its passengers.
"Trump’s unpredictability will be as positive a factor in the world stage as it was in his first term.
"It will keep allies on their toes, working hard to maintain an alliance that requires burden sharing rather than passengers, and enemies will need to watch their step rather than assume that America is asleep at the wheel."
Trump was twice impeached by Congress, but acquitted, and has been hauled through the courts over the January 6 Capitol riots and allegations of sexual harassment.
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Earlier this year, he was convicted of falsifying business records - yet has used his controversies to round up support by claiming he's the victim of a Democrat-led witch hunt.
The eyes of the world will now very much be glued to the White House for the next four years as an eager Trump navigates his second term as leader.