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U.S. Elections 2024 results LIVE: Donald Trump elected as the 47th President of the U.S.

With a win in Wisconsin, Trump cleared the 270 electoral votes needed to clinch the presidency

Donald Trump was elected as the 47th President of the United States, an extraordinary comeback for a former president who refused to accept defeat four years ago, sparked a violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, was convicted of felony charges and survived two assassination attempts. 

Mr. Trump, who won Wisconsin, cleared the 270 electoral votes needed to clinch the presidency. The former President also won the swing states of Pennsylvania and Georgia.

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Kamala Harris won New Hampshire continuing the state’s two-decade-long streak of awarding its four electoral votes to Democrats. She also won Minnesota on a ticket with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, extending a winning streak for Democrats that goes back 52 years.

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The former Republican president had made stops to the state in each of the last three days of the campaign to deprive Harris of the pickup, as a divided America made its decision in a stark choice for the nation’s future Tuesday. The Democratic vice president’s campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon told staff in a memo that the “blue wall” of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin was now the Democrat’s “clearest path” to victory, according to a copy obtained by The Associated Press.( From agencies)

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