Early Wednesday morning, Nov. 6, former President Donald Trump was declared the 47th president of the United States of America after surpassing 270 electoral college votes against Vice President Kamala Harris. At 4:34 a.m., all 10 Wisconsin electoral votes were given to the former, and future, president. Harris and Trump had been neck and neck in recent public opinion polls in the lead-up to the election. In the 2016 race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, all three states voted red and Trump was elected president; Between President Joe Biden and Trump in 2020, all three states voted blue. Harris, if elected, would have been the first woman president of the U.S. and Trump is now the oldest president ever elected, the only president to be impeached twice and the only convicted felon to be elected president.

Source: ABC News November 09, 2024 00:05 UTC