Donald Trump will be the winner of the U.S. presidential election, according to the Associated Press, meaning he will return for a second non-consecutive term in the White House.
The AP called the race for Trump over Democratic Vice-President Kamala Harris in one of the most remarkable and contentious campaigns in modern American history.
This follows a speech from Trump to his supporters Wednesday morning, where claimed he had won “an unprecedented and powerful mandate.”
With a win in Wisconsin, Trump cleared the 270 electoral votes needed to clinch the presidency.
His victory thrusts the country into an uncertain new era: one in which the commander-in-chief is a convicted felon who tried to overturn his loss in the previous election and whose who his former chief of staff as well as critics have called a “fascist.”
The rest of the world – particularly longstanding allies like Canada – have been closely watching to assess the potential impacts of a second Trump presidency.
Trump has promised blanket tariffs on foreign imports, mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, and a transactional approach to alliances like NATO. He has also stoked fears of retribution against his political opponents, who he has called “the enemy from within,” and even suggested unleashing the U.S. National Guard on protesters and other critics.
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The return of Trump to the top of the Republican Party comes less than four years after hundreds of his supporters – enraged by Trump’s false claims of widespread voter fraud – stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to interrupt the certification of U.S. President Joe Biden’s victory.
Yet Trump was able to rally voters around him who were frustrated with the high cost of living brought on by high inflation during Biden’s presidency. Republicans who had once disavowed and blamed him for the Jan. 6 attack ultimately threw their support behind Trump after an uncompetitive primary.
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