Donald Trump has officially been elected the 47th president of the United States of America.
Trump has been elected to the Oval Office in a landslide victory.
As of 11:50pm PST, Trump won 277 electoral votes, sending him over the needed 270 to clinch the White House. In addition to winning the most electoral votes, he won the popular vote. A Republican has not won the popular vote since George W. Bush in 2004.
Additionally, Trump will be the second president in history to serve two nonconsecutive terms. The last president to do so was former Democrat President Grover Cleveland in 1892.
Donald Trump has promised that he will work to "end wars".
ReplyDelete"I'm not going to start a war, I'm going to stop wars," he said at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.
At the same time, he has promised to usher in a "golden age of America," saying that he had won a "magnificent victory’" in the elections "for American people."