By Marisol Bo-oc | 08:12 PM November 06, 2024
Donald Trump has won the presidency, lurching America’s center of power to the right after defeating Kamala Harris in a tumultuous race that set the nation on edge — and that ultimately will make the 45th president the 47th, too.
“Your vote will lead us to Greatness. Your vote will unleash a new GOLDEN AGE!
Your vote will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! GREATER THAN EVER BEFORE,” Trump said on a Facebook post.
Trump’s victory marks a series of historic firsts. At 78, he is the oldest person ever to win a U.S. presidential election. He will be the first president in 132 years — since Grover Cleveland — to serve two nonconsecutive terms in office.
Trump’s win denies Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris, what would have been her own historic milestone: becoming the first woman president of the United States.
It also represents a staggering political achievement for Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, who won his first election just two years earlier.
Just 40 years old, Vance, a former Trump critic turned loyalist and top advocate for the president-elect’s right-wing populist movement, is now first in the presidential line of succession.
