Donald Trump has been elected the 47th president of the United States.

The victory is an extraordinary comeback for a former president who refused to accept defeat four years ago.

His refusal sparked a violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, was convicted of felony charges and survived two assassination attempts.

Trump’s win in Wisconsin put him over the 270 threshold needed to clinch the presidency.

Trump has 267 of the 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House and is leading in key races left to be called, including Michigan and Wisconsin, according to an AP tally.

Donald Trump also won Pennsylvania, defeating Democrat Kamala Harris in the critical battleground state.

Trump won Pennsylvania's 19 electoral votes four years after Democrat Joe Biden carried the state, flipping it from Trump's column in 2016 on his way to capturing the "blue wall".

No Democrat has won the White House without also winning Pennsylvania since 1948.

In more good news for Trump's fellow Republicans, the party has also won majority control of the Senate.

This is one of the most remarkable political comebacks in American history.

He will return to the White House after a roller-coaster campaign during which he was indicted four times, criminally convicted and survived two assassination attempts.

Donald Trump will be only the second president to serve non-consecutive terms after Grover Cleveland, a feat that was last accomplished 132 years ago.

Cleveland’s unique presidency spanned from 1885 to 1889, and then again from 1893 to 1897, making him the only US president to date to be elected for two terms that did not follow each other consecutively.

Trump's first term as US President was between 2016 and 2020.

However, he failed to win a second straight term after losing to Joe Biden in the 2020 election race.

Donald Trump will also become the only president in the United States to face impeachment proceedings twice during his time in office.

President Donald Trump was impeached twice during his single term in office. In each case, he was acquitted on all counts by the Senate.

The first impeachment trial stemmed from a call President Trump had with the President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine in which President Trump asked the Ukrainian President to announce two investigations: one involving his potential opponent in the upcoming 2020 presidential election and a second into unsubstantiated allegations that entities within Ukraine had interfered in the 2016 presidential election.

It was reported that Trump had frozen $400 million in military aid to Ukraine, which is involved in a war with Russia.

Trump was impeached for the second time on January 13, 2021, one week before his term expired, for allegedly inciting the January 6 attack on the US Capitol.

Trump, who was convicted of 34 felony counts earlier this year, will also be the first US President to hold office while facing legal indictment.

Trump was convicted in New York in May, but is yet to be sentenced, and a trial is scheduled on November 26.

Trump was convicted of falsifying business records to cover up the payment of $130,000 made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels.

This was probably the first criminal case against a former or current US President.

It was alleged that the money was meant to buy Daniels’ silence before the 2016 race to the White House about a sexual encounter she claimed to have had with Trump a decade ago.

Trump denied the encounter and maintained his stance on the matter.

 

More report from AP.