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Donald Trump won the 2024 U.S. presidential election, defeating Democratic nominee and then–Vice President Kamala Harris. He secured 312 electoral votes to Harris’s 226, and also won the national popular vote with 49.8% to her 48.3% . This victory made Trump the first U.S. president since Grover Cleveland to serve non-consecutive terms.

Trump’s win was marked by flipping several key battleground states that had gone to Joe Biden in 2020, including Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin . His running mate, Senator JD Vance of Ohio, became vice president, marking the first time a Millennial and an Ohio native held the office since Charles Dawes in 1924 .
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The election also resulted in a Republican trifecta: the GOP gained control of the Senate and maintained a narrow majority in the House of Representatives, giving Trump unified control of the federal government for the first time since 2016