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AFTER PRESIDENT GROVER CLEVELAND (1885-1889 AND 1893-1897), TRUMP IS THE ONLY PERSON TO RETURN TO THE WHITE HOUSE FOR ANOTHER TERM AFTER A GAP OF FOUR YEARS

Donald Trump was Wednesday elected the US president for a second term in one of the greatest political comebacks in American history, four years after an election loss in 2020 that sparked a violent insurrection at the US Capitol.

The 78-year-old Republican leader, convicted of felony charges and awaiting sentencing in a hush-money case in New York, defeated his Democratic rival Kamala Harris in a bitterly fought election. According to races called by the Associated Press up to 7 pm (IST), 277 electoral votes had gone to Trump and 224 to Harris.