PHILADELPHIA — Donald Trump won Wisconsin early Wednesday, defeating Kamala Harris to win the White House and becoming the 47th president.
Trump has 277 of the 270 electoral votes needed to win. An early morning Pennsylvania call in his favor had trump at 267, meaning a win in Alaska or any of the outstanding battleground states would send the Republican former president back to the Oval Office.
He is expected to win several of the outstanding states as more ballots are counted.
After losing Georgia and North Carolina, the Harris campaign said the traditional "blue wall" states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin would be her clearest path to victory. Without Pennsylvania, there are no viable paths to a Democratic win.
The former president declared victory in a speech to supporters early Wednesday morning.
Pennsylvania, a part of the once-reliable Democratic stronghold known as the “blue wall” with Michigan and Wisconsin, was carried by Trump when he first won the White House in 2016 and then flipped back to Democrats in 2020. Trump also flipped Georgia, which had voted for Democrats four years ago, and retained the closely contested state of North Carolina.
“We will continue overnight to fight to make sure that every vote is counted. That every voice has spoken,” Cedric Richmond, co-chair of the Harris campaign said.
Trump, 78, will be both the oldest person ever elected president and the first former president since Grover Cleveland in 1892 to return to office after a defeat. He is also the first person convicted of a felony to assume the presidency.
