With a win in Wisconsin, Trump cleared the 270 electoral votes needed to clinch the presidency. He won Michigan on Wednesday afternoon, sweeping the “blue wall” along with Pennsylvania — the one-time Democrat-leaning, swing states that all went for Trump in 2016 before flipping to President Joe Biden in 2020.

He makes history as the second president in American history elected to serve two nonconsecutive presidential terms. The triumphant Trump thanked "the American people for the extraordinary honor of being elected your 47th president and your 45th president" and said his "political victory" was one "that our country has never seen before.