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Trump Returns: The 2024 Election
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What happened
In November 2024, Donald Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris to win a second, non-consecutive term as president, taking 312 electoral votes. Congress certified the result on January 6, 2025, and Trump was inaugurated as the 47th president on January 20, 2025 — the first president since Grover Cleveland to return to office after losing it.
Why it matters
Trump's comeback — four years after leaving office amid the January 6 attack, and despite criminal indictments — was one of the most remarkable political recoveries in American history and set the course of the nation into the late 2020s.