Donald Trump was projected to become the 47th president early Wednesday, completing the most incredible political comeback in American history.

Trump, 78, was on course for an Electoral College landslide over Vice President Kamala Harris after he was projected to reverse his 2020 losses in the crucial states of Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — winning by wide margins in its rural and working-class white counterparts. while making significant inroads among ethnic minorities.

The former president’s victory was the culmination of a big night for Republicans, who they were also designed to regain control of the Senate after four years in the minority.

The fate of the House of Representatives was too close to call early Wednesday, with a majority likely not to be determined for several days.

In a chilling repeat of scenes from election night in 2016, thousands of Harris supporters who gathered on the campus of his alma mater, Howard University, to watch the results come in, were left shocked and in tears as it became clear that the candidate they couldn’t. win.

In the end, it was not Harris, but her campaign co-chair, Cedric Richmond, who was left to inform the desolate crowd that the Democratic nominee would not be showing up.

“We still have votes to count … so you won’t be hearing from the vice president tonight,” said Richmond, a former Louisiana congressman and Biden White House official. “He’ll be back here tomorrow.”

“Go HU and go Harris.”

The 45th president projected supreme confidence against Harris, 60, in the final days of the race, with heavy-handed messaging aimed at male voters and a marathon schedule of rallies and press appearances — including a change at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania.

Meanwhile, Harris downplayed both her potential to make history as the first female president and her racial identity as a child of Jamaican and Indian immigrants.

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Instead, she campaigned as a pro-small business warrior for the middle class, while repudiating a number of former leftist positions she had taken as San Francisco District Attorney, California Attorney General and Senator from Golden states

Trump’s victory makes him only the second president elected in non-consecutive terms, joining Democrat Grover Cleveland — who was elected the 22nd president in 1884 and the 24th president in 1892, with Republican Benjamin Harrison of Indiana serving four years in between.

The race was widely considered on Election Day itself, as surrogates for both candidates made rhetorical gaffes that received widespread media attention.

Both Trump and Harris had to face the American electorate as incumbents, given the 45th president’s rejection by voters after his first term in 2020 and Harris’ elevation to the Democratic nomination only after President Biden announced on July 21 that he would not seek a second term. term.

On October 27, a massive Trump rally at Madison Square Garden turned into a media feeding frenzy after comedian Tony Hinchcliffe made a joke that missed the mark, referring to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of the garbage”.

Biden days later toned down Harris’ message of “joy” and bipartisanship calling Trump supporters “trash” — a comment that was quietly edited by White House press staff, without the input of the executive mansion’s official stenographers.

Biden, 81, has at other times handicapped his former running mate by offering more strident messages that may have alienated some swing voters about the dangers of a second Trump administration.

“We have to close it,” the president said at a Democratic campaign office in Concord, NH, two weeks before voters head to the polls, before immediately correcting course: “Politically, shut it down — shut it down, this is what we must do. “

Biden also displayed strange behavior after abandoning his own 2024 race — including donning a red “TRUMP” hat at a fire station in Shanksville, Pa., following a 9/11 memorial event .

Meanwhile, the 45th president has been targeted by unprecedented criminal charges in New York, South Florida, Washington, DC and Georgia — two of which alleged he illegally conspired to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

In the most stunning moments of the race, Trump cheated death twice after being wanted by would-be assassins at a campaign rally in Butler, Pa.on July 13 and at his golf course in West Palm Beach on September 15.

Republicans strongly rebuked Democrats for excoriating the gunmen with their rhetoric that Trump could end American democracy and likened him to “fascist” dictators like Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.

Trump’s campaign also operated in the shadow of both spying campaigns and potential death threats from Iran, leading to another foiled assassination attempt by a suspected Tehran operative and the indictment of Guard Corps hackers Islamic Revolution.

Harris clinched his party’s nomination in August after a coup by top congressional Democrats such as Speaker Emeritus Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and influential party donors such as Hollywood movie star George Clooney , to oust the oldest president in 2024. vote.

That effort followed Biden’s disastrous debate against Trump on June 27 — the earliest such matchup has occurred in an election cycle — during which the president spoke shakily and at times incoherently.

Biden’s campaign staff later said he had a cold, and Harris continued to refer to the show as just a “bad night,” dodging pointed questions about when he first learned of the boss’ mental breakdown them, shown that night to millions of viewers.

The vice president went on to achieve a record number of fundraisers in the short sprint from July to September, totaling more than $1 billion in contributions.

The funding bought targeted ads that put Harris on the national stage as a former career prosecutor-turned-legislator who leans toward the middle on border enforcement and the economy.

Trump’s fundraising has received a massive infusion from Democratic defectors such as hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who even launched a new PAC to spend $80 billion on the former president’s candidacy.

Harris reneged on previous pledges to ban fracking, promote Medicare for all and decriminalize border crossings — even as he faced more radical proposals he had championed as a senator, such as gender reassignment surgeries taxpayer-funded for incarcerated migrants.

Trump campaigned on a pledge to close the border and stop the record number of crossings during the Harris-Biden administration, reverse regulations that limit the domestic oil and gas industry and end the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

He also floated proposals to implement taxpayer-funded IVF for couples and eliminate tip taxes for service workers — something Harris borrowed from as part of his own platform.