By Our Reporter
Former President Donald Trump of the Republican Party has defeated Vice President Kamala Harris of the Democratic Party to clinch victory in the race for the White House, making him the 47th president of the United States.
The race between Trump and Harries was a close one with Trump securing 277 electoral votes as against Harris’s 224 votes.
Trump becomes the second president to lose a reelection campaign but return to the White House four years later. The only other president to win a nonconsecutive term was Grover Cleveland in 1892.
Trump who was the 45th president of the United States also becomes the 47th by this recent victory.
Republicans also won control of the U.S Senate for the first time in four years.