--- title: Donald Trump Wins 2024 Election description: Donald Trump has won the 2024 election and will be President for a second time, according to the Associated Press. canonical: https://time.com/7173338/donald-trump-wins-election-2024/ author: Brian Bennett article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2024-11-06T10:41:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-31T12:58:52.223Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump Wins 2024 Election og:description: Donald Trump has won the 2024 election and will be President for a second time, according to the Associated Press og:url: https://time.com/7173338/donald-trump-wins-election-2024/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb0e3f3131f664921/698a9be99d83e843baba128f/trump-election-2024-01.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2400 og:image:height: 1350 og:image:alt: trump-election-2024-01 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump Wins 2024 Election twitter:description: Donald Trump has won the 2024 election and will be President for a second time, according to the Associated Press twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb0e3f3131f664921/698a9be99d83e843baba128f/trump-election-2024-01.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donald Trump Wins 2024 Election > Sponsored content. 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Nov 6, 2024 10:41 AM UTC  U.S. Republican Presidential nominee former President Donald Trump arrives to speak during a rally at Herb Brooks National Hockey Center on July 27, 2024 in St Cloud, Minnesota. U.S. Republican Presidential nominee former President Donald Trump arrives to speak during a rally at Herb Brooks National Hockey Center on July 27, 2024 in St Cloud, Minnesota. Stephen Maturen—Getty Images  by [Brian Bennett](https://time.com/author/brian-bennett/)  ## Brian Bennett Bennett is the senior White House correspondent at TIME. Nov 6, 2024 10:41 AM UTC _Editor's note: This story replaces a previously published version of the same story._ [Donald Trump](https://time.com/6972021/donald-trump-2024-election-interview/) has won the 2024 election and will be President for a second time, according to the Associated Press. The [AP called the race](https://time.com/7171938/2024-election-results/) early Wednesday morning after determining that [Vice President Kamala Harris](https://time.com/7081350/kamala-harris-presidential-platform-policies/) had no mathematical path to victory based on the votes tallied so far. Trump’s win marks a stunning political comeback for the former President and celebrity businessman after [he lost in 2020](https://time.com/5907973/donald-trump-loses-2020-election/) to Joe Biden and then refused to accept the results, encouraging his supporters to [violently storm the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021](https://time.com/6692956/trump-supreme-court-insurrection-jan-6/) to try to overturn his loss. Trump, 78, campaigned with a central message that the Democrats had fumbled the economy and the border, and that he could fix it all. He pledged to ease taxes on the rich, ramp up tariffs on foreign made goods, and move to deport millions of people living in the country without authorization. After the three Supreme Court appointments from his first term led to the Court [ending a federal right to abortion access](https://time.com/7024133/pregnancy-criminalization-post-dobbs/) in 2022, Trump said he would leave the issue up to the states. His stump speeches were marked with dark images of [immigrants as violent criminals](https://time.com/7171654/donald-trump-immigration-plan-2024/). During his one debate with Harris, he repeated a baseless conspiracy theory that immigrants in Ohio were eating people’s pets. He pitched himself as a strongman who would not let the typical constraints on the Presidency hold him back from going after his political opponents, who he repeatedly called the “enemy within.” Trump also said he’d use the military to put down protests and help him implement his immigration policy. In the final months of his tumultuous 2024 campaign, Trump survived two assassination attempts and the FBI foiled a third plot by Iran to hire a hitman to kill him. After an assassin’s bullet grazed his ear during a rally in Butler, Pa. in July, Trump rose and pumped his fist and told the crowd to “fight.” In September, a Secret Service agent opened fire on a man aiming a rifle at Trump on the edge of his golf course in West Palm Beach. Trump won the election despite being [convicted on 34 counts of fraud](https://time.com/6983196/donald-trump-convicted-hush-money-trial-new-york/) by a New York jury, facing charges for interfering with the 2020 election in Georgia and being the subject of federal criminal investigations into his effort to overturn the 2020 election results and his handling of classified documents. Though he has no control over the state charges, Trump is likely to shut down the federal cases against him. Trump’s win makes him only the second President in American history to win back the White House four years after being voted out. 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