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With 277 electoral votes and 51 % of the popular vote Former President  Republican Donald  Trump defeated Vice-President and Democratic candidate Kamala Harris who had 224 electoral votes and 47.5 % of the popular vote.  Trump also won the vote in Edgefield County  with 9,088 votes and Harris had 4, 658 votes. President-elect Trump is the second president in history to be elected to two nonconsecutive terms. He served as the 45^th President  from 2017 – 2021. He was then defeated by President Joe Biden. He will now serve as the 47^th President  of The United States. He is 78 years old and will begin his second presidential term in January with Vice-President elect JD Vance. His slogan throughout the campaign was Make American Great Again.