Donald Trump Becomes Next US President After Stunning Election Win Over Hillary Clinton
Donald Trump Becomes Next US President After Stunning Election Win Over Hillary Clinton
The Republican billionaire shocked the world with a crushing defeat of Hillary Clinton which sent markets spiralling.
Donald Trump has stunned the entire world with a crushing victory in the US Presidential election.
The billionaire Republican defied the opinion polls to defeat hot favourite Hillary Clinton and become the next President-elect of America.
The respected Associated Press news agency called the election at 7.30am after an agonising wait as projected victory in Wisconsin tipped Trump over the 270 electoral votes he needed.
Mr Trump's Idaho campaign director Layne Bangerter said: "The voice of the people has risen up."
Stock markets plunged around the world and Clinton supporters wept openly in New York City as the scale of Mr Trump's success became clear.
He will now be sworn in as the 45th American President on January 20, 2017.
The nation is now preparing itself for a new leader who has previously vowed to ban Muslims from entering the country, build a huge wall along the border with Mexico and immediately repeal President Obama's healthcare for the poor.
The Republicans will also have control of Congress and be able to appoint conservativejudges to the Supreme Court - giving them total power over every arm of American government.
The website for Canadian citizenship applications crashed last night as thousands of Americans logged on.
The final opinion polls had suggested Mr Trump was trailing his rival by three or four percentage points as voting began on Tuesday - but he made a mockery of every prediction.
Comparisons were immediately drawn with June's shock Brexit vote in Britain, as white working class voters turned out in their millions to deliver a brutal slap to the political elite.
Gloating former UKIP leader Nigel Farage said: "2016 is going to be the year of two political revolutions.
"I thought Brexit was big - but boy this is going to be even bigger."
Former Republican vice-President candidate Sarah Palin told Sky News: "We've just done what y'all have done -sweeping our own porches before we sweep other people's."
French National Front leader Marine Le Pen also sent her congratulations and will now fancy her own chances in next year's French Presidential election.
Her top strategist Florian Philippot said: "Their world is collapsing. Ours is being built."
French National Front leader Marine Le Pen also sent her congratulations and will now fancy her own chances in next year's French Presidential election.
Her top strategist Florian Philippot said: "Their world is collapsing. Ours is being built."
Chesnot Right-wing nationalists like Marine Le Pen are on the rise
Early suggestions that Mrs Clinton was on course for a good night quickly fell away as Mr Trump swept every knife-edge state.
His first big win came in the key battleground of Florida, which he simply had to win back from the Democrats to have any chance of becoming President.
Hot on its heels came North Carolina, which Barack Obama had lost in 2012 but which Mrs Clinton was quietly - and wrongly - confident of winning back this year.
Early suggestions that Mrs Clinton was on course for a good night quickly fell away as Mr Trump swept every knife-edge state.
His first big win came in the key battleground of Florida, which he simply had to win back from the Democrats to have any chance of becoming President.
Hot on its heels came North Carolina, which Barack Obama had lost in 2012 but which Mrs Clinton was quietly - and wrongly - confident of winning back this year.
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