In one of the most unusual elections in the last hundred years, former President Donald J. Trump battled through two assassination attempts, countless character assassinations, government investigations, foreign election interference and a last-minute opponent swap to become the 47th president of the United States.

After an election day and night that saw him win record numbers of youth and minority voters, he clinched an election victory in Pennsylvania that will carry him to the White House.

Foreseeing exactly this eventuality, panicked Democrats had forced out President  Joe Biden and replaced him with Vice President Kamala Harris. But Harris struggled to define herself and her election results underperformed and lagged Biden. While Trump broke records, Kamala broke other kinds of records, pulling in record lows in even solid blue states like New Jersey.

As the results came in, Kamala refused to address supporters who had been waiting for her for eight hours and instead sent out a messenger telling them to leave. Her dreams of becoming president have been dashed and while she campaigned on a promise to make history, history was made without her.