America’s democracy will again be put to the test, and its government will veer sharply to the right. Kamala Harris and Democrats were dealt stunning defeats across the country.

Donald Trump wins: Scripting history, the 78-year-old Republican leader Donald Trump won the US presidency for a second term in one of the greatest political comebacks in American history, cruising past his Democratic rival Kamala Harris in a bitterly fought election.

From the pages of The Hindu, November 7, 1974: Democrat Party routed the Republicans in the mid-term elections... and for the next two years President Ford will face a theoretically veto-proof Congress.

The election of Donald Trump will likely bring momentous changes certain to cut across political and cultural lines, and to put the nation's democracy under strain.

Donald Trump scored a decisive victory in a deeply divided nation. And in so doing, the Republican president-elect exposed a fundamental weakness within the Democratic base and beat back concerns about his moral failings, becoming the first U.S. president with a felony conviction.