(NBC News) — America woke up Wednesday to a new and unexpected reality — Donald J. Trump will be the next president of the United States.

In a forceful rebuke to the political establishment, the Manhattan mogul and reality TV star was elected the 45th president following one of the most bitter and wildly unpredictable campaigns in the nation’s history.

Trump, in an upset for the ages, defeated former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton by running the table in battleground states across the country — from Florida and North Carolina to Ohio and Pennsylvania.

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