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The night the nation has been waiting for — and in some quarters dreading — is finally here. For four years, President Trump has run a permanent re-election campaign from the White House, hoping to recreate his 2016 victory, while Democrats have worked to ensure that a president who lost the popular vote by close to three million votes was limited to one term in office.

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