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CONTROVERSIAL businessman Donald Trump is assured of victory in the US Presidential Election, sweeping a host of swing states and redrawing the electoral map in a shock win over Hillary Clinton.

The billionaire, who alienated women and minority voters, was declared the projected winner after a win in Pennsylvania put him over the 270 electoral college votes needed to win.

But Clinton campaign manager John Podesta told the Clinton rally that they wouldn't be saying any more until tonight, and that there wouldn't be a concession.

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One of the most extraordinary upsets in political history, Trump will now take over the Oval Office as one of the most under prepared President-elects ever.

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Trump won by handy margins in the swing states of Ohio and North Carolina, and also won the key state of Florida.

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But it was in the solidly blue states in the North East of the country that Trump's message seems to have resonated with an under polled group who came out to vote in massive numbers.

Trump's wins in Wisconsin and Michigan represent some of the most dramatic redrawing of the US Electoral map since the sweeping victories of Ronald Reagan.

His polemics against globalisation and isolationist trade policies, as well as his scorching anti-immigrant rhetoric, seems to have brought a silent majority out to the polls.

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For a man who has advocated war crimes, threatened to ban an entire religion from entering the country, and made a host of gaffes and even bragged of sexually assaulting women, this was an incredible feat.

It is not yet known which of his outlandish policies, which range from 35% import taxes to allowing new countries to have nuclear weapons, he will prioritise.

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For Clinton, it is a devastating blow. Her establishment credentials were a great strength in fundraising, but she was ultimately felled by Trump's message and her own unprecedented popularity.

The Republicans also kept hold of the Senate and the House of Representatives, giving them an effective super-majority that could lead to repealing of progressive social policies like a women's right to an abortion and the reversal of same-sex marriage.