and today, German Chancellor Angela Merkel won her fourth term.

It wasn't always easy. Since 2005, she's guided Germany through a global financial cisis,

confrontation with Russia, a surge of refugees, and now, a hostile American president.

Angela Merkel and her party might be celebrating tonight,

but they still yielded a lot of ground to the far-right AFD.

It'll be the first time in 50 years a nationalist, far right-party will sit in the German parliament.

Unlike Merkel, they're anti-immigrant, anti-European union, and anti-Islam.

The AFD is a very destructive...a force...

They are protest party.

But they're the kind of challenge Merkel has survived before.

Matt Bradley, NBC News, Berlin.

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