Polls have closed in some states, and the first results are coming in in the high-stakes presidential match-up between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. According to 538’s forecast, both candidates have a roughly equal chance of winning.
Voters are still at polling places around the country, casting ballots to decide who controls not only the White House, but also Congress, and state and local governments.
Where Things Stand
- President Donald Trump will win the presidency, defeating Vice President Kamala Harris to become the 47th president of the United States.
- A projection for Trump in Wisconsin put him over the finish line early Wednesday morning, after earlier projections for Trump winning the battleground states of North Carolina, Georgia and Pennsylvania. WNews estimates Trump will surpass the winning electoral vote threshold of 270 with a projection of 312 electoral votes.
- Trump declared victory in a speech to supporters early Wednesday morning, alongside his family and running mate, Sen. JD Vance.
- “I want to thank the American people for the extraordinary honor of being elected your 47th president and your 45th president,” Trump said at his election headquarters in Florida. “And every citizen, I will fight for you, for your family and for your future. Every single day, I will be fighting for you with every breath in my body.”
- At 78, Trump will be the oldest president ever to assume office.
- Harris didn’t speak at all on Election Night, forgoing her planned event at Howard University. She addressed not only supporters but also Howard University students on Wednesday afternoon, urging the emotional crowd “do not despair.”
- “This is not a time to throw up our hands,” Harris said. “This is a time to roll up our sleeves. This is a time to organize, to mobilize and to stay engaged for the sake of freedom and justice and the future that we all know we can build together.”
Key Headline
Donald Trump becomes the 47th President Elect.
The New York Times’s forecast needle is projecting an 86% of Trump victory with 297 Electoral Seats.
Florida ballot measure that would have protected abortion rights will fail
New York is projected to go for Harris, but lots of House races are still TBD
Latest Updates
Speaker Mike Johnson says “Republicans are poised to have unified government in the White House, Senate, and House”
House Speaker Mike Johnson said Wednesday mornings that he expects Republicans to win control of the House, where several races remain tossups, to cement a governing trifecta for the GOP.
“This historic election has proven that a majority of Americans are eager for secure borders, lower costs, peace through strength, and a return to common sense,” Johnson said in a statement. “As more results come in it is clear that, as we have predicted all along, Republicans are poised to have unified government in the White House, Senate, and House.”
The speaker, who currently leads a razor-thin majority in the House, touted GOP flips in battleground races, projecting that “when all the votes are tabulated, Republicans will have held our majority, even though we faced a map with 18 Biden-won seats.”
Johnson said he looks forward “to working with President Trump and a Republican Senate to deliver as Speaker of the House on the mandate entrusted to us by the American people.”
Trump projected to win Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania leans Trump. The former president has currently secured 246 electoral votes.
A group run by Elon Musk’s super PAC is collecting voter fraud claims on X.
A group on X that is dedicated to sharing claims of voter fraud became a hive of activity on Tuesday, with many users pushing falsehoods about broken voting machines, pre-marked ballots and threats at polling stations.
The group was announced by Elon Musk six days ago and has ballooned to more than 64,000 members. It is run by Mr. Musk’s super PAC, which has pledged support to former President Donald J. Trump.
Trump Projected to Win Iowa
Donald J. Trump wins the Presidential election in Iowa.
Trump is projected to win Montana and Utah
Trump will win Montana and Utah. The Nevada presidential race is rated a toss-up.
Montana has four electoral votes and Nevada and Utah both have six.
Polls in those three states closed at 10 p.m. ET, with Nevada being the most closely-watched state of the three.
The next round of poll closings won’t come until 11 p.m. ET, when the West Coast states shut down for the night.
Florida ballot measure that would have protected abortion rights will fail
Florida ballot measure will fail that would have enshrined the right to abortion, keeping in place a six-week ban put in place by Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Known as Amendment 4, or the “Amendment to Limit Government Interference with Abortion,” the measure would have overridden Florida’s ban on abortion after six weeks and enshrined abortion rights into the state constitution. It failed to garner the 60% needed to win approval, meaning the state’s stringent abortion restrictions will remain in place.
The outcome marks the first since Roe was overturned in which the pro-abortion rights position has not succeeded when the issue has been on the ballot.
New York is projected to go for Harris, but lots of House races are still TBD
WNews has projected that Harris will win New York and its 28 electoral votes. With 36% of the expected vote reporting there, she’s ahead by 30 points, although that margin will come down to some extent as more votes are reported (based on what’s outstanding).
Sarah McBride will become the first openly transgender person elected to Congress
projected that Delaware state Sen. Sarah McBride has won election to her state’s at-large congressional district, making her the first openly transgender person to be elected to Congress. It’s been a history-making night for the First State: Earlier in the evening, Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester won her election to become the first woman and first Black person to be elected to the U.S. Senate from Delaware.
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Polymarket Gives 78% of winning US Elections
Polymarket now gives Trump 78% chance of winning US election
Ted Cruz Reelected
Ted Cruz beats Colin Allred in Texas Senate race
Prosecutor Fani Willis, Reelected in Georgia
Fani Willis, Georgia prosecutor pursuing election interference case against Donald Trump, wins reelection – AP
Donald Trump wins the 3rd Congressional District in Nebraska and one electoral vote
Republican Donald Trump won the electoral vote tied to Nebraska’s vast, rural 3rd Congressional District on Tuesday. The former president easily defeated Democratic candidate and Vice President Kamala Harris in the state’s most conservative of its three districts, covering 80 counties and two time zones. The district is also one of the most conservative in the country and supported Trump by about 3-to-1 in both 2016 and 2020. The last time the district voted for a Democrat to represent it in the U.S. House was in 1958. The Associated Press declared Trump the winner at 9:25 p.m. EST.
Harris projected to pick up Rhode Island
Harris is projected to pick up Rhode Island’s four electoral votes. Harris’ victory in the deep blue New England state does not come as a shock as polls consistently showed her leading Trump by double-digits.
Louisiana is projected to go Republican as expected
ABC News has projected that Trump will carry Louisiana. Nothing surprising here as the state has been firmly in the GOP column in presidential races since it moved away from Democrats in the 2000 election
Trump has 162 Votes, Harris with 91
As of 9:12pm ET, Donald Trump has a 71% chance to win the presidency
Republican Mark Robinson loses North Carolina gubernatorial bid after tumultuous campaign
Mark Robinson, the North Carolina Republican gubernatorial candidate rocked by a CNN report indicating he posted racist and explicit messages on a pornography site more than a decade ago, has lost his race against Democrat Josh Stein.
The loss is a cap on a turbulent run for Robinson, the state’s lieutenant governor, who rocketed to conservative fame in 2018 by seizing on Trump’s MAGA movement.
His campaign was continually tagged with controversial comments Robinson made about everything from abortion to race to gay rights. Trump compared Robinson to Martin Luther King Jr. before his pornography site scandal, and did not explicitly back away from him after the scandal engulfed the North Carolina Republican’s campaign.
Stein, the state’s Attorney General, will succeed Roy Cooper, North Carolina’s popular two-term governor who was term-limited. The race was one of the most closely watched governor’s races in the nation this year.
Delaware projected for Harris and Blunt Rochester in the Senate
With 60% of the vote reporting, ABC News is projecting that Harris has won Delaware’s three electoral votes. In the race for Senate, ABC News has also projecting Democratic Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester has won. Blunt Rochester is the first woman and first Black person to represent Delaware in the Senate. She was previously the first woman and the first Black person to represent the state in Congress.
Florida marijuana legalization ballot projected to fail
The Florida ballot measure that would have legalized recreational marijuana will not pass
