Donald Trump has clinched victory in the race for the White House against Kamala Harris after securing a majority in multiple swing states. The Republican declared victory in a speech in Florida to a cheering crowd. Harris, who did not address her supporters on election night, eventually conceded on Wednesday.
Trump has won five battleground states – Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania – and is projected to score further victories in Arizona and Nevada. As a result, he has won at least 292 electoral college votes compared to 224 for Harris, thus surpassing the required threshold of 270. The outcome of the election stands in stark contrast to the 2020 vote, when Trump lost Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin to Joe Biden.
Trump declared victory while addressing his supporters at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in Florida, pledging to “turn our country into something very special.” Many world leaders have congratulated the Republican, with messages pouring in from around the globe.
Harris canceled a planned address to supporters at Howard University in Washington DC on election night, but delivered a concession speech later on Wednesday, promising a “peaceful transfer of power.”
Harris was a late entrant to the race, securing the Democratic nomination after President Joe Biden ended his campaign in July following a disastrous debate performance against Trump, in which he appeared confused and struggled to finish sentences.
US presidential elections are decided by the Electoral College system, meaning that a candidate who loses the popular vote can still win the contest overall. Either Trump or Harris must secure 270 out of the 538 electoral college votes to win the presidency, with each state allocated a certain number of votes based on the number of its senators and representatives in Congress.
More than 158.5 million Americans took part in the election, with almost 86 million casting their votes early, either in person or by mail, according to data from the Election Lab and the University of Florida. For the first time in modern history, self-identified independents outnumbered Democrats at the polls and were tied with Republicans at 34% of the electorate, according to exit polling data from Edison Research.
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Harris has vowed to continue fighting for abortion rights and gun control, and to “never give up the fight for our democracy and the rule of law.”
“We will continue to wage this fight in the voting booths, in courts and in the public square,” she said.
Vice President Kamala Harris has formally acknowledged that Donald Trump won the US presidential election in a concession speech in Washington, DC.
“I know many people feel like we are entering a dark time, but for the benefit of us all, I hope that is not the case,” Harris said on Wednesday evening, speaking from a stage at Howard University.
“I know folks are feeling a range of emotions right now, but we must accept the results of this election,” Kamala Harris has told her supporters, who began booing as she said that she had spoken to Trump earlier and “congratulated him on his victory.”
“While I concede this election, I do not concede the fight that fueled this campaign,” she continued. “The fight for freedom, for opportunity, for fairness, and the dignity of all people.”
Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democrats’ presidential nominee, is addressing the nation to concede the election to Donald Trump. Harris took to the stage at Howard University in Washington, DC after calling Trump privately and acknowledging that he won enough electoral college votes to become the 47th US president.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has congratulated Republican Donald Trump on his victory in the US presidential election, CNN has reported, citing sources.
President Joe Biden has spoken to Kamala Harris and Donald Trump by phone, the White House has said in a statement. In his conversation with Trump, Biden “expressed his commitment to ensuring a smooth transition” and invited Trump to meet with him at the White House “in the near future.”
Biden will address the nation on Thursday about the election and the transition of power, the White House said.
Kamala Harris has called Donald Trump to “congratulate him on winning the 2024 presidential election,” a senior aide to the vice president has told NBC News. Harris spoke to Trump about the “importance of a peaceful transfer of power and being a president for all Americans,” the aide noted.
Harris did not address her supporters on election night, but is expected to deliver a speech at Howard University in Washington DC later on Wednesday.
Special Counsel Jack Smith, who is currently leading two criminal prosecutions against Trump, will be fired by the US Justice Department before Trump takes office in January, Fox News has reported. The cases will reportedly be dropped due to a long-standing prohibition against prosecuting a sitting president.
Trump has long accused President Joe Biden’s administration of “weaponizing” the legal system against him in order to thwart his presidential campaign.
The Associated Press has called the state of Michigan for Donald Trump, bringing to 292 the number of Electoral College votes awarded to the Republican. Michigan was one of seven battleground states in which the fight between Trump and Harris was expected to come down to the wire. Five have already been called for Trump, and the president-elect is also projected to win clear victories in the remaining two – Arizona and Nevada. Trump is on track to win the election by 312 Electoral College votes to 226.
Donald Trump has said that his children will not serve in his administration. “I said that’s enough for the family, you know why? It’s too painful for the family. My family has been through hell,” he told Fox News.
Trump’s daughter Ivanka was one of his senior advisers during his first term in office, while son-in-law Jared Kushner spearheaded the negotiation of the Abraham Accords – a series of landmark Arab-Israeli normalization agreements. His eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., campaigned extensively with Trump in the runup to Tuesday’s election.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is projected to win a 20th term in Congress, defeating longshot Republican challenger Bruce Lou by 80% to 20%, according to the Associated Press. Representing a solidly Democratic district in San Francisco, Pelosi led two impeachment inquiries against Trump during the president-elect’s first term in office. Pelosi regularly spoke out against Trump, and famously tore up a copy of his 2020 State of the Union speech as Trump was addressing Congress.
US intelligence agencies saw “no evidence of malicious activity impacting the security or integrity of election infrastructure,” Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director Jen Easterly has told reporters.
The FBI claimed before the election that Russia would attempt to meddle in the vote, and blamed a number of hoax bomb threats at polling stations on Tuesday on “Russian email domains.” Russia’s embassy in Washington dismissed these allegations as “malicious slander.”
Former President George W. Bush has congratulated Trump, saying in a statement that he is “praying for the success of our new leaders at all levels of government.”
While Bush and Trump are both Republicans, Bush complained in 2021 that the GOP had gotten more “isolationist, protectionist and, to a certain extent, nativist” under Trump’s leadership. Trump, who fiercely condemned the invasion of Iraq, replied that Bush had “a failed and uninspiring presidency.”
Donald Trump has yet to receive a concession call from Kamala Harris or a message of congratulations from Joe Biden, Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt has told NBC News.
Harris did not address her supporters on election night, but is expected to make a speech at Howard University in Washington, DC later on Wednesday. She held an election watch party at her alma mater on Tuesday, which dissipated as it became clear she would be defeated by Trump.
Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski has told reporters that he respects the decision of the American people, and that “Poland’s foreign policy, which relies on maintaining political contacts with the Democrats as well as the Republicans, has been validated.”
Responding to claims that Prime Minister Donald Tusk favored Harris, Sikorski said that “regardless of who wins… the attention and resources of the US are shifting” away from Europe and “to its rivalry with China.”
“The United States is unable to fight two wars simultaneously and, therefore, we have an obligation to our citizens to start taking security and defense seriously,” he added.
Former Republican Representative Liz Cheney has called on Americans to accept the results of the election “whether we like the outcome or not.”
Cheney, a hawkish neoconservative whose father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, was instrumental in building the case for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, campaigned alongside Harris, urging Republicans to cross party lines and support the Democrat.
China’s “policy towards the US is consistent,” and Beijing will “continue to view and handle China-US relations in accordance with the principles of mutual respect, peaceful co-existence and win-win cooperation,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning has told reporters.
Trump imposed heavy tariffs on Chinese imports during his first term in office, a policy that President Joe Biden’s administration maintained and Trump is widely expected to expand.
Donald Trump’s first actions in office will be to “get back to drilling” for oil and gas, and to reinstate the restrictive border policies lifted by President Joe Biden, senior aide Jason Miller has told NBC News.
“All of the secure border policies that we had in place with President Trump, he can simply flip the switch and put those back in place just like they were before. They didn't need an act of Congress,” Miller told NBC, referring to Trump’s heavy use of executive orders to close the US-Mexico border.
US stocks have soared during pre-market trading in the hours since Donald Trump’s victory. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average are up 1,346 points or 3.2%, S&P 500 futures are up 2.2%, while the NASDAQ 100 is up 1.63%. The Dow has not risen by more than 1,000 points in a single day since November 2022.
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has congratulated Trump, telling reporters that his compatriots “respect the choice of the American people.” Fico, a self-described leftist, called Trump’s victory “a defeat of liberal and progressivist ideas,” and said he expects the Republican to focus on domestic economic issues.
Fico is a staunch opponent of providing military aid to Ukraine, and, like Trump, has repeatedly called for a diplomatic end to the conflict between Kiev and Moscow. “Everybody is waiting for the first steps in regard to the war in Ukraine,” he said.
For the first time in modern history, self-identified independents outnumbered Democrats at the polls and were tied with Republicans at 34% of the electorate, according to exit polling data from Edison Research. The proportion of independents is the highest since Edison began conducting research in 2004, and represents an eight-point increase since 2020, when independents made up only 26% of voters.
Republican Senate candidate Tim Sheehy has defeated incumbent Democrat Jon Tester in Montana by 53% to 45.2%, adding another seat to the Republican Party’s growing majority in the upper house of Congress, the Associated Press has reported.
An establishment Democrat in a deep red state, Tester was first elected to the Senate in 2006 and has served three terms in office.
His defeat brings to three the number of Senate seats flipped by the GOP, with the party now holding a 52-42 majority. Six races remain to be called.
US presidential elections are of no significance to Iran, government spokeswoman Fatemeh Mohajerani has said, signaling that Tehran expects no policy change from Washington regardless of the outcome.
“The election of the American president has nothing to do with us. The general policies of America and Iran are fixed… There is no change in people’s livelihood and it doesn’t matter much who becomes the president in America,” she said, as quoted by Tasnim.
Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu has said his country and the US share a strong partnership based on mutual respect, goodwill, and understanding.
“I look forward to strengthening our cooperation, address mutual challenges and work towards advancing global peace and prosperity.” He wrote on X.
Taking to X, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said he is looking forward to strengthening relations between the two countries during Trump’s new term, as he congratulated the Republican on his victory.
The US could contribute to the settlement of the Ukraine conflict because Washington is the one fueling it, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. However, “this cannot be achieved overnight,” he noted, adding that any prospects in this regard would become clearer when the new US president is sworn in in January.
The future of Russian-US relations depends solely on the actions of the new administration in Washington, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said, adding that relations between the two powers have reached an all-time low and can hardly deteriorate any further. At the same time, he said, Moscow remains “open to contacts and dialogue.”
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has joined many other world leaders in congratulating Trump on his likely victory.
“Under your strong leadership, the future of the ROK-U.S. alliance and America will shine brighter. Look forward to working closely with you,” he wrote on X.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said he does not know whether Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to congratulate Trump on his apparent election victory. “Let’s not forget that we are talking about a hostile state that is directly and indirectly involved in the war against our country,” he explained.
Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani has congratulated Donald Trump on his likely victory, wishing him all the best during his new term.
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has congratulated Trump on his “historic election victory.” Starmer said he was certain that the two allied nations, united by a “special relationship,” would continue to defend shared values of freedom and democracy.
British Foreign Secretary and Labor MP David Lammy echoed the message, insisting that the UK “has no greater friend than the US.” In 2017, however, Lammy, then an opposition MP, made headlines after publicly calling then-President Trump a “racist Ku Klux Klan and Nazi sympathizer.”
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has congratulated his “friend” Donald Trump on his projected election victory after “a hard-fought battle.”
“In this new era that begins with the election of the American people, I hope that Türkiye-US relations will be strengthened, regional and global crises and wars, especially the Palestinian issue and the Russia-Ukraine war, will end, and I believe that more efforts will be made for a fairer world,” Erdogan wrote on X.
The Turkish leader expressed hope that the election result would be for the benefit of “the friendly and allied people of the United States and for all mankind.”
Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has praised what he described as Trump’s “impressive election victory,” recalling his talks in September with the Republican which focused on Kiev’s much-hyped ‘victory plan’ in the conflict with Russia. The roadmap, which was dismissed by Moscow, calls for the West to immediately invite Ukraine to join NATO and lift restrictions on the use of foreign-made long-range weapons for strikes against Russia, and reportedly received a cold reception among some of Kiev’s backers.
Zelensky said he appreciates Trump’s commitment to the “peace through strength” approach to foreign policy, expressing hope that this principle will help bring “just peace in Ukraine closer.”
“We look forward to an era of a strong United States of America under President Trump’s decisive leadership. We rely on continued strong bipartisan support for Ukraine in the United States,” he wrote on X, adding that he would like to meet with him personally.
Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer has also congratulated Trump on his likely victory, saying the US is “an important strategic partner for Austria.”
“We look forward to further expanding and strengthening our transatlantic relations to successfully address global challenges together,” he wrote on X.
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has stopped short of congratulating Trump on his apparent victory, but praised his deal-making skills, noting that this could spell bad news for Ukraine.
Medvedev argued that while the bipartisan anti-Russia consensus in the US is highly likely to persist, Trump is “a dyed-in-the-wool businessman [who] hates wasting money on all sorts of freeloaders and tagalongs: on wacko allies, misguided grandiose charity projects, and insatiable international organizations.”
“Toxic” Ukraine fits that description, Medvedev added. “The only question is, how much will Trump be forced to fork out on the war? He’s stubborn, but the system is more powerful,” the former Russian leader wrote on Telegram, referring to the Republican’s long-standing opposition to a blank-check Ukraine policy and a pledge to end the conflict between Moscow and Kiev within 24 hours if reelected.
Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, has congratulated Trump on his apparent victory, calling him the “President-Elect.” “May God bless and guide you,” Bukele wrote in a post on social media.
The leader of the French right-wing Eurosceptics, The Patriots, has welcomed Trump’s victory speech, particularly his words about the Americans finally taking back the control of their country. “Gorgeous! French people, let’s take back control too! Let’s break our chains, those of the EU, of NATO, of everything that steals our beautiful, great and incredible country!” Florian Philippot wrote on X.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi also congratulated Trump, praising what he called a “historic election victory” by “my friend.”
“As you build on the successes of your previous term, I look forward to renewing our collaboration to further strengthen the India-US Comprehensive Global and Strategic Partnership. Together, let’s work for the betterment of our people and to promote global peace, stability, and prosperity,” he said.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has congratulated Trump on what he described as “the biggest comeback in US political history.”
“Congratulations to President @realDonaldTrump on his enormous win. A much needed victory for the World!” Orban wrote on X.
French President Emmanuel Macron has also congratulated Trump on his apparent election victory, saying he is “ready to work” with him just as he did during his previous term. “With your convictions and with mine. With respect and ambition. For more peace and prosperity,” he added.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has congratulated Trump and his wife Melania on what he called “history’s greatest comeback.” “Your historic return to the White House offers a new beginning for America and a powerful recommitment to the great alliance between Israel and America. This is a huge victory!” Netanyahu wrote on X.
“We will be paying debt, reducing taxes, we will be doing what nobody else can do,” Trump has pledged.
“We want borders, security, education, a strong and powerful military that ideally we don’t have to use. We had no wars. I’m not going to start a war, I’m going to stop wars. We’re going to achieve the most incredible future for our people,” Trump has told his supporters.
”Many people have told me that God has spared my life for a reason and that was to save our country, and now we’re going to fulfill that mission,” Trump has said.
RFK Junior will help ‘make America healthy again,’ Trump has announced.
“I told him to leave the oil to me!” he exclaimed.
Trump proclaimed that the current rally would be his last, but said that he had now to focus on “something more important.” “Many people told me that God spared my life for a reason, and that reason was to save our country and to restore America to greatness, and now we’re going to fulfill that mission.”
UFC CEO Dana White has taken the microphone to cite ‘karma’ and pay tribute to Trump, to teh sounds of whoops from the audience.
Trump has extolled “super genius” Elon Musk, comparing the pincers that held the billionaire’s SpaceX rocket to holding a baby. He also lauded Musk for providing his StarLink satellite communications platform to the areas of North Carolina devastated by Hurricane Helene.
Trump has vowed to “turn our country into something very special,” adding that the US government would have to “seal up those borders” to prevent illegal migration.
J.D. Vance has addressed the Republican crowd over what he called “the greatest comeback in American political history.” Trump responded by claiming “I made a good choice,” in reference to his VP pick.
Trump has said he is leading in several battleground states, which would give him at least 315 electoral votes, enough to surpass the 270 threshold to win. He also touted his performance in the popular vote, calling it “great.”
“We have also won the popular vote” Trump has claimed, while the crowd chants “USA! USA!”
“America has given us a powerful and unprecedented mandate” Trump has claimed, referring to the likely results of the Senate election.
‘This was the greatest political movement of all time’ Trump has told the crowd. “Our country needs help, it needs help to heal’ he stated.
Trump has thanked the American people for electing him as 47th president of the Unitesd States.
Donald Trump has begun speaking to a crowd of his supporters at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in Florida.
Harris’s campaign co-chair announced earlier that the Democrat would not be speaking to her supporters at Howard University. However, a senior aide told CNN that the candidate is still “very likely” to speak in Washington, DC.
All polls in the US have closed in the 2024 election.
Trump is leading in Alaska, where polls have closed and an estimated 15,2 percent of votes have been counted, CNN has reported.
3 electoral votes are at stake in the state. Trump won Alaska by 10.1 points in 2020. This is the first time Alaskans will use ranked-choice voting in a presidential contest.
Former President Donald Trump has won Georgia, CNN and NBC News have projected, scoring a victory in a key battleground state that his campaign focused on as a must-win after narrowly losing it in 2020.
Following Joe Biden’s victory in the state in 2020, this is a big win for the Republicans as they try to restore the state’s status as a Republican stronghold.
Trump’s victory in Georgia over Vice President Kamala Harris does not secure a path back to the White House, but it puts him in a strong position if he can flip several other swing states that Biden won four years ago.
Biden was first the Democratic candidate to carry the state since Bill Clinton in 1992. Trump won it in 2016.
Elon Musk, the wealthiest man in the world, is spending election night with Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. The owner of Tesla and X has actively campaigned for the Republican candidate in swing states across the country.
Earlier, he voted in Cameron County, Texas, where some of his companies are based, before heading to Florida.
Later in the evening, he wrote on X, “Game, set and match,” apparently hinting that Trump will win.
The blockchain-based prediction platform Polymarket is leaning heavily toward Trump, with 97% odds that he will win, compared to 3% for Harris, as of around 11:45pm EST.
Donald Trump is watching the presidential election results at his Palm Beach residence Mar-a-Lago, accompanied by family and friends, including billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk, UFC president Dana White, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Nigel Farage, Caitlin Jenner, and the son of former Brazilian president Eduardo Bolsonaro, among many others, according to media reports and footage circulating on social media.
Victory in North Carolina has opened up multiple paths for Trump to reach the winning threshold of 270 electoral votes. It will be enough for him to win Georgia and Pennsylvania, or Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin, or other combinations of swing states where he currently has a slight advantage as the vote counting continues.
Vice President Kamala Harris has reportedly won Virginia, adding 13 electoral votes to her tally which now stands at 205.
Donald Trump has won the battleground state of North Carolina, taking the state’s 16 electoral votes and bringing his total to at least 230, the Associated Press has projected. The New York Times has also called the state for Trump. He is leading by over 130,000 votes with nearly 90% of the expected votes counted.
Donald Trump is “slightly favored” to win in 6 of the 7 swing states, according to the latest projections by the Washington Post.
In Georgia and North Carolina, where roughly 90% of the votes have already been counted, the former president is leading by 2.7 points. In Pennsylvania, with 76% of the ballots tallied, his lead has increased to 3.1 points.
Trump is also leading by 2.8 points in Wisconsin, where authorities have yet to count some 35% of the votes cast. He is also barely ahead in Arizona, with a 0.2 point lead and roughly half of the votes still outstanding. Michigan has so far counted only around a third of its votes, but Trump’s lead there is nearly 6.5 points. The only swing state that has yet to report any results is Nevada.
Polls have closed in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington state – as well as in California, which boasts the largest number of electoral votes in the nation. Kamala Harris is guaranteed to win the deeply blue state’s 54 votes, bringing her total to at least 179.
Donald Trump’s son Barron, who turned 18 this year, has cast his vote in the US presidential election for the first time, according to a photo shared by his mother, former First Lady Melania Trump.
Donald Trump is guaranteed at least 210 electoral votes, while Kamala Harris is still behind at 113, AP has projected. 270 electoral college votes are needed to win the presidency, out of a total of 538.
The chance of Donald Trump winning the US presidential election has grown to 88%, the New York Times has reported. The newspaper currently predicts the Republican will win in all of the seven swing states.
With roughly half of the votes now counted in the key battleground state of Pennsylvania, former president Trump has pulled ahead of Vice President Harris, who had an early lead. Trump is currently beating Harris, 50.6% to 48.5%, but the race is still too early to call, with election authorities urging patience as the count continues.
Multiple US outlets have called races in more states. Donald Trump is currently projected to have 198 electoral votes, while Kamala Harris is set to secure 99, according to AP. Meanwhile, CNN is giving Trump 172 votes and 81 to Harris.
The New York Times has predicted that Trump has a 79% chance of winning the 2024 Presidential election, based on current polling data and the votes counted thus far. The newspaper has estimated the former president will win 295 electoral college votes, compared to Harris’ 243.
US media are being cautious about making projections for the key battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. However, according to early vote counts, Donald Trump is leading in at least two swing states.
Trump has a strong lead in Georgia, with 52.4% to 47%, but Harris could still win, as just over 75% of the votes have been counted so far, according to the Washington Post. The former president is also favored to win North Carolina, where he now has 51.1% compared to Harris’s 47.8%, with around 60% of the votes counted.
Meanwhile, in Wisconsin, approximately 30% of the votes have been counted, and Harris is leading Trump by one percentage point, making that race too early to call. In Pennsylvania, the Vice President has a slightly bigger lead of two points, but the state has yet to count over 70% of the ballots. In Michigan, Harris leads Trump by almost five percentage points, but only 15% of the vote is in so far.
Polls have now closed in the battleground state of Nevada, as well as in Utah and Montana.
Pennsylvania election officials have urged patience as the vote count continues in the key battleground state. Governor Josh Shapiro has said that his state’s goal is to count every eligible vote accurately, which will take time. The state’s top elections official, Al Schmidt, has said that in-person turnout numbers will not be available Tuesday night.
Donald Trump is projected to win 178 electoral votes, while Kamala Harris is trailing with 99 projected votes, according to the latest Associated Press predictions released after another batch of mostly deep red or blue states, which are highly unlikely to flip, closed their polls.
Donald Trump’s approval ratings have slipped over the past four years, according to Edison Research exit polls. Support for the former president has dropped by two percentage points since 2020, now standing at 46%, the survey said.
At the same time, Kamala Harris has scored lower than Joe Biden during the 2020 election. According to the poll, Harris has the support of 48% of respondents, while Biden had 52% four years ago.
Voting has wrapped up in another set of states, with polls now closed in Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
Donald Trump has crossed the symbolic threshold of a projected 100 electoral votes, according to media polls released after polls closed in more than half of the US, including in four of the seven crucial swing states. Kamala Harris is on track to secure at least 71 votes.
Kamala Harris is set to win New Jersey’s 14 electoral votes, while Donald Trump will secure six votes from the heavily Republican state of Arkansas, according to new projections by AP.
At least 32 of the 177 voting stations in Georgia’s Fulton County received false bomb threats over the course of the Election Day, county Police Chief W. Wade Yates has claimed. Authorities briefly shut down five of the locations, and the voting hours there were extended for between 10-45 minutes.
Vice President Kamala Harris is set to win Connecticut with its seven electoral votes, Maryland’s ten electoral votes, and four votes from Rhode Island, according to AP projections. Harris is also expected to win Massachusetts with its 11 electoral votes.
Donald Trump is expected to win Florida, South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Oklahoma and Tennessee, adding another 72 electoral votes to his tally, according to AP.
The wife of US President Joe Biden, Jill Biden, has raised eyebrows after casting a ballot while wearing a crimson dress. Red is typically associated with Trump’s MAGA movement and is considered a traditional Republican party color.
Polls have now closed in over a dozen eastern states, including Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Tennessee, as well as in Washington, DC.
Donald Trump has said that a win in Pennsylvania would mean a likely victory in the presidential election as a whole. The former president called in to the Philadelphia WPHT radio station urging all of its listeners to “get off the phone and run down and vote and let your ratings go to zero for an hour.”
“If we win Pennsylvania, we win the whole deal, “Trump said.
Americans are also voting for the entire House of Representatives, as well as a third of the Senate. The first House race to be called is Kentucky’s 4th congressional district, where the long-term Republican incumbent Thomas Massie has secured re-election. Massie, whose insistence on strict constitutionalism and libertarian leanings have put him at odds with both Democrats and then President Donald Trump over the years, ran unopposed.
The Associated Press has called another state for Donald Trump, projecting that the former president will win West Virginia’s four electoral votes.
Polls have closed in another three states, including the battleground of North Carolina, as well as West Virginia and Ohio.
Donald Trump has won in the conservative states of Indiana and Kentucky, adding 11 and eight electoral votes to his tally respectively, according to the Associated Press.
Meanwhile, Vice President Kamala Harris has likely won the Democratic stronghold of Vermont, getting three electoral votes, according to AP.
Donald Trump has a more favorable rating than Kamala Harris in Pennsylvania, according to the preliminary results of an Edison Research exit poll. As per the survey, 47% of voters in the state said they had a positive view of Trump, compared with 46% who said they supported Harris.
Conversely, 51% of poll respondents said they had an unfavorable view of the Republican presidential candidate, as opposed to 53% who said they disliked the Democratic nominee.
Polls have now closed in the key swing state of Georgia, as well as in South Carolina, Vermont and Virginia. The voting has also wrapped up in the remaining parts of Indiana and Kentucky.
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Milwaukee election officials will be forced to recount roughly 30,000 absentee ballots, city authorities have told reporters, according to AP. The recount was ordered after observers reportedly noticed that panels were not properly closed and sealed on multiple voting machines, revealing their power switches.
“It’s just out of an abundance of caution,” city spokesman Jeff Flemming has announced. “We have no reason to believe that there was any compromise to any of the machines. But because they were not fully sealed, human error, and not fully sealed, we are going to zero them all out again, the 13 machines around, and then re-run the ballots that had already been processed,” he added.
Trump is leading in Indiana with 71.5% against Harris’ 26.7%, according to the Associated Press, with just under 1% of ballots in the state counted so far. The former US president is also winning with 63.4% in Kentucky, where some 2% of votes have been processed, the outlet has claimed.
A suspicious white substance has been found on a ballot envelope in Salt Lake County, Utah. However, police have tested it and said it is not harmful, according to AP.
“This incident will be fully investigated. Anyone attempting to intimidate election workers or disrupt election administration in any way can expect to face criminal charges,” said Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson, who is overseeing the election statewide.
The first polls have closed in parts of Indiana and in Kentucky, with the voting expected to finish all parts of the two states in an hour.
Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes has confirmed that false bomb threats impacted several polling locations in Navajo County earlier in the day.
”These are unsubstantiated threats, we have no reason to believe that any of our voters or any of our polling places are in any sort of jeopardy,” Fontes said.
Elon Musk’s PAC has reportedly sent out an “emergency squad” to Pennsylvania to help “rescue votes” for Trump, particularly looking to aid his voters who had filled out their initial ballots with errors, the Telegraph has reported.
Less than 25 percent of American voters are “enthusiastic” or “satisfied” with the way things are going in the country – while more than 7 in 10 voters said they are either “dissatisfied” or “angry” about the state of the union, according to a CNN exit poll. The majority of respondents, or roughly 6 in 10, said they disapprove of President Joe Biden’s performance.
There have already been a lot of reports of alleged voter fraud in Philadelphia, according to former President Donald Trump. The Republican nominee has been neck and neck with Democratic rival Kamala Harris in the polls, particularly in battleground states such as Pennsylvania.
Writing on his Truth Social account on Tuesday, Trump stated that there is “a lot of talk about massive CHEATING in Philadelphia,” without elaborating. “Law enforcement coming,” he warned.
Earlier Trump published a video on his social media platforms stating that Republicans are doing “really well,” calling on his supporters to stay in line and make sure they “get through and vote.”
“We’re gonna have a big victory tonight,” the former president said.
The White House has called an early travel and photo lid for the day, meaning that President Joe Biden is not expected to make any public appearances on Election Day, unless something unforeseen forces him to change schedule.
Google has said it was working to “fix” a glitch after some voters complained that its search is returning different results for “where can I vote for Harris” and “where can I vote for Trump.” The results for Trump showed only news articles, while the Harris query returned a window with a map to help find a polling station.
”The ‘where to vote’ panel is triggering for some specific searches because Harris is also the name of a county in TX. Happens for ‘Vance’ too because it’s also the name of a county. Fix is coming. Note very few people actually search for voting places this way,” Google said in a post on its official X account.
Elon Musk has cast his ballot in the 2024 US Presidential election. The billionaire shared a photo on his official X account stating that he had voted in Cameron County, Texas, which is home to the SpaceX headquarters.
In his post, Musk did not state who he voted for but had previously endorsed former President Donald Trump and has been campaigning for him over the past several weeks. Trump has said that if he wins the election, he would put Musk in charge of cutting down government spending.
Some voters in Prince George’s County, Maryland, have complained that voting machines “switched” their votes from Vice President Kamala Harris to Green Party nominee Jill Stein, The Washington Post reports. However, local election officials have insisted that there was no security breach and the issue apparently stems from the layout in which the names of presidential candidates appear on the machines. They urged voters to review their selections carefully as they click through different ballot screens.
Regardless of the outcome of the presidential election, the United States will need to overcome its internal societal divides, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova told RT.
”I think that the main challenge for America as a nation right now is ensuring that these results are accepted by society,” Zakharova said. “You see how people are literally ready to attack each other, beat each other, just because the other person wears symbols or campaigns for the politician they trust.”
Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Kellyanne Conway has expressed concerns over the Republican presidential candidate’s security on election day. Speaking to Politico, the Republican pollster and corporate consultant said that her “main worry is that President Trump, his family and those around him remain safe.”
Voters hold the line in swing states (PHOTOS)
High election-day turnout has been reported in the battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Recent polling shows Donald Trump with a narrow lead over Kamala Harris in all of these states except Michigan and Wisconsin.
Polls close at 7pm Eastern Time in Georgia, 7.30pm in North Carolina, and 8pm in Pennsylvania. Arizona, Michigan, and Wisconsin follow at 9pm, while Nevada closes at 10pm.
The FBI has arrested two Michigan men for making election-related threats. 25-year-old Isaac Sissel was arrested in Ann Arbor on Tuesday for telling the agency that he planned on using a “stolen AR-15” to “carry out an attack against conservative Christian filth in the event Trump wins the election.”
46-year-old Christopher Pierce was arrested in Jackson after allegedly sending threatening emails to a political fundraising group. Pierce allegedly told the unnamed group that he and a group of “trained killers” would “find each and every one of your [expletive] organizees” and “turn you [expletive] inside out.”
The FBI has said that it is aware of “bomb threats to polling locations in several states, many of which appear to originate from Russian email domains.” Hours earlier, the agency identified Russia as “the most active threat” to the security of the election.
The US’ intelligence agencies have accused Russia of interfering in every US presidential election since 2016. Moscow has consistently denied and ridiculed the accusations.
The US will test-fire an intercontinental ballistic missile from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California hours after polls close in the Sunshine State on Tuesday night. The test has nothing to do with the election, and “was scheduled years in advance,” the US Space Force said in a statement.
During the test, the unarmed Minuteman III missile will travel more than 6,500 kilometers from Vandenberg to Kwajalein Atoll in the north Pacific Ocean, a journey that will take just over 22 minutes.
A polling station in Northville, Michigan, has been evacuated due to a gas leak, Fox 2 Detroit has reported. Voters in the Republican-leaning suburb of Detroit have been instructed to vote at a nearby school while technicians investigate the leak, the network added.
Donald Trump has said that he would concede defeat to Kamala Harris if he loses fairly. “If I lose an election, if it’s a fair election, I would be the first one to acknowledge it,” he told reporters in Florida, adding that “so far I think it’s been fair.”
Trump refused to concede to Joe Biden in 2020, maintaining that the current president won by fraud.
Elon Musk will watch the election results with Donald Trump at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago estate, the New York Times has reported, adding that the billionaire will be among a “small number” of Trump’s family and friends present.
Musk endorsed Trump in July and has since become one of the Republican candidate’s most prominent surrogates. Speaking to podcast host Joe Rogan on Monday, Musk described this year’s election as a “fork in the road of destiny,” claiming that unchecked immigration will result in permanent Democrat rule if Trump loses.
A Pennsylvania court has granted a court order extending voting in Cambria County by two hours, after voting machines broke down across the entire county. County officials blamed the problem on a “software malfunction,” while the Republican National Committee encouraged voters in the deep red county to stay in line and cast paper ballots until the error could be fixed.
Donald Trump’s campaign staff accept that the election will likely not be called on Tuesday night, but are hopeful that early results in several key states will tell them what to expect, CNN has reported, citing sources within the campaign.
Earlier on Tuesday, Trump told reporters that he is “very confident” he will win, but that “it’s gonna take a long time to certify.”
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has blamed Russia for false bomb threats at two polling stations near Atlanta. “We’ve heard some threats that were of Russian origin,” he told reporters. “They’re up to mischief, it seems, and they don’t want us to have a smooth, fair and accurate election.”
Raffensperger did not explain how he determined that the threats were connected with Russia.
Donald Trump and his wife, Melania Trump, have cast their votes in Palm Beach, Florida. Speaking to reporters afterwards, Trump reflected on running “a great campaign.”
Asked whether he had any regrets, Trump said “I can’t think of any, to be honest, to use her expression.”
Kamala Harris was excoriated by Republicans when she said last month that “there is not a thing that comes to mind” that she would have done differently than President Joe Biden over the last three years.
Trump then said that he is “very confident” that the election “won’t even be close.” The former president struck a different tone on Sunday, however, when he admitted that “bad things could happen,” and that he could lose the race.
Early results from a non-binding straw poll conducted in Guam show the US territory’s residents backing Harris over Trump by 49% to 46%. This represents a significant rightward shift for the territory, which chose Biden over Trump by 55% to 42% in 2020. Republicans are also favored to take control of the western Pacific island’s legislature for the first time since 2008, according to preliminary data from the Guam Election Commission.
Guam’s residents, like those of the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and US Virgin Islands, are citizens of the US, but cannot vote in presidential elections. As is the case in these territories and in the District of Columbia, Guam sends a non-voting delegate to Congress.
Republican candidate Kimberlyn King-Hinds is projected to become the Northern Mariana Islands’ delegate to the US Congress, with early results showing her leading Democrat contender Edwin Propst by roughly 38% to 34%, with independent candidate John Oliver Delos Reyes Gonzales trailing at around 20%.
The Northern Mariana Islands’ current Congressional delegate, Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan, has won every election since the position was established in 2008, running as either a Democrat or an independent.
Residents of the Northern Mariana Islands are US citizens, but cannot vote in presidential elections. Delegates from the territory to Congress can take part in debates, but cannot vote on legislation.
The US is deeply “polarized,” and the main challenge stemming from this election will be convincing the losing side to accept the results of the vote, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has told reporters.
”Do you remember how things ended [in 2020]?” Zakharova asked. “It ended with mass arrests and those who disagreed with the 2020 election results being labeled as internal terrorists by the US government.”
“This is a unique problem for the United States,” she noted. “People are unable to understand how to live together.”
There have not been any “national-level significant incidents impacting the security of our election infrastructure,” a senior official at the Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency has told reporters.
“We are tracking instances of extreme weather and other temporary infrastructure disruptions in certain areas of the country, but these are largely expected, routine and planned-for events,” Cait Conley said at a briefing on Tuesday.
Conley then claimed that “foreign actors” would likely attempt to manipulate the outcome of the election later on Tuesday, and in the coming days and weeks.
Voting machines have suffered a “software malfunction” and are broken down across Cambria County in Pennsylvania, local authorities have said. The Cambria County Board of Elections has called in IT specialists to address the problem, and filed a court order to extend voting by three hours, spokesman Ron Repak told local media.
With reports of malfunctioning machines coming from neighboring Bedford County, the Pennsylvania Department of State has told voters that they can submit paper ballots, which will be counted later on Tuesday.
Donald Trump has warned his supporters in a post on his Truth Social platform that “lines are going to be long,” urging them to “deliver your vote no matter how long it takes.”
Pro-Trump pundits and commenters have reported high turnout in the critical swing state of Pennsylvania, with male and rural voters – who are thought to favor Trump – dominating lines outside polling stations.
RealClearPolitics has predicted that Donald Trump will defeat Kamala Harris by 287 Electoral College votes to 251. In a final projection with no states counted as toss-ups, the news site’s map shows Trump taking the key swing states of Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania, but losing Michigan and Wisconsin to Harris.
RealClearPolitics has kept a running average of multiple different polls throughout the 2024 campaign. For more than two weeks, this average has shown Trump and Harris within less than a point of each other nationwide.
J.D. Vance, Donald Trump’s running mate, has cast his vote in Cincinnati, Ohio. Speaking to reporters afterwards, Vance said that “you never know until you know, but I feel good about this race.”
Ohio’s 17 Electoral College votes went to Trump in 2020, who defeated Biden by 53.3% to 45.2%. This year, polls show Trump leading Kamala Harris by a similar margin in the state.
Republican observers have been turned away from polling stations in eight Pennsylvania counties, Republican National Committee (RNC) chairman Michael Whatley has claimed on social media. Whatley said the GOP responded by deploying “roving attorneys” who managed to secure access for the Republican poll-watchers.
”Let this serve as a warning to anyone out there today who wants to interfere in a free, fair and transparent election process, WE ARE WATCHING & ready to take action,” RNC co-chair Lara Trump, Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law, said in a statement.
A bipartisan coalition of 51 US attorneys general has released a statement calling for a peaceful transfer of power regardless of the election’s result.
“We call upon every American to vote, participate in civil discourse, and, above all, respect the integrity of the democratic process. Let us come together after this election not divided by outcomes but united in our shared commitment to the rule of law and safety of all Americans. Violence has no place in the democratic process; we will exercise our authority to enforce the law against any illegal acts that threaten it,” it read.
The 2024 US presidential election will be close, Dr. Philani Mthembu, Executive Director at the South African Institute for Global Dialogue, has told RT. He added that in case of a Harris victory, the Democrat would continue the course charted by incumbent Joe Biden, but a potential Trump win may bring much more uncertainty to the table. “In terms of international relations landscape, it would be quite a big divergence between a Trump administration and a Harris administration,” he said.
Polling stations have opened across most of the US, with the swing states of Wisconsin and Iowa starting work at 8:00am Eastern Time (ET). Some polling stations opened even earlier, including those in the key battlegrounds of New Hampshire, Florida, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia, and Ohio. Most polls open in Nevada at 10:00am ET.
According to the University of Florida, as many as 83 million Americans voted early, with 45 million voting early in person and just under 38 million sending in mail ballots. As of 2022, there were 161 million registered voters in the US.
Kamala Harris has been caught on camera asking voters in the swing state of Pennsylvania to stage a ‘door knock’ video, according to a clip circulating on social media. The Democrat is seen making a request to a couple in Pittsburgh, asking them to go inside their house. While the family happily obliged, the video caused an uproar on social media, particularly among Trump supporters.
The ancestral village of Kamala Harris in India has prayed for a victory for the Democrat in the US presidential election, several media outlets have reported. According to AP, a temple in Thulasendrapuram in southern India resonated with Sanskrit and Tamil hymns, with a priestess lighting a lamp in front of a Hindu deity.
The small village gained international prominence after Harris became vice president in the Biden administration, which was celebrated with a community festival. Harris is connected to the village through her maternal grandfather, who was born there more than 100 years ago.
The first results of the 2024 US presidential race have come in, with Donald Trump and Kamala Harris tied in the tiny town of Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, which has just six registered voters. Both candidates received three votes, in a community known for its unique tradition in which all voters gather after midnight on election day when the polls open.
Donald Trump has expressed confidence that he will win the presidential election, citing what he called “a substantial lead” over Kamala Harris in the race for the White House. However, in an interview with ABC News, the Republican conceded that “bad things could happen” and that he could still lose.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, whom Kamala Harris has selected as her running mate, has said he is disappointed that the current White House race turned out to be so close.
In an interview with The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Walz said that the contrast between Harris and her Republican rival Donald Trump could not be more obvious. “It disappoints me, I think, because I think that the choice is so stark, but it’s not surprising,” he said, suggesting that the US “is really divided.”
American podcaster Joe Rogan has endorsed Donald Trump after releasing a three-hour interview with Elon Musk. In a post on X, Rogan said the Tesla CEO “makes what I think is the most compelling case for Trump you’ll hear, and I agree with him every step of the way”.
“For the record, yes, that’s an endorsement of Trump,” he added.
A judge in Pennsylvania has refused to block an election giveaway launched by X owner and Trump supporter Elon Musk, who pledged $1 million each day to a swing state resident who signs a petition backing values promoted by the former president.
According to the Hill, Angelo Foglietta announced the decision in a one-page order with no explanation, adding that the reasoning would be made in writing separately. He earlier stated, as quoted by Reuters, that he would place the lawsuit against Musk on hold while a federal court considers whether to take up the case.
US elections offices have beefed up their security measures, with media outlets reporting that many have trained their staff in “de-escalation tactics” in anticipation of possible violence. Hundreds of offices have reportedly been reinforced with bullet-proof glass and steel doors.
In Arizona’s Maricopa County, Sheriff Russ Skinner said snipers would be posted on rooftops, if necessary, according to the Washington Post. Some states are also said to have distributed panic buttons for poll workers.
A final poll from NBC News on Sunday showed Harris and Trump both on 49%, with only 2% of respondents still unsure of their choice. If margins are as close as polls predict, NBC News reported that it could take “as long as a week” for its Decision Desk to name a winner.
“The days of projecting a winner on election night itself are almost certainly over,” the outlet said.
Trump, however, has predicted that the winner will be declared on election night, telling ABC news that he has “a substantial lead” over Harris.
According to data from the University of Florida’s Election Lab, some 78 million Americans had already cast their ballots as of Monday morning. Of those early voters, the majority (54%) were women. Approximately 41% of early voters were registered Democrats, while 39% were Republicans.
Around 42.6 million of the pre-election-day ballots were cast in person, while 35.3 million were returned by mail.
Kamala Harris spent Monday campaigning in Pennsylvania, a battleground state where 19 coveted Electoral College votes are up for grabs. Former President Trump, meanwhile, held four rallies across North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Michigan.
On Sunday, Trump told a rally in Pennsylvania that he should “never have left” the White House in January 2021. The former president has never admitted to losing the 2020 election to Biden and said the US had become “a failed country” under the Democrats.
Trump supporters determined to stop the certification of the election for Biden ultimately stormed the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, in an event that the Democrats characterized as an “insurrection.”