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Last Updated: November 5, 2024, 11:56 PM EST

In the high-stakes presidential match-up between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, results have been projected in several of the key swing states, and Trump has secured enough Electoral College votes to appear on track for a second presidency.

Beyond the presidential race, also voters hit the polls around the country Tuesday and cast ballots to decide who controls not only the White House, but also Congress, state and local governments.

Reporters from 538 and ABC News are following along every step of the way with live updates, analysis and commentary on the results. Keep up to date with our full live blog below.

Nov 05, 2024, 7:00 PM EST

Polls closing at 7 p.m.

It's now 7 p.m. Eastern, which means polls in our first bunch of states have now fully closed! That means we may get our first projections of the evening shortly. Keep an eye out as results roll in from Indiana and Kentucky (where many polls closed at 6 p.m. Eastern), along with all of Georgia, South Carolina, Vermont and Virginia. Here are our forecasts for the races in all of those states:

Many polling places are also closing in Florida and New Hampshire. Stay tuned for our forecasts in those states when they've fully closed in an hour.

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Nov 05, 2024, 6:55 PM EST

The mood in Milwaukee

We won't know much until later, of course, but the vibe in Milwaukee has very much been one of mobilization, with Democrats in particular determined not to make the same perceived mistakes that the Clinton campaign made in 2016. Turnout in Milwaukee, a Democratic city with a large Black population, has been lower than in the rest of the state in recent elections. With a competitive Senate race and the polls very close in the presidential race, this has been a source of concern for Democrats. But it looks like there's been a lot of energy going into addressing this turnout gap.

Here's the anecdotal view from the ground as we wait for better data: I spent a little time in a coffee shop today, and I might have been the only one who wasn't out canvassing. One person (in a Harris shirt) went around the coffee shop to make sure everyone had voted. On Saturday, I heard reports that the northwest side of the city, a predominantly African American area, had been so thoroughly canvassed by early afternoon that the volunteers were sent home or to other areas. Friends working the polls in the city have suggested a lot of activity and new registrations.

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Nov 05, 2024, 6:45 PM EST

Careful making comparisons to 2020 when we don't have most of the vote yet

I've been seeing some posts on X making the rounds that emphasize how Trump is performing somewhat worse in most of the 30 or so Indiana and Kentucky counties that have reported at least some of their vote tally. But not a single one of those counties has yet reported more than two-thirds of its expected vote, and many of those counties' tallies include a large percentage or at least some substantial number of absentee/mail-in ballots, which we know are somewhat more Democratic than votes cast on Election Day. We need more votes before we can say something more substantial about what's happening in these places.y

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Nov 05, 2024, 6:42 PM EST

Read reports of students' on-campus voting with caution

Here at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, turnout at the on-campus precincts is way up from 2020, and I know of at least a few students who skipped class to wait on the hour-long lines. But it's worth be cautious about how you interpret those results.

For one thing, the COVID-19 pandemic meant that there were far fewer students on campus four years ago, so it's hard to make direct comparisons. And we can't necessarily read these results as representative of the college-aged demographic: Fewer than half of 18- to 24-year-olds are enrolled in colleges, and some of those students live at home or off campus. So reports from campuses are important, but they don't tell us how young voters are reacting in general.