Nov 05, 2024, 7:13 PM EST
Florida is counting fast
Florida is known for counting its votes fast, and it's living up to the billing tonight: One-third of the expected vote is already in. Trump is at 51%, and Harris is at 48%.
Election 2024 updates: With Arizona, Trump sweeps all 7 swing states
The final electoral college count is Trump: 312, Harris: 226.
By538 and ABC News 
Last Updated: November 9, 2024, 9:00 PM EST
Just days after former President Donald Trump was projected to have won the presidency, Trump's transition team operation has begun, with transition co-chairs confirming that he will be selecting personnel to serve under his leadership in the coming days.
Trump is also the projected winner in Arizona, a state the former president flipped after losing it to Joe Biden in 2020.
Trump's projected win in the vital swing state marks a sweep of the battleground states.
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Here's how the news is developing.
Nov 05, 2024, 7:09 PM EST
Indiana projected for Trump
ABC News is projecting that Trump is expected to win Indiana’s 11 electoral votes. That is not a surprise. In previous elections, he won the state by 57% to 38% over Clinton in 2016, and 55 to 32 over Biden in 2020.
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2024 Election: Donald Trump projected to win Indiana
Donald Trump will win Indiana, ABC News projects.
Nov 05, 2024, 7:01 PM EST
We have our first presidential race projections of the night
Now that all polls have closed in Vermont and Kentucky, ABC News is projecting that Harris will win Vermont's three electoral votes, and that Trump will win Kentucky's eight votes. Of course, this should come as no surprise; according to the final 538 forecast in these two states, there was a less than 1 in 100 chance of either state flipping its support from the party it backed in 2020.
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2024 Election: Kentucky and Vermont projections
Donald Trump will win Kentucky, and Kamala Harris will win Vermont, ABC News projects.
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.
