Nov 05, 2024, 7:30 PM EST
Polls closing at 7:30 p.m.
It's now 7:30 p.m. Eastern, and all polling places in North Carolina, Ohio and West Virginia have closed. Here are our forecasts for the races in those states:
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, 7:28 PM EST
Babydog goes to D.C.
With ABC News projecting a win for Justice in the West Virginia Senate race, we can safely say that Jim Justice's English Bulldog, Babydog, is heading to D.C.
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While she's not a newcomer to the political stage, having featured in Justice's appearance at the RNC, this will be her biggest move yet. And if you need a quick break from the barrage of election news, learn more about the top dogs of politics with 538's political dog quiz.
Nov 05, 2024, 7:26 PM EST
Miami-Dade County might be shifting right again
It's always a big moment on election night when massive Miami-Dade County in Florida reports its first batch of votes — and it just did. With 70% of the expected vote counted in the county, Trump is at 55% and Harris is at 44%. If that holds, it would be another huge shift rightward for the heavily Hispanic county. It voted for Biden by 7 points in 2020.
Nov 05, 2024, 7:20 PM EST
The order in which votes are counted is not the order in which they are cast
As election nerds, it's easy to slip into horse-race language about how one county "helped this candidate come from behind" or "put that candidate over the top." It's important, though, to remember that there is no special meaning to the order in which votes are counted — even as we watch results pour in from Kentucky, this is not a horse race. In some cases, the order in which votes are cast is the result of deliberate policy decisions, such as Pennsylvania's policy of not pre-canvassing (or counting) mail-in ballots prior to Election Day. Watching election returns is more like watching a football game's highlights after they've been spliced into a random order — and without the scoreboard to guide us.
