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Election Day 2024 live results: Trump projected to win the presidency

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

With projections made in most states across the country, ABC has projected that former President Donald Trump will win the high-stakes presidential match-up against Vice President Kamala Harris. Early Wednesday morning, Trump secured enough Electoral College votes to set himself up for a second presidency, including by flipping the key swing states of Georgia, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. Plus, Republicans are set up to take back the Senate majority, with at least 51 seats locked down — while control of the House remained up in the air.

Throughout the evening and into Wednesday morning, reporters from 538 followed along every step of the way with live updates, analysis and commentary on these races and all the others down the ballot. Follow our live election-night coverage in full below.

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ByHolly Fuong and Aaron Bycoffe
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:

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ByAmina Brown
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.

West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice checks out the stage with his dog, "Babydog," before the Republican National Convention, July 16, 2024, in Milwaukee.
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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.

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ByNathaniel Rakich
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.

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ByDan Hopkins
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.