Election 2024 updates: With Arizona, Trump sweeps all 7 swing states

The final electoral college count is Trump: 312, Harris: 226.

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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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Nov 05, 2024, 8:15 PM EST

Republicans projected to take West Virginia's Governor's race

Shocking no one, ABC News projects that Republican Patrick Morrisey has won the West Virginia gubernatorial race.

Patrick Morrisey, West Virginia attorney general, is seen in Fiserv Forum on the first day of Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wis. July 15, 2024.
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Nov 05, 2024, 8:12 PM EST

Chris Murphy projected to win a third term in the Senate

ABC News is projecting that two-term incumbent Connecticut senator Chris Murphy will (perhaps expectedly) go back to the chamber for a third term.

Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy speaks during a debate with Republican senate candidate Matt Corey, Oct 30, 2024, in New Haven, Conn.
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Nov 05, 2024, 8:11 PM EST

Early marker in Virginia suggests Harris leads there, but may have reason to worry

Loudoun County outside of the nation's capitol contributed the third-largest share of Virginia's statewide vote in 2020 (4.4%), and with 95% of its expected vote reporting, Harris clearly leads there by about 16 points, 56% to 40%. That puts her ahead our benchmark for her in Loudoun (Harris +12), but puts her well behind Biden's 25-point margin there in 2020. So on the one hand, Harris may be in a position to win Virginia. However, Loudoun is a highly affluent, highly educated county — the kind of place Harris may need to improve on nationally if she's losing ground in other sorts of places. It is true, however, that Loudoun took a sharp turn to the right in the state's 2021 gubernatorial election, which the Democratic nominee carried by only 11 points en route to a 2-point loss statewide. So we'll want to keep seeing data from other spots before saying Loudoun is a signal of a national trend.

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Nov 05, 2024, 8:11 PM EST

Maryland, Massachusetts, and Washington, D.C. go to Harris

ABC News is projecting that Harris is expected to win Washington D.C., Maryland, and Massachusetts. That will add 24 electoral college votes to her column, but these results shouldn’t be a surprise — both states, and Washington D.C., are overwhelming Democratic.