The final electoral college count is Trump: 312, Harris: 226.
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.
This election has key commonalities with 1968 -- an unpopular Democratic incumbent steps aside in the election year, the replacement is his vice president who doesn't contest primaries but sews up the nomination, and the Democratic Party is divided by a war abroad. Meanwhile, the Republican candidate had previously lost a presidential election. But instead of Richard Nixon versus Hubert Humphrey, it's Trump versus Harris.
The West Coast remains blue, as ABC News has projected that Harris will win Washington state, joining Oregon and California in her camp. But these were always states that were likely to go for Harris.
2024 Election: Kamala Harris projected to win Oregon, Washington, Connecticut
ABC News is projecting that Trump is expecting to win North Carolina's 16 electoral votes. This is one of several swing states to watch tonight, as it shifted from a "lean Republican" to a "toss-up" state after Harris joined the presidential race.
The state has been competitive in presidential years past. In 2016, Trump narrowly won North Carolina by roughly four percentage points. But in 2020, the former president's margin narrowed to just 1 percentage point. As Election Day votes continue to trickle in, and with 89% of the expected vote in, Trump leads Harris, 51% to 48%.
As of 11:30 p.m. Eastern with 89% of the expected vote reported, ABC News has called the election for Ohio's Senate seat for Republican Bernie Moreno.
He currently leads incumbent Sherrod Brown by 5 points. That will make for a pretty big overperformance of the fundamentals and polls in the State; our final forecast had the state 1 point off of Lean Moreno.
