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.
ABC News projects that Harris will win Virginia's 13 electoral votes. With 86% of the expected vote reporting, she leads by not quite 5 points. However, that lead is half of what Biden carried the state by in 2020, part of her general underperformance of Biden across the country.
In 2008, Barack Obama picked up North Carolina's Electoral College votes, and with growth in Charlotte and the Research Triangle, it seemed like the state could be increasingly competitive. But in 2012, it was a rare bright spot for Republicans, and it has remained just outside the Democrats' reach since then, both in Senate and presidential races. Even as Democrats were gaining votes among newcomers to the state, they were shedding the support of the more ancestral Democrats who had put folks like John Edwards in the Senate.
Mid-cycle redistricting in New York made the central-upstate 22nd District a bit more Democratic, to the detriment of Republican Rep. Brandon Williams. ABC News projects that Democratic state Sen. John Mannion will defeat Williams to give Democrats their second pickup of the night, joining Alabama's 2nd. However, the GOP has picked up three Democratic-held seats in North Carolina, thanks to a new Republican drawn congressional map.
ABC News projects Trump will win North Carolina's 16 electoral votes. Here's where things stand county-by-county as-of 11:39 p.m. Eastern with 89% of the expected vote reporting.
2024 Election: Donald Trump projected to win North Carolina
