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 has projected that Democratic Rep. Chris Deluzio will win reelection in Pennsylvania's 17th District, which takes in much of the turf around Pittsburgh. The blue-leaning seat will remain in the Democratic column, but Republicans might have a chance of flipping two eastern Pennsylvania seats, the 7th and 8th, which we are keeping a close eye on.
Iowa’s 1st Congressional District, currently represented by Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks, is rated as a toss-up in our forecast, but Miller-Meeks has had an edge throughout the campaign.
However, things appear to be coming down to the wire: with 90 percent of the expected vote reporting, Miller-Meeks is behind by two points, 49-51, to challenger Christina Bohannan, a former state representative who also ran against Miller-Meeks in 2022. Notably, Bohannan is running ahead of Harris in every single county in the district, and there’s very little vote outstanding in the counties that have reported so far. The bright spot for Miller-Meeks: Two Republican-leaning counties, Jasper and Washington, have yet to report any votes, and those two counties could net her just enough to make up the gap.
This has obviously been a rough night for Democrats so far, with a Sherrod Brown loss in Ohio and Senate hopes dashed in Texas and Florida. But the real contest for the presidency is just beginning, with one competitive state -- North Carolina -- projected for Trump, and the rest still being counted. Expectations that this would be a close race seem likely to be fulfilled, though it's possible that this will be the red wave that was anticipated in 2022.
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.
