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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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Here's how the news is developing.
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ByDan Hopkins
12:07 AM EST

The Blue Wall Democratic senators

From some back-of-the-envelope math, it looks to me that if The New York Times's projections about where the presidential races wind up, the Senate races in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania--both of which feature Democratic incumbents--will be razor tight. At present, there is a 3.8 percentage point gap separating Trump and Harris in Pennsylvania, for example, but the Times projects a margin of 2.2 percentage points, meaning that the gap will close by 1.6 percentage points. What's the margin by which Republican Dave McCormick currently leads Democrat Bob Casey? 1.7 percentage points. Likewise, in Wisconsin, Eric Hovde's lead over Tammy Baldwin is 2.3 percentage points--and> the gap between Trump and Harris is projected to close by 1.2 percentage points. In Michigan, however, Democrat Elissa Slotkin's 3.6 percentage-point deficit right now is more than the 3.0 projected closing.

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ByMeredith Conroy
12:05 AM EST

Harris projected to win Hawaii

ABC News is projecting that Harris will win Hawaii's four electoral votes.

Kamala Harris will win Hawaii, ABC News projects.
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2024 Election: Kamala Harris projected to win Hawaii

Kamala Harris will win Hawaii, ABC News projects.
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ByHolly Fuong and Aaron Bycoffe
12:04 AM EST

Polls closing at 12 a.m.

It's now 12 a.m. Eastern, which means all polling places have closed in Hawaii. Here are our forecasts for the races in the Aloha State:

Many polling sites are also closed in Alaska, but stay tuned for more information when the state's sites have fully closed.

ByMary Radcliffe
12:02 AM EST

Democrats are leading a lot of statewide races in North Carolina

What's interesting to me about North Carolina this year is that Democrats appear to have performed fairly well in the statewide offices this year. According to the AP, Democrat Jeff Jackson is projected to win the attorney general race against Republican Dan Bishop, and Democrats are currently leading in the secretary of state race, the lieutenant governor's race and the race for superintendent of public instruction. They, of course, were projected to clinched the governor's race earlier tonight, according to the AP. There's a few other statewide races where Republicans lead as well, but North Carolina appears to continue to be a state where voters are very willing to split their tickets, depending on the candidates on the ballot.

Rep. Jeff Jackson (D) and North Carolina attorney general candidate, at campaign event for US Vice President Kamala Harris.
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