Election Day 2024 live results: Trump projected to win Pa., third swing state

ABC News projects that Missouri's Amendment 3, which would legalize abortion in the state up until fetal viability, will pass narrowly. Missouri joins Arizona, Colorado, Maryland, Nevada and New York in voting tonight to expand or guarantee abortion rights in their respective states. Though we’re still waiting for projections for the abortion related measures in Montana, Nebraska, and South Dakota, it’s safe to say that voters have made their voices heard in the post-Roe era.

Many roads to the White House for Harris ran through Pennsylvania, but with ABC News projecting a win for Trump, Harris has run out of options. I’ll leave the more in-depth analysis of what went wrong with the campaign to the experts, but at a basic level, she fell short of her benchmarks across much of the state and suffered from deep-blue Philadelphia County making up a smaller portion of the statewide vote than in 2020.

ABC News projects that Trump will win Pennsylvania's 19 electoral votes, which puts him on course to win at least 270 electoral votes and the presidency. He now has 266 electoral votes, and while ABC News has not yet projected the three electoral votes in Alaska or one vote in Maine's 2nd Congressional District, his edge so far tonight suggests that he is more than likely to. Additionally, he leads by varying margins in Arizona, Michigan, Nevada and Wisconsin.

Trump's impending victory is historic for a multitude of reasons. He is just the second former president to lose reelection and then return four years later to win back the White House (Democrat Grover Cleveland was the first during the period from 1884 to 1892). He also won despite various personal legal troubles that were unprecedented for a major-party presidential contender. It remains to be seen if Trump will return to office with his party in full control of government: ABC News has projected the Senate will go Republican, but the House remains up in the air at this late (or especially early) hour.

Democrats are on their way to breaking Republicans’ supermajority in the North Carolina state House, meaning that the legislature won’t be able to override the Democratic governor’s vetoes. Prior to tonight, Republicans occupied at least 60% of North Carolina’s legislative seats. This gave the party the power to override gubernatorial vetoes if they voted as a bloc, and was massively important for Republicans as the state’s outgoing governor, Roy Cooper, is a Democrat. After tonight, Republicans will still represent the majority of lawmakers in the state’s legislature — but the party is likely to lose its supermajority. That’s because, in House District 24, Democrat Dante Pittman is leading incumbent Republican Rep. Ken Fontenot. If that trend continues then, come January, Republicans will no longer have the power to override gubernatorial vetoes; this could force the party to negotiate with Governor-elect Josh Stein in order to pass their priorities.