Election 2024 updates: With Arizona, Trump sweeps all 7 swing states

The final electoral college count is Trump: 312, Harris: 226.

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Last Updated: November 9, 2024, 9:00 PM EST

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.

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Nov 06, 2024, 2:34 AM EST

Harris surrogates already throwing in the towel

In a post to social media, Harris surrogate Mark Cuban congratulated Trump on his apparent victory and said that the election was conducted"fair and square." According to NOTUS, another person in Harris's orbit expressed devastation. "I want to go home, get in my own bed and cry," they said.

The race isn't technically over, even though Harris's path to 270 electoral votes looks more and more narrow as the night (or morning) continues. With Pennsylvania now under his belt, Trump has clinched 266 electoral votes. We're still waiting for final calls in various states — including Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, and Wisconsin — but Trump is currently ahead in all four states.

During a speech at Trump's campaign headquarters early on Wednesday morning, the former president acknowledged what increasingly looked like his impending win. "Frankly, I believe, this was the greatest political movement of all time," Trump said amid chants of U-S-A! U-S-A! "We're going to fix our borders. We're going to fix everything about our country."

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Nov 06, 2024, 2:33 AM EST

Will Trump win the popular vote?

Trump claims in his victory speech that he has won the popular vote. That's a little premature; while he does currently have 5 million more votes than Harris, Harris is expected to add to her total as more ballots are counted in states like California. If Trump does win the popular vote, it will be a remarkable achievement: Only one Republican (George W. Bush in 2004) in the last eight presidential elections has done so.

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Nov 06, 2024, 2:31 AM EST

Trump claims victory

Trump is claiming victory at his speech. "I want to thank the American people for the extraordinary honor of being elected your 47th president," he said. (ABC News hasn't yet projected that he has won, but he is very close to clinching 270 electoral votes.)

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Nov 06, 2024, 2:29 AM EST

Trump is speaking

Trump, on the verge of winning the presidency, is now speaking to his supporters.