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.
According to Gongwer Michigan, Republicans in the Great Lakes State have flipped the state House, ending Democrats' trifecta. That has big implications on Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's ability to implement her agenda for the last two years of her term.
Democrats have had a bad night, and they look to be in trouble in Montana's Senate race, where Tester trails by about 4.5 points with about half the expected vote reporting statewide.
But Montana's 1st Congressional District in the western part of the state also bears keeping an eye on. Trump will very likely carry this seat (he would have carried it by about 7 points in 2020), but the House race is quite close right now. Republican Rep. Ryan Zinke is just about tied with Democrat Monica Tranel at 49 percent, with about 40 percent of the expected vote reporting. With so much vote outstanding, it would not be surprising to see Zinke eventually take and hold a lead to win reelection. Yet there are a similar number of votes left in Democratic-leaning counties in the district as GOP-leaning ones. With some of the curious things happening in House races relative to the presidential race, a Democratic surprise here would be a cherry on top.
There are still a lot more votes to count, especially in the Western states, but as of now, no state has shifted to the left compared to its 2020 results.
Let's check in on the results in the seven main presidential swing states. As we've reported, Trump is already projected to win Georgia, North Carolina and Pennsylvania. And so far, more votes have been counted for him than for Harris in Arizona, Michigan, Nevada and Wisconsin as well. That raises the possibility that he could sweep all seven states for a 312-226 Electoral College victory.
