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.

Nov 06, 2024, 5:38 AM EST

Trump's win has parallels with elections across the globe this year

Prognosticators will surely pick through the 2024 campaign in the coming weeks and months, but, as Dan wrote earlier today, incumbent governments around the world have struggled mightily at the ballot box this year. Trump's win showed that the U.S. is no exception to that trend. Rising inflation and lingering malaise from the COVID-19 pandemic have toppled decades-long majorities in all sorts of different countries, ranging from the United Kingdom, to Botswana, to Japan. While Harris had hoped to distance herself from voters' negative views of Biden's presidency, it proved to be too herculean a task.

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Nov 06, 2024, 5:38 AM EST

Into the known unknown

We've seen four years of a Trump presidency already, so in some ways, we know what to expect. Trump's focus on immigration, for example, will surely have ramifications. If he pursues his protectionist economic approach, that too will have consequences. In foreign policy, his presidency will certainly influence the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine. Trump's disdain for the country's small-d democratic norms could also alter how the country functions. However, how exactly this all plays out is impossible to really know, and Trump has an unpredictable side to him to a degree unlike really any public figure we've seen. The democratic process has played out, and Trump has four years ahead of him to try to reshape America as he and his supporters want.

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Nov 06, 2024, 5:36 AM EST

Trump wins Wisconsin and the presidency

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ABC News projects that Trump has won Wisconsin and its 10 electoral votes. With that, Trump has won 276 electoral votes and is projected to win the entire presidential race. He will move into the White House on Jan. 20.

Nov 06, 2024, 5:33 AM EST

Harris wins Hawaii

Surprising no one, ABC News projects that Harris has won Hawaii's four electoral votes.