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, 9:11 PM EST

Washington, D.C. mayor commits to supporting Trump transition and inauguration

Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said in a statement on Wednesday that the city "will actively support the incoming Trump Administration’s transition process and the 60th Presidential Inauguration of President-elect Trump."

Bowser’s office has been working since September to prepare for Jan. 6., the day of the Electoral College vote certification, and Inauguration Day.

Her team had plans in place for either a Trump or Harris victory.

Republicans, despite their opposition to D.C. statehood, have worked with Bowser on several local initiatives including the RFK Stadium renovation. She has in recent years forged a working relationship with Republicans, particularly congressmen Jim Jordan and James Comer, as well as other lawmakers frustrated with crime in the city.

-ABC News' Beatrice Peterson

Nov 06, 2024, 8:25 PM EST

Biden to address the nation on Thursday

President Joe Biden will address the nation at 11 a.m. on Thursday from the Rose Garden, the White House said on Wednesday.

-ABC News' Michelle Stoddart

Nov 06, 2024, 8:08 PM EST

Mike Johnson launches bid to continue as House Speaker

House Speaker Mike Johnson formally launched his bid to continue serving as leader in a letter sent to GOP colleagues on Wednesday.

"I'm ready to take the field with all of you, and I am humbly asking for your support to continue leading this Conference as your Speaker. It has been the honor of my lifetime to serve with you thus far, and I look forward to playing the biggest offense of our lives. We have a country to save—and we will," Johnson said in the letter obtained by ABC News.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, speaks during an election night watch party, Nov. 5, 2024, in Shreveport, La.
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Johnson represents Louisiana in the House.

House GOP leadership elections will take place behind closed doors on Nov. 13.

Johnson said, "as we have planned and expected, the latest data indicates that we will also hold – and likely grow—our Republican majority in the House, even though we faced a map with 18 Biden-won seats."

ABC News has not yet projected the House majority.

It was just a little over a year ago when Republicans elected Johnson as House speaker after ousting former Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

-ABC News' Lauren Peller

Nov 06, 2024, 7:13 PM EST

Bill and Hillary Clinton on Trump-Vance: 'We wish them well'

In a statement posted on X on Wednesday evening, former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton praised Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign, and said of former President Donald Trump and Sen. JD Vance: "We wish them well and hope they will govern for all of us."

The statement strikes a much more neutral tone than recent comments from the Clintons. Hillary Clinton has often spoken about the prospect of a second Trump presidency in very sharp and ominous terms, including calling him "more unhinged, more unstable" in a recent CNN interview. Bill Clinton previously said in a separate recent CNN interview that it "would be a travesty if [Trump] became president again."

-ABC News' Oren Oppenheim