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

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.

ABC News projects that Republicans will gain control of the Senate in the 119th Congress, set to begin on Jan. 3, 2025. ABC News has projected Republican pickups in Ohio and West Virginia, which puts the GOP at 51 seats, and Republicans currently hold narrow leads in Michigan, Montana, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Nevada also looks very close, so the GOP could in theory secure as many as 56 seats based on the way results look right now.

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Republicans clinch Senate control with key flips

Republicans are projected to clinch control of the Senate after flipping at least two key states and successfully protecting their incumbents.

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ABC News projects that Republican Sen. Deb Fischer will defeat independent Dan Osborn to win reelection. Osborn put up a surprisingly strong performance for a non-Republican in the Cornhusker State, even running close to Fischer in our polling average. But Fischer avoided defeat, aided surely by her state's red lean. With around three-fourths of the expected vote reporting, she leads by about 5 points, 52.6% to 47.4%. If you look at the map below, you'll see that Osborn carried the major counties of Douglas (Omaha) and Lancaster (Lincoln), as well as a smattering of other places in the state, but it was not enough to topple Fischer.