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 05, 2024, 10:05 PM EST

ABC News projects Harris will carry Colorado; Trump will take Montana and Utah

The ABC News Decision Desk has projected Kamala Harris will win Colorado's 10 Electoral College votes. ABC News also projects Trump will carry the deep-red states of Montana and Utah, combining for 10 electoral votes in his column.

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Nov 05, 2024, 10:03 PM EST

Angela Alsobrooks is running ahead of her benchmarks in Maryland's Senate race

Despite the popularity of former Republican Gov. Larry Hogan, Maryland’s Senate race is poised to reaffirm the blue leanings of the Old Line State with Democrat Angela Alsobrooks running ahead of her benchmarks in most counties.

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Nov 05, 2024, 10:00 PM EST

How are the candidates performing in battleground North Carolina?

With 55% of the expected vote in for North Carolina, I'm identifying patterns for the counties in and around the state's biggest metro areas. Harris is meeting or slightly exceeding her benchmarks in counties that comprise the Research Triangle -- Wake, Durham and Orange -- with at least 75% of the vote reported in each. On the flip side in Union County, just outside of Charlotte, Trump is outperforming his benchmark of R+22.8 by 2 points with more than 95% of the vote reported there.

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Nov 05, 2024, 9:58 PM EST

Sen. Wicker returns

As expected, Mississippi’s Senate race has been projected by ABC for Roger Wicker, the longtime Republican incumbent. In that race, Wicker is facing Democratic challenger Ty Perkins. In 2018, which was a Democratic-leaning year generally, Wicker still beat his Democratic challenger by almost 20 percentage points.

Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., speaks during an event on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 9, 2024.
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Of any state, Mississippi has the highest fraction of African Americans, and voting there tends to be very racially polarized. As a result, it has relatively little year-to-year variation in its federal races (although a Democratic gubernatorial candidate did make last year’s gubernatorial election interesting, losing by only 3 percentage points.