Election 2024 updates: With Arizona, Trump sweeps all 7 swing states
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.
Key Headlines
- With Arizona, Trump sweeps all 7 swing states
- Steve Witkoff and Kelly Loeffler to lead Trump's inaugural efforts
- Trump to meet with Biden Wednesday
- Maryland election boards receive bomb threats as ballots are counted
- Steve Witkoff and Kelly Loeffler expected to lead Trump's inaugural efforts
- Trump projected winner in Nevada
- Trump announces chief of staff
The Blue Wall Democratic senators
From some back-of-the-envelope math, it looks to me that if The New York Times's projections about where the presidential races wind up, the Senate races in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania--both of which feature Democratic incumbents--will be razor tight. At present, there is a 3.8 percentage point gap separating Trump and Harris in Pennsylvania, for example, but the Times projects a margin of 2.2 percentage points, meaning that the gap will close by 1.6 percentage points. What's the margin by which Republican Dave McCormick currently leads Democrat Bob Casey? 1.7 percentage points. Likewise, in Wisconsin, Eric Hovde's lead over Tammy Baldwin is 2.3 percentage points--and> the gap between Trump and Harris is projected to close by 1.2 percentage points. In Michigan, however, Democrat Elissa Slotkin's 3.6 percentage-point deficit right now is more than the 3.0 projected closing.
Harris projected to win Hawaii
ABC News is projecting that Harris will win Hawaii's four electoral votes.
Polls closing at 12 a.m.
It's now 12 a.m. Eastern, which means all polling places have closed in Hawaii. Here are our forecasts for the races in the Aloha State:
Many polling sites are also closed in Alaska, but stay tuned for more information when the state's sites have fully closed.
Democrats are leading a lot of statewide races in North Carolina
What's interesting to me about North Carolina this year is that Democrats appear to have performed fairly well in the statewide offices this year. According to the AP, Democrat Jeff Jackson is projected to win the attorney general race against Republican Dan Bishop, and Democrats are currently leading in the secretary of state race, the lieutenant governor's race and the race for superintendent of public instruction. They, of course, were projected to clinched the governor's race earlier tonight, according to the AP. There's a few other statewide races where Republicans lead as well, but North Carolina appears to continue to be a state where voters are very willing to split their tickets, depending on the candidates on the ballot.