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
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- Trump to meet with Biden Wednesday
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- Trump projected winner in Nevada
- Trump announces chief of staff
RFK Jr. spent roughly 8 hours Wednesday at Mar-a-Lago
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spent roughly eight hours at Mar-a-Lago on Wednesday for transition-related meetings, someone who spotted his movements at the club told ABC News.
Kennedy was seen with a team that included former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, Tucker Carlson, his daughter-in-law and former campaign manager Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, health entrepreneur Calley Means and investor Tom Barrack.
Kennedy was spotted again in West Palm Beach on Thursday morning, though his specific movements are unclear.
-ABC News' Will McDuffie
Trump poised to receive intelligence briefings as president-elect
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence is prepared to give President-elect Donald Trump intelligence briefings as part of his transition back to the White House.
"ODNI is acting consistent with the tradition, in place since 1952, of providing intelligence briefing to the President-elect," DNI said in a statement to ABC News.
Sources tell ABC News that Trump has yet to receive an intelligence briefing as president-elect. It's not clear whether he will even agree or want to receive them, though some members of his transition team have suggested he should.
-ABC News' Katherine Faulders
Before Election Day, Biden at peace with decision to leave race: Sources
In the days before the election, senior administration officials insisted that Biden was at peace with his decision to leave the presidential race and had no regrets.
Biden dropped out of the race in July and then endorsed Harris -- a decision the senior administration official said the president made in the days before while in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
After Trump's defeat of Harris, many have pointed fingers at Biden -- expressing frustration about his decision to seek reelection until this summer.
After Biden left the race, Harris and the president only did one campaign stop together on Labor Day.
President Biden to address nation after Trump's defeat of Harris
Biden is set to speak to the nation from the White House on Thursday morning.
Biden in a statement on Wednesday said that adding Harris to his 2020 Democratic ticket was the first and "best decision" he made in that campaign. He praised Harris, saying she had "stepped up and led a historic campaign" under extraordinary circumstances.
That statement made no mention of Trump, the former Republican president and now president-elect, who will bookend Biden's sole term in office.
Read more here and watch Biden's speech live on ABC News Live and on the ABC News website.