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
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Checking in on Nebraska's 2nd Congressional District
The night is young. With Georgia and North Carolina currently leaning Trump, perhaps the easiest pathway for Harris is the pathway that polls most consistently suggested: winning the "blue wall" of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. But to get to 270 Electoral College votes, Harris likely needs to pair those three states with one of the two Electoral College votes that come from winning a House district in either Maine's 2nd District or Nebraska's 2nd District. And so far, Harris is up 55% to 44% in Nebraska's 2nd District, which includes Omaha, with 70% of the expected vote counted according to the AP.
ABC News projects Trump will win Ohio, Landsman in Ohio's 1st Congressional District
At 73% of the vote reporting, ABC News has projected Trump will carry Ohio, and its 17 Electoral College votes.
They also project Democrat Greg Landsman will defeat Republican Orlando Sonza in Ohio's 1st Congressional District in central and northeast Cincinnati. Landsman leads 53%-47%, with 82% of the expected vote reporting.
Mississippi projected to go to Trump
Mississippi and its six Electoral College votes are projected to go to Trump. Like its neighbor Alabama, Mississippi was last won by a Democrat in 1976, when Southerner Jimmy Carter won the presidency in what was the last gasp of the "Solid South." What was once one of the most reliable Democratic regions of the country is now one of the most reliably Republican regions.
More polls closed at 10 p.m.
It's now after 10 p.m. Eastern, which means all polling places have closed in Montana, Nevada and Utah. Here are our forecasts for the races in those states: