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Election Day 2024 live results: Trump takes back White House, Senate flips to GOP
We tracked races for president, Senate, House and more across the country.
With projections made in most states across the country, ABC has projected that former President Donald Trump will win the high-stakes presidential match-up against Vice President Kamala Harris. Early Wednesday morning, Trump secured enough Electoral College votes to set himself up for a second presidency by flipping the key swing states of Georgia, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. Plus, Republicans are set to take back the Senate majority, with at least 51 seats locked down — while control of the House remained up in the air.
Reporters from 538 and ABC News are following along every step of the way with live updates, analysis and commentary on these races and all the others down the ballot. Follow our live coverage in full below.
Key Headlines
- Former President George W. Bush congratulates Trump
- Trump adviser says Trump and Harris have not connected yet as of earlier this morning
- Liz Cheney calls for accepting election results but for citizens to be 'guardrails of democracy'
- Will Trump have a (truly) unified government this time around?
- Baldwin takes the lead in Wisconsin's Senate race
- Trump wins Wisconsin and the presidency
- Trump could carry all seven swing states
- What went wrong in Pennsylvania
Trump's win has parallels with elections across the globe this year
Prognosticators will surely pick through the 2024 campaign in the coming weeks and months, but, as Dan wrote earlier today, incumbent governments around the world have struggled mightily at the ballot box this year. Trump's win showed that the U.S. is no exception to that trend. Rising inflation and lingering malaise from the COVID-19 pandemic have toppled decades-long majorities in all sorts of different countries, ranging from the United Kingdom, to Botswana, to Japan. While Harris had hoped to distance herself from voters' negative views of Biden's presidency, it proved to be too herculean a task.
Into the known unknown
We've seen four years of a Trump presidency already, so in some ways, we know what to expect. Trump's focus on immigration, for example, will surely have ramifications. If he pursues his protectionist economic approach, that too will have consequences. In foreign policy, his presidency will certainly influence the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine. Trump's disdain for the country's small-d democratic norms could also alter how the country functions. However, how exactly this all plays out is impossible to really know, and Trump has an unpredictable side to him to a degree unlike really any public figure we've seen. The democratic process has played out, and Trump has four years ahead of him to try to reshape America as he and his supporters want.
Trump wins Wisconsin and the presidency
ABC News projects that Trump has won Wisconsin and its 10 electoral votes. With that, Trump has won 276 electoral votes and is projected to win the entire presidential race. He will move into the White House on Jan. 20.
Harris wins Hawaii
Surprising no one, ABC News projects that Harris has won Hawaii's four electoral votes.