Donald Trump v Kamala Harris 2024 Presidential Election Results

CNN anchors Jake Tapper and Dana Bash agreed Tuesday that a fresh exit poll was “brutal” for Kamala Harris.

The network’s poll showed that voters in key swing states—Arizona, Michigan, and Wisconsin—strongly disapproved of Joe Biden’s performance as president.

His approval rating in the three battlegrounds was just 43, 42, and 38 percent, respectively.

“This would have been a very different race if Joe Biden had stayed in it,” Tapper joked in response to the results. “If it ends with a Trump victory—and we have no idea how it’s going to end, so don’t misinterpret what I’m saying—but there’s going to be a lot of finger-pointing and recriminations, and wondering and wondering.”

“But these approval ratings for Joe Biden are brutal,” he added.

Bash was in agreement. “Six in ten, in Wisconsin, say that they don’t approve of the president, I mean, it is brutal,” she said. “And there’s no other way to look at it. That is, no question, a big headwind for Kamala Harris despite the fact that she has tried to separate herself.”

The New York Times also stated as of 11 p.m. ET that Trump was likely to win the White House with the former president ahead in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.

Trump Wins First Two Battleground States of Georgia and North Carolina

By Josh Fiallo

The first two of the seven battleground states have been projected for Donald Trump, with the former president picking up North Carolina and Georgia.

North Carolina, Georgia, Nevada, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin were expected to be potential swing states that could fall to either Democrats or Republicans.

Harris Campaign Chief: ‘We Feel Good’

By Mini Racker

Kamala Harris’ campaign chief told her staff that the “razor-thin” race was still giving her hope in an email sent as pundits increasingly suggested the Democrat would lose.

Jen O’Malley-Dillon sent the email, written for public consumption, to staff watching anxiously in Wilmington, Delaware, the headquarters the vice-president inherited from Pres. Joe Biden.

And while the New York Times moved their needle closer and closer to a certain Donald Trump win and Nate Silver gave up entirely, O’Malley-Dillon said the Democrats could still grind out a victory, saying, “It takes time for all the votes to be counted – and all the votes will be counted.”

All the States Trump and Harris Have Won

Donald Trump is projected to win Georgia, North Carolina, Idaho, Ohio, Texas, Nebraska, Louisiana, Wyoming, Iowa, Kansas, North and South Dakota, Montana, Utah, Missouri, Florida, Arkansas, Mississippi and Indiana, West Virginia and Kentucky.

Harris has been projected to win New Mexico, Washington, Illinois, Hawaii, Colorado, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Oregon, Delaware, Connecticut, Washington D.C., California, New York and Vermont.

Trump has moved into a commanding lead in The New York Times’ election forecast, with his win probability increasing inexorably over between 8 and 10pm. A 50/50 race has shifted to a race that is now 75/25 in Trump’s favor, according to their predictive “needle”.

For Harris to win it could likely come down to the so-called “Blue Wall” trio of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.

“For the first time tonight, we consider Trump likely to win the presidency. He has an advantage in each of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin,” New York Times chief political analyst Nate Cohn wrote. “To win, Harris would need to sweep all three. There is still a lot of vote left, but in the voting so far, Trump is narrowly but discernibly ahead.”

Barron Trump Casts Vote for His Dad

By William Vaillancourt

Melania Trump on Tuesday night posted a photograph of son Barron Trump purportedly voting “for his dad.”

Trump, 18, presumably cast his ballot in Florida, like his father. In the picture, which may run afoul of a state statute prohibiting photographs “in the polling room,” he’s wearing a dark suit.

Donald Trump has said his teenage son has been giving him advice on appealing to young voters, and Melania recently told Fox News how he’s faring at school.

“He’s doing great,” she said earlier last month, part of a press tour for her memoir. “He loves his classes and professors. He is striving and enjoying to be in New York City again.”

Later Tuesday night, Barron was spotted at Mar-a-Lago, where the Trump camp was taking in the election results.

Jon Stewart Admits It’s Not Going Well for Kamala Harris

By Michael Boyle

Jon Stewart went live on The Daily Show Tuesday night. And he started things off by acknowledging the grim, inconclusive results so far.

Responding to the opening applause, Stewart joked, “That is the sound of a crowd that does not have access to a television set, and has no idea what’s happening out there in the world.”

“My solemn vow to you is this,” Stewart said. “We are not leaving here until this election is over. Although, obviously, Family Guy starts at midnight. We do not yet have a projected winner at this time, but as is my custom on election night, I keep the sound off.”

Trump Spends Election Night Surrounded by MAGA Elite

By Matt Young

Donald Trump appeared relaxed as he watched the initial presidential election results roll in on Tuesday night, fraternizing with billionaire fanboy Elon Musk and UFC figurehead Dana White at his Palm Beach residence, Mar-a-Lago.

Footage posted to social media along with various reports indicate the former president worked the crowd as the numbers began to gain in his favor, with The New York Times needling towards a Trump win as the evening worked its way to midnight.

Among the guests, according to Politico, were Elon Musk, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Caitlin Jenner, Eduardo Bolsonaro, Nigel Farage, Dana White and Reps. Byron Donalds and Marjorie Taylor Greene. House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters in Louisiana that he is expected to fly to Mar-a-Lago later in the evening “and be down there with President Trump.” Reform U.K. leader Nigel Farage was also on his way to Mar-a-Lago, he confirmed.

Fox News Hosts Preemptively Celebrate Trump Win

By Corbin Bolies

As projections showed Trump winning more and more states in the presidential election, Fox News hosts began a preemptive crowning of the former president returning to the White House.

“At this moment, from January 7, 2021, until now is probably the biggest political phoenix from the ashes that we have ever seen in the history of politics,” anchor Bret Baier told his panel on Tuesday evening as Trump widened his lead across various states in the Southern U.S. and across the Midwest.

Panelist Brit Hume agreed, saying he was one of multiple Republicans who appeared to wrongly cast him out after the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

“I said, ‘This guy Trump, he‘s radioactive,’“ Hume said. ”‘Republicans have turned against him. They want to get rid of him. He‘s an obstacle. He‘s a problem.’ And I thought, ‘No, I didn‘t think a political comeback by him was possible, I would say.’ And yet, here we are. He’s the toughest son of a gun I’ve ever seen.”

Laura Ingraham, who has praised Trump for years, took it a superlative further: If Trump wins, his re-election would not just be the greatest political comeback of all time—it’d best all comebacks.

“It will be the greatest comeback I believe, in history, because this man was counted out and called every name in the book,” Ingraham said. “They want to put him in jail tonight. If they could, they would put him in jail.”

Trump Wins Iowa Despite Shock Poll

By Zachary Folk

Former President Donald Trump is expected to win Iowa, according to projections from both CNN and NBC News.

Both networks projected a Trump victory after he secured an estimated 56 percent of the vote, easily ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris who was holding roughly 42 percent of the vote by 11 p.m. on Election Day.

Most polling suggested Trump would easily win the Midwestern state and its six electoral votes, which he carried in both 2020 and 2016. However, a last-minute poll conducted by widely respected pollster J. Ann Selzer showed Democrats ahead by three points in the Hawkeye State.

Ted Cruz Squeaks Out Re-Election

By Liam Archacki

Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has won re-election over his opponent, Democratic Rep. Colin Allred, CNN and NBC News have reported.

The two-term GOP senator was expected to win a third, although polling had tightened in the days leading up to the election—suggesting that Allred, a former NFL linebacker, had a chance to flip the seat in the ordinarily red Lone Star State.

But despite Allred’s impressive fundraising efforts, Cruz kept his margin tight among women voters—winning 47 percent to Allred’s 51, exit polls showed.

A Democrat has not won a statewide election in Texas since 1994.

Nate Silver Gives Up on His Prediction Model

By Josh Fiallo

Statistics guru Nate Silver has thrown in the towel early this election night.

Silver, 46, shared an update to his popular Substack just before 10:30 p.m. to announce he was pulling his prediction model, in part because it wasn’t “capturing the story of this election night well.”

“Something like The New York Times Needle is a much better product,” he conceded.

Prior to the abrupt take-down, Silver’s prediction model gave Kamala Harris a 53 percent chance of beating Donald Trump as of 9:05 p.m.—a sharp contrast from The New York Times’ voting needle, which by 10:30 p.m. gave Trump an 81 percent chance of returning to the White House for another four years.

Silver, who founded FiveThirtyEight but now runs a Substack, wrote that part of his reasoning for bowing out of the prediction game was due to the fact that his team of two simply didn’t have the resources to keep up with election results.

Kamala Harris’ Election Watch Party Remains Cautiously Optimistic

By Mini Racker

WASHINGTON—Democrats gathered at Howard University, holding out hope for a victory for Kamala Harris even as The New York Times predicted doom.

Exit polls and media projections spelled disaster for the Democratic presidential candidate’s chances, yet the mood remained anxiously optimistic.

Speaking to the Daily Beast around 10:30 p.m., Democratic Rep. Joaquin Castro of Texas was among the guests waiting for results and feeling good.

“I’m glad that the vice president is ahead in some key states right now,” he told the Daily Beast, naming Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and emphasizing the importance of the blue wall. “We’re hopeful that the night will turn out well.”

MSNBC Feeds Steve Kornacki Fans’ Hunger With ‘Kornacki Cam’

Dramatic music plays. Right now, Steve Kornacki is not on-air, broadcasting to MSNBC viewers on election night. He is off-air, hence the insane, repetitive elevator dirge. But those of us on YouTube—at the time of writing, a stunning 171,947 of us— are watching him scrolling through districts in Michigan, the index finger of his right hand gently touching the screen to zoom in on areas, and then survey percentages for Kamala Harris and Donald Trump alongside it.

Kornacki is dedicated, intent—know this, whatever you see on TV, Kornacki is still crunching numbers with a steely focus when the cameras are not rolling.

FBI Warns of Fabricated Videos Promoting Election Disinformation

By Zachary Folk

The Federal Bureau of Investigation warned voters on Tuesday that three instances of fake posts using the federal agency’s logo were spreading false information about the 2024 presidential election.

The first was a written post that warned the media not to cover violence at polling stations. “This statement is not authentic, is not from the FBI, and its contents are false,” the FBI said in a news release on Tuesday.

Investigators also warned of false videos claiming to be from the federal agency, including one that claimed schools in the U.S. would be closed through Nov. 11 due to a risk of “school shooting and riots” related to the 2024 presidential election.

The second video purported to report on “9,000 complaints about malfunctioning voting machines.” The FBI said both videos and their contents were fake.

Donald Trump Jr. Says He’ll Flee the U.S. if His Dad Loses

By Lily Mae Lazarus

Donald Trump Jr. suggested he won’t stick around the United States if Kamala Harris win the 2024 presidential election.

“If we don’t win, then I’ll probably, you know, the way the Democrats function, I’m going to have to fly to a non-extradition country and just, you know, take up shop there so I don’t end up in the gulags with Elon and everyone else,” Trump Jr. said in a TikTok live Tuesday.

The former president’s son caveated the comment by claiming he was “only partially kidding.”

Russia Blamed for Bomb Hoaxes in Georgia

By Josh Fiallo

Georgia’s secretary of state alleged Tuesday that Russia was behind dozens of hoax bomb threats that were called into voting precincts in the greater Atlanta area on Election Day.

While the threats were determined to be a farce, they did force officials to briefly suspend operations at voting precincts in majority-Black communities, including Atlanta itself, that historically favor Democrats.

“They’re up to mischief, it seems, and they don’t want us to have a smooth, fair and accurate election,” said Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. “Anything that can get us to fight amongst ourselves—they can count that as a victory.”

Raffensperger, a Republican who famously clashed with Donald Trump in the aftermath of the 2020 election over election fraud, said impacted voting sites had their hours extended. The issue is particularly noteworthy because Georgia, which Joe Biden won by 12,670 votes four years ago, is again expected to be one of the tightest races of the 2024 election.

Two of the impacted sites were in Union City, which has a population that is nearly 90 percent Black. Officials in Fulton County, home to Atlanta, announced that it received 32 bomb votes in its county alone.

Floridians Vote Against Abortion Protection and Legalizing Weed

By Liam Archacki

Voters in Florida rejected ballot measures that would have protected abortion rights and legalized recreational marijuana, as they failed to garner the necessary 60 percent support, The Associated Press reported.

The abortion measure would have prevented laws restricting abortion access before the fetus is viable, which happens after 21 weeks of pregnancy—so the state’s harsh six-week abortion ban will remain in place.

The marijuana measure would have allowed Floridians 21 and older to own about 3 ounces of the drug for recreational use.

It also would have allowed businesses that already grow and sell marijuana for medical purposes—which is legal in Florida—to do so for recreational use.

Fox News Host Jesse Watters Commends Kamala Harris

By Corbin Bolies

Even Fox News’ Jesse Waters has to admit: Kamala Harris is giving Donald Trump a run for his money.

“Bravo to the Democrat machine to make this race competitive, because she came out of nowhere,“ Watters told Fox News’ election panel on Tuesday night as some of the first election results emerged. “No one knows who she is. She didn’t run a very specific campaign.”

“They are making it a very competitive race,” Watters acknowledged.

The New York Times’ Election Needle Is Back After Tech Workers Strike

By Corbin Bolies

The New York Times debuted its famous election needle on Tuesday night, more than a day after the union that represents the tech workers responsible for keeping the needle working went on strike.

Whether the needle would appear at all remained in question over the last week as the Times Tech Guild, which represents roughly 600 engineers and product managers on the paper‘s business side, got close to—and eventually went on—a strike.

Its debut coincided with a Business Insider report that dozens of guild members crossed the picket line on Tuesday and came into work. The guild claimed to the outlet that those who broke ranks were either afraid for their jobs, on work visas, or were already anti-union.

The guild and Times management have been in negotiations for more than two years, with reported asks ranging from scented products in break rooms to mandatory trigger warnings before discussing news events. The guild maintains its three primary issues include pay increases, extensions of remote work, and “just cause” protections for job security.

Some Voters May Not Know Biden Dropped Out

By Liam Archacki

Election Day seems to have called some members of the American electorate out of hibernation.

Google Trends showed spiking search interest in the United States for the query “Did Joe Biden drop out?” over the past two days, surging to an even higher peak on Tuesday as voters took to the polls to pick between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.

The vice president replaced President Biden as the Democratic nominee in July after his disastrous debate performance versus Trump.

Biden posted a letter to Americans on July 21 announcing his decision to withdraw from the race. “I believe it is in the best interest on my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as president for the remainder of my term,” Biden said.

On X, the evidence of these oblivious Americans—amid the nation’s highly divisive political atmosphere—became fodder for jokes.

Mark Robinson Loses North Carolina Governor Race

By Zachary Folk

North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson lost his bid for governor, after he failed to attract support even from other Republican voters following a scandal-plagued campaign in the closely watched battleground state.

North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein, a Democrat, is projected to win the gubernatorial race. The race was called early in the evening by NBC and CNN as votes were still being counted in the Tar Heel State.

In September, a bombshell CNN investigation linked Robinson to years of lewd and racist comments on a pornography forum, including referring to himself as a “Perv” and a “Black Nazi.”

Biden Skips Harris’ Election Watch Party

By Lily Mae Lazarus

President Joe Biden will not join the festivities at Kamala Harris’ election watch party, the Washington Examiner reported Tuesday.

“The president and First Lady will watch election results in the White House residence with longtime aides and senior White House staff,” a White House official told the outlet.

Meanwhile, less than two miles from the executive residence, the vice president is watching the vote tally from her alma mater, Howard University. Biden played a limited role campaigning for Harris, particularly in the final weeks of the 2024 presidential race.

Republican Governor Votes for Harris

By Liam Archacki

Vermont Gov. Phil Scott, a Republican, cast his vote for Democratic nominee Kamala Harris rather than his party-mate Donald Trump.

Scott had kept quiet on his presidential pick in the weeks leading up to the election, but as he exited his voting precinct in Berlin, Vermont, on Election Day, he opened up to reporters. “I did some soul searching and thought about a lot of different things… and came to the conclusion that I had to put country over party,” he said.

However, he didn’t take the decision lightly—it’s “not an easy thing to do, being a Republican sitting governor and voting against your party’s nominee,” he said.

Scott made headlines in 2020 when he voted for Joe Biden over Trump, and he said his decision in this election is largely similar. “I didn’t endorse Joe Biden four years ago, I voted for him,” Scott said. “I’m not endorsing Kamala Harris this time. I’m voting for her. This is more of a vote against Donald Trump.”

Fox News Host Goes on Wild Rant Linking Harris to Diddy

By Corbin Bolies

Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld launched into a three-minute meandering rant on Tuesday’s The Five that likened the presidential election between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris as a race between supporters of a euthanized squirrel and those who partied with Sean “Diddy” Combs.

Gutfeld told his fellow panelists, all of whom remained uncharacteristically silent as he spoke, that Trump‘s messaging—one he boiled down to “we don‘t have to live this way“—was one of the nation‘s “recovery.” Harris‘ message, he said, was instead one of addiction. “‘If you break up with us, your life will be over,’” Gutfeld characterized it as. “‘It will never be the same.’”

He also blasted Harris’ characterization of Trump’s election as the “end of democracy,” despite Trump vowing throughout his campaign that a Democratic presidency would mean citizens “won’t have a country anymore.” “It’s the reason why people stay in bad relationships,” Gutfeld said. “It’s the reason why people stay in abusive relationships.”

“This election is about two sides, Peanut versus P. Diddy,” Gutfeld added.

The Early Sign Pointing to a Trump Victory

By Liam Archacki

CNN anchor Chris Wallace said it would be a “miracle” if Kamala Harris won given the results of the network’s first exit polls, which revealed high levels of voter dissatisfaction with the country’s trajectory under the Biden Administration.

In the lead-in to a discussion of the exit polls, CNN Political Director David Chalian revealed that only 7 percent of voters were enthusiastic about how things are going in the U.S.

Of the abysmal satisfaction numbers, Wallace said, “I think that that’s with the present conditions in the country. I mean, in conventional terms, it would be a miracle that Kamala Harris could win with that kind of headwind.”

“If she is able to overcome those numbers and still win this election, then she has done a remarkable job of somehow separating herself—that she’s part of the solution, and not part of the problem,” Wallace added.

Fake Melania Rumors Resurface as Trump Casts His Vote

By Eboni Boykin-Patterson

Donald Trump showed up to a Florida polling location with a woman social media users are saying is not his wife Melania Trump. And they are pointing to her indoor sunglasses and complete silence as “proof” of the long-held conspiracy.

Medias Touch editor Ron Filipkowski shared the primary clip that’s fueling the online rumors, tweeting, “Melania’s been wearing sunglasses inside all day today.” Immediately, replies started coming in with the reasons the woman next to Trump in the thick black sunglasses might not actually be his wife.

Rumors that Trump occasionally appears with a Melania double have circulated since 2017, with his latest appearance to vote in Florida only as the most recent example.

Nevada Official Sounds Alarm About Faulty Signatures

By Josh Fiallo

Nevada’s secretary of state said Tuesday he fears over 13,000 ballots and counting will have to go through “signature curing” before they can be tabulated because signatures on the ballots do not match what the state has in its records.

That is much more than usual, Francisco Aguilar told The New York Times, adding that it’s overwhelmingly young people who are to blame. “When you start to look at the data and you start to realize how high it is, it makes you nervous,” he said, adding that the “margins are so slim” in Nevada between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.

Most of the problem ballots are in Clark County, home to Las Vegas, and in Washoe County, home to Reno.

“It’s mostly the fact that young people don’t have signatures these days,” Aguilar said, explaining the sudden uptick in bad signatures. “And when they did register to vote through the automatic voter registration process, they signed a digital pad at DMV, and that became their license signature.”

Trump’s Cheating Claims Already Debunked by Officials

By William Vaillancourt

Donald Trump‘s unsurprising and baseless claim that “cheating” has occurred in the Democratic stronghold of Philadelphia quickly got debunked by the city’s police department.

“A lot of talk about massive CHEATING in Philadelphia. Law Enforcement coming!!” Trump wrote on Truth Social Tuesday afternoon.

Minutes later, though, Trump’s message was called out as entirely wrong. In a statement to CNN reporter Holmes Lybrand, the city’s police department said it had no idea what Trump was talking about, and that it didn’t know of any issues that necessitated its intervention.

Seth Bluestein, Philadelphia’s Republican City Commissioner, also debunked Trump. “There is absolutely no truth to this allegation. It is yet another example of disinformation. Voting in Philadelphia has been safe and secure,” he wrote on X.

RFK Jr. Thanks Wife Cheryl Hines for Sticking With Him

By Matt Wilstein

Speaking to Trump campaign supporters in West Palm Beach, Florida on Election Day, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. publicly thanked his wife, actress Cheryl Hines, for staying with him through both his failed independent presidential campaign and the revelations about his alleged “digital affair” with reporter Olivia Nuzzi.

With Hines by his side, Kennedy expressed his gratitude for “the most supportive person in this room who has sustained me throughout this campaign, my wife, Cheryl Hines.”

Hines responded by echoing his message of thanks and adding, “Ooh, it has been a journey!”

Early Chaos as Votes in Swing State Set to Be Recounted

By Josh Fiallo

More than 30,000 votes in an overwhelmingly Democratic area must be recounted on election night in Wisconsin after an election observer noticed a panel on a vote tabulating machine wasn’t properly closed.

That flub, at a polling site in Milwaukee, means every absentee ballot that had already been counted at the site must be counted once again—a time-intensive process that local media says will “go very late” and may extend into Wednesday morning.

Alexander Shur, a reporter at Votebeat, reported that the problem panel protected the machine’s on-off switch and was supposed to be locked before the polling site opened.

The report said the error was discovered around 2 p.m. local time.

What Time Will We Know the Results?

By Josh Fiallo

It’s what’s on nearly everyone’s mind tonight—who will win the 2024 presidential election, and when will we know?

There’s not a clear-cut answer to either question, but history—and insider info shared with the Daily Beast from Kamala Harris’ campaign—suggests we may not have a declared winner for days, or potentially weeks, after polls close Tuesday night.

States will publish unofficial results Tuesday evening that news networks and the Associated Press will use to project winners and call the race in most states.

Election officials in the seven swing states—Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Georgia, Nevada, and Arizona—are already pleading with voters to be patient, however, as ballot-counting won’t be completed on Election Day.

The chart from Harris’ team then projects that “most results” from Georgia, North Carolina, and Michigan will be in on Election Day before midnight, and that Wisconsin will join that list by 6 a.m. EST on Wednesday morning. In the same time frame, the campaign projects that Pennsylvania, Arizona, and Nevada will still only have “partial” results published.

The campaign notes that “tens of thousands” of provisional ballots cannot be legally counted until Friday in Pennsylvania, which is overwhelmingly considered to be the most-important swing state for both Trump and Harris.