Election briefing: Kamala Harris Watch Party falls silent as Trump takes decisive lead | US elections 2024

As the clock ticked on the US East Coast on Wednesday morning, two of the seven swing states – Georgia and North Carolina – were called Donald Trump.

The mood in Kamala Harris The campaign party at her alma mater, Howard University in Washington DC, went from cheers to silence as Trump appeared to be in a stronger position than Harris to win the White House. Your campaign co-chair Cedric Richmond addressed the crowd and said, “We still have votes to count. “We still have states that haven’t been called yet,” but made it clear that the Democratic nominee would not be speaking.

Meanwhile, Trump’s advisers were confident, boosted by a resounding victory in Miami-Dade, a Florida district that Republicans had not won in a generation. Trump also won in Iowa, although the state’s top pollster, Ann Selzer, noted on Saturday that Harris was leading in the state.

And Missouri, Colorado, New York and Maryland have all taken action to protect abortion rights, while Florida’s attempt to overturn a six-week ban failed.

This is what else happened on Tuesday:

• Donald Trump won the swing states North Carolina and Georgia, the only two of the seven swing states that have been in the race so far. Trump has 246 of the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win, and Kamala Harris has 210 electoral votes. The vice president now cannot win the election without winning the state of Pennsylvania, where Trump is leading with 90% of the votes counted.

• Harris has won the following states so far: Virginia, Hawaii, New Mexico, California, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington DC and Maine’s 1st Congressional District.

• Trump has so far won the following states: North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, Wyoming, Kansas, Idaho , Iowa and the third congressional district in Nebraska.

• The Republicans have regained the majority in the Senate, The Associated Press reported after they won seats in Ohio and West Virginia and fended off challenges from their candidates in Texas and Nebraska. For the first time in four years, Republicans will control the upper chamber of Congress. If Donald Trump wins, they will be able to confirm his Supreme Court justices, federal judges, and his appointees to Cabinet positions. If Harris wins the White House, they can hold up her appointments or block them altogether.

• Elsewhere in the election there were decisive victories for the Democrats. The election of will mark the first time in American history that two black women will serve as senators Lisa Blunt Rochester from Delaware and Angela Alsobrooks of Maryland.

• Sarah McBride, a Delaware state senator, also made history when she became the first out transgender person elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. McBride, 34, won the Delaware House of Representatives seat against the Republican candidate in Tuesday’s general election John Whalen IIIa former Delaware state police officer and businessman. The House seat, Delaware’s only one, has been Democratic since 2010.

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