Election 2024 live results: Donald Trump to address supporters after winning North Carolina and Georgia
America anxiously awaits results of 2024 presidential election as Trump secures two key states
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Your support makes all the difference.Donald Trump is likely on the verge of securing a second term in the White House having swept two of the key battleground states hours after the polls closed.
Seven crucial swing states could have given Kamala Harris various routes to secure 270 Electoral College votes but the vice president lost North Carolina and Georgia by 1am ET, severely narrowing any path to victory.
Counting is still underway in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, and Nevada.
At the Harris watch party at Howard University in Washington, DC, campaign senior adviser Cedric Richmond said the vice president would not speak tonight but would address supporters tomorrow.
Meanwhile, in Palm Beach, there are scenes of jubilation from Trump supporters as they await remarks from the Republican nominee.
NBC News’s exit poll gave some preliminary indications as to what voters had on their mind when deciding for whom to cast a ballot — the economy and the state of US democracy were among the top issues cited.
Thirty-five percent said democracy was their top issue while slightly fewer, 31 percent, said the economy. Abortion was the top issue for 14 percent of voters while 11 percent said immigration. Four percent said foreign policy was most important to them.
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Despite a large number of votes in crucial swing states still being left to count, Baier made the bold claim live on Tuesday night, noting that Trump’s path to the White House was becoming “clearer.”
Mike Bedigan reports.
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1am ET — Polls close in Alaska
And finally, the polls are closed in Alaska* and across all of America.
*some of Alaska’s results came through at 12am ET.
Harris adviser tells Independent he is ‘confident’ campaign will be in ‘better place’ tomorrow
Harris-Walz campaign senior adviser Cedric Richmond tells The Independent that he is feeling “very confident” that the campaign will be in a better place tomorrow: “We left it all on the field.”
Harris senior adviser addresses crowd
Senior adviser to the Kamala Harris campaign, former US Rep Cedric Richmond, just addressed the crowd at Howard University, saying that Vice President Harris will not be addressing supporters tonight.
They will wait until all the votes are counted and Harris will address her supporters tomorrow.
He said: “We will continue overnight to fight to make sure that every vote is counted, that every voice is spoken. So you won’t hear from the vice president tonight, but you will hear from her tomorrow. She will be back here tomorrow.”
Watch: Trump fans cheer motorcade in West Palm Beach
Who is with Trump at Mar-a-Lago tonight?
Joining former president Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago tonight are Elon Musk, Robert F Kennedy Jr, Caitlin Jenner, Eduardo Bolsonaro, Nigel Farage, Dana White, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Reps Byron Donalds and Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Meredith McGraw of Politico reports that Tucker Carlson did a three-hour show interviewing many of those present in the library bar underneath the portrait of Trump in tennis whites.
Despair and stubborn hopefulness at Harris watch party
The mood continues to flip between despair and a stubborn hopefulness at Kamala Harris’s watch party at Howard University, where thousands remained after midnight even when it was clear that Harris herself would not be speaking about the race Tuesday evening.
As the wind picked up and people began shivering, the streams of people heading for the exits continued. Loud dance music continued to blare over the speakers, but nobody was dancing. A large crowd remains in the main yard outside Frederick Douglass Hall, but it was a clear letdown for many who had looked forward to Harris making a speech as president-elect in front of the historic backdrop of her alma mater.
“It means a lot [for her to have her party at Howard],” current Howard student Baiyee-Ndang Agbor-Baiyee told The Independent, while expressing optimism that Harris would pull things through even given some “rocky” election returns. “Howard is a place that breeds excellence…and when you can show the next generation that excellence is in your face, it’s not something that’s distant…it’s achievable. It means a lot.”
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