Election 2024 live updates: Trump wins swing state Nevada as Democrats’ path to House control narrows
Control of the US House of Representatives remains up for grabs, but Republicans are nearing a majority
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Your support makes all the difference.Donald Trump has now clinched victory in Nevada, handing him another six electoral college votes and his sixth battleground state win.
The Associated Press called the race early on Saturday morning, with Trump securing 50.7 percent of votes to Kamala Harris’s 47.4 percent, with 96 percent of votes counted.
Trump now has a total of 301 electoral college votes, with only Arizona – the final swing state – left to be called.
Republicans have also taken control of the Senate, however the House is still up for grabs four days on from the election. As of Saturday morning, 212 Republicans had been elected compared to 200 Democrats, meaning Trump could be given full control of two branches of government and the levers of power in Washington.
Meanwhile, the president-elect has already begun preparing for the Oval Office.
He named Susie Wiles as his new White House chief of staff and is thought to be looking to rehire Tom Homan to handle immigration. Homan, a Project 2025 contributor, served as the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement between 2017 and 2018 and is considered a key architect of the first Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” family separation policy.
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They turned to him for a solution after finding themselves unable to afford the necessities for their families in a cost-of-living crisis, but concerns have already been raised the Republican billionaire won’t deliver.
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Trump took to the stage in Florida in the early hours of Wednesday morning to address the nation, celebrating his “unprecedented and powerful mandate” after sweeping through key swing states, including North Carolina, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan.
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New Jersey governor Phil Murphy, who knows Mr Trump personally, said he believed the Republican politician would have “sympathy” for the decision to leave the EU and show more leniency towards Britain than with Brussels or Nato.
Speaking to journalists on a visit to London at the US Embassy, Mr Murphy said the the president-elect’s victory at the polls had been “very sobering”, with the loss of both the House and the Senate “particularly troubling” for Democrats.
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Republican Representative Mike Kelly told Notus that it’s “absolutely” time for the party to be louder about their anti-abortion beliefs.
Kelly is not in a competitive district and has introduced several bills to federally ban abortion after six weeks.
“I don’t believe you should let a political, what some people think is a political advantage, be that way,” Kelly told Notus. “I am always going to vote for life.”
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Rebecca Gomperts, founder of the supplier Aid Access, told The Guardian the 5,000 requests over 12 hours even surpasses the orders they received in June 2022 after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, which guaranteed the right to an abortion nationwide.
“We have an extremely streamlined process and we are capable of dealing with all the requests really fast,” Gomperts told The Guardian. “But it’s much more [than usual]. And I think the reason is people are now much more aware – people are aware of the possibility of the abortion pill and aware of the threat it will be taken off the market.”
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The tone of the call, which took place at Mar-a-Lago, was described as positive.
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Republicans expected to retain House control as counting continues
The Republicans appear to be on track to retain control of the House as counting continues in close races.
So far, the Republicans have gained two seats, winning 211 seats so far, according to the AP.
The Democrats, meanwhile, have secured 199 seats, having lost two.
For a majority, 218 seats are needed.
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