U.S. Election 2024: Trump wins 3 major swing states as Harris’ path to victory narrows

Former President Donald Trump has won the first three battleground states Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Georgia as he continues to inch towards thw White House while leading Vice President Kamala Harris in the electoral college and the popular vote.

Polls have across the country have closed with four swing states yet to be called: Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, and Wisconsin.

Harris would need to win all four to win the election.

Trump has collected 265 electoral votes while Harris sits at 187 votes. He also leads the popular vote with over 67 million votes compared to over 62 million for Harris.

Trump supporters gathered at his election night watch party and were hugging one another, making calls, jumping up and down, and throwing their MAGA hats in the air as results continued to trickle in.

Guests are still arriving at the convention center in West Palm Beach.

Vice President Kamala Harris is not planning to address the public during the night, according to a person familiar with the White House spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the matter.

As midnight approached on the East Coast, the Harris campaign had turned off its projected broadcasts of CNN at its election night watch party at Howard University. Instead, various high-energy remixes blared from speakers alongside floodlights flickering in tempo to hype the crowd.

The cheers in the crowd had become less frequent as more results came in from battleground states showing a tight race or victories for Trump.

Some attendees began leaving the event though the vast majority of rallygoers remained. It is unclear if Harris will make an appearance at her alma mater.

Voters electing new House of Representatives

Outside of the race between Harris and Trump, most will likely be waiting to see what the new House of Representatives will look like as it could hugely impact the incoming president’s ability to implement their agenda.

As of Monday, there were 220 Republicans and 212 Democrats in the chamber. There were three vacancies after two Democratic representatives died and a Republican representative resigned. In order to form a majority in the upcoming 119th Congress, a party must have 218 of the 435 seats.

Republicans seized control of the U.S. Senate late Tuesday after flipping Democratic held seats, holding onto GOP incumbents and wresting away the majority for the first time in four years.

Non-credible bomb threats reported at polling locations

The Federal Bureau of Investigations has been investigating bomb threats to polling locations in several states, but none have been determined to be credible thus far, “many of which appear to originate from Russian email domains.”

Other than the threats, Election Day voting has so far unfolded largely smoothly across the nation Tuesday with only scattered reports of delays from extreme weather, ballot printing errors and technical problems.

Helping voting run relatively smoothly on Election Day was the fact that tens of millions of Americans had already cast their ballots. Those included record numbers of voters in Georgia, North Carolina and other battleground states that could decide the winner.

As of Tuesday, Associated Press tracking of advance voting nationwide showed more than 82 million ballots already cast — slightly more than half the total number of votes in the presidential election four years earlier.