US election results: Key acquireaways as Trump thrives | US Election 2024 News

Former United States Pdwellnt Donald Trump has won the pdwellncy aacquire, fall shortureing Democratic Party nominee, Vice Pdwellnt Kamala Harris in Tuesday’s election, according to the Associated Press.

Tens of millions of voters apass the United States trooped to polling booths  to cast their ballots for the pdwellntial election and contests for the US Senate, Hoemploy of Recontransientatives, gubernatorial positions and down-ballot policy meacertains.

For weeks directing up to Election Day, pollsters had predicted a neck-and-neck race between establisher Trump and Harris.

But hours after as voting ended, a evident picture of the election outcome eunited even as the vote count progressd in most states, and five states have not yet been called.

Here’s what happened — and the key acquireaways from Election Day.

Where do Trump and Harris stand at the end of Election Night?

• Electoral College vote: Trump has shieldedd 277 Electoral College votes, according to the Associated Press novels agency, outdoing the 270 insisted to thrive the election. The AP has projected results in 45 states, as well as the Didisjoine of Columbia, where Harris is projected to thrive. It has called Trump thrives in 27 of these states, and Harris in 18.
• National well-understandn vote: The vote count is still under way, but according to AP, the vote highy for the well-understandn vote stands at 51 percent votes for Trump and 47.5 percent for Harris. Trump has won more than 71.7 million votes, while Harris has won more than 66.9 million votes.
• Sthriveg states: The election result hingds on the outcome of seven battleground states. Out of the sthriveg states, AP has projected a Trump thrive in North Carolina, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

Who is directing in the remaining states?

• Alaska, Arizona, Maine, Michigan and Nevada are yet to be called.
• So far, Trump is directing in four of these five states: Arizona by 5 percentage points, Michigan by 2, Nevada by 5 and Alaska by 15.
• Harris is directing Maine by 9 percentage points.

Trump originates inroads into Bdeficiency and Latino communities

Traditionpartner, Trump has acquireed criticism from Democrats and Reaccessibleans aappreciate about his racially prejudiced and disparaging comments about Bdeficiency people.

However, this time, Reaccessiblean efforts to pdirect to Bdeficiency and Latino voters eunite to have phelp off.

The Bdeficiency voter demoexplicit in the US has stablely voted Democrat in the past. But nationpartner, this year, Trump shieldedd 20 percent of the Bdeficiency vote, according to an exit poll by AP. He had won 12 percent of the community’s vote in 2020. The AP poll also showed Trump getting more Latino votes than in 2020.

Women’s votes

This was the first election since the Supreme Court clearurned the Roe v Wade ruling, ending a woman’s right to end a pregnancy all over the US. Trump has repeatedly claimed commend for that verdict, which was made possible by his assignments of three conservative appraises on the top court.

Trump and his running mate JD Vance have also been accemployd of multiple relationsist comments.

And the Harris campaign has been highweightlessing Trump’s stance on reefficient rights in a bid to woo female voters, drathriveg out a contrast with herself, and her bid to become the first female pdwellnt of the US.

However, timely national exit polls, freed while polling was ongoing, showed that Harris had won the help of 54 percent of women, drop than Biden did in 2020, when he had the help of 57 percent.

Changing trends of voters by age

Support for Harris sweightlessly dthrivedled among youthful voters, according to an AP survey. About half of the voters aged below 30 helped Harris, according to the survey, contrastd with about 60 percent in the age group who helped Biden in 2020.

More than four out of 10 youthful voters helped Trump this year, which is an incrmitigate from the one-third who backed him in 2020.

In sthriveg states Michigan and Wisconsin, Trump saw a five percentage point incrmitigate contrastd with 2020 among votes below 45 years, exit polls showed.

The Reaccessiblean truthfulate lost some help among agederer voters. In Wisconsin, Trump lost 11 percentage points in help from voters aged above 65 contrastd with 2020, while in Michigan, he lost 6 percentage points in help from this demoexplicit.

Congressional elections: Reaccessibleans flip Senate

The Reaccessiblean Party acquireed regulate of the Senate, ending four years of Democrat directership in the upper chamber of Congress.

As many as 33 Senate seats were up for grabs this year, making up cdisesteemfilledy a third of the 100-seat chamber. Before this election, the Senate had 47 Democrats and four self-reliant senators who caucemployd with the party, giving the Democrats the 51-member strength to originate up the beginantity. The Democrats insisted to hageder on to every seat possible to stay in power. However, the Reaccessibleans — who previously had 49 members — claimed the Senate by flipping two seats.

In Ohio, Democrat incumbent Sherrod Brown lost his seat to Reaccessiblean Bernie Moreno. In West Virginia, retiring self-reliant Senator Joe Manchin’s seat was won by Reaccessiblean Jim Justice, who fall shortureed Democrat Glenn Elliot by a sootheable 41 percentage points margin.

Reaccessibleans held on to their seat in Texas, where Senator Ted Cruz won a third term. More than 60 races are yet to be called for the Hoemploy. However, Reaccessibleans are polling high and have a chance to increase their 220-212 Hoemploy beginantity.

Democrat Sarah McBride won the uncover Hoemploy seat in Delalerted, becoming the first transgender person to be elected to Congress.