Voting forecasts show a tough road ahead for the Democratic candidate Kamala Harris inside 2024 presidential raceVotes still being tallied in states his Republican opponent should win Donald Trump He is clearing out the GOP strongholds.

Expected results in closely watched battleground states will likely determine who wins the presidency.

Republicans also took control of the Senate for the first time in four years after flipping two Senate seats, wresting the slim majority in the upper house of Congress from Democrats.

According to projections, Trump won Georgia and North Carolina, which were among the few swing states that both candidates tried to win on their way to victory.

Results are expected soon in swing states like Arizona, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, battlegrounds where President Joe Biden narrowly ran in 2020.

Harris did not address the nation or her supporters from a results viewing party at her alma mater, Howard University, on Wednesday night as vote counting continued into the early morning hours.

Campaign consultant Cedric Richmond said: Independent He is “very confident” the campaign will be in a better place tomorrow. “We left everything on the field,” he said.

Trump, meanwhile, is expected to address supporters and allies in Palm Beach, where congressional Republican leaders and other influential GOP figures will join him at a viewing party.

Trump won in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Ohio, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming, based on preliminary results.

Harris is expected to win California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia and Washington state, as well as Washington DC.

He also picked up electoral votes in Maine and Nebraska, two states with a unique split electoral vote scenario, as opposed to the winner-take-all in other states.

Trump’s victory in Georgia reversed Democratic gains in the state after Biden narrowly defeated Trump in 2020, when he became the first Democratic candidate to carry the state since Bill Clinton in 1992.

His victory in Florida was his third consecutive victory in the state with 30 electoral votes, after Democratic former president Barack Obama led the state in both 2008 and 2012.

He is also expected to win two of Nebraska’s electoral votes in Nebraska’s divided electoral vote count.

As election workers count ballots and preliminary voting data is released, media outlets make their predictions for each state’s winner.Independent He trusts the Associated Press’ estimates.

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Both candidates are competing for 270 delegate votes, the golden number needed to secure the presidential seat.

Experts have said before Independent The timeline for calling the race depends largely on two things: How close are the elections in the states? and those states’ specific laws regarding vote counting and possible recounts, which all vary.

While media outlets are expected to release their final predictions in the hours and days after November 5, their determination is merely a guess. The election will be officially certified by Congress January 6, 2025.

Voters rank the state of democracy as the number one issue communicate voting decisionsAccording to exit polls for media outlets in Edison Research’s National Election Pool.

Senate and House races

Election results in House and Senate races across the country will determine the balance of power in Congress, where Democrats currently hold the narrowest majority in the Senate and Republicans hold a slim majority in the House, and determine whether the next president’s agenda will be legislatively significant. Support.

Voters in Ohio unseated Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown and elected Republican challenger Bernie Moreno, who had previously called the former president “crazy” but later embraced his agenda.

West Virginia’s Republican Gov. Jim Justice is expected to win a seat in the Senate, replacing the seat previously held by former Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, who is not seeking re-election.

Republican Senator Rick Scott of Florida also is predicted to be defeated His Democratic opponent is Debbie Mucarsel-Powell.

Maryland Senate raceDemocratic candidate Angela Alsobrooks defeated the state’s anti-Trump Republican former governor, Larry Hogan.

Alsobrooks is set to become the state’s first black person elected to the Senate.

Only 34 of the 100 seats in the Senate are currently up for election, because senators serve six-year terms and a third are elected every two years. However, all 435 seats in the House of Representatives are up for election tonight.

Voters in Delaware elected Democratic candidate Sarah McBride to fill the state’s only seat in the House of Representatives, making her the first openly transgender member of Congress in American history.

Before this election, Democrats had 47 senators and four independent members, while Republicans had 49.

Of the 34 seats to be won, 18 previously belonged to Democratic senators, posing a threat to their slim majority.

Fight for swing states

All eyes are on the seven oscillation situation.

Together they have 93 electoral college votes, and without those votes no presidential candidate can win the election.

The results will be updated live as they become available. Check back for updates.