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DONALD Trump has been elected as the next president of the United States, beating out Kamala Harris in the stunning presidential race – and it took less time than expected.
After months of the polls predicting a neck-and-neck race, Trump took a far easier path to the White House than Harris. Follow along with The U.S. Sun’s 2024 election results trackers below.
Trump won battleground states Georgia, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania, as called by the AP.
The three crucial victories made it nearly impossible for Harris to have a path forward, despite polling hours being extended in multiple states.
Polling stations began to close at 6 pm Eastern and continued to stay open on the West Coast through 11 pm Eastern.
Alaska polls close at midnight Eastern while Hawaii polls close an hour later.
Exit polls led by revealed Harris voters chose democracy as the most important issue while voting – while Trump voters said the economy was on their minds.
Plus, the exit polls revealed voters giving President Joe Biden a job approval rating of 41%, meaning it was critical for Harris to distinguish herself from Biden to voters ahead of Election Day.
Our charts show real-time data when every state presidential race is called and for who.
Below, see the current state calls, plus historical data for the 2020 and 2016 elections.
See how your state voted or how swing states shifted.
It takes 270 electoral college votes to win the presidency.
As illustrated in the tracker below, Trump held a commanding lead for most of the year over Biden.
But when he dropped out on July 21 and Harris became the nominee, she tore ahead, with at least one expert telling The U.S. Sun it was bad news for Republicans.
Yet, as election day approached, the race narrowed considerably.
And according to The U.S. Sun’s recent poll, 40% of Americans said no one can defeat Donald Trump.
Polls have shown the candidates neck and neck for months in the battlegrounds, with Trump making slight gains in The U.S. Sun’s latest figures.
Below, see the live results for each swing state’s vote tally.
But it could take days to count all the ballots after such a close race.
The results of the election will have far-ranging consequences depending on the ultimate makeup of the elected branches.
Polls in every state are aggregated below. Click through to see the last data before the election.
If Democrats ended up with a trifecta of the presidency, House, and Senate, Harris promised sweeping reforms of the courts, personal income tax, and housing policy.
However, the GOP took control of the Senate on Tuesday night after Senator Deb Fischer won re-election in Nebraska.
If Republicans gain power over all three bodies, Trump has promised to rewrite the rules of executive power, immigration, and corporate taxes.
Should either party win the White House but lose the House or Senate, it could stymie the next president’s agenda.
Track the Senate and House victories below.
Only 34 Senate seats were up for voting this year, following the six-year rotation of senatorial elections laid out by the constitution.
Republican Bernie Moreno beat out incumbent Democrat Senator Sherrod Brown.
In Florida and Texas, Republican candidates Rick Scott and Ted Cruz also took the victories.
In contrast to the Senate, all 435 House seats are up for reelection this year, as they are every two years.
While the GOP currently holds a slim four-seat majority, redistricting after the 2020 census and some competitive challengers have thrown the race for party control into a blender.
Republicans are all but guaranteed to win 191 seats while Democrats can expect to hold on to at least 175, per the , the most trusted source for House ratings, on Monday.
Then, Democrats have an additional 30 seats that they will likely win to Republicans’ 17 likely wins.
It’s the remaining 22 truly competitive races that make the House elections exciting to pay attention to.
These are the races to watch.
One of the more interesting races will be Alaska’s at-large district.
The state implemented ranked-choice voting in 2022, allowing Democrat Mary Peltola to defeat Sarah Palin in the House race two years ago.
This year, Peltola is running against more conventional Republican Nick Begich III, but with the quirks of ranked-choice, it’s unclear exactly how the race could play out.
Next up is Michigan’s 10th district, where Republican incumbent John James is being challenged by Democrat Carl Marling, who is currently polling about 3.4 points behind, per FiveThirtyEight.
It is among the top districts Democrats hope to flip and could prove to be a bellwether of who could ultimately prevail in the House overall.
In Nebraska’s 2nd district, which includes the state’s largest city, Omaha, and the surrounding region, Democratic challenger Tony Vargas is running narrowly ahead of Republican incumbent Don Bacon, per FiveThirtyEight.
The district is also crucial to the presidential race because it could give either Harris or Trump a single extra Electoral College vote depending on who wins. Expect a very high turnout.
On the East Coast, New York’s 4th Congressional District is among one of the wealthiest districts in the country.
Located on the eastern end of Long Island and won by Biden four years ago, incumbent Republican Anthony D’Esposito is losing to Democrat Laura Gillen by about 5 points, slightly less than half Biden’s 2020 margin.
Finally, in blue Washington state, the rural southeast 3rd district is proving a true toss-up.
The district has flipped several times over the past 40 years, most recently in 2022 when voters elected Marie Glusenkamp Perez, the first Democrat to win since 2011.
Republican Joe Kent is running about a point ahead of Glusenkamp Perez, however, and the district voted for Donald Trump in the past two elections, as well as Mitt Romney in 2012.
HIGH-STAKES OUTCOMES
If Republicans win, Mike Johnson will remain speaker and could help Donald Trump implement many of his policy goals, including suggesting he would repeal Obamacare, something Trump was unable to accomplish during his first term.
If Democrats win, Hakeem Jeffries is all but certain to become speaker after taking leadership of the Democratic minority from Nancy Pelosi in 2022.
He has promised to fight tooth and nail any Republican agenda. And should Harris take the White House, he has given vague pledges, including to reform housing policy.
The largest factor looming over control of the house is the certification of the Electoral College vote on January 6, 2025.
The speaker would have significant control over whether and which objections to hear or entertain.
If any state’s electors can’t be agreed upon, or if there is a tie, the House would select the next president, voting as a state block with one vote per state, in a process known as a contingent election.
Because 26 states’ delegations are likely to be controlled by Republicans after new members are sworn in on January 3 (though it could be more), it’s more likely than not that the final vote would be at least 26-24 for Trump, even further securing him the presidency.
It would be the third time the House elected the president since the nation’s founding, and the first in 200 years.