Among the many particularities of the American presidential election, there is one which contributes to the dramatization of the long night: the results are communicated as the ballots are counted and counted. No H hour or sacred moment when the name of the winner appears on the screens. But an emotional lift as the donkey or the elephant, respective symbols of the Democratic and Republican parties, walk towards victory.
The progression can be continuous, choppy, reversed, interrupted for long minutes before a start. In the swing states, which make the election, the curves are followed like milk on fire by the candidates' staffs. Even in territories historically acquired by each major party, progressive counting can hold surprises.
All night long, we invite you to follow the evolution of the result, Trump V. Harris, state by state, as the results come to us. They do not predict the legal actions that will inevitably be filed, but they can give their extent by revealing the most disputed regions.
In 2020, during the duel between President Donald Trump and Joe Biden, several states gave voters cold sweats. In Alabama, Biden won the state's delegates at the start of the evening, with almost 60% of the votes, then the curves crossed several times, before Donald Trump won, completely, with 62% of the votes .
In Delaware, where he had been senator for 36 years, Joe Biden had certainly won but tumbled from an elegiac 82% to a glorious 58.8%. In Florida, Biden and Trump fought over the lead throughout the first half of the evening, before ending with the victory of the Mar-a-Lago resident.
In Georgia, a state which has given rise to so many legal challenges by the Republican camp, Trump believed he would win. The evening gave rise to numerous recounts which prolonged the suspense in one of the pivotal states of the presidential election four years ago. The uncertainty had allowed the Trump camp to refuse to recognize its defeat, with Trump putting pressure, up to the threshold of certification of the result in January, on the secretary of state in charge of elections in the state, Brad Raffensperger, a Republican like him, urging him to “find 11,780 votes”.
Joe Biden won the Republican stronghold by 11,779 votes. “We think our numbers are good,” Raffensperger retorted to the defeated President of the United States who refused to admit it. Donald Trump was charged in 2023 with unlawful attempts to overturn the results of the presidential election in Georgia.
