UPDATED 12 am ET — The Associated Press has called Hawaii for Vice President Kamala Harris. Harris is now up to 209 Electoral College votes.
UPDATED 11:45 p.m. ET — The Associated Press has called Virginia for Vice President Kamala Harris. Harris is now up to 205 Electoral College votes.
UPDATED 11:20 p.m. ET — The first swing state is now off the board, as the Associated Press has called North Carolina for former President Donald Trump. Trump is now up to 230 Electoral College votes.
The Associated Press has called Oregon and New Mexico for Vice President Kamala Harris. Harris is now up to 192 Electoral College votes.
UPDATED 11 p.m. ET — The Associated Press has called California and Washington for Vice President Kamala Harris. Harris is now up to 179 Electoral College votes.
The Associated Press has called Idaho for former President Donald Trump. Trump is now up to 214 Electoral College votes.
UPDATED 10:41 p.m. ET — The Associated Press has called Kansas and Iowa for former President Donald Trump. Trump is now up to 210 Electoral College votes.
UPDATED 10 p.m. ET — Several west coast states have now closed their polls.
The Associated Press has called Montana and Utah for former President Donald Trump. Trump is now up to 198 Electoral College votes.
The Associated Press has called Colorado and the District of Columbia for Vice President Kamala Harris. Harris is now up to 112 Electoral College votes.
UPDATED 9:45 p.m. ET — The Associated Press has called Missouri for former President Donald Trump. Trump is now up to 188 Electoral College votes.
UPDATED 9 p.m. ET — Another round of states have closed their polls and more states have been called in the 2024 Election.
The Associated Press has called North Dakota, South Dakota, Louisiana, Wyoming, Nebraska, Texas, and Ohio for former President Donald Trump. Trump is now up to 178 Electoral College votes.
The Associated Press has called New York for Vice President Kamala Harris. Harris is now up to 99 Electoral College votes.
UPDATED 8:40 p.m. ET — The Associated Press has called Illinois for Vice President Kamala Harris. Harris is now up to 71 Electoral College votes.
UPDATED 8:30 p.m. ET — The Associated Press has called Arkansas for former President Donald Trump. Trump is now up to 101 Electoral College votes.
The Associated Press has called New Jersey and Delaware for Vice President Kamala Harris. Harris is now up to 52 Electoral College votes.
UPDATED 8 p.m. ET — More than a dozen states have now seen their polls close, with several more being called for the Democratic and Republican nominees.
The Associated Press has called Mississippi, Alabama, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Florida, and South Carolina, for former President Donald Trump. Trump is now up to 95 Electoral College votes.
The Associated Press has called Maryland, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island for Vice President Kamala Harris. Harris is now up to 35 Electoral College votes.
In the Senate, Republicans have flipped the seat that used to belong to Senator Joe Manchin, with Republican Jim Justice winning.
UPDATED 7:30 p.m. ET — The Associated Press has called the state of West Virginia for former President Donald Trump. Trump is now up to 23 Electoral College votes.
UPDATED 7 p.m. ET — The first round of states have been called in the 2024 election as the first round of polls have closed.
The Associated Press has called the state of Kentucky and Indiana for former President Donald Trump. Trump is now up to 19 Electoral College votes.
The Associated Press has called the state of Vermont for Vice President Kamala Harris. Harris is now up to three Electoral College votes.
UPDATED 5:40 p.m. ET — Milwaukee officials have shared that they will be recounting 30,000 absentee ballots “out of an abundance of caution” after an election observer noticed an issue with a tabulator not being properly closed.
The news of the recount comes from CBS58 and VoteBeatUS.
Alexander Shur, a reporter for VoteBeatUS, reported on X that the panel, which contains the tabulator’s on and off switches, was left open after it was supposed to be locked in the morning.
So far, no wrongdoing is believed to have taken place, as Milwaukee County GOP chair Hilario Deleon told Shur, “I don’t think it was tampered with. I think it was just a mistake.”
“Elections are run at the municipal level, and at this point, it is up to the Milwaukee Elections Commission and city attorney’s office to decide what their plan is, in light of what’s happened,” Ann Jacobs, a Democratic WEC commissioner, shared with Shur.
UPDATED 5:22 p.m. ET — Early NBC News Exit polls show that the state of democracy and the economy were top issues for voters as they decided who to cast their votes for on Election Day 2024.
The exit polls showed that 35% of respondents said democracy mattered most when deciding which presidential candidate to vote for, followed by 31% who said the economy, 14% who said abortion, 11% who said immigration, and 4% who said foreign policy.
The exit poll also asked for a grading of President Joe Biden, finding that his approval rating sits at 41% among voters, nine points lower than former President Trump’s was in 2020 when he lost his reelection bid.
When asked how they felt things are going in the US today, around 70% said they were angry or dissatisfied.
UPDATED 4:20 p.m. ET — Vice President Kamala Harris spoke before a crowd at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in Washington, DC, on Tuesday afternoon.
“Thank you so very much and thank you for being active in participating in this very, very important process and this foundation of our democracy … We can’t do it without people like you,” she said, according to a report from CNN.
The Vice president thanked those who are continuing to work for her campaign, while also speaking with multiple callers, encouraging them to vote.
“I am well,” Harris told one caller on the phone. “I just wanted to call you and check in and make sure you know where you can go vote today if you haven’t already.”
She was also heard telling another called to “remind each other and everyone the power of your voice, your vote, this election is obviously so important.”
UPDATED 3:32 p.m. ET — While casting his ballot in Florida on Tuesday, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said he would concede and admit defeat if the election is “fair.”
“I think they’re crazy,” Trump said in Palm Beach, Florida. “If I lose an election, if it’s a fair election, I’d be the first one to acknowledge it. So far, I think it’s been fair.”
The former president was addressing concerns that he may try and fight the results of the election as he did in 2020, when he lambasted the election process, claiming that there were mass amounts of voter fraud. Those claims were never proven in a court of law.
In the years since his 2020 defeat, Trump has refused to acknowledge that President Joe Biden fairly won the election, which his supporters attempted to stop the certification of on Jan. 6, 2021.
Trump dismissed the need to tell his supporters not to be violent if he loses the election, saying that there isn’t a need to.
“I don’t have to tell them that. There’ll be no violence, of course, there’ll be no violence. My supporters are not violent people,” Trump said.
Trump was then asked about the counting process, to which he said he felt it was “too complicated,” suggesting there should be an easier way to process the results of the election.
“If we had a piece of paper watermarked—you know that paper is more sophisticated now than computers—it’s watermarked paper. It’s unbelievable what happens with it. There’s nothing you can do to cheat. We spend hundreds of millions and billions of dollars on these campaigns. You could do it for 8% of the cost and have accuracy, and we wouldn’t have to be worried about when Pennsylvania is going to announce,” Trump said. “It’s really a shame.”
When asked about his chances, the former president said he felt “very confident” as he came into Election Day with “a very big lead.”
“It looks like Republicans have shown up in force, so we’ll see how it turns out,” Trump said.
Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) also answered questions while voting in his home state of Ohio on Tuesday. The Senator shared that he voted for Trump and himself while encouraging others to get out and vote.
On the other side of the ballot, election day was a little different.
Vice President Kamala Harris wasn’t available to answer questions at her voting precinct because she submitted her mail-in ballot to California, where she is a registered voter, earlier this week.
“My ballot is on its way to California, and I’m going to trust the system that it will arrive there,” Harris said on Sunday in Detroit while campaigning.
Her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, also voted early in his state, as he left Minnesota on Monday to close out his campaign with Harris.
As things sit, the race between Trump and Harris remains a toss-up, with seven battleground states expected to be the deciding factor for who wins the presidency. Those states are Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada.
The Hill’s Decision Desk HQ, which averages the results of national polls, is currently giving Trump a 54% chance of winning, projecting he will win the Electoral College by 6 votes over Harris.
