2024 presidential election results

Based on CNN’s current projections, former President Donald Trump has 246 electoral votes while Vice President Kamala Harris has 187 electoral votes.

CNN has projected that Trump will win the key battleground states of North Carolina and Georgia.

Reminder: Each candidate needs 270 electoral votes to win the presidency.

Here’s the latest look at where things stand:

It is 1 a.m. ET and polls are closing across Alaska, where 3 electoral votes are at stake.

The presidential candidates need at least 270 electoral votes to win the presidency.

In presidential politics, Alaska is a safe Republican state. It has voted for the Democratic presidential candidate only once since gaining statehood in 1959. In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson beat Republican nominee Barry Goldwater by almost 31 percentage points in Alaska.

This is Alaska’s first presidential election held under ranked choice voting, where voters can rank up to four candidates in order of preference.

Vice President Kamala Harris will win New Mexico, CNN projects.

There are five electoral votes at stake in New Mexico. It takes at least 270 electoral votes to win the 2024 presidential election.

Who won in 2020: President Joe Biden carried the state and won the general election.

While Biden did well in the state’s largest urban areas and improved from Hillary Clinton in many of state’s suburban areas, former President Donald Trump did better in the rural parts of the state.

US officials continue to say that at least some of the bomb threats made to polling locations in multiple states appeared to originate from Russian email domains. But the investigation is ongoing, and the FBI has yet to publicly confirm that someone in Russia was behind the threats.

“The FBI said in their statement it looks like these threats came from .ru domains,” Jen Easterly, the head of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, told reporters Tuesday night.

“If, in fact, it is definitively linked to a foreign adversary, or Russia, I think we would think through what the implications are as a whole of government,” Easterly said.

The FBI is working with local law enforcement and officials in four states who have received bomb threats to polling and election related locations, a law enforcement official told CNN Tuesday night.

The states that have received these threats — Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona and Georgia —evacuated polling places in the wake of the threats, some of which the FBI previously confirmed originated from Russian email domains and deemed non-credible.

Cedric Richmond, co-chair of the Harris-Walz campaign, speaks at Howard University in the early hours of Wednesday, November 6.

Vice President Kamala Harris will not address supporters tonight, but is expected to speak tomorrow, the co-chair of her campaign said, as election results from across the country continue to come in.

Richmond made the brief remarks to supporters gathered at Harris’ election night event on Howard University’s campus in Washington, DC.

His announcement comes after CNN projected that former President Donald Trump will win two of the key battleground states: North Carolina and Georgia.

Richmond said the campaign will continue to fight “to make sure that every vote is counted. That every voice as spoken.” He also thanked those who attended the election night event, and thanked campaign staff and volunteers for working on behalf of Harris and for “believing in the promise of America.”

This post has been updated with additional details.

The city of Philadelphia has received 202,713 mail-in ballots and another 437,427 votes have been cast at polling places as of 11:55 p.m., City Commissioner Omar Sabir said.

The city’s results are important because Kamala Harris will need a large pickup there to win Pennsylvania, where she trails Donald Trump in the current count.

“We will continuously post updates. We will not stop until we have finished,” Sabir said in a news conference early Wednesday morning local time.

In-person results are still coming in, so it’s still hard to predict turnout, Commissioner Seth Bluestein said.

“We’ll report them as they come in,” Sabir said, noting there were “logistical challenges.”

About 165,000 mail-in ballot results have been posted to the election website, Sabir said. Of those mail-in ballots received, some won’t count because they are unsigned or undated, Bluestein said.

Former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at McCamish Pavilion in Atlanta on October 28.

Former President Donald Trump will win the key battleground state of Georgia, CNN projects.

There are 16 electoral votes at stake in Georgia. It takes at least 270 electoral votes to win the 2024 presidential election.

Who won in 2020: Georgia is a relatively new battleground state in presidential politics and helped deliver President Joe Biden his White House victory in 2020. Georgia flipped blue for the first time in nearly 30 years when Biden won by just 11,779 votes.

The state also determined Democrats would control the Senate in two runoff elections in 2021. The state then again backed the Democratic candidate for Senate in 2022, helping Democrats maintain control of the chamber.

Georgia became a focal point of national politics after the 2020 presidential election, when Trump called on Georgia state officials, including Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” enough votes to flip the state for him to win. The former president and several of his advisers have been indicted for their actions in Georgia during the 2020 election.

Former President Donald Trump’s team is moving members from the Mar-a-Lago viewing party to the convention center now in buses, a source familiar with the matter told CNN.

They were expected to arrive at the convention center ahead of Trump’s speech.

All polls have closed in Clark County now that the last voters have cast their ballots.

The largest county in the state of Nevada saw long lines earlier.

Voters fill out their ballots at a polling site at the First Presbyterian Church of Dearborn on Tuesday in Michigan.

Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said her state is still on track to be the first battleground to report complete unofficial results, potentially overnight, and explained why not much data out of Wayne County can be seen yet.

Benson said to expect a final delivery of about 4,000 Detroit ballots to arrive at the city’s counting center in “about an hour or so.” Those ballots will need to be processed and tabulated before the city can begin reporting results from that batch.

Then, Detroit’s election department sends those results to Wayne County to validate and post the data at the county level. It’s up to the discretion of county clerks, Benson said, to decide whether to report out partial results from city clerks or wait until a locality has finished counting to post that data.

Benson said her office is not aware of any issues holding up results from Wayne County, it’s just a matter of the process. “This is really just the system working,” she said, adding “so many ballots” had already been tabulated. A delivery that came in earlier in the evening is being processed.

Benson also said Warren, Michigan’s third largest city, only had “a few 100” ballots left to tabulate after the clerk there declined to take advantage of a new law allowing for early tabulation of absentee ballots.

Based on CNN’s current projections, this is how the balance of power in Congress is shaping up.

In the Senate, Republicans have 49 seats so far. Democrats have 40. Either side needs 51 seats to have a majority.

Republican Bernie Moreno will defeat Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown in Ohio’s Senate race, CNN projects, a key pickup for the GOP in a state that’s been trending its way to red. Republicans also flipped a seat in West Virginia as CNN projects Gov. Jim Justice will succeed retiring Democrat-turned-independent Sen. Joe Manchin.

In the House, Republicans have 178 seats. Democrats have 150.

Republicans have flipped three seats so far as they defend a narrow majority in the chamber. One seat to flip was North Carolina’s 6th Congressional District, where Republican Addison McDowell is projected to win.

You can follow live updates on the congressional race here.

Vice President Kamala Harris will win Virginia, CNN projects.

There are 13 electoral votes at stake in Virginia. It takes at least 270 electoral votes to win the 2024 presidential election.

Who won in 2020: President Joe Biden carried the state and won the general election.

Vice President Kamala Harris will win Hawaii, CNN projects.

There are four electoral votes at stake in Hawaii. It takes at least 270 electoral votes to win the 2024 presidential election.

Who won in 2020: President Joe Biden carried the state and won the general election.

It is midnight ET and polls are closing across Hawaii, where 4 electoral votes are at stake.

The presidential candidates need at least 270 electoral votes to win the presidency.

Hawaii is a Democratic stronghold in presidential, Senate and gubernatorial races. It has voted for a Republican presidential candidate only twice since gaining statehood in 1959 – Richard Nixon in 1972 and Ronald Reagan in 1984.

Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign event in Raleigh, North Carolina, on November 4.

Donald Trump is projected by CNN to win North Carolina’s 16 electoral votes.

Voters in West Palm Beach, Florida, could be seen and heard cheering to the news, as CNN’s Kaitlan Collins said Trump winning the battleground state would be a “gut check” for the party.

“North Carolina is an important benchmark for the Trump campaign because they were watching it to get a gut check for how they believe the rest of the evening could go,” Collins told CNN’s Jake Tapper.

Trump campaign sources, she said, have told her that they are “increasingly confident as the night is going on.”

Following the projected North Carolina win, CNN’s Chris Wallace said the election is currently feeling more like the 2016 election rather than the 2020 race. Wallace did acknowledge that there still are plenty of votes to still count.

“Generally speaking, he is over-performing what he did in 2020 and she is under-performing what Joe Biden did in 2020,” Wallace said.

People line up to vote outside Allegiant Stadium on November 5, in Las Vegas.

As the first returns arrive at Nevada’s largest county – Clark County – only 62 out of 135 public polling stations have officially shut their doors.

Long lines across Clark County and the state will delay the reporting of any results and the secretary of state pledged that the polls won’t close until every late voter in line before 7 p.m. casts their ballot.

Former President Donald Trump will win three of five electoral votes in Nebraska, CNN projects.

There are five electoral votes at stake in Nebraska. Nebraska is one of only two states (Maine is the other) to allow its electoral votes to be split.

Two of Nebraska’s five electoral votes go to the winner of the statewide vote. One electoral vote goes to the popular vote winner in each of the state’s three congressional districts.

It takes at least 270 electoral votes to win the 2024 presidential election.

Who won in 2020: Trump carried the state, and President Joe Biden won the general election.

Arizona State University graduate student Terry Surveyor, 27, estimated that she waited a full hour tonight to vote in-person at ASU’s Tempe campus fitness center, which at one point drew a 300 plus person line.

A Hopi and Navajo voter, Surveyor had mixed feelings about both candidates, telling CNN that she wasn’t “100%” for either Kamala Harris or Donald Trump but ultimately decided to back Harris. She was, however, encouraged to see the long line of young voters “showing up.”

Just behind her in line was ASU freshman Andrew Armour, who also had concerns about both candidates but felt that Trump was the better of the two, citing immigration, Israel and abortion as the issues he cares about.

Lawrence Parrett, a 21-year-old first-time voter who is backing Harris, said that he’s “happy to be a part” of such a historic election and felt it was important that he wait in line to cast his vote, no matter how long the line was. He said that while he waited, various speakers and volunteers have been making the experience “fun” and that he’s been handed out voter guides, food, water and even glow sticks.

“I think it’s very patriotic,” fellow ASU student Fatima Alaaraji said of her fellow ASU students and other voters who braved the line to vote.

While waiting to cast her vote, Daniela, a 25-year-old Phoenix voter and ASU alum who declined to share her last name, shared that this is the first time she’s decided to vote Republican this election cycle. The daughter of Mexican immigrants whose father runs a restaurant, Daniela said the reason her family and their business were able to survive the COVID pandemic was because of the grants and loans provided under the Trump administration. A Christian, Daniela also cited the GOP’s stance on abortion as being more aligned with her opposition to abortion.

Vice President Kamala Harris will win Washington state, CNN projects.

There are 12 electoral votes at stake in Washington state. It takes at least 270 electoral votes to win the 2024 presidential election.

Who won in 2020: President Joe Biden carried the state and won the general election.

The line to vote at the student union at the University of Nevada, Reno, remained about an hour long as of 8:15 p.m. local time, according to a county poll worker at the location.

She said the wait was three hours long earlier in the evening but has reduced considerably since the close of polls at 7 p.m. She said the line was due in part to a surge of students who registered on Election Day.

Edwin Calva, a 20-year-old sophomore from Las Vegas, was the last student in line. He skateboarded from chemistry class and arrived three minutes before polls closed at 7p.m.

He’d been waiting about an hour and half and had another hour to go, but said it was worth it. “I’ve been preaching all day to my friends about how important it is to vote,” he said. “I would feel bad for not doing my part for the country.” He said he intends to vote for Kamala Harris.

CNN has just projected a key battleground state for former President Donald Trump.

Based on CNN’s current projections, Trump will win North Carolina. That means that Trump has 227 electoral votes while Vice President Kamala Harris has 153.

Here’s the latest look at where things stand:

Reminder: Each candidate needs 270 electoral votes to win the presidency. Track the results here.

Former President Donald Trump holds a campaign rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, on November 2, 2024.

Former President Donald Trump will win the key battleground state of North Carolina, CNN projects.

There are 16 electoral votes at stake in North Carolina. It takes at least 270 electoral votes to win the 2024 presidential election.

Who won in 2020: Trump narrowly carried the battleground state, and President Joe Biden won the general election.

The state is one of the most evenly divided in the country, and while Barack Obama won the state in 2008, Republicans have won it narrowly every election since, even as states like Georgia and Arizona have moved away from them.

Voters cast their ballots at the VFW Post 660 in Garden City, Georgia, on Tuesday.

Gabriel Sterling, chief operating officer with Georgia Secretary of State’s office, told CNN a big chunk of the outstanding roughly 400,000 ballots in the state are in-person votes from metro Atlanta.

There are also two batches of absentee ballots — including 10,400 ballots in Chatham County in the Savannah area that still need to be sent in.

Some context to keep in mind: Key suburban counties in and around the metro Atlanta area like Cobb, Dekalb, Gwinnett and Fulton counties are ones to watch.

Both candidates have also made visits to cities like Savannah to rally voters there, and the Kamala Harris’ campaign embarked on a two-day bus tour in August around parts of the state usually untouched by Democrats.

Attendees react to election results at Howard University in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, November 5.

The Harris campaign’s chair Jen O’Malley Dillon told staffers in an email late Tuesday she did not expect a quick resolution to the race as she remained optimistic that Vice President Kamala Harris still has a path to victory.

While the email did not foreclose any pathways to 270 electoral votes, O’Malley Dillon placed heavy emphasis on the “Blue Wall” of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania — always viewed by the campaign as the likeliest path to victory — rather than Sun Belt states like Arizona.

She cited outstanding vote totals from metro areas in each of the states — including Philadelphia, Detroit and Milwaukee — and suggested the campaign had seen high turnout that could tilt the race in her favor.

She said the results were unlikely to be known until hours from now.

“This is what we’ve been built for, so let’s finish up what we have in front of us tonight, get some sleep, and get ready to close out strong tomorrow,” she told the Harris campaign team.

The Harris campaign has long been least bullish on Arizona among the battlegrounds, an adviser tells CNN, even as the campaign remains hopeful that a slim pathway to secure all seven battleground states remains.

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Polls have closed in most of the United States while voting continues in some Western states, as tens of millions of American voters went to the polls Tuesday to choose the country’s next leaders.

Here’s the latest on the voting front:

Young voters’ signature issue in Nevada: In an emerging issue with ballot signatures, an official told CNN that many young voters do not know how to sign their name. More than 11,000 ballots need to be cured, which means signatures don’t match signatures on file, according to Nevada Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar. “What we’re finding is there’s a lot of younger people who have a signature issue because they live in a digital world, they haven’t used a real signature in real life,” Aguilar told CNN.

Hand-counting in a Pennsylvania County: Cambria County is conducting a hand count of ballots that could not be scanned at the precinct earlier today due to a software issue, Pennsylvania Secretary of State Al Schmidt said, adding that process can “take some time.”

“Logjams” in North Carolina’s election data appearing online: There may be some “logjams” that cause brief delays in North Carolina election data appearing online, because so many counties will be sharing vast amounts of data around the same time, according to Patrick Gannon, spokesperson for the State Board of Elections.

Milwaukee swiftly recounts 30,000 absentee ballots: Milwaukee has counted more than 63,000 out of about 107,000 absentee ballots, officials announced just after 8:30 p.m. local time – making fast progress after an error in setting up tabulator machines required a recount of about 30,000 ballots.

Voting extensions in two Pennsylvania polling places: Two polling places near the West Chester locations evacuated due to a bomb threat will remain open until 10 p.m. ET to accommodate voters who are being redirected, according to Josh Maxwell, chair of the Chester County Board of Elections.

An electoral worker holds up a red sign while processing ballots in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on November 5.

Milwaukee has finished processing 80,601 out of a total 108,325 absentee ballots as of about 9:45 p.m. local time, city election commission chair Paulina Gutierrez told reporters.

Polling places around the city have also reported the results from about 132,000 Election Day votes to Milwaukee County, with eight polling sites still sending results, she said.

“We’re still a couple hours away” from finishing the absentee count, Gutierrez said, predicting that the tally would wrap up sometime after midnight.

Gutierrez emphasized that despite the issue with tabulator machine doors being improperly closed, which led officials to rerun about 30,000 ballots through the machines earlier this evening, the count in Milwaukee has a clear paper trail for each vote.

Meagan Wolfe, the administrator of the Wisconsin Elections Commission, noted at a separate news conference that Milwaukee may take longer to count votes tonight but stressed: “No equipment malfunctioned. No ballot was compromised.”

Wolfe also debunked a video that circulated online allegedly showing a Donald Trump supporter being attacked by Kamala Harris voters at a Wisconsin voting location as disinformation.

“That is not a Wisconsin location. That is not a Wisconsin polling place,” Wolfe said of the video, noting that the video was disinformation which voters needed to be aware of.

When asked by CNN where the video may have come from – including if it came from foreign malign actors – Wolfe said, “that’s going to have to come from the intelligence community.”

Vice President Kamala Harris will win Oregon, CNN projects.

There are eight electoral votes at stake in Oregon. It takes at least 270 electoral votes to win the 2024 presidential election.

Who won in 2020: President Joe Biden carried the state and won the general election.

Based on CNN’s current projections, Vice President Kamala Harris has 153 electoral votes while former President Donald Trump has 211 electoral votes.

The seven key battleground states are still too close to call.

Here’s the latest look at where things stand:

Reminder: Each candidate needs 270 electoral votes to win the presidency. Track the results here.

Election materials at the Fulton County Operations Hub and Elections Center, in Fairburn, Georgia, on November 5.

The final memory cards that need to be scanned in and uploaded with today’s in-person votes have just arrived at the Fulton County elections hub, so they should be done uploading results in relatively short order.

County officials said it feels “amazing” to have the counting go so smoothly, particularly after the county grappled with 32 bomb threats today.

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said just before 11 p.m. ET he expects it “to be a short night tonight.”

“I didn’t want to promise and not deliver, so I said end of the night. Well, it looks like it’s ending early tonight. It looks like this is pretty much done. Oh yes, we will have to wait for that final 400,000 to come in… but I think the results are pretty much baked in based on where the leads are right now,” Raffensperger said in a news conference.

Georgia’s secretary of state said he anticipates most election results will be reported by the end of the night.

At least 88% of votes have been reported statewide. Brad Raffensperger said having a majority of the votes counted already is a “first in our history.”

He said “counties around Georgia received 60 bomb threats” but voters still turned out in record numbers. Earlier today, Raffensperger said that all of the bomb threats against polling places in Georgia appear to have originated from Russia.

He also thanked election workers across the state. He said that “Georgia had a successful election because you worked every day to protect every legal vote.”

Remember: Georgia is a key state in the race against former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. It first took center stage in 2020, flipping blue for the first time in nearly 30 years when Joe Biden won by more than 11,000 votes

A federal judge granted a temporary restraining order against six individuals accused of voter intimidation by recording, following and threatening people inside Michigan polling locations.

According to a complaint filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, six unnamed people were working to “threaten, intimidate, harass, and deter voters” from participating in the presidential election.

Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson addressed the accusations brought by the ACLU, saying that state officials have “been working with partners throughout the state to investigate any claims of intimidation,” but assured that there have been “no credible reports of anyone being stopped from voting or in other ways, blocked from participating in the process.”

Federal Judge Terrence Berg, a Barack Obama appointee, approved the emergency action, ordering the individuals to “cease the harassment or intimidation of voters at or outside of the polls during the November 2024 Election.”

Berg said the defendants could not film people going in and out of polling locations, come within 100 feet of the entrance to polling locations, follow people to or from their cars, or otherwise intimidate voters.

People wave American flags after CNN projected that Vice President Kamala Harris won California at Howard University in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, November 5.

Vice President Kamala Harris will win California, CNN projects.

There are 54 electoral votes at stake in California. It takes at least 270 electoral votes to win the 2024 presidential election.

Who won in 2020: President Joe Biden carried the state and won the general election.

Former President Donald Trump will win Idaho, CNN projects.

There are four electoral votes at stake in Idaho. It takes at least 270 electoral votes to win the 2024 presidential election.

Who won in 2020: Trump carried the state, and President Joe Biden won the general election.

House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters at an event in Louisiana that he is expected to fly to Mar-a-Lago tonight to be with former President Donald Trump at his election watch party.

“I think in a little bit we’re going to go to Mar-a-Lago, I think. And be down there with President Trump” Johnson told reporters.

“I am very hopeful that we’re going to have not only a larger majority in the House to make my job easier, but we retake the Senate and the White House as well,” Johnson added.

A large flag hangs from the ceiling as people vote at the San Francisco Columbarium & Funeral Home in San Francisco on Election Day.

It is 11 p.m. ET, and polls are closing in California, which boasts the largest number of electoral votes in the nation, as well as in Idaho, Oregon and Washington state.

These are the electoral votes at stake in each state:

The presidential candidates need at least 270 electoral votes to win the presidency.

Check what time polls close in your state.

An issue with ballot signatures is emerging among young voters in Nevada: many do not know how to sign their name, Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar told CNN.

State officials are urgently reaching out to a large number of young voters to confirm their signatures so their votes can be counted. But officials say many teenagers and young adults in their 20s only know how to sign their names electronically.

In Clark County, Nevada, more than 11,000 ballots still need verification.

Aguilar has urged people to visit the secretary of state’s website to cure their ballots –– a process that gives voters the opportunity to fix any issues in their absentee or mail-in ballots.

Some background: “Curing” is a process in which voters correct problems with their mail ballot, ensuring that it gets counted. This can mean validating that a ballot is truly from them by adding a missing signature, or by addressing signature-match issues.

Election officials stress that voters can still cast their ballots if they are in line before 7 p.m. local time. Mail-in ballots can also still be counted if they arrive before November 9, so long as they are postmarked by November 5.

People watch as election results come in at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Tuesday, November 5.

People inside Donald Trump’s campaign are feeling increasingly optimistic as the initial numbers roll in Tuesday night.

That optimism is being boosted by results in Virginia and Iowa, which appeared to prove wrong a poll that sent a shockwave through the campaign Saturday night.

Trump’s convention center is cheering loudly with every call in his favor and several partygoers from the Mar-a-Lago event in Florida are starting to filter in.

It remains to be seen if — and when — Trump will come over.

Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt and Philadelphia City Commissioners Chairman Omar Sabir and Seth Bluestein host a walkthrough of the ballot counting center in Philadelphia on October 25.

Pennsylvania Secretary of State Al Schmidt said Cambria County is conducting a hand count of ballots that could not be scanned at the precinct earlier today due to a software issue, adding that process can “take some time.”

The hand-count is typically done by “partisan teams of two” who work together, and the process would be open to observation by candidates and authorized representatives, Schmidt said.

Voting time was extended in Cambria County after a “software malfunction” disrupted voters’ abilities to scan their ballots, the Office of County Commissioners said. The county’s top election official, Scott Hunt, told CNN earlier Tuesday the malfunction was caused by a printing error, and new ballots are on their way to polling places. The ballots that were already cast but could not be read by the machine will be hand-counted, he said.

Meanwhile, at least 41 counties have begun reporting their unofficial results to the department of state, according to Schmidt.

As of 8:15 p.m. ET, 87% of nearly 2.2 million mail-in ballots had been returned, Schmidt said, adding that number will increase because mail ballots could be returned until 8pm. Schmidt also told reporters his office should know by early Wednesday morning the total number of mail ballots returned to counties, adding those numbers will not include overseas and military ballots.

Schmidt said the number of mail-in ballots is lower this year compared to 2020, noting:

Schmidt said earlier said the number of mail-in votes in 2020 was about 2.5 million.

Pennsylvania election officials said previously they had expected fewer mail-in ballots compared to 2024.

Former President Donald Trump will win Kansas, CNN projects.

There are six electoral votes at stake in Kansas. It takes at least 270 electoral votes to win the 2024 presidential election.

Who won in 2020: Trump carried the state, and President Joe Biden won the general election.

A farmer uses a barn to show support for Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump on August 10, 2024 near Charles City, Iowa.

Former President Donald Trump will win Iowa, CNN projects.

There are six electoral votes at stake in Iowa. It takes at least 270 electoral votes to win the 2024 presidential election.

Who won in 2020: Trump carried the state, and President Joe Biden won the general election.

There may be some “logjams” that cause brief delays in North Carolina election data appearing online, because so many counties will be sharing vast amounts of data around the same time, according to Patrick Gannon, spokesperson for the State Board of Elections.

Kristin Mavromatis, a spokesperson for the elections board in Mecklenburg County, home to Charlotte, said her county has results from more than 110 of 195 precincts in as well as early-vote results “but the state site is not updating.”

Danner McCulloh, a spokesperson for the elections board in Wake County, home to Raleigh, said they’re getting results out as fast as possible “but there may be a delay when it actually displays.”

McCulloh the county has received results from about half of its precincts and is uploading them.

Supporters, young and old, cheer as former President Donald Trump takes the stage for an interview with Tucker Carlson during his Live Tour at the Desert Diamond Arena on October 31 in Phoenix.

Donald Trump’s campaign took a different and risky approach to 2024 that relied heavily on wealthy conservative groups for data, infrastructure and significant bank accounts to help the former president find a pathway to 270 electoral votes.

Of those groups, perhaps one of the most important, is Turning Point Action, helmed by Trump loyalist Charlie Kirk and based in Arizona.

TPA — an affiliate of Turning Point USA — spent tens of millions in the state on a get-out-the-vote effort, while Trump’s actual campaign left most of the heavy lifting to them. The “Chase the Vote” program has built out an infrastructure in the state centered around “relational organizing,” a form of community organizing that requires hired “ballot chasers,” full-time staff who are trained to build relationships with specific members of the community and ensure they vote in the upcoming election.

Ballot chasers were hired locally and given a list of 400 to 600 of these voters that they are responsible for getting to the polls this cycle however they can, within the laws of the state — including driving them to cast their ballots, helping mail their ballots and encouraging early voting.

The approach of relying so heavily on outside groups has been untested — until tonight. If it is successful, the campaign will take a victory lap after months of batting away criticism from both Republican and Democratic operatives that this strategy was too risky and unlikely to work.

There are still many ballots to count across the country and polls are still open in a few western states. Analysts and insiders are reacting to some of the early projections of the presidential election.

Here’s what they’re saying:

“No surprises”: CNN’s Chris Wallace said that there have been “no surprises” or states that have flipped parties. He said the projected electoral vote counts that we’re seeing now are consistent with how the presidential race has been called in past elections. “All the states that [Donald] Trump won in that he’s won tonight are states that he won in 2020,” he told CNN’s Jake Tapper. “All the states that [Kamala] Harris won are states that [Joe] Biden won in 2020. There’s been no swing state that has been flipped yet.”

Increasing signs of concern for Virginia: Two attendees of a private event with many of Harris’ biggest donors at Washington DC’s Conrad Hotel are showing increasing signs of concern at some of Trump’s strength in Virginia and other places on the map. The race in the key state has been nearly neck-and-neck, but has not yet been projected.

Trump senior advisers tout Latino voter support: Senior advisers to Trump are touting the number of Latino voters breaking for Trump, particularly Latino men. One of their major efforts this cycle was chipping away at the traditionally democratic voting bloc, with a focus on men. While Republicans don’t think they will win over Latinos as a whole, they believe that in a race where every vote counts, if they are outperforming Trump in 2020 and 2016 with Latino men, it could give him a very important edge. In one example, Trump’s team believes Latino voters could help him win the critical state of Nevada.

Receipts from early voting are brought out during election night on November 5 in Lawrenceville, Georgia.

A large tranche of about 320,000 votes will soon be reported in Gwinnett County, Georgia, a crucial swing state, the elections supervisor in that county told CNN.

The votes represent both absentee and mail-in ballots, Gwinnett County elections supervisor Zach Manifold said.

“We have uploaded it to the state, so they’re just going through it, and it should be up here in a few minutes,” Manifold said.

Manifold said it is taking longer for the votes to be recorded than it usually does.

“It usually isn’t that slow. It was just literally, kind of excruciatingly slow,” he said.

Former President Donald Trump greets supporters during a campaign rally at Lee’s Family Forum in Henderson, Nevada, on October 31.

Former President Donald Trump’s team believes that if they can win Nevada, it will be due to Latino voters and rank-and-file union members.

The Trump campaign launched the “Latino Americans for Trump” coalition as it looked to increase its outreach to Hispanic voters ahead of the election. The decision to launch the new program in Nevada was no coincidence. Latino voters make up a sizable portion of the electorate, and the campaign believed siphoning away some of them from Vice President Kamala Harris could help deliver Trump the critical battleground state — and potentially the White House.

Nevada has backed the Democratic nominee for president in four consecutive elections, but Joe Biden carried it by just 2 points in 2020.

The campaign also “infiltrated” the Culinary Workers Union, which has traditionally worked closely with Democrats as part of a massive get-out-the-vote operation crafted by late Nevada Sen. Harry Reid. While they steered clear of union leadership, campaign representatives held meetings with and had regular discussions with rank-and-file members in an effort to chip away at the voting bloc.

One of Trump’s only new proposals this cycle, eliminating taxes on tips, was announced during a campaign rally in Las Vegas in an effort to win over Nevada voters due to its sizable number of service industry workers.

Former President Donald Trump shakes hands with Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp as they visit the area while the people recover from Hurricane Helene on October 4 in Evans, Georgia.

Former President Donald Trump is watching the Georgia returns from Mar-a-Lago in Florida as Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp watches from the governor’s mansion in Atlanta.

But despite both having a vested interest in a GOP victory in the state, the two men have not spoken in a month, a person familiar tells CNN.

Trump was in the state for a storm briefing last month, but he and Kemp spoke only briefly and never appeared together on the campaign trail otherwise.

An attendee wears a hat supporting former President Donald Trump during a campaign event with Republican nominee for US Senate candidate Bernie Moreno on November 1 in at Spartan Northwood Warehouse in Northwood, Ohio.

Former President Donald Trump will win Ohio, CNN projects.

There are 17 electoral votes at stake in Ohio. It takes at least 270 electoral votes to win the 2024 presidential election.

Who won in 2020: Once the nation’s quintessential battleground state, Ohio is now solidly in the Republican column. Trump won Ohio in 2016 and 2020 by similar margins.

President Joe Biden performed marginally better than Hillary Clinton in Columbus and Cincinnati but performed worse in Cleveland.

The blue-collar coalition that President Barack Obama put together in northeast Ohio slipped away from Democrats – Trump flipped Mahoning County and boosted his margins in Trumbull and Portage counties. All these places voted for Obama twice in 2008 and 2012.

With former President Donald Trump currently leading in Georgia as of 10 p.m. ET with 51.8% of the vote to Vice President Kamala Harris’ 47.2%, with 81% of votes counted, there could be a slow shift blue over the course of the night and morning if 2020 serves as any indication, according to an on-air analysis from CNN’s John King.

In 2020, at 9 p.m. ET on election night in Georgia, Trump led by just over 240,000 votes and more than 15 points. By 12:00 a.m. Wednesday, Trump was still up by nearly 10 points. But 12 hours later, at noon that same day, Biden began chipping away at Trump’s lead as the state counted mail-in ballots, with the Republican nominee leading by just over 2 points.

By Friday, Biden had taken a razor-thin lead of only a couple thousand votes, which grew slightly to .1 point when the race was called for Biden on Saturday. After a final count, Biden had won the state by 11,779 votes and .3 points.

That does not mean Harris will take Georgia, King said, but “it just means that she can. It means that there’s still math out there to do it.”

King also pointed out that votes will be counted quicker this year than four years ago.

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John King shows how Georgia played out in 2020 compared to how it looks in 2024

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A voter casts his ballot while others wait in line for their opportunity to vote on Tuesday, November 5, in Jackson, Mississippi.

Former President Donald Trump will win Mississippi, CNN projects.

There are six electoral votes at stake in Mississippi. It takes at least 270 electoral votes to win the 2024 presidential election.

Who won in 2020: Trump carried the state, and President Joe Biden won the general election.

Vice President Kamala Harris will win Colorado, CNN projects.

There are 10 electoral votes at stake in Colorado. It takes at least 270 electoral votes to win the 2024 presidential election.

Who won in 2020: President Joe Biden carried the state and won the general election.

Milwaukee has counted more than 63,000 out of about 107,000 absentee ballots, officials announced just after 8:30 p.m. CT – making faster progress after an error in setting up tabulator machines required a recount of about 30,000 ballots.

The city redid all of those 30,000 ballots, and has been progressing swiftly since then, city spokesperson Jeff Fleming said, while declining to share a specific estimate of when the count will wrap up.

Despite the swift recount, Republicans are already raising concerns about the snafu and demanding answers from Milwaukee.

Sen. Ron Johnson and Wisconsin GOP chair Brian Schimming visited the city’s central count as election observers and spoke with the city’s chief elections official.

Wearing a neon green “election observer” sticker and trailed by a bevy of reporters and Republican election observers, Johnson walked around the hangar-like counting center, looking at the machines and watching the vote count take place.

After his time at the count center, Johnson told reporters that he had concerns about the validity of the count.

Johnson said the city should be able to provide him videos of the count and the results of the initial tabulation of those 30,000 ballots, Johnson said. “If we don’t have that, I get very, very suspicious.”

In an exchange that lasted several minutes, Johnson told Milwaukee Election Commission executive director Paulina Gutierrez to preserve all surveillance videos of the count and all records about the vote totals from the first tally of the roughly 30,000 ballots.

When Johnson asked to see one of the tabulators, she responded, “knock yourself out.”

Multiple polling places in Nevada had waits of over an hour as polls were scheduled to close at 10 p.m. ET, according to election officials in the state.

Voters who are in line by the time polls are scheduled to close will be able to vote, despite the long wait time. In Nevada, no election results will be published until all polling places have officially closed.

There are nine polling places with over an hour’s wait in Washoe County, according to the county communications manager Bethany Drysdale. In Nye County, a county clerk says the estimated line is two and a half hours for at least one polling place.

Former President Donald Trump speaks at a rally at the Brick Breeden Fieldhouse at Montana State University on August 9 in Bozeman, Montana.

Former President Donald Trump will win Montana, CNN projects.

There are four electoral votes at stake in Montana. It takes at least 270 electoral votes to win the 2024 presidential election.

Who won in 2020: Trump carried the state, and President Joe Biden won the general election.

The last Democratic presidential candidate to carry the state was Bill Clinton in 1992.

Former President Donald Trump will win Utah, CNN projects.

There are six electoral votes at stake in Utah. It takes at least 270 electoral votes to win the 2024 presidential election.

Who won in 2020: Trump carried the state, and President Joe Biden won the general election.

It is 10 p.m. ET and polls are closing in the key battleground state of Nevada, as well as Montana and Utah.

These are the electoral votes at stake in each state:

The presidential candidates need at least 270 electoral votes to win the presidency.

More on the political landscape in Nevada: While Republicans haven’t won Nevada since 2004, this could be the year that breaks the trend. Nevada moved to the right relative to the nation in 2020: even as President Joe Biden won the national popular vote by more than Hillary Clinton had four years earlier, the Silver State’s margin stayed virtually identical.

Nevada, with its large tourism industry, was hit especially hard by the Covid pandemic, and the state’s large population of service workers still struggles with high prices. Perhaps the biggest issue that Kamala Harris and Donald Trump agree on, ending taxes on tips, is especially important here.

Latinos are a critical voting group in Nevada, and they made up 17% of the 2020 electorate, according to the CNN exit poll. Reflective of his performance overall, Biden won 61% of the Latino vote — a similar showing to Clinton’s. In 2012, when Obama won the state by almost seven percentage points, he won 71% of Latino voters.

Check what time polls close in your state.

Georgia is a key state in the race between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. It first took center stage in 2020, flipping blue for the first time in nearly 30 years when Joe Biden won it by just more than 11,000 votes

Key suburban counties in and around the metro Atlanta area like Cobb, Dekalb, Gwinnett and Fulton counties will still be ones to watch this cycle: all of them went for Joe Biden in 2020.

Gabriel Sterling, the chief operating officer for Georgia’ secretary of state’s office, told CNN there are about 1.5 million outstanding votes statewide.

Here’s where things stand in the vote counting process in some of Georgia’s largest counties:

Fulton County, state’s most populous and home to Atlanta:

DeKalb County, large county which also includes parts of Atlanta:

Gwinnett County, large suburban Atlanta county:

Cobb County, large suburban Atlanta county:

Two polling places near the West Chester, Pennsylvania, locations evacuated due to a bomb threat will remain open until 10 p.m. to accommodate voters who are being redirected, according to Josh Maxwell, chair of the Chester County Board of Elections.

A Chester County court order allows the affected voters to fill out provisional ballots at the alternative locations and, as long as they are in line by 10 p.m. ET, will be permitted to vote even after 10 p.m. ET if necessary.

After one bomb threat prompted the evacuation of a building in West Chester, where voting services are located, voters were being redirected to nearby locations, according to Josh Maxwell, chair of the Chester County Board of Elections.

It’s just one of a string of reported bomb threats in multiple swing states on Election Day. Georgia and Arizona have also reported non-credible bomb threats, with officials there saying they suspect the threats originated from Russia.

Former President Donald Trump will win Louisiana, CNN projects.

There are eight electoral votes at stake in Louisiana. It takes at least 270 electoral votes to win the 2024 presidential election.

Who won in 2020: Trump carried the state, and President Joe Biden won the general election.

Common Cause, a nonpartisan watchdog group monitoring elections across the country, said at a press briefing that elections ran “relatively smoothly” on Tuesday, but cautioned that most of the close races won’t be called tonight – and it may take days to count the votes.

“We need to prepare the public of this and that it is not abnormal – this only became abnormal when people made claims that everything should be available on election nights,” said Virginia Solomón, the president and CEO of Common Cause.

The organization briefed reporters on the election process in the key battleground states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona and Georgia, and in two of the largest states: Texas and California.

According to Common Cause, issues voters encountered Tuesday included:

This photo shared by Kamala Harris on Facebook shows her with her mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, left.

Vice President Kamala Harris reflected on her family in the closing hours of Election Day, telling a radio station in Milwaukee she was thinking about her mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris.

Harris was raised primarily by her mother — a breast cancer researcher who died in 2009. She spoke about her at length as she accepted the Democratic nomination this summer.

Harris was asked to respond to voters who aren’t willing to support a woman for the nation’s highest office, and she pointed to her credentials.

“I have been vice president for four years, where I’ve met with over 150 world leaders, many of them multiple times. I’ve negotiated agreements between the United States and our allies around the globe. I have spent countless hours in the Situation Room, speaking with and working with the heads of our military and our intelligence community,” she said, going on to detail her career as a prosecutor.

Harris also encouraged listeners to “please get out and vote.”

In multiple swing states, a string of reported bomb threats was received, causing delays.

The FBI is engaged with local law enforcement and officials in four states, a law enforcement official told CNN. The states that have received these threats — Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona and Georgia — evacuated polling places in the wake of the threats, some of which the FBI previously confirmed originated from Russian email domains and deemed non-credible.

Pennsylvania: A threat prompted the evacuation of a government building in West Chester, where voting services are located, according to Josh Maxwell, chair of the Chester County Board of Elections. The building was being searched by dogs and would be back in service shortly if nothing is found, Maxwell said in a social media post.

Separately, a Pennsylvania judge extended voting in Clearfield County until 9 p.m. ET following a bomb threat at the Clearfield County Administrative Building where votes were being cast.

Clearfield County is northeast of Pittsburgh.

Michigan and Georgia: Several bomb threats at a few Michigan and Georgia polling places caused delays in the vote as security officials cleared the locations. Twelve voting locations in Georgia had their hours extended due to bomb threats, according to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, as well as three additional polling locations due to “normal causes.”

Wisconsin also received threats apparently aimed at disrupting voting, a US official said.

Arizona’s Navajo County also received “unsubstantiated” bomb threats at four locations, and state officials have “reason to believe” that the threats originated in Russia, Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes said Tuesday afternoon.

This post has been updated with additional reporting.

People wait in the crowd at Howard University in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, November 5.

The mood remains upbeat and festive, with dancing, cheering and revelry at Howard University, where Kamala Harris’ campaign is holding an Election Night celebration for supporters.

Not far away in downtown Washington D.C., many of Harris’ biggest donors are gathering for a private event at the Conrad Hotel, where the mood is far more measured, two attendees said, with increasing signs of concern at some of Donald Trump’s strength in Virginia and other places on the map.

While the Harris campaign always said Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin offered “the most straightforward path” to winning 270 electoral votes, the reality of that is causing some angst among loyalists who had hoped for a sweep of all battlegrounds.

The Trump campaign is feeling a new boost of confidence as they watch the numbers roll in from Virginia tonight, a person familiar says. But there is no celebrating yet as they are still watching very closely in Pennsylvania and Michigan.

CNN reported earlier that Trump briefly spoke to supporters tonight who are watching the election results roll in from his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, people familiar tell CNN.

This post has been updated with more reporting on the Trump campaign.

Regardless of whether there is an outcome to the presidential race, a senior Harris aide told CNN she is still “very likely” to address her supporters in Washington, DC.

The mood at tonight’s election watch party is more of a block party, with the campaign only periodically projecting election results to those gathered. Harris’ campaign has leaned heavily into the legacy of her HBCU alma mater with the pre-program featuring Howard students and organizations.

The FBI is engaged with local law enforcement and officials in four states who have received bomb threats to polling and election related locations, a law enforcement official told CNN.

The states that have received these threats — Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona and Georgia —evacuated polling places in the wake of the threats, some of which the FBI previously confirmed originated from Russian email domains and deemed non-credible.

Vice President Kamala Harris will win New York, CNN projects.

There are 28 electoral votes at stake in New York. It takes at least 270 electoral votes to win the 2024 presidential election.

Who won in 2020: President Joe Biden carried the state and won the general election.

Gwinnett County election workers organize and prepare early in-person voting machines for final vote tabulation at the Gwinnett Voter Registrations and Elections on November 5 in Lawrenceville, Georgia.

According to a Gwinnett County official, the Georgia county is still experiencing significant delays in reporting their results due to “adjudication software” for certifying write-in votes.

The county in the key battleground state saw a total of 322,000 pre-election ballots including in-person and mail-in ballots and around 96,000 in-person votes cast today as of 6:30 p.m. local time and the final number is likely to be larger.

While 80-90% of the precincts have come in, the county can’t post the results until the write-in certification is completed. County officials were hoping to get the majority of the early ballots posted by 8:30 p.m. local time but they are further delayed.

Gabriel Sterling, the chief operating officer for Georgia’s secretary of state office, told CNN there are about 1.5 million outstanding votes statewide.

People cast their early ballots at a polling station in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on November 2.

As results continue to come in on election night, all eyes are on seven states that are believed to be pivotal this election as they could conceivably be won by either candidate.

The campaigns largely focused their time and energy energy in these areas. They can be broken up into two general categories:

3 Midwestern battlegrounds, aka “the blue wall” – These are the manufacturing and union-heavy states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. They used to be more reliably Democratic but have shifted in recent years as their populations have changed and as former President Donald Trump has appealed to White voters without a college degree.

When Trump won the White House in 2016, he won all three. When President Joe Biden won in 2020, he won all three. If Vice President Kamala Harris wins all three this year, she will likely have the electoral votes to be president. But polls suggest close races in all three. Turnout will be key, which for Harris means appealing to suburban women and Black voters. All three states have urban centers.

The blue wall states usually vote the same way. The last time they did not all go to the same candidate was in 1988 – notably also a year when California was red and West Virginia was blue. In those eight elections since 1988, the only time the blue wall states went to a Republican was in 2016, when they were won by Trump.

4 Sun Belt battlegrounds – These states with growing populations include Arizona and Nevada in the West and North Carolina and Georgia in the East. Arizona, Georgia and North Carolina used to be more reliably Republican. Trump won North Carolina twice, but the margins were close in 2020. The last Democrat to win there was Barack Obama in 2008. Biden was the first Democrat to win Georgia since Bill Clinton in 1992 and Arizona since Clinton in 1996.

Here are more key things to know about the US election works and below see when we could find out results:

An Arizona state judge has ruled that nine polling locations in Apache County must stay open until 9 p.m. local time after voting machine and printer issues at numerous locations earlier in the day.

The nine locations whose hours will be extended are Lukachukai, Lupton, Rock Point, Dennehotso, Chinle, Cottonwood, Wheatfields, Fort Defiance and St. Michaels, according to a court order.

The extended voting hours may mean voters have to fill out provisional ballots, according to Judge Michael Latham, who issued the ruling. According to audio of the Tuesday night hearing obtained by CNN, Latham said votes “need to be treated as a provisional ballot” and “be sequestered.”

The Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission filed a complaint in state court to keep polls there open two more hours, the commission’s executive director Leonard Gorman told CNN earlier Tuesday. This comes after multiple polling locations reported voting machines and printers failing earlier that day.

Buu Nygren, the president of Navajo Nation, said Tuesday he’s “very disappointed” after Apache County experienced the technical issues. He expressed concerns about the long commutes over vast and sometimes rough terrain that Navajo voters made this morning to vote, only to be told to come back later.

Some context: Apache County was one of the five counties in Arizona that voted for President Joe Biden in 2020, when Biden narrowly won the state by fewer than 11,000 votes. Apache County’s overall turnout in 2020 roughly doubled the turnout compared from 2016.

Vice President Kamala Harris will win Illinois, CNN projects.

There are 19 electoral votes at stake in Illinois. It takes at least 270 electoral votes to win the 2024 presidential election.

Who won in 2020: President Joe Biden carried the state and won the general election.

Vice President Kamala Harris will win Rhode Island, CNN projects.

There are four electoral votes at stake in Rhode Island. It takes at least 270 electoral votes to win the 2024 presidential election.

Who won in 2020: President Joe Biden carried the state and won the general election.

Latino voters are breaking for Vice President Kamala Harris over former President Donald Trump, but it’s by a narrower margin than for past Democratic candidates, according to the latest results from CNN’s national exit poll of voters in this year’s election.

Those results currently show Harris taking slightly more than half of support among Latino voters nationally. In 2020, Biden won about 65% of support among Latino voters.

The shift appears particularly stark among Latino men. The exit poll currently finds Trump taking about 54% support among that group, which Biden won in 2020. Roughly 6 in 10 Latinas say they voted for Harris, which would be a downtick from the close to 7 in 10 who backed Biden four years ago.

CNN’s exit polls for the 2024 general election include interviews with thousands of voters, both those who cast a ballot on Election Day and those who voted early or absentee. That scope makes them a powerful tool for understanding the demographic profile and political views of voters in this year’s election. And their findings will eventually be weighted against the ultimate benchmark: the results of the elections themselves. Even so, exit polls are still polls, with margins for error — which means they’re most useful when treated as estimates, rather than precise measurements. That’s particularly true when the exit poll numbers haven’t yet been adjusted to match final election results.

CNN Exit Polls are a combination of in-person interviews with Election Day voters and in-person interviews, telephone and online polls measuring the views of early and absentee by-mail voters. They were conducted by Edison Research on behalf of the National Election Pool. In-person interviews on Election Day were conducted at a random sample of 279 polling locations. The results also include interviews with early and absentee voters conducted between October 24 and November 2, in person at 27 early voting locations, by phone or online. Results for the full sample of 20,934 respondents have a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points; it is larger for subgroups.

Former President Donald Trump has so far swept reliable states and Vice President Kamala Harris has picked up blue strongholds, based on CNN’s current projections. Battleground states remain too early to call.

Harris has 30 electoral votes while Trump has 154 electoral votes.

Here’s the latest look at where things stand:

Reminder: Each candidate needs 270 electoral votes to win the presidency. Track the results here.

Campaign staff cheer for Vice President Kamala Harris's first visit to her Presidential Campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware on July 22.

Vice President Kamala Harris will win Delaware, CNN projects.

There are three electoral votes at stake in Delaware. It takes at least 270 electoral votes to win the 2024 presidential election.

Who won in 2020: President Joe Biden carried the state and won the general election.

Supporters of former President Donald Trump watch election updates on a screen connected to a car on Election Day, near Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida, on Tuesday.

Donald Trump briefly spoke to supporters who are watching the election results roll in from his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, people familiar told CNN. Wearing his signature red tie and dark suit, Trump spoke to people gathered in one of the rooms at the beachside club while standing underneath a glittering chandelier and giant television screen.

He’s surrounded by donors, family and friends — but also asking for constant updates from his campaign team. Trump’s team is also carefully watching the reporting on exit polls for data on how Latino voters are breaking.

Senior advisers are touting the number of Latino voters breaking for Trump, particularly Latino men. One of their major efforts this cycle was chipping away at the traditionally democratic voting bloc, with a focus on men.

While Republicans don’t think they will win over Latinos as a whole, they believe that in a race where every vote counts, if they are outperforming Trump in 2020 and 2016 with Latino men, it could give him a very important edge. In one example, Trump’s team believes Latino voters could help him win the critical state of Nevada this cycle.

Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance, is at the watch party, as well as those responsible for the transition if he wins: Howard Lutnick and Linda McMahon. David Sacks, Vivek Ramaswamy and Steve Wynn were also spotted.

Tucker Carlson is broadcasting a live streaming show from the one of the club’s wood-paneled rooms, interviewing a slew of Trump allies and surrogates.

Vice President Kamala Harris is watching the returns at the Naval Observatory in Washington, DC, and having a family dinner, aides said, even as she works the phones and is in constant contact with her campaign’s war room in Wilmington.

Harris remains upbeat and optimistic, particularly in the turnout reports across the “blue wall,” but the campaign is also bracing for a long night ahead.

As Nebraska polls close, the Harris campaign is confident of the blue dot in the state’s second congressional district. “Now, we just need the blue wall to go with it,” a top Democratic adviser to the campaign tells CNN.

Multiple bomb threats have been made to polling locations and municipal buildings across Pennsylvania in the last hour, but so far there is no credible threat to the public, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said Tuesday night.

Pennsylvania state officials are investigating with the FBI, Shapiro said at a news conference.

After one bomb threat prompted the evacuation of a building in West Chester, where voting services are located, voters are being redirected to nearby locations, according to Josh Maxwell, chair of the Chester County Board of Elections.

It’s just one of a string of reported bomb threats in multiple swing states on Election Day. Georgia and Arizona have also reported non-credible bomb threats, with officials there saying they suspect the threats originated from Russia.

The building was being searched by dogs and will be back in service shortly if nothing is found, Maxwell said in another post.

West Chester resident Matt Smitreski, 33, told CNN he arrived at the voter services building late in the day to avoid lines but was temporarily turned away.

“There were a lot of groups of people standing outside. I didn’t think anything of it, so I just walked to the front of the building,” Smitreski said. “The security told me I was unable to enter due to a bomb threat and to stay posted for additional times to come back and vote.”

This post has been updated with details from Gov. Shapiro’s news conference.

An election worker oversees voting process in the 2024 presidential election on Election Day at a polling station in Galleria At Sunset mall in Henderson, Nevada, on November 5.

The ballots cast so far in Nevada are higher than the total vote in the 2020 election, Nevada Secretary of State Francisco V. Aguilar told CNN.

The total of early voting and mail-in votes will be the first to be made public when polls close, which is scheduled to be at 7 p.m. local time, but will continue until everyone in line votes, he said.

Former President Donald Trump will win Wyoming, CNN projects.

There are three electoral votes at stake in Wyoming. It takes at least 270 electoral votes to win the 2024 presidential election.

Who won in 2020: Trump carried the state, and President Joe Biden won the general election.

Former President Donald Trump will win South Dakota, CNN projects.

There are three electoral votes at stake in South Dakota. It takes at least 270 electoral votes to win the 2024 presidential election.

Who won in 2020: Trump carried the state, and President Joe Biden won the general election.

Former President Donald Trump will win North Dakota, CNN projects.

There are three electoral votes at stake in North Dakota. It takes at least 270 electoral votes to win the 2024 presidential election.

Who won in 2020: Former President Donald Trump carried the state, and President Joe Biden won the general election.

Former President Donald Trump attends his first campaign rally after announcing his candidacy for president in the 2024 election at an event in Waco, Texas, on March 25.

Former President Donald Trump will win Texas, CNN projects.

There are 40 electoral votes at stake in Texas. It takes at least 270 electoral votes to win the 2024 presidential election.

Who won in 2020: Trump carried the state, and President Joe Biden won the general election.

Republicans have carried Texas in each of the last 11 presidential elections. Trump won Texas by 5.6 percentage points in 2020, the smallest margin of victory for a Republican since 1996.

A Pennsylvania judge extended voting in Clearfield County until 9 p.m. ET following a bomb threat at the Clearfield County Administrative Building where votes were being cast.

Clearfield County is northeast of Pittsburgh.

A voter walks outside Mesa Community College in Mesa, Arizona, on Tuesday.

It is 9 p.m. ET, and polls are closing in several states, including in the key battleground states of Arizona, Michigan and Wisconsin.

Polls are also closing in Texas and New York, where a large number of electoral votes are up for grabs.

Here is where polls are closing, and the electoral votes at stake in each state:

The presidential candidates need at least 270 electoral votes to win the presidency.

More on the political landscape up of Arizona, Michigan and Wisconsin: Joe Biden’s victory in Arizona four years ago was the closest vote margin in the country – 10,457 votes. Four years later, the Grand Canyon State remains a key battleground up and down the ballot.

Biden flipped Michigan after Donald Trump won the state in 2016 as the first Republican to do since 1988. Of the most competitive states, Michigan was the one Biden won most comfortably – by more than 150,000 votes and nearly three percentage points.

In four of the last six presidential elections, Wisconsin has been decided by less than a percentage point on the presidential level. In 2016, Trump won Wisconsin by 0.7 percentage points. In 2020, Joe Biden flipped the state, winning by 0.6 percentage points. Four years later, Kamala Harris and Trump are poised for a photo-finish once again.

Check what time polls close in your state.

Voters wait in line at the Arizona State University polling location on Election Day in Tempe, Arizona, on Tuesday.

With minutes left until polls close across the state, hundreds of college students are still waiting in line to vote at Arizona State University’s Tempe campus fitness center, according to Alysa Horton, an ASU student and digital editor in chief at the university’s State Press newspaper.

The line continued to grow in the final hour of voting.

“The line looks like students are determined to get their vote in and they’ll go to any extreme to stay in line,” Horton said. “I saw no one leave the line because of the wait.”

With many students opting to vote on Election Day in person, the line – which at one point consisted of roughly 300 people – extended for less than a quarter of a mile, Horton said.

Nearby, Horton heard a group of “Sun Devils for Harris” campaigners chanting, “If you’re in line, stay in line.”

Meanwhile, supporters and opponents of the Arizona Abortion Access Act displayed signs indicating how they think students should vote on the hot button proposition, Horton said. The act would enshrine the right to an abortion in the state constitution up to fetal viability, around 22 to 24 weeks into pregnancy.

An official in Macomb County, Michigan – a suburb of Detroit and a historic swing county — said he is going with a police escort to pick up memory cards from voting precincts in an effort to speed up vote counting after long lines kept polls open later than expected.

Macomb County Clerk Anthony Forlini said because lines were very long, they weren’t able to shut down polls at 8 p.m. ET as expected and won’t be able to have results at 9 p.m. ET as they had hoped. Officials in the county are tabulating votes now.

Forlini said there were over 122,000 early votes cast in-person and 182,000 mail-in ballots as of Wednesday.

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign rally in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on November 4.

As returns continue to roll in, the picture in battleground states remains opaque even among Harris insiders. But their attention remains focused on positive signs they’re seeing in Pennsylvania, a state that would make their path to 270 electoral votes much easier.

Philadelphia’s Mayor Cherelle Parker told local outlets today that she predicts the city’s turnout for Harris to be between 650,000 and 750,000, which would significantly exceed turnout for Biden in 2020, which was around 600,000 votes. A Parker aide confirmed that prediction to CNN.

Meanwhile, in Philadelphia, according to the campaign, the three wards that have the highest concentration of Puerto Rican voters nearly reached their 2020 turnout levels by mid-day today. The campaign is convinced that Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally comments last week, where a comedian described Puerto Rico as a floating pile of garbage, hurt the Trump campaign in this final week. They hope those comments move Puerto Rican voters, who are nearly 400,000 strong in Pennsylvania, toward Harris.

Former President Donald Trump will win Arkansas, CNN projects.

There are six electoral votes at stake in Arkansas. It takes at least 270 electoral votes to win the 2024 presidential election.

Who won in 2020: Trump carried the state, and President Joe Biden won the general election.

Former President Donald Trump will win South Carolina, CNN projects.

There are nine electoral votes at stake in South Carolina. It takes at least 270 electoral votes to win the 2024 presidential election.

Who won in 2020: Trump carried the state, and President Joe Biden won the general election.

Campaign signs are displayed in front of the All Soul's Church in Scott, Arkansas on Tuesday.

It is 8:30 p.m. ET, and polls are closing in Arkansas, where six electoral votes are at stake.

The presidential candidates need at least 270 electoral votes to win the presidency.

In the 30 years since Bill Clinton’s last term as governor, Arkansas has become a thoroughly Republican state.

Republicans have complete control of state government and make up the entirety of the state’s congressional delegation.

Check what time polls close in your state.

A judge rejected Democrats’ effort to extend voting near Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, where wait times were hours long.

Democrats asked the judge to extend voting at the Bethlehem Ward 3 polling place until 10 p.m. ET to accommodate for lines they said stretched as long as four hours. They alleged the board of elections didn’t provide enough voting machines or staff at the location.

A judge denied the request and said registered voters in line at 8 p.m. ET will be able to vote.

Lehigh University is in eastern Pennsylvania. Two students told CNN earlier that they waited six hours to vote.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz called into a polling station in Pennsylvania to speak to students waiting in line to vote this evening, a Harris campaign official told CNN.

Walz spoke via speakerphone to students at the polling location in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, encouraging them to stay in line and thanking them for exercising their right to vote, the official said.

The students, who had been waiting in line for several hours, told Walz they were determined to make their voices heard. They expressed their excitement about participating in this election and encouraged their friends and peers to stay in line and cast their vote, the official said.

Donald Trump supporters slowly trickling into his West Palm Beach election night watch party seem steeled for a long night and have hardly reacted to the live broadcast of returns displayed on large screens inside the convention center.

That changed, though, when televisions carrying Fox News announced its projection that Trump had won his home state of Florida. The crowd, which includes many locals, broke into cheers and applause.

Trump, who changed his residence from New York to his Florida estate in the closing days of his term in office, has seen the Sunshine State shift from a hard-fought battleground in 2016 and 2020 to an afterthought during his most recent campaign for the White House. In that time, the number of registered Republicans has grown by a million and the party surpassed Democrats in the state for the first time in the state’s modern history.

As it is, neither Trump nor Vice President Kamala Harris committed substantial resources to the state, even as Democrats hoped ballot referendums to expand abortion access and legalize recreational marijuana could draw more left-leaning voters to the polls. In the end, CNN projected Trump had won his adopted home state shortly after polls closed in the Panhandle.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and former President Donald Trump shake hands during a campaign rally at Desert Diamond Arena on August 23 in Glendale, Arizona.

Former President Donald Trump is watching election returns with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — including returns from Wisconsin, where RFK Jr. remains on the ballot, despite Kennedy’s best efforts to remove his name from the battleground state.

Trump’s team is watching Wisconsin closely tonight but not hoping for any hints soon, knowing how long it could take to count there and how close the margin could be.

Remember: The Supreme Court declined last week to let Kennedy withdraw his name from ballots in both Wisconsin and Michigan, battleground states where votes for his now suspended campaign could cut into support for Trump.

Kennedy, who left the presidential race in August and endorsed Trump, urged the Supreme Court in an emergency appeal to force the states to yank his name from the ballots. But state election officials countered that early and absentee voting in the states was already well underway. In other words, they said, it was too late.

CNN’s John Fritze contributed reporting to this post.

The FBI warned Tuesday evening of three fake messages purporting to be from the bureau that “promote false narratives surrounding the election,” including one video about malfunctioning voting machines.

The bureau did not say who was behind the fake messages, or where they were circulated.

One of the fake videos, the FBI said, claims that the FBI received “9,000 complaints about malfunctioning voting machines” that were submitting votes for a “specific candidate.” The claim mirrors debunked claims circulating last week about machines switching votes.

A second video falsely promoted to be from the FBI and another government agency suggests that schools suspend educational activities through November 11 because “the risk of school shooting and riots has increased significantly” due to the presidential election, the bureau said.

The FBI also warned of a fabricated written statement “warning media and bloggers against publishing information about violence at polling stations” because they “may provoke a spontaneous increase in such incidents.”

A campaign sign for former President Donald Trump is seen on Route 33 on November 2 in Bartonsville, Pennsylvania.

Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday night that if he wins Pennsylvania, he wins “the whole deal,” while calling into a Philadelphia radio show and continuing to urge Republican voters to stay in voting lines.

“We win Pennsylvania, we win the whole deal,” Trump told Rich Zeoli Show on Philadelphia’s Talk Radio 1210 WPHT.

From his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, he also called into “The Mark Belling show,” a Wisconsin radio program, earlier on Tuesday, a person familiar said.

He said “the big question” is if he can garner more support in Philadelphia, which has been a Democratic stronghold.

The former president continued urging people to go out and vote during a call to Fox News host Sean Hannity’s radio show Tuesday evening. He told people listening to “immediately hang up the phone and run out and vote. Like, immediately.”

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins and Kate Sullivan contributed reporting. This post has been updated with details about Sean Hannity’s show.

Extensions of voting hours were granted in some communities Tuesday where issues arose that caused some polling stations to close down briefly. Some of those were due to machine malfunctions and others were blamed on non-credible bomb threats from Russian domains.

Georgia: 12 voting locations had their hours extended due to bomb threats, according to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, as well as three additional polling locations due to “normal causes.”

Arizona: In Apache County, the Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission filed a complaint in state court to keep polls there open two more hours, the commission’s executive director Leonard Gorman told CNN. This comes after multiple polling locations reported voting machines and printers failing earlier Tuesday. In Maricopa County, the tabulation of early ballots was slowed due to the fact that the ballots were two pages long, one county official said.

Nevada: Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar created a website for voters to cure their ballots by verifying their signatures before the ballots can be counted, saying the number of outstanding ballots is a concern. Aguilar told CNN his office is seeing a trend of younger voters needing to cure their mail ballots. They are texting the younger voters in part because, he says, young people tend to not answer their phones, making it harder for them to be contacted.

Wisconsin: Milwaukee elections officials decided to re-run about 30,000 absentee ballots through tabulator machines “to ensure the American public that this election is going to be run safe, secure and transparent,” Paulina Gutierrez, the executive director of the Milwaukee Election Commission, told reporters Tuesday night.

Meanwhile, former President Donald Trump posted on his Truth Social page about supposed law enforcement activity in Philadelphia and Detroit. “Philadelphia and Detroit! Heavy Law Enforcement is there!!!” he wrote. Detroit officials said they’re unaware of any new police activity in the city, and the mayor’s office said they don’t know what Trump was referring to. This came after a previous post where he falsely claimed there was “massive cheating” happening in Philadelphia. A bipartisan array of Philadelphia officials has already said Trump’s claims are baseless.

In this September 2022 photo, a clinic escort assists a patient at a Planned Parenthood Health Center in Philadelphia.

Roughly two-thirds of voters in Pennsylvania say abortion should be legal in most or all cases, according to the initial results of CNN’s exit poll of voters in the state.

The exit poll also finds that voters in the Keystone State largely support fracking, with about 55% saying they favor its use in the state and fewer than 4 in 10 opposed.

Overall, Pennsylvania voters are split between the economy and the state of democracy as their top issue, with about 3 in 10 choosing each as their top issue, followed by about 15% saying abortion, 12% immigration and fewer than 5% foreign policy.

President Joe Biden’s approval rating in the state stands at about 43%, fairly similar to his overall national numbers with this year’s electorate.

CNN’s exit polls for the 2024 general election include interviews with thousands of voters, both those who cast a ballot on Election Day and those who voted early or absentee. That scope makes them a powerful tool for understanding the demographic profile and political views of voters in this year’s election. And their findings will eventually be weighted against the ultimate benchmark: the results of the elections themselves. Even so, exit polls are still polls, with margins for error — which means they’re most useful when treated as estimates, rather than precise measurements. That’s particularly true for the earliest exit poll numbers, which haven’t yet been adjusted to match final election results.

CNN Exit Polls are a combination of in-person interviews with Election Day voters and in-person interviews, telephone and online polls measuring the views of early and absentee by-mail voters. They were conducted by Edison Research on behalf of the National Election Pool. The Pennsylvania exit poll includes in-person interviews on Election Day conducted at a random sample of 40 polling locations. The results also include interviews with absentee voters conducted between October 24 and October 31 by phone or online. Results for the full sample of 2,793 respondents have a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points; it is larger for subgroups.

Voters are expected to cast more provisional ballots in the battleground state of North Carolina than in the 2020 election, a state election official told CNN.

Nearly half of the 5,770 voters who used a provisional ballot during early voting did it because of the state’s photo ID requirement, the official said.

The law, which went into effect last year, requires voters in the Tar Heel state to present a photo ID in order to fill out a ballot. Those who do not bring ID are able to vote with a provisional ballot, then either fill out an exception form or return to their local election office with ID for ballot to be approved.

In 2020, 40,767 total voters cast provisional ballots in the state, which delivered former President Donald Trump his narrowest victory of the election cycle.

Harris campaign officials have suggested that it could take days to declare a winner in the presidential race, but they’re bracing for legal fallout to extend for weeks, regardless of the outcome.

With a margin-of-error race expected to raise the possibility of legal challenges — on top of the groundwork Republicans have been preparing — Harris’ team has told donors to expect “four to six weeks where everyone is suing everybody,” according to a senior financier involved in the conversations.

A second major donor told CNN the campaign suggested it would need to conserve capital — or raise more — to cover hefty legal bills accompanying those defenses.

The Harris campaign’s outside counsel, Dana Remus, said the campaign has attorneys stationed around the country to field challenges for counts, recounts, and audits, all of which she described as “legitimate.”

“The election is decided by the American people, and there is no way to overturn those results,” Remus said this week. “Our institutions won’t allow it, including the Supreme Court.”

People in West Palm Beach, Florida, attend an election night watch party for former President Donald Trump.

Former President Donald Trump will win Florida, CNN projects.

There are 30 electoral votes at stake in Florida. It takes at least 270 electoral votes to win the 2024 presidential election.

Who won in 2020: Trump carried the state, and President Joe Biden won the general election.

While once a key presidential battleground state with record-close elections, Florida has become a more consistently Republican state in both state and federal elections.

Former President Donald Trump will win Oklahoma, CNN projects.

There are seven electoral votes at stake in Oklahoma. It takes at least 270 electoral votes to win the 2024 presidential election.

Who won in 2020: Trump carried the state, and President Joe Biden won the general election. In 2020, the state gave Trump his fourth-largest margin of victory (behind Wyoming, West Virginia and North Dakota).

Former President Donald Trump will win Missouri, CNN projects.

There are 10 electoral votes at stake in Missouri. It takes at least 270 electoral votes to win the 2024 presidential election.

Who won in 2020: Trump carried the state, and President Joe Biden won the general election.

Former President Donald Trump will win Tennessee, CNN projects.

There are 11 electoral votes at stake in Tennessee. It takes at least 270 electoral votes to win the 2024 presidential election.

Who won in 2020: Trump carried the state, and President Joe Biden won the general election.

Harris arrives on stage for a campaign rally on the Ellipse on October 29 in Washington, DC.

Vice President Kamala Harris will win the District of Columbia, CNN projects.

There are three electoral votes at stake in the District of Columbia. It takes at least 270 electoral votes to win the 2024 presidential election.

Who won in 2020: The District of Columbia provided Joe Biden with his largest general election margin of victory. He received 92.1% of the vote to former President Donald Trump’s 5.4%.

The 23rd Amendment to the US Constitution, ratified in 1961, gave DC residents the right to vote in presidential elections.

Vice President Kamala Harris will win Maryland, CNN projects.

There are 10 electoral votes at stake in Maryland. It takes at least 270 electoral votes to win the 2024 presidential election.

Who won in 2020: President Joe Biden carried the state and won the general election.

Former President Donald Trump will win Alabama, CNN projects.

There are nine electoral votes at stake in Alabama. It takes at least 270 electoral votes to win the 2024 presidential election.

Who won in 2020: Trump carried the state, and President Joe Biden won the general election.

Vice President Kamala Harris will win Massachusetts, CNN projects.

There are 11 electoral votes at stake in Massachusetts. It takes at least 270 electoral votes to win the 2024 presidential election.

Who won in 2020: President Joe Biden carried the state and won the general election.

Voters receive their ballots at a polling place on Tuesday in Springfield, Pennsylvania.

It is 8 p.m. ET, and polls are closing in several states, including in the key battleground state of Pennsylvania, as well as in Florida, where a large number of electoral votes are at stake.

Here is where polls are closing, and the electoral votes at stake in each state:

The presidential candidates need at least 270 electoral votes to win the presidency.

Why Pennsylvania is key: Pennsylvania is the most important battleground state of the 2024 election. Both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have made the commonwealth’s 19 electoral votes central to their respective paths to victory.

In 2016, Trump became the first Republican to win Pennsylvania since George H.W. Bush in 1988, carrying the state by just over 44,000 votes. In 2020, Joe Biden, a Pennsylvania native, flipped the state, winning by just over 80,000 votes.

Check what time polls close in your state.

Two Missouri poll workers were killed Tuesday after severe flooding hit the state overnight, according to a statement from the Wright County Clerk’s Office.

The office is “saddened by the loss of life” that occurred “as a result of swift, high water from the storms that came through the area the night before,” the statement said.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol recovered two drowning victims in Beaver Creek flooding after their vehicles were swept off the road, the agency said in a statement. The victims were identified as a 70-year-old man and a 73-year-old woman.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol confirmed to CNN the victims were the Wright County poll workers.

“They were dedicated citizens who valued fair and honest elections. They will be missed,” the Wright County Clerk’s Office statement said.

“This couple were wonderful people who donated their time to serve their community,” it added.

Polls will be closing soon in Pennsylvania, and Kamala Harris’ campaign is pointing to high turnout in Philadelphia. Advisers believe turnout in the city could exceed Joe Biden’s 2020 levels.

Bob Brady, the chair of the Philadelphia Democratic Party, said their projections indicate a turnout of 75% in the city. That compares to a 66% turnout in 2020, Brady said, and could mean 50,000 to 10,000 more votes than in 2020.

To win the state’s 19 electoral votes, Harris needs to drive up turnout in Philadelphia and the collar counties — as well as holding steady across the rest of the state. Pennsylvania is the biggest prize on the map, and the Harris war room is diving into how many voters cast ballots. Advisers are also seeing strength in Pittsburgh.

“This is where the ground game matters,” a senior Democratic adviser in the state said. “There is no biggest test than Pennsylvania.”

By 5:30 p.m., the Harris campaign said it exceeded its 2016 raw turnout — of course that year, Hillary Clinton lost.

But, Brady and other Democratic officials were careful to not project optimism.

“I don’t know until the night’s over,” Brady said. “I don’t want to be surprised.”

Buu Van Nygren in Phoenix in 2022.

Buu Nygren, the president of Navajo Nation, said Tuesday he’s “very disappointed” after Apache County experienced technical issues at several of its voting locations.

Apache County was one of the five counties in Arizona that voted for President Joe Biden in 2020, when Biden narrowly won the state by fewer than 11,000 votes. Apache County’s overall turnout in 2020 roughly doubled the turnout compared from 2016.

“We know that in the last election, Navajo really had a say in President Biden’s victory. So it’s kind of ironic to know that technical issues happened in the most Navajo county in the state,” Nygren said.

Nygren expressed concerns about the long commutes over vast and sometimes rough terrain that Navajo voters made this morning to vote, only to be told to come back later. As CNN has reported, Navajo Nation is requesting the county extend its voting hours on Tuesday night to allow people more time to return to voting locations.

“A lot of our elders and our main voters up here travel many distances. Some of them travel on washboard roads where they gotta travel 10 to 15 miles an hour. Some of the roads are muddy. Some have to borrow some gas money or catch a ride with a friend just to make it to the polls,” he said.

Nygren said it’s unclear how many voters were impacted.

“One vote is one vote,” he said. “It’s very important to get people to come out, and it must not have been a good experience for them, for that to happen to them. So it’s just again, overall, they’re disappointed.”

West Virginia Governor Jim Justice speaks during the second day of the 2024 Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 16, 2024.

Republican Jim Justice will win West Virginia’s Senate seat, according to a projection from the CNN Decision Desk.

This is a pickup for Republicans.

You can follow live results and updates on the House and Senate races here.

Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is investigating a text message from a local Republican representative that was sent on Tuesday urging voters to incorrectly vote on Wednesday, the day after Election Day.

The text in support of Michigan Republican House Rep. Kathy Schmaltz told voters in Jackson, Michigan, on Tuesday that “polls will open tomorrow at 7:00am,” according to a copy of the message shared with CNN.

Shortly after the message circulated, Michigan Democratic State Sen. Sue Shink filed a complaint with the Secretary of State’s office.

The secretary of state office’s spokesperson Angela Benander told CNN “we have received the complaint and we are investigating.”

Mail-in votes for Washington County, Pennsylvania, are expected to be posted shortly after polls close at 8:00 p.m. ET, Washington County Commissioner Nick Sherman told CNN.

More than 33,000 mail-in ballots were sent out in Washington County, and almost 29,000 of those have been received back, which officials have been scanning for the last few hours, he said.

There are a total of 148,820 registered voters in Washington County, which is south of Pittsburgh.

At the two precincts where CNN’s team is located, more than 1,670 voters have cast ballots so far, according to Sherman. There are more than 3,000 voters registered at this location, and officials expect a late surge before polls close.

Some voters who spoke with CNN said they were casting ballots for the first time, and some said it’s likely they would not have voted at all if Pennsylvania wasn’t considered such a tightly contested battleground state.

Officials in Detroit, Michigan, said they’re unaware of any new police activity in the city, after former President Donald Trump posted online about “law enforcement” supposedly heading to the Democratic stronghold.

“We are unaware of any police presence in the city for elections beyond what was outlined in a press conference last Thursday and widely reported nationally,” Matt Friedman, a spokesperson for the Detroit Department of Elections, told CNN.

A spokesman for the Detroit mayor’s office also said they don’t know what Trump was referring to.

Earlier, Trump posted on Truth Social: “Philadelphia and Detroit! Heavy Law Enforcement is there!!!”

This came after a previous post where he falsely claimed there was “massive cheating” happening in Philadelphia. A bipartisan array of Philadelphia officials has already said Trump’s claims are baseless.

Daniel Baxter, the chief operating officer for the city of Detroit’s elections, told CNN that “nothing has changed” in terms of police presence and planning at Huntington Place, the main counting center for absentee ballots downtown. “We’ve been consistent absolutely, no issues,” he said.

Baxter told reporters last week that Detroit has “established and maintained a comprehensive security plan” in partnership with local and federal law enforcement partners, as early voting counting got underway that would “continue through election night to ensure the safety of our election workers and the integrity of the election process.”

The Harris campaign is mobilizing celebrities to try and keep college students in line to vote as they wait for hours to cast ballots.

The campaign dispatched actor Paul Rudd to visit students waiting in line in Philadelphia. Others beamed in on FaceTime: Jennifer Garner at Villanova and Josh Gad at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania; Mark Cuban at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte, and Demi Lovato at the University of Nevada Las Vegas.

The campaign said they were seeing long lines at all of those sites, along with eight college campuses in Wisconsin that had lines lasting one or two hours.

Workers from Alabama with an emergency management and disaster recovery company work to clear mud from the streets of the city's Biltmore Village district two weeks after Hurricane Helene, in Asheville, North Carolina, on October 11.

North Carolina voters are close to evenly split on whether federal hurricane aid is going to the people who need it, according to the initial results of CNN’s exit poll of voters in the state.

About 7 in 10 North Carolina voters say they’re dissatisfied or angry with the way things are going in the country. Only about 6% in the Tar Heel State say they’re enthusiastic about the state of things in the country, while more than one-quarter say that they’re angry.

Voters in the state are closely split on their top issue, with about 36% picking the economy and about one-third saying the state of democracy. Fewer picked abortion or immigration, with foreign policy in last place.

President Joe Biden’s approval rating in the state stands at about 42%, similar to the nation as a whole.

CNN’s exit polls for the 2024 general election include interviews with thousands of voters, both those who cast a ballot on Election Day and those who voted early or absentee. That scope makes them a powerful tool for understanding the demographic profile and political views of voters in this year’s election. And their findings will eventually be weighted against the ultimate benchmark: the results of the elections themselves. Even so, exit polls are still polls, with margins for error — which means they’re most useful when treated as estimates, rather than precise measurements. That’s particularly true for the earliest exit poll numbers, which haven’t yet been adjusted to match final election results.

CNN Exit Polls are a combination of in-person interviews with Election Day voters and in-person interviews, telephone and online polls measuring the views of early and absentee by-mail voters. They were conducted by Edison Research on behalf of the National Election Pool. The Georgia exit poll includes in-person interviews on Election Day conducted at a random sample of 40 polling locations. The results also include interviews with early and absentee voters conducted between October 18 and November 1, in person at early voting locations, by phone or online. Results for the full sample of 3,574 respondents have a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points; it is larger for subgroups.

People cast their vote at the Washoe County Government Complex in Reno, Nevada, on Tuesday.

More than 21,000 people had cast their ballots in person in Washoe County, Nevada — a swing county in a battleground state that encompasses the city of Reno — as of 5:30 p.m. ET (2:30 p.m. local time), an election official said at a news conference.

Andrew McDonald, a deputy registrar of elections, said the county was experiencing “very high turnout” and was “on track to meet the 2020 turnout,” when 83% of registered voters cast ballots.

There are “long lines because people are turning out in record numbers,” McDonald said.

McDonald said there were “very few incidents” of reported misconduct at polling places and “no major incidents, no arrests.”

McDonald did not have a breakdown of the party registration of the voters who had cast their ballots in the first hours of Election Day. But a breakdown on a county website showed that, as of 6 p.m. ET (3 p.m. local time), 7,825 registered Republicans, 5,696 registered Democrats and 11,192 voters whose registration was not identified had cast ballots, for a total of 24,713 voters.

The turnout figures will be updated later in the evening, McDonald said.

West Virginia delegates don hardhats in Fiserv Forum on the first day of Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 15.

Former President Donald Trump will win West Virginia, CNN projects.

There are four electoral votes at stake in West Virginia. It takes at least 270 electoral votes to win the 2024 presidential election.

Who won in 2020: Trump carried the state, and President Joe Biden won the general election.

Milwaukee’s decision to re-run about 30,000 ballots through tabulator machines was made “to ensure the American public that this election is going to be run safe, secure and transparent,” Paulina Gutierrez, the executive director of the Milwaukee Election Commission, told reporters Tuesday night.

She declined to estimate how long the count would take, saying only that “it’s going to be a late night.”

The error was first pointed out by an election observer who noticed the improperly closed doors, Gutierrez said. “There were seals on the door, because the door was not properly closed, some of the seals got loose,” she said.

The unsealed doors were covering the machines’ on and off buttons, Gutierez said, and if someone had tried to turn a machine off, it would have been clearly apparent to election workers. That did not occur, she said.

“I know for a fact that these machines are highly secure,” Gutierrez said. “There was no tampering, we were able to confirm that.”

Bipartisan teams and observers reviewed the process to make sure there were no flash drives inserted into the machines, and they were present when the machines were resealed.

Hilario Deleon, chair of the Milwaukee County Republican Party, told CNN he was the GOP observer who reviewed the machines with Gutierrez and watched as officials addressed the issue.

“We made Paulina aware of the situation and she immediately hopped on trying to take care of the problem,” Deleon said. “I appreciated her transparency.”

People vote at a polling station on Election Day at the Brier Creek Community Center in Raleigh, North Carolina on Tuesday.

It is 7:30 p.m. ET, and polls are closing in the key battleground state of North Carolina, as well as Ohio and West Virginia.

In North Carolina, two precincts — one in Burke County in the state’s western region and one in Wilson County, east of Raleigh — will now close at 8 p.m. ET Tuesday.

These are the electoral votes at stake in each state:

The presidential candidates need at least 270 electoral votes to win the presidency.

Why North Carolina is key: The state is expected to play a pivotal role again this election as a battleground state that stands squarely in the middle of the path to the White House for both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. Recent polling has shown the race within the margin of error, showing no real clear leader.

Check what time polls close in your state.

Michigan’s secretary of state’s office is warning against drawing conclusions based on the state’s initial posting of results at 9 p.m. today because the clerks have a lot of flexibility in how they report results.

There is no uniform reporting system that dictates a specific order for groups of voters: those who cast ballots on Election Day, during early in-person voting or by mail-in ballots.

Instead, the county clerks across the battleground state largely control how they report results, Angela Benander, the chief communications officer for the Michigan Department of State, told reporters Tuesday evening.

“It’s really just going to vary,” she said.

Individual counties are also allowed to post their results beginning when polls close at 8 p.m., so some initial results could come from individual counties before the state’s tally.

A total of 12 voting locations will have their hours extended due to bomb threats, according to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, as well as three additional polling locations due to “normal causes.”

Six polling locations in DeKalb County, five in Fulton County and one in Gwinnett County — which all encompass the Atlanta suburbs — will have their hours extended due to bomb threats, as well as two in Cobb County and one in Glynn County, according to Raffensperger.

The Fulton and Gwinnett extensions were previously reported by CNN.

Raffensperger also confirmed that all of the bomb threats against polling places in Georgia appear to have originated from Russia.

The Peach State’s top election official also said that a record of more than 5.2 million people will have voted in Georgia.

“We’ve never had this kind of turnout before, so voters are responding,” Raffensperger said.

New state law requires counties to post their results one hour after their polls close.

“It’ll be a whole lot faster than it’s ever been before, and we think that’s a good thing,” said Raffensperger.

The Nevada secretary of state’s office has created a new website for voters to “cure” their ballots by verifying their signatures before the ballots can be counted. Voters have until November 12 to cure their ballots.

Nevada Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar told CNN that curing is currently his office’s biggest concern, and he recently briefed Gov. Joe Lombardo on the issue.

The number of mail ballots that still need to be cured in Nevada has decreased slightly to 13,317, down from 13,906 as of Monday. Meanwhile, 14,656 ballots have been cured as of Tuesday.

Voter-rich Clark County has the largest number of ballots with signatures needing verification, totaling over 10,000. The November 12 deadline to cure ballots is one reason why calling races in Nevada could take longer than in other states.

People wait in line to vote at a polling station in Smyrna, Georgia, on Election Day, November 5.

Vice President Kamala Harris is largely holding on to President Joe Biden’s 2020 coalition among young voters and Black voters in Georgia, according to the initial results of CNN’s exit poll among voters in the state. But Peach State voters who call themselves political independents now favor former President Donald Trump over Harris — a shift from 2020 when Biden won that group.

Roughly 86% of Black Georgia voters say they cast their ballot for Harris, as do about 6 in 10 voters younger than 30 — in both cases, generally similar to Biden’s numbers in 2020.

As was the case in 2020, suburban voters are closely split. But where Biden won slightly over half of political independents in 2020, now a slim majority say they’re backing Trump.

White voters without a college degree, who went overwhelmingly for Trump in 2020, are still predominantly in his camp, with roughly 8 in 10 picking him over Harris.

More about the exit polls: CNN’s exit polls for the 2024 general election include interviews with thousands of voters, both those who cast a ballot on Election Day and those who voted early or absentee. That scope makes them a powerful tool for understanding the demographic profile and political views of voters in this year’s election. And their findings will eventually be weighted against the ultimate benchmark: the results of the elections themselves. Even so, exit polls are still polls, with margins for error — which means they’re most useful when treated as estimates, rather than precise measurements. That’s particularly true for the earliest exit poll numbers, which haven’t yet been adjusted to match final election results.

CNN Exit Polls are a combination of in-person interviews with Election Day voters and in-person interviews, telephone and online polls measuring the views of early and absentee by-mail voters. They were conducted by Edison Research on behalf of the National Election Pool. The Georgia exit poll includes in-person interviews on Election Day conducted at a random sample of 35 polling locations. The results also include interviews with early and absentee voters conducted between October 18 and November 1, in person at 20 early voting locations, by phone or online. Results for the full sample of 3,965 respondents have a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points; it is larger for subgroups.

Supporters, known as the "North Carolina Girls", look on as Trump holds a campaign rally at J.S. Dorton Arena in Raleigh, North Carolina, on November 4.

As Donald Trump’s team awaits results in North Carolina, a source close to the former president says his campaign “left it all on the field” in the state.

Originally, North Carolina was not part of his travel plans for the final weekend before the election, but internal polling indicated the campaign needed to make an extra push. Trump spent the three days before the election in the state, encouraging rally-goers to take advantage of early voting.

Trump’s team was particularly concerned that some of the data indicated more women than men voting early in the state, which they didn’t think bode well for the former president.

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Rallies took place in the biggest media markets in the state, and while they were some of his more sparsely attended events, senior advisers hope the last-ditch efforts they made can carry the state.

North Carolina delivered Trump his narrowest victory in 2020. It was one of the only states in which his endorsed candidate won a Senate seat in 2022, and he chose Michael Whatley as chair of the Republican National Committee in part because he believed Whatley helped him with those elections.

Out-of-county voters showed up to polling places in Coconino County, Arizona, believing they could vote using federal-only ballots despite being registered in other counties, prompting county election officials to put out a “Misinformation Alert” to try and stop it.

“We don’t know who started the rumor or misunderstanding. They’re thinking the federal-only ballot is interchangeable between all the counties and that’s not the case,” Coconino County Elections Director Eslir Musta told CNN.

This isn’t the first time that Coconino County officials have experienced this, but the requests have been more widespread this year, according to Musta. In recent elections, college students attending university in Flagstaff from other Arizona counties have tried to vote in Coconino with federal-only ballots.

“We are hearing from voters that an out of County voter can vote a FED only ballot,” a post on X from the county elections office says. “Arizona law does not allow for this.”

Voters who register in Arizona without providing documentary proof of citizenship or residency are deemed Federal Only Voters and are allowed to vote only in federal elections. They have until 7 p.m. on Election Day to provide proof of citizenship.

The Coconino County Elections office responded to a post from the Arizona secretary of state reminding college students that they must vote in the county where they are registered.

“Myth buster: You are NOT eligible for a Fed-only ballot in other counties,” the Secretary of State posted.

A general review of social media posts in Arizona that reference federal-only ballots, indicates that in the run up to the election there has been some significant misunderstanding about Arizona voting laws.

This misunderstanding is having real-world implications though, as election officials try and keep precincts running smoothly and lines shorter.

“By insisting on voting in the wrong County the ballot will not be tabulated,” the County’s Elections office said in their post. “Long lines remove resources from our County voters.”

Former President Donald Trump will win Indiana, CNN projects.

There are 11 electoral votes at stake in Indiana. It takes at least 270 electoral votes to win the 2024 presidential election.

Who won in 2020: Trump carried the state, and President Joe Biden won the general election.

Julia McKenna and Anna Seftenberg, sophomores at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania who were voting for the first time, waited six hours to cast their ballots on Tuesday.

They said they got to the polls at the Banana Factory Arts Center around 10:15 a.m. ET and didn’t get to the front of the line to vote until around 4 p.m. ET.

When CNN reached out to Northampton County Public Information Officer Becky Bartlett to understand why the lines were so long, she said voter turnout this year is high. She also explained that one of the three voting machines at the Banana Factory Arts Center went down earlier in the day. However, they added three more — so there are currently five voting machines at the location. Bartlett did not give any other reasons for the long line.

“I was expecting maybe 2 hours max,” said McKenna. “It was a lot.”

McKenna said she mainly chatted with friends and played games on her phone — noting she was lucky that Lehigh gave them the day off today to vote.

Meanwhile, college sophomore Edward Lopez, who had been waiting for three hours so far, said he’s prepared to be in line as long as it takes to vote for Kamala Harris. He said he brought his iPad to read and two portable chargers because his friends told him about the long waits.

Bartlett confirmed anyone who is in line to vote at 8 p.m. will get to vote, despite the lines.

Roughly 4 in 10 Georgia voters call the economy their top issue, according to the initial results of CNN’s exit poll of voters in the state.

Less than 3 in 10 Georgia voters say the state of democracy is their top issue, about 14% say abortion and about 10% say immigration, with fewer than 5% saying foreign policy. That’s a contrast to the nation as a whole, where democracy is the top issue.

Georgia voters are closely split on whether federal hurricane aid is going to the people who need it: Slightly under half say yes, and half say no. And a majority in the state, nearly 6 in 10, say they disapprove of President Joe Biden, similar to his ratings among voters in the initial exit poll nationwide.

Voters in Georgia are also closely split on whether they trust Vice President Kamala Harris or former President Donald Trump more to handle a crisis.

More about the exit polls: CNN’s exit polls for the 2024 general election include interviews with thousands of voters, both those who cast a ballot on Election Day and those who voted early or absentee. That scope makes them a powerful tool for understanding the demographic profile and political views of voters in this year’s election. And their findings will eventually be weighted against the ultimate benchmark: the results of the elections themselves. Even so, exit polls are still polls, with margins for error — which means they’re most useful when treated as estimates, rather than precise measurements. That’s particularly true for the earliest exit poll numbers, which haven’t yet been adjusted to match final election results.

CNN Exit Polls are a combination of in-person interviews with Election Day voters and in-person interviews, telephone and online polls measuring the views of early and absentee by-mail voters. They were conducted by Edison Research on behalf of the National Election Pool. The Georgia exit poll includes in-person interviews on Election Day conducted at a random sample of 35 polling locations. The results also include interviews with early and absentee voters conducted between October 18 and November 1, in person at 20 early voting locations, by phone or online. Results for the full sample of 3,965 respondents have a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points; it is larger for subgroups.

Freedom Fest attendees signed a wooden board in support of former President Donald Trump at Freedom Fest Saturday on September 15 in Northern Kentucky.

Former President Donald Trump will win Kentucky, CNN projects.

There are eight electoral votes at stake in Kentucky. It takes at least 270 electoral votes to win the 2024 presidential election.

Who won in 2020: Trump carried the state, and President Joe Biden won the general election.

Vice President Kamala Harris will win Vermont, CNN projects.

There are three electoral votes at stake in Vermont. It takes at least 270 electoral votes to win the 2024 presidential election.

Who won in 2020: President Joe Biden carried the state and won the general election.

An election staffer works at the Fulton County Election Hub and Operation Center in Atlanta on Tuesday.

It is 7 p.m. ET, and polls are closing in a round of states across the country, including in the key battleground state of Georgia.

Around 10 polling locations in a “handful” of Georgia counties will stay open late due to non-credible threats that briefly disrupted voting, according to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.

Here is where polls are closing, and the electoral votes at stake in each state:

Why Georgia is key: Georgia is a relatively new battleground state in presidential politics and helped deliver Joe Biden his White House victory in 2020. Georgia flipped blue for the first time in nearly 30 years when Biden won by just 11,779 votes. Four years later, Georgia is still in the spotlight and back in play as polls show a tight presidential race in the state.

Georgia also became a focal point of national politics after the 2020 presidential election, when Trump called on Georgia state officials, including Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” enough votes to flip the state for him to win. The former president and several of his advisers have been indicted for their actions in Georgia during the 2020 election.

Check what time polls close in your state.

More than 3.4 million Michigan residents cast their ballots early or absentee, the Michigan secretary of state’s office said Tuesday. That’s in line with 2020 figures, when 3.3 million people voted absentee in the state.

Of that figure, more than 2.1 million absentee ballots have been returned, while 85,223 absentee ballots were returned on Election Day — meaning 93% of voters who requested absentee ballots have returned them so far, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s office said.

This year, 16,573 voters have registered to vote using same-day voter registration, compared with 28,000 in 2020.

Benson’s office also sought to reassure voters in the state after the FBI announced Tuesday that non-credible bomb threats at polling locations in Michigan originated from Russian domains. Benander said no voter was disrupted and encouraged anyone else waiting to cast their ballot to go to the polls.

This post has been updated with additional numbers from the secretary of state.

In Central Iowa’s Story County, home to about 100,000 people and the city of Ames, voting machines at some precincts malfunctioned, portending possible delays to reporting results.

“We are aware of technical issues regarding tabulators in some precincts in Story County,” said Ashley Hunt Esquivel, a spokesperson for the Iowa Secretary of State’s Office. “The auditor is working with the vendor and our office to resolve it. It is not stopping anyone from casting a single ballot. It may impact how quickly we can report results.”

Story County Auditor Lucy Martin told the Des Moines Register that machines did not read “certain ballot styles” at about 12 of the county’s 45 polling locations. Election workers would have to count ballots at those locations by hand, according to local Democratic and Republican party officials.

The machines were tested and the cause of the technical difficulties was unknown, Martin added.

While President Joe Biden doesn’t know how the matchup between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump will end, there’s one belief sources said he still holds certain: That he could have won this race.

People close to Biden said that, given his long-solid favorability among White, working-class voters — the coalition that tipped the race in his favor in 2020 — he believes that he could have delivered the Blue Wall states that Harris campaign officials now say are just one of her paths to victory.

Given the central role those voters also played in delivering Trump a victory in 2016, Biden and his closest advisers also believe that — had he been the Democrats’ candidate instead of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — Trump would have never had a first term or the belief he could return to office. Biden was grieving his late-son, Beau, in the leadup to the 2016 race as Clinton built up her operations and secured support from former President Barack Obama.

Asked whether Biden worries he’ll shoulder the blame for the trajectory of this race if Harris doesn’t win, a senior aide to the president told CNN, “He’s more worried about what would befall the country if that happened.”

Voter Joseph Scott leaves the polling precinct shortly after 6 p.m. after arriving just before the polls closed at Shawnee High School in Louisville, Kentucky.

A Kentucky judge denied a request to extend voting hours in Jefferson County after reports of extensive delays in Louisville on Tuesday.

Jefferson Circuit Court Judge Eric Haner denied a request from the Kentucky Democratic Party to extend voting by two hours, from 6 p.m. local time to 8 p.m., after reports of “significant county-wide delays,” according to the complaint seeking immediate relief shared with CNN.

In denying the request, Haner said the Democrats failed to establish how many voters were impacted by the delays and failed to prove that voters were denied the right to vote based on the voting machine issues.

The complaint alleged there were “systemic issues” with Jefferson County’s electronic systems.

Welch said as a result, “the longest wait time we experienced was approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes due to multiple technical errors.”

An American flag is raised at Howard University in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, November 5, 2024.

Vice President Kamala Harris urged voters to “turn the page” on former President Donald Trump as she continued to make the case for her candidacy shortly before polls close across America.

When asked what her message was to undecided voters who may be heading to the polls right now, Harris said: “Every reason is about what your life will be like after January 20th and whether you will have a president who is focused on the issues that impact you.”

“Donald Trump does not have that plan. His plan is about grievance, it is about himself,” she said.

During the brief interview, Harris also talked about her plans for the economy and her policies on abortion and reproductive health.

“I do believe this is one of the defining issues of our time, which is a fundamental freedom, that has been taken from the people of America, from the women of America and our responsibility to fight to get it back,” she said of abortion.

Georgia has been plagued by non-credible bomb threats throughout the day that have appeared to accelerate as the state approaches poll closing.

One senior Democrat in the state tells CNN they are tracking threats in Atlanta right now, but the hope is that any voters who were apprehensive will return to vote.

Some polling locations have extended voting hours as a result of these threats. Voting was suspended at five voting locations in Georgia’s DeKalb County due to the threats.

There have been some bold claims of record-setting turnout in some key states, including Georgia and Michigan.

Overall, heading into Election Day, early and mail-in turnout was actually down compared to 2020, although more people were expected to vote early in that pandemic year.

The 2020 election saw extremely high turnout for a US election. About two-thirds of the voting eligible population – more than 66% – cast a ballot. That was the highest figure since the late 1800s, before women had won the right to vote nationwide.

The election with highest turnout in US history was in 1876, according to the US Elections Project, when nearly 83% of eligible Americans voted. It’s ironic, too, since the results were disputed in multiple states in that election and a special commission ultimately handed the White House to Republican Rutherford B. Hayes, the popular vote loser.

Election participation was extremely low in some of the earliest presidential elections, in the early 1800s, when multiple state legislatures appointed electors rather than opening the process to voters.

More recently, in 1996, less than 52% of the voting eligible population took part in the presidential election process. In 2000, the closest modern election, about 54% of eligible voters took part.

Speaker Mike Johnson is hosting a watch party in Shreveport, Louisiana, but his plans later tonight are still to be determined, according to another GOP source. Republicans believe Johnson could decide to go to Palm Beach, Florida, later in the night, depending on election results.

House Majority Whip Tom Emmer is currently the only member of House GOP leadership at former President Donald Trump’s Palm Beach headquarters so far tonight, according to a GOP source.

From left, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, Nick Hague and Don Pettit show off their American-themed socks on the International Space Station. "It doesn’t matter if you are sitting, standing, or floating - what matters is that you vote!" Hague said in an Instagram post that came with the photo.

Americans across the country are casting their ballots today, and they’re doing it in all sorts of polling places: churches, gymnasiums, malls — even laundromats.

Check out some of the best photos that we’ve seen today from Election Day.

Giant fake flamingos are seen outside a polling location in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Jordan Dunson casts her ballot while holding her baby at the First Presbyterian Church in Savannah, Georgia.

An Amish family leaves a polling location in Intercourse, Pennsylvania.

People in New York vote at the Church of the Heavenly Rest.

Election workers in San Francisco gather ballots at City Hall.

A judge in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, has ordered a poll official in Washington Township to allow votes to be sent to the county election bureau for tabulation when voting ends “without a hand count or manual tabulation of the votes cast for any office.”

Earlier Tuesday, the Fayette County Election Bureau in southwestern Pennsylvania filed an emergency petition asking the judge to order an election official not to hand-count votes in the township where he’s an election judge because it’s against county protocol.

Vincent Manetta, the judge of election for Washington Township — which falls within Fayette County — has said he intends “to remove the ballots from the ballot box and audit or hand count the votes cast for each presidential candidate that after the polls close,” according to the emergency petition filed late Tuesday afternoon.

“Despite being instructed by the Election Director and the solicitor that he could not act outside of the statute by performing a hand audit or manual tabulation of the votes cast for each presidential candidate, Mr. [Vincent] Manetta indicated that it was still his intention to perform that count at the precinct,” the filing said.

If the Washington Township election judge fails to comply, the county sheriff’s office has been ordered to dispatch an escort to accompany a poll worker with the voting materials to the Fayette County Election Bureau per protocol, the judge’s ruling said.

Manetta declined to comment to CNN after the judge’s order was filed.

The judge’s ruling also orders the sheriff’s office to similarly escort any other Fayette County precinct “which is acting outside of the authority outlined” in the state’s election code.

It’s likely that the Milwaukee absentee ballot re-run counting process would only be delayed by about an hour or so, according to Ann Jacobs, the chair of the Wisconsin Elections Commission.

“Those ballots have already been flattened, they’ve already been successfully through the machine,” Jacobs told CNN. “So my hope is that they can just get them through and they’ll go through and it shouldn’t take too much extra time.”

The Milwaukee Election Commission (MEC) said in a statement that there is no estimate of how long the delay will be.

The Republican National Committee co-chairs, Michael Whatley and Lara Trump, blasted Milwaukee over the error, calling it “an unacceptable example of incompetent election administration in a key swing state” and suggesting it would be “wildly extending the counting timeline.”

“Voters deserve better and we are unambiguously calling on Milwaukee’s officials to do their jobs and count ballots quickly and effectively,” Whatley and Trump said. “Anything less undermines voter confidence.”

But Jacobs said she thought Milwaukee officials were making the right move — in part to instill confidence in the count.

“You can’t wait to see who wins to then decide if you’re going to re-run the ballots,” she said. “This had to be made today, it had to be made now, and they made the right decision.”

Bomb threats were called in to five voting locations in Georgia’s DeKalb County, as well as two other locations that are not polling places, according to a press release by the county, which says police are performing bombs sweeps at the seven total locations.

DeKalb County’s Office of Voter Registration and Elections said that voting has been suspended at the polling places.

“Out of an abundance of caution, we are suspending voting at these polling locations until we have clearance from DeKalb Police to reopen the facilities,” said DeKalb Voter Registration and Elections Executive Director Keisha Smith in the release, which also said the county is going to court for an emergency order to extend voting hours at the affected polling places.

The locations include a church, two libraries, a community center and a senior center.

These bomb threats are in addition to the threats called in at other counties in Georgia that a US official told CNN were suspected to have originated from Russia and deemed non-credible.

Audience members listen as Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during the closing rally of her campaign at the base of the iconic "Rocky Steps" at the Philadelphia Museum of Art on November 5 in Philadelphia.

Roughly 46% of voters have a positive view of Vice President Kamala Harris but not of former President Donald Trump, according to the initial results of CNN’s national exit poll of voters in this year’s presidential election, while a slightly smaller share – about 42% – hold a positive view of Trump, but not Harris.

About 8% of voters nationally hold negative views of both candidates, a tick higher than 2020, but down from 18% in 2016.

Close to half of voters say that Trump, but not Harris, is too extreme, while about 36% say that only Harris is too extreme, 8% say that both candidates are, and 5% that neither is.

Roughly half of voters say they’d be optimistic or excited if Harris wins, with the rest saying they’d be concerned or scared; those numbers are similar for views of a Trump win. And similar shares would be outright excited for a win by each candidate. But more than one-third of voters say they’d be specifically scared by a Trump win, compared with fewer than 3 in 10 for Harris.

CNN’s exit polls for the 2024 general election include interviews with thousands of voters, both those who cast a ballot on Election Day and those who voted early or absentee. That scope makes them a powerful tool for understanding the demographic profile and political views of voters in this year’s election. And their findings will eventually be weighted against the ultimate benchmark: the results of the elections themselves. Even so, exit polls are still polls, with margins for error — which means they’re most useful when treated as estimates, rather than precise measurements. That’s particularly true for the earliest exit poll numbers, which haven’t yet been adjusted to match final election results.

CNN Exit Polls are a combination of in-person interviews with Election Day voters and in-person interviews, telephone and online polls measuring the views of early and absentee by-mail voters. They were conducted by Edison Research on behalf of the National Election Pool. In-person interviews on Election Day were conducted at a random sample of 279 polling locations. The results also include interviews with early and absentee voters conducted between October 24 and November 2, in person at 27 early voting locations, by phone or online. Results for the full sample of 18,354 respondents have a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points; it is larger for subgroups.

There were “unsubstantiated” bomb threats made to four locations in Navajo County, Arizona, and state officials have “reason to believe” that the threats originated in Russia, Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes said Tuesday afternoon.

“We have no reason to believe that any of our voters or any of our polling places are in any sort of jeopardy,” Fontes, a Democrat, told at a media briefing.

Arizona joins a list of states, including Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin, that have reportedly received suspected Russian-sourced bomb threats.

An election worker removes mail-in ballots from a counting machine at the Salt Lake County election offices in Salt Lake City, Utah, on November 4.

The polls are less than an hour away from closing in some of the first states on election night.

But some polling places will be open longer, while other officials say their voting is moving slower than expected.

Michigan, Wisconsin and Georgia have received suspected Russian-sourced threats, a US official told CNN.

Here’s a look at the pace of voting so far as we wait for results to start coming in:

See the full hour-by-hour guide of when polls close here.

No incumbent or incumbent party has won with these kinds of numbers — 72% of voters say they are dissatisfied or angry about the direction of the country. And Joe Biden’s approval number is just 41%, while 67% call the economy bad or poor.

Donald Trump’s campaign has tried to hold Vice President Kamala Harris to that record and explains why, despite all the freight he carries, he is in this race.

But the exit poll also points to a fundamental optimism about the future: 64% of Americans think the country’s “best days are in the future,” a stark contrast with Trump’s grinding, dystopian portrait of the nation.

Harris has laid out an agenda that addresses day-to-day economic concerns working-class Americans face.

She also has capitalized on doubts about Trump’s character and motivation. Her argument — that he’ll bring an enemies list, while she’ll bring a to-do list — has been a powerful closing argument, along with abortion rights and democracy.

Will it be enough? Stay tuned.

Ballots are prepared before they are scanned at the Philadelphia City Commissioners Office and Election Warehouse on November 5, 2024 in Philadelphia.

At least 182,000 registered voters in Philadelphia cast their ballots early in the election, an election official told CNN.

That’s apart from the remaining ballots that the city has yet to pick up from drop-off locations and the votes cast in-person Tuesday.

The first release of early ballots will take place right after polls close – a target of 75,000 to 100,000 ballots, according to the official. Registered voters have until 8 p.m. ET to pick up their ballots after the polls close, the official said.

Federal prosecutors have charged a Pennsylvania man with making online threats to kill President Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton, according to charges unsealed Tuesday.

The man, Gregory Mitzel, allegedly posted the threats in the hours after the first assassination attempt against Donald Trump. In one Facebook post the same day as the attempt on Trump’s life, Mitzel allegedly wrote: “Hey Hillary, you missed the next one’s coming for you and Joe.”

In one post the next day, according to court documents, Mitzel wrote, “Joe you are going down you and Hillary are going down. You will be in a crosshairs. Thank you.” And in another, he allegedly wrote, “The next step in this process has to be somebody put a bullet in Joe Biden’s head.”

Prosecutors also allege that Mitzel threatened to kill the assistant US Attorney who was handling the investigation into his threats against Biden.

Mitzel is facing several charges including threatening to kill the president and threatening a federal official. CNN has reached out to Mitzel’s attorney for comment.

The vast majority of voters say their minds were already made up about the presidential race well before Election Day, according to the initial results of CNN’s national exit poll.

Eight in 10 voters say they made their decision about the presidential race sometime before September. Fewer than 1 in 10 say they decided in the past week, with about one-eighth saying they decided in September or October.

Similar majorities of those backing Vice President Kamala Harris and those supporting former President Donald Trump – about 80% – say they decided before September.

More context: CNN’s exit polls for the 2024 general election include interviews with thousands of voters, both those who cast a ballot on Election Day and those who voted early or absentee. That scope makes them a powerful tool for understanding the demographic profile and political views of voters in this year’s election. And their findings will eventually be weighted against the ultimate benchmark: the results of the elections themselves. Even so, exit polls are still polls, with margins for error — which means they’re most useful when treated as estimates, rather than precise measurements. That’s particularly true for the earliest exit poll numbers, which haven’t yet been adjusted to match final election results.

CNN Exit Polls are a combination of in-person interviews with Election Day voters and in-person interviews, telephone and online polls measuring the views of early and absentee by-mail voters. They were conducted by Edison Research on behalf of the National Election Pool. In-person interviews on Election Day were conducted at a random sample of 279 polling locations. The results also include interviews with early and absentee voters conducted between October 24 and November 2, in person at 27 early voting locations, by phone or online. Results for the full sample of 18,354 respondents have a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points; it is larger for subgroups.

As Donald Trump is watching the results come in Tuesday night, he is expected to repeat the same playbook he’s used for years: take any simple mishap, whether technological or human error, at the polling sites and exaggerate it to fit his narrative of election fraud.

Already tonight, the former president is claiming there are reports of massive fraud in Philadelphia, though officials there say they do not know what he is talking about and there is no truth to that claim.

But there’s one major difference from 2020. Trump doesn’t have control of the Justice Department or any high-ranking officials to pressure, like he did with Attorney General Bill Barr four years ago. Barr described his efforts in the weeks following the 2020 election as “Whac-A-Mole.” None of the most outlandish fraud claims were ever borne out.

Trump also won’t be watching the race tonight with one of his “worst influences” in 2020, as aides described him then. Rudy Giuliani is not at Mar-a-Lago and was instead expected to be at the convention center.

Navajo voters wait to vote outside of the Fort Defiance Chapter House in Apache County where voting issues persist on November 5.

The Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission has filed a complaint in Apache County state court to keep polls there open two more hours, the commission’s executive director Leonard Gorman told CNN, after multiple polling locations reported voting machines and printers failing earlier Tuesday.

Gorman told CNN that his commission — which is part of the Navajo Nation government — received reports of malfunctioning printers and voting equipment at around 10 polling places out of around 30 total voting locations in the county.

An Arizona state official told CNN they heard issues with Apache County voting equipment were resolved earlier this afternoon, adding the county is working with the Navajo Nation to avoid litigation. CNN has reached out to the Arizona Secretary of State’s office for comment.

But Gorman told CNN he has heard reports from Navajo voters of issues persisting in some locations and said it has caused some voters to leave the voting line and not cast their ballots.

“My personal experience has been worse than the past,” Gorman told CNN.

Apache County is located in the northeast corner of Arizona and much of the county is home to the Navajo Nation.

Vice President Kamala Harris delivers remarks at the Naval Observatory in Washington, DC, on October 7, 2024.

Vice President Kamala Harris is hunkered down inside the Naval Observatory, finishing a final round of drive-time radio interviews, where she is described by two people who have spoken with her today as “hopeful” and “optimistic.”

“This is happening in real time. If you haven’t voted yet, we will contact you,” a Harris field lieutenant told CNN.

The vice president has talked to Democratic governors and other party officials in battleground states. She also spent time today working on a speech, alongside top aides, which she hopes to deliver here at Howard University, her alma mater, in Washington, DC. Plans are being made for her to address her supporters tonight whether or not there is an outcome.

In this August 27 photo, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger speaks with attendees as state authorities hold an election administration training session for state and local officials in Forsyth, Georgia.

Around 10 polling locations in a “handful” of Georgia counties will stay open late due to non-credible threats that briefly disrupted voting, according to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.

“It’s probably in that 10 number, plus or minus,” Raffensperger said, referring to the number of polling locations where voting will be extended past 7 p.m. ET, when the voting is scheduled to stop.

“And typically, it’s about 20 to 40 minutes,” Raffensperger said of the extensions. “Most of them are like 20 to 30 minutes, I think there is one that was a little bit larger than 40 minutes but that’s kind of the range right there.”

Raffensperger said once the FBI put out information that the non-credible threats originated from Russian email domains, they “kind of tapered off.”

“I guess they realized that dog won’t hunt today in Georgia,” Raffensperger said.

Five polling locations in Fulton County will see voting hours extended Tuesday evening, officials there said, following a ruling by the Fulton County Superior Court. Lake Forest Elementary School will remain open until 7:10 p.m.; C.H. Gullatt Elementary School will remain open until 7:15 p.m.; Southwest Arts Center will remain open until 7:43 p.m.; and Etris Darnell Community Center and Northwood Elementary School will both remain open until 7:45 p.m.

Georgia’s top election official again stressed that election day turnout across the Peach State has continued to be impressive overall.

“I think where we will be today will be north of 1.1 million,” Raffensperger told reporters. “So we’ll be north of 5.2 million (total), so big turnout, great turnout.”

Two-thirds of voters in this year’s election say they’re at least somewhat confident that this year’s election is being conducted fairly and accurately, according to the initial results of CNN’s national exit poll, but views are deeply polarized.

Roughly 9 in 10 voters supporting Vice President Kamala Harris say they’re confident, compared with just about half of those supporting former President Donald Trump.

Roughly three-quarters of voters overall this year believe democracy in the US is under threat, with only about one-quarter calling it secure. Nearly 4 in 10 say democracy is very threatened.

And a wide majority of voters, about 7 in 10, say they’re concerned about violence as a result of the election.

More about the exit polls: CNN’s exit polls for the 2024 general election include interviews with thousands of voters, both those who cast a ballot on Election Day and those who voted early or absentee. That scope makes them a powerful tool for understanding the demographic profile and political views of voters in this year’s election. And their findings will eventually be weighted against the ultimate benchmark: the results of the elections themselves. Even so, exit polls are still polls, with margins for error — which means they’re most useful when treated as estimates, rather than precise measurements. That’s particularly true for the earliest exit poll numbers, which haven’t yet been adjusted to match final election results.

CNN Exit Polls are a combination of in-person interviews with Election Day voters and in-person interviews, telephone and online polls measuring the views of early and absentee by-mail voters. They were conducted by Edison Research on behalf of the National Election Pool. In-person interviews on Election Day were conducted at a random sample of 279 polling locations. The results also include interviews with early and absentee voters conducted between October 24 and November 2, in person at 27 early voting locations, by phone or online. Results for the full sample of 16,604 respondents have a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points; it is larger for subgroups.

A man exits a voting booth at a polling station in Lancaster, New Hampshire, on Election Day, November 5.

With hours left until polls begin to close, some battleground states are already reporting high voter turnout despite threats apparently aimed at disrupting voting. Michigan, Wisconsin and Georgia have received suspected Russian-sourced threats, a US official told CNN.

The threats “appear to originate from Russian email domains,” the FBI said midday Tuesday. “None of the threats have been determined to be credible thus far.”

Both presidential candidates are focused on turnout. Vice President Kamala Harris helped call voters at a Washington, DC, phone bank this afternoon. In last minute telerallies, former President Donald Trump urged voters to “get off that beautiful couch” and vote.

As in all elections, issues with voter eligibility, logistical problems, ballot functionality and vote-counting are being scrutinized closely Tuesday, especially amid former President Donald Trump’s false claims of mass election fraud.

Here’s what to know:

Michigan is already seeing record voter turnout, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said. At least 3.3 million people in Michigan voted early, putting the state on track to match and “possibly surpass” the state’s highest election turnout on record from 2020 with 5.5 million voters casting their ballots. Michigan has received a few non-credible bomb threats, Benson said.

Georgia has seen some 700,000 people voters as of Tuesday afternoon and turnout could exceed 5.15 million if current trends hold up, according to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. Just under 4 million people cast their ballots in the 2020 election. Non-credible bomb threats were reported in at least three Georgia counties, briefly shutting down four polling locations across Gwinnett, Clayton and Fulton counties in the Atlanta area.

Arizona’s Apache County encountered faulty voting machines and some were turned away before they could cast ballots on Election Day, with voting issues “the worst we’ve ever seen it,” Navajo Nation Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General Katherine Belzowski told CNN. Some voters in Apache County were encountering wait times of over two hours because of the difficulties, and locations were running out of back up provisional ballots during the machine outage.

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro predicted Tuesday that counting the vote won’t take nearly as long as it did in 2020, when counting in the Keystone State — and calling the election — stretched through the Saturday after the election. Lancaster County election workers had finished opening and scanning over 50% of the roughly 64,000 mail-in ballots returned, officials said mid-afternoon. All the mail-in ballots should be counted by midnight.

For most people, voting was a simple process. At the Millersville Municipal Building polling location in Pennsylvania, a Republican voter named Janice told CNN the process to vote was “quick and easy.”

Workers count ballots at the Baird Center on November 5, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, will re-run about 30,000 absentee ballots through tabulating machines “out of an abundance of caution” after finding evidence that the doors on its tabulating machines had not been closed properly, city spokesperson Jeff Fleming said.

All tabulating machines are being set to zero and the ballots will be put through the machines again, he said. This could add several hours to the counting process, according to Fleming, although the biggest time sink in counting is processing absentee ballots and their envelopes — which does not have to be re-done for any of these ballots.

The problem with the machines was caused by human error, and “we don’t believe they were tampered with in any way,” Fleming said.

“We don’t want any questions about the accuracy of the results,” Fleming said. “So we’re going to make sure that they are run correctly.”

Only about one-third of voters in this year’s election think the economy is in good or excellent shape, according to the initial results of CNN’s national exit poll of voters in this year’s presidential election, down from about half who said the same in 2020. About one-third say the economy is not so good, and another third that it’s poor.

Just one-quarter of voters say they’re personally better off than they were four years ago, with about 45% saying they’re worse off, and about 3 in 10 that they’re doing about the same. In 2020 exit polling, about 4 in 10 said they were doing better, and just 20% that they were worse off.

In this year’s exit poll, about one-fifth of voters say inflation has caused them and their family severe hardship over the past year, with more than half saying it’s caused moderate hardship, and about one-quarter that it’s caused no hardship at all.

More about the exit polls: CNN’s exit polls for the 2024 general election include interviews with thousands of voters, both those who cast a ballot on Election Day and those who voted early or absentee. That scope makes them a powerful tool for understanding the demographic profile and political views of voters in this year’s election. And their findings will eventually be weighted against the ultimate benchmark: the results of the elections themselves. Even so, exit polls are still polls, with margins for error — which means they’re most useful when treated as estimates, rather than precise measurements. That’s particularly true for the earliest exit poll numbers, which haven’t yet been adjusted to match final election results.

CNN Exit Polls are a combination of in-person interviews with Election Day voters and in-person interviews, telephone and online polls measuring the views of early and absentee by-mail voters. They were conducted by Edison Research on behalf of the National Election Pool. In-person interviews on Election Day were conducted at a random sample of 279 polling locations. The results also include interviews with early and absentee voters conducted between October 24 and November 2, in person at 27 early voting locations, by phone or online. Results for the full sample of 16,604 respondents have a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points; it is larger for subgroups.

Recent signs of modest support from top members of the “Uncommitted” movement – a grassroots anti-war effort in Michigan, whose sizeable Muslim and Arab population could be pivotal to the state’s outcome – have given the Harris campaign reason for some optimism, according to two advisers.

The “Uncommitted” leaders have demanded an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and end to supplying military aid to Israel – demands they made in person to Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz during a meeting in early August. The group staged a sit-in at the Democratic National Convention, where 30 members attended as delegates. And in September, “Uncommitted” withheld a direct endorsement from any party, a decision feared to cause its hundreds of thousands of members to withhold votes in the general election as they had in the Democratic primary.

But in the last two weeks, the movement’s leaders have signaled more support for Harris, with one co-chair urging other members to back Harris publicly, too.

Appearing on CNN last week, “Uncommitted” co-chair Abbas Alawieh said he planned to vote for Harris because her policies were not ideal but that former President Donald Trump’s approach, in his view, would be worse.

In addition to high turnout in Philadelphia, the Harris campaign is encouraged by two big trends in Pennsylvania: Puerto Rican turnout and student turnout are both high.

Voting lines at Lehigh University near Allentown reached 7-hours-long today, according to the campaign. It has dispatched surrogates and supporters to keep students in line. They are also moving to try to extend voting hours there.

In Philadelphia, according to the campaign, the three wards that have the highest concentration of Puerto Rican voters nearly reached their 2020 turnout levels by mid-day today.

Some context: The campaign is convinced that last week’s Trump Madison Square Garden rally where a comedian described Puerto Rico as a floating pile of garbage hurt the former president’s campaign in this final week. They are hoping those comments move Puerto Rican voters, who are nearly 400,000 strong in Pennsylvania, toward Harris.

People vote at the Church of Heavenly Rest in the Manhattan borough of New York City on Election Day.

About three-quarters of voters nationally, including about 8 in 10 Trump voters and two-thirds of Harris voters, say their vote was mainly in support of their candidate, rather than primarily motivated by the desire to cast a vote against their opponent, according to the initial results of CNN’s national exit poll.

Asked to choose which of four qualities – having the ability to lead, caring about people like them, having good judgment or bringing about needed change – is most important, Trump voters overwhelmingly say they prize leadership ability and the capacity to bring change, with fewer than one-tenth picking either of the other two options. Harris voters are more closely split about the qualities that matter most to them: Roughly one-third say judgement, just under 3 in 10 say someone who cares, about one-fifth say leadership ability and the smallest group prioritize the ability to bring change.

CNN’s exit polls for the 2024 general election include interviews with thousands of voters, both those who cast a ballot on Election Day and those who voted early or absentee. That scope makes them a powerful tool for understanding the demographic profile and political views of voters in this year’s election. And their findings will eventually be weighted against the ultimate benchmark: the results of the elections themselves. Even so, exit polls are still polls, with margins for error — which means they’re most useful when treated as estimates, rather than precise measurements. That’s particularly true for the earliest exit poll numbers, which haven’t yet been adjusted to match final election results.

CNN Exit Polls are a combination of in-person interviews with Election Day voters and in-person interviews, telephone and online polls measuring the views of early and absentee by-mail voters. They were conducted by Edison Research on behalf of the National Election Pool. In-person interviews on Election Day were conducted at a random sample of 279 polling locations. The results also include interviews with early and absentee voters conducted between October 24 and November 2, in person at 27 early voting locations, by phone or online. Results for the full sample of 16,604 respondents have a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points; it is larger for subgroups.

People line up to cast their votes in the 2024 Presidential Election outside a polling station in Phoenix on November 5.

Tabulations of early ballots in a key county in Arizona are going slower than expected, a county official told CNN.

Maricopa County, which is home to a majority of the critical state’s voters, will release the first 1.1 million to 1.2 million ballots at about 10 p.m. ET or an hour after polls close, according to the official. That count will only encompass votes through Tuesday, October 29.

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Source: Maricopa County, Arizona, ballots taking longer than expected to process

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That’s a few days prior to the official’s initial estimate that the first drop would comprise ballots through at least Friday, November 1.

The official attributes the slower count to a two-page ballot, which is double the amount of paper to process.

However, that first drop is expected to be 55% of the estimated total vote turnout in Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix.

After the first drop, the official says, the county will post its next batch of votes, which includes Election Day votes, on Wednesday.

The states of democracy and the economy are the two issues at the top of voters’ minds, according to the initial results of CNN’s national exit poll of voters in this year’s presidential election.

More than one-third call democracy their top issue, with about 3 in 10 saying the economy. That’s followed by abortion and immigration, with fewer than 5% calling foreign policy their top issue.

More context: Thinking an issue is important, of course, doesn’t necessarily imply someone will vote solely on that basis, but polling on the top issues gives a sense of which concerns and campaign themes are resonating most with different parts of the electorate.

The exit poll finds a sharp divide between voters backing Vice President Kamala Harris and those backing former President Donald Trump. A broad majority of Harris voters – slightly under 6 in 10 – call democracy their top issue, with about 20% calling abortion their top issue. About half of Trump voters call the economy their top issue, followed by about 20% calling immigration their biggest issue.

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See the first CNN exit polls

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