10 months ago Trump says he’ll fight ‘for your family and your future’ By Associated Press Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump addresses supporters at his rally, at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Nov. 6, 2024. Photo by Brian Snyder/ Reuters Donald Trump promised in his election night speech that he would “not rest until we have delivered the strong safe and prosperous America.” “Every single day,” Trump said, “I will be fighting for you with every breath in my body.”
10 months ago Trump picks up Pennsylvania, worth 19 electoral votes By News Desk Donald Trump wins Pennsylvania, according to the Associated Press. Both campaigns spent significant time and money in the Keystone State, the battleground with the most electoral votes. Trump won Pennsylvania in 2016 by 40,000 votes. Joe Biden, a native of Scranton, flipped the commonwealth back to the Democrats in 2020 by 80,000 votes. After Pennsylvania, Trump is three electoral votes away from clinching the presidency.
10 months ago Trump nears threshold as Harris’ pathway narrows By Joshua Barajas Past the 2 a.m. hour Wednesday, the Associated Press said the remaining battleground races are still too early to call. With the Electoral College tally, Trump has 248 of the 270 votes needed to regain the Oval Office, with leads over Harris in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. AP is closely watching updates in Wayne County in Michigan and Milwaukee County in Wisconsin. While narrow, these two areas provide a pathway for Harris to win either of these key states.
10 months ago ‘Jubilation’ among Trump supporters at Mar-a-Lago party By Adam Kemp The Associated Press has not called the race in Pennsylvania yet. However, the crowd at the Donald Trump watch party in West Palm Beach erupted in cheers at the news that Fox News had called the state for the former president, reported PBS News’ William Brangham. “This room erupted with as loud of a cheer, a raucous ongoing chant of ‘USA’ as we have heard all night long,” Brangham said. “AP has not called it and that’s what we go by at the News Hour as our metric.” Watch Brangham’s full report.
10 months ago Trump expected to speak By News Desk Donald Trump is expected to speak at his election night party at Mar-a-Lago.
10 months ago In rare flip, Shomari Figures wins Alabama’s 2nd district By Joshua Barajas Shomari Figures won an Alabama congressional seat in a district that was redrawn last year after the Supreme Court weighed in on the key redistricting case. The nation’s highest court ordered the state to redraw its 2nd Congressional District, which is majority Black, after justices upheld a prior ruling that the Republican-drawn map likely discriminated against Black voters. District residents chose Figures, a Democrat, to represent them. Figures’ win Tuesday makes state history. Alabama, for the first time, will have two Black members serving in Congress at the same time. Figures will join fellow Democrat Terri Sewell in Alabama’s House delegation.
10 months ago Trump flips Georgia By News Desk Donald Trump wins Georgia, according to the Associated Press, flipping the state after President Joe Biden won Georgia in 2020. In Jan. 2021, Trump tried to pressure Georgia officials to overturn the state’s certified election results and “find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have, because we won the state.” A Fulton County grand jury indicted Trump and others for their efforts to overturn the election results.
10 months ago Harris won’t speak tonight By Hannah Grabenstein Cedric Richmond addresses attendees at the rally for Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris at Howard University in Washington on Nov. 6, 2024. Photo by Mike Blake/ Reuters Cedric Richmond, co-chair of Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign, announced that Harris will not be speaking tonight to supporters at her watch party at Howard University telling them. Richmond said Harris would address supporters and the nation tomorrow from Howard. “We still have votes to count, we still have states that have not been called yet,” Richmond said.
10 months ago Democrats still ‘optimistic’ as ‘Blue Wall’ tally continues By Adam Kemp As former President Donald Trump’s electoral vote count climbs past 230, the Kamala Harris campaign remains “optimistic” that a path to victory is still possible. PBS News Hour’s Laura Barrón-López reported live from the Harris watch party at Howard University that campaign sources see a path to 270, with the vice president hoping to carry the “Blue Wall” states, including Wisconsin and Michigan. “Nobody is feeling ‘ghosts of 2016,’” Barrón-López said. “I was texting with a Democratic House member in Nevada, they are extremely confident that Harris will win Nevada.” Harris also picked up Nebraska’s 2nd district, which is worth one electoral vote. Barrón-López said that Nebraska vote, plus the Blue Wall and Nevada could equal victory. Barrón-López said some of her campaign sources said they are beginning to feel “a little bit nervous” but are trying to project calm to campaign supporters. (The campaign is) “reminding people here of what it was like in 2020, when at this point some of these states looked as if they were favoring Donald Trump and it wasn’t until Wednesday and beyond that things started to shift for Democrats,” Barrón-López said. Watch Barrón-López’s full report.
10 months ago Security official reiterates ‘free, fair and safe’ election By Nick Schifrin The director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency downplayed the effect of Election Day bomb threats and declared the election “free, fair and safe” in a call with reporters. Challenged repeatedly on the scope of the bomb threats — which were reported in dozens of counties across five swing states — CISA Director Jen Easterly emphasized that they had no effect on the vote: “While these were certainly disruptive, they ultimately did not impact citizens’ ability to cast their ballots, or those ballots to be counted as cast.” Easterly also said while the FBI acknowledged the threats arrived from .ru emails, “We don’t know definitively what actor is behind bomb threats. … It has not been established that the bomb hoax attack was necessarily attributed to Russia.” Senior advisor Cait Conley added that CISA and election officials practiced hoax bomb threats during training exercises. Overall, Easterly declared the election “free, fair, and safe,” which she called an assessment of the moment in time.