U.S. election results 2024: Complete list of states won by Donald Trump and Kamala Harris
Donald Trump won the battleground state of North Carolina, fending off a challenge from Kamala Harris, who was looking to flip the state and expand her pathways to 270 electoral votes.
Donald Trump pushed closer to victory over Kamala Harris on Wednesday, leaving the Democrat the narrowest of remaining paths to stop him scoring a stunning political comeback in America’s brutally tense presidential election. In a significant political shift, Republicans have won US Senate majority and seized control of the chamber for the first time in four years, a report by Associated Press stated.
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are securing solid wins in early projections as polls close in critical states following a closely contested race for the White House. Republican Trump is projected to win 8 states, while Democrat Harris has claimed 5 states, according to initial projections by the Associated Press.
Former President Donald Trump secured a victory in South Carolina on Tuesday, claiming the state’s nine electoral votes for the third consecutive election.
South Carolina has not supported a Democratic presidential candidate since 1976, when Democrat Jimmy Carter, the governor of neighboring Georgia, triumphed over Republican President Gerald Ford in the South.
Vice President Kamala Harris is the Democratic candidate in the 2024 U.S. Presidential election, with the goal of making history as the first woman and the first person of Indian descent to become President of the United States.
On the Republican side, Donald Trump, the former President, is seeking a historic comeback to the White House after his contentious loss in 2020. If Trump wins, it would mark the first time in over a century that a president has served two non-consecutive terms.
In the 2016 election, Trump won the presidency by securing 304 electoral votes to 227 against Hillary Clinton, even though he trailed Clinton by more than 2 percentage points and about 2.8 million votes in the popular vote.
However, in the 2020 election, Trump was defeated by Joe Biden, who won with 306 electoral votes to 232 and led Trump by over 700,000 votes in the popular vote. Trump has continued to deny the 2020 election results, claiming widespread voter fraud, a stance that sparked protests by his supporters and culminated in the January 6 Capitol Riots.
