Voters head to the polls for Election Day

David Hodari

When the dust has settled, Democrats will need to look at the way they approach the Latino community, Obama administration housing secretary Julián Castro told NBC News.

“Something happened between 2016 and 2020, because the first significant dropoff we saw in places like south Texas was not this year but in 2020. The Democratic Party is going to have to do the inverse of what the Republican Party did in 2012, which is an autopsy to try and figure out what happened there,” Castro said.

“The Latino communities are dividing or cleaving along the lines every other community is: urban versus rural, education level and so forth, especially when you compare what happened in south Texas and rural communities with Latinos versus big cities. I’ll bet you find the dropoff [in voting] was bigger,” he added.

One possible clue to explain the shift in Latino voting patterns might lie in the tone of the debate around immigration, Castro said.

A decade ago, the conversation revolved around Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, but this time it has shifted to much more recent immigrants, he said.

David Hodari

With the world’s eyes on Washington, some may well be asking what a victory for Trump will mean for America’s diplomatic corps and those who have to deal with it.

“I think it’ll be different,” Jeff Flake, the U.S. ambassador to Turkey, told NBC News.

This time around, Trump “knows more people from whom he’ll select: ambassadors, a secretary of state, as well, and I think there’s a good cadre of people in the Senate who are waiting for those opportunities, so I think that it’s going to be different in that way,” said Flake, a former Republican senator from Arizona.

NBC News has yet to project the winner of the presidential race.

Nebraska voters have approved a ballot measure that would prohibit abortions after the first trimester, NBC News projects. The measure codifies the current state limits.

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Voters in South Dakota defeated an amendment to the state constitution that would have instituted open primary elections, allowing the two candidates receiving the most votes to advance, regardless of party affiliation, in U.S. House and Senate races, as well as governor’s, legislative and county contests.

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Voters in South Dakota have defeated a state constitutional amendment that would have protected a woman’s right to abortion rather than keep the state’s ban on the procedure.

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At the election warehouse in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, workers have begun to stack together the paper ballots from the in-person voting across all the polling locations yesterday.

The ballots, which were already counted electronically, are kept in paper form as backup.

Reporting from Washington

The mood was glum as Harris supporters left her event at her alma mater, Howard University, where she did not appear as election results showed Trump closing in on the White House.

“I’m just devastated,” said Dr. Elizabeth Ryznar, citing Trump’s skepticism of climate change as the reason for her disappointment. “The consequences of a second Trump presidency are unfathomable and terrifying and I think will be horrible for us as a country, for our planet and for the world,” she said.

Ryznar and others said they were still holding out hope for a Harris win.

“The blue wall has not been called just yet, and I think metropolitan cities obviously will take much longer than rural areas to return the numbers,” Devante Hill said.

“It’s far from over,” said Imelda Cramer Brown, who was Harris’ sorority sister at Howard. “Kamala is here for the people. We’re moving forward. We’re not going back.”

NBC News’ Kristen Welker highlights Trump’s unprecedented resilience as a political figure, recalling his 2015 comments about John McCain, which were thought to be career-ending. Having survived two assassination attempts, Trump remains a leading contender and is on track to become the oldest president in office.

Max Butterworth

David Hodari

A torrent of congratulatory posts and statements may be pouring in from around the world, but reaction among regimes with less friendly stances on America’s leadership has been more circumspect.

“The U.S. elections do not concern us and will not affect Iranians’ livelihoods,” an Iranian government spokesperson told the Qatar-based Al Araby television network.

Elsewhere in the Middle East, a senior Hamas official told Reuters that the Democratic loss was the “natural price” for its leadership’s “criminal stance” on Gaza. The official added that Hamas was hoping Trump would learn from Biden’s “mistakes” and that his victory would put to the test “his statements that he can stop the war within hours.”

NBC News has yet to project the winner of the presidential race.

NBC News’ Tom Llamas breaks down the latest numbers in the race to the White House and found that Trump overperformed in rural areas while Harris underperformed in urban areas and counties.

Annemarie Bonner

Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., offered optimism for his party while acknowledging he was disappointed in the projected election results.

“I’m confident, but we still have to see where the House is going to go,” he said on MSNBC. “But I’m confident we’re going to rebuild in 2026 and we’ll win back the White House in 2028. And we’ve got to listen.”

Khanna suggested Democrats go on more podcasts, alluding to “The Joe Rogan Experience” as an example. Trump went on Rogan’s wildly popular podcast, while Harris’ campaign declined to do an interview.

Keir Simmons

Keir Simmons and Natasha Lebedeva

There was palpable enthusiasm about a potential Trump victory in Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Arab nations. NBC News has not yet projected the outcome of the race.

“Stunning,” said a Saudi diplomat who was not authorized to speak publicly. Another was “fascinated” watching the results.

Another Gulf diplomat said simply, “Wow.”

Some said they woke up to the news of Trump’s closing in on the White House, content to go to bed last night and wait for America to make its decision. But many Middle Eastern allies and partners were already calculating what a second Trump presidency could mean for their governments.

A Turkish diplomat who was not authorized to speak publicly sent NBC News a meme showing Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan winning the U.S. election. Erdoğan congratulated Trump in a statement, saying he won the U.S. election “after a great struggle.”

A Syrian diplomatic adviser who was also not authorized to speak publicly said: “I have been watching it for hours. A new world in the morning.”

Annemarie Bonner

Obama campaign manager Jim Messina said tonight that the Democratic Party has a communication problem with various groups of voters.

“Going forward, the Democrats have a real rural problem, and they have real communication challenges to a whole bunch of groups, including young voters and Latinos, that we thought we had a better message to and just didn’t at all,” Messina, who managed Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign, said on MSNBC.

He added that those groups “no longer feel seen by the Democratic Party” and that there should be an analysis of what steps need to be taken.

“I hope we don’t all rush. I hope we all take some time look at all these things, do a comprehensive report and talk about how to move forward, because we got our butts kicked tonight, and we’ve got to figure out how to move forward in a way that gets us back to being majority party we used to be,” he said.

David Hodari

The trickle of world leaders congratulating Trump on his alleged victory in the presidential election is becoming a flood.

Describing Trump as “my friend,” Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister and the leader of the world’s largest democracy, posted several photos of him and Trump with a message conveying his “heartiest congratulations.”

NBC News has not projected the outcome of the presidential race.

French President Emmanuel Macron of France also posted on X, where he described his readiness “to work together as we have done for four years.”

Mike Davis, a former clerk to conservative Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and a Senate aide who is expected to be a key Trump legal adviser, said on X that special counsel Jack Smith should “lawyer up.”

Trump has said he would fire Smith on the first day of his presidency. Justice Department officials have said Smith will continue prosecuting the two federal criminal cases against Trump until directed to do otherwise.

Davis told NBC News that he had been bullish on Trump’s prospects since the Mar-a-Lago raid, arguing that Democratic “lawfare” against Trump would backfire. He said that the “lawfare” propelled Trump to victory during the primary season and helped garner intense loyalty from supporters.

Davis, who was in a Trump campaign war room today, said that the Republican lawyers seemed cautiously optimistic, while he expected Trump to win the popular vote and the swing states. Earlier today, Davis said that Trump came with Melania Trump to thank his campaign staff for their work.

Keir Simmons

A Trump victory could have seismic implications for the war in Ukraine, where he has suggested he could withdraw U.S. support that is vital to its defense against Russia’s invasion.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy congratulated Trump on his “impressive election victory.” NBC News has yet to project the outcome of the race.

“I appreciate President Trump’s commitment to the ‘peace through strength’ approach in global affairs,” he said on X. “This is exactly the principle that can practically bring just peace in Ukraine closer. I am hopeful that we will put it into action together.”

As Trump delivered a speech declaring victory, Harris aides had already begun pivoting from hoping for a Harris win to how best to deal with Trump policies during a second term.

“While Trump’s policies will have tremendous domestic and international ramifications, I’ll try to remind myself and others of a larger picture around values that I hold — and share with a broader group of people,” a Harris aide said as Trump was still speaking.

“Those values, around an inclusive American society where nondominant groups are welcome, is one that I will continue to stand for. And while I will stand for those values, I will try hard to practice kindness and embody these values on a micro level with strangers tomorrow and to embody love towards the half of all voters who feel drawn to Trump. That will be the hardest part: to practice love toward someone who is drawn to such hateful rhetoric and tribal tendencies,” the aide said.

NBC News has yet to project the winner of the presidential race. Harris has not conceded but is expected to speak later today.

Annemarie Bonner

At least two 2020 election deniers, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green, R-Ga., and Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake of Arizona, declared that Trump had won a third victory.

“Donald Trump has just been elected President for a THIRD time,” Greene wrote on X.

Lake offered similar language on X. “BREAKING: Donald Trump just won his THIRD Election! Congratulations, Mr. President,” she wrote.

NBC News has not projected the outcome of the presidential race.

Harris has won one of the five Electoral College votes in Nebraska, NBC News projects. Because she picked up the one vote there, a tie in the Electoral College is not possible.

Trump concluded his remarks by praising the coalition his campaign built.

“We had everybody, and it was beautiful. It was a historic realignment, uniting citizens of all backgrounds around a common core of common sense,” Trump said.

Trump called the election a “massive victory for democracy and for freedom.”

A Trump win would be warmly welcomed among many Israelis given his support for Israel and close relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has already congratulated Trump on his “huge victory.” NBC News has yet to project the outcome of the race.

“Congratulations on history’s greatest comeback!” Netanyahu said in a post on X. “Your historic return to the White House offers a new beginning for America and a powerful recommitment to the great alliance between Israel and America. This is a huge victory!”

Other far-right Israeli lawmakers also celebrated Trump’s early success, with National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir expressing his enthusiasm with a series of emojis posted on X alongside the message “Yesssss.”

“God bless Israel, God bless America,” Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said in a separate post on X.

Isabella RamirezIsabella Ramirez is a politics intern with NBC News.

UFC CEO Dana White took to the podium this morning to tell supporters that Trump deserves a victory as “karma” for the past several years.

“This is what happens when the machine comes after you,” White said at the Palm Beach County Convention Center, where Trump addressed his supporters. “He keeps going forward. He doesn’t quit. He’s the most resilient, hard-working man I’ve ever met in my life.”

Trump stopped to add Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to the list of supporters he thanked, saying Kennedy, a former Democratic presidential candidate, is going “to help make America healthy again.”

After thanking Kennedy, Trump quipped that he should “leave the oil to me,” referring to Kennedy’s longtime career as an environmental lawyer who opposed big oil.

“Now he’s a great guy, and he really means that he wants to do some things, and we’re going to let him go to it. I just said, ‘But Bobby, leave the oil to me,'” Trump told his supporters.

Harris is projected to win New Jersey’s presidential contest, besting Trump and securing the state’s 14 electoral votes.

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David Hodari

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has congratulated Trump, describing the election results as “the biggest political comeback in U.S. political history.”

“Congratulations to President [Donald Trump] on his enormous win,” Orbán said in a post on X. “A much needed victory for the World!”

NBC News has not yet projected a winner in the race.

The Hungarian government has strengthened its links with Trump and the Republican Party in recent years. Trump hosted Orbán at Mar-a-Lago in March.

But the Hungarian prime minister has been widely criticized for systematically dismantling his country’s democratic institutions during his 12 years in power, while cultivating close ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Annemarie Bonner

On stage in West Palm Beach, Trump called U.S. Open Champion Bryson DeChambeau to the stage. The golf star came on stage wearing a black “Make America Great Again” hat and did not speak. DeChambeau and Trump played a round of golf together in July.

Harris is projected to win Minnesota’s presidential contest, besting Trump and securing the state’s 10 electoral votes.

The state’s governor, Tim Walz, was Harris’ running mate.

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As he thanked members of his family and his campaign team, the crowd asked Trump about tech mogul Elon Musk, who boosted Trump in recent weeks.

“We have a new star; a star is born: Elon,” Trump told his supporters, adding: “He’s an amazing guy. We were sitting together tonight. You know, he spent two weeks in Philadelphia, in different parts of Pennsylvania, campaigning.”

Then, Trump told a story about a recent SpaceX rocket launch that ended in a dramatic feat: The rocket launch booster landed in the arms of the SpaceX launch tower minutes after it launched.

Trump also praised Musk’s Starlink technology, saying Musk helped bring the internet to those affected by recent hurricanes in North Carolina.

“He had it there so fast it was incredible,” Trump said.

Trump, claiming victory, said America gave him an “unprecedented mandate.” NBC News has not projected the race.

“America has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate. We have taken back control of the Senate. Wow, that’s great,” he said. NBC News has projected that Republicans have won control of the Senate.

David Hodari

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., congratulated Trump tonight on X on what he characterized as Trump’s electoral victory.

Graham wrote that he spoke to Trump “earlier this evening,” adding that he was “in awe of him and his team.”

Graham also shared a photograph of himself smiling with a phone held up to his ear and bottles of wine in the background.

Republican Michael Lawler wins re-election to the House in New York’s 17th Congressional District, NBC News projects.

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Vance addressed supporters, thanking Trump for “the trust” he placed in him and calling the election results “the greatest political comeback in the history” of the U.S.

“After the greatest political comeback in American history, we’re going to lead the greatest economic comeback in American history under Donald Trump’s leadership,” Vance said.

After Vance concluded his brief remarks, Trump said Vance had “turned out to be a good choice.”

NBC News has not yet projected the outcome of the presidential race.

Republican Tom Barrett wins the House seat in Michigan’s 7th Congressional District, NBC News projects. The race was for an open seat previously held by a Democrat.

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Trump told supporters early Wednesday that “America has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate.”

“We have taken back control of the Senate,” Trump said to cheers.

He also thanked House Speaker Mike Johnson, who was among those joining Trump on stage in Florida. Trump predicted that Republicans would keep control of the House of Representatives.

NBC News has not yet projected the outcome of the presidential race.

Isabella RamirezIsabella Ramirez is a politics intern with NBC News.

Trump said tonight that his campaign “overcame obstacles” in his White House bid.

“We overcame obstacles that nobody thought possible, and it’s now clear we’ve achieved the most incredible political thing — look what happened, is this crazy?” Trump told a crowd of supporters in West Palm Beach, Florida.

“But it’s a political victory that our country has never seen before,” he added.

Hannah Hartig, NBC News Exit Poll Desk

NBC News projects that Trump has won another critical battleground state: Pennsylvania, which Biden won in 2020.

Trump was boosted by several key groups, including Latinos, who shifted toward Trump by double digits, the NBC News Exit Poll found. In 2020, 27% of Latino voters in Pennsylvania cast ballots for Trump. This year, 42% of Latino voters did. Young voters, independents and those with no college degree also moved toward Trump.

Trump expressed gratitude for his supporters, saying, “I want to thank the American people for the extraordinary honor of being elected your 47th president and your 45th president.”

NBC News has not projected the race.

Kellyanne Conway, on Fox News, attacked the Harris campaign’s focus on reproductive rights, saying she spoke to women “from the waist down.”

“I think Kamala Harris was talking to us from the waist down, and I think Donald Trump was talking to us from the waist up,” Conway said.

Conway said that Trump focused more on policies that Americans care about, adding that Harris “insulted” women by only focusing on abortion.

“I mean, you got to talk to the woman in full,” Conway said. “It’s as if she doesn’t know anything about the economy, or she doesn’t care about what’s going on in Ukraine, or Israel with Iran, or can’t do the math on her grocery bill.”

“It’s an insult, of course people care, but we care about many things, just as we are not monolithic in life are not monolithic thinkers, politically,” Conway added.

In his speech to supporters, Trump pledged to “help our country heal.”

“We have a country that needs help and needs help very badly,” he said, adding that he would “fix our borders” in a second term.

NBC News has not projected a winner in the presidential race.

Bomb threats reported in several battleground states on Election Day were all deemed noncredible and “did not impact the ability of voters to cast their ballot,” said Jen Easterly, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

The threats were “prepared for, exercised for and effectively mitigated,” she told reporters on a call.

Though many of the threats originated from Russian email domains, Easterly did not go as far as to say that Russia was definitively behind them. She said it was possible that someone could be operating from a .ru domain without actually being in Russia or acting on its behalf.

Trump has walked onstage and is about to speak. He entered to his usual walkout song, “God Bless the USA.”

He was flanked by his family members and allies onstage.

As Republicans wait for Trump to speak, Republicans across the country were in celebratory mood in Florida and elsewhere.

In West Palm Beach, the crowd erupted in cheers after Fox News called the election for the former president. Staffers hugged and high-fived as the news was announced.

Farther north on Capitol Hill, chants of “USA” broke out at a watch party of young Republicans after the network call.

“We need to play ‘Y.M.C.A.,’” said one attendee, referring to the song by the Village People that has become the Trump rally refrain.

Speaking to the room of supporters shortly afterward, American Moment President Saurabh Sharma quoted Kimberly Guilfoyle: “The best is yet to come.”

U.S. stock futures, which indicate where trading will open this morning, surged as news outlets, including NBC News, projected that Trump will win the key battleground state of Pennsylvania.

Dow Jones Industrial Average futures soared more than 850 points, or more than 2%. S&P 500 futures, the index widely held in average Americans’ 401(k) accounts, also jumped nearly 2%.

Hannah Hartig, NBC News Exit Poll Desk

White voters with college degrees have shifted toward Democratic candidates for president over the last three elections, and this year they supported Harris over Trump by a 10-point margin, the NBC News Exit Poll found. In 2016, the group broke for Trump by 3 percentage points.

The shift has come from both white men and white women with college degrees, though the women strongly supported Harris over Trump, 59% to 39%, while the men were about evenly divided.

Max Butterworth

Supporters celebrate as they wait to hear Trump speak in West Palm Beach, Florida, this morning.

Hannah Hartig, NBC News Exit Poll Desk

A slightly higher share of voters say they have unfavorable views of both presidential candidates this year compared with four years ago — and slightly more of those voters are breaking for Trump than did so in 2020, according to the NBC News Exit Poll.

Just 3% of voters had unfavorable views of both Biden and Trump in 2020. This year, 8% of voters had unfavorable views of both Harris and Trump, the poll found.

Those voters preferred Trump: 55% voted for Trump compared with 3 in 10 who voted for Harris. A large share of those voters — 14% — said they supported a candidate other than Trump or Harris.

Donald Trump is projected to win Pennsylvania’s presidential contest, besting Kamala Harris and securing the state’s 19 electoral votes.

He is now just four electoral votes away from a projected win.

This is the second battleground state, after Georgia, that Trump has flipped red. He also defended North Carolina. Harris has yet to pick up a battleground state.

Pennsylvania is also part of the “blue wall,” along with Michigan and Wisconsin. The three states have voted together in recent elections.

Pennsylvania is viewed as a critical swing state, and both candidates spent a lot of time campaigning there. Trump’s win in the state significantly limits Harris’ path to the presidency.

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Washington state Sen. Emily Randall won the race to represent her state’s 6th Congressional District, NBC News projects, making her the first out LGBTQ Latina elected to Congress and the first LGBTQ member from Washington.

Randall, a Democrat, defeated Republican Drew MacEwen for the open seat, which is currently held by Democrat Derek Kilmer.

Randall focused on “fighting climate change,” “lowering costs for families” and “safeguarding access to abortion,” according to her campaign website.

There are currently 12 openly LGBTQ members of Congress: three senators and nine representatives. Ten of the current members are running for re-election, along with seven nonincumbents. All but one of the 17 candidates are Democrats.

NBC News has projected that 10 of those 17 candidates, including Randall, have won their races. Delaware’s Sarah McBride made history as the first out transgender person elected to Congress, and Texas’ Julie Johnson made history as the first LGBTQ person elected from the South.

Vance and Walz, the vice presidential nominees, are both men from the Midwest. According to the NBC News Exit Poll, they were each viewed favorably by 46% of voters.

Ohio voters did not pass an amendment that would have established a citizens’ commission to conduct redistricting.

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Democrat Maggie Goodlander wins the House seat in New Hampshire’s 2nd Congressional District, NBC News projects.

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Pushing him closer to regaining power, Trump has won four of the five Electoral College votes in Nebraska, NBC News projects.

Mara Ostfeld, NBC News Exit Poll Desk

Fewer than half of Latino men voted for Harris, according to the NBC News Exit Poll. This is the first time that a majority of Latino men did not vote for the Democratic presidential candidate in at least the last five elections. Fifty-four percent of Latino men voted for Trump this year.

This election also marks the most pronounced gap between the votes of Latino men and women in recent electoral history. Latinas were 16 percentage points more likely to vote for Harris than Latino men, the poll found.

This gender gap was larger than the one among either Black or white voters in this election.

Voters approved Republican-backed constitutional amendments designed to make it clear that only American citizens can vote in elections in all eight states they appeared on the ballot, NBC News projects.

Clear majorities of voters in Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Wisconsin passed constitutional amendments making it explicitly illegal for noncitizens to vote in state and local elections — even though it’s already illegal for noncitizens to vote in elections in those states and at the federal level and even though it rarely happens.

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Trump is on his way to the Palm Beach County Convention Center, where he is expected to address supporters.

Campaign officials previously told NBC News that they were waiting for North Carolina and Georgia to be called before Trump would speak.

About 5% of people who voted for either Biden or Trump in 2020 switched their votes to the other major party this year, according to the NBC News Exit Poll.

Crossing over from voting Biden in 2020 to Trump in 2024 was relatively common among Latino and Asian American voters.

Looking at the reverse trend, the poll found that 16% of Black adults who voted for Trump four years ago backed Harris this year.

Republican Derrick Van Orden wins re-election to the House in Wisconsin’s 3rd Congressional District, NBC News projects.

See the latest results here.

Patrick J. Egan, NBC News Exit Poll Desk

Harris is on track to win 57% of the votes of Americans with four-year college degrees this year, according to the NBC News Exit Poll. If that number holds, it will be the best performance of any Democratic presidential candidate among college graduates in the past five elections.

At the same time, the exit poll indicates Trump will win 54% of those who do not hold bachelor’s degrees. If so, that will the GOP’s best performance among the group in the past five elections.

In 2008, Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain performed equally well among college graduates and those without degrees. Today, the Democratic Party, long viewed as the champion of working-class people, relies heavily on college graduates — most of whom hold white-collar jobs — to win elections. By contrast, the GOP coalition is now dominated by those without college degrees, many of whom are blue-collar workers.

Patrick J. Egan, NBC News Exit Poll Desk

Trump’s projected victory in the battleground state of Georgia was powered by anti-abortion voters, white evangelical Christians and voters who want a candidate to bring needed change, according to the NBC News Exit Poll.

About a third of the state’s electorate supports making abortion illegal in all or most cases, the poll found, and those voters overwhelmingly backed Trump over Harris. Trump also led handily among Georgia voters disapproving of Biden’s job performance.

Green Party nominee Jill Stein pulled in 22% of the vote in Dearborn, a heavily Arab American city in Michigan, as progressive and Arab American voters have panned the White House’s posture on Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza.

Stein’s share is just a few percentage points below Harris’ 28% share in Dearborn, according to unofficial results from the city clerk (which do not include absentee votes). And both candidates fell far short of Trump, who is at 47%.

Regardless of whether those margins hold after the absentee votes are counted, it’s clear that a significant share of voters in the city broke against Harris. That’s especially notable considering that the Harris campaign tried to target the community with digital advertising playing up her words about stopping the “human suffering in Gaza,” as Republican-aligned groups sought to stress her support for Israel, with one going as far to lean on antisemitic “dual loyalty” tropes, most likely in the hope of souring these voters on Harris.

Nevada voters have passed an amendment that increases voter ID requirements.

The proposed constitutional amendment on the ballot would require people to show identification when they vote in person.

Under state rules, voters are required to pass the measure in two consecutive elections for it to take effect, meaning it will go back on the ballot in 2026.

See the latest results here.

All polls in the U.S. have closed in the 2024 election.

Patrick J. Egan

Trump is on track to win 1 in 3 votes cast by voters of color this year, according to the NBC News Exit Poll. If that number holds, this year will mark Trump’s strongest performance among nonwhite voters in his three runs for president. The shift was driven by Latino and Asian voters; Black voters’ support remained relatively flat.

Meanwhile, Harris’ support among white voters — at 43% — is the best performance of any Democratic candidate since Barack Obama in 2008.

To be clear, the GOP continues to perform better with white voters, among whom Trump leads Harris, 55% to 43%. And the Democrats enjoy solid support from people of color: Harris leads 65% to 32%. But political polarization along racial and ethnic lines has diminished.

As the FBI investigates Russia’s possible role in hoax bomb threats against polling stations in five swing states, Moscow already stands accused of orchestrating bomb threats against polling sites in an election in Europe.

Germany yesterday blamed Russia for trying to prevent Moldovans abroad from casting ballots in the country’s presidential election last week, through bomb threats and other forms of voter intimidation.

Germany’s foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, said Russia had carried out a “massive, coordinated attempt” in Moldova to interfere in the election against a pro-Western candidate.

Harris is projected to win New Mexico’s presidential contest, besting Trump and securing the state’s five electoral votes.

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NBC News’ Blayne Alexander reports on the possible impact of Trump’s encouraging early voting as the Georgia secretary of state says he believes Trump has an insurmountable lead in the state.

Hannah Hartig, NBC News Exit Poll Desk

Trump is on track to pick up a larger share of voters under 30 than any Republican presidential candidate since 2008, according to the NBC News Exit Poll.

Trump is performing better than he has previously among both young men and young women. Those gains mean young men are split in their preference, with 49% supporting Harris and 47% supporting Trump.

While Trump has also picked up support among women under 30, they still overwhelmingly favor Democratic candidates, supporting Harris by a double-digit margin, 62% to 36%.

Men and women under 30 prioritized very different issues at the ballot box. While 4 in 10 young women said abortion was the most important issue to their votes, just 11% of men under 30 said the same. Young men were far more likely to prioritize the state of democracy (36%) or the economy (37%).

Trump’s victory in Georgia tonight highlights a trend: After 1992, Democrats have carried Georgia in a presidential or Senate race only when Raphael Warnock has been on the ballot.

Warnock, the popular senator-reverend, was on the ballot in 2020, when he and Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., as well as Biden won Georgia. Warnock won the state again in 2022 for a full six-year term.

Harris will not address supporters at Howard University tonight and will instead address the nation tomorrow, Harris-Walz campaign co-chair Cedric Richmond said.

Richmond announced the news moments ago to supporters in a brief message.

Meanwhile, the crowd gathered for Trump’s election night party booed loudly when Fox News aired Richmond’s announcement.

Hannah Hartig, NBC News Exit Poll Desk

Both Harris and Trump have strived to convince voters that the opposing candidate is out of sync with the average American. In the NBC News Exit Poll, a slightly higher share of voters across the country said Trump is too extreme compared with those who said the same of Harris.

But a higher share of Trump’s supporters (13%) than Harris’ (4%) said their own candidate’s views were too extreme.

One Democrat at a gathering of major Harris donors at a hotel in Washington, D.C., likened the atmosphere to that of a funeral. A Harris campaign official summed up the mood simply: “Not good.”

At the start of the night, Harris campaign officials were expressing confidence and saying they believed she would win. As the results rolled in, their disposition was significantly tempered, bordering on glum.

“People are anxious. People are understandably quiet and restless because they just want to see something break,” a Harris aide said. “Folks want to win and want to see one of the battlegrounds called for her.”

Republican Bernie Moreno, who NBC News projected upset Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio to fli p the seat, told supporters he wants to “get rid of federal agencies.”

Moreno did not name any agencies in his speech.

“What we’re going to do is massively reduce the size and scale of the federal government, and we’re going to do it from Congress, because it’s Congress that has the power of the purse,” Moreno said.

“Now, that starts by getting rid of agencies that we don’t need, relocating them out of Washington, D.C.,” he said.

SpaceX founder Elon Musk has also said Americans would most likely experience “temporary hardship” because of deep cuts in government spending if Trump wins.

At Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally, Musk said he wants to cut $2 trillion from the federal budget. He did not specify where the cuts would come from.

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Republican Deb Fischer wins re-election to the U.S. Senate in Nebraska, NBC News projects. Her win was enough to give Republicans control of the chamber.

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Republicans will take control of the U.S. Senate, NBC News projects, handing the upper chamber back to the GOP next year after four years of Democratic control.

The win was propelled by flipping two seats, in Ohio and West Virginia. Republicans could still increase their control of the chamber.

Republican Robert Bresnahan wins U.S. House seat in Pennsylvania’s 8th Congressional District, NBC News projects.

Bresnahan’s victory is the first Republican flip of a Democratic-held House seat of the evening. He defeated Democratic Rep. Matt Cartwright, who was one of five Democrats representing a district Trump won in 2020.

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Trump is outpacing his 2020 performance among Latinos in the “blue wall” states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, the NBC News Exit Poll found. He is winning the Latino vote in Michigan and is performing 14 points better among Latinos in Pennsylvania than he did four years ago.

Trump is also outpacing his 2020 performance among Black voters in Pennsylvania and Michigan, though to a lesser degree. The most dramatic change is in Wisconsin, where Trump roughly doubled his support among Black voters from 8% in 2020 to 21% this year.

In an appearance on Fox News, former Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway told viewers that if Trump is elected to another term, she hopes Republicans also control the House to prevent House Democrats from impeaching him again.

“I think that if [Trump] can hold on to the House, Bret, then he really insulates himself from any of these impeachment shenanigans and whatnot,” Conway told Fox News host Bret Baier, referring to the fact that House Democrats impeached Trump twice during his first term.

“I got to tell you,” Conway added, “if this is a decisive victory — and we’re not there yet — but if it’s a decisive victory, then I think the Democrats have to think thrice about this lawfare strategy that they have put on his shoulders like an anvil.”

NBC News has not projected a winner in the presidential race.

Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, formally conceded to Republican challenger Bernie Moreno after midnight, calling on his supporters to continue fighting for freedom.

“We may be tempted to say hope was not enough,” said Brown, who was first elected to the Senate in 2007. “We believe if you love this country, you fight for the people who make it work. We always will.

“It will never be wrong to fight for the freedom of women to make their health care decisions,” Brown added, alluding to the fight over abortion rights after the fall of Roe v. Wade. “It sure will never be wrong to fight for civil rights and human rights.”

In recent years, Ohio has shifted sharply to the political right and become a more solidly Republican state.

Republican John Curtis has won the Senate race in Utah, NBC News projects. The victory brings Republicans within one state of taking control the Senate.

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Matthew Nighswander

Harris supporters watch results come in during an election night watch party at Howard University, the vice president’s alma mater, in Washington, D.C.

Rep. Ruben Gallego’s speech at the Arizona Democratic Party’s election night party could barely be heard amid anxious chatter in the crowd. Gallego acknowledged that his race to become Arizona’s next senator is unlikely to be called tonight.

“One result is already coming through and clear: We fought for Arizona,” Gallego told the crowd. “One result is already coming through [loud] and clear. We fought for Arizona, and because of that, we are going to win.”

“I still want to thank all Arizonans, all Arizonans who supported me, Democrats, Republicans, independents, and to those who didn’t, to those who didn’t, I want you to know that regardless of who you voted for today, I will stand up and fight for you as hard as I fought to get out of poverty,” he said.

Pearl Moses, of Mesa, Arizona, was a senior in high school when Roe v. Wade was decided. She had friends who resorted to “back alley” abortions in their youth and saw how it had damaged and affected them, she said.

“Nothing will ever stop abortions,” Moses said at the Yes on Prop 139 watch party in Phoenix. “What Roe v. Wade did just save women’s lives and keep them away from the back alleys.”

Decades later, Moses has dedicated countless hours to securing abortion access in Arizona. She hosted parties, canvassed, phoned banked and collected signatures.

“I wanted to do it for my daughters. I wanted to do it for my granddaughter,” she said. “I’m the one that can put in the time to try to make this happen. It’s for them as much as it is for me.”

At a watch party hosted by a European ambassador in Washington, D.C., some guests have grown pessimistic as more election results come in.

“Pretty bleak” was how one guest, who was not authorized to speak on the record, described the results. When North Carolina was called for Trump, another attendee uttered a single word: “Terrifying.”

“I’m still hoping for Kamala, but I’m an optimist,” said a Spanish diplomat, who declined to offer their name. A colleague added, “I am manifesting Kamala. I fear I will have to go to sleep with Donald Trump” in the lead.

Harris is projected to win Hawaii’s presidential contest, besting Trump and securing the state’s four electoral votes.

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So far tonight, Democrats have flipped two competitive House seats, NBC News projects: Alabama’s 2nd District and New York’s 22nd District.

Both districts were redrawn after the 2022 midterms, making each more heavily Democratic.

In Alabama, the seat was open, and Democrat Shomari Figures, a former Justice Department official, is projected to win.

In New York, GOP Rep. Brandon Williams, who faced an uphill re-election battle, is projected to lose to Democrat John Mannion.

California voters passed Proposition 3, NBC News projects. The ballot referendum establishes a right to marry in the state, regardless of gender or race, and removes language from the California Constitution stating that marriage is exclusively a union between one man and one woman.

California was one of three states, along with Colorado and Hawaii, that allowed residents to vote on ballot measures this year that would remove language from their state constitutions prohibiting same-sex marriage.

While these bans have been unenforceable since the Supreme Court’s 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling, which guaranteed same-sex couples across the country the right to marry, the ballot measures sought to proactively protect these rights should that landmark decision be overturned.

Fear that Obergefell could be overturned was fueled after the Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion ruling in 2022, doing away with a half-century of precedent.

Maureen Michaels, NBC News Exit Poll Desk

Harris narrowly edged out Trump among independent voters, 50% to 45%, but Trump has built support among them since 2020, according to the NBC News Exit Poll.

Among independent female voters, Trump remained steady since 2020 at about 4 in 10. Among independent men, Trump went up slightly from 45% in 2020 to 50%.

NBC News projects that the presidential race in Minnesota is too close to call. Hillary Clinton and Biden won the state in 2016 and 2020, respectively.

The state’s governor, Democrat Tim Walz, is Harris’ vice presidential nominee.

Harris is projected to win Virginia’s presidential contest, besting Trump and securing the state’s 13 electoral votes.

The state was not seen as competitive, but Trump narrowed the margin more than was expected.

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Donald Trump is projected to win North Carolina’s presidential contest, besting Kamala Harris and securing the state’s 16 electoral votes.

Trump closely won the state in 2020, and the state has not voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since 2008. Democrats saw the state as a possible way to expand their path to 270 Electoral College votes.

North Carolina is one of seven battleground states, and Trump’s projected win is a significant boost for his campaign. Vance had said in September that it would be “very hard” for the Trump campaign to win the White House if it did not take North Carolina.

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As Trump appears to have made gains in battleground states since 2020, the Harris campaign is holding out hope that the “blue wall” states will bring a victory.

Symone Sanders-Townsend reported on MSNBC that Harris’ aides expect tens of thousands of absentee ballots to be counted in their favor in Philadelphia County within the next hours. The campaign does not believe it will repeat Biden’s win in Georgia but is waiting it out.

Ian Sams, a Harris campaign spokesperson, wrote on X that the Michigan county that is home to Detroit has not yet been counted. Sams pointed out that the current margin in Michigan is roughly 100,000 votes, while Biden won the county by more than three times that margin.

With virtually all of the vote counted in Butler County, Pennsylvania, Trump holds a 32-point edge over Harris.

Butler County was the site of the first attempt on Trump’s life in July.

Trump carried Butler County by 32 points in 2020 and 38 points in 2016.

Turnout is up in Butler County, though, and both Trump and Harris exceeded the raw vote total Trump and Biden got there in 2020.

Maureen Michaels, NBC News Exit Poll Desk

Seniors were split between Harris and Trump, the NBC News Exit Poll found, with 50% reporting they voted for Harris and 49% for Trump.

The senior vote, however, differed by gender. Among women ages 65 and older, 54% voted for Harris, while 55% of men in the age group voted for Trump.

The story of the Texas Senate race: Ted Cruz won Latino voters by 6 points en route to re-election, according to NBC News exit polls.

In his last race in 2018, Cruz lost Latinos by 29 points, exit polls showed.

A striking 35-point swing.

Fresh off of a victory in Ohio’s Senate race, businessman Bernie Moreno, who NBC News projects has defeated Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown, told supporters, “This is a new dawn of Republican leadership.”

With Moreno’s victory, Republicans have now netted two new Senate seats. If no Republicans lose Republican-held seats, the GOP will be expected to take over the Senate majority.

Moreno addressed Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., in his victory speech, telling him: “You’re fired, buddy.”

Then, he attempted to present a unifying message to Ohio voters, addressing those who didn’t vote for him by saying, “I will work for the next six years to win you over,” and telling his own supporters, “I will not let you down.”

State Rep. Julie Johnson won the race to represent Texas’ 32nd Congressional District, NBC News projects, making her the first out LGBTQ person from the South elected to Congress.

Johnson, a Democrat, defeated Republican Darrell Day.

“Together, we have shattered barriers and proven that representation matters,” Johnson wrote on Instagram. “This moment is a testament to the power of collective action. It’s about the countless individuals who fought for equality and inclusion and the belief that our government should reflect the will of its people. To everyone who knocked on doors, made calls, donated, shared our message, and believed in this campaign, your efforts were not in vain. This win belongs to you.”

Harris is projected to win Connecticut’s presidential contest, besting Trump and securing the state’s seven electoral votes.

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Harris is projected to win Washington’s presidential contest, besting Trump and securing the state’s 12 electoral votes.

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Hannah Hartig, NBC News Exit Poll Desk

Voters who cast their ballots for the first time in this election are breaking for Trump over Harris — a reversal from 2020, when a majority of first-time voters picked Biden, according to the NBC News Exit Poll.

In 2020, voters who cast ballots for the first time broke for Biden over Trump 64% to 32%. But this year, first-time voters had a slight preference for Trump over Harris, 55% to 44%, the poll found.

As was the case four years ago, those new voters are much younger than those who have cast ballots before; roughly 6 in 10 are under age 30.

There is a gender gap among them, with men likelier to support Trump and women likelier to support Harris.

Voters in Washington, D.C., have passed a measure that will allow nonpartisan primaries by implementing ranked-choice voting.

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Rep. Rob Menendez Jr., D-N.J., has won re-election, NBC News projects.

Menendez was running in a safely Democratic seat, but he faced minor headwinds because of his father’s indictment this year.

The elder Menendez, former Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., was found guilty on charges of accepting bribes this year and resigned in August. Rep. Andy Kim, D-N.J., is projected to take over the Senate seat.

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“We just want everyone to get out and vote. This means a tremendous amount to so many people in our community and our country, and we just want people to get out and take it seriously,” election volunteer Jill Roberts said.

James Kapp said: “This is the American thing to do. If you’re going to complain about anything that we have politically and stuff, you gotta vote, you’ve gotta have your say. Otherwise you need to just shut up; you don’t have a reason to complain.”

Advocates for reproductive health care in Arizona are cautiously optimistic their measure will pass tonight after an initial batch of results came in from Maricopa County.

“We’re feeling really good,” Dawn Penich, of Arizona for Abortion Access, said at a Phoenix watch party for Yes on Pro p 139.

Jennifer Sheets, an advocate and rape survivor, said she came prepared tonight for any result but is happy with the early turnout.

“If the last results turn it in some way, it just means we have more work to do,” she said.

Pearla Sandberg said she was 19 years old when she had an abortion and can’t imagine being “forced” to give birth if she lived in a state where she couldn’t access the procedure.

“I’m nobody’s incubator,” she said.

Harris’ campaign chair, Jen O’Malley Dillon, acknowledged in an email to campaign staff members this evening that this is a “razor thin race.”

“While we continue to see data trickle in from the Sun Belt states, we have known all along that our clearest path to 270 electoral votes lies through the Blue Wall states. And we feel good about what we’re seeing,” O’Malley Dillon wrote in the email, which was obtained by NBC News.

O’Malley Dillon said that the Harris campaign “overperformed turnout expectations in Philadelphia” and that it is waiting for a “significant amount of votes to come in” from Michigan, including from Detroit. She said it is also waiting for a “significant amount of vote” in Wisconsin’s Dane and Milwaukee counties, adding that it doesn’t expect the state’s complete results until 3 a.m. to 5 a.m.

“We’ve been saying for weeks that this race might not be called tonight,” she continued. “Those of you who were around in 2020 know this well: It takes time for all the votes to be counted — and all the votes will be counted. That’s how our system works. What we do know is this race is not going to come into focus until the early morning hours.”

Maureen Michaels, NBC News Exit Poll Desk

The majority of Florida’s conservatives and Republicans opposed Amendment 4, according to the NBC News Exit Poll. The amendment, which would have added the right to an abortion to the state constitution, needed a “yes” vote from at least 60% of voters to pass; it failed to reach that threshold.

Still, the exit poll found widespread support for abortion rights in the state.

Opponents of Amendment 4 included 75% of conservatives and 70% of Republicans, according to the exit poll. Conservatives and Republicans are nearly 4 in 10 voters in Florida. Among political moderates, another large group of voters, more than 1 in 5 voted “no.”

Key groups who voted “yes” on Amendment 4 included 92% of Democrats, 79% of Black voters, 70% of women ages 18-44 and 63% of independents.

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger told reporters late tonight that “if you look at who’s leading the race right now, Donald J. Trump has an insurmountable lead” in the state.

Though there are still thousands of outstanding votes in the state, Raffensperger added, “the math looks like this is done.”

The race is too close to call, NBC News projects.

Janis Mackey Frayer

At an election event at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, more than 200 embassy staff members and China-based diplomats are watching the results come in.

The main point of the event, though, according to U.S. Ambassador Nicholas Burns, is to send a message to people in China that an election is “democracy in its purest form.”

The vote is one of the top trending topics on Chinese social media, though censors here are amplifying comments and messaging aimed at painting democracy as a broken system.

Democrat Adam Schiff has won the U.S. Senate race in California, NBC News projects. See the latest results here.

Schiff has also won the special election to fill the seat for the remainder of the term that ends in January. See the latest results here.

Trump has frequently lashed out at Schiff during campaign events. Last month, when Trump called Democrats who have opposed him “the enemy from within,” he specifically pointed to Schiff, calling him one of the “lunatics.”

Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi is an ally of Schiff and was one of his earliest backers in the race for the Senate seat.

The seat had previously been held for decades by the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who died in September of last year.

Democrat Martin Heinrich wins re-election to the Senate in New Mexico, NBC News projects. The seat was not competitive, but Republicans often try to pose a challenge in New Mexico.

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In an ominous development for Democrats, the share of voters identifying with their party hit the lowest mark this century.

According to the NBC News Exit Poll, 32% of voters identified as Democrats, down from 37% four years ago. The poll also found the highest level this century of voters identifying as independent or “something else.”

The share of voters identifying as Republicans has moved less, standing at 34% this year.

Missouri voters have approved an amendment that would both require citizenship to vote and prohibit the use of ranked-choice voting.

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Harris is projected to win Oregon’s presidential contest, besting Trump and securing the state’s eight electoral votes.

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Reporting from Peachtree City, Ga.

Fayette County ranked high in Georgia’s early voting turnout this election, but Peachtree City resident Chéné Robinson barely made it before polls closed. She blamed the traffic.

“The way people were driving, I thought they were against me,” she said after she cast her vote for Harris at Gathering Place Senior Services.

Robinson said that reproductive rights drove her decision and that she could have been among the pregnant women who died high-profile deaths reported in Georgia after the state’s six-week abortion ban went into effect. She gestured over to her children waiting in their family van — ages 17, 15 and 6 — and said she experienced severe preeclampsia during all of their births.

“I almost died” with the younger two, she said. “Being able to have those options is not saying that you want to kill a kid. [It’s about] living to see another day. Luckily, I have two beautiful kids out of those experiences, but it’s really serious, and I’ve been through it multiple times.”

Harris is projected to win California’s presidential contest, besting Trump and securing the state’s 54 electoral votes.

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Trump is projected to win Idaho’s presidential contest, besting Harris and securing the state’s four electoral votes.

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Reporting from Philadelphia

Just outside Temple University in Philadelphia, excited students gathered at a polling site, thrilled to be voting for the first time.

“I feel like this presidential race is so monumental and definitely will be one of the most important in our lifetime,” said Melody Nixon, 20, a junior, adding that she felt it was “so cool” that she got to vote for a female presidential candidate.

Nixon said the most important issue to her was “definitely women’s rights” after Roe v. Wade was overturned, but she was also motivated by the economy, health care and the rhetoric against immigrants.

She said Harris “actually has economic plans for first-time homebuyers. She has plans to lower grocery prices. She has plans to help reinstate Roe vs. Wade.”

Ash Reynolds

Officials in at least three battleground states — Arizona, Georgia and Pennsylvania — have reported bomb threats today.

Voters who said they decided on their picks for president in the closing days of the campaign broke slightly in Trump’s favor, 49% to 42%, according to the NBC News Exit Poll.

That suggests that to the degree that there was backlash to a comedian’s disparaging remarks about Puerto Rico at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally just over a week ago, it did not result in his losing those who decided on their votes in the past week.

Overall, 7% of voters reported deciding in the last week of the campaign, 6% reported deciding in October and 7% in September. Seventy-nine percent said they decided before September.