Donald Trump is projected to win Ohio, Texas, Nebraska, Louisiana, Wyoming, North and South Dakota, Missouri, Florida, Arkansas, Mississippi and Indiana, West Virginia and Kentucky.
Harris has been projected to win Illinois, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Delaware, Connecticut, New York and Vermont.
Donald Trump Jr. Says He’ll Flee the U.S. if His Dad Loses
By Lily Mae Lazarus
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Donald Trump Jr. suggested he won’t stick around the United States if Kamala Harris win the 2024 presidential election.
“If we don’t win, then I’ll probably, you know, the way the Democrats function, I’m going to have to fly to a non-extradition country and just, you know, take up shop there so I don’t end up in the gulags with Elon and everyone else,” Trump Jr. said in a TikTok live Tuesday.
The former president’s son caveated the comment by claiming he was “only partially kidding.”
Fox News Host Jesse Watters Commends Kamala Harris
Even Fox News’ Jesse Waters has to admit: Kamala Harris is giving Donald Trump a run for his money.
“Bravo to the Democrat machine to make this race competitive, because she came out of nowhere,“ Watters told Fox News’ election panel on Tuesday night as some of the first election results emerged. “No one knows who she is. She didn’t run a very specific campaign.”
“They are making it a very competitive race,” Watters acknowledged.
The New York Times’ Election Needle Is Back After Tech Workers Strike
By Corbin Bolies
The New York Times debuted its famous election needle on Tuesday night, more than a day after the union that represents the tech workers responsible for keeping the needle working went on strike.
Whether the needle would appear at all remained in question over the last week as the Times Tech Guild, which represents roughly 600 engineers and product managers on the paper‘s business side, got close to—and eventually went on—a strike.
Its debut coincided with a Business Insider report that dozens of guild members crossed the picket line on Tuesday and came into work. The guild claimed to the outlet that those who broke ranks were either afraid for their jobs, on work visas, or were already anti-union.
The guild and Times management have been in negotiations for more than two years, with reported asks ranging from scented products in break rooms to mandatory trigger warnings before discussing news events. The guild maintains its three primary issues include pay increases, extensions of remote work, and “just cause” protections for job security.
Some Voters May Not Know Biden Dropped Out
By Liam Archacki
Election Day seems to have called some members of the American electorate out of hibernation.
Google Trends showed spiking search interest in the United States for the query “Did Joe Biden drop out?” over the past two days, surging to an even higher peak on Tuesday as voters took to the polls to pick between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.
The vice president replaced President Biden as the Democratic nominee in July after his disastrous debate performance versus Trump.
Biden posted a letter to Americans on July 21 announcing his decision to withdraw from the race. “I believe it is in the best interest on my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as president for the remainder of my term,” Biden said.
On X, the evidence of these oblivious Americans—amid the nation’s highly divisive political atmosphere—became fodder for jokes.
Mark Robinson Loses North Carolina Governor Race
By Zachary Folk
North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson lost his bid for governor, after he failed to attract support even from other Republican voters following a scandal-plagued campaign in the closely watched battleground state.
North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein, a Democrat, is projected to win the gubernatorial race. The race was called early in the evening by NBC and CNN as votes were still being counted in the Tar Heel State.
In September, a bombshell CNN investigation linked Robinson to years of lewd and racist comments on a pornography forum, including referring to himself as a “Perv” and a “Black Nazi.”
Biden Skips Harris’ Election Watch Party
By Lily Mae Lazarus
President Joe Biden will not join the festivities at Kamala Harris’ election watch party, the Washington Examiner reported Tuesday.
“The president and First Lady will watch election results in the White House residence with longtime aides and senior White House staff,” a White House official told the outlet.
Meanwhile, less than two miles from the executive residence, the vice president is watching the vote tally from her alma mater, Howard University. Biden played a limited role campaigning for Harris, particularly in the final weeks of the 2024 presidential race.
Republican Governor Votes for Harris
By Liam Archacki
Vermont Gov. Phil Scott, a Republican, cast his vote for Democratic nominee Kamala Harris rather than his party-mate Donald Trump.
Scott had kept quiet on his presidential pick in the weeks leading up to the election, but as he exited his voting precinct in Berlin, Vermont, on Election Day, he opened up to reporters. “I did some soul searching and thought about a lot of different things… and came to the conclusion that I had to put country over party,” he said.
However, he didn’t take the decision lightly—it’s “not an easy thing to do, being a Republican sitting governor and voting against your party’s nominee,” he said.
Scott made headlines in 2020 when he voted for Joe Biden over Trump, and he said his decision in this election is largely similar. “I didn’t endorse Joe Biden four years ago, I voted for him,” Scott said. “I’m not endorsing Kamala Harris this time. I’m voting for her. This is more of a vote against Donald Trump.”
Fox News Host Goes on Wild Rant Linking Harris to Diddy
By Corbin Bolies
Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld launched into a three-minute meandering rant on Tuesday’s The Five that likened the presidential election between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris as a race between supporters of a euthanized squirrel and those who partied with Sean “Diddy” Combs.
Gutfeld told his fellow panelists, all of whom remained uncharacteristically silent as he spoke, that Trump‘s messaging—one he boiled down to “we don‘t have to live this way“—was one of the nation‘s “recovery.” Harris‘ message, he said, was instead one of addiction. “‘If you break up with us, your life will be over,’” Gutfeld characterized it as. “‘It will never be the same.’”
He also blasted Harris' characterization of Trump’s election as the “end of democracy,” despite Trump vowing throughout his campaign that a Democratic presidency would mean citizens “won’t have a country anymore.” “It’s the reason why people stay in bad relationships,” Gutfeld said. “It’s the reason why people stay in abusive relationships.”
“This election is about two sides, Peanut versus P. Diddy,” Gutfeld added.
The Early Sign Pointing to a Trump Victory
By Liam Archacki
CNN anchor Chris Wallace said it would be a “miracle” if Kamala Harris won given the results of the network’s first exit polls, which revealed high levels of voter dissatisfaction with the country’s trajectory under the Biden Administration.
In the lead-in to a discussion of the exit polls, CNN Political Director David Chalian revealed that only 7 percent of voters were enthusiastic about how things are going in the U.S.
Of the abysmal satisfaction numbers, Wallace said, “I think that that’s with the present conditions in the country. I mean, in conventional terms, it would be a miracle that Kamala Harris could win with that kind of headwind.”
“If she is able to overcome those numbers and still win this election, then she has done a remarkable job of somehow separating herself—that she’s part of the solution, and not part of the problem,” Wallace added.
Fake Melania Rumors Resurface as Trump Casts His Vote
By Eboni Boykin-Patterson
Donald Trump showed up to a Florida polling location with a woman social media users are saying is not his wife Melania Trump. And they are pointing to her indoor sunglasses and complete silence as “proof” of the long-held conspiracy.
Medias Touch editor Ron Filipkowski shared the primary clip that’s fueling the online rumors, tweeting, “Melania’s been wearing sunglasses inside all day today.” Immediately, replies started coming in with the reasons the woman next to Trump in the thick black sunglasses might not actually be his wife.
Rumors that Trump occasionally appears with a Melania double have circulated since 2017, with his latest appearance to vote in Florida only as the most recent example.
Nevada Official Sounds Alarm About Faulty Signatures
By Josh Fiallo
Nevada’s secretary of state said Tuesday he fears over 13,000 ballots and counting will have to go through “signature curing” before they can be tabulated because signatures on the ballots do not match what the state has in its records.
That is much more than usual, Francisco Aguilar told The New York Times, adding that it’s overwhelmingly young people who are to blame. “When you start to look at the data and you start to realize how high it is, it makes you nervous,” he said, adding that the “margins are so slim” in Nevada between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.
Most of the problem ballots are in Clark County, home to Las Vegas, and in Washoe County, home to Reno.
“It’s mostly the fact that young people don’t have signatures these days,” Aguilar said, explaining the sudden uptick in bad signatures. “And when they did register to vote through the automatic voter registration process, they signed a digital pad at DMV, and that became their license signature.”
Trump’s Cheating Claims Already Debunked by Officials
By William Vaillancourt
Donald Trump‘s unsurprising and baseless claim that “cheating” has occurred in the Democratic stronghold of Philadelphia quickly got debunked by the city’s police department.
“A lot of talk about massive CHEATING in Philadelphia. Law Enforcement coming!!” Trump wrote on Truth Social Tuesday afternoon.
Minutes later, though, Trump’s message was called out as entirely wrong. In a statement to CNN reporter Holmes Lybrand, the city’s police department said it had no idea what Trump was talking about, and that it didn’t know of any issues that necessitated its intervention.
Seth Bluestein, Philadelphia’s Republican City Commissioner, also debunked Trump. “There is absolutely no truth to this allegation. It is yet another example of disinformation. Voting in Philadelphia has been safe and secure,” he wrote on X.
RFK Jr. Thanks Wife Cheryl Hines for Sticking With Him
By Matt Wilstein
Speaking to Trump campaign supporters in West Palm Beach, Florida on Election Day, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. publicly thanked his wife, actress Cheryl Hines, for staying with him through both his failed independent presidential campaign and the revelations about his alleged “digital affair” with reporter Olivia Nuzzi.
With Hines by his side, Kennedy expressed his gratitude for “the most supportive person in this room who has sustained me throughout this campaign, my wife, Cheryl Hines.”
Hines responded by echoing his message of thanks and adding, “Ooh, it has been a journey!”
Early Chaos as Votes in Swing State Set to Be Recounted
By Josh Fiallo
More than 30,000 votes in an overwhelmingly Democratic area must be recounted on election night in Wisconsin after an election observer noticed a panel on a vote tabulating machine wasn’t properly closed.
That flub, at a polling site in Milwaukee, means every absentee ballot that had already been counted at the site must be counted once again—a time-intensive process that local media says will “go very late” and may extend into Wednesday morning.
Alexander Shur, a reporter at Votebeat, reported that the problem panel protected the machine’s on-off switch and was supposed to be locked before the polling site opened.
The report said the error was discovered around 2 p.m. local time.
What Time Will We Know the Results?
By Josh Fiallo
It’s what’s on nearly everyone’s mind tonight—who will win the 2024 presidential election, and when will we know?
There’s not a clear-cut answer to either question, but history—and insider info shared with the Daily Beast from Kamala Harris’ campaign—suggests we may not have a declared winner for days, or potentially weeks, after polls close Tuesday night.
States will publish unofficial results Tuesday evening that news networks and the Associated Press will use to project winners and call the race in most states.
Election officials in the seven swing states—Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Georgia, Nevada, and Arizona—are already pleading with voters to be patient, however, as ballot-counting won’t be completed on Election Day.
The chart from Harris’ team then projects that “most results” from Georgia, North Carolina, and Michigan will be in on Election Day before midnight, and that Wisconsin will join that list by 6 a.m. EST on Wednesday morning. In the same time frame, the campaign projects that Pennsylvania, Arizona, and Nevada will still only have “partial” results published.
The campaign notes that “tens of thousands” of provisional ballots cannot be legally counted until Friday in Pennsylvania, which is overwhelmingly considered to be the most-important swing state for both Trump and Harris.
