The Badger State is best known for its cheese and its football team. Now Wisconsin will take its place in history as the state that clinched the 2024 presidential election for Donald Trump. As inevitable as the outcome appeared as one battleground state after another surrendered to the former president, he still needed to get across the line with more than 270 electoral votes to reclaim the White House. At about 6.15 am ET on Wednesday morning, the networks started calling Wisconsin and its 10 Electoral College votes for Trump, putting him out of reach of his Democratic Party rival with 276 electoral votes, six more than required. Trump hadn’t exactly enamored himself with people in the “Blue Wall” state after calling Milwaukee, the location for the Republican National Convention, a “horrible city.” But he made amends with cheeseheads after riding a garbage truck to a rally in Green Bay in response to Joe Biden trashing MAGA fans.

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Donald Trump appears to owe a significant debt to rural voters for his victories across several key battleground states that ultimately secured him Tuesday’s historic vote, with an inverse swing away from the Democratic candidate in more urban areas. CNN reports that the incoming Republican president’s margins across rural counties appear, in many cases, “to have been simply too large to overtake.” These include Huntingdon, central Pennsylvania, where he’s apparently on track to beat both his total and margin of votes from 2020. Early stats indicate that Harris, meanwhile, appears to have significantly underperformed compared to Joe Biden’s big city and suburban wins in 2020–such as in Montgomery County, where she secured just 60 percent of the vote at 2.5 points lower than Biden four years ago.

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Kamala Harris’ billionaire surrogate Mark Cuban admitted defeat to Donald Trump as the 2024 presidential election continued to slide in favor of the 78-year-old. Cuban had caused outrage after an appearance on The View in which he claimed Trump refuses to surround himself with “strong, intelligent women,” forcing a strong rebuke from the women of MAGA including Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lara Trump. The former president also referred to Cuban in a Truth Social post, calling him a “dumb guy.” Taking to X on Wednesday morning, as conservative networks including Fox News began calling the race in favor of Trump, Cuban wrote, “Congrats @realdonaldtrump. You won fair and square. .Congrats to @elonmusk as well. He added, ”Godspeed." The post comes as the Harris campaign announced the Democratic candidate would not address the public until Wednesday, as her chances of taking the White House appear slimmer and slimmer.

Naomi Biden, Joe Biden’s granddaughter, announced via Instagram on election night that she is expecting her first child. Naomi posted an Instagram story showcasing her bump with an “I Voted” sticker. “(we) voted,” she captioned the post, along with an American flag and upside down smile emoji. The baby will be Joe and Jill Biden’s first great-grandchild. Naomi, the eldest child of Hunter Biden, has been a fixture in the Biden White House social scene. She has appeared at several state dinners this year and accompanied her grandfather to the G7 conference in Italy in June. She married Peter Neal at the White House in 2022, becoming the first presidential grandchild to get married at the executive mansion. The Daily Mail reported that Naomi’s pregnancy was “the talk of a state dinner in May,” and that “speculation has been rampant for months that she was expecting.”

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Elon Musk has started celebrating an increasingly likely Donald Trump win, posting a photoshopped picture to X of himself inside the Oval Office carrying a sink. The meme, while head-scratching without context, is a reference to Musk’s first day in charge of Twitter after he shelled out $44 billion to buy the social media giant in 2022. Back then, Musk posted a clip of him carrying a sink into Twitter’s offices in San Francisco with the caption, “Entering Twitter HQ – let that sink in!” Musk, 53, called on the meme again in the early hours of Wednesday morning after Georgia and North Carolina were called for the former president, writing in his caption again, “Let that sink in.” Two hours earlier he posted, “game, set, match.” Musk pumped tens of millions into boosting Trump’s campaign and has openly flirted with the idea of working for the federal government in some capacity in a potential second Trump administration. He attended the former president’s watch party on Tuesday night.

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation warned voters on Tuesday that three instances of fake posts using the federal agency’s logo were spreading false information about the 2024 presidential election. The first was a written post that warned the media not to cover violence at polling stations. “This statement is not authentic, is not from the FBI, and its contents are false,” the FBI said in a news release on Tuesday. Investigators also warned of false videos claiming to be from the federal agency, including one that claimed schools in the U.S. would be closed through Nov. 11 due to a risk of “school shooting and riots” related to the 2024 presidential election. The second video purported to report on “9,000 complaints about malfunctioning voting machines.” The FBI said both videos and their contents were fake. The agency said it was working with local law enforcement to protect the integrity of the electoral process. Although the FBI did not immediately say where the videos originated, the FBI and other federal agencies previously issued a joint statement warning Americans about an increase in Russia-linked disinformation campaigns “raise unfounded questions about the integrity of the US election and stoke divisions among Americans.”

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Voters in Florida rejected ballot measures that would have protected abortion rights and legalized recreational marijuana, as they failed to garner the necessary 60 percent support, The Associated Press reported. The abortion measure would have prevented laws restricting abortion access before the fetus is viable, which happens after 21 weeks of pregnancy—so the state’s harsh six-week abortion ban will remain in place. The marijuana measure would have allowed Floridians 21 and older to own about 3 ounces of the drug for recreational use. It also would have allowed businesses that already grow and sell marijuana for medical purposes—which is legal in Florida—to do so for recreational use. The outcome was a win for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, who campaigned strongly against the measures, arguing, for one, that the smell of marijuana would have hurt the state’s tourism. Donald Trump, the GOP presidential nominee and a Florida resident, had supported the measure to legalize marijuana. After the result, right-wing pundit Ann Coulter celebrated on X, writing, “YAY!!!! The vote on Florida’s pot initiative was as important to me as the presidential election.”

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.

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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. “We have a needle,” Times chief political analyst Nate Cohn posted on X. 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. Cohn wrote earlier on Tuesday that, if the needle didn‘t hold up to internal testing, it wouldn’t appear on election night. 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.

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.” Scott has been an outspoken critic of Trump—in September, he called him “a manipulator, a con artist.”

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