Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has been declared the winner of Georgia, a crucial battleground state, after midnight on Wednesday morning.

The Peach State, as it is nicknamed, has 16 electoral votes that could help decide the presidential election. Polls closed at 7 p.m. ET.

Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger had previously accused Russia of trying to create chaos in the state’s election.

Georgia became a battleground state after previously being considered a deep red state. In 2020, President Joe Biden took the state with a
slim margin of only about 11,800 votes, or about two-tenths of a percent of the total votes cast. It was the first time that Georgia had gone Democrat since Bill Clinton won it in 1992.

Controversy over the 2020 runoff elections for Georgia’s seats in the U.S. Senate led to Democrats taking both contested elections and swinging the Senate to Democratic control.

The Harris campaign
saw storm clouds in Georgia in October when a poll found that its efforts to persuade male voters to vote Democrat were failing miserably. Only three out of 10 male respondents said they were going to vote for Harris in the state. Nearly six in 10 male voters said they were voting for Trump.

Officials in Georgia reported some threats meant to
derail the election, including bomb threats against five voting locations that led to voting being suspended.

“Rest assured that we are working quickly to ensure every voter will have an opportunity to cast their ballot despite these bomb threats,” said DeKalb election official Keisha Smith. “Out of an abundance of caution, we are suspending voting at these polling locations until we have clearance from DeKalb Police to reopen the facilities.”

The FBI said the bomb threats did not appear to be credible, and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger had previously accused Russia of trying to create chaos in the state’s election based on investigations into hoax videos that had gone viral.

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President Donald Trump has won North Carolina once again, picking up the key battleground state’s 16 electoral votes.

Around 9:22 p.m. ET, the Decision Desk HQ called the Tar Heel state for Trump. The Associated Press subsequently called it around 11:20 p.m. ET. At the time of publication, Trump had a comfortable lead, 50.8% to 48.1% with 88% of the votes counted

Jill Stein of the Green Party and Libertarian Chase Oliver both failed to clinch half a percentage point.

Exit polls indicated that the sexes split as expected, with 57% of men voting for Trump and 56% of women voting for Kamala Harris, reported NBC News. Trump secured roughly 61% of the white vote, 12% of the black vote, and 48% of the Hispanic vote.

Trump even made history: He won Anson County, which is more than 44% black. A Republican has won that county in a presidential election only once since the 1870s.

According to the Associated Press, the issues that decided the election in North Carolina were the economy, immigration, abortion, and health care, in that order.

Former Obama adviser David Axelrod recently told Mike Murphy of the podcast “Hacks on Tap” that if Harris won North Carolina, Trump, who held some of his final rallies in the state, would be “in deep trouble.” It appears that Harris now has major troubles of her own.

Republican North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson was not so fortunate, trailing the state’s Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein by roughly 13 percentage points.

Republicans Brad Knott, Richard Hudson, Tim Moore, David Rouzer, Mark Harris, Pat Harrigan, Virginia Foxx, Addison McDowell, Greg Murphy, and Chuck Edwards all appear to have locked down or kept seats in the U.S. Congress.

Editor’s note: This article has been updated to reflect that a Republican presidential candidate has won Anson County once since the 1870s. A previous version claimed no Republican had won it since the 1870s.

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Republican candidate Bernie Moreno defeated Democratic incumbent Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio Tuesday night, flipping another crucial Senate seat.

Moreno won 50.5% of the vote while Moreno secured 46.1% of the vote, according to Politico. At the time of this writing, Republicans have now flipped two Senate seats, regaining their majority from the Democrats.

Brown, who was first elected as one of Ohio’s two senators since 2006, was projected to be the winner early on in the race. As November approached, Moreno closed in on Brown’s lead and actually surpassed him in the polls by a few points.

Moreno was supported by former President Donald Trump’s endorsement as well as the Republican nominee’s strong performance in Ohio.

Moreno originally ran for Ohio Senate in 2022 but later dropped out, allowing then-Republican candidate turned Trump running mate JD Vance to secure the electoral victory.

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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis — the Georgia prosecutor who brought charges against former President Donald Trump — has won her bid for re-election in overwhelming fashion.

Willis — a noted Democrat incumbent — defeated Republican challenger Courtney Kramer on Tuesday. Willis easily defeated Kramer by a whopping margin of nearly 68% to 32%.

Trump’s lawyers have called for Willis to be removed from the case due to her seeming conflict of interest because of her ‘personal relationship’ with Nathan Wade.

Fulton County is a Democratic stronghold that includes most of Atlanta, which has 11% of the state’s electorate.

Kramer was an intern in the White House counsel’s office during the Trump presidency and is active in Republican activist organizations.

Willis won her election in 2021 after defeating her former boss — District Attorney Paul Howard — in the primary. She was not challenged by a Republican in that election.

Willis made a name for herself by launching an investigation into Trump. Willis’ office indicted Trump and 18 co-defendants in August 2023 on felony charges related to alleged attempts to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results.

Four individuals have pleaded guilty after reaching plea deals with prosecutors.

Willis has weaponized racketeering, or RICO, laws, to go after Trump and his allies.

Trump and the other defendants have pleaded not guilty in the case.

However, Trump’s lawyers have called for Willis to be removed from the case due to her seeming conflict of interest because of her “personal relationship” with Nathan Wade — a special prosecutor whom she hired.

The Georgia Court of Appeals plans to hear oral arguments in the Willis case against Trump beginning on Dec. 5.

Willis said she wants to serve three terms as district attorney and then move on to teaching at her undergraduate alma mater — Howard University in Washington, D.C.

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More than 30,000 ballots in Milwaukee need to be recounted after a likely “human error,” according to local election officials.

Approximately 31,000 ballots need to be retabulated in Milwaukee after issues were reportedly discovered with tabulator seals.

‘This is an unacceptable example of incompetent election administration in a key swing state.’

The tens of thousands of early absentee and in-person ballots were allegedly affected by all 13 tabulators.

According to WITI-TV, Milwaukee spokesperson Jeff Fleming said the tabulators were sealed, but the doors to the machines were not closed properly. Fleming added that the issue could cause major delays.

“It’s just out of an abundance of caution,” Fleming stated. “We have no reason to believe that there was any compromise to any of the machines. But because they were not fully sealed, human error, and not fully sealed, we are going to zero them all out again, the 13 machines around, and then re-run the ballots that had already been processed.”

Fleming added, “What has to be redone is just what’s happening against the wall at the machines. It is gonna extend the time that we will get the totals here, we don’t know how much longer that will be. So it’s not insignificant.”

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley and co-Chair Lara Trump issued a statement on Tuesday: “Throughout the day we have been monitoring slow ballot counting in Milwaukee. Now, our legal team has learned that the counting took place in insecure conditions and the city now has to start over, wildly extending the counting timeline. This is an unacceptable example of incompetent election administration in a key swing state: voters deserve better and we are unambiguously calling on Milwaukee’s officials to do their jobs and count ballots quickly and effectively. Anything less undermines voter confidence.”

Election workers in Milwaukee have been counting ballots since 9 a.m. on Election Day.

Wisconsin is a battleground state with a razor-tight margin between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump.

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