Live Updates: 2024 Presidential Election

Former President Donald Trump has won 266 electoral votes – just four of the 270 he needs to be elected the 47th president of the United States.

Here’s what happened overnight:

Trump’s speech in Florida: The former president addressed supporters in Florida in the early hours of Wednesday morning and thanked the American people for their support. “We have a country that needs help, and very urgently. We’re going to fix our borders and fix everything in our country,” Trump said, promising Americans that “I’ll fight for you every single day” and saying he would usher in the “Golden Age of America.” CNN has the race The presidential election has not yet been declared and the votes are still being counted in several states.

Republicans will control the Senate: Republicans will win the majority in the US Senate, CNN predicts, leading to a shift in the balance of power in Washington. Republicans’ march to control began early on election night, with West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice expected to take the Senate seat vacated by the retiring Democrat–independent Senator Joe Manchin. In Ohio, Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown, who served three terms in the House, will lose re-election, according to CNN, in a state that went from a constant political bellwether to a deep red stronghold during his time in office. The new Republican senator will be businessman Bernie Moreno, a vehement Trump supporter.

Battlefield projections: Early Tuesday evening, Trump captured reliably red states and Vice President Kamala Harris captured blue strongholds. Trump later captured North Carolina, Georgia and Pennsylvania, and Harris’ path to 270 shrank significantly.

Harris will speak later today: Campaign co-chair Cedric Richmond told supporters that the vice president would not speak Tuesday night but is expected to speak today. In brief remarks to the hundreds of supporters who remained on the Howard University campus, Richmond said there were still “votes to count” and the campaign’s goal was to ensure that “every vote is counted.”