2024 Elections

Vice President Kamala Harris has taken a strong lead in several swing state counties, one of which typically go the way of the nation, according to a CNN analysis.

Pennsylvania voters in Erie — a "bellwether county" that can go red or blue — had gone for Harris over former President Donald Trump at a split of about 59 percent to 40 percent as of 9:20 p.m., CNN analyst John King reported Tuesday night,

CNN anchors called a new exit poll on Tuesday night "brutal" for Vice President Kamala Harris.

David Chalian revealed exit poll results for Arizona, Michigan and Wisconsin, where voters were asked their opinion of President Joe Biden. In Arizona, 57 percent of voters said they disapproved of Biden. In Michigan, that number was 55 percent.

The far-right extremists known as "Groypers" may have violated election laws in Arizona, reported Wired — by passing out hamburgers and hot dogs to voters.

The giveaway "was organized by the far-right College Republicans United group, in association with the Patriot Party of Arizona. It began just after polls opened at the Mesa Convention Center," said the report.

Another exit poll showed a "major reversal" among a key constituency — and could prove ominous for Vice President Kamala Harris.

Latino men are breaking for former President Donald Trump over Harris 54 percent to 44 percent, according to an NBC News exit poll. The outlet called it a "major reversal" from four years ago, when Latino men supported Joe Biden by a whopping 59 percent to 36 percent.

The closely-watched North Carolina gubernatorial election between Democratic state Attorney General Josh Stein and Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson has ended in a victory for Stein, Fox News and ABC.

The contest, which also comes as former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris have been competing hard in the battleground state that narrowly went for Trump twice at the presidential level, was the Republicans' effort to win back a gubernatorial seat the party hasn't held since 2017, when then-Democratic Attorney General Roy Cooper unseated incumbent GOP Gov. Pat McCrory.

Republicans saw their first big gain of the night in the race to retake control of the U.S. Senate after West Virginia’s Republican Gov. Jim Justice defeated Democrat Glenn Elliott for the seat being vacated by Sen. Joe Manchin (I-WV).

Justice's win was reported by several news outlets.

A CNN panel of anchors expressed shock as the results of another exit poll showed a major flip in the crucial battleground state of Georgia.

David Chalian shared the results Tuesday night of a poll of independent voters that he called "the story of these exit polls in Georgia."

While Donald Trump spent part of Election Day with Melania at the polls, questioning the integrity of the vote, Vice President Kamala Harris took some time to reach out to voters by phone banking at a Democratic National Committee event where she made a surprise entrance to talk with volunteers.

"Are you fired up? Ready to go?" an apparent DNC operative asked volunteers, who cheered both times, "yes!"

Former Trump administration communications aide Alyssa Farah Griffin thinks the exit polls in the 2024 election show a startling reality: Republicans blew one of their greatest issues on the campaign trail, which was immigration.

Voters ranked immigration far lower in the exit poll than they have in polling for most of the cycle, Griffin noted on a CNN panel Tuesday evening as survey data started to come in — and she thinks that may be because Vice President Kamala Harris' messaging against former President Donald Trump, and particularly reminding them that Trump worked behind the scenes to sabotage a bipartisan border security bill, managed to beat the issue to a near tie with voters.

The first projections in Tuesday's election, calling Kentucky for Republican DonaldTrump and Vermont for Democrat Kamala Harris.

Multiple media outlets agreed that Harris carried Vermont, earning her three electoral votes, and Kentucky for Trump, giving him eight electoral votes.

A state judge in Pennsylvania has ordered a Washington Township election official to cease an illegal method of counting ballots — or face action from the county sheriff.

The Township election judge, Vincent Manetta, had been insisting on removing ballots to hand-count them after polls close, despite the fact that hand audits are not legal under Pennsylvania rules.

Lara Trump, co-chair of the Republican National Committee and daughter-in-law of former President Donald Trump, set her sights squarely on Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Tuesday night, where tens of thousands of ballots will be recounted due to a glitch.

More than 30,000 absentee ballots will reportedly be recounted on election night in the city. Poll workers in the city — grappling with historic turnout — will likely work late into the night after the doors of a tabulating machine were mistakenly left open.

Vice President Kamala Harris received promising news from a major swing state's largest city where more ballots have been demanded to keep up with voter turnout, CNN reported on Election Day.

Correspondent Abby Phillip reported from Harris' campaign headquarters Tuesday that her team has its eyes locked on Philadelphia where Democratic regions are seeing voters flock to the polls.