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A CNN roundtable on Tuesday debated the apparent strong performance of former President Donald Trump in the 2024 election, following his apparent locking down of North Carolina — and the subject turned to how voters perceive the economy.

"Generally speaking, he is overperforming with what he did in 2020 and she is underperforming what Joe Biden did in 2020. At this point, it's a narrow defeat for Harris," said Chris Wallace.

Vice President Kamala Harris' path to 270 electoral votes all but hinges on a "massive overperformance" in the suburbs of Philadelphia as she trails in the critical battleground state, according to a political insider.

Tara Palmeri, senior political correspondent at Puck News, took to X on Tuesday night to share insights from a senior Democratic official in Pennsylvania.

Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon told campaign staff Tuesday night that despite early results showing Donald Trump with a lead in the electoral vote count, the campaign feels “good about what we’re seeing.”

“While we continue to see data trickle in from the Sun Belt states, we have known all along that our clearest path to 270 electoral votes lies through the Blue Wall states,” O’Malley Dillon wrote in an email. “And we feel good about what we’re seeing.”

One of the most critical and intensely-watched Senate contests in America has been called for the Republican challenger.

Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown faced the fight of his life in this contest against Donald Trump-backed businessman Bernie Moreno. Trump has broadly been expected throughout the election cycle to carry Ohio easily, giving Brown a difficult path to re-election.

"The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart opened his live election night coverage by cracking a joke about his own audience's enthusiasm — as former President Donald Trump took a commanding lead over Vice President Kamala Harris — and chided a Democratic senator who apparently canceled on the show seconds before he was to appear.

As the audience erupted into cheers, Stewart joked: "That is the sound of a crowd that does not have access to a television set and does not know what's happening in the world."

The state of North Carolina has been called for Donald Trump in the presidential contest. The Washington Post and the New York Times made the prediction.

North Carolina was heavily targeted in the final days of the campaign by both Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump.

Former President Donald Trump's team has become increasingly ecstatic as election results suggest his followers may need not to storm the U.S. Capitol as they did on Jan. 6, 2021.

Trump's growing lead in swing states across the nation has perked up the vibe at Mar-a-Lago — the social club where the former president faced criminal charges linked to hoarding classified information in a bathroom, among other places, according to CNN's Kaitlan Collins.

Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign has fallen into radio silence as they search for any remaining path for outstanding votes to deliver them an election victory, CNN's Abby Phillip told Jake Tapper on Tuesday evening.

"Let me just give you a gut check here about what we are hearing here, as we've been sitting here reporting from the Harris headquarters," said Phillip. "And I think the operative word right now is silence. There's not a lot being said, because the Harris team appears to be searching for bright spots in the map, as these results very very, very slowly come in."

A senior advisor to Donald Trump's presidential campaign took an early victory lap on Tuesday night as more states were called for the former president.

Chris LaCivita posted on the social media platform X "Enjoy retirement" over a screenshot of a 2016 article from FiveThirtyEight dubbing pollster Ann Selzer "The best pollster in politics."

North Carolina Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson officially conceded his race for governor Tuesday night after it became clear that Democratic state Attorney General Josh Stein had won the election — but the Trump-endorsed MAGA candidate didn’t rule out a return to public office in the future.

“It's not about the lies. It's not about the half-truths. It's about the people who believe in you. It’s about the state that you love. The state that I fully intend to continue to serve for the next few months,” Robinson said Tuesday evening. “Who knows? Maybe in the future once again, somewhere in office. I don’t know.”

In the latest high-profile statewide race in Texas, the Senate contest between GOP incumbent Ted Cruz and Democratic Dallas-area Congressman Colin Allred has been called for Cruz.

The result was called by Fox News and NBC News.

Former Vice President Kamala Harris' strong position in two vital swing states suggests the election could be decided in one whose most populous city former President Donald Trump notoriously described as "horrible," a Washington Post analyst said.

Columnist E.J. Dionne wrote Tuesday night that he was impressed by Harris' showing in Pennsylvania — where she's taken a strong lead in several crucial counties — and Michigan.

Democratic county executive Angela Alsobrooks has defeated Republican former Gov. Larry Hogan in the Maryland Senate contest, Politico reported on Tuesday evening.

It's a win that comes after Hogan, who served two terms as governor, had sought to make a generally safe blue state competitive in the Senate contest.