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The New York Times delivered its first presidential estimate Tuesday night as results poured in from Georgia and North Carolina.

Nate Cohn, chief political analyst for the Times, noted around 9:20 p.m. ET that the paper of record was making its first estimate on election night.

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.

When Election Night 2024 arrived, one of the closely watched U.S. Senate races was taking place in Arizona — where Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) and far-right MAGA Republican Kari Lake are competing for the seat being vacated by independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema.

Most polls have showed Gallego ahead. And according to Wired's David Gilbert, Lake was preparing for likely defeat by resorting to a familiar playbook: falsely claiming voter fraud.

Fani Willis, the Georgia prosecutor who brought racketeering charges against former President Donald Trump over his effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election, cruised to re-election on Tuesday night, according to reports.

Willis won a second four-year term in Fulton County against Courtney Kramer, a Republican lawyer who interned in the White House under Trump.

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."

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg appears to have schooled Fox News host Brian Kilmeade, explaining that due to Donald Trump's policies during his presidency China was able to establish itself as the leading producer of electric vehicles, in a rancorous interview Tuesday.

"The manufacturing recession is in your head," Kilmeade falsely declared to the Secretary of Transportation. "It never happened."

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.