Election 2024 Updates

[Timmy O. Goodwin]

AP - 44 sec ago

Another metro Atlanta County has seen voting disrupted by bomb threats.

About an hour before polls were to close, officials in DeKalb County said they received bomb threats against five polling places.

Officials in the overwhelmingly Democratic suburb said voting had been suspended at those locations until police confirm there are no bombs.

County officials say they’re seeking a court order to extend voting, which is routine in Georgia when a polling place is disrupted.

Some polling places in Fulton and Gwinnett counties were targeted earlier Tuesday. Those threats were found to be false.

“Rest assured that we are working quickly to ensure every voter will have an opportunity to cast their ballot despite these bomb threats,” DeKalb elections director Keisha Smith said in a statement.

 

[Timmy O. Goodwin]

AP - 14 sec ago

Billionaire Elon Musk said his pro-Trump super PAC will continue its work after the election, focusing on the 2026 midterms as well as local prosecutorial races. Musk discussed the future of his America PAC during a live event on his social media platform X. Musk repeated his support for Trump and said that a Trump victory would reflect an electorate eager for change.

“I think there’s a sea change in the country,” said Musk, the owner of Tesla and SpaceX. “I hope I’m not wrong about that.”

 

[Timmy O. Goodwin]

AP - 2 min ago

Polls are closing soon in 6 states

At 7 p.m. EST, polls will close in Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, South Carolina, Vermont and Virginia.

At 7:30 p.m. EST, polls will close in North Carolina, Ohio and West Virginia.

 

[Timmy O. Goodwin]

AP - 1 min ago

Phil Scott, Vermont’s Republican governor, told reporters outside his polling place that he voted for Harris over Trump, his party’s presidential candidate.

Scott said it was “not an easy thing to do being the Republican sitting governor and voting against your party’s nominee,” according to video from NBC 5. But Scott said he “came to the conclusion that I had to put country over party.”

Scott voted for President Joe Biden in 2020.

 

[Timmy O. Goodwin]

you better then the news a bit one sided but good

I am reporting precisely every word that the Associated Press reports and nothing more or less. They have always been very concise and very objective on these issues. Thank you.

 

[Timmy O. Goodwin]

AP - 36 sec ago

Republican Donald Trump won the presidential election in Indiana on Tuesday. The reliably conservative state, where Republicans have held the governor’s office for 20 years, gave Trump its 11 electoral votes over Democrat Kamala Harris. Indiana has been favorable toward Trump in his three races for the White House. In 2016, the year he won the presidency, and again in 2020, Trump took 57% of the Hoosier state vote. The Associated Press declared Trump the winner at 7:00 p.m. EST.

 

[Timmy O. Goodwin]

AP - 4 min ago

A Decision Desk update on Wisconsin

Milwaukee election officials say the release of their final vote count will be delayed. Officials say about 31,000 absentee ballots will be recounted because doors on ballot tabulators were not properly sealed. Officials say there was no reason to believe that any ballots already counted had been tampered with. There was no estimate as to how long of a delay there would be.

 

[Timmy O. Goodwin]

AP- 2 min ago

Former President Donald Trump won Kentucky for the third consecutive election on Tuesday, adding eight electoral votes to his tally. The Republican nominee for president has won Kentucky in every election since Democrat Bill Clinton carried the Bluegrass State in 1996. Kentucky’s most powerful Republican, Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell, once called Trump “morally responsible” for the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack. But in a remarkable turnaround, McConnell endorsed Trump’s bid to return to the White House. During Trump’s term, the two worked together to pass a tax cuts package and to put three conservative justices on the Supreme Court. The Associated Press declared Trump the winner at 7:00 p.m. EST.

 

[Timmy O. Goodwin]

AP - 3 min ago

Kamala Harris won the Democratic stronghold of Vermont on Tuesday. The small state has voted in favor of Democratic candidates in the previous eight presidential elections. Vermont Gov. Phil Scott, a Republican, has been a critic of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and voted for Democrat Joe Biden in the 2020 election. The Associated Press declared Harris the winner at 7:00 p.m. EST.

 

[the annoying thing]

AP - 44 sec ago

Another metro Atlanta County has seen voting disrupted by bomb threats.

About an hour before polls were to close, officials in DeKalb County said they received bomb threats against five polling places.

Officials in the overwhelmingly Democratic suburb said voting had been suspended at those locations until police confirm there are no bombs.

County officials say they’re seeking a court order to extend voting, which is routine in Georgia when a polling place is disrupted.

Some polling places in Fulton and Gwinnett counties were targeted earlier Tuesday. Those threats were found to be false.

“Rest assured that we are working quickly to ensure every voter will have an opportunity to cast their ballot despite these bomb threats,” DeKalb elections director Keisha Smith said in a statement.

they need to throw the book at whoever makes bomb threats .

 

[Timmy O. Goodwin]

they need to throw the book at whoever makes bomb threats .

I absolutely agree with that.

 

[Timmy O. Goodwin]

AP - 17 sec ago

A senior official at the federal cybersecurity agency says no nationwide security problems are threatening the integrity of the elections and is pushing back on claims of fraud in the key battleground state of Pennsylvania.

Cait Conley, a senior adviser to the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, told reporters tonight that though officials have responded to bomb threats, disinformation and other problems, there are no major incidents with a national-level impact.

Asked about claims of widespread fraud in Pennsylvania being advanced by Trump and some of his supporters, Conley said federal officials had been in close contact with their state and local counterparts across the country and “we see no data or reporting to support these claims.” Multiple Pennsylvania officials, including Gov. Josh Shapiro, have also said they had not seen any signs of cheating and have called the election secure.

 

[Timmy O. Goodwin]

AP - 5 sec ago
Pres. - Trump 23 Harris 3
Senate seats - 29 Dem and 40 Rep, 31 left to call
House seats - 6 Dem and 11 Rep, 417 left to call
Gov - 20 Dem and 21 Rep, 9 left to call

 

[Timmy O. Goodwin]

AP - 55 sec ago

Former President Donald Trump won West Virginia for the third straight presidential election cycle on Tuesday. The victory adds four electoral votes to the former president’s count. West Virginia has one fewer electoral vote this cycle after losing a congressional seat following the 2020 census. The state is one of only two where Trump won every county in 2016 and 2020. No Democrat has won the presidential election in West Virginia since Bill Clinton in 1996. Republicans control every elected partisan statewide office in West Virginia. The Associated Press declared Trump the winner at 7:30 p.m. EST.

 

[Timmy O. Goodwin]

Harris 99
Trump 137

Traditionally the east will ramp up as it is doing and then once the polls start closing west and mid-west is when the major numbers start pouring in. Both candidates are sitting at 24 and 27 million votes conservatively when in actuality there are still about 120 million votes left to come in. Then CA will ramp up Harris as well as Oregon and Washington and Colorado.