CNN asked readers to share feelings about the 2024 election. More than 2,000 respondents revealed mixed emotions over the outcome.
Whitesides had 50.4% of the vote while Garcia had 49.6%, with 2,114 votes separating the two, based on the latest vote count issued by the L.A. County registrar’s office on Saturday, Nov. 9. The next update is scheduled for late Sunday afternoon.
Conspiracy theories have emerged to claim the elections are being "stolen" from Republicans Sam Brown and Kari Lake.
Hours after Trump's victory, advocacy groups were setting their sights on the president-elect, who will take office Jan. 20.
President-elect Trump's popular vote numbers for 2024 have officially surpassed his 2020 total despite five states not finishing vote counts.
With Republicans having been declared winners of the White House and the Senate, the race for the House of Representatives remains undecided. There are 435 voting members of the House, with 218 needed for a party to hold a majority. The Associated Press (AP) has called 211 seats for the Republican Party and 199 for the Democrats.
The former House Speaker reflects on Donald Trump’s victory, Kamala Harris’s candidacy and the future of the Democratic Party.
During the 2024 campaign, President-elect Donald Trump claimed without evidence that Democratic "cheating" and voter fraud were occurring. When he was declared the winner early Wednesday morning, those claims abruptly ended. Tuesday afternoon, as votes were being cast, Trump claimed on social media there was "massive cheating" in Philadelphia.
The powerful former speaker of the House suggested the Democrats could have fared better if the president stood down as candidate sooner.
It's the first time Trump has topped an opponent in the popular vote​, and only the second time since 1988 that any Republican has done so.