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The New York Times reports: A joint session of Congress is set to convene on Monday afternoon to certify President-elect Donald J. Trump’s victory in the 2024 election, a basic ritual of democracy that was brutally disrupted four years ago by a violent pro-Trump mob inflamed by his lie about a stolen election. There is no hint of a similar …

The Daily Beast reports: Vice President Kamala Harris, during a virtual call with supporters Tuesday, thanked them for their campaign efforts and pledged that the “fight’s not over.” “The fight that fueled our campaign, a fight for freedom and opportunity, that did not end on Nov. 5. A fight for the dignity of all people? That did not end on …

The Associated Press reports: House Leader Hakeem Jeffries won reelection Tuesday as the Democratic leader, receiving support from his colleagues despite the party’s inability to win back majority control of the chamber in the November election. Jeffries of New York was chosen during an internal party vote of the House Democrats underway at the Capitol. Most of the Democratic leadership …

USA Today reports: Republicans have won both the House and the Senate, giving the GOP total control over Congress for at least the next two years and creating a friendly path for President-elect Donald Trump’s priorities. The GOP will have a majority in the 435-member House after defending enough key seats in New York, California and other swing districts that …

USA Today reports: Vice President Kamala Harris, who called and congratulated President-elect Donald Trump on his victory in the 2024 presidential election, is expected to make a speech Wednesday afternoon from Howard University in Washington, D.C. The Democratic presidential nominee will deliver the speech at 4 p.m. ET, the White House confirmed. Harris had been expected to address her election …

Washington DC’s NBC affiliate reports: Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to address the nation Wednesday to officially concede the 2024 presidential election to Donald Trump. Harris is expected to deliver a speech to the country and her supporters at Howard University in Washington D.C., her alma mater, a campaign co-chair confirmed to NBC News. The timing of Harris’ speech …

The Associated Press reports: Kamala Harris won Colorado on Tuesday, picking up the state’s 10 electoral votes. Colorado was once a purple state, flipping between Democratic and Republican presidential candidates, but it has shifted blue in the past two decades. The last Republican presidential candidate to snag Colorado’s electoral votes was George W. Bush in 2004. Since then, it’s backed …

The Hill reports: Vice President Harris has won Virginia, maintaining Democrats’ control of the state at the presidential level despite some Republican inroads in recent years, according to a projection from Decision Desk HQ. Polls in the run-up to Election Day showed Harris leading Trump by a comfortable margin. According to The Hill’s Decision Desk HQ average, Harris led Trump …

NBC News reports: Kamala Harris has won the Vermont contest, NBC News projects, and secured the state’s three Electoral College votes. In 2020, Biden won Vermont with 66% of the vote to Trump’s 31%. In 2016, Hillary Clinton won Vermont with 61% to Trump’s 33%. Since 1992, Vermont has been a reliably blue state in presidential elections. There are three …

Axios reports: Election officials in Michigan and several other states are predicting turnout to surpass records set in 2020, when about 158 million Americans — 66% of eligible voters — cast ballots, Axios’ Dave Lawler reports. If turnout is unexpectedly high, the election results could diverge dramatically from the razor-thin margins reflected in the polls. That’s because pollsters have to …

The New York Times reports: A team of nearly 100 Times journalists, engineers, statisticians, data experts and researchers are collaborating to deliver up-to-the-minute results, displayed live on nytimes.com with a full array of interactive maps and charts so that you can see what is happening in the most important races of the night. That data also feeds into the Needle, …

“In terms of Trump accepting the results of the election if he loses, George, I’d just ask Reince [Priebus], what’s the evidence that he will? He never has. “And so all of a sudden now he’s going to get religion and accept them if he loses? I don’t think that’s the case. Now, I don’t think it’ll matter nearly as …

CNN reports: Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump have tied with three votes each in the tiny New Hampshire township of Dixville Notch, kicking off Election Day in one of the first places in the country to report its presidential preference. The unincorporated township, located along the US-Canada border in New Hampshire’s northern tip, opened and closed …

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports: Vice President Kamala Harris will hold a get-out-the-vote concert rally Monday night at the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art as the presidential campaigns continue to focus on the critical swing state of Pennsylvania. The rally and concert will take place on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, below the Art Museum steps, on Monday night — …

PBS News reports: On the eve of the 2024 presidential election, Vice President Kamala Harris holds a 4-point lead over former President Donald Trump among likely voters nationally, according to the latest PBS News/NPR/Marist poll. Harris has the support of 51 percent of likely voters to Trump’s 47 percent – a lead just outside the poll’s 3.5-point margin of error. …

Axios reports: More than 75 million Americans have already cast their ballots as of the Sunday before Election Day. That’s over 48% of the total number who voted in 2020 (154.6 million), indicating that early and mail-in voting has become increasingly popular methods to vote and become a new normal in American politics. In Georgia, more than 4 million have …

The Des Moines Register reports: Kamala Harris now leads Donald Trump in Iowa — a startling reversal for Democrats and Republicans who have all but written off the state’s presidential contest as a certain Trump victory. A new Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll shows Vice President Harris leading former President Trump 47% to 44% among likely voters just days before …

The New York Times reports: The vice president gazed into the mirror, reached out her hand and told her comedic reflection that she had this election thing in the bag. “I’m just here to remind you — you got this,” the actual vice president said to Maya Rudolph, the comedian who has portrayed Kamala Harris for years on “Saturday Night …

The Hill reports: Vice President Harris’s campaign will hold a national livestream show that features events from the seven battleground states on Monday night, a senior campaign official announced on Saturday. To mark the night before Election Day, the campaign will host simultaneous “get out the vote” organizing events in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Those …

Mediaite reports: The Marist poll found Harris up 3 points on Trump in Michigan and leading by 2 points in both Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The pollster’s final results for other swing states showed Georgia and Nevada as tied, while Trump led by 1 point in Arizona and 2 points in North Carolina. If Marist’s polls were to be the outcome …