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.
President Biden is set to address the nation on Thursday to discuss the election and the transition. Trump has been invited to the White House to discuss the transition. Vice President Kamala Harris has no public events on her schedule after giving a concession speech on Wednesday afternoon, urging her supporters "do not despair."
President-elect Donald Trump picks up 11 more electoral votes in Arizona, a battleground state Biden won in 2020.
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.
Federal and state authorities are working to find the origins of racist text messages sent to Black people across the country threatening them with slavery and telling them they were “selected to pick cotton at the nearest plantation.
President-elect Trump's popular vote numbers for 2024 have officially surpassed his 2020 total despite five states not finishing vote counts.
HBO host Bill Maher urged Democratic Party figures to look in the mirror following their disastrous electoral defeat at the hands of President-elect Trump this week.
The 2024 presidential election is over, but the path to Inauguration Day on Jan. 20 is just beginning. The votes have to be certified in the states, the Electoral College has to meet and then Congress counts the vote.
The former House Speaker reflects on Donald Trump’s victory, Kamala Harris’s candidacy and the future of the Democratic Party.
Latest news and updates following Donald Trump's historic win in the 2024 presidential race against Kamala Harris. Trump captured the victory Wednesday morning.