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GOP candidate and former president Donald Trump won his first swing state late Tuesday with North Carolina and it all went uphill from there for Trump. In the end, Trump performed better in North Carolina than in 2020 — when he also won the race.
Polls had shown Vice President Kamala Harris cutting into Trump’s lead in North Carolina when she entered the race in July, after President Joe Biden abandoned his re-election bid.
Democrats had been optimistic that Harris could make gains among well-educated voters in the state's Research Triangle area, a robust voting bloc.
Trump was declared the winner of a second swing state, Georgia, by 12:35 am ET. By Wednesday morning, Trump had won all of the swing states and the election.
Heading into Tuesday, BetOnline had Trump winning all the swing states except for Michigan, which they had going to the vice president and Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, but by a small margin. BetOnline was more accurate than the polls.
BetOnline still offered live election odds heading into Midnight. Trump was listed as a -4000 favorite to win as of 12:30 am ET.
Harris did win the electoral vote tied to Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District on Wednesday. The sitting vice president defeated Trump in the district centered on Nebraska’s largest city of Omaha and its surrounding suburbs. The district has earned the nickname of Nebraska’s “blue dot” after having supported two other Democrats for president in the last 16 years – former President Barack Obama in 2008 and President Joe Biden in 2020. Nebraska and Maine are the only two states that split their Electoral College votes based on the popular votes in individual congressional districts. The Associated Press declared Harris the winner at 12:08 a.m. EST.
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