Presidential election: Trump projected to flip Georgia, take North Carolina

06 Nov 2024, 00:35 by Darryl Coote & Joe Fisher · UPI

Nov. 5 (UPI) -- Polls across the continental United States have closed for the presidential election as Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump seek the 270 electoral college votes needed to become the next president.

Polls closed in 15 states at 9 p.m. EST, including swing states Arizona, Michigan and Wisconsin. Arizona, Michigan and Wisconsin account for a combined 36 electoral college votes. Early projections held to the form of the 2020 election, but that changed early Wednesday, when the battleground state of Georgia flipped from Democrat to Republican.