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.
Trump has criticized U.S. aid to Ukraine and praised Russian President Vladimir Putin. But it was under Trump's administration, in 2017, that the U.S. first sent weapons to Ukraine.
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.
Bill Burr didn’t hold back in his “Saturday Night Live” monologue during the show’s first episode following Donald Trump’s election victory. “But you learn more from your losses than your wins, so let’s get into the game tape: Ladies,
President-elect Donald Trump picks up 11 more electoral votes in Arizona, a battleground state Biden won in 2020.
It will take 218 seats to rule the House, and although neither party had yet to reach the threshold, the numbers appeared to favor the GOP.
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.
CNN asked readers to share feelings about the 2024 election. More than 2,000 respondents revealed mixed emotions over the outcome.