CNN asked readers to share feelings about the 2024 election. More than 2,000 respondents revealed mixed emotions over the outcome.
Conspiracy theories have emerged to claim the elections are being "stolen" from Republicans Sam Brown and Kari Lake.
President-elect Trump's popular vote numbers for 2024 have officially surpassed his 2020 total despite five states not finishing vote counts.
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.
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.
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.
The powerful former speaker of the House suggested the Democrats could have fared better if the president stood down as candidate sooner.
It's the first time Trump has topped an opponent in the popular vote​, and only the second time since 1988 that any Republican has done so.
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.