US election 2024 live results: Donald Trump wins

The Republican’s victory in Pennsylvania seals a stunning comeback for the former and future president and ruptures the Blue Wall once again, writes our own Richard Hall from the Keystone State.

It was the prize target of both campaigns, who together spent an unprecedented $1.2 billion on ads and held rallies in towns big and small across the state.

Joe Biden used stories of his difficult childhood here in Scranton to beat Trump in 2020 and clinch the presidency.

Questions were asked early on about whether Kamala Harris could win here without that personal history and connection to white working-class voters, perhaps by turning out larger numbers in the cities of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.

Pennsylvania was also the site of an assassination attempt on Trump. That near miss, at a rally in the town of Butler, reinvigorated his campaign.

But it was Trump’s message on the economy that appeared to break through.

Throughout the campaign, voters across the state expressed concern about inflation and the economy. Even young voters, traditionally a reliable voting bloc for the Democratic Party, said the same.

“I’m scared for my future. I want my future economy to thrive,” Kelsey Moyer, a 20-year-old student at Indiana University, told The Independent in September.

“Both presidents have had a four-year span and you can see the difference in the country.”

Trump made gains in rural areas across the state, but also in urban areas like Lackawanna County — home to Scranton — and in the Bellwether of Erie. He won half of independent voters, according to exit polls.

His biggest gains came with Latino voters, appearing to win close to half of them, according to NBC's exit poll.

With its 19 electoral votes, Pennsylvania is the most valuable of the swing states.

Donald Trump picked up one in every three votes cast by people of color in the 2024 election, according to an exit poll published late on Tuesday.

The NBC News survey’s finding indicates that the the American electorate has become less politically divided along racial or ethnic lines, with particular groups less likely to behave as unified voting blocs.

This comes despite the former president’s campaign being dogged by a number of racial controversies.

Joe Sommerlad and Alicja Hagopian report.

Bitcoin has surged to a new all-time high after Donald Trump emerged as the likely winner of the US presidential election.

The price of the world’s most valuable cryptocurrency reached above $75,000 on Wednesday morning, beating its previous record of just below $74,000 set in March.

Anthony Cuthbertson reports.

Americans have now cast their votes in the 2024 election, with Donald Trump likely on the cusp of becoming the next president of the United States.

As of Wednesday morning, Trump has clinched projected victories in crucial swing states North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Georgia.

The casting of ballots across the 50 states brings an end to perhaps one of the most dramatic election campaigns in living memory, which saw a last-minute change at the top of the Democratic ticket and Trump survive two separate assassination attempts.

Here’s a look at how the presidential election certification process works:

Earlier this year, Donald Trump made history by becoming the first former president ever convicted of a crime.

Now, as he is on the verge of securing a second term in the White House having swept two key swing states, he appears poised to make history again: by becoming the first convicted felon elected to the nation’s highest office.

Joe Sommerlad explains what might happen next.