In the days after the presidential election, Sadie Perez began carrying pepper spray with her around campus. Her mom also ordered her and her sister a self-defense kit that included keychain spikes, a hidden knife key and a personal alarm.

"I went into this election fully expecting Trump to win," said Holness, who lives in New Jersey and began to medically transition during the pandemic, an experience they called "liberating" and "amazing" after a long time spent "feeling like something was wrong."

Was the 2024 presidential election close? It became clear that President-elect Donald Trump was on pace to win relatively early in the evening. Interactive maps of election results showed the entire country shifting right.

Wisconsin’s election commission leader quietly certified Donald Trump ’s victory on Friday, moving past the chaos that surrounded the 2020 election results in the battleground state. Commission Chair Ann Jacobs certified results that show Trump won the state with 1,

Vice President Kamala Harris bid "aloha" to Washington, DC, in the wake of the 2024 presidential election—and retreated to a stunning $7 million estate in Hawaii, where she reportedly spent six days holed up with her husband, Doug Emhoff, after suffering a resounding loss to President-elect Donald Trump.

Turnout for the presidential election is not yet final, but it’s clear that fewer people voted in 2024 compared with 2020.

While smooth, election season in Arizona still isn't really over. The Gaggle discusses what still needs to be done to wrap up the 2024 election.

California's San Francisco Bay Area is still solidly blue — but less than it used to be. Trump's voteshare in Silicon Valley grew by several points.

Biden won in rural Inyo County in eastern California by 14 votes in 2020 after its voters supported Trump in 2016. This year, the Republican won by a larger margin.

Washington — More than two weeks after Election Day 2024, the results in a handful of races for the U.S. House of Representatives are still outstanding. But enough races have been decided for CBS News to project that Republicans will hold onto control of the House with at least 218 seats, the number needed for a majority.

Kamala Harris has reemerged following her election defeat to Donald Trump to deliver a message of hope to her supporters. Harris, who has been lying low since she lost the race for the White House earlier this month, shared a defiant address on Tuesday night where she told her supporters: “Don’t let anyone take your power.”