Live Election Day 2020 updates: Trump says ‘we’ve already won it’

Gov. Inslee declared victory Tuesday night after securing a third term and, according to early results, many of Washington’s incumbents will remain in office.

Meanwhile, the nation is waiting to see how the presidential race unfolds.

Local Election Results here.

That concludes our updates for the night.

12:00am – AP reports Biden has won Arizona. Arizona has backed a Democratic presidential candidate only once in the last 72 years.

11:25pm – Trump said Tuesday night from the White House that Arizona would be nice to have, but they don’t need it. He added, that most importantly, they’re winning in Pennsylvania.

The president spoke to the American people on a stage in front of friends, family, and staff.

“As far as I’m concerned, we’ve already won it,” Trump said, after mentioning that he’ll go to the Supreme Court.

11:10pm – The New York Times reports Mississippi voters approved changing the state flag. The new flag will feature a magnolia flower and replace a design that included a Confederate symbol.

10:47pm – President Donald Trump has won four of Nebraska’s five electoral votes, while Democrat Joe Biden has won one electoral vote from the state.

The 1st Congressional District was called for Trump early Wednesday. Read more from AP.

10:21pm – President Trump wins Texas, according to AP.

9:57pm – Democrat Derek Kilmer has won reelection to U.S. House in Washington’s 6th Congressional District, according to the AP.

9:55pm – Trump announces that he will be making a statement tonight.

9:42pm – Biden delivers remarks from Wilmington, Delaware.

9:29pm – Trump has won Florida, according to the AP.

9:27pm – The Seattle Police Department is reporting that there are two marches moving through the South Lake Union and Capitol Hill neighborhoods. Details here.

9:24pm – Arizona voters approved the legalization of recreational marijuana, according to KTAR.

9:20pm – Trump has won Ohio and Iowa, according to the AP.

9:17pm – Biden has won Minnesota, according to the AP.

9:14pm – Democrat Rick Larsen has won reelection to U.S. House in Washington’s 2nd Congressional District, according to the AP.

9:10pm – Democrat Adam Smith has won reelection to U.S. House in Washington’s 9th Congressional District, according to the AP.

9:07pm – Biden wins Hawaii, according to the AP.

8:59pm – Jaime Herrera Beutler leads in the race for Washington state’s 3rd Congressional District, according to early election results on Tuesday night, with 54% of the vote. More here.

8:57pm – Kim Schrier is currently leading in early results in the race for Washington’s 8th Congressional District, by a margin of 54% to 46% over challenger Jesse Jensen. Read more here.

8:55pm – With the initial run of ballots now tallied, Jay Inslee has declared victory in the race for Washington’s governor against Loren Culp after garnering 60% of the vote. Read more here.

8:52pm – In early results, Kim Wyman is leading with 52% of the vote against Gael Tarleton the race for Washington’s Secretary of State. Details here.

8:51pm – Democrat Pramila Jayapal has won reelection to U.S. House in Washington’s 7th Congressional District, according to the AP.

8:44pm – Chris Reykdal is leading with 57% of the vote in early results for Washington state’s Superintendent of Public Instruction. More here.

8:42pm – With initial ballots now tallied, Referendum 90, a bill that would enact comprehensive K-12 sexual education statewide, is currently passing with 59.8% voting in favor and 40.2% against the measure. Details here.

8:40pm – Bob Ferguson is in the lead over Matt Larkin in the race for Washington Attorney General, according to early election results on Tuesday night. Ferguson holds 59% of the vote, while Larkin trails at 41%. Read more here.

8:37pm – Bruce Dammeier (54%) is in the lead over Larry Seaquist (46%) in the race for Pierce County Executive, according to early election results on Tuesday night. More here.

8:32pm – Ed Troyer (64%) is in the lead over Cyndie Fajardo (32%) in the race for Pierce County Sheriff, according to early election results on Tuesday night. Details here.

8:29pm – Denny Heck (48%) is in the lead over Marko Liias (34%) in the race for Washington state’s Lieutenant Governor, according to early election results on Tuesday night. More here.

8:24pm – With the initial run of ballots now tallied, Jay Inslee is leading Loren Culp early on in the race for Washington’s governor, garnering 52% of the vote. Details here.

8:21pm – Seattle Proposition 1, a transit sales tax increase measure, has received 81.62% “yes” votes, and 18.38% “no” in early results. Details here.

8:17pm – Trump has won Utah, according to AP.

8:14pm – King County Proposition 1 — a measure distributing $1.74 billion in bonds to Seattle’s Harborview Medical Center — is currently passing in early ballot returns, with 77.51% voting in favor and 22.49% against. Read more here.

8:11pm – People are still in line at some Washington state voting centers and drop off boxes, reports KIRO Radio.

8:08pm – Florida voters have approved $15 minimum wage, according to the New York Times.

8:02pm – AP is calling the state of Washington for Biden.

8:00pm – Democrat Jay Inslee wins reelection for governor in Washington, according to AP.

7:56pm – Biden wins New Hampshire, according to AP.

7:46pm – A couple hundred people have reportedly gathered in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood before they plan to march throughout the city. Seattle police are also in the area.

7:40pm – NBC reports Fulton County will stop counting mail in ballots at 10:30 p.m., and will resume the count Wednesday morning. Fulton is Georgia’s most populous county, and includes most of the city of Atlanta. This means there will be no decisive results for Fulton County on Tuesday night, which will affect when the results for Georgia, overall, are known.

7:35pm – Trump wins Missouri, according to the AP.

7:24pm – The Secretary of State’s Office reports, as of 5 p.m. on Tuesday, it received 3,782,114 ballots (of 4,887,536 voters in the election). The means about 77% of ballots had been returned.

7:10pm – The New York Times reports that New Jersey has voted to legalize the recreational use of marijuana. Voters in Washington state approved the recreational use of marijuana in Nov. 2012.

7:02pm – President Trump has won in Kansas, according to AP.

7:00pm – AP reports that Senator Lindsey Graham has won re-election in South Carolina.

6:56pm – NBC reports that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has won her first bid for re-election in New York.

6:44pm – So far, the electoral map looks near the same as it did at this time in 2016.

6:40pm – Biden has won Colorado, the AP reports.

6:33pm – Last call, from King County Elections. The office is warning voters that if you haven’t dropped off your ballot yet or stood in line to vote, do it now.

“We mean it – go right now,” KC Elections tweeted at 6:30pm.

6:30pm – Biden has won the District of Columbia, according to AP.

6:13pm – Republicans are keeping their legal options open to challenge absentee ballots in Pennsylvania, if the battleground state could swing President Donald Trump’s reelection. A top Democratic lawyer says the suits are meant to sow doubt about the results and lack merit. Read more from AP. 

6:08pm – NBC reports Joe Biden is seeing a big surge in major North Carolina counties.

6:03pm- President Donald Trump has won Louisiana, Nebraska, Nebraska’s 3rd Congressional District, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming, while Democrat Joe Biden has won New Mexico and New York.

Nebraska, one of two states that divides its electoral votes, has five total electoral votes up for grabs. Trump won the statewide vote, which is good for two electoral votes. He also won the 3rd Congressional District, which nets him a third vote.

Nebraska’s 1st and 2nd congressional districts haven’t yet been called.

5:58pm – AP reports Trump has won Indiana.

5:54pm – CNN reports Democrats have 38 seats in the Senate Tuesday night, while Republicans are at 34.

5:46pm – Voters in Washington have until 8 p.m. before the poll close, and KIRO 7 TV reports that the ballots are still rolling in at King County Elections. Read more about last-minute voting here.

5:33pm – The AP has called Arkansas for Donald Trump. 

5:27pm – A judge in Nevada has ordered 30 Las Vegas-area voting sites to remain open for an extra hour after reports that some locations did not open on time. The judge ordered that anyone in line at the sites at 8 p.m. will be allowed to cast a ballot.

5:20pm – Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has won re-election in Kentucky, according to AP.

5:03pm – AP reports President Trump has won Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Tennessee, while Democrat Joe Biden has won Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Rhode Island.

5:00pm – AP reports Trump has won South Carolina.

4:55pm – Kellyanne Conway told ABC News that President Trump is expected to address the nation from the East Room tonight.

4:53pm – In South Carolina’s Dorchester County, 14,000 mail-in ballots won’t be counted Tuesday night because of a printing error, according to NBC.

4:45pm – In some counties in Florida, Biden already has outpaced Clinton’s numbers, NBC reports. But nothing so far is as dramatic as Trump’s boost in Miami-Dade.

4:34pm – President Trump has won West Virginia, according to the AP, and Joe Biden has won Vermont.

Biden was awarded Virginia’s 13 electoral votes. Democrat Hillary Clinton won Virginia over Republican Donald Trump in 2016, helped in part by her choice of running mate: Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine.

4:29pm – According to the AP, Democrats have won 34 seats in the Senate, as compared to 30 for Republicans.

4:20pm – ABC News reports there have been more than 300 election-related lawsuits about changes to voting rules filed in 44 states.

4:11pm – AP says President Trump has won Kentucky, and Democrat Joe Biden has carried Vermont.

4:02pm – CNN projects Trump has won Indiana.

3:56pm – Still haven’t voted? Ballot dropboxes are open until 8 p.m. Also open until 8 p.m. are county voting center, where you can also register to vote. Bring a mask and expect long lines. Read more.

3:46pm – President Donald Trump called into talk radio shows in the battleground states of Pennsylvania and Wisconsin just hours before polls closed.

Trump projected confidence Tuesday that he will win key states like North Carolina and Florida and said he’s expecting a “great” evening. Read more from AP.

3:36pm – CNN reports Trump is leading in Indiana (67% to 31%) and Biden is leading in Kentucky (53% to 45%).

3:27pm – Columbia virologist Dr. Angela Rasmussen told KIRO Radio’s Gee & Ursula Show that voter turnout is at record levels even with the ongoing pandemic. Dr. Rasmussen says, for her, electing leadership with a public health plan is even more important this year. Read more.

3:12pm – King County Elections says they have a long line at the voting center in Renton. They recommend going to the voting center in Kent (625 W James Street) if you live in South King County. Check here for more voting centers in King County.

We have quite a line at the Vote Center at Elections HQ in Renton but short waits at the Kent location at Showare Center. If you're in South King & need to come see us, we recommend heading to Kent rather than Renton for the moment!

— King County Elections (@kcelections) November 3, 2020

2:53pm – The first polls officially close at 3pm PST, including in parts of Indiana and Kentucky.

2:42pm – Election officials in a handful of states are warning voters to disregard “robocalls” urging them to stay home rather than go to the polls. It’s unclear whether the calls are part of any partisan agenda. They have hit Republican-leaning states as well as Democratic ones. More from AP.

2:28pm – CNN reports early exit polls indicate the economy is at top of mind for most voters. That said, over half of voters said it’s more important to contain the coronavirus than rebuild the economy. And voters are split on whether the response to containing the virus is going well or poorly.

2:07pm – The cybersecurity agency at the Department of Homeland Security says the U.S. election so far has featured the usual technical glitches and routine issues but no apparent signs of any malicious cyber activity.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency also says it’s too early to declare victory as polls near closing time around the nation Tuesday and with days of vote counting and certification ahead. More from the AP.

1:53pm – Voting in Georgia has been smooth so far, the state reports, with the average wait time currently sitting around two minutes;

“Everything has been steady as she goes across the state of Georgia,” the state’s Voting System Implementation Manager Gabriel Sterling told CNN. “We are seeing pretty even turnout throughout the day.”

1:40pm – There are some stark differences between how election polling worked in 2016 and 2020, with 538’s Dhrumil Mehta explaining why many pollsters got the Clinton/Trump matchup wrong, and what they’re doing to mitigate those factors in 2020.

1:22pm – After deliberating this morning, the North Carolina Board of Elections has voted to keep four polling places open longer, all of which had experienced delays that caused them to open late.

This is expected to delay reporting of results by at least 45 minutes.

1:07pm – King County has officially scanned its one millionth ballot, making it so the state’s largest county will have at least one million votes tallied by the time the first round of results come in Tuesday night.

Across the rest of Washington, Secretary of State Kim Wyman believes that we’ll have meaningful results elsewhere as well, helped along by massive early turnout from the state’s voters.

12:53pm – Election results are expecting to begin flowing in this evening, and we’ll have comprehensive coverage across MyNorthwest, KIRO Radio, and KTTH delivering you all the latest updates as that happens.

You can see the full schedule for tonight’s coverage, featuring Dori Monson, Dave Ross, Colleen O’Brien, Jason Rantz, Todd Herman, and more, here.

12:36pm – With President Trump hosting his election night headquarters in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the West Wing, his campaign has been cognizant of ensuring that taxpayer funds aren’t used.

Because federal rules require that taxpayer resources can’t be used for political gain, the campaign will be providing funds for the president’s “war room,” including money for WiFi, computers, and other equipment, CNN reports.

12:21pm – Even before Election Day, the 2020 race was the most litigated in memory. President Donald Trump is promising more to come.

The candidates and parties have enlisted prominent lawyers with ties to Democratic and Republican administrations should that litigation take on a new urgency. A narrow margin in a battleground state could become the difference between another four years for Trump or a Joe Biden administration. Read more the Associated Press. 

12:05pm – The race for the presidency is the big draw for many this Election Day, but there is much more on the Washington state ballot, including a handful of contests that could have wide-ranging implications depending on how things play out. Read more. 

11:34am – There are concerns inside of the Trump campaign over the president’s ability to win Pennsylvania, a state that’s become a key battleground in recent weeks.

“The team in Pennsylvania was not as prepared as it should be in a state that could decide the presidency,” a source told NBC News, detailing concerns over long lines for in-person voting on Tuesday.

The Trump camp had hoped to be buoyed by in-person voting on Election Day, in the face of mail-in ballots that many theorize will lean toward challenger Joe Biden.

11:16am – Even for Washington Post reporter David Fahrenthold, who’s been covering President Trump’s business interests for year, Election Day feels surreal. Read more. 

10:54am – NBC News reports that a federal district judge is ordering the U.S. Postal Service to conduct sweeps of mail facilities Tuesday by 12 p.m. PST, as a means to “ensure that no ballots have been held up and that any identified ballots are immediately sent out for delivery.”

That order includes districts in a handful of key swing states, including Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia, Texas, Florida, Arizona, and South Carolina.

10:35am – The Bellevue Police Department has reported “receiving calls from concerned residents and businesses” hearing rumors of protests planned in the city stemming from election night. That said, BPD said it is “not currently aware” of any such events.

“There is a tremendous amount of disinformation on social media, and that is understandably causing anxiety,” it said in a written release. “We want to assure everyone that we do not have any information about planned protests in Bellevue.”

10:18am – CNN is reporting that the North Carolina Board of Elections is meeting at 1 p.m. EST to consider extending the hours of four voting locations: One in Guilford County, another in Cabarrus County, and two in Sampson County.

Among the reasons the four sites experienced delays were poll workers arriving late and printer issues.

The state’s Board of Elections has the authority to extend voting hours at any polling place whose opening was delayed by 15 or more minutes.

10:07am – The race for the non-partisan Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction is typically a pretty tame contest compared to many other races, but not this year. Read more. 

9:45am – Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden traveled to his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania today, stopping by his childhood home. From there, he traveled to Philadelphia for a handful of last-minute campaign stops, before returning to his home in Wilmington, Delaware.

President Trump left for his campaign headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. He plans to spend election night at the White House, as part of a gathering with 250 people, all of whom will received rapid-result COVID-19 tests.

9:27am – In the 2020 U.S. general election, The Associated Press will declare winners in more than 7,000 races – starting with the White House and reaching down the ballot to every seat in every state legislature.

To do so, AP uses a 50-state network of stringers who collect votes at a local level, while other AP journalists gather results from state or county websites, as well as via electronic data feeds from states. Read more about how the AP calls election races here. 

9:11am – While the presidential race is at the front many minds, control of the U.S. Senate is also at stake, for a battle that could very well set the tone for whomever wins the White House.

The Associated Press describes the race to take the Senate as “a razor-close proposition,” with several seats in key states up for grabs in 2020. You can read more about that battle here.

8:50am – Gov. Jay Inslee addressed the possibility of election night violence if results remain unclear, stating that “Washingtonians’ commitment to civility, respect and nonviolence will be honored.”

“We know elections take time to count accurately. We know how this works and we can be a model for the nation. Our government’s power belongs to the people. It did before this election, and that will continue after this election,” he said.

8:31am – As King County continues to receive record-breaking numbers of ballots, officials feel confident that they’re ready for any number of challenges they might face now that Election Day has arrived. Read more. 

8:14am – Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced Tuesday that the state has “joined amicus briefs to defend voting rights” in Alabama, Texas, Mississippi, Montana, and South Carolina, as well as another brief currently in front of the Minnesota Supreme Court.

“Every legal vote must count,” Ferguson said on Twitter. “Our democracy depends on it.”

7:55am – Waiting until the last minute to vote in Washington? Here’s what you can do to ensure your ballot still gets counted.

7:36am – As of early Tuesday morning, federal authorities tasked with monitoring threats to election security across the U.S. have yet to identify any major issues.

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Christopher Krebs told the Associated Press that he “has confidence that the vote is secure, the county is secure and the results will be secure.”

That’s despite attempts by foreign actors to interfere with 2020’s election, although Kreb notes that those threats have been addressed “quickly” and “comprehensively.”

7:19am – On Election Day, it can be easy to forget to take a breath, relax, and relieve what’s surely been months of pent-up stress in the weeks leading in. KIRO Radio’s Dave Ross has some suggestions on how to manage that stress, and a reminder about what’s at stake. Read more. 

7:01am – The race for the non-partisan Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction in Washington is typically a pretty tame contest compared to many other races, but not this year. Read more. 

6:43am – Despite concerns over the ongoing pandemic, states are expecting massive levels of voter turnout on Election Day, in addition to the nearly 100 million people who have voted prior to today.

According to the Associated Press, roughly 71% of 2016’s voter total have already turned in their ballots or taken advantage of early in-person voting. Texas has seen even higher levels of turnout, having already exceeded its total number of 2016 voters.

6:01am – Polls have officially opened across the United States, as day-of in-person voting begins.

As of late Monday in Washington, over 3.5 million ballots have been turned in by the state’s voters, totaling 72.7%. At that same point ahead of the 2016 election, 52.3% of ballots had been turned in.

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