Harris concedes, telling supporters ‘do not despair;’ Pa. Senate race could head to a recount; Harris campaign pushes back on Philly Dem chair's claims

Here's a quick look at where key races stand as of early Wednesday morning.

President: The Associated Press has declared Donald Trump the winner of the presidential election. Trump's decisive victory in Pennsylvania ushered in a red wave across the state.

U.S. Senate: Republicans won control of the Senate. The Pennsylvania contest between incumbent Democrat Bob Casey and Republican challenger Dave McCormick remains too close to call.

Ashley Ehasz, who lost her attempt to unseat U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (D., Pa) in Pennsylvania's 1st Congressional District, said in a statement Wednesday morning that "it's a dark morning in America," calling on Fitzpatrick to "stand up for our democracy and the hundreds of thousands of women he represents to protect our freedom."

Fitzpatrick has received 55.9% of the vote to Ehasz's 43.1% as of Wednesday morning. This was Ehasz's second consecutive bid to oust Fitzpatrick from his seat, which represents all of Bucks County and parts of Montgomery County.

Fitzpatrick, who has branded himself as a moderate Republican, ran a quiet campaign, avoiding the media and questions about whether he supporters Trump. In her rematch against the former FBI agent, Ehasz once again centered her platform on reproductive rights and tying Fitzpatrick to Trump, who won Pennsylvania early Wednesday morning, thanks in part to his lead in Bucks County.

Donald Trump has promised sweeping action in a second administration. Here's a look at what Trump has proposed:

Immigration

“Build the wall!” from his 2016 campaign has become creating “the largest mass deportation program in history.” Trump has called for using the National Guard and empowering domestic police forces in the effort. Still, Trump has been scant on details of what the program would look like and how he would ensure that it targeted only people in the U.S. illegally. He’s pitched “ideological screening” for would-be entrants, ending birth-right citizenship (which almost certainly would require a constitutional change), and said he’d reinstitute first-term policies such as “Remain in Mexico,” limiting migrants on public health grounds and severely limiting or banning entrants from certain majority-Muslim nations. Altogether, the approach would not just crack down on illegal migration, but curtail immigration overall.

While The Associated Press and other news outlets have declared Republican Donald Trump the winner of the presidential election, it will be a couple months before he officially takes office.

Once states certify their election results, electors will vote in their respective states on Dec. 17. Congress will meet to count those electoral votes on Jan. 6, 2025, a date now famous due to the assault on the U.S. Capitol in 2021 in an attempt to prevent this process from being completed.

Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, will be inaugurated on Jan. 20, 2025, and officially take office.

While Republicans have won both the White House and U.S. Senate, control over the House of Representatives has yet to be decided, with at least 57 races yet to be called.

To win a majority, either Republicans or Democrats would need to hold 218 seats. Five seats remain uncalled in California, while there are more key uncalled races in Michigan, Oregon, Arizona, Washington, and Alaska.

"House Republicans are playing a lot of defense here," wrote Punchbowl News reporters Andrew Desiderio and Max Cohen. "There’s still a lot of counting to go, so remain patient. But the trends are good for the GOP."

Former President Donald Trump will become the first presidential nominee in 132 years to regain the office after having been defeated for re-election.

The last person to earn that distinction was Grover Cleveland, a Democrat, who won the 1892 election over incumbent Republican Benjamin Harrison, who had ousted Cleveland four years earlier.

Cleveland actually won the popular votes — albeit very narrowly — in the 1884, 1888, and 1892 campaigns, but came up short in the electoral college in 1888.

Donald J. Trump was elected the 47th president of the United States, elevating one of the most polarizing political figures in modern political history back to the Oval Office.

Trump’s election follows his unprecedented felony conviction in a New York hush money trial and his survival of an assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania. Trump, the only president to face two impeachments, will return to office just four years after a mob of his supporters attacked the Capitol.

The former — and future — president was projected as the winner in Pennsylvania and the nation, surpassing the 270 Electoral College votes needed to defeat Vice President Kamala Harris after a campaign in which Trump railed against an “enemy from within,” floated pardons for Jan. 6 rioters, and promised to conduct mass deportations.

As of early Wednesday morning, Pennsylvania’s nationally watched U.S. Senate race between Democratic incumbent Bob Casey Jr. and Republican challenger Dave McCormick was still too close to call.

While Casey held a lead for much of the campaign, the race tightened in the final days.

Shortly after 11:30 p.m., Allegheny Republican Committee Chair Sam DeMarco told McCormick supporters gathered in Pittsburgh that he was “very encouraged” by the early results.

At the end of a campaign that may have set records for spending, irritating robocalls, text messages, and emails, and inescapable political commercials, it was understandable that some who cast ballots Tuesday expressed a certain electoral fatigue.

But on a balmy day that felt like it wandered in from late May, energized voters showed up early and in sizable numbers at polling places throughout the region, and in interviews left no ambiguity about why they were willing to endure the lines and compete for parking spaces.

They were choosing between presidential nominees Vice President Kamala Harris, a Democrat, and former President Donald Trump, a Republican, both of whom were vying to make history: Harris as the first woman of color to be chief executive, Trump as the first former president in 132 years to regain the office after losing a bid for reelection.