Election 2024 updates: Trump begins selecting cabinet positions

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Last updated: Tuesday, November 12, 2024 5:26PM GMT
Trump's cabinet picks include close allies from his campaign
President-elect Donald Trump is naming members to his administration. Here's a look at the president-elect's appointees so far.

Just days after former President Donald Trump was projected to have won the presidency, Trump's transition team operation has begun, with transition co-chairs confirming that he will be selecting personnel to serve under his leadership in the coming days.

Trump is also the projected winner in Arizona, a state the former president flipped after losing it to Joe Biden in 2020.

Trump's projected win in the vital swing state marks a sweep of the battleground states.

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Nov 06, 2024, 8:59 AM

Track electoral vote count and results map for the presidential election

See how the balance of power is playing out as election results come in:

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Nov 07, 2024, 4:52 PM GMT

Biden tells nation: 'You can't love your country only when you win'

President Joe Biden said "you can't love your country only when you win" in his first speech since Vice President Kamala Harris' loss to former President Donald Trump in the presidential race.

"You can't love your neighbor only when you agree," Biden said in an address to the nation from the White House Rose Garden on Thursday.

President Joe Biden after speaking in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024.
President Joe Biden after speaking in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024.

Biden said he's directed his administration to work with Trump's team for a peaceful transition of power.

"Something I hope we can do, no matter who you voted for, is see each other not as adversaries, but as fellow Americans. Bring down the temperature," Biden said.

He also stressed the integrity of the election, calling it honest, fair and transparent.

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Nov 07, 2024, 4:46 PM GMT

Harris wins Maine

Vice President Kamala Harris is the projected winner in Maine, ABC News reports.

Harris won three of the state's electoral votes, with Trump winning one for Maine's 2nd congressional district.

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Nov 07, 2024, 4:32 PM GMT

Trump poised to receive intelligence briefings as president-elect

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence is prepared to give President-elect Donald Trump intelligence briefings as part of his transition back to the White House.

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at PPL Center, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024, in Allentown, Pa.
Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at PPL Center, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024, in Allentown, Pa.

"ODNI is acting consistent with the tradition, in place since 1952, of providing intelligence briefing to the President-elect," DNI said in a statement to ABC News.

Sources tell ABC News that Trump has yet to receive an intelligence briefing as president-elect. It's not clear whether he will even agree or want to receive them, though some members of his transition team have suggested he should.

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Nov 07, 2024, 10:31 AM GMT

Joe Biden gets blamed by Harris allies for the vice president's resounding loss

As Democrats pick up the pieces following President-elect Donald Trump's decisive victory, some of the vice president's backers are expressing frustration that Biden's decision to seek reelection until this summer - despite longstanding voter concerns about his age and unease about post-pandemic inflation as well as the U.S.-Mexico border - all but sealed his party's loss of the White House.

Vice President Kamala Harris listens as President Joe Biden speaks about distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, in the East Room of the White House, May 17, 2021, in Washington.
Vice President Kamala Harris listens as President Joe Biden speaks about distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, in the East Room of the White House, May 17, 2021, in Washington.

"The biggest onus of this loss is on President Biden," said Andrew Yang, who ran against Biden in 2020 for the Democratic nomination and endorsed Harris' unsuccessful run. "If he had stepped down in January instead of July, we may be in a very different place."

Biden is set to deliver a Rose Garden address Thursday about the election. He issued a statement shortly after Harris delivered her concession speech on Wednesday, praising Harris for running an "historic campaign" under "extraordinary circumstances."