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Election 2024: Results

 

Last updated 11/16/2024 at 8am



The 2024 Election was filled with many ups and downs, a constant whirlwind of emotions – from numerous disagreements, promises of changes, candidacy attacks to a continuous fight to the finish line. Tensions arose in the coming days before Election Day. The presidential race was called and former President Donald J. Trump and J.D. Vance came out victorious, elected as the 47th President and Vice President, respectively, of the United States of America.

President-Elect Trump was the 45th President of the United States. He ran for re-election in 2020, but fell short to current President Joseph R. Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.

Early in the polls, President-Elect Trump led over Vice President Kamala Harris, securing multiple electoral votes right away.

With a win in Wisconsin, Trump clinched the presidency, earning the 270 electoral votes needed. He won Michigan officially the next day, sweeping the “blue wall” along with Pennsylvania – swing states that all went for Trump in 2016 before flipping to President Joe Biden in 2020.

Trump also secured the electoral votes in swing states of Nevada, Georgia, and North Carolina, except for Arizona.

President-Elect Donald Trump secured 312 electoral votes over Vice President Harris’ 226. In 2020, Trump only managed to receive 214 to Biden’s 290.

Trump also received the popular votes, but those results have not been fully tabulated.

Vice President Kamala Harris did not publicly appear that night to speak to her supporters gathered at Howard University for a watch party. She also did not concede that night. However, Harris called Trump to congratulate him on his election win, discussing the importance of a peaceful transfer of power with the president-elect. Biden also called Trump to congratulate him and invited him to the White House to discuss the transition.

In his victory speech held at Mar Lago in Florida, President-Elect Trump began his speech, “Thank you very much. Wow. Well, I want to thank you all very much. This is great. These are our friends. We have thousands of friends in this incredible movement. This is a movement like nobody’s ever seen before and, frankly, this was, I believe, the greatest political movement of all time. We’re going to help our country heal. We have a country that needs help, and it needs help very badly.”

Trump is the first former president to return to power since Grover Cleveland regained the White House in the 1892 election. He is the first person convicted of a felony to be elected president and, at 78, is the oldest person elected to the office. His vice president, 40-year-old Ohio Sen. JD Vance, will become the highest-ranking member of the millennial generation in the U.S. government.

This election is exactly what many described it would be, and is surely one of the most monumental and defining elections in decades, determining the fate of America for the next four years.

The Republicans also now hold the majority of the House and the Senate, with many seats flipping.

U.S. Senator

Voters were also asked to choose a new U.S. Senator, and it was down to Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff and former MLB player Steve Garvey. It was Schiff who came out on top with over 50% of the votes, nearly over eight million with 59.1% over Garvey.

The matchup also meant that California won’t have a woman in the Senate for the first time in more than three decades.

In the Primary Election, voters needed to choose a new U.S. Senator to replace the late Senator Dianne Feinstein, who held the position since 1992, leaving voters to decide an open seat for the first time in decades. The candidate would fill the seat until November .The seat was filled by Laphonza Butler, who was appointed by Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom following Senator Feinstein’s death.

75th State Assembly District

In a different turn of events, two Republican candidates were in the running for the 75th Assembly District – Carl DeMaio and Andrew Hayes.

Carl DeMaio was victorious in the race, earning 58.2% of the votes, while Andrew Hayes finished with 41.8%.

The 75th District includes the communities of Fallbrook, Bonsall, Valley Center, Ramona, Poway, Scripps Ranch, Santee, Lakeside, Alpine, Julian, Borrego Springs, Pala, Jamul, Pine Valley, Pauma Valley, and Bonita.

DeMaio is a small business owner, hosted the popular afternoon drive-time show on AM-600 KOGO since 2015, and has served as the volunteer Chairman of Reform California since 2003, a conservative grassroots political organization that has worked to recruit candidates, champion ballot measures like the 2018 Gas Tax Repeal, and defeat hundreds of state and local tax hikes.

In the primary election back in March, early results showed that Carl DeMaio was ahead of the votes, while it seemed fellow candidate Andrew Hayes would emerge as the frontrunner in the heavily red district.

Assemblywoman Marie Waldron, R-Valley Center, who held the seat, was barred from running for re-election. She endorsed Hayes, as well as that of the San Diego County Republican Party, among others.

There were two Borrego Springs races: Borrego Springs Unified School District and Borrego Water District.

In the running for seats on the board of the Borrego Springs Unified School District were Martha Deichler, Steve Dunn, Peter Kellner and Steve Riehle. There were three seats available – two incumbents and an open seat due to one board member leaving.

Martha Deichler was the top vote-getter in the race, gaining 1,056 votes at 41.4%.

Steve Dunn and Steve Riehle retained their seats on the Board. However, this race remained close, only being separated by less than 13 votes.

Two candidates were running for two seats on the Board of Directors of the Water District, Diane Johnson and Tammy Baker, who both held those seats prior. However, due to a paperwork mishap, it stated that Martha Deichler and Peter Kellner were candidates. Martha Deichler, despite stating that she is not a candidate, got the most votes with 37.9%, followed by Tammy Baker, Diane Johnson and Peter Kellner. Deichler will be sworn in by the Board, and will submit a letter of resignation. Baker and Johnson will retain their seats on the Board.

Below are the ballot propositions that voters voted on this November:

Prop 2: School and Community College Bonds, Passed with a 58.4% of the vote.

Prop 3: Constitutional Right to Marriage, Passed with a 62.6% vote.

Prop 4: Environment, Energy and Water Bond, Passed with a 59.5% vote.

Prop 5: Affordable Housing Bonds, Failed to pass with a 55.3% vote.

Prop 6: Eliminate Incarcerated Involuntary Servitude, Failed to pass with a 53.4% vote.

Prop 32: Raises Minimum Wage, Did Not Pass with an unofficial 50.9% vote.

Prop 33: Local Authority for Rent Control, Failed to Pass with a 60.3% vote.

Prop 34: Restricts Certain Care Provider Spending, Passed with an unofficial 50.7% vote.

Prop 35: Permanent Medi-Cal Funding, Passed with a 67.8% vote.

Prop 36: Felony Charges for Some Drug and Theft Crimes, Passed with an unofficial 68.6% vote.

 
 
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