president joe biden is scheduled to deliver remarks to the nation in what will be his first appearance on camera after donald trump The decisive victory over Kamala Harris.

Control over the United States House of Representatives hanging by a thread, teetering between a Republican or Democratic majority There are dozens of races left to call.

He Republicans won control of the United States Senate early Wednesday morning.

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Trump’s presidential transition begins now. This is how it will work

trump The impending return to the White House means he will want to create an entirely new administration from the one he served under. joe biden. His team also promises that the second one won’t look much like the first one Trump established after his 2016 victory.

The president-elect now has a period of 75 days transition period to build his team before Inauguration Day arrives on January 20. One of the top items on the to-do list: filling about 4,000 government positions with political appointees, people specifically selected for their positions by Trump’s team.

That includes everyone from the secretary of state and other heads of Cabinet departments to those selected to serve part-time on boards and commissions. About 1,200 of those presidential appointments require Senate confirmation, which should be easier with the The Senate now passes to Republican control.

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No party has a dominant path to a majority in the House of Representatives

The House elections remain a tit-for-tat fight until the end, with no dominant path to a majority for either party. Rarely, if ever, have the two houses of Congress swung in opposite directions.

Each side is gaining and losing some seats, including through the redistricting process, which is the routine redrawing of House seat boundaries. The process restored seats in North Carolina, Louisiana and Alabama.

Much of the outcome depends on the West, particularly in California, where a handful of House seats are being hotly contested and mail-in votes that arrive a week after the election will still be counted. Close races around the “blue dot” in Omaha, Nebraska and in remote Alaska are among those being watched.

Updates on the last two presidential elections have yet to be called

with a win in wisconsin early on wednesday Trump cleared the 270 electoral votes necessary to take over the presidency. But their exact margin of victory is still unclear: there are two presidential elections that the PA has not yet called:

Arizona: Officials in Arizona’s Maricopa County said Wednesday night that they have more than 700,000 votes left to count, meaning the presidential and senate races were too early to call. In total, AP estimates there are at least one million ballots to be added to the results in Arizona. County election officials are expected to confirm those numbers Thursday.

Nevada: The AP estimated Wednesday night that more than 200,000 ballots remain to be counted in Nevada, including more than 130,000 in Clark County. Given the close margins in the elections for president and US Senate, it is too early to decide both. The AP will further review the results released by Nevada election officials on Thursday.

Decision Desk Updates on Key Senate Races

Arizona: Officials in Arizona’s Maricopa County said Wednesday night that they have more than 700,000 votes left to count, meaning the races for president and senate were too early to call. In total, AP estimates there are at least one million ballots to be added to the results in Arizona. County election officials are expected to confirm those numbers Thursday.

Nevada: The AP estimated Wednesday night that more than 200,000 ballots remain to be counted in Nevada, including more than 130,000 in Clark County. Given the close margins in the elections for president and US Senate, it is too early to decide. The AP will further review the results released by Nevada election officials on Thursday.

Control of the US House of Representatives is at stake with huge implications for Trump’s agenda

Majority of the United States House of Representatives hanging on the scales Wednesday, teetering between Republican control that would usher in a new era of unified GOP government in Washington or a turn toward Democrats as the last line of resistance to a White House agenda for Trump’s second term.

A few individual seats, or even just one, determine the result. The final counts will take a while, likely delaying the decision until next week, or beyond.

After the Republicans swept away the majority in the United States Senate by winning seats in West Virginia, Ohio and Montana, speaker of the House of Representatives Michael Johnson He predicted his camera would be next.

“Republicans are prepared to have a unified government in the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives,” Johnson said Wednesday.

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Biden to deliver Rose Garden speech at 11 a.m. ET

The remarks to the nation will be Biden’s first appearance on camera following Trump’s decisive victory over Harris.

How Trump spent his first day as president-elect

donald trump He spent his first day as president-elect receiving congratulatory phone calls from his defeated opponent, world leaders and the president. joe biden when he began the process of turning his electoral victory into a government.

Trump kept a low profile and stayed out of public view after addressing his followers in Florida during the early hours of Wednesday morning.

Vice President Kamala Harris called Trump to concede the race and congratulate him, while Biden invited the man he ousted from the White House four years ago to a meeting in the Oval Office to prepare to hand back the keys.

Biden’s chief of staff later Wednesday urged Trump’s team to sign the federal agreements needed to begin an orderly presidential transition, a White House official said.

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