Thank you for joining us for updates on the aftermath of the US elections and the countdown to President-elect Donald Trump’s second term in office.

Read our analysis on what Trump’s election means for Africa here and what a second Trump term augurs for India here.

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We will be closing this live page soon. Here are some highlights from the day’s events.

• Outgoing President Joe Biden will meet with President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday in the Oval Office, as they prepare for the transition of power.
• Trump picked up the final swing state yet to be decided, with a victory in Arizona on Saturday night.
• Trump’s win in Arizona gives him a clean sweep of all seven battleground states in the US presidential election.
• While Trump has yet to name many posts in his new administration, he did say on Saturday that he “will not be inviting former Ambassador Nikki Haley or former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to join”.
• Several of Trump’s right-wing backers, including media personality Tucker Carlson, celebrated the decision not to rehire Haley and Pompeo as a move away from a hawkish foreign policy.
• Carlson also called on Republicans to back Senator Rick Scott of Florida to lead the party in the Senate, as Minority Leader Mitch McConnell plans to step down at the end of the year.
• While the leadership over the Senate was decided in the hours after Election Day, control over the House of Representatives remains uncertain.
• The Senate will shift to Republican hands in the next Congress, but on Saturday, a victory in Nevada for swing-state Senator Jacky Rosen gave hope to Democrats that they can keep the Republican majority small.

During his campaign for re-election, Donald Trump repeatedly threatened major tariffs on imports from a range of countries.

Beijing bore the brunt of his attention: Trump threatened a 60 percent tariff on Chinese products. But India was a major target, too.

Trump described the country as a “major charger” of tariffs and promised to take similar measures in return.

Now, as Trump prepares to take office again after a stunning win over Vice President Kamala Harris in the US presidential election, his plans for trade barriers and his anti-immigrant rhetoric threaten to inject tensions into bilateral relations with India.

Read more about how India is bracing for the presidential transition here.

In the late hours of Saturday, Democrats picked up another win in the House of Representatives.

The Associated Press called the race for Maryland’s 6th congressional district for April McClain Delaney, a former official in the Biden administration.

The 6th district was the tightest House race in the blue-leaning state. McClain Delaney faced Republican Neil Parrott, and she campaigned heavily on issues like reproductive rights.

Every victory in the House matters for Democrats, who trail the Republicans for the total number of wins.

Should the Republicans win leadership over the House, they would have control over both chambers of Congress, plus the presidency.

Arizona was the final US state to be decided in this year’s presidential election – and on Saturday, The Associated Press called the swing state for Republican candidate Trump.

It was yet another marker of Trump’s dominant performance in the race. With Arizona’s 11 Electoral College votes awarded to him, Trump swept all seven critical swing states.

Saturday’s announcement also confirmed another stinging defeat for Democrats. In 2020, then-candidate Joe Biden had unexpectedly carried Arizona by just 10,457 votes – a tiny margin that flipped the longtime Republican stronghold.

Across the United States, leading Democrats are looking at how and why they lost significant ground in the presidential election.

Some are blaming President Biden for the defeat of the Democratic candidate Harris, who had less than four months to run her campaign.

The list of critiques is long – from not dropping out of the race sooner, to a perceived disconnect with working-class and male voters.

At the polls, the economy, the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, and a surge in irregular immigration all played a role.

So what does this mean for the Democratic Party?

Watch experts discuss the issue on Al Jazeera’s Inside Story below.

Speaking to Al Jazeera on Saturday, economist and Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs explained that voters overwhelmingly sided with Trump in the November 5 presidential race because “they are not happy” with the status quo.

“Basically, elections are referendums on the incumbent. And so, if people feel that their lives are going pretty well, that the economy is going pretty well, they tend to vote for the incumbent — or in this case, for Harris,” Sachs said.

“I think this was basically a vote against the Biden administration. It didn’t deliver better lives mainly on an economic basis, which is the main reason that determines how people vote.”

However, Sachs added that there was a strong contingent within the electorate that was also swayed by the wars unfolding abroad – namely, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Israel’s wars in Gaza and Lebanon.

“All the wars have rattled people as well. The Americans are not happy that the US is engaged in so many crises around the world,” Sachs said.

“Definitely there were pockets of voters – for example, the Muslim voters in Michigan – that voted for Trump or voted against Biden by writing in or voting for a third-party candidate like Jill Stein because they were absolutely against the Biden administration policy of doing whatever Israel said the US should do.”

Sachs explained that he believes the “main message” from the election is that working-class voters expect better economic conditions and are willing to vote for the candidate who offers them solutions, no matter their efficacy.

The US presidency has been a hot potato. The Democrats lost the White House to Trump in 2016 when Barack Obama was president and Hillary Clinton was the Democratic nominee.

Four years later, Trump lost his re-election bid to Biden. And this week, the Democrats lost the White House again as Trump defeated Harris.

The last time the party in power won the presidency was when Obama was re-elected in 2012.

Trump is term-limited, so his successor as the Republican nominee in 2028 will not have an incumbency advantage.

Incumbent Congressman Eli Crane has fended off a Democratic challenger in Arizona, bringing the Republican Party closer to maintaining its majority in the House of Representatives.

The Associated Press called the race on Saturday evening, showing Crane prevailing over Democrat Jonathan Nez, a politician from the Navajo Nation.

There are still several House races being counted, mostly in Arizona and California.

One of the battlefields in this year’s presidential race has been the future of the US education system.

In his campaign platform, dubbed Agenda47, President-elect Trump has promised to abolish teacher tenures, dismantle the Department of Education and put school principals up for election.

He has also pledged to promote lessons that depict the US as “the freest, most prosperous, and most virtuous nation in the history of the world”.

The state of Florida has been at the forefront of Republican calls for reforming the education system, with Governor Ron DeSantis leading the charge.

But this past week, DeSantis saw one of the ballot measures his party supported fail.

Amendment 1 on the Florida ballot would have seen the state constitution change to mandate partisan school board elections. Critics feared it would inject politics into the classroom – and turn nonpartisan educational posts into highly politicised positions, to the detriment of students.

Proponents, however, said Amendment 1 would have added transparency to the process of election school board positions, by forcing candidates to reveal their ideological leanings.

The ballot measure received 54 percent support, short of the 60 percent needed to amend the state constitution.

The Republican firebrand, who opposes US military interventions, welcomes keeping the two war hawks out of the incoming administration.

“More great decisions from President Trump!” Gaetz wrote in a social media post.

More great decisions from President Trump! https://t.co/WHMaWXB1Lx

— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) November 10, 2024

US President Biden is set to host Trump, his predecessor and soon-to-be successor, at the White House on Wednesday, in a rare face-to-face meeting.

But the two men have a long history of animosity.

Before the 2016 election, then-Vice President Biden suggested that he would like to physically fight Trump.

“I wish we were in high school. I could take him behind the gym,” Biden said at that time.

Trump called Biden’s comments violent, but he still said he “would love” a chance at a high-school-style fight with the Democrat.

Four years later, in 2020, the two men ran against each other for president. That’s when Trump branded Biden “Sleepy Joe”.

The tensions boiled over during a chaotic debate in 2020 when Biden and Trump spoke – and yelled – over each other throughout the event.

Trump accused Biden of doing “nothing” throughout his decades in politics, and Biden called Trump a “clown” and told him to “shut up”.

When Biden ultimately defeated Trump in the 2020 election, the Republican refused to accept the results and falsely claimed the vote was stolen.

Biden would meet Trump at the debate stage again this year, in an event that dealt a fatal blow to the president’s re-election campaign, as he sounded exhausted and incoherent at times.

The Democrat’s faltering performance exacerbated concerns over his advanced age: He is 81 years old.

“I really don’t know what he said at the end of that sentence. I don’t think he knows what he said either,” Trump said of Biden at one point. Biden eventually dropped out of the presidential race in July.

Late last month, Biden came under fire for suggesting that Trump’s supporters are “garbage”.

The presidential race has long since been decided – but one state has yet to be called.

That would be the swing state of Arizona, one of seven pivotal battlegrounds in this year’s election.

The southwestern state has 11 Electoral College votes to offer, a sizeable sum but not enough to change the race’s outcome. Trump comfortably passed the threshold of 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the presidency in the early hours of Wednesday.

So what’s the hold-up in the Grand Canyon state?

One issue is the patchwork of laws across the US governing how votes are tallied. Each state has its own regulations.

In Pennsylvania, for instance, election workers are not allowed to start processing mail-in ballots until Election Day – something that led to days of delays in 2016.

In Arizona, meanwhile, state law provides a five-day window after the vote to allow election workers to verify signatures. Even that, some critics argue, is too short a timeframe.

The large number of mail-in ballots the state receives also slows down the process, as does the length of this year’s ballot.

Finally, at least one county has reported lowdowns as a result of mechanical problems.

“Cochise County experienced a mechanical issue with our primary tabulator document tray feed this morning,” the county government wrote on November 7 on social media.

“The mechanical malfunction is slowing down our process of tabulating the ballots however it is not impacting tabulated and posted vote count.”

The president-elect campaigned on an antiwar message, presenting himself as a candidate of peace and slamming Harris for campaigning with Liz Cheney, whom he called a “warmonger”.

But hawkish politicians dominated national security positions in Trump’s first presidency. They include Mike Pompeo and Nikki Haley, who will not serve in Trump’s incoming administration, according to an announcement the president-elect made on Saturday.

In 2018, Trump also appointed John Bolton, an advocate of regime change in Iran and former ambassador to the United Nations under George W Bush, as his national security adviser.

Bolton succeeded HR McMaster, another foreign policy hawk, and was succeeded by Robert O’Brien, a hardliner on Iran and China.

Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute, a think tank that promotes diplomacy, welcomes Trump’s decision to keep Mike Pompeo and Nikki Haley – two foreign policy hawks – out of his administration.

“First major victory of the anti-neocon faction around Trump: Nikki Hayley and Mike Pompeo won’t get any positions in the Trump administration,” Parsi wrote in a social media post.

First major victory of the anti-neocon faction around Trump:

Nikki Hayley and Mike Pompeo won’t get any positions in the Trump administration. pic.twitter.com/VtSuh9pltj

— Trita Parsi (@tparsi) November 9, 2024

It was a rematch of their 2022 race: Last Tuesday, Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez once again faced Republican Joe Kent in a fight to represent Washington’s 3rd congressional district.

And just like in 2022, the outcome was exceedingly tight.

But on Saturday, Gluesenkamp Perez successfully defended her seat in the House of Representatives, notching a much-needed victory for the Democratic Party.

The Democrats are currently lagging behind the Republicans in the race for leadership in the House. The Senate, meanwhile, has already flipped to Republican control, as has the presidency.

Gluesenkamp Perez, who owns a car repair shop with her husband, represents a rural district that often votes Republican in the largely Democratic state of Washington.

A member of the Blue Dog Coalition, she campaigned heavily on bipartisanship. In an interview released yesterday in The New York Times, Gluesenkamp Perez warned against blaming specific groups for the Democratic Party’s shortcomings this election cycle.

“It’s a lot easier to look outward, to blame and demonise other people, instead of looking in the mirror and seeing what we can do. It is not fun to feel accountability,” she told the Times.

While Gluesenkamp Perez explained to the newspaper that she preferred not to comment on national politics, she did share an anecdote about meeting Vice President Harris at a Naval Observatory Christmas party.

She said she tried to share with the vice president her district’s role in growing Christmas trees.

“She just walked away from me. There was kind of an eye roll, maybe. My thinking was: It does matter to people where I live,” Gluesenkamp Perez told the Times.

“It’s the respect, the cultural regard for farmers. I didn’t feel like she understood what I was trying to say.”

Harris lost Michigan and Nevada, but her fellow Democrats won Senate races in both states, helping to keep the Republican majority in the upper chamber razor-thin.

The discrepancy is largely due to split-ticket voting – when voters choose candidates from different political parties on the same ballot.

There are many reasons why voters choose to split their ticket. For example, in Nevada, Senator Jacky Rosen had the advantage of incumbency. Americans rarely vote sitting senators out of office.

Splitting the ticket can also be ideological. For example, in Michigan, many Arab Americans voted for Trump or Green Party candidate Jill Stein to punish Harris for her support for the war on Gaza and Lebanon, but they also voted for Democratic Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib.

In Michigan’s Senate race, Democrat Elissa Slotkin – a sitting congresswoman and former CIA official – also won. As a current member of Congress, Slotkin had name recognition, which gave her an edge over her Republican opponent Mike Rogers, who left Congress in 2015.

Ticket-splitting appeared to hurt Rogers, who received more than 116,000 fewer votes than Trump. Libertarian Party candidate Joseph Solis-Mullen received 56,750 votes in the race – more than double Slotkin’s margin of victory.

The president-elect says Nikki Haley, a former ambassador to the UN who challenged him for the Republican nomination, will not be part of his governing team once he re-enters the White House.

Nor will Mike Pompeo, who served as secretary of state during Trump’s first presidency.

“I will not be inviting former Ambassador Nikki Haley, or former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, to join the Trump Administration, which is currently in formation,” Trump said. “I very much enjoyed and appreciated working with them previously, and would like to thank them for their service to our Country. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

Pompeo had faced opposition from some right-wing activists who viewed him as too hawkish on foreign policy. Commentator Tucker Carlson, who is close to Trump, previously called Pompeo “sinister”.

In the aftermath of Trump’s first electoral victory in 2016, protesters started to organise what would ultimately become the Women’s March on Washington, which drew an estimated 500,000 attendees to the country’s capital.

That protest was months in the making and took place the day after Trump’s inauguration, in January 2017.

On Saturday, a much smaller march erupted in Washington, DC, to give voice to the concerns women face in a second Trump presidency.

Carrying signs that read, “Protect and Defend Each Other” and “We’ve Got Us”, protesters marched towards the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank that created the policy document Project 2025, which some fear could be a blueprint for Trump’s latest stint in the White House.

Trump has publicly distanced himself from the document, saying he has not read it.

Organisers are planning what they hope will be a bigger march in January – once again scheduled around Trump’s inauguration.

The influential right-wing commentator has urged supporters to contact their senators and call on them to back Rick Scott of Florida to be the new Senate majority leader.

“Rick Scott of Florida is the only candidate who agrees with Donald Trump,” Carlson wrote in a social media post.

The Republican caucus, which won the majority in the Senate late on Tuesday, will meet next week to elect a successor to Mitch McConnell, who is stepping down from the leadership position.

Carlson used his post on Saturday to denounce Scott’s main opponents in the race to replace McConnell. They include John Thune of South Dakota and John Cornyn of Texas.

He said Cornyn’s “politics are indistinguishable from Liz Cheney’s”, the hawkish former Republican congresswoman who campaigned for Harris.

Scott won re-election for another six-year term in the Senate in Tuesday’s general election.