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Here’s a bit more about who might be in Donald Trump’s White House as he readies a team for a second term in office.

He’s already ruled out two people: Mike Pompeo and Nikki Haley, both of whom were in his previous administration.

“I very much enjoyed and appreciated working with them previously, and would like to thank them for their service to our Country,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social, after disclosing they would not be invited to join him.

So who’s in with a chance?

To date, only Susie Wileshas been named, as his chief of staff, as we detailed below.

Tom Homan, Trump’s former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice), is tipped to be his next secretary of homeland security, while South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem is thought to be his next interior secretary.

Florida Senator Marco Rubio is a major name being floated for secretary of state, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for attorney general and Robert Lighthizer for treasury secretary.

You can read more about who could be in the running for the top jobs here.

We’ve been reporting on the formation of Donald Trump’s government for his second term and his decision to not include Nikki Haley, his former rival for the Republican nomination and ambassador to the UN during his first presidency.

Now, let’s hear Haley’s reaction, posted on X, alongside a screenshot of Trump’s message explaining her exclusion:

“I was proud to work with President Trump defending America at the United Nations. I wish him, and all who serve, great success in moving us forward to a stronger, safer America over the next four years.”

Anthony Zurcher
BBC North America correspondent

Donald Trump swept to victory on Tuesday by chipping away at groups of voters which Democrats once believed would help them win the White House for a generation.

After Barack Obama’s victory in 2008, many triumphantly claimed that the liberal voting coalition which had elected the first black president was growing more powerful, as the makeup of America changed.

Older, white conservatives were dying off, and non-white Americans were projected to be in the majority by 2044. College-educated professionals, younger people, blacks, Latinos and other ethnic minorities, and blue-collar workers were part of a “coalition of the ascendant”.

These voters were left-leaning on cultural issues and supportive of an active federal government and a strong social safety net. And they constituted a majority in enough states to ensure a Democratic lock on the Electoral College – and the presidency.

“Demography,” these left-wing optimists liked to say, “is destiny.” Sixteen years later, however, that destiny appears to have turned to dust.

• Find out more about how Trump achieved that here

Let’s turn now to a breakdown of the results in the swing states as they stand. We know now that all seven states which had been considered to determine the result of the election have been projected as Republican wins.

Each state in the US has a set number of electoral college votes so the vote shares of each party will not alter how many votes they receive per state.

But, let’s take a quick look at the current Republican lead in each of the seven states. As a reminder, not all the votes in all of the states have yet been counted.

Arizona Republican 52.6% – Democrat 46.4%

Georgia Republican 50.7% – Democrat 48.5%

Michigan Republican 49.7% – Democrat 48.3%

Nevada Republican 50.6% – Democrat 47.4%

North Carolina Republican 51% – Democrat 47.7%

Pennsylvania Republican 50.5% – Democrat 48.4%

Wisconsin Republican 49.6% – Democrat 48.8%

As we’ve been reporting throughout the night, Trump has been projected to win in Arizona – meaning all seven swing states have voted Republican in the presidential race.

Arizona’s electorate has a long history of voting for Republicans in presidential elections – this time, Trump had a 52.65% share of the vote as of the time of writing.

But last time, in 2020, the state had gone blue and voted in President Joe Biden for the Democrats.

As a quick reminder, there are 50 states in the US and most of them will vote for the same party at every election. Swing states however could plausibly be won by either party and seven of these were thought to hold the keys to the White House this time around – Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

We now know that Trump took all seven.

For a quick look back at 2020, the Democrats won in Arizona, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia, Nevada and Wisconsin – the Republicans in North Carolina.

• As a reminder, although those seven states were thought to determine the outcome of the 2024 election, it’s not always been those seven. Florida had once been considered a perennial swing state but lost that title after 2020. You can watch our explainer on swing states for more.

Here’s a bit more on the woman Donald Trump’s chosen to be his chief of staff:

• Less than a year after Wiles started working in politics, she joined Ronald Reagan’s campaign ahead of his 1980 election
• In 2010, she helped turn Rick Scott, a then-businessman with little political experience, into Florida’s governor in just seven months. Scott is now a US senator
• Wiles met Trump during the 2015 Republican presidential primary and became the co-chair of his Florida campaign. He went on to win the state over Hillary Clinton in 2016
• Florida governor Ron DeSantis, who put her in charge of his successful race two years later, described Wiles as “the best in the business”
• The 67-year-old grandmother – who is the daughter of late American football player and broadcaster Pat Summerall – has described herself as coming from a “traditional” political background

Read more about Wiles’s life and career.

The question now on a lot of people’s minds is who will Donald Trump take with him to the White House? And the answer is that we don’t yet know.

The president-elect has made just one official hire for his incoming administration, announcing that 2024 campaign co-chair Susan Summerall Wiles will be his chief of staff.

His transition team is already vetting a series of candidates ahead of his return to the White House and rumours are rife about who will take the top jobs.

Names include: Tom Homan, Trump’s former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice), thought to be his next secretary of homeland security and South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem for interior secretary. Plus there’s Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X.

• Get up to speed with who’s in the frame to join Trump’s new top team

Let’s return to Arizona, where, as we reported earlier, Donald Trump is now projected to have come out on top in the presidential election.

The state’s electorate has a long history of voting for Republicans in presidential elections.

This year they’ve voted red once again but last time, in 2020, the state went blue and voted in President Joe Biden for the Democrats.

It was tight then, with only just over 10,000 votes separating Biden and Trump.

Since the 1940s, Arizona has only turned blue for the Democrats twice. The other time was in 1996, when Bill Clinton was elected.

Before that Arizona consistently voted for the Democrats throughout the 1940s, 1930s and 1910s, but the Republicans dominated during the 1920s.

While we know Donald Trump is set to become the next US president, and that Republicans have retaken control of the Senate – there’s one big race left to follow: the House of Representatives.

If Republicans take control of the House, that would put the party in control of Congress and the White House.

The race is leaning Republican, according to various US outlets including our media partner CBS, but we won’t know until the remaining seats are called.

• For context: Congress is the legislative body, which is split into the 100-member upper chamber called the Senate and the 435-member lower chamber called the House. Every seat in the House – which was Republican-controlled before the election – is up for grabs. A party needs 218 seats for a majority.

Trump will return to Washington with the strongest of mandatespublished at 03:46 Greenwich Mean Time 10 November

Peter Bowes
North America correspondent

This is the clean sweep of battleground states that Donald Trump had been fighting for.

Winning Arizona gives him an additional 11 electoral college votes and a total of 312 to Kamala Harris’s 226.

A thumping victory, with the majority of votes cast across the country going to the Republican candidate.

With his party also on course to retain control of the House of Representatives, having already secured the Senate, it means Trump will return to Washington with the strongest of mandates to carry out the policy promises he made during the campaign.

While this update from Arizona confirms to us the final results from the election’s battleground states, we already knew Donald Trump would be back in the White House.

His victory in the presidential race was projected on 6 November, when he reached the 270 electoral college vote threshold.

The results from some states have taken longer than others to be confirmed and Arizona’s has taken days to come in.

But Trump isn’t president yet. For now he’s still the president-elect and his running mate JD Vance is the vice-president elect.

Trump will be sworn in at the presidential inauguration on 20 January 2025, at which point he legally assumes the power and responsibilities of the presidency, for the second time.

These projected results from Arizona don’t just mean Donald Trump bagged all seven swing states in the US election – they also mark the final electoral college votes.

After four days of counting in the south-western state, Arizona was the last to announce who its voters had picked.

Trump took all of its 11 electoral college votes up for grabs, meaning overall he scored 312 to Kamala Harris’s 226.

We’re relaunching our live coverage to bring you this breaking news.

Donald Trump has completed a clean sweep of all seven swing states in the US election, after a projected win in Arizona.

Caitlin Wilson
US live editor

Though we still don’t have a final result on which party will control the US House of Representatives, a picture is emerging of how Donald Trump’s second White House administration will come together.

Names for administration officials are being floated in the press and even debunked by Donald Trump himself on social media.

We’re going to pause our live coverage on this page for now, but we’ll be back on Sunday to keep you posted with the latest, including on the results for House races where ballots are still being counted.

In the meantime, you can check out our full results maps and graphics here.

Thanks for joining us.

We’re still waiting on results on the final few congressional races to see which party will take control of the House of Representatives.

Controlling the House gives the party in power the ability to initiate spending legislation and launch impeachment proceedings against officials.

If the Republicans win the House, then they can fairly smoothly approve plans such as tax cuts or border control measures, along with other policies.

Trump has already announced some of the things he’d like to do while in office. These include deporting undocumented migrants, cutting climate regulations and introducing sweeping tax cuts, including making tips tax-free.

You can read more about his plans here, here and here.

Small groups of demonstrators have gathered in New York and Washington DC this afternoon.

In New York, local organisations came together for the “Protect Our Futures March” in response to the presidential election result. As a reminder, Kamala Harris conceded after Donald Trump was projected to win the 270 electoral votes needed to become president.

Images from the march show a crowd of people holding banners saying “New Yorkers stand together” and “We will fight this hate”.

In Washington DC, a protesters launched a woman’s march – an echo of demonstrations held at the start of Trump’s first term in January 2017.

One protester, Janelle from Maryland, tells Reuters news agency she believes “Trump will approve an abortion ban for the entire United States”, saying she’s “here to fight back against that.”

During the presidential debate with Kamala Harris in September, Trump said he would not sign into law a national abortion ban, and has regularly said states should be free to decide their own laws on abortion. Many states run by Trump’s Republican Party have enacted strict abortion restrictions.

Donald Trump and his presidential transition team are assembling a teams for his new administration. Several names are being floated on the national security front, including “policy-minded folk” who served in the president-elect’s first term, according to the BBC’s US news partner CBS, yet it is unclear if they will secure jobs in his second.

Here is a look at some of the people involved, according to CBS:

Brian Hook, a former Iran envoy and aide to Trump secretaries of state Rex Tillerson and Mike Pompeo, is working on the State Department transition. He has been focused on policy plans for months, including meeting with foreign diplomats, but have not yet taken any official transition meetings with the Biden-Harris team. He declined to comment about his involvement.

Joel Rayburn, a former Syria Envoy and Department Assistant Secretary, is back and working on the transition for the National Security Council (NSC). He also declined to comment.

Michael Anton is a former NSC spokesman and Deputy National Security advisor during the early Trump administration. He’s working on the NSC transition. He also declined to comment.

Ambassador Robert O’Brien, formerly with the National Security Agency (NSA) and former hostage envoy, is not on the transition team. He has been informally helping to line up calls between Trump and with foreign leaders.

Foreign diplomats are reaching out to Ric Grennel, John Ratcliffe, Mike Pompeo and Robert O’Brien to pass along messages to Trump, CBS understands.

We now know that Pompeo, at least, will not be part of the administration after Trump posted on social media that Pompeo and former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley wouldn’t be re-hired.

With the presidential election win under his belt, Donald Trump is now assembling the White House team for his second term.

The names of Trump allies and Republican political veterans are being floated for potential positions.

But Trump has ruled out at least two people who worked in his previous administration for jobs in his new one: Mike Pompeo and Nikki Haley.

“I will not be inviting former Ambassador Nikki Haley, or former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, to join the Trump Administration,” the president-elect posted on his social networking site Truth Social.

“I very much enjoyed and appreciated working with them previously, and would like to thank them for their service to our Country,” Trump added.

Haley worked as the US’s ambassador to the United Nations in 2017 and 2018 under Trump, while Pompeo served as secretary of state from 2018 to 2021, and had previously been the director of the CIA.

Haley unsuccessfully challenged Trump for the Republican presidential nomination earlier this year and eventually endorsed him for president against Kamala Harris.

Four days out from the election, the White House announced that Joe Biden has invited Donald Trump to meet in the Oval Office on Wednesday. It’s part of the traditional transition period between Biden’s term and Trump’s – although Trump did not invite Biden to meet after the 2020 election.

Defeated Democratic Kamala Harris will be part of of her winning opponent Trump becoming president. Her current position as vice-president means that she will be the one to certify Trump’s presidential win on 6 January.

We’ve also heard about Trump’s inauguration plans. His campaign said the ceremony “will be the kick-off” to his administration.

As the transition period picks up steam, names have begun to circulate in speculation over who could end up with positions in Trump’s future cabinet.

Former US lawmaker John Ratcliffe is a top name being touted for the CIA director role. Robert F Kennedy Jr is on the shortlist to run the health and human services department, according to the BBC’s US news partner CBS. Tom Homan and Chad Wolf are both being considered for Secretary of Homeland Security, sources say, according to CBS.

And in the Senate, where votes are still being counted in some races, Democrat Jacky Rosen is projected to win re-election to her Nevada seat. The Senate is projected to be controlled by Republicans but we’re still awaiting the House results.

More now on those tipped to secure key roles in Trump’s cabinet, as sources have told our US partner CBS that both Tom Homan and Chad Wolf are being considered for the role of Secretary of Homeland Security.

Homan used to head up the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency during Trump’s first term and Wolf served as the acting Department for Homeland Security secretary.

“I’m happy to serve if the president should ask, I think it’s an honour to do that,” Wolf told NewsNation in a recent interview.

Sources say the official vetting process will begin next week.