Election 2024 live updates: Control of the House still up in the air as Trump ramps up White House transition
The control of the House is still up for grabs three days after the election.
As of Friday evening, 212 Republicans had been elected compared to 200 Democrats. One party needs 217 seats for a majority. Republicans have already gained control of the Senate, meaning Trump could be given full control of two branches of government and the levers of power in Washington.
Meanwhile, the President-elect has already begun preparing for the Oval Office.
He named Susie Wiles as his new White House chief of staff. Trump could be looking to rehire Tom Homan to handle immigration. Homan, a Project 2025 contributor, served as the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement between 2017 and 2018 and is considered one of the key architects of the first Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” family separation policy.
As the president-elect and his party celebrate his victory, for some Americans, the prospect of a second Trump term has been less welcoming.
This week, Black people are receiving racist text messages demanding they show up at “plantations,” where they’ll be enslaved while at a Texas college campus, protestors carried signs that branded women “property” and used homophobic slurs.
