Vice President Harris’s campaign on Monday warned that it could take several days for the final result of the 2024 election, urging people to stay clam.
“We believe this race is going to be incredibly close,” campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon told reporters. “So, we may not know the results of this election for several days, but we are very focused on staying calm and confident throughout this period as the process goes through. And we really know that we as a campaign have a really important role to play in keeping people calm and communicating and being transparent about our process.”
O’Malley Dillon outlined that by the end of Tuesday night, the campaign expects “near complete” results from Georgia, North Carolina and Michigan and “partial results” from Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Arizona.
She said that by Wednesday morning, it expects “most results” from Wisconsin, and additional results from Pennsylvania and Michigan and past Wednesday, it expects “additional results” from Pennsylvania, Arizona and Nevada.
“Keep in mind that some ballots will continue to be counted for many days,” she said.
She outlined that in Nevada, ballots can arrive until Saturday and in Pennsylvania, the state can’t begin to count provisional ballots until Friday.
Biden was declared the winner the Saturday after Election Day in 2020 and Pennsylvania was the pivotal state needed to call the race.
“So that just means that we’re going to continue to see new votes being reported for many days after Election Day, and that’s obviously not a sign of fraud, it’s just the way it works,” O’Malley Dillon said. “
Trump last week was sowing doubt about the Pennsylvania results, suggesting there is cheating going on in the key battleground state. Both Harris and Trump camps are both preparing for a dramatic legal standoff after the election.
The Harris campaign argued that the 2024 race will “be the most secure election in American history,” but warned that Trump will “likely” declare premature victory in the call with reporters on Monday.
The former president in 2020 said he won on election night before the results were all in, showing he’d lost to Joe Biden. Harris last week said her team will be “sadly ready if he does” declare victory prematurely again.
