A divided electorate cast votes amid historically tight race

9:51 p.m. ET – Alsobrooks wins Maryland senate seat Democratic senate candidate Angela Alsobrooks, a former county executive of Prince George’s County, Md., defeated Democratic candidate Larry Hogan, the former governor of Maryland. She’ll be the first Black senator to represent the state. – Jared Council 9:21 p.m. ET Electoral vote update (via AP) Trump 177, Harris, 99 9:08 p.m. ET – Early results point to strong performance for Trump Donald Trump scored a bigger-than-expected victory in Florida, and voters in Georgia have positioned him strongly to capture that state’s 16 electoral votes. The AP called Florida for Trump at 8:01 p.m. ET. The former president was on track to win the longtime Democratic stronghold of Miami-Dade County–the first Republican presidential candidate to do so since 1988. In Georgia, Trump had a 52%-47% vote lead with more than two-thirds of the vote in. Lakshya Jain, who co-leads the non-profit voting analysis firm Split Ticket posted on X: “Would very much say you’d rather be Trump than Harris in Georgia at the moment. I’m not seeing the margins for Harris that she really needs in Atlanta suburbs to counteract the rural redshift yet. The same goes in North Carolina, though that’s...