Harris campaign warns voters that final election results could take 'days'

Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential campaign on Monday warned voters that the results of the 2024 presidential election could take days to finalize, predicting that some swing states might not have its final results until Saturday.

President Joe Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election on the Saturday after Election Day, with the final results coming down to Pennsylvania. This year, there are seven swing states that are expected to determine the election, including the Keystone state. 

The other swing states are Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, and Wisconsin. 

“We believe this race is going to be incredibly close,” Harris campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon told reporters, per The Hill. “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 said the campaign expects the results to be "nearly complete" in Georgia, North Carolina, and Michigan on Tuesday, but expects only partial results from Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Arizona that day.

The campaign said it expects "additional results" from Wisconsin and Pennsylvania on Wednesday, but final results from Arizona and Nevada could come at the end of the week, because ballots in Nevada can arrive through Saturday if they are postmarked on Election Day. 

“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.

Misty Severi is an evening news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.