President Joe Biden is scheduled to address the nation in what will be his first on-camera appearance since Donald Trump’s decisive victory over Kamala Harris.

Control of the US House of Representatives is in the balance, swinging between a Republican or Democratic majority, with dozens of races left to call.

Republicans won control of the US Senate early Wednesday.

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Trump’s presidential transition begins now. Here’s how it will work

Trump’s imminent return to the White House means he will want to support an entirely new administration from the one that served under President Joe Biden. His team also promises that the second won’t look too much like the first that Trump established after his 2016 victory.

The president-elect now has a 75-day transition period to build his team before Inauguration Day on January 20. for Trump team jobs.

This includes everyone from the Secretary of State and other heads of cabinet departments to those selected to serve part-time on boards and commissions. About 1,200 of those presidential appointments require Senate confirmation, which should be easier with the Senate now shifting to Republican control.

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Neither party has a dominant path to a House majority

House contests remain a toss-up battle, with no dominant path to a majority for either party. Rarely, if ever, have the two houses of Congress flipped in opposite directions.

Each side gains and loses some seats, including through the redistricting process, which is the routine redrawing of House seat lines. North Carolina, Louisiana and Alabama seat reset process.

Much of the outcome hinges on the West, particularly in California, where a handful of House seats are hotly contested and mail-in ballots arriving a week after the election will still be counted. Among those watched are the grueling races around the “blue dot” in Omaha, Nebraska and as far away as Alaska.

Updates on the last two presidential races left to call

With a victory in Wisconsin early Wednesday, Trump eliminated the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency. But his exact margin of victory is still unclear — there are two presidential races the AP has yet to call:

Arizona: Officials in Arizona’s Maricopa County said late Wednesday that they had more than 700,000 ballots left to count, meaning the presidential and senate races were too early to call. In all, the AP estimates at least one million ballots will be added to the Arizona results. County election officials are expected to confirm those numbers Thursday.

Nevada: The AP estimated late Wednesday that there are more than 200,000 ballots left to be counted in Nevada, including more than 130,000 in Clark County. Given the narrow margins in the presidential and US Senate races, both are too early to call. The AP will continue to analyze the results released by Nevada election officials on Thursday.

Updates Decision Office on key Senate races

Arizona: Officials in Arizona’s Maricopa County said late Wednesday that they had more than 700,000 ballots left to count, meaning the presidential and senate races were too early to call. In all, the AP estimates at least one million ballots will be added to the Arizona results. County election officials are expected to confirm those numbers Thursday.

Nevada: The AP estimated late Wednesday that there are more than 200,000 ballots left to be counted in Nevada, including more than 130,000 in Clark County. Given the narrow margins in the presidential and US Senate races, both are too early to call. The AP will continue to analyze the results released by Nevada election officials on Thursday.

Control of the US House hangs in the balance, with enormous implications for Trump’s agenda

The U.S. House majority hung in the balance on Wednesday, teetering between Republican control that would usher in a new era of unified GOP rule in Washington or a swing to the Democrats as the last line of resistance to the Trump White House’s second-term agenda.

A few individual seats, or even one, will determine the outcome. Final counts will take some time, likely pushing the decision into next week – or beyond.

After Republicans won a majority in the US Senate, picking up seats in West Virginia, Ohio and Montana, House Speaker Mike Johnson predicted his chamber would be next in line.

“Republicans are ready to have a unified government in the White House, Senate and House,” Johnson said Wednesday.

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Biden will deliver a Rose Garden address at 11 a.m. ET

The remarks to the nation will be Biden’s first appearance in front of the camera since Trump’s decisive victory over Harris.

How Trump spent his first day as president-elect

Donald Trump spent his first day as president-elect fielding congratulatory calls from his defeated opponent, world leaders and President Joe Biden as he began the process of turning his election victory into a government.

Trump kept a low profile, staying out of the public eye after addressing supporters in Florida in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

Vice President Kamala Harris called Trump to acknowledge the race and congratulate him, while Biden invited the man he ousted from the White House four years ago to an Oval Office meeting to prepare to return the keys .

On Wednesday, Biden’s chief of staff urged the Trump team to sign federal agreements needed to begin an orderly presidential transition, a White House official said.

Review how the news unfolded with Wednesday’s live coverage