Vice President Kamala Harris is the winner of New York’s 28 electoral votes in the presidential election, The Associated Press declared Tuesday evening.
According to the AP, with approximately 83% of the expected vote tallied as of 11:24 p.m. Tuesday, Harris had 56.3% of the vote, while the Republican candidate, former President Donald Trump, had 47.3% of the vote.
A Harris victory would be the 10th consecutive victory for a Democratic presidential candidate in New York. Ronald Reagan was the last Republican presidential candidate to win New York’s delegates, doing so in 1984.
Harris entered the presidential race in late July after incumbent President Joe Biden ended his reelection bid.
Biden won a vast majority of the delegates in the Democratic primary, including all of New York’s. However, he was widely viewed to have lost a debate with Trump at the end of June, and numerous people called for him to step down.
After Biden and other elected officials encouraged Harris to run for president, she became the new Democratic nominee during the 2024 Democratic National Convention in August.
Harris is the second Democratic woman to go head to head with Trump in a presidential election. Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election to Trump nationally, but she did win New York’s delegates that year.