BREAKING: Donald Trump wins Indiana and Kentucky

Donald Trump has won the states of Indiana and Kentucky as the first states in the nation have started to close their polling locations. According to the Associated Press, the former president has taken home 19 electoral college votes after the two states have been called to go the GOP nominee.  

The former president will take 8 electoral votes in Kentucky and Indiana will add 11 more to that.  

The first two states going to the former president were expected. Indiana was called with less than 15 percent of the vote submitted with the GOP leading Democrats by 25 points. Kentucky was called with less than 13 percent of the votes counted and leaned in favor of the GOP nominee by around 39 points.

The first state that was won by Vice President Kamala Harris was Vermont, which will bring in three electoral college votes for the Democratic candidate. 

Each candidate will be vying to get 270 electoral votes, the number needed in order for one of them to win the White House. Although the votes from Kentucky, Indiana, and Vermont were first to be announced, the seven swing states of Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Nevada, Wisconsin, Arizona, and Pennsylvania will likely decide the outcome of the election.

Pennsylvania in particular has been of high interest to both Trump and Harris and has been widely considered to be the state that may decide the election.