Updated, Nov. 6
The Associated Press has declared Donald Trump winner of the 2024 presidential election, what has been called a remarkable comeback.
On the Island, voters overwhelmingly supported Kamala Harris. About 8,000 votes were cast for the Harris-Walz campaign compared to about 2,700 for Trump-Vance.
For local races, the Island has chosen new members for the Martha’s Vineyard Commission. Based on unofficial voting results, voters selected Mary Bernadette Budinger-Cormie and incumbent Ben Robinson for Tisbury, over third candidate William O’Brien. Voters can only vote a maximum of two representatives to the commission per town. Islanders also supported Linda Sibley and Ernest Sederholm over Amy Upton for the two seats representing West Tisbury. There was no one on the ballot to represent Aquinnah, but Janette Vanderhoop received 57 write-in votes in Aquinnah, the most by far from any candidate.
Islanders have also voted overwhelmingly to return Provincetown Democrat Julian Cyr to the state Senate. Thomas Moakley cruised to victory to represent parts of Falmouth and the Islands at the state House without facing a challenger.
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After early voting boosted turnout to 40 percent in some towns, polling places across the Island were steady with voters on this official election day and the final day to cast ballots.
Pollsters in key swing states have consistently reported a neck-and-neck presidential race between Democrat and Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican and former president Donald Trump, though a number of state and local races and consequential ballot questions are before Island voters as well.
In Edgartown, shortly after polls opened, residents on both sides of the political divide were anxious. Many have thought the tally will be too close to call for the presidential election by Tuesday night, though many expressed hope that it won’t be close and that Harris will surge ahead with a large percentage of women coming out to vote for her.
“I’m dreaming it’s a landslide so we don’t have to deal with fights in the streets,” said Pierre Guerin, casting his ballot at Edgartown town hall along with his wife Susan Guerin on Tuesday morning. Both said they voted for Harris-Walz.
“We have to save democracy and women’s rights,” Susan Guerin said. “The Republican Party has gone to hell in a handbasket. Maybe we need more than two parties.”
Joe and Marianne Carter voted Harris-Walz as well, noting that they were “way more” anxious about the outcome compared to prior years.
“It’ll be nice to get back to a day where we can have a rational discussion of issues without people getting too emotional,” Joe Carter said.
On the other side of the aisle, there were some expressing enthusiasm for another Trump presidency. Anthony Lorenze said he voted for Trump-Vance to “Make America great again.”
“A lot of things are about to change in the world for the better,” Lorenze said after stepping out of the town hall. “I just don’t understand how people can vote for liberal government — when it’s not their money, all government should be conservative.
“The outcome of the election when all is said and done will be biblical,” he added.
Others at the polls expressed excitement. Ursula Kreskey didn’t share who she voted for but said she felt “fantastic.”
“I’m so excited to be in this country and I wouldn’t miss a chance to come out and vote for what I believe in,” she said. “I’m excited that so many people are getting out, that care about what’s happening for this country for the next four years.”
In Oak Bluffs, town clerk Colleen Morris said the polls have been “steady all day.” As of about 1:30 pm, 922 ballots were cast or over 50 percent of voters.
“Everyone’s just quietly voting,” Morris said, noting that there hasn’t been any interruptions or disturbances.
Some Oak Bluffs voters declined to disclose to the Times who they voted for.
“It’s very interesting to see how far we’ve fallen in terms of tolerating each other’s differences,” Dave Christensen said. “You embrace differences, that’s what made America great.”
Jeff Glasser, who came to the Oak Bluffs polls with his dog Angel, said he has friends on both sides of the political aisle, and many people are not comfortable voting for Harris or Trump, including himself. He declined to say who he voted for. “I’ve never seen so many so seriously far apart,” he said.
In Tisbury on Tuesday morning, Vineyarders moved smoothly through polls at the Emergency Services Facility.
Couple Jack and Joanne Connolly had just cast their ballots for Harris-Walz. Speaking to The Times, Jack Connolly shared that he showed up particularly fueled by “anxiety” compared to past elections, while Joanne Connolly cautiously expected a Democrat victory.
“[I’m] guardedly optimistic, hopeful that Kamala Harris will win,” she said.
If Harris wins, Jack Connolly has also pledged to his family that he’ll go for a swim outside, a pastime of sorts. “I made a promise before the [2020] election that if Biden won, I would go swimming the day after the election results, no matter what the weather was … I made the same promise this year. If Harris wins … I go swimming, even if it’s 40 degrees,” he said.
Another Tisbury voter declined to provide his name, but did tell The Times that he withheld a decision for either presidential ticket, despite typically making a choice.
“I don’t think both parties are trustworthy enough to support the average person,” he said on Tuesday morning.
“I always vote,” he added. “There are very few times that I don’t. I just think it’s a divided country. It’s basically 50–50 along partisan lines.”
On other ballot issues, Jack Connolly — and Joanne Connolly, a teacher — also voted to keep the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment Test as a graduation requirement for students.
“I feel that it’s important that there be a standard,” Joanne Connolly said. “Hopefully for the kids that don’t pass it, they’ll come up with another alternative.”
The couple also voted “No” on Ballot Question 5, which asked whether to gradually increase tipped workers’ minimum wage. Joanne Connolly recalled being lobbied against the question recently by a server off-Island.
“The waitress made a point … at the end of the meal, saying ‘Please, consider — vote no. We’re very happy with the way things are,’” Joanne Connolly said. “And I imagine that some restaurants on their own are already splitting the tips amongst wait staff and people who are not wait staff.”
Find details on local elections and ballot questions from our reporting here.
Eunki Seonwoo, Daniel Greenman, Nicholas Vukota, and Sam Houghton contributed to this report.
Rose Styron is so incredibly beautiful.
As I have been writing here for months, Ms. Harris is a weak, unproven, unserious candidate. Her lackluster performance as VP proved she was not up the job. She was part of the team that deceived that nation, covering up the steady health decline of the president. (And with Ms. Harris on the campaign trail, we must ask: Who is running the country? Still to this day, we don’t know who is.) The coastal elites propped her up, bringing out celebrities from Oprah to Springsteen and Cardi B. Real Americans were having none of it. Ms. Harris has no substance and could not convince 51% of us that she had real answers to our numerous problems, many created by her administration. Woke progressivism pushed the Democrat party too far to the left for most voters. (Even the NYT admits that wokeism is fading quickly now.) The GOP retook control of the Senate and may keep the House. This is a historic rebuke of the current Administration’s four-year agenda. The entire world was watching this election and our enemies as well. Time to get to work and start fixing what’s broke. Roll up your sleeves, America.
Peter, that’s not the way I see it. The Russians were busy orchestrating social media with lies.
The oil billionaires around the world 🌎 want You to keep buying oil.
There are conservative leaders around the world who are racist. Trump’s father was KKK. Marie LePen’s father said that Nazis weren’t that inhumane.
We’re going to find out if US conservative politicians are fascist or not.
I was in a store yesterday chatting with the people in line together. The couple in front of me lamented that the store is always busy now, it’s just mobbed with people. You can’t find a parking place—they also said the reason they voted for Trump was because the economy was so bad. Is it? Is that why stores are making their best profits ever? Is that why the stores are so busy? Because people are broke? Don’t think so. History is repeating itself and not in a good way.
Peter,
This election will have profound positive consequences for years to come. Take the abortion issue. States that overwhelmingly voted for Trump also passed woman’s right to choose. They split their vote and abortion will be taken out of the playbook of Dems. States Rights win. The media will have to come to terms that their lies fell short and their days of spewing liberal propaganda are over. The American citizens won and if we want to keep winning we need voter ID and mass deportation.
Now that our democratic process has worked according to the will of the people, both with the electoral college and with the popular vote, I hope the antisemitic, pro-terrorist, woke, elite, untruthful, liberal left will consider why they lost so soundly. When “fascist, stupid, maggot, garbage, brownshirt, deplorable, Dunning-Kruger syndrome” Americans sweep the country clean of liberal baloney, it’s time for the party that claims to care about the oppressed to see who THEY have been oppressing. I don’t like Trump’s policies, but they’re better than those nebulous ones of the poor-to-mediocre-dressed-up-as-qualified candidate dumped on America, in the biggest, most undemocratic political scam of my lifetime. And she clearly did not like one of our greatest allies, Israel, and had no inkling of knowledge about the Middle East, claiming the pro-hamas protesters were “not wrong”. We survived 4 years of Trump before, we will do it again. Our democracy won out over the January 6th interference to the sacred transfer of power, and it won out again yesterday, on November 5th. Moving forward, I hope both parties come up with worthy, qualified candidates who give us an actual choice next time, so that none of us have to cry after we cast our next ballot for President. “What can be unburdened by what has been?” We finally know the answer to that word salad nonsense. Thank God for democracy. It works.
Agree!
Nikki Haley!
Jackie,
Great post and you are spot on. I was not overly confident that DJT would be re-elected nor was I overly concerned that a Harris administration would totally destroy what is left of the USA. She did come around and stole many of Trumps signature ideas after all.
Having said that thank you for your tireless postings in the interest of presenting the other point of view. You are a better person than I. I became disengaged and just kind of gave up fighting back. You didn’t and I can’t tell you how much I appreciate it and inspiring your comments have been. So thank you.
For all those disappointed I’ll share with you what I believe to be the silver lining to,this election. Trump will be forever gone in 4 years and Biden is gone now. Let’s look forward to both parties putting up new blood with fresh ideas that will lift all Americans. Hope that helps.
Thank you, Carl. I appreciate your comments, too. And I bet your hope for the future is something all of us in either party can agree on. Keep speaking out!
So do all the liberals want to get rid of the filibuster now? Should we get rid of the filibuster and pack the Supreme Court, no. If all the liberals who called for getting rid of the filibuster don’t call for it this morning, they are hypocrites.
The woke progressives fascist on the left and the biased media gave you another 4 years of what they disdain. And they deserve every minute of it.
I hope the both parties come back to the center, that the media reports the facts without bias, and government focuses on fixing all that is wrong with the country and stops trying to fix what they allege is wrong with individuals. Stay out of our bed rooms, doctors office, woman’s sports and let us cook our food, heat our homes and drive whatever kind of vehicle we choose.
Carl– I find it interesting that you say
“stay out of our bedrooms” — unless of course you are
one of the LGBTQ people.
Stay out of our doctors office–unless of course you are
pregnant or don’t identify with the gender you were “assigned”
Stay out of womans sports– I assume you mean trans women—
I agree–What food have you been prevented
from eating ? I remember in 2016 the republicans were all up in
arms because Joe was going to limit us to one burger a month.
Have you been cheating on that restriction ?
I heat my house with wood–you can heat yours with
cow farts for all anyone cares, and what kind of car have you been
forced to drive ?
I’ll chime in on the filibuster, since you ask–
I don’t think I have ever spoken about it here, but
I do think it’s a pretty stupid rule that needlessly wastes
the time of congress–Not that it’s a big deal in and of itself.
I think there should be limits on
frivolous speeches. But Lyin, flyin Ted Cruz is still free to
ramble on for 21 hours while his diaper fills up ,
and read “green eggs and ham” to congress rather than
vote on a bill to give people medical coverage.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/USk6y2kWiC0?app=desktop
But if I may digress here, I find it ironic that Ted chose that
particular book. In case you don’t know the story, Guy I am
is completely set against eating green eggs and ham,
until he tries it, then he loves it– like the
American people and Obama care
And any democrat can do it to delay a bill that would
allow the government to ignore our own immigration laws.
So I guess as it currently stands, I would be in favor of
ending that practice–
But it should end or be modified for both parties.
Not just one.
Don,
I am referring to exactly that. Let people live and love as they choose. Woman should be able to make informed decisions with their doctors as to what is best for them the same as I wish to do when it comes to vaccines. I want to heat my home with safe oil and cook on my stove top with gas. I want to drive a car powered by diesel. I want my appliances to work with hot water and not have to flush my toilet multiple times. Keep the government out of our daily lives. I hope that cleared it up.
Enjoy the next 4 years, I know I will.
Yes!
Carl– careful there buddy– using derogatory terms like
“The woke progressives fascist on the left”
might really piss off one of your more outspoken
fellow republicans here who really really really
hates it when people use derogatory terms to
vilify a group of people based on their political
views.
Greetings from the real world. RIP celebrities and talking heads gaslighting. Final score Garbage 1 the swamp zero
Carl, the voters in the US have just voted for turning the world upside down.
Trump has said he is good friends with Putin. Trump has said that he will stop the war in Ukraine in one day. How will that go? Republicans in Congress have said they will stop sending money to Ukraine. That means the republicans will support Trump’s friendship with Putin. Putin has been trying to physically take Ukraine (like it took Crimea) so that Russia would have the 🥖 breadbasket of the world (control of food) and the warm water ports. Putin said he will next go into Poland and the Baltic states. How can any American have voted for that?!
Trump campaigned hard against Harris saying she would start WW3. Really? So Trump will cause WW3 or just hand over Europe to Putin. What happens to NATO? Will Trump remove us from NATO?
We’re doomed.
Mary calm down please. Your world will not change much. Trump will broker a deal between Putin and Zelensky both of whom are corrupt. Poland and Baltics are not in danger. Toothless Nato will not be disbanded, but yes the billions to Ukraine not yet disbursed, should be moved over for the wall. The illegal immigrants will be slowed if not stopped but no one is deporting 11 million. Respectfully you are catastrophizing things that will not happen. Yes, fewer regulations, fire a bunch of sallies in the Cabinets, examine costs more carefully and lower the corporate tax. God put him there for a reason so that we wouldnt be doomed. lol. The world was upside down for the last 4 years. Good was bad and bad was good. Tampons in men’s bathrooms and transgender surgeries for kids and woke terms like ”bodily autonomy”. Mary it will be ok.
Mary, most of your replies to me I ignore as they don’t seem serious enough to even reply to. But I feel compelled to say this to you. Everything will be ok. Trump is not a war monger and wants peace. He is a viscous negotiator and will hopefully be able to attain peace. But there will be give and takes. For example to cripple Putin we need to take away his biggest strength which is gas and oil. So if you and your liberal friends want to avert WW3 we need to crush him by opening up our oil reserves and flooding the market with oil. Take away his money you win. But are you willing to do that in the name of peace. Life is hard and it sure is fair. The sooner you realize this the better off you will be.
I would love to be in the newsrooms/offices today at: NBC, MSDNC, CNN, ABC, CBS, PBS, NPR, the Boston Globe, NYT, WaPo etc. Imagine their outrage. Hollywood? Silicon Valley? Ivy League campuses? Their arrogance was ultimately rejected by the people. Will they apologize/learn? Hell no. The campaign to destroy the new president starts today. Bet on it.
Peter, January 6 was staged by a republican.
Peter,
Perhaps we can call the last few days “The Week of Schadenfreude.” To borrow from a Saturday Night Live sketch from long ago with Mike Meyers: “[Their] agony was gorgeous.”
Yes!
A Miracle Happened!!!
I had very serious “Heart Valves Surgery” in July and I was having a Very Terrible Time regrouping!!!
However, I just woke up this morning and the news was on!!
I am now Blowing the Leaves in my yard
Hallelujah!!!!!!! 🙏🙏😂🤣🤣🙏🙏
**Semper Fi**
A dangerous Hitlerian demagogue got elected by the will of deplorables. He will appoint Liz Cheney as Ambassador to Haiti and Harris will get a teaching position at Brown University. They didn’t see him as just a speed bump but as a major obstacle to their vision for America and they did everything they could to derail him from Russian collusion to impeachment to lawfare and even more. They have already begun this morning to caution all of us as to how his unregulated revenge will result in chaos in America—non whites will be deported; immigrants will be jailed’ and Russia will defeat Ukraine. Oooops I have to go to my meeting on the View.
Trump has said many times he intends to deport millions. Do you believe him?
Yes, that’s why I voted for him and millions of others too. We will hold him to it.
Enjoy your small high, Mr engelman. 20 million deported was a Trump campaign promise. And you know he always keeps his promises.
Mr Graves, you know as well as I do that he will not deport 20million and his campaign promise is aspirational just as Kamal said she will lower grocery prices and raise incomes. Large themes are always posited in campaigns on both sides. Seal the border, lower taxes, reduce crime are all throwaway lines which reflect a general trajectory. He will slow illegal immigration and he will make sure that the bad ones go back even if Keller believes there are no bad ones. No reasonable person believes in literalism when people are running for office yet some of you people do. The planet is doomed say some of you and you dont really believe it do you? Cmon
I do want to add that I am sorry for those dear and pure of heart liberals who I know are shocked and suffering today. I do know how it feels ❤️
If I was a Democrat (instead of an Independent), I’d be really mad today. The party has been hijacked by far left progressives whose agenda is out of touch with most Americans. The policies of the Administration have been disastrous, from the withdrawal in Afghanistan to our Open Southern Border to federal give away programs. President Biden is seriously ill. For how long? Months? Years? Who was covering for him? Certainly Ms. Harris was. Who was running the country? Who’s in charge today?
So the DNC finally admitted to itself that there was a big problem with their candidate, the sitting president. They initiated a coup of sorts and slid in the VP, an untested, unqualified, unserious person as the new presidential candidate. (Remember her terrible showing in 2020 proved she was not ready for prime time and unpopular with most Democrats even then.) Her agenda was vague and what we did get seemed far-fetched and expensive. Tim Walz was a liability from day one.
The president, the MSM and celebrities insulted anyone who opposed Ms. Harris and the Democrat’s liberal agenda. That strategy clearly did not work as voters turned out in droves to vote for Trump (and against Harris). Trump easily won the electoral college and racked up the popular vote as well.
Clearly, there is a mandate here. Americans have spoken and we move forward with a new leader who promises to fix what’s broken. Maybe the Democrat party will learn from this election but I’m not holding my breath.
Andy, Jackie, Peter, Carl, John, Woody and anyone else who thinks yesterday is actually going to help America, I’ll meet you all back here on Nov. 6th 2025, and if trump has actually fulfilled any of his “day one” promises, I will admit I was wrong. But when the country still has no health care, when prices are through the roof due to his tariffs, when medication costs are still unaffordable to most Americans, when the border is still open and no one has been deported, when war still rages in Europe and the Middle East, will you admit you were wrong?
I can’t speak for anyone else, Jim, but I will never be wrong about, or vote with, a group that promotes, welcomes, and harbors those wishing to annihilate Israel and all Jews. That was the bottom line for me. Did you know I’m Jewish? Did you know I didn’t like either candidate, but went with the one most likely to protect Israel? Yep, I did. I cried after I voted. But after Trump’s win was announced, Houthis announced their aggression was finished. What caused that, does the average Harris voter imagine? Why do you imagine those who hate Israel were so desperate for a Harris win? I’m well informed on this topic, unlike most dem voters who don’t care or don’t know much about Israel or Jews. As Peter says, leftists and progressives have hijacked the party. They happen to mostly be a bunch of ignorant, hate-spewing antisemites. Harris was the last person on the planet I’d ever vote for, what with her insanely pro Hamas plan for Israel.
Both candidates’ party had 4 years to cure all the things you most care about and neither did. Hello, politics.
This whole antisemitism thing is real. Extremist Islam coming from the Iranian regime and all their proxies are real. They are a threat to all democracies. But apart from that, I looked at why Trump voters feel as they do. My heart was opened. Listening to those we’ve previously disagreed with, really listening, is an eye opener. I’d recommend everyone put their listening ears on.
Yes and no. Don’t expect trump to do half what he’s said but it should be enough to make you happy. Certainly better than train wreck that was the harris/walz plan.
Mr Donovan, When Nov 6 2025 comes you will never admit things are better even if they are because you selectively choose the criteria you would like to support. If coffee is cheaper you will say its not important. If borders are less porous you will say not enough workers to do the landscaping, if Ukraine and Putin reach some kind of a deal you will say Putin blackmailed Trump. If Israel is more peaceful you will opine that Palestinians dont have their own country. Your world view centered on a certain ideology–that is ok but mine and the others you reference have a different one and what is important to us isnt important to you.
Since Trump was re-elected just a few shorts days ago:
The stock market had its biggest gains in 2 years
Steve Madden bring back manufacturing to USA
Hamas calls for end of war in the Middle East
Iran backed Houthis announced a ceasefire
Putin ready to end the war and accepts Trumps call for peace
Irans currency crashes
Sounds like a pretty good start to me.
A good start, I’d say. You forgot to note that Americans voted to end wokeism and slow the steadily creeping blob that is the progressive/left that has swallowed much of our government, from the state house to the Capitol. Drain the Swamp!
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