Campaign aides on both sides sanguine as first votes counted

Senior Donald Trump and Kamala Harris advisers are both projecting confidence as polls begin to close in the US.

“He feels great,” aide Corey Lewandowski says of Trump, speaking at the former president’s watch party in West Palm Beach, Florida. “We are ready, when the election is called, to begin the transition to put this country back on track.”

Trump’s campaign sees its easiest path to the nomination running through Georgia, North Carolina and Pennsylvania.

“Donald Trump has momentum,” he argues.

Earlier, senior Harris campaign adviser Stephanie Cutter told MSNBC that the vice president was better at staying on message in the closing weeks of the race

“I’m not going to make any predictions,” Cutter said. “But I do think that we finished very strong. And if you were making your decision in the last couple weeks of this campaign, I think, you know, by significant margins, people were deciding for Vice President Harris.”