Donald Trump won his sixth battleground state of the 2024 election early on Saturday, beating Kamala Harris in Nevada.

The Associated Press declared Mr Trump the winner after concluding there were not enough uncounted ballots in the state’s strongest Democratic areas to overcome the former president’s 46,000-vote lead over the Democratic nominee.

It marks the first win by a Republican presidential candidate in the state since 2004.

Mr Trump had already clinched his second term on Wednesday, when Wisconsin pushed him past the 270 electoral votes needed to win.

He now has 301 electoral votes and has won six of the seven battleground states. Only Arizona remains to be called. With 82 per cent of the vote counted there, he is ahead by almost 200,000 votes.

In his first interview since winning a second term, Mr Trump said he had “no choice” but to carry out his campaign promise of mass deportations.

“It’s not a question of a price tag. It’s not — really, we have no choice,” he told NBC. “When people have killed and murdered, when drug lords have destroyed countries, and now they’re going to go back to those countries because they’re not staying here.”