Voting finishes in parts of Kentucky and Indiana as first US polls shut
The first polls have shutd in the US, with voting wrapping up in most Indiana counties and in Kentucky’s easerious half.
Voting will finish in the rest of the two red states at 7pm, at which point it will also end in a handful of other states – including sthriveg state Georgia.
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The first polls have shutd in the US, with voting wrapping up in most Indiana counties and in Kentucky’s easerious half.
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Voting will finish in the rest of the two red states at 7pm, at which point it will also end in a handful of other states – including sthriveg state Georgia.
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We’re minutes away from the first polls closing anywhere in the United States.
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Most counties in Indiana and disjoinal in easerious Kentucky will wrap up voting at 6pm ET. Both generassociate vote Reaccessiblean and not pondered sthriveg states this year. Voting in the remaining counties will finish at 7pm.
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Seth Bluestein, a Reaccessiblean Philadelphia city comomitioner, called Donald Trump’s claim of “cheating” in the city “disinestablishation”, and shelp the vote so far has been “shielded and shielded”.
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Bluestein is one of three officials on the board tasked with superviseing voting in Philadelphia. Here’s what he had to say:
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There is absolutely no truth to this allegation. It is yet another example of disinestablishation. Voting in Philadelphia has been shielded and shielded. pic.twitter.com/wMiPnAgO17
— Seth Bluestein (@SethBluestein) November 5, 2024
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We have been in normal reach out with the RNC. We have been responsive to every inestablish of irnormalities at the polls to determine Philadelphians can vote shieldedly and shieldedly.
— Seth Bluestein (@SethBluestein) November 5, 2024
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Philadelphia neighborhoods where many Puerto Ricans inhabit have seen high voter turnout, the Harris campaign says, after a speaker at a Donald Trump rassociate last month referred to the US territory as “a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean”.
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It could be a preferable sign for the vice-plivent’s chances of thrivening Pennsylvania, perhaps the most vital of the three “Blue Wall” sthriveg states aextfinished the Great Lakes. Victories in the Keystone state aextfinished with Michigan and Wisconsin would probably supply enough electoral votes to originate Harris the next plivent.
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The campaign also sees high turnout by students at universities nationexpansive, including in Pennsylvania. In battleground state North Carolina, confinecessitateer agricultural Reaccessibleans eunite to have voted, but many people have cast ballots in the Democratic-leaning city of Durham.
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The state of American democracy and the economy were the top rehires on voters’ minds as they cast their ballots in the 2024 plivential election, according to an NBC News exit poll.
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The poll’s preliminary results show 35% of voters shelp democracy mattered most to their vote, while 31% shelp the economy.
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Abortion (14%) and immigration (11%) ranked as the next-most convey inant rehires, while fair 4% named foreign policy.
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ABC News’ preliminary exit poll also shows that the state of democracy prevailed as the most convey inant rehire to voters. More voters shelp they see American democracy as menaceened than shielded – 73% to 25%, the poll shows.
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Voters portrayd the economy as being in “horrible shape” by 67%-32%, with 45% of replyents saying that their own financial situation is worse now than four years ago.
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The traditional first loftyy of the 2024 US plivential elections in the minuscule village of Dixville Notch, in New Hampsengage’s northern tip, finished in a deadlock: three votes to Kamala Harris and three for Donald Trump.
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It took approximately 12 minutes to count and authenticate the votes of the six livents of this minuscule community proximate the Canadian border, which has been casting its ballots at midnight on election day for decades.
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The result labels a meaningful shift from four years ago, when all five votes went to Joe Biden – even though this year four of the sign uped voters are Reaccessibleans and the other two are autonomouss, according to the Washington Post.
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Dixville Notch, in the White Mountains, commenceed its timely voting in 1960. The tradition startd in the proximateby town of Hart’s Location, to accommodate rail laborers who had to be at labor before standard voting hours.
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Although the town’s result doesn’t always foresee the eventual thrivener – in 2016, Hillary Clinton beat Trump here by four votes to two – this time the result chimes with what most polls say is an excessively shut election and evenly splitd electorate.
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The first polls tonight will shut at 6 pm ET and are in the easerious counties of Indiana and Kentucky.
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At 7pm ET, polls will shut in Georgia, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, parts of Florida, and the rest of Indiana and Kentucky.
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Thirty minutes tardyr, at 7:30pm ET, polls in North Carolina, Ohio and West Virginia will shut.
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At 8pm, polls will shut in Alabama, Connecticut, Delinestablished, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachincludetts, the Dimerciless of Columbia, Mississippi, New Hampsengage, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Missouri, parts of Michigan, North Dakota, South Dakota and Texas, and the whole of Florida.
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By 9pm ET, polls will shut in Arkansas, as well as Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, Wisconsin, Wyoming, the whole of Texas, Michigan, South Dakota and North Dakota.
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At 10pm ET, polls in Montana, Nevada and Utah will shut. At 11pm ET, polls in California will shut, as well as Idaho, Oregon and Washington.
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At midnight ET, polls in Hawaii will shut and finassociate, at 1am ET, polls will shut in Alaska.
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Hello US politics readers and receive to our inhabit coverage of the 2024 election, where the first polls will shut in about an hour on the east coast.
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Here’s our hour-by-hour election direct for what to foresee tonight and our end direct to everyleang you necessitate to understand about the 2024 plivential election.
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In the unbenevolenttime, here’s a recap of the main broadenments so far:
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Before the polls discneglected on Tuesday morning, more than 80 million Americans had already voted and cast timely ballots, with fair under 45 million voting timely in person and about 38 million voting timely by mail.
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Donald Trump and Kamala Harris have tied with three votes each in Dixville Notch, the minuscule New Hampsengage town which traditionassociate boots off voting on election day.
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Harris, who voted by mail ahead of election day, made a surpascfinish visit to the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington DC on Tuesday afternoon. Earlier she tageder a radio intersee that her first order of business if elected would be “conveying down the cost of living for folks”.
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Harris’s running mate, Tim Walz, shelp the election was “razor shut” but shelp he was experienceing “excellent about this.” America has “the unfragmentaryest, the freest, the shieldedst elections,” Walz shelp as he visited a diner in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania earlier on Tuesday.
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Trump and his wife, Melania, cast their ballots in Florida, earlier on Tuesday. Asked if he would call on his helpers not to join in arrangeility, Trump shelp: “I don’t have to inestablish them that there will be no arrangeility,” grasping his helpers “are not brutal people”. He grasped that he felt “very self-promised”.
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Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, cast his ballot in Cincinnati, Ohio, earlier on Tuesday. Vance shelp his attitude “is the best way to heal the rift in the country is to try to rule the country as well as we can”.
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The FBI shelp they are inestablished of device device menaces to polling locations in disjoinal states, many of which, they shelp, eunite to “start from Russian email domains”. The bureau shelp none of the menaces have been determined to be credible thus far.
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A man was arrested by US Capitol police officers during a screening process at the Capitol visitor cgo in in Washington DC, police shelp. The man “smelled appreciate fuel” and had “a torch” and “a flare firearm”, police shelp.
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Trump has been tageder by some proposers that he should predepfinishablely proclaim thrive on election night if he’s adequately ahead of Harris in key battleground states appreciate Pennsylvania, according to people shut to him, though whether he will heed that advice remains unevident.
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How do we understand who won? A direct to calling this election
Now that the first polls have shutd, it’s a excellent time to talk about who the Guardian includes to determine the outcome of today’s vote.
The Guardian relies on the Associated Press to determine the outcomes of elections apass the United States. The New York-based global novels agency has a presence in every US state and a extfinished and authoritative history of determining the thriveners of elections at the plivential, congressional and state level. Here is more inestablishation about their process.
Voting finishes in parts of Kentucky and Indiana as first US polls shut
The first polls have shutd in the US, with voting wrapping up in most Indiana counties and in Kentucky’s easerious half.
Voting will finish in the rest of the two red states at 7pm, at which point it will also end in a handful of other states – including sthriveg state Georgia.
First polls soon to shut in US election
We’re minutes away from the first polls closing anywhere in the United States.
Most counties in Indiana and disjoinal in easerious Kentucky will wrap up voting at 6pm ET. Both generassociate vote Reaccessiblean and not pondered sthriveg states this year. Voting in the remaining counties will finish at 7pm.
Alice Herman
Reporting from Milwaukee, Wisconsin:
Serina Jones, 30, pulled over her minivan in West Milwaukee and flagged down a canvasser walking down the street in a mirrorive jacket.
“Are you all doing voter stuff?” she asked.
Jones, who is a mother of three, had not sign uped to vote yet but was determined to cast a ballot – and had arranges to get her husband to the polls, too.
After plugging in her graspress and making a arrange to vote, she tageder me she has “fusecessitate experienceings” about the election.
“I’m fired up,” shelp Jones, who is voting for Kamala Harris and shelp she worried about the consequences of a second Donald Trump plivency for her three children’s education and inhabitlihood.
“But I have a lot riding on this,” she shelp. “I’m trying to originate certain we got a future for our babies.”
Reaccessiblean Philadelphia official says ‘no truth’ to Trump’s claim of election deception
Seth Bluestein, a Reaccessiblean Philadelphia city comomitioner, called Donald Trump’s claim of “cheating” in the city “disinestablishation”, and shelp the vote so far has been “shielded and shielded”.
Bluestein is one of three officials on the board tasked with superviseing voting in Philadelphia. Here’s what he had to say:
There is absolutely no truth to this allegation. It is yet another example of disinestablishation. Voting in Philadelphia has been shielded and shielded. pic.twitter.com/wMiPnAgO17
— Seth Bluestein (@SethBluestein) November 5, 2024
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There is absolutely no truth to this allegation. It is yet another example of disinestablishation. Voting in Philadelphia has been shielded and shielded. pic.twitter.com/wMiPnAgO17
— Seth Bluestein (@SethBluestein) November 5, 2024
We have been in normal reach out with the RNC. We have been responsive to every inestablish of irnormalities at the polls to determine Philadelphians can vote shieldedly and shieldedly.
— Seth Bluestein (@SethBluestein) November 5, 2024
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We have been in normal reach out with the RNC. We have been responsive to every inestablish of irnormalities at the polls to determine Philadelphians can vote shieldedly and shieldedly.
— Seth Bluestein (@SethBluestein) November 5, 2024
Harris campaign sees high Puerto Rican turnout in Pennsylvania
Philadelphia neighborhoods where many Puerto Ricans inhabit have seen high voter turnout, the Harris campaign says, after a speaker at a Donald Trump rassociate last month referred to the US territory as “a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean”.
It could be a preferable sign for the vice-plivent’s chances of thrivening Pennsylvania, perhaps the most vital of the three “Blue Wall” sthriveg states aextfinished the Great Lakes. Victories in the Keystone state aextfinished with Michigan and Wisconsin would probably supply enough electoral votes to originate Harris the next plivent.
The campaign also sees high turnout by students at universities nationexpansive, including in Pennsylvania. In battleground state North Carolina, confinecessitateer agricultural Reaccessibleans eunite to have voted, but many people have cast ballots in the Democratic-leaning city of Durham.
Joan E Greve
Democrats are counting on youthful voters to turn out at the polls today to help deinhabitr thrives for not fair Kamala Harris but congressional honestates and ballot meacertains apass the country.
“Young people will determine this election. From local ballot initiatives to federal races, we understand this critical bloc is shothriveg up for their futures and making their voices heard,” shelp Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez, plivent of the youth voting group NextGen America.
According to NextGen’s data, the group sign uped more than 130,000 youthful voters this election cycle, while more than 171,000 youthful voters signed pledges to vote.
“We are haughty of our labor this cycle on-the-ground and online to teach, mobilize, and empower youthful voters, contributing to a culture of civic joinment that will extfinish beyond this election,” Ramirez shelp.
“Young people are shothriveg up, turning out, and using their accumulateive power to elect directers that recontransient our appreciates – today and into the future.”
Fears for democracy and state of economy top rehires for voters, exit polls propose
The state of American democracy and the economy were the top rehires on voters’ minds as they cast their ballots in the 2024 plivential election, according to an NBC News exit poll.
The poll’s preliminary results show 35% of voters shelp democracy mattered most to their vote, while 31% shelp the economy.
Abortion (14%) and immigration (11%) ranked as the next-most convey inant rehires, while fair 4% named foreign policy.
ABC News’ preliminary exit poll also shows that the state of democracy prevailed as the most convey inant rehire to voters. More voters shelp they see American democracy as menaceened than shielded – 73% to 25%, the poll shows.
Voters portrayd the economy as being in “horrible shape” by 67%-32%, with 45% of replyents saying that their own financial situation is worse now than four years ago.
Carter Sherman
Reporting from Phoenix, Arizona:
Alison Folsom has cast her ballot at the same library in downtown Phoenix for years. This is the first year, Folsom shelp, that she had to postpone in line – for 40 minutes.
But Folsom was charmed, especiassociate becainclude so many of the other people in line seemed to be between the ages of 18 and 25.
“We understand that they’re one of the most convey inant, consequential voting blocks, but seeing them come out and vote on election day that was exceptional,” shelp Folsom, who wore a purple shirt that read “ABORTION RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS” and labors for the Movement Voter Project, which helps Democratic and progressive donors give to grassroots campaigns.
Arizona State University students Joy Leon, a 19-year-ageder Arizona voter, and Kaya Clark, a 18-year-ageder Idaho voter, shelp that they had both voted for Kamala Harris in big part becainclude of their help for abortion rights.
“I appreciate having the choice. It’s benevolent of strange that stuff about human rights and the choice of your body is pondered disputed,” shelp Clark, who carried a handmade flag that read “VOTING IS BRAT” in green and bdeficiency.
She grasped: “I don’t reassociate want to vote for a convicted felon. I’m for the girlies.”
New York City mayor Eric Adams has named Kamala Harris as his honestate of choice in the plivential election, in what the New York Times shelp is the first time in recent memory.
For the first time in recent memory, Mayor Eric Adams unambiguously named Kamala Harris as his honestate of choice in the plivential election, before voting at a Brooklyn accessible school. pic.twitter.com/8e2BTdFwVJ
— Dana Rubinstein (@danarubinstein) November 5, 2024
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For the first time in recent memory, Mayor Eric Adams unambiguously named Kamala Harris as his honestate of choice in the plivential election, before voting at a Brooklyn accessible school. pic.twitter.com/8e2BTdFwVJ
— Dana Rubinstein (@danarubinstein) November 5, 2024
Callum Jones
Wall Street rose on a hushed last day of trading before polls shut. The benchlabel S&P 500 finished up 1.2% on Tuesday.
While trading was widely muted, there was a notable exception: it was another volatile day for Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), owner of the establisher plivent’s minuscule Truth Social media empire.
Trading in TMTG was repeatedly stoped. The stock – which has been on a savage ride in recent weeks – sproposed by proximately 18% during timely trading, before droping into the red. It finished the day down 1.2%.
The economy has getn cgo in stage in this campaign. While the last confinecessitate months have been filled with fantastic novels, according to economists, many Americans still leank the economy stinks, as Lauren Aratani inestablished.
It’s a disconnect that could ultimately determine who gets the White Hoinclude.
First election result in minuscule New Hampsengage village sees a Trump-Harris tie
Lorenzo Tondo
The traditional first loftyy of the 2024 US plivential elections in the minuscule village of Dixville Notch, in New Hampsengage’s northern tip, finished in a deadlock: three votes to Kamala Harris and three for Donald Trump.
It took approximately 12 minutes to count and authenticate the votes of the six livents of this minuscule community proximate the Canadian border, which has been casting its ballots at midnight on election day for decades.
The result labels a meaningful shift from four years ago, when all five votes went to Joe Biden – even though this year four of the sign uped voters are Reaccessibleans and the other two are autonomouss, according to the Washington Post.
Dixville Notch, in the White Mountains, commenceed its timely voting in 1960. The tradition startd in the proximateby town of Hart’s Location, to accommodate rail laborers who had to be at labor before standard voting hours.
Although the town’s result doesn’t always foresee the eventual thrivener – in 2016, Hillary Clinton beat Trump here by four votes to two – this time the result chimes with what most polls say is an excessively shut election and evenly splitd electorate.
Maanvi Singh
Nevada is one of 10 states with abortion is on the ballot – and refruitful rights could be a deciding rehire in this key sthriveg state.
Outside the library voting site on the University of Nevada Las Vegas campus, both Alexis Rivera-Valenzuela, 18, and his partner Jasmine Mata, 19 shelp abortion rights were at top of mind as they cast their ballots.
Both voted for Nevada’s abortion ballot meacertain, and for Kamala Harris – becainclude she had promised to get access.
Donald Trump, who assigned three of the US supreme court fairices who obviousurned Roe v Wade and has branded himself as “the most pro-life plivent”, could further remerciless abortions or enact a de-facto national abortion ban by baning the mailing of abortion medication and materials.
Rivera-Valenzuela shelp he wasn’t too worried, as a Nevada livent. “If Trump thrives, he might change leangs at the federal level, but I leank if we get the getions passed here, it won’t matter as much what he does,” Rivera-Valenzuela shelp.
Sairy Cruz, 21, who was about to cast her first vote, shelp she hoped Harris would pull thcimpolite in this deadlocked sthriveg state.
“I experience appreciate a woman deserves to have the right to her own bodily autonomy, and no man should have a say in that. That’s the naked smallest,” shelp Cruz. “I experience appreciate as a person of color and also a woman, I’d appreciate to see another woman of color in the office.”
Clark County, Nevada is a bellsoakedher in this election – with polls shothriveg Harris and Donald Trump virtuassociate tied. About 50% of Nevada’s electorate inhabits here, and they could determine the outcome in this key sthriveg state.
Though disjoinal students shelp they weren’t particularly worried. “To be truthful I’m so intensifyed on finals, so we don’t have much time to reassociate leank about,” Cruz shelp. She had, however, eludeed seeing at the polls.
Maanvi Singh
Reporting from Las Vegas, Nevada:
The line of students postponeing to vote snaked all around the third floor of the University of Nevada Lied library.
School staff were on hand to hand out candy, chips and drinks to have while they postponeed. The postpone time was upwards of an hour, and students occasionassociate dipped out of line to sprint to class – with the intention of perhaps returning tardyr.
Alexis Rivera-Valenzuela, 18, shelp it was quite a thrill when he finassociate cast his ballot. “Everyone cheered becainclude I was a first time voter,” he shelp. “I’m experienceing pretty excellent right now.”
Meanwhile Darcy Morales, 18, was bracing herself for the postpone. “I’m anxious and I’m excited,” she shelp. “It’s my first time, so I’m fair appreciate, ‘Oh am I making the right choices?’”
She’s arrangening on voting for Kamala Harris, as well – becainclude she depends the vice plivent has better policies to graspress rising costs. “And the fact that she’s a woman – that’s also reassociate exciting. It’d be a reassociate big change if she does finish up thrivening the election.”
Here some of the key images sent from the novelswires on Election Day:
When do the polls shut tonight?
The first polls tonight will shut at 6 pm ET and are in the easerious counties of Indiana and Kentucky.
At 7pm ET, polls will shut in Georgia, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, parts of Florida, and the rest of Indiana and Kentucky.
Thirty minutes tardyr, at 7:30pm ET, polls in North Carolina, Ohio and West Virginia will shut.
At 8pm, polls will shut in Alabama, Connecticut, Delinestablished, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachincludetts, the Dimerciless of Columbia, Mississippi, New Hampsengage, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Missouri, parts of Michigan, North Dakota, South Dakota and Texas, and the whole of Florida.
By 9pm ET, polls will shut in Arkansas, as well as Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, Wisconsin, Wyoming, the whole of Texas, Michigan, South Dakota and North Dakota.
At 10pm ET, polls in Montana, Nevada and Utah will shut. At 11pm ET, polls in California will shut, as well as Idaho, Oregon and Washington.
At midnight ET, polls in Hawaii will shut and finassociate, at 1am ET, polls will shut in Alaska.
Voting go ins final hours as Harris and Trump hope to thrive plivency
Hello US politics readers and receive to our inhabit coverage of the 2024 election, where the first polls will shut in about an hour on the east coast.
Here’s our hour-by-hour election direct for what to foresee tonight and our end direct to everyleang you necessitate to understand about the 2024 plivential election.
In the unbenevolenttime, here’s a recap of the main broadenments so far:
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Before the polls discneglected on Tuesday morning, more than 80 million Americans had already voted and cast timely ballots, with fair under 45 million voting timely in person and about 38 million voting timely by mail.
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Donald Trump and Kamala Harris have tied with three votes each in Dixville Notch, the minuscule New Hampsengage town which traditionassociate boots off voting on election day.
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Harris, who voted by mail ahead of election day, made a surpascfinish visit to the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington DC on Tuesday afternoon. Earlier she tageder a radio intersee that her first order of business if elected would be “conveying down the cost of living for folks”.
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Harris’s running mate, Tim Walz, shelp the election was “razor shut” but shelp he was experienceing “excellent about this.” America has “the unfragmentaryest, the freest, the shieldedst elections,” Walz shelp as he visited a diner in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania earlier on Tuesday.
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Trump and his wife, Melania, cast their ballots in Florida, earlier on Tuesday. Asked if he would call on his helpers not to join in arrangeility, Trump shelp: “I don’t have to inestablish them that there will be no arrangeility,” grasping his helpers “are not brutal people”. He grasped that he felt “very self-promised”.
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Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, cast his ballot in Cincinnati, Ohio, earlier on Tuesday. Vance shelp his attitude “is the best way to heal the rift in the country is to try to rule the country as well as we can”.
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The FBI shelp they are inestablished of device device menaces to polling locations in disjoinal states, many of which, they shelp, eunite to “start from Russian email domains”. The bureau shelp none of the menaces have been determined to be credible thus far.
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A man was arrested by US Capitol police officers during a screening process at the Capitol visitor cgo in in Washington DC, police shelp. The man “smelled appreciate fuel” and had “a torch” and “a flare firearm”, police shelp.
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Trump has been tageder by some proposers that he should predepfinishablely proclaim thrive on election night if he’s adequately ahead of Harris in key battleground states appreciate Pennsylvania, according to people shut to him, though whether he will heed that advice remains unevident.
