Presidential election live updates: Trump wins first major swing state as Harris HQ ‘goes silent’

Elon Musk appears in a celebratory mood in Mar-a-Lago as he claims Donald Victory has won the race for the White House.

The Tesla CEO and billionaire owner of X shared a picture of himself chatting to Trump and podcast host Joe Rogan as the former president nears the target of 270.

Earlier Musk tweeted: ‘game, set and match’ as Trump stormed into an early lead and hopes for his supporters have raised after winning the crucial swing state of North Carolina.

If Trump wins, Musk is course for a role in his administration.

Trump has promised to make him chief of a new ‘government efficiency commission’ to seek out cuts at federal agencies and changes to federal rules.

Donald Trump has won the critical swing state of North Carolina and its 16 electoral votes in a pivotal moment in the election.

The Tar Heel state was a key target of both campaigns and was the site of multiple rallies in the final days of the race.

The Democrats haven’t claimed victory in North Carolina since Barack Obama in 2008.

Trump won in the last two elections and the victory is a boost for the Republican nominee who said he was confident when voting with wife Melania earlier on Tuesday.

More than 4.2 million North Carolinians voted before election day, breaking the record turnout in 2020.

By Geoff Earle, Deputy U.S. Political Editor for DailyMail.com in Novi, Michigan

Donald Trump is leading Kamala Harris by 4 percentage points in battleground Wisconsin, by improving on his 2020 performance in counties all over the state.

Harris is running up big margins in Dane County, which includes Madison, and Milwaukee. Yet even though she had a massive 51 percent lead in Dane, Trump was doing 1 percent better than four years ago.

In La Crosse, another county Harris won, Trump was running 4 points ahead of his prior performance.

In more than 20 counties that he was carrying with most of their vote in, Trump had improved on his 2020 performance.

In Michigan, Trump had gained on his prior performance in almost every county reporting, across the state’s Upper and Lower Pensinsula.

‘When you take a look at the other counties that are out there, we’re doing well,’ state party chair Pete Hoekstra told DailyMail.com. ‘The areas where the Democrats really outperformed in ‘22 and maybe in ’20, they’re not seeing the same numbers this time.

Trump was leading Harris 52-46 in Michigan with about 62 percent of the vote in. But Wayne County, which includes Detroit, had only about 25 percent of its vote in, providing Harris a chance as the big batches of votes come in.

More pictures are starting to emerge of the contrasting emotions across America with Donald Trump supporters increasingly jubilant, while Kamala Harris followers appear desolate.

The following photographs were taken at watch parties for both candidates at Howard University in Washington D.C and Mar-a-Lago in Florida.

Rob Crilly, Chief U.S. Political Correspondent in West Palm Beach, Florida

The biggest moment of the night so far at the Trump watch party came when Cedric Richmond, co-chair of the Harris-Walz campaign, announced that the VP would not be speaking tonight.

His words brought a roar from the crowd, already amped up by two networks calling Georgia for Trump.

They erupted into a chant of ‘USA, USA, USA,’ before the familiar beat of ‘YMCA’ burst through the loudspeakers and a video of Trump dancing to the 70s hits played out on three giant screens.

This is rapidly becoming a victory party.

By Nikki Schwab, Chief Campaign Correspondent at Howard University

Former Rep. Cedric Richmond – a Harris campaign co-chair – said after midnight Wednesday that Vice President Kamala Harris would not be addressing supporters tonight.

‘We still have votes to count. We still have states that have not been called yet. We will continue overnight to fight to make sure that every vote is counted and every voice has spoken, so you won’t hear from the vice president tonight,’ he said at her election night party on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C.

‘But you will hear from her tomorrow, she will be back here tomorrow, to address not only the HU family, not only to address her supporters, but to address the nation,’ Richmond said.

Richmond made the announcement to the stragglers at the party, as many attendees had already gone home after results around the country tilted toward the reelection of former President Donald Trump.

He spoke to on the Quad directly after Georgia, the second swing state of the night, had been called for the Republican ex-president.

Donald Trump supporters are gathering on the streets near Mar-a-Lago where his election night party is being held.

Trump’s motorcade was filmed heading to the residence in West Palm Beach as excitement builds in of a possible return to the White House for the 78-year-old.

According to a CNN source, the Trump team is moving members from the Mar-a-Lago viewing party to the convention center in buses.

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said Donald Trump has achieved an ‘insurmountable lead’ in his state.

‘If you look at who’s leading the race right now, Donald J Trump has an insurmountable lead, with the number of votes outstanding … it looks like this is done.’

With 95 percent of precincts reporting, Trump was leading Kamala Harris 51 to 48, with a lead of more than 100,000 votes.

Vote-rich Fulton County, a Harris stronghold, already had 95 percent of its vote in.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Social media erupted in ridicule of an Iowa pollster whose results just days before the 2024 presidential election showed Donald Trump losing the deep red state.

Trump went on to easily win the Hawkeye State on Tuesday with a 12.6 percent lead over Vice President Kamala Harris after more than 80 percent of the vote was tabulated, according to the Associated Press.

‘Wow that Iowa poll was really accurate!’ Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) sarcastically wrote on X after the state was called for Trump.

Ann Selzer has built a reputation as ‘Iowa’s Polling Queen’ and the ‘best pollster in politics’ over decades of conducting the Des Moines Register political surveys.

But sports media host Jake Crain wrote: ‘I’m not overtly political but the people who put out the Iowa poll should never be taken seriously again.’

Rob Crilly, Chief U.S. Political Correspondent in West Palm Beach, Florida

Donald Trump is reveling in the moment at Mar-a-Lago tonight, surrounded by famiy and friends, and watching the results come in on TV.

Nigel Farage, leader of Britain’s Reform Party and long time friend of Trump, is at the party told DailyMail.com that the mood had gone from cautious optimism to confident optimism.

The man has just got the resilience of an ox. I think, you know, within a couple of hours, I suspect we’re going to see that he’s done it, the greatest political comeback in modern history, maybe of all time, given what he had against it in the last few years.

He did it, said Farage, by building a leadership coaltion and a voter coaltion.

It’s not just about him. Kennedy now coming in, taking quite a role. Musk, obviously, playing a very big role. It isn’t just Trump anymore. And now there’s a coalition of Latinos, blacks, more Jews than ever voted before. More young men than ever voted before. It’s a brand new coaltion in American politics, and I think it points the way for other parts of the Western world too.

Republicans have won control of the Senate after flipping several Democrat-held seats red in critical states.

The Associated Press projected the GOP gained control of the 100-member chamber after losing power four years ago.

Trump’s party was able to muster enough enthusiasm in a couple of critical races to topple the Democrats’ slim 51-49 majority.

Republican Jim Justice captured outgoing Independent Sen. Joe Manchin’s seat in West Virginia and GOP’s Bernie Moreno ousting Sherrod Brown in Ohio. Those two flips were enough to give the GOP the outright majority as several other race results are still incoming.

Guests at a watch party for Kamala Harris have described the atmosphere as ‘pretty bleak’ amid growing fears Donald Trump will win the presidency.

As election results continue to roll in, attendees at a party hosted by a European ambassador in Washington, D.C. have reacted with disappointment.

According to NBC, when North Carolina was called for Trump, one guest uttered the word: ‘Terrifying’, while another described the overall picture as ‘pretty bleak’.

A Spanish diplomat, who declined to give their name, said: ‘I’m still hoping for Kamala, but I’m an optimist’. While a colleague added: ‘I am manifesting Kamala. I fear I will have to go to sleep with Donald Trump in the lead’.

Kamala Harris has won the 2nd Congressional District in Nebraska and one more electoral vote.

Kamala Harris has won Hawaii to give her four Electoral College votes.

Donald Trump’s team is predicting that he’ll sweep through Georgia, North Carolina and Wisconsin en route to an election night win.

Just a short time ago, North Carolina went to Trump but journalist Mark Halperin is saying the president’s ‘boiler room’ is predicting more success in the Rust Belt and Sun Belt.

‘When a boiler room says to the senior staff that they’re gonna win this state, they believe it,’ he says of the Trump camp.

Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger predicted the state will go for Donald Trump after flipping blue in the 2020 election.

‘If you look at who’s leading the race right now, Donald J. Trump has an insurmountable lead, with the number of votes outstanding,’ Raffensperger said at a press conference Tuesday night.

He added: ‘It looks like this is done.’

Even though 91 percent of the vote is tabulated in Georgia as of midnight, the Associated Press has still not called the race as Vice President Kamala Harris is 2.7 percent behind Trump.

Voters in Washington D.C. have said they would be ‘devastated’ if Donald Trump wins the race for the White House.

The capital is hosting a watch party for Kamala Harris who was declared the winner of the state earlier in the evening.

Kamala Harris has won the state of Virginia.

It means she has picked up 13 Electoral College votes.

A Harris supporter looks on disappointed at a watch party in Washington D.C.

The Harris campaign has told staffers it remains optimistic the vice-president can win the presidency as it insisted ‘we feel good about what we’re seeing’ in several key swing states.

Jen O’Malley Dillon, the campaign chair, urged supporters to get some sleep and come back tomorrow ‘ready to close out strong’ despite momentum building for Donald Trump.

The closeness of the race is exactly what we prepared for. While we continue to see data trickle in from the Sun Belt states, we have known all along that our clearest path to 270 electoral votes lies through the Blue Wall states. And we feel good about what we’re seeing.

We’ve been saying for weeks that this race might not be called tonight. Those of you who were around in 2020 know this well: It takes time for all the votes to be counted – and all the votes will be counted. That’s how our system works. What we do know is this race is not going to come into focus until the early morning hours.

This is what we’ve been built for, so let’s finish up what we have in front of us tonight, get some sleep, and get ready to close out strong tomorrow.

Kamala Harris’s team is said to be ‘searching for bright spots’, which is like your mom trying to find the upside of you getting a 65 on your geometry final.

It seems, tentatively, that the Harris team might be just as bad at math.

Here’s a problem: Gavin Newsom is already planning his path to 270… in 2028.

Hillary Clinton is likely preparing to celebrate that she’s not the only woman who had a tough time breaking the glass ceiling.

Maybe she can loan Kamala a vase to toss at her campaign manager!

By Jon Michael Raasch, Political Reporter in Atlanta for DailyMail.com

Republican Ted Cruz has won a third consecutive term as a U.S. senator from Texas after a tough challenge from a former NFL star.

The veteran lawmaker and former presidential candidate defeated Democratic challenger Rep. Colin Allred, the Associated Press projected.

The race for Senate in the Lone Star State was uncomfortably close for Republicans who have had a hold on the state for decades.

Recent polls had put the two political foes within a single point of one another, with Allred taking the lead just a few weeks ago.

Rob Crilly, Chief U.S. Political Correspondent in West Palm Beach, Florida

When it comes, the first big call feels like a moment of catharsis as much as celebration. The small calls, the red state certainties, have got the crowd warmed up.

Then it erupts as North Carolina is called for Trump. One woman in a red jumpsuit pogos, arms aloft.

And the nervous excitement about the overall result is turning into some sort of celebration of sticking by their man.

One glamorous group of women, all pearls and brooches, moves from their position in chairs along the wall to the center of the hall.

‘This means everything,’ said one.

‘We knew it,’ said another.

These are the volunteers from North Carolina who travel the country checking in VIPs and press and making sure the events stay on the rails. This result is extra special for them.

Kamala Harris has won the state of New Mexico to give her five Electoral College votes.

Republican Bernie Moreno just flipped the Ohio Senate race, managing to win a highly-coveted seat from Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown.

Republican businessman Moreno who ran on his close ties to Donald Trump beat the three-term senator.

Brown’s defeat helped propel Republicans to a new Senate majority.

Kamala Harris has won the state of Oregon.

The vice-president’s victory has given her eight Electoral College votes.

Several potentially telling signs are emerging in the early election results – and they’re mostly positive for former President Donald Trump.

First, Iowa has been called for Trump throwing cold water on a shock Des Moines Register poll that was released on Saturday night.

The survey, conducted by respected pollster Ann Selzer, showed Kamala Harris leading Trump by 3 percentage points, propelled by overwhelming support from women and, especially, women over the age of 65.

That would have been a stunning result in a reliably Republican state and Selzer’s findings were seen as potential evidence of a surge of enthusiasm for the vice president. But that has not materialized.

It appears Trump will carry the Hawkeye State by more than 10 points.

In October, the DailyMail.com national poll noted a significant gender gap, but Harris’s 14-point lead among women was overwhelmed by Trump’s 22-point lead among men.

So, no Iowa surprise. However, there is an election stunner tonight out of Florida.

While Trump was expected to win the Sunshine State convincingly, he unexpectedly defeated Harris in counties once seen as Democratic strongholds.

With 95% of the vote counted, Miami-Dade County voted 55.4 percent for Trump and 43.8 percent for Harris. In 2016 and 2020 that county went for Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden, respectively.

Even though the county also supported Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in the 2022 midterms, the result shows Trump’s strength among a broad spectrum of voters.Miami-Dade is a majority Hispanic district and the vote there may be indicative of a larger movement of Hispanics toward the former president. According to Exit Polls, the Hispanic vote for Trump in the battleground states of Pennsylvania and Michigan are also historically strong.

The Mail’s final poll also detected this non-white vote breaking towards Trump.

Donald Trump is now favored to win the popular vote, according to the New York Times ‘needle’ feature.

Shortly after 11 pm, he was favored to win it by 1.1 percent.

The Electoral College determines the winner, which is why the campaigns are acutely focused on Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin.

But a popular vote win would give Trump bragging rights. When he took the White House in 2016, Hillary Clinton beat him by almost 3 million votes.

Donald Trump has won North Carolina, a key battleground state in the race for the White House.

It’s a big moment and one that gives Trump an advantage in the presidential election.

From Rob Crilly, Chief U.S. Political Correspondent in West Palm Beach, Florida

The crowd at the Trump watch party isn’t taking anything for granted. 39-year-old entrepreneur Rosie was just describing the mood as ‘nervously excited’ when the Iowa result came in with a fanfare for Trump.

Cheers echoed through the hall. The result was all the sweeter for a weekend poll by respected pollster Ann Selzer, who reported that Harris had a three-point lead.

‘F*** Ann Selzer,’ was the emotional response of one Trump staffer.

Things are moving Trump’s way fast, and the appearance of national spokesperson Karoline Leavitt and other aides suggests he may not be too far away.

By Michael Wolff, Special US Election Columnist

The night has clearly shifted to a sinking sensation for Democrats.

And it may be far worse than that.

The blue wall is clearly imperiled, with rumors that the race could be called for Trump well before morning.

Kamala Harris has also won the state of Washington.

The victory gives her 12 Electoral College votes.

There were cheers inside the Michigan state Republican Party watch party as Donald Trump ticked by Kamala Harris in the state’s vote count.

Former Rep. Pete Hoekstra, the state Party chair, had flagged the upcoming change, as votes were coming in from Monroe County and other GOP strongholds. ‘We’ve seen Trump pull ahead in Pennsylvania, we have seen him pull ahead in Wisconsin and soon, you will see the numbers scroll across the screen in Michigan,’ he said.

But almost all of Wayne County, which includes Detroit, was still outstanding with juts a tiny fraction of the vote in.

‘We know Detroit has votes to still turn in – boo is right,’ he said as crowd members booed his mention of the Motor City.

He said hopefully there would be a result tonight in the presidential vote by the state. ‘We will not have created a crack in the wall. We will have obliterated the wall,’ he predicted.

By Jon Michael Raasch, Political Reporter in Atlanta for DailyMail.com

Donald Trump’s chances of victory on the betting site Polymarket surpassed 94 percent on election night.

The massive swing represents the best odds yet for the Republican to win the election.

It currently shows that Trump’s odds of winning are nearly a certainty.

It gives Kamala Harris a six percent chance of reaching the White House – her worst number so far.

Kamala Harris won California and its massive haul of 54 electoral votes.

The Associated Press called the race just after polls closed.

California is Harris’ home state and a Democratic stronghold.

CNN anchor Abby Phillip reported just before 11 pm from the Kamala Harris headquarters at Howard University on Tuesday night.

‘I think the operative word is silence,’ Phillip reported. ‘There’s not a lot being said, because the Harris team appears to be searching for bright spots in the map, as these results very very, very slowly come in.’

Phillip said that early on in the evening they got a lot of positive spin from Harris team sources, but said that they would be looking into the numbers.

There were still a number of large population centers in some of the ‘blue wall’ states like Wisconsin, Georgia, and Pennsylvania that had yet to come in.

‘There’s been a slowdown in that spin, because they really are digging into these numbers as they are coming in and trying to understand what’s left out there for them, especially in these big urban centers,’ she said.

Phillip later reported that Kamala campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon sent a memo to staff that said their path is the blue wall and that with the margins so small and so slow to come in ‘we’ll see you tomorrow.’

Polls have now closed in the West Coast states of California and Oregon as well as Washington and Idaho.

Elon Musk has delivered his verdict on the 2024 presidential election as Donald Trump surpasses 200 electoral votes.

The Tesla CEO simply posted: ‘Game, set and match’ as Trump hoovers up red states.

But the Harris team will point to the crucial swing states where results remain too close for call.

If pro-life activists were supposed to stand down this election and hand Kamala Harris a win on ‘reproductive freedom’, they certainly didn’t get the memo in Florida.

Amendment 4 was supposed to codify the right to abortion up until fetal viability (as opposed to the controversial 6-week threshold in the current Florida law), but it needed 60 percent of the vote to amend the state’s constitution

.The amendment, however, nabbed only 57 percent when voters hit the polls today, making it the first pro-abortion ballot measure to tank since Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022.

The divisive issue was supposed to move the needle in only one direction, as women were expected – and directed – to lift Kamala to the White House on this single issue.

The measure’s failure will no doubt have national ramifications, if for no other reason than it’s a clear signal pro-lifers themselves revived the issue.

It’s another victory for Donald Trump and this time it’s Iowa.

It means Trump has picked up six electoral votes and has now passed 200 as he heads toward the 270 finish line.

The AP called the race for Trump as he took a 14-point lead over Harris.

J. Ann Selzer, known as the ‘Iowa polling queen,’ issued a shock poll on Saturday showing Trump trailing behind Harris in the red state by three points.

Trump won Iowa in 2020 by 8.2 points, so his showing is even better this election.

The first results are starting to come in from Maricopa County, the largest county in Arizona.

The results show Kamala Harris with a slight edge over Donald Trump, but it is still early in the night.

Kamala Harris’ campaign is sounding a positive note about Georgia.

In Georgia — the first swing state to close its polls — Donald Trump has improved on his numbers from four years ago in dozens of small, rural, very red counties. He is trying to win back the state after losing it to Joe Biden in the 2020 contest.

Harris appears to have improved on Biden’s performance in suburban and exurban counties around Atlanta.

‘Big batch of votes were just counted in GWINNETT County, Georgia, outside Atlanta Shaved the statewide margin by 2 points Votes are being counted!,’ wrote Haris campaign spokesman Ian Sams.

The state remains too close to call.

Liberals have bemoaned the New York Times’ election needle, which has predicted a win for Donald Trump over Kamala Harris.

The needle is meant to predict what will happen in elections based on the partial results available as they arrive on election night.

‘Our election night forecast shows an extremely close race. Almost all of the vote counted so far points toward a very close election, as anticipated,’ wrote the paper’s chief political analyst, Nate Cohn, earlier Tuesday.

However, the paper’s Democrat-leaning readership began to bemoan the numbers as it showed Trump as likely to take North Carolina, Georgia and the election.

‘Anyone got a timelapse of the NYT needle from the last election? Because looking at it in its current state has me NERVOUS AS F***,’ wrote one social media user.

Kamala Harris has won the District of Columbia to pick up three electoral votes.

Donald Trump’s chances of victory on the betting site Polymarket are now at 92 percent.

It gives Kamala Harris a less than 10 percent chance of reaching the White House.

On the political betting sire Kalshi, Trump has an 85 percent chance, and Harris 15 percent.

The figures are similar on the political forecasting site Predictit.

He is on course for a role in the Trump administration, if results go the right way tonight.

Trump has promised to make him chief of a new ‘government efficiency commission’ to seek out cuts at federal agencies and changes to federal rules.

‘He’s going to just get rid of people who are not working, or don’t have a job, or not doing a job well, just like he did on Twitter,’ his mother Maye Musk told Fox News recently. ‘He can do it for the government, too.’

Kamala Harris has won the state of Colorado.

It means the vice-president has picked up 10 electoral votes.

The New York Times’ live presidential election needle is showing former President Donald Trump with a 75 percent chance of victory a little after 10 p.m. ET.

None of the seven battleground states have been called for either candidate but numbers Arizona, Georgia and North Carolina are looking good for the former president.

As the 11 p.m. ET hour neared – the needle neared a 90 percent chance of a Trump victory.

By Emily Goodin, senior White House correspondent

Baron Trump cast his first vote for his dad Donald Trump.

The only son of Melania and Donald Trump turned 18 this year and was able to vote for the first time.

The former first lady posted a photo of her son at the ballot box, writing ‘Voted for the first time – for his dad!’ She added the hashtag ‘proud.’

By Kellyanne Conway, Special US Election Columnist

When I spoke with President Trump today, I heard the same hopeful, never-haughty, candidate that’s typically the last to think he will win. 

Smitten by 2016, bitten by 2020, he has relied upon rallies, his record, and new tools like podcasts to make his case.

He knows he has done his part by showing up and speaking up in towns and cities across this nation.

He trusts the voters to do the same for him. Concerns over weakness and wokeness, immigration and inflation, all favor the ex-president.

People want change and Kamala represents more of the same. Trump is expanding geographically (gaining in rural counties compared to 2020) and demographically (up among black men in Georgia).

Let’s see if holding his own in suburban, bellwether counties in the Sun Belt –where Harris must run up the margins – happens in the Rust Belt, where this election will be decided.

By Jon Michael Raasch, Political Reporter in Atlanta for DailyMail.com

Sarah McBride has won Delaware’s at-large House seat, AP declared.

The Democrat’s victory makes her the first openly transgender member-elect of Congress.

She was widely expected to win the seat and replace U.S. Senate-elect Lisa Blunt Rochester.

McBride beat her Republican opponent John Whalen III with 57.6% of the vote with 63% of the vote counted so far.

Donald Trump has also won the state of Utah.

It means he has added another six votes as he heads towards the magic number of 270.

Donald Trump has won Montana.

It means the former president has picked up another four electoral votes.

Democratic strategist James Carville expressed early concern about the early voting results coming in for Vice President Kamala Harris.

“Loudoun County, Virginia’s not great,” Carville said, referring to a Washington, DC area suburb that typically votes for Democrats in wide margins.

He noted that Biden had won the county with 62 percent support in 2020 and that Harris was only getting 57-58 percent.

‘There are troubling signs out there,’ he said.

‘Talking about a 50,000-100,000 increase in Democratic votes in Philadelphia,’ Carville added. ‘So that should absolve something. That should absolve a lot.’

Carville said states like North Carolina and Georgia needed more results to make a conclusion, but he indicated he was not impressed.

‘I would be less than honest if I didn’t say the early indications here are not sterling,’ he said.

Donald Trump is with family, friends, aides, and club members at his home in Mar-a-Lago tonight.

He may or may not speak at the convention center across the water in West Palm Beach, probably depending on whether results are going his way.

In the meantime, guests have posted video of him going up the stairs to cheers. His children Eric, Don Jr, and Tiffany can all be seen.

Polls have now closed in Nevada, the final battleground state in the 2024 presidential election.

Voting has now also stopped in four other states: Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Utah.

Donald Trump wins the state of Missouri and its 10 electoral votes.

By Nikki Schwab, Chief Campaign Correspondent at Howard University

In Georgia, rural turnout largely matches what the campaign expected, while the suburban early vote count was above what the Harris camp anticipated.

In North Carolina, there were long lines at two large colleges – UNC-Charlotte and UNC-Wilmington – and late-arriving mail-in ballots were breaking the vice president’s way.

By Michael Wolff, Special US Election Columnist

Harris has yet to get a positive break anywhere and the closeness in Virginia is a potential sour note.

Equally, Trump is not showing unexpected strength in Pennsylvania.

Democrat Fani Willis, the district attorney for Fulton County, defeated Republican challenger Courtney Kramer, a former White House legal intern in the Trump administration.

Willis spearheaded an indictment against Trump and 18 codefendants in August 2023 after they were accused of trying to manipulate the 2020 election results in Georgia.

Trump’s lawyers have fought to remove her from the case on the grounds of a conflict of interest after it emerged she was in a relationship with a special prosecutor she’d hired to work on it.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan tried to make a comeback in Maryland politics after competing his second consecutive gubernatorial term last year.

But Hogan was bested by Democrat Angela Alsobrooks, who in 2018 was elected the first black female Executive of Prince George’s County in Maryland.

Alsobrooks was well over 54 percent when the race was called by the Associated Press on Tuesday evening.

The race commenced when Democratic Sen. Ben Cardin, 81, announced in May of last year that he would retire after three terms in the upper chamber.

Donald Trump is getting about a 20 percent support among black voters, according to an NBC exit poll.

That is more than double the 8 percent he got in 2020. He has been making a major play for minority support, encouraged by pre-election polls.

He is also seeing gains among Latino men. They backed Harris 54-44 in key states. Back in 2020, they supported Joe Biden over Trump by a much larger 23-point margin, 59 to 35.

During his campaign he repeatedly spoke about illegal migrants taking what he termed ‘black jobs’ and hispanic jobs.

By Jon Michael Raasch, Political Reporter in Atlanta for DailyMail.com

Donald Trump has 52.1% of the vote compared to Kamala Harris who has 47.3%.

Most counties around liberal-leaning Atlanta have above 70% of their results reported.

However, the areas surrounding Savannah which also tend to be more blue than the state have not reported many votes yet.

The state’s critical 16 electoral votes are seen as necessary in most scenarios for either candidate to secure a victory.

By Andrew Neil, Daily Mail columnist

This afternoon Team Harris was upbeat, Team Trump somewhat gloomy.

One senior Trump strategist even moaned to me that Kamala Harris was probably hitting the champagne already.

But the early results have started better than even the Trump campaign anticipated.
Take Florida. It used to be a swing state but is now reliably Republican. Trump won it by three points in 2020. But this year he looks like winning by 13 points. Trump has even flipped Miami-Dade County which Biden won by seven points.

That’s all bad news for Kamala Harris in the swing states.

Georgia is still too close to call but Trump looks like edging it. The CNN exit poll showed a dramatic shift to Trump among independents and doing much better among black men than 2020, which look like propelling him to victory in the Peach State.

Of course, Trump has to win Georgia to remain a contender whereas Harris can lose it and still win. She’s still very much in contention in Pennsylvania but it looks like she’ll also have to take Wisconsin and Michigan to be president. If Trump takes Pennsylvania he’s back in the White House.

By Emily Goodin, senior White House correspondent

Naomi Biden announced her pregnancy on the night of the 2024 presidential election.

‘(we) voted,’ she wrote on her Instagram story, displaying a prominent baby bump with an ‘I voted’ sticker on it.

Naomi, 30, is the oldest grandchild of President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden. This will be their first great grandchild.

DailyMail.com exclusively revealed in May that Naomi and her husband Peter Neal were expecting their first child.

By Geoff Earle, Deputy U.S. Political Editor for DailyMail.com

Michigan Senate candidate Mike Rogers is predicting the results of his race won’t be known until tomorrow.

‘I do believe this is going to be a nail-biter,’ he told a few hundred supporters at a state Republican Party watch party in Novi, a Detroit suburb – in the same venue where he joined a Donald Trump rally days ago.

‘This is going to be a very long night,’ he predicted. ‘Don’t pay attention to the precincts in and the precincts out. That thing’s going to bounce around all night long,’ he urged supporters. He thanked them for backing him in a race that ‘became the most competitive US Senate seat in the country within the last few weeks.

Partygoers were enjoying finger food and beverages with Fox News on two large TV screens, but it could be a while before they know what happens.

‘As my folks are telling me, we are likely to not even to know the results tonight,’ he said, despite Michigan’s new rules allowing early ballots to be processed days in advance. His Democratic opponent Elissa Slotkin was leading with 10 percent of the vote in.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez has won reelection in her New York City district, according to projections, preserving her position as a ‘squad leader’ of Democrat socialist members of Congress.

Other members of the so-called congressional Squad suffered losses in their primary races including Democratic Reps. Cori Bush in Missouri and Jamaal Bowman in New York.

The Associated Press declared Ocasio-Cortez the winner at 9:04 p.m. EST.

By Nikki Schwab, Chief Campaign Correspondent at Howard University

President Joe Biden is holed up at the White House making congratulatory calls to Democrats who won their races.

He called Sen.-elect Lisa Blunt Rochester from his home state of Delaware.

Blunt Rochester had breakfast with Biden last Monday when he early voted in his home state.

Biden also called Delaware’s Gov.-elect Matt Meyer and Wilmington’s new mayor, former Gov. John Carney.

The 81-year-old also talked to New Jersey’s incoming Democratic governor, Rep. Andy Kim and North Carolina’s incoming Democratic governor, Attorney General Josh Stein.

Results are coming thick and fast in the race for the White House.

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris have secured victories in multiple states but the outcomes in crucial swing states have yet to be determined.

Watch our vidoe below to see how the election is unfolding so far.

Donald Trump has won the state of South Dakota and its nine electoral votes.

There was never really any doubt that the state that has gone for him by huge margins in the past would defect this time.

Charlie Spiering, Senior Political reporter in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Vice President Kamala Harris is leading former President Donald Trump in early results in Pennsylvania with 19 percent of the total vote counted.

Harris is already leading big in Philadelphia, with a lead of 284,000 votes over Trump.

Many more votes have to be counted in those Philadelphia counties with less than 20 percent of those results in.

Hundreds of thousands of votes also have yet to be counted in Pittsburgh, which favors Harris.

Many rural Trump counties have also yet to be counted, including suburban areas of Pittsburgh.

By Jon Michael Raasch, Political Reporter in Atlanta for DailyMail.com

Exit poll shows Trump up 13 points with Hispanic voters from last time.

The poll released by The Telegraph shows that the Republican has made up major ground with these voters.

Overall, 53% of Latinos responded they would back Harris while 45% are for Trump.

Donald Trump became the first Republican presidential candidate to win Miami-Dade County in Florida since 1988.

The populous county saw a massive 18 percentage point shift to the Republican from 2020.

In 2016 Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton won Miami-Dade by 30 points.

Trump is the first Republican to win the county since George H.W. Bush in 1988.

Donald Trump has also won the state of Ohio to pick up 17 electoral votes.

Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Donald Trump unsurprisingly takes a victory in Texas.

The Lone Star State has 40 Electoral College votes, the most of any red state.

Donald Trump holds a 50-49 lead in Virginia with half the vote counted in one of the closest US presidential races in history.

Trump has spoken about his ability to win the state, and held a campaign rally in Salem, Virginia a few days ago.

But some of the vote from the state’s most populous counties in suburban Washington D.C. has yet to come in, with Fairfax County only having counted about 60 percent of the vote.

Biden won the state with 54 percent of the vote four years ago.

Vice President Kamala Harris is projected to win New York as expected.

The state has 28 electoral votes.

Donald Trump has also won the state of Wyoming to pick up an additional three votes.

Donald Trump has won Louisiana picking up eight electoral votes.

However, for voters already in line at 7pm, they can still cast ballots.

The earlier results in the state are not expected for another hour as some polling locations start the process of gathering results to be counted.

Stations have also shut in Colorado, Iowa, Kanas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas and Wyoming.

Watch the results of the dramatic 2024 election come in with our live maps and chart that will be updated throughout the night.

You can follow every twist and turn with our comprehensive play-by-play reporting and analysis. 

Our coverage will continue until counting finishes, which could drag on well beyond November 6.

Former President Donald Trump just took his first lead in North Carolina, edging ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris, who had been slightly up in the crucial batleground state since polls closed.

With just over 21 percent of the votes tallied at 8:45 pm ET, Trump held a 644,831 (52.2%) vote lead to Harris’ 575,712 (46.6%).

With Georgia looking solidly red so far tonight, that makes North Carolina all the more crucial to any path to victory for Harris.

If she loses both, Harris would need to win Pennsylvania.

Rob Crilly, Chief U.S. Political Correspondent in West Palm Beach, Florida

Republican aides and faces you think you might have once seen on Fox News are feeding lines to hungry journalists. They feel good, say the Trump supporters, things are going our way.

Every so often there is a rumble from the crowd as a red state votes for Trump.

Indiana. YEAH. Mississippi. YEAH. Alabama. YEAH.

It feels like the night has a long way to go.

But the concession stands are doing encouragingly decent business. A quick unscientific survey of stands reveals Modelo and Cabernet Sauvignon are the biggest sellers.

By Nikki Schwab, Chief Campaign Correspondent at Howard University

CNN’s Jeff Zeleny reported that the Harris campaign is ‘worried’ after seeing the early results in North Carolina and Georgia.

North Carolina would be a pick-up for the Democrat, while Georgia went blue for President Joe Biden for the first time since 1992.

The network’s Abby Phillip reported that there’s ‘a lot of optimism’ when it comes to Pennsylvania because of strong numbers around Philadelphia.

Vice President Kamala Harris won President Joe Biden’s home state of Delaware.

The president stood in line last Monday and early voted for his vice president after dropping his reelection bid in July.

Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Donald Trump is projected to win South Carolina.

The Associated Press called the race for the former president even though only 36 percent of the vote was tabulated as of 8:30 p.m.

Trump, who is ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris by 18 percent, is set to take the nine Electoral College votes in the southern state.

Kamala Harris has won New Jersey and its 14 electoral votes.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

North Carolina’s Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson failed his bid to become governor after a series of scandals plagued his campaign.

Democrat Josh Stein won in a landslide when the race was called on Tuesday night by ABC News at 58 percent to 38 percent.

Robinson was unable to recover after the latest scandal revealed that he shared several controversial comments on a pornographic forum called Nude Africa – including calling himself a ‘black Nazi’ and a ‘perv.’

CNN commentator Van Jones said the Puerto Rican vote was ‘lit on fire’ in Pennsylvania, citing the media firestorm in reaction to a joke from comedian Tony Hinchcliffe about Puerto Rico.

During Trump’s rally in New York City at Madison Square Garden, Hinchcliffe described Puerto Rico as a ‘floating island of garbage.’

Democrats capitalized on the joke, as Latino celebrities denounced the event using it to motivate Puerto Rico voters to the polls.

‘There is an energy. There is a surge,’ Jones said on the CNN’s election panel on Tuesday night. ‘The Puerto Rican vote by itself has been lit on fire.’

Jones cited a flood of donations to the Puerto Rican political action committee La Brega y Fuerza as evidence of his claim, noting that the donations surged like ‘wildfire’ after the joke.

A voting site in the key swing state of Pennsylvania has been evacuated after being stormed by ‘disruptors’.

Multiple people burst into the Centre County election office in Bellefonte shortly after 7pm ET Tuesday.

That triggered an evacuation by local police, according to the Centre County Report.

Polls closed in Pennsylvania at 8pm ET.

By Jon Michael Raasch, Political Reporter in Atlanta for DailyMail.com

As of 8:25 pm ET 47% of Georgia’s votes had been counted, according to the Associated Press.

Donald Trump had 55.3% of the vote to Kamala Harris’s 44.1%.

Georgia, along with North Carolina, are crucial to both candidates’ paths to victory, but if Harris loses both to Trump, she all but certainly needs to win hard-fought Pennsylvania to still have a chance in the Electoral College.

Voters have revealed their enormous bets on the 2024 election.

Watch below as MailOnline video reporter Alex Mason asked men and women on the streets of New York who they put their money on.

By Jon Michael Raasch, Political Reporter in Atlanta for DailyMail.com

A judge in DeKalb County has ordered polling locations to stay open later than usual.

The order comes after bomb threats came into multiple polling locations across the Atlanta area, leading to some areas being shut down as authorities swept for threats.

That meant that a judge had to order the polling locations to stay open later.

Now some locations will close well over an hour after polls were meant to close.

The race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris is razor-thin in Virginia – what some pundits are calling a ‘real battleground’ state.

The Democrat vote has reportedly ‘collapsed’ in Loudon County, a traditionally liberal area of the commonwealth.

It’s a state that went for Biden by over 10 points in 2020.

With around 30 percent of votes in, Harris is leading Trump by only three points.

Donald Trump is projected to win the state of Oklahoma and its seven electoral college votes.

Donald Trump is projected to win the state of Tennessee and its 11 electoral votes.

Vice President Kamala Harris is the projected winner of Rhode Island, a blue state.

That means she picks up four more electoral votes.

Donald Trump has won the state of Alabama and its nine electoral votes.

It’s the third consecutive time he has carried the state.

Democrats haven’t won it since 1976, with southerner Jimmy Carter as the party nominee. The AP called the race at 8 pm.

There was never any doubt Trump would carry the deep red state. He got himself in front of plenty of state football fans when he attended the Georgia-Alabama football came in September.

Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Donald Trump is projected to win the 30 Electoral College votes in his home state of Florida.

The Associated Press called the race just after 8:00 p.m. with Trump ahead by 11.5 percent with 80 percent of the vote reported.

Florida was previously a swing state but in recent elections has moved further and further to the right.

Vice President Kamala Harris easily won the blue state of Maryland.

The state is also hosting an important Senate race between Maryland’s former Gov. Larry Hogan and Democrat Angela Alsobrooks. That race wasn’t immediately called.

Donald Trump has won the state of Misssissippi and its six electoral votes.

By Jon Michael Raasch, Political Reporter in Atlanta for DailyMail.com

CNN anchor Jake Tapper appeared stunned after hearing early election results in Georgia are favoring Donald Trump.

After CNN Political Director David Chalian reported to Tapper that independents in Georgia favored Trump by 54 percent to 43 percent, the anchor was shocked.

Four years ago the exit poll showed Joe Biden leading Trump by nine points among independents. Now, preliminary results show Trump up 11 points with independents in the Peach State.

That represents a 20-point swing to Trump this time.

The Associated Press has called Connecticut and its seven electoral votes for Kamala Harris.

Sarah Ewall-Wice, Senior U.S. Political Reporter in Phoenix, AZ:

Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes gave an update on the bomb threat to four locations in Navajo County.

He said the threats came from a ‘.ru’ email address, but he clarified it is not confirmed the threats definitely came from Russia.

‘The motive appears to be to ensue chaos, not to impact any political outcome,’ Fontes said in the second briefing this evening.

Polls have closed in the battleground of Pennsylvania along with 21 states and the District of Columbia.

The polls have closed in Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida (Central Time), Illinois, Kansas (Central Time), Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan (Eastern Time), Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Dakota (Central Time), Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota (Central Time) Tennessee, Texas (Central), Washington D.C.

Multiple people burst into the Centre County election office in Bellefonte shortly after 7pm ET Tuesday.

Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) held onto his House seat when the Associated Press called the race in Florida’s 10th congressional district.

The 27-year-old is the first Gen Z member of Congress. He was first elected in 2022 and has now won his first reelection.

Frost’s district includes Orlando, Florida.

MAGA bombshell Anna Paulina Luna has soared to election victory, retaining her seat in Florida‘s 13th District.

Luna, who sparked fury among Democrats by posing in a MAGA swimsuit earlier this year, was declared the winner of a tight race shortly before 8pm ET on Tuesday.

She wasted no time in celebrating, immediately taking to X to share the news.

Rob Crilly, Chief U.S. Political Correspondent in West Palm Beach, Florida

A lot of the optimism at the Trump convention center watch party is centered on paths to the White House. Never mind the numbers today, supporters and Trump advisers alike, all believe the Trump campaign has the easiest route to the White House.

This is how senior Trump adviser Corey Lewandowski put it:

We have 100 paths. I love the easy path. The easiest path is Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania. You wanna give my home state New Hampshire … I love that. You want to give me Nevada … I’m happy. Our path is three states. She has to win them all.

On the Polymarket betting site, his odds hit an all-time high with a 72 percent chance of winning.

On the forecasting site Predictit there was also a sudden surge of backing for Trump.

The site gave Trump a 64 percent chance and Harris 39 percent. Earlier in the day they had been virtually tied.

The Associated Press has called West Virginia for Donald Trump.

Republican Jim Justice has won West Virginia’s Senate seat after former Democrat-turned-Independent Joe Manchin decided to not run for reelection.

The Associated Press made the call not long after polls closed in the state.

It’s the first Senate seat that has flipped to the GOP as they try and take back control of the upper chamber of Congress.

Republicans just need to flip one more Democratic seat red to gain an outright majority.

Kamala Harris’ campaign has brought in the star power to help keep voters in line in battleground states.

The campaign mobolized celebrities to encourage young voters to wait it out in lines that stretched out for hours.

Paul Rudd visited with students in line in Pennsylvania and handed out bottles of water.

Other celebrities used FaceTime to talk to young voters waiting to cast their ballot.

In Pennsylvania, Jennifer Garner called into Villanova and Josh Gad did to Lehigh.

Mark Cuban facetimed voters at the University of North Caroline Charlotte, and Demi Lovato in Nevada at UNLV.

Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Donald Trump is making last minute calls into radio stations in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin to encourage voters to keep turning out.

It’s a last-ditch effort from the former president to get voters in the key swing states to cast their ballots for him in the 2024 presidential election.

Polls close at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time in Pennsylvania and an hour later at 8:00 p.m. Central Time in Wisconsin.

Results have started filtering in from some states where polls closed at 7:00 p.m. EST.

By Jon Michael Raasch, Political Reporter in Atlanta for DailyMail.com

Independents in Georgia favored Trump by 54 percent to 43 percent, CNN reported.

Four years ago the exit poll showed Joe Biden leading Trump by nine points among independents.

That represented a 20-point swing to Trump this time.

The first batch of Georgia votes shocked CNN host Jake Tapper who was taken aback by the initial results.

‘Some headwinds for Harrris in these exit polls,’ he continues.

Still, less than four percent of the vote is in.

By Jon Michael Raasch, Political Reporter in Atlanta for DailyMail.com

Just about 40% of Georgia voters said the economy is their top issue in this election.

Less than 30% said that the state of democracy is their number one priority, a CNN exit poll found.

Additionally, 14% said abortion was their top issue and 10% said immigration.

Nationally the CNN exit polling analysis found the top issue among voters was the state of democracy.

Trump swept all 11 of Indiana’s electoral votes after the polls closed in the red state.

The former president won 61.1% of the vote.

Donald Trump is the projected winner of Kentucky and its eight Electoral College votes, the Associated Press reported.

The former president won 70.4% of the vote in the state.

Kamala Harris won Vermont and its three electoral votes as polls closed at 7 p.m. ET.

Polls have closed in the critical swing state of Georgia.

They also closed in South Carolina, Virginia, Vermont, and the rest of Indiana and Kentucky, and parts of Florida.

Georgia is one of the seven key battleground states that will decide the election.

In an exit poll, 46 percent of voters in Georgia said they had a favorable view of Trump.

And 49 percent said they had a favorable view of Harris.

The exit poll found 40 percent of voters in Georgia said the economy mattered most in deciding how to vote in the presidential election.

It found 28 percent said the state of democracy, 14 percent said abortion, 11 percent said immigration and 3 percent foreign policy.

In Georgia, 52 percent of voters said their family’s financial situation was worse than it was four years ago, the exit poll found.

Former President Donald Trump voiced his concerns about Democrats cheating in Philadelphia and Detroit on social media on Tuesday, as voters were still going out to the polls.

‘A lot of talk about massive CHEATING in Philadelphia,’ Trump wrote on social media. ‘Law Enforcement coming!!!’

The former president did not immediately cite evidence to back his claim, which earned a sharp rebuke from City Commissioner of Philadelphia Seth Bluestein, a Republican.

Trump again made his claim, citing problems in Detroit, Michigan as well. ‘Philadelphia and Detroit! Heavy Law Enforcement is there!!!’ he wrote.

By Jon Michael Raasch, Political Reporter in Atlanta for DailyMail.com

Additional bomb threats have derailed voting in the Atlanta area.

Police have responded to Tucker-Reid H. Cofer Library due to a bomb threat.

DeKalb County is the latest county to have polling locations targeted with bomb threats Tuesday leading to several evacuations.

DeKalb has had evacuations at seven different locations – five of them polling stations. Officials there are requesting extensions in voting times and saying those in line there will be allowed to vote.

Police have done multiple bomb sweeps at different areas as threatening calls have come in.

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said earlier Tuesday that Russians were involved in the threats, particularly one that shuttered a school and polling location in nearby Fulton County south of Atlanta.

‘Georgia is not going to be intimidated. Russia just decided they picked on the wrong Georgia,” Raffensperger said Tuesday. ‘They need to pick on the other one in the Black Sea because we’re no going to be intimidated, but we’re just excited about where we are right now.’

The man who allegedly made the threats, Gregory Mitzel, did so just hours after the July 13 assassination attempt against Donald Trump.

He wrote on Facebook, according to the complaint: ‘Hey Hillary, you missed the next one’s coming for you and Joe.’

In another he added: ‘Joe you are going down you and Hillary are going down. You will be in a crosshairs. Thank you.’

‘The next step in this process has to be somebody put a bullet in Joe Biden’s head.’

Stephen Miller, a senior advisor to Donald Trump, has made a last-ditch call for men to vote with polls set to close across the country.

In another post Miller said: ‘WHAT ARE YOU DOING RIGHT NOW TO TURN OUT THE TRUMP VOTE? CALLING, TEXTING, EMAILING, DRIVING TO THE POLLS? TURN OUT THE VOTE!!!’

A Fox News exit poll sparked interest on soical media, as it showed that 56 percent of voters preferred that illegal immigrants get a chance for legals status as opposed to just 43 percent who supported deporting them.

The information suggests that Trump’s hardline position on immigration was not popular with voters, a sign that he was not doing well in the election.

By Jon Michael Raasch, Political Reporter in Atlanta for DailyMail.com

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger says that at least around 10 polling locations will stay open later.

These locations had voting disrupted due to threats that were quickly resolved.

‘It’s probably in that 10 number, plus or minus,’ he said of the impacted polling locations.

DeKalb County near Atlanta says five locations were evacuated due to bomb threats.

Another in Fulton County was evacuated earlier this morning.

The FBI and Raffensperger have said that they are investigating the occurrences.

The Secretary of State said earlier that Russians are involved.

‘Once each location is cleared, voters will be able to re-enter the facility and cast their ballots,’ officials wrote in a news release.

There were seven locations in total that have been impacted by bomb threats in Georgia on Election Day.

As polls start to close and the 2024 election heats up, Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are in a race that could come down to just a few thousand votes in seven battleground states.

With the polls indicating one of the closest elections in history, there’s a question over whether either major party presidential hopeful will reach the necessary 270 Electoral College votes to win the November 5 election outright.

Each candidate needs to find a path to victory that inevitably winds through crucial swing states – where they’re currently within the polling margin of error.

But even then, there is a scenario where the election results in neither candidate winning the required majority in the Electoral College and could tie 269-269.

So what then? Well, it has happened before…

Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Larry Hogan said he opted not to vote in the presidential election when he cast his 2024 ballot on Tuesday.

The former Maryland Governor, who is running in the Senate race in the state, said he wrote in the names of other Republicans the last two times Trump was on the ballot in 2016 and 2020.

‘I’ve said all along that I would never vote for somebody I don’t believe in, and I think a lot of people respect that decision,’ Hogan told the Baltimore Banner.

According to NBC’s exit poll, 72% of voters in swing state Nevada say that Democracy is threatened.

Only 26% of respondents disagreed.

Exit polls are the only surveys conducted entirely of voters who have already cast their ballots in the election.

It gives voters and news organizations a better sense of what is happening on the ground with voters on Election Day and in early voting as the results come in.

‘Tonight, the president and First Lady will watch election results in the White House residence with longtime aides and senior White House staff,’ a White House official said in a statement.

Votes are now being counted to decide whether Donald Trump or Kamala Harris will win the race for the White House.

Keep track of the results in full state-by-state as and when they come in with updating graphics here.

Watch our Election Night live stream below:

Rob Crilly, Chief U.S. Political Correspondent in West Palm Beach, Florida

The first supporters are beginning to trickle into the Palm Beach County Convention Center for a Trump watch party.

Trump himself spent the day holding get-out-the-vote phone rallies, before some ‘executive time,’ and is expected to watch the results this evening from his Mar-a-Lago estate with select guests, including his new best buddy Elon Musk.

He is expected to speak at the convention center. But the timing will depend on results, according to his team. As campaign spoikesman Tim Murtaugh put it:

He will look at the numbers and he will make his announcement at the appropriate time.

There is also a non-zero chance that he doesn’t speak at all, according to some seasoned Trump watchers.

By Jon Michael Raasch, Political Reporter in Atlanta for DailyMail.com

A defamation case has been opened against Donald Trump by the Central Park Five, according to an Election Day court filing.

The summons were served to Trump’s security director Dand Freeman, Newsweek reports.

The notice was delivered at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home on October 24 in the afternoon.

They claim Trump made ‘demonstrably false’ comments about them during their 1989 trial where they were wrongly convicted for the murder of a jogger in New York’s Central Park.

Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter in Las Vegas, Nevada

Concerns emerged Tuesday morning over the high number of ballots being rejected in Nevada’s most populated counties.

Nevada’s Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar said the biggest issue is that signatures of many younger voters don’t match the signatures in their database, which are taken from those on their driver’s license.

As of Monday night, more than 11,300 ballots were reported as needing signature curing in Clark County, home of Las Vegas, and 1,800 in Washoe County, home of Reno and Tahoe.

It’s expected that with mail-in ballot processing Tuesday evening, the number of rejected ballots will only continue to grow.

If ballots are rejected due to signature matching issues, voters in the Battle Born State can fix it through November 12. This means if the election is close – as it’s expected to be – the rejected ballots could end up determining the outcome up to a week after Election Day.

The first polls in the 2024 election have CLOSED.

The polls have closed in Eastern Indiana and Eastern Kentucky, and now the ballots are being counted.

To see when the polls close in each state follow our guide here:

The first exit polls of the 2024 presidential election have been released and contained mixed results for Donald Trump and Kamala Harris in what could be the tightest race in history.

Here’s a quick rundown of what the polls tell us:

• Exit polls released by NBC News Tuesday found that ‘democracy’ was ranked as voters’ top issue in the 2024 election – narrowly beating out the economy
• Meanwhile, the NBC poll found 51 percent of voters trust Trump on the economy, compared to 47 per cent for Harris
• The Associated Press exit poll found 53 percent of voters were women, which was one point up from the exit poll in 2020. It also found 71 percent of voters were white, up from 67 percent in 2020
• Voters said the economy and immigration are the top issues facing the country, AP VoteCast found. The survey of more than 110,000 voters nationwide found a country mired in negativity and desperation
• In the key state of Pennsylvania, 83 percent of voters were white, up from 81 percent in 2020, the AP exit poll found. It found 9 percent of voters were black, down from 11 percent in 2020

With Kamala Harris and Donald Trump in a neck-and-neck race that could be decided by just a few thousand votes in seven key battleground states third-party candidates could well swing the race for either the Republican or Democrat.

In fact, third parties get mentioned most often when there’s potential for them to act as a spoiler, meaning that the number of votes they receive could tilt the election in favor of one of the two serious candidates by siphoning from the loser.

So with the race between Harris and Trump essentially a coinflip, keen political observers have pointed out that Libertarian presidential candidate Chase Oliver could be the deciding factor in the race.

Oliver, 39, is on the ballot in all seven swing states: Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

Charlie Spiering, Senior Political Reporter, Bucks County, Pennsylvania

Bucks County Pennsylvania is one of the most watched parts of the commonwealth as it was once traditionally a Republican county but has since gained more Democrat voters.

At the Warrington Fire Company No. 1, Station 29 polling station, the number of voters were picking up as the sun began to set.

Katie, a voter says she’s voting for women’s health care, but also the economy. Says she’s excited for the ads to be over and that she’s avoided political conversations this cycle.

‘I know everyone has their views and at the end of the day we’re all still friends and family,’ she said.

Lou, Jeri, and Bunny, three Republican women handing out sample ballots here are thrilled with turnout, judging by the sample ballots they have handed out.

‘A lot of Democrats are switching over,’ Jeri says, who has been at the polling location since 6:30 pm. ‘I would say 70-30.’

‘Absolutely ready for the election to be over,’ Lou says. ‘Ideally tonight.’

She said she would stay up until about 11:00 pm watching results, but did not have much hope that Pennsylvania votes would be counted in time to have a result.

‘We’re asking God to keep it all in his hands, whoever he wants in, please God, without any interference,’ Jeri said, citing the economy as her number one issue.

Lou said her number one issue was the border, warning of terrorists being let into the country.

Jason, a Democrat volunteer handing out sample ballots was animated about the election, and said he was optimistic that it would be a short night.

‘I think people are just tired, they’re tired of him they’re tired of his behavior, all of the illegal stuff he’s done,’ he said.

He said that voting ‘against Donald Trump,’ was his number one issue.

‘I just can’t fathom living under a dictatorship,’ he said that if Trump won it would ‘be the end of this country.’

The number of Hispanic voters has surged in Arizona.

In 2020 only 19 percent of voters were Hispanic.

But accoring to the 2024 exit poll 26 percent of voters are Hispanic this time.

by Jon Michael Raasch, Political Reporter in Atlanta for DailyMail.com

Election officials in the critical battleground of Wisconsin are saying they will recount tens of thousands of votes.

Officials in Milwaukee are saying that 30,000 absentee ballots are to be recounted ‘out of an abundance of caution.’

It comes after an observer saw that a ballot tabulator was not correctly sealed, according to local reports.

See our video of voters casting their ballots in the state:

The exit poll found 51 percent of voters trusted Trump on the economy and 47 percent said Harris.

By contrast, 51 percent said they trusted Harris most on abortion and 44 percent said Trump.

Sarah Ewall-Wice, Senior U.S. Political Reporter in Scottsdale, AZ:

Arizona’s Secretary of State Adrian Fontes said the state is monitoring threats made, but he assured voters and workers they are unsubstantiated.

The bomb threats were made to four specific Arizona locations in Navajo County.

‘These are unsubstantiated threats. We have no reason to believe that any of our voters or any of our polling places are in any sort of jeopardy,’ Fontes told reporters in an update this afternoon.

He was briefed by his security team and state law enforcement is working with the feds.

Fontes said it is believed the threat came from overseas, specifically mentioning Russia, but he would not get into details.

No polling locations were closed at any time, he said.

Separately, Arizona is working to address some technical issues involving printers in Apache County. He said most locations are running well but there have been a few residual issues.

Fontes said overall, Election Day is going very well across most of the state.

In the key state of Pennsylvania, 83 percent of voters were white, up from 81 percent in 2020, the exit poll found.

It found 9 percent of voters were black, down from 11 percent in 2020.

The proportion of Hispanic voters remained the same at 5 percent.

According to the exit poll 47 percent of voters in Pennsylvania had a favorable view of Trump, compared to the same in 2020.

The exit poll found 46 percent of voters in Pennsylvania had a favorable view of Harris, compared with 50 percent who said the same of Joe Biden in 2020.

Among Pennsylvania voters 30 percent said the economy mattered most in deciding how to vote in the presidential election.

And 33 percent said the state of democracy, 15 percent abortion, 12 percent immigration, and 3 percent foreign policy.

The poll found 50 percent of voters in Pennsylvania said their family’s financial situation was worse than four years ago.

In the 2020 exit poll only 16 percent said that.

Among Pennsylvania voters 73 percent said they think democracy in the U.S. is threatened, while 25 percent said it is secure.

The poll found 53 percent of Pennsylvania voters were women, the same as in 2020.

By Emily Goodin, senior White House correspondent

Voters said the economy and immigration are the top issues facing the country, AP VoteCast found.

The survey of more than 110,000 voters nationwide found a country mired in negativity and desperation.

It also found about 8 in 10 voters want ‘substantial change’ in how the country is run, including about one-quarter who said they want complete and total upheaval.

About 7 in 10 voters said the country was on the wrong track.

The Associated Press exit poll found 53 percent of voters were women, which was one point up from the exit poll in 2020.

It also found 71 percent of voters were white, up from 67 percent in 2020.

This time, 11 percent were black, down from 13 percent in 2020.

And 12 percent were Hispanic, down from 13 percent in 2020.

Jon Michael Raasch, Political Reporter in Atlanta for DailyMail.com

North Carolina’s board of elections convened an emergency meeting Tuesday prompting an extra half hour of voting in two precincts.

The two precincts in Burke County and Wilson County will now close at 8 pm ET. There were technical issues reported in these instances.

The Wilson County location had ‘printer issues that led to voters not being able to vote for an hour or so,’ according to election board spokesperson Patrick Gannon.

See our video of voters waiting to cast their ballots in North Carolina:

Exit polls released by NBC News Tuesday found that ‘democracy’ was ranked as voters’ top issue in the 2024 election – narrowly beating out the economy.

Thirty-five percent said democracy, followed by 31 percent who said the economy.

Following that, 14 percent said abortion, 11 percent said immigration and just 4 percent said foreign policy.

CNN reported that the exit polls found that American voters are largely dissatisfied with the country right now and are future-looking.

Only 7 percent of voters said they were enthusiastic about the country, with another 19 percent saying they were satisfied.

Another 43 percent expressed that they were dissatisfied and 29 percent said they were angry.

That being said 61 percent said that America’s best days are in the future, versus 34 percent who said the country’s best days are in the past.

President Joe Biden remained unpopular. Fifty-eight percent said they disapproved of the job Biden was doing, versus 41 percent who approved.

All kinds of voters were surveyed to get these results, CNN’s political director David Chalian said, as Americans can vote in-person on Election Day, early in some states and by mail in many states.

A fresh exit poll by NBC found that 51 percent of voters trust Donald Trump more on the economy.

That’s compared to 47 percent who say they trust Kamala Harris more on the important issue.

A lot of talk about massive CHEATING in Philadelphia. Law Enforcement coming!!!

Trump posted just before 5 pm. ET, but it wasn’t immediately clear what he is referring to.

Philadelphia’s District Attorney Larry Krasner said that no arrests have been made.

But ‘Election Day behavior has been more aggressive.’

City Commissioner of Philadelphia Seth Bluestein said there is ‘absolutely no truth’ to the ex-president’s allegation.

‘It is yet another example of disinformation. Voting in Philadelphia has been safe and secure.’

The former president also stated issues with voting in Detroit, Michigan.

The polls remain open in both states.

By Emily Goodin, senior White House correspondent

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will watch the election results tonight in the White House residence, not with Kamala Harris and her team at Howard University.

The Bidens will be joined by a long time aides and senior White House staff, a White House official told DailyMail.com.

And the president will receive regular updates on the state of races across the country.

Jill Biden spent Tuesday morning in Wilmington, Del., where she cast her vote in person. She then headed to the White House to join the president.

President Biden has no public events on his schedule for the day. He returned to the White House on Monday after spending the weekend in Wilmington.

The first exit polls in the US Presidential Election will be released at 5pm.

Stay with us as we bring you the latest news and reaction.

Karoline Leavitt said today on NBC:

President Trump will be watching the votes tonight and he will address his supporters at the appropriate time.

In the crucial battle for Pennsylvania, Democrats believe they have executed on their game plan of running up the vote totals in Philadelphia.

State Democrats believe they can get a margin of 475,000 vote or more, Politico reported Tuesday afternoon.

If accurate, that would exceed Joe Biden’s 471,000 vote edge in 2020, despite a strong play by Donald Trump to pick off support from African Americans voters. That would still leave the election in the hands of more closely divided suburban counties.

Millions of voters are headed to the polls on Tuesday to cast their ballots in the 2024 presidential election and a series of races down ballot. But it could take some time to count those results.

What could give anxious Americans across the country some sense of where the country is headed is the exit polling which comes out as the results are coming in on Election Day.

The exit poll is the only survey conducted entirely of voters who have already cast their ballots in the election.

It gives voters and news organizations a better sense of what is happening on the ground with voters on Election Day and in early voting as the results come in.

The polling is conducted by Edison Research, which has been the only research firm to conduct national exit polling in the United States since 2004. It also does exit polling for midterms and presidential primaries.

While the impact of celebrity endorsements is questionable, each candidate has trotted out big names at rallies to draw in the crowds.

Other A-listers have stayed away from the campaign trail and have instead announced their positions on Instagram.

DailyMail.com has compiled an exhaustive list of celebrities who have picked a side in what could be one of the closest presidential elections in history.

Former President Barack Obama is warning that it’s ‘very likely’ that we won’t know who will win the election tonight.

He says that there are several things to keep in mind:

• Thousands of election workers around the country are working hard today. Respect them. Thank them. 
• Don’t share things before checking your sources. 
• Let the process run its course. It takes time to count every ballot.

They appeared with just hours until the polls close in what could be one of the closest elections in history.

She answered one short question about how she was feeling: ‘Very good. Thank you.’

Body language experts have analyzed the US presidential candidates’ final rallies and said one appears more exhausted than the other.

Both Vice President Harris, 60, and former President Trump, 78, continued to campaign on the eve of election day, maligning one another, and pitching their visions for the future to crowds of voters.

Experts told DailyMail.com that Mr Trump – who did four rallies on Monday compared to Harris’ five – appeared to have ‘low energy’ while Harris was ‘feeding off momentum’, albeit while looking pretty tired herself.

This follows an analysis of the two candidates’ speech patterns, which suggested that Trump was showing slightly more signs of panic as the polls approached.

Using artificial intelligence, the site WordTips found that 21.2 percent of Trump’s words and 19.3 percent of Harris’s words showed signs of stress when they spoke without a script.

The Harris-Walz campaign team says they are positively optimistic about how the election will go this evening.

Several senior Harris advisers told CNN that they are feeling good about ‘key signs of momentum’ on the ground in Pennsylvania and Michigan.

They told the outlet that there has been a ‘shift in the race’ over the last seven days.

And what has Harris been doing during the day?

She’s been talking with her team and doing radio interviews.

According to CNN, she is driving home the fact she’s ‘not measuring the drapes’ before the results are known.

One source said: ‘She fundamentally believes that she has to see every vote counted until she can do the exhale.’

Tonight polls will close all over the nation and the U.S. will become one step closer to electing a new president.

While former President Donald Trump ran the longest campaign in U.S. history, Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris had just 15 weeks to catch up, after President Joe Biden dramatically ditched his reelection efforts.

Polls indicate that the race is extremely tight – and full results might not be known for days.

But that doesn’t mean that there won’t be pundits prognosticating and lots of hours spent at the Magic Wall.

There will likely be comparisons made – will this be like 2008, where Americans elected their first black and mixed race president?

Or will this be like 2016, when voters rejected the chance to have the country’s first female president – choosing businessman Donald Trump instead.

Will the election be won by ‘economy voters’ who are angered that the Biden administration, and in turn Harris, didn’t do more to curb inflation?

Kamala Harris’ running mate posed with wife Gwen and children Gus and Hope as they boarded a plane in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Walz also crisscrossed the swing states in the final days of the campaign to secure the critical votes needed to put Harris in the White House.

They are heading to D.C. for Election Night coverage alongside Harris.

Some Americans have expressed concerns about the nuclear weapon test on the same day as the country is casting their votes for the next president.

Vice President Kamala Harris has not yet been able to show conclusively that she worked at McDonald’s while she was a college student.

Her claims she has used to back up her ‘middle class’ roots lead to frequent taunting from Donald Trump – who even trolled her by doing his own shift in the fast food joint.

‘I’ve now worked for 15 minutes more than Kamala at McDonald’s,’ Trump told reporters and customers after he made French fries and served food out of the drive-thru service window in Pennsylvania.

The Harris campaign maintains that Harris worked at a McDonald’s location on Central Avenue in Alameda, California during the summer after her freshman year at Howard University in 1983.

But staff at the restaurant have reportedly been sworn to secrecy and when DailyMail.com contacted them to ask, an employee said ‘no, sorry’.

When the Founding Fathers argued over how the newly formed United States would elect a president, they compromised and forged a unique system.

It came to be known as the Electoral College, which 236 years later is one of the most focal and controversial cogs in American democracy.

It requires a candidate to reach 270 out of 538 total electoral votes. How that math plays out has changed election by election, candidate by candidate.

Harris was seen for the very first time on Tuesday afternoon with a stop at DNC headquarters.

She made a series of phone calls to her supporters urging them to get out of the vote with just a few hours left until polls close across the country.

The VP thanked volunteers phone banking on her behalf and brought in a box full of Doritos.

She walked over and picked up a phone and said, ‘Have you voted already? You did? Thank you!’

Harris also talked to a child.

‘What’s your name…hi, it’s Kamala Harris. Waiting for you to grow 10 years more,’ she said.

‘It’s so important, we have so much work to do.’

When reporters asked her how she is feeling today she stated: ‘Gotta talk to voters.’

DNC Chairman Jamie Harrison stood in the back watching.

See how Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are really faring among voters with just hours until the polls close with DailyMail.com’s brilliant poll tracker.

Our interactive graphs give invaluable insight into how pollsters are predicting the outcome of the race before tonight’s results start to come in.

The polls are on a knife’s edge and the race is too close to call.

The margins in each of the battleground are razor thin, and the next president could be decided by just a few thousand votes.

All of the data used in our analysis comes from Harris versus Trump polls collated by DailyMail.com’s pollsters J.L. Partners and FiveThirtyEight.

Jon Michael Raasch, Political Reporter in Atlanta for DailyMail.com

A federal judge based in Georgia has thrown out a Republican National Committee claim that votes filed over the weekend should be nullified.

The RNC argued that counties in Georgia broke existing law by accepting absentee ballots on the weekend.

The complaint did not have a ‘basic level of statutory review and reading comprehension’ the judge ruled.

Elon Musk sounded the alarm on X on Tuesday after followers complained.

When a voter on their phone typed into Google: ‘Where can I vote for Kamala Harris?’, Google responded with a map showing the nearest polling station.

Social media users have reacted after a bizarre clip of Donald Trump emerged when his microphone cut out during a rally.

Opting to instead use a handheld microphone, Trump was seen yanking at the microphone at his stand before he started putting his mouth around it.

The incident is still making waves as voters have several more hours to head to the polls.

Jon Michael Raasch, Political Reporter in Atlanta for DailyMail.com

North Carolina Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson is well behind his Democratic opponent following his porn scandal.

Robinson, who currently serves as Lieutenant Governor, was polling close to his opponent Josh Stein for the entire summer until a report from CNN derailed his campaign.

The expose highlighted how Robinson had gone on porn websites and written things like ‘I’m a black NAZI!’

Robinson, who is black, also wrote on these sites he was not disturbed by slavery.

Now the GOP candidate is behind 10 -18 points to Stein depending on the poll.

By Emily Goodin, senior White House correspondent

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will watch the election results tonight in the White House residence.

They will be joined by a long time aides and senior White House staff, a White House official told DailyMail.com.

And the president will receive regular updates on the state of races across the country.

Jill Biden spent Tuesday morning in Wilmington, Del., where she cast her vote in person. She then headed to the White House to join the president.

President Biden has no public events on his schedule for the day. He returned to the White House on Monday after spending the weekend in Wilmington.

As speculation mounts about what a Kamala Harris cabinet might look like if she wins, Washington politicos are curious: Will she push for a continuation of the Biden administration or try to unburden herself from his record and chart a fresh course?

For her first three years as vice president, Harris was burdened by Biden’s close-knit staff, who held her at an arm’s length but a win in the Nov. 5 election would afford her the opportunity to clean house and set her own agenda – and legacy.

If elected, Harris would strike three firsts, as not only the the first woman president but also, first black female and first South Asian elected to the nation’s highest office.

Those historic distinctions would likely set her on a path to creating the most diverse and forward-looking cabinet, just as she did when she took office as vice president.

But Harris already faces criticism for her record of poor management.

Her staff fell apart one by one as they fled her office complaining about her bullying behavior, short-fused temper, and exhaustive demands.

When the Founding Fathers argued over how the newly formed United States would elect a president, they compromised and forged a unique system.

It came to be known as the Electoral College, which 236 years later is one of the most focal and controversial cogs in American democracy.

It requires a candidate to reach 270 out of 538 total electoral votes. How that math plays out has changed election by election, candidate by candidate.

For the 2024 contest, polling shows that most of the 538 votes are already sewn up by Donald Trump or Kamala Harris – but 93 are still up for grabs in seven battleground states.

Tucked away in the far northwest corner of country just before the cliffs drop off into the Pacific Ocean lies America’s last true bellwether county.

A decidedly purple place, the small, rural region of Clallam County in Washington boasts an unmatched record of voting for every presidential election winner since Ronald Reagan in 1980.

This is the longest success streak of any of America’s 3,143 counties.

Now all eyes are on this unassuming county once again to see which way the wind is blowing for 2024, as vice president Kamala Harris faces off against former president Donald Trump in a divisive, neck and neck race.

But all roads to the White House do not run through the Keystone State – and each candidate has a winning detour despite dominating the news cycle with their recent stops there.

Still, Pennsylvania with its 19 electoral votes is the biggest of the seven battleground states – one that that could swing either way and singlehandedly decide the race.

New video from inside the chaotic Cambria County polling station in Pennsylvania shows the moment voting machines suddenly stopped working on election day.

The footage, obtained by Daily Mail, shows voters being asked to place their ballots into a box rather than submit it to the electronic machine.

Dubious voters did as asked, then shared their thoughts on social media.

‘Very interest… they go to start scanning our ballots into the box and guess what? The box doesn’t work,’ said Amanda Wagner.

‘What did they do? They just unlock it and stick all of our ballots underneath.’

Officials filed an order to extend voting hours in the county from 8pm to 10pm following the ‘software malfunction’ that kept voters from scanning their ballots.

It remains unclear what triggered the malfunction. Officials insist it has now been repaired.

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump spent a total of $3.5 billion in the most expensive presidential campaign ever.

That included $400 million on adverts in the key state of Pennsylvania.

In total, $1.5 billion was spent on adverts in the seven battleground states.

Harris and groups affiliated with her spent $1.9 billion compared to $1.6 billion on the Trump side.

Barron Trump was absent as his parents Donald and Melania Trump cast their ballots in Florida on Tuesday.

The 18-year-old was missing at the polling station at the Morton and Barbara Mandel Recreation Center in Palm Beach.

It is not known if or when Barron, who can legally cast his ballot for the first time, has cast his vote.

Trump told reporters outside the polling booth he felt ‘very confident’.

An innocuous photo of a make-up free Ivanka Trump may have provided a major hint that her father has repaired relations with Nikki Haley as the election winds down.

The former president joined the ex-secretary of state at to vote after spending the final days of the race campaigning for Kamala Harris.

The pair gave a thumbs up as they case their ballots and joined the millions of Americans waiting for the first results to come in.

At least 18 states have activated the National Guard in case of unrest at polling stations across the country.

Members of the guard have been deployed to the battlegrounds of Arizona, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Wisconsin to prepare for any chaos as the results come in.

Those on duty will be supporting law enforcement or watching cybersecurity threats.

The Tesla CEO will be at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach for some of the election night festivities, The New York Times reported.

He will be part of a small group watching the returns with Donald Trump, who’s hosting several parties at his property in Florida.

Musk has spent $119 million on a super PAC supporting Trump.

Jon Michael Raasch, Political Reporter in Atlanta for DailyMail.com

U.S. Capitol Police have arrested a man entering the Capitol Visitor Center who was seemingly doused in fuel and carrying a torch.

The scary incident was reported around 1:45 pm ET on the force’s X account.

‘Our officers just arrested a man who was stopped during our screening process at the Capitol Visitor Center (CVC),’ the post says.

‘The man smelled like fuel, had a torch & a flare gun.’

‘The CVC is closed for tours for the day, while we investigate,’ the post continues.

Guam, which holds a symbolic straw poll since its votes don’t count toward the Electoral College, had Harris emerging victorious.

She was on 49.5 percent to Trump’s 46.2 percent, which is much closer than anticipated.

Biden beat Trump in the same straw poll in 2020 by over 13 points.

Guam’s vote usually is in line with the winner of the U.S. popular vote, which it has correctly predicted since 2004.

While abortion has been a central issue in the 2024 presidential race, and it is also on the ballot in ten states in the November election.

It could be a driving force to get some people to the polls as abortion access has been a mobilizing one since Roe v Wade was overturned ending the national right to an abortion and sending abortion access back to states.

Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe with the Dobbs decision in June 2022, 21 states have banned abortion or passed further restrictions beyond Roe.

But since Roe fell, multiple states have given voters a say on whether to protect or further restrict abortion rights.

For every abortion measure that has been on a ballot so far, be it to protect, expand access or restrict it, voters have opted to protect abortion rights including in red states such as Ohio and Kansas.

Donald Trump’s campaign is huddling to discuss the former president’s election night plans in Palm Beach, Florida – and is factoring in the likelihood that the election will not be called tonight.

Trump will be watching from his Mar-a-Lago resort and aides are sorting out when, or if, he will deliver remarks to the press, sources familiar with the talks told CNN.

But while they are coming to accept that a winner likely will not be declared between this evening, the Trump team believes that some critical swing states will be called before the end of the night that could foretell which way the race is going, the report said.

‘Yeah, I mean, I’m hearing the same things that you’re hearing. I’m hearing states where I’m up by a lot, but they won’t have a final number for a long time,’ he told reporters.

‘I don’t know what’s going to happen in terms of declaring victory.’

Sarah Ewall-Wice, Senior U.S. Political Reporter in Phoenix, AZ:

Election officials in Maricopa County say things are running smoothly this morning as thousands of people head to the polls.

Maricopa County has more than half the residents of Arizona with a population of more than 4.5 million and is one of the biggest bellwethers in the country. It went to Donald Trump in 2016 but is key for Democrats’ holding the state after President Biden won it in 2020.

Election officials held a press conference where they said more than 93,000 people already showed up to cast ballots at some 246 vote centers this morning. The average wait time is 2 minutes with a small number of centers having 30-minute wait times.

Officials stated that no vote centers had been shut down and said any reporting to the contrary this morning is misinformation.

The organization Vote From Abroad says that about 2.9 million Americans will be voting from abroad during the 2024 presidential election. In 2020, 2.8 million overseas Americans voted.

Most of the overseas votes come from Canada, Great Britain, France and Mexico, Japan, Israel and Australia, Newsweek reported.

It all comes down to this.

Almost two years after Donald Trump announced he was running for president and as one of the most dramatic campaigns in history draws to a close, the wait begins for the results.

The race is set to be one of the closest in decades and polls shows Trump and Kamala Harris are deadlocked across the country.

All eyes will be on the seven battleground states on Tuesday night.

But there are also six key voter groups that will have a major impact on determining the next occupant of the White House.

DailyMail.com’s pollster James Johnson, the founder of J.L. Partners, has broken down just how important these demographics are.

From Katelyn Caralle, senior U.S. reporter in Nevada:

Jon Michael Raasch, Political Reporter in Atlanta for DailyMail.com

Donald Trump quickly shot down a reporter asking if he should tell his supporters that there should be ‘no violence’ on Election Day.

The question came to the ex-president shortly after he cast his ballot in Florida alongside his wife former first lady Melania Trump.

‘Will you tell your supporters that there should be no violence,’ a female reporter could be heard asking the Republican presidential candidate.

Trump immediately shot back: ‘My supporters are not violent people. I don’t have to tell them that, and they certainly don’t want any violence.’

Declaring that Texas will ‘not be bullied by the Department of Justice,’ the state Attorney General blocked federal election monitors from going inside voting locations across the Lone Star State on Tuesday.

Department of Justice election monitors had planned to be inside polling sites in eight Texas counties, including Atascosa, Bexar (San Antonio), Dallas, Frio, Harris (Houston), Hays, Palo Pinto, and Waller.

Social media users have reacted after a bizarre clip of Donald Trump emerged when his microphone cut out during a rally.

The Republican presidential nominee had audio issues while speaking at a campaign event in Milwaukee on Friday night.

Opting to instead use a handheld microphone, Trump was seen yanking at the microphone at his stand before he started putting his mouth around it.

Social media X has since erupted with a spate of comments over the widely shared footage.

One person commented on the short clip, which has been viewed over 14million times: ‘Doesn’t look like his first time either.’

The Detroit News has reported that the FBI arrested two people in Michigan for issuing threats in the days before the 2024 presidential election on Tuesday.

Issac Sissel, 25, was reportedly linked to several online threats targeting Republican candidate Trump.

He allegedly told officials felt Trump ‘should have been assassinated’ and predicted there would be violence following today’s election.

Reddit had alerted authorities about Sissel’s back in September.

Christopher Clay Pierce, 46, was arrested for making online threats against a political action committee.

The president has no public appearances on his schedule and his press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, won’t be holding her typical daily briefing on Tuesday.

Biden made his final campaign appearance on Saturday when he delivered a speech to laborers on behalf of the Harris-Walz campaign in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

Trump spoke briefly with reporters before casting his ballot in Palm Beach.

He blasted Oprah, who joined Kamala Harris at her final rally in Pennsylvania on Monday night, accusing her of stoking division in the country.

‘I think Oprah has become a major divider in our country and she should be ashamed of herself,’ he fumed.

The man, who had previously been convicted of a felony, was told that he was ineligible to vote because he had not re-registered after being released from prison.

He had gone to vote in the town of Fowler near the Canadian border at about 6:30 am.

The man became irate and began threatening to return with a gun or to burn the place down, police said.

He fled but was later picked up by state police and brought to the station for questioning. Charges against him were pending.

Mark Fisher, who lists himself as a co-founder of Black Lives Matter Rhode Island, warned that it would be a ‘disaster for the country’ if Kamala Harris is elected.

‘Historically the Democrat party has been the party that black people overwhelmingly vote for, but we haven’t gotten anything in return,’ Fisher told the New York Post. ‘To me that is the definition of insanity.’

The former president, wearing his signature ‘Make America Great Again’ hat, answered many questions and slammed reports of chaos at the polling stations around the nation. He also wore an ‘I voted’ sticker.

‘It is crazy,’ he said. ‘I am just hearing in certain states it is going to be a long time.’

He specificially mentioned Pennsylvania, the battleground state that could decide the winner. Polls show the race there is tied.

‘I’m hearing in Pennsylvania they won’t have an answer until two or three days from now. I think it’s an absolute outrage if that’s the case,’ Trump noted. ‘In certain states it is going to be a long time and it won’t even be close. It won’t be that close. They say I will win the state but it will take a long time to certify it.’

But he said he would concede if he lost a ‘fair’ election.

‘If it’s a fair election I would be the first one to acknowledge it if I lost. And so far I think it’s been fair,’ he said. Trump, on the campaign trail, has indicated he doesn’t trust the voting process and could challenge the results if Harris wins.

‘I ran a great campaign. I think it was maybe the best of the three. We did great in the first one, much better in the second one. Something happened. And this was the best — I would say this was the best campaign we ran,’ he said.

The podcaster and former Fox News host attended Trump‘s rally in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on Monday in the final hours of one what could be the closest elections in history.

She told the crowd why she decided to cast her ballot for the former president despite their rollercoaster relationship over the years that included very public spats during his first run for president.

‘I feel very confident,’ Trump said after he cast his vote in Palm Beach. ‘I hear we’re doing very well everywhere.’

‘I ran a great campaign. I think it was maybe the best of the three. We did great in the first one. We did much better in the second one but something happened. I would say this is the best campaign we’ve run,’ he said, standing next to his wife, Melania Trump.

Asked if he had any regrets about his campaign, Trump responded, ‘I can’t think of any.’

Voters in Cambria County in western Pennsylvania have been forced to place their paper ballots into boxes after voting machines malfunctioned throughout the entire county.

Footage obtained by DailyMail.com shows the swing state‘s voters placing their ballots inside a box under the voting machines after a massive malfunction.

Voting hours have been extended for the county after it took hours for the issues to be resolved.

Voters will now have until 10 pm to cast their ballots on Election Day.

Jon Michael Raasch, Political Reporter in Atlanta for DailyMail.com

On a breezy autumn day in north Georgia, Fiona Bagley mused in the back of her tea shop about Donald Trump winning a second White House bid.

‘I don’t think he wants to be a dictator,’ the 64-year-old retired Captain of the Royal Military Police explained. ‘I don’t think he wants to do any of the bad things they say.’

Bagley, originally from Epsom, Surrey before settling with her American husband in Dahlonega, Georgia, is unconcerned with the Trumpian horror scenarios many of her U.K.-based friends are frantically posting about on Facebook and that she sees in her newsfeeds.

She’s busy trying to make her bottom line and 18 employees depend on it.

‘The last four years have been brutal,’ the 60-year-old entrepreneur explained.

‘I’ve seen my shipping costs double, the price of product has doubled, but people’s incomes have not risen to the same amount. So they’re not spending the money.’

Harris said she will watch the election results come in from her alma mater, Howard University.

‘The first office I ever ran for was freshman class representative at Howard University,’ Harris recalled in her Tuesday interview with the Big Tigger Morning Show on V-103 in Atlanta. “And to go back tonight to Howard University, my beloved alma mater, and be able to hopefully … recognize this day for what it is — really it’s full circle for me.”

Howard, located in the nation’s capital, is part of the historically Black colleges and universities founded before 1964 for African American students.

If she wins, Harris will be the first HBCU alum to serve as president.

Officials have extended voting hours in Cambria County following a ‘software malfunction’ kept voters from scanning their ballots.

Election workers said ‘there is a process in place for issues of this nature’ and the malfunction ‘should not discourage voters from voting at their voting precincts.’

‘The Cambria County Board of Election learned early this morning that a software malfunction in the County’s Electronic Voting System has prevented voters from scanning their ballots,’ the Office of County Commissioners said.

‘The Board has filed a Court Order extending the time to vote within Cambria County. No one should be turned away from the polls if they wish to cast their vote. Cambria County Board of Elections took measures to have IT specialists called to review the software issue. All completed ballots will be accepted, secured, and counted by the Board of Elections.’

There is a last-minute surge of betting on Donald Trump.

On the forecasting site Predictit he overtook Kamala Harris last night and has surged this morning.

The site now gives Trump a 10 percent lead in terms of his chances of winning the election.

It reflects similar movement on other betting sites.

Jon Michael Raasch, Political Reporter in Atlanta for DailyMail.com

Fulton County authorities announced multiple non-credible bomb threats at local polling places Tuesday morning.

Fulton County School Police received threats at several schools that were also polling places around 8:15 am ET.

Feldwood Elementary School in south Fulton was cleared by authorities and no evidence of a bomb was found.

No one was evacuated during the sweep, authorities confirmed.

The impacted polling locations will now stay open later than the expected 7 pm ET closing time.

Local election officials said that the location likely will remain open an additional 30 minutes until around 7:30 pm local time.

Georgia’s election chief said that the bomb threats were possibly of ‘Russian origin’ on Tuesday.

‘The Russians are not our friends,’ Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger added.

The FBI also confirmed the threats from ‘Russian email domains,’ calling them ‘non-credible.’

‘The FBI is aware of bomb threats to polling locations in several states, many of which appear to originate from Russian email domains. None of the threats have been determined to be credible thus far.’

By Emily Goodin, senior White House correspondent

Kamala Harris has cut Donald Trump’s double-digit lead among male voters in half to single digits, a new Marist poll found.

Voter breakdowns have long shown a gender gap with women supporting Harris and men supporting Trump.

Harris making up ground with the male vote would be a troubling sign for the former president.

At the beginning of October, Trump had a 16-point lead among men – 57% to Harris’s 41%, according to an NPR/PBS News/Marist Poll.

Now Harris had cut that down to just four points: she has 47% to Trump’s 51%, according to the latest numbers released Monday.

The rivals have each painted one another as extreme. They both warn their opponent will be a disaster for America.

Whether they will be able to implement their wish list depends on a number of factors, including which party controls Congress.

But their grand plans are a crucial indicator in what four years of a Trump or Harris administration would look like.

• Election Day in the United States is now often considered election week as each state follows its own rules and practices for counting ballots — not to mention the legal challenges — that can delay the results. But the truth is, nobody knows how long it will take for the winner to be announced this time.
• In 2020, The Associated Press declared President Joe Biden the winner on Saturday afternoon — four days after polls closed. But even then, The AP called North Carolina for Trump 10 days after Election Day and Georgia for Biden 16 days later after hand recounts.
• Four years earlier, the 2016 election was decided just hours after most polls closed. The AP declared Trump the winner on election night at 2:29 a.m. (it was technically Wednesday morning on the East Coast).

Betting market Kalshi now has Donald Trump with a 60 percent chance of winning the election.

It’s three points higher for Trump than Kalshi’s Monday prediction.

A local reporter in Queens, New York, has reported that several scanning machines are not working properly across the borough.

Voters in Texas wait in the rain

By Emily Goodin, senior White House correspondent

A storm system is moving across the Midwest from Texas to Canada and will affect the battleground states of Michigan and Wisconsin as the cold front brings in bad weather.

A possible weak tornado could hit southern Wisconsin today, according to the National Weather Service. Rain, thunder and high winds have already hit that part of the state. In Milwaukee, rain is in the forecast through 8 p.m. Polls close at 9 p.m.

Rain is also expected across most of Michigan. Detroit is seeing a breezy 60 degrees and cloudy skies at the moment but rain could come this afternoon.

Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania are part of Kamala Harris’ ‘blue wall’ – a victory in those three states would hand her the White House.

Pennsylvania is seeing beautiful weather but long lines at polling places as officials expect record turnout in the state.

Cloudy skies in Detroit where it could rain later this afternoon

For the rest of the battleground states, Arizona is expected to see beautiful weather as is Nevada.

Georgia and North Carolina could see rain late in the day.

In Texas, voters stood in the pouring rain, waiting to cast their ballot. Some polling stations in Missouri were flooded.

Parts of the Deep South will see record-high temperatures in the 70s and 80s, according to The Weather Channel.

Meanwhile, snow and possible blizzard conditions are forecast for parts of the Northwest including Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana.

Long lines but beautiful weather in Pennsylvania

From Rob Crilly, Chief U.S. Political Correspondent in Cincinnati, Ohio

Trump’s running mate JD Vance just voted in his hometown of Cincinnati. His wife Usha and children looked on as he talked to the press afterwards.

He said he felt good abouy the way the result was headed and admitted he missed a call from the former president at 3am because he was in bed, asleep while Trump was flying back from his final event.

He was asked what he could do to heal the political divide in the country.

I think our message is, first of all, we do expect to win. But obviously, no matter who wins, half the country, as you said, is going to be at least partially disappointed. I think my attitude is the best way to heal the rift in the country is to try to govern the country as well as we can, create as much prosperity as we can for the American people, and remind our fellow Americans that we are all fundamentally on the same team, however we voted.

Jon Michael Raasch, Political Reporter in Atlanta for DailyMail.com

The pollster Nate Silver has released his final prediction of the 2024 election.

As of 12:30 am Tuesday and after 80,000 model simulations, Democrat Kamala Harris beat Donald Trump in just a hairsplitting 50.015% to Trump’s 49.985%.

That equates to Harris winning 40,012 simulations to Trump’s 39,718.

The outlying few were electoral ties that eventually resulted in Trump victories due to the House of Representatives’ involvement in the process in the case of a 269-269 electoral college draw.

The nail-biting race is one of the closest in history and is likely to be decided by a couple of thousand votes in smatterings across swing states.

Georgia, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Nevada and Michigan will all be closely watched today as votes trickle in. Those states are the crucial swing states that will ultimately decide the outcome.

The Republican senator voted Tuesday morning at the St Anthony of Padua Maronite Catholic Church in Cincinnati.

He arrived with his wife Usha and their children.

‘Look, I feel good. You never know until you know, but I feel good about this race,’ Vance said after he and his wife cast their ballots.

Vance said he would depart for Palm Beach, Florida, later today to be with Donald Trump as results come in.

NFL owners have donated around $30million to political parties and causes ahead of this year’s seismic presidential election.

Election officials have reported that several ballot scanners are down in Cambria County in the swing state of Pennsylvania.

Voters have shared footage of people standing in line as the voting process was interrupted by the technical issues.

Officials have instructed voters to place their paper ballots inside boxes and voting hours have been extended until 10pm.

The Republican National Committee filed a lawsuit to ensure that polls in the county will remain open longer due to the delays and long lines.

RNC Co-Chairman Michael Whatley said Tuesday:

We understand that there are some line delays on the ground. We need you to stay in line. We need you to fill out your ballot in full and deliver it. Our Pennsylvania lawyers are all over this issue and will ensure fairness and accuracy in the process. Stay in line! Deliver your ballot!

Poling stations opened at 8amEST in Arizona, Iowa, Louisiana. Minnesota, South and North Dakota, Oklahoma, Texas and Winsonsin.

Members of a running group below arrive at a polling station to drop off their ballots in Phoenix, Arizona, on Election Day.

People are seen voyting inside of a polling station in downtown Phoenix, Arizona, below.

By Emily Goodin, senior White House correspondent

Kamala Harris returned to Washington D.C. in the early hours of Tuesday morning after her closing rally in Philadelphia.

She was accompanied by her husband Doug Emhoff, sister Maya Harris and brother-in-law Tony West, niece Meena Harris and her husband Nikolas Ajagu, and grand nieces Amara and Leela.

Harris is spending Election Day at the Naval Observatory, the vice president’s residence in Washington D.C., where she will call into radio interviews in several battleground states.

She will hold an election night rally at Howard University, her alma mater.

J.L. Partners has its final update for our election model this morning. And it is a big deal, wiping out much of Trump’s advantage from the past month and moving the whole thing squarely back into tossup territory.

Trump is predicted to win in 54.1 percent of simulation making our final call a TOSSUP TRUMP RACE – this is a drop of 6.3 points since yesterday, and a drop of almost 15 points since last week, based on a slew of Pennsylvania polls that were better for Harris, and which send ripples throughout the Blue Wall.

The most likely result gives Trump 287 Electoral College Votes to Harris’ 251. The election will hinge on Pennsylvania with 59 percent of simulations decided by this state.

There is major movement in the seven swing states that will decide the election:

In Arizona, Trump’s win probability has decreased by 2.5 points to 79.4 percenyt. It has moved from STRONG TRUMP to LIKELY TRUMP – undoing yesterday’s reclassification

Georgia saw Trump’s win probability decrease by 2.8 points to 73.9 percent and it remains a LIKELY TRUMP state.

Michigan saw Harris’ win probability increase by 3.9 points to 67.2 percent. It is now a LEAN HARRIS state.

Nevada saw Trump’s win probability decrease by 3.5 points to 57.6 percent, undoing some of yesterday’s increase. The state has shifted from LEAN TRUMP to TOSSUP TRUMP.

North Carolina saw Trump’s win probability decrease by 4.1 points to 71.3 percent. The state remains a LIKELY TRUMP state.

Pennsylvania saw Trump’s win probability decrease by 6.6 points to 55.2 percent. The state has shifted from LEAN TRUMP to TOSSUP TRUMP.

Wisconsin has seen a 6.1 point movement against Trump and Harris’ win probability sits at 67 percent. The state remains LEAN HARRIS.

Callum Hunter writes in his final briefing note:

Our final prediction is only certain in how uncertain this race is. It is likely going to be one of the closest races in modern US political history. The Sunbelt states seem fairly likely to fall into the Trump camp, with Nevada the closest state within this group. Meanwhile, Michigan and Wisconsin seem likely to go to Harris leaving Pennsylvania as the deciding state. Places like Erie county are likely to decide this election with fewer than 15,000 votes deciding the winner. This election is the political equivalent of the Battle of Waterloo – with Trump finally returning from his 2020 enforced exile. The question is, can he marshall his troops on the Pennsylvanian battlefield to carry the day or will the overwhelming ground game of the Harris-Walz campaign sweep him aside? Our model suggests the former is slightly more likely, but anything is still possible. If you want to know who will win the election, go grab a quarter and flip it.

The Vice Presidential hopeful was interviewed in a Philadelphia coffee shop for the  segment.

The relaxed affair saw the two play a game of paper football as they chatted about Walz and Kamala Harris‘ plans for an ‘opportunity economy’.

• Kalshi has Trump’s odds of winning Tuesday at 57 percent.

A poll worker reported they were having issues with their tablet at a polling location in Hamilton County, per Fox59.

The issue was apparently fixed shortly after a 17-minute delay.

Jon Michael Raasch, Political Reporter in Atlanta for DailyMail.com

House GOP Chairwoman Elise Stefanik said she is confident Donald Trump will win because of his surging numbers among women.

‘Trump is doing better with women than Kamala Harris is doing with men,’ House GOP Chair Elise Stefanik noted during an interview with CBS.

She said she has ‘zero concerns’ about the Republican’s fitness to lead and believes his pitch down the stretch has resonated with all Americans.

By Emily Goodin, senior White House correspondent

Pete Buttigieg argued a vote for Kamala Harris is a vote to have a ‘normal Republican Party again.’

The Transportation Secretary pointed to the divisiveness Donald Trump has brought to the other of the aisle as he appealed to GOP voters to cast their vote for Harris.

‘A vote for Kamala Harris is, I think, a vote for someday, having a more normal Republican Party again,’ he told CBS This Morning.

‘I think a lot of us just don’t want to feel like politics is punching us in the face,’ he added.

From Rob Crilly, Chief U.S. Political Correspondent aboard Trump Force Two

At first it seems like a filibuster. Of course J.D. Vance knows the price of a gallon of milk, he insists.

‘I do. I think. Right now?’ he says, sitting beside wife Usha on his campaign jet, nicknamed Trump Force Two.

‘I know the answer to this question very well. Are we talking about organic? Are we talking about the DC area… the Ohio area? Because at Kroger, the price of a gallon of milk, my guess is about $3.60 a gallon. Check, check if that’s right.’

A swift fact check ensues as staffers fiddle with phones, looking up the price at the Vance’s’ nearest store.

The answer comes back: $3.29, which is not bad for a former venture capitalist-turned-senator who now has to live inside a Secret Service bubble as running mate to Donald Trump.

‘If it wasn’t for him (Musk) we’d be f***ed,’ Rogan wrote on X just hours before the polls open.

‘He makes what I think is the most compelling case for Trump you’ll hear, and I agree with him every step of the way.

With millions of voters in all 50 states casting ballots in the November 5 presidential election a final DailyMail.com/J.L. Partners national poll shows Trump with a lead that matches the survey’s margin of error, a trend in his favor but still a statistical dead heat.

That leaves the fate of the White House to a handful of so-called battleground states where the race still are polling as if they could could go either way on November 5 although there may be some telling trends within the polls.

Regardless of who wins the popular vote, the next president must win the Electoral College, which has a set of electors per state who select a candidate based on state results.

The tiny New Hampshire township of Dixville Notch, first in the nation to vote, saw a tie before Harris and Trump.

The town opened and closed its polls just after midnight EST, as is tradition, with four Republicans and two undeclared voters participating.

After 12 minutes of counting, the results showed three votes for Harris and three votes for Trump.

Back in 2020, Joe Biden won all the votes. In 2016, Hillary Clinton received four votes, Trump two and Gary Joghson one.

As the rivals have focused their efforts on securing votes in the battleground states that could determine the outcome of the election, Hollywood A-listers have been hoping their endorsements can sway the public.

Showbiz royalty, including Oprah and Beyoncé, have accompanied Harris, 60, on stage at her campaign events, urging voters to turn up at the polls.

People have lined up since the early hours of Tuesday to vote in the state of Pennsylvania, widely seen as critical to winning the White House.

Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina and Wisconsin are also seen as crucial in the path to victory.

People line up to vote outside of a polling station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Election Day.

Philadelphia County board of elections staff are sworn-in before processing ballots at the ballot counting election warehouse on the outskirts of Philadelphia.

Jones, who worked for President Obama, told CNN on Monday that the final days of the 2024 election have looked eerily similar to Hillary Clinton‘s devastating loss in 2016.

‘The other thing that makes me nervous, in 2016, we had a big star-studded event right on the edge of the election, and we lost the state,’ Jones said.

‘I don’t think people understand, working people sometimes have to choose. Am I going to go to the big, cool concert and pay for babysitting for that or am I going to figure out a way to get to the polls? I don’t like these big star-studded events.’

Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump both spent the waning hours of their campaigns in the well-trodden swing states of Pennsylvania and Michigan, widely seen as critical to winning the White House.

Harris wrapped her day in Philadelphia, where Lady Gaga sang ‘God Bless America’ and Oprah Winfrey appeared on stage with first-time voters. Ricky Martin, who is from Puerto Rico, was also there to draw out Puerto Rican voters turned off by a comedian who called their homeland a “floating island of garbage” at a recent Trump rally.

‘Our people-powered movement reflects a simple and undeniable truth: that we are all in this together,’ Harris said.

Harris didn’t arrive at the vice president’s residence, the Naval Observatory, until 1:41 a.m.

Trump, meanwhile, spent the final hours of the day in Grand Rapids, Michigan, wrapping up around 2 a.m.

• Former president Trump landed back in Florida just hours ago after finishing his last rally after 2 a.m.
• He is expected to await the electoral results with his family at his residence in Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach.
• The Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is seen speaking at his last campaign rally at Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan, below

• As of 7am EST, polls have opened in over 25 states – Delaware, DC, Washington, DC, Florida, Georgia Illinois, Kansas MarylandMassachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, New Hampshire and Virginia.Indiana and Kentucky and Maine.

A man seen above votes at PS 20 Anna Silver Elementary School, on Election Day for the 2024 U.S. presidential election in Manhattan, New York City.

A resident of Dixville Notch shows their ID above as they check in to cast their ballots in the US election at midnight in the living room of the Tillotson House at the Balsams Grand Resort, marking the first votes in the US election, in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire.

• Tens of millions of Americans having already cast their ballots. Those include record numbers in Georgia, North Carolina and other battleground states that could decide the winner.
• As of Monday, Associated Press tracking of advance voting nationwide showed roughly 82 million ballots already cast – — slightly more than half the total number of votes in the presidential election four years earlier.
• The early turnout in Georgia, which has flipped between the Republican and Democratic nominees in the previous two presidential elections, has been so robust — over 4 million voters — that a top official in the secretary of state’s office said the big day could look like a “ghost town” at the polls.

DailyMail.com was with Vance on ‘Trump Force Two’ as he slugged it out on the final hours of the campaign trail in a desperate bid to clinch victory.

There was beer, donuts, a lot of iced coffee and some surprising admissions from the VP hopeful.

Among his admissions was the one thing he never talks about with ‘superstitious’ Trump.

The first result came in last night in the tiny town of Dixville Notch in New Hampshire, where residents honored a tradition of casting ballots at the stroke of midnight.

But the result was an ominous forecast of what is one of the closest races in history – 3 for Trump, and 3 for Harris.

While a tie, it’s a sharp swing away from the Democrats.

In 2020, five of the voters went for Biden, with only one voting red.

Americans are braced for civil unrest amid scary predictions of ‘blood’ during today’s knife’s-edge presidential election, reviving painful memories of recent assassination bids and chaos after the 2020 vote.

On Monday, Businesses in Washington, DC boarded up their windows as security fencing went up around the White House, US Vice President Harris’s residence, and other key buildings in the capital.

Election workers have prepared for gun attacks, amid a flurry of threats to blow up political offices and other sensitive sites ahead of election day.

Washington state has activated some members of the National Guard to be on stand-by, while a Democratic congressman has warned ‘there may be blood’ resulting from clashes between angry voters.

By DailyMail.com pollster and founder of J.L. Partners James Johnson

Over the last six months I have traveled the swing states.

Two debates, two hurricanes, and countless interviews later, we have arrived at Election Day.

Because American political opinion is so diverse – and so polarized – there is no one type of swing voter who will determine the outcome.

Instead, the result hinges on several groups who, depending on how they move, will put Kamala Harris or Donald Trump in the White House.

This is the cast that will decide the election:

In what could be one of closest elections in U.S. history, the difference between the candidates could not be more stark.

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris have laid out two visions for America that are poles apart during the unprecedented 2024 campaign for the White House.

The rivals have each painted one another as extreme. They both warn their opponent will be a disaster for America.

When it comes to the economy, foreign policy, immigration, crime, abortion and taxes, both candidates have set out grand plans that would provide a crucial indicator of how the next four years will look like.

DailyMail.com has put together a guide to show where the candidates stand on a number of crucial policies that matter most to American voters.

It may go down as the closest race in presidential history.

As polling booths are flooded on Tuesday, the race will be essentially out of the candidates’ hands during the excruciating wait for the results to come in.

Here, we have put together an exhaustive guide detailing what Harris and Trump will be watching for as the drama unfolds.

For there are multiple scenarios which will leave them within touching distance of grabbing the keys to the White House.

See our interactive guide to how Harris and Trump can find a path to the White House courtesy of Dailymail.com’s Deep Dive team.

Millions of voters are heading to the polls today to cast their ballots, but it could take some time to count the results.

What could give anxious Americans across the country some sense of where the country is headed is the exit polling which comes out as the results are coming in on Election Day.

The exit poll is the only survey conducted entirely of voters who have already cast their ballots in the election.

It gives voters and news organizations a better sense of what is happening on the ground with voters on Election Day and in early voting as the results come in.

The polling is conducted by Edison Research, which has been the only research firm to conduct national exit polling in the United States since 2004.

Voters began casting their ballots with polling stations open from 5am in Vermont and 6am in multiple states.

At 6pm Eastern Time on Tuesday, the first polls will close in Indiana and Kentucky.

Then the U.S. will wait as the ballots are counted across the country and the tension begins to find out who will be the next President of the United States. For some states, the result will be announced as soon as the voting stops.

But for others – especially the seven battleground states of Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, Nevada and North Carolina – it could take hours or even days until we find out the winner.

DailyMail.com has laid out everything you need to know – hour by hour – about the drama that will unfold – including when the polls close in each state, who is predicted to win and when to expect a result.