Election 2024 live updates: Latest Trump vs Harris news, polls and results
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump conclude 2024 campaigning as first polls close on election night
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Your support makes all the difference.The first polls have closed as Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump conclude their campaigns. Florida and Pennsylvania are in the next group of states at 8pm ET.
The economy and the state of US democracy are among the top issues cited by voters in NBC News’s exit poll, according to the preliminary results.
Thirty-five percent said democracy was their top issue while slightly fewer, 31 percent, said the economy. Abortion was the top issue for 14 percent of voters while 11 percent said immigration. Four percent said foreign policy was most important to them.
Meanwhile, Trump dismissed critics who expressed concerns that he would not concede an election loss as “crazy” as he cast his vote in Florida.
The former president told reporters as he voted with his wife Melania Trump: “If I lose an election, if it’s a fair election, I’d be the first one to acknowledge it.”
Trump later declared that his supporters are “not violent people.”
The first in-person votes were cast in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, at midnight on Monday – a tradition going back almost 65 years – with the town’s six registered voters split evenly between the two candidates.
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As the clock strikes 8.30pm on the East Coast, the polls have closed in one more state — Arkansas.
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Republican Rick Scott has held on to his Florida US Senate seat in a battle that had commanded national attention.
But why was a Republican incumbent’s battle for re-election, in a reddening state where Donald Trump makes his home, so important?
Because of the stakes, explains John Bowden.
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Republicans will be breathing a sigh of relief that the potentially vulnerable incumbent has managed to hang on
What is the Electoral College and why is 270 so important?
When citizens cast their ballots for president, they are not actually voting for president but for one of 538 electors meant to represent the will of the people. The victor is the first to win a majority of electors, the so-called magic number of 270.
Each state’s slate of electors then convene before sending off the collected votes to Congress for its January 6 counting and certification of the electoral votes. Read more from Justin Rohrlich here:
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Democrat Josh Stein wins North Carolina gubernatorial race, beating scandal-plagued Mark Robinson
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Manhattan skyscrapers lit up red, white and blue for Election Day
The 9 key races to watch in the 2024 election
From wickedly expensive Senate races racking up tens of millions of dollars in campaign donations, to a volatile race for governor and a fierce attempt to derail support for abortion rights. These are some of the most interesting races to watch. Read more by Alex Woodward here:
These are 9 key races to watch in the 2024 election
Voters will decide the balance of power in Congress in tight races across the country
Too early to call on future of abortion access in Florida
Results for races in Florida are starting to roll in, but it appears too close or early to call it for Amendment 4, which would amend the state’s constitution to enshrine a right to abortion access.
It needs 60 percent of the vote to pass.
Trump skewered for alleging ‘massive cheating’ in Philadelphia
Donald Trump’s suggestion that “massive cheating” might be underway as voters go to the polls in Philadelphia has “no factual basis whatsoever,” according to Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner.
Josh Marcus reports.
Philly DA says Trump claims of ‘massive cheating’ have ‘no factual basis whatsoever’
Pennsylvania is key swing state in 2024 election and could determine who takes the Oval Office
Race calls in multiple states
The Associated Press has called Mississippi, Alabama, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Florida, and South Carolina for Donald Trump.
Kamala Harris is projected to have won Maryland, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island.
8pm ET — Polls close in 16 states and DC
It is 8pm on the East Coast and polls are now closed in the following states:
- Alabama
- Connecticut
- District of Columbia
- Delaware
- Florida*
- Illinois
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- New Hampshire*
- New Jersey
- Oklahoma
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- Tennessee
*Florida and New Hampshire saw some results at 7pm ET.
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