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A woman writes on a board showing vote tallies during the 2024 U.S. presidential election on Election Day in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, U.S., November 5, 2024. REUTERS
Highlights
Millions of voters in the US head to the polls
Opinion polls show Trump and Harris even
More than 82 million early votes already cast
Trump vows to lead America to 'new heights of glory'
Harris has advocated for abortion rights and pledged to lower food and housing costs for working families
Election day voting has begun in the United States, where millions of Americans will choose between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris as the next president. Key battleground states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, and Georgia will likely influence the outcome in the Electoral College.
Follow the live updates below -
04:50pm, 5 Nov
How will swing state voters decide the US election 2024 results?
Donald Trump Jr. speaks as former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (L) listens alongside Tiffany Trump's spouse Michael Boulos (2nd L), Tiffany Trump (3rd L), Co-chair of the Republican National Committee Lara Trump (3rdR) and Eric Trump (R), during a campaign rally at Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan on November 5, 2024. Photo: AFP
The winner of November's U.S. presidential election will govern a nation of more than 330 million people, but the contest will almost certainly be decided by just tens of thousands of voters – a tiny fraction of the populace – in a handful of states.
That's because only seven of the 50 states are truly competitive this year, with the rest all comfortably Democratic or Republican, according to public opinion polls.
Among those seven battlegrounds, Pennsylvania, the most populous, stands out as the most likely state to determine whether Democrat Kamala Harris or Republican Donald Trump is the next president.
The candidates' strategies reflect this reality, with the vast majority of their ad spending and campaign events directed at those seven states that swing between political parties.
Read more
03:18pm, 5 Nov
Harris or Trump: America decides in knife-edge election
People cast their ballots on the last day of early voting for the general election in Michigan at the Livingston Educational Service Agency in Howell, Michigan on November 3, 2024. Photo: AFP
American voters deliver their verdict Tuesday after an extraordinarily turbulent election that will either make Kamala Harris the first woman president in US history or deliver Donald Trump a comeback that sends shockwaves around the world.
As polling stations open nationwide on Election Day, Democratic vice president Harris, 60, and Republican former president Trump, 78, are dead-even in the tightest and most volatile White House race of modern times.
Read more
12:39pm, 5 Nov
New Hampshire hamlet tied in first US Election day votes
A resident of Dixville Notch shows their ID 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 on November 5, 2024. The six people voting in Dixville Notch, four Republican and two undeclared, kick off Election Day at the stroke of midnight. Photo: AFP
Voters in the US hamlet of Dixville Notch launched Election Day in the first minutes of Tuesday with a tied vote, mirroring the incredibly close national polls in the White House race.
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump each got three ballots in the tiny community in the northeastern state of New Hampshire which for decades has kicked off Election Day at the stroke of midnight Monday -- hours before the rest of the country's polling stations open.
Read more
02:29pm, 5 Nov
Harris, Trump campaign draws to a close before final vote
This combination of pictures created on November 04, 2024 shows US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris (L) arrives to speak during a campaign rally on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on November 4, 2024, former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (R) waves as he leaves after speaking at his last campaign rally at Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan on November 5, 2024. Photo: AFP
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris both predicted victory as they campaigned across Pennsylvania and other battleground states on Monday in the final, frantic day of an exceptionally close U.S. presidential election.
The campaign has seen head-spinning twists: two assassination attempts and a felony conviction for Republican former President Trump, and Democratic Vice President Harris' surprise elevation to the top of the ticket after President Joe Biden, 81, dropped his reelection bid under pressure from his own party. More than $2.6 billion has been spent to sway voters' minds since March, according to AdImpact, an analytics firm.
Read more
01:46pm, 5 Nov
When will we know who won?
As Americans prepare to vote on Election Day Tuesday, officials are calling for patience as they tally ballots in what could be a historically close presidential race -- and warning that it could take days to find out who has won.
Under the US system, citizens do not vote directly for their leader. Instead, their ballots elect the 538 members of a group called the Electoral College, which then elects the president and vice president.
Read more
08:36am, 5 Nov
What if the US election ends in a Trump-Harris tie?
So what exactly happens if neither Kamala Harris or Donald Trump achieves the Electoral College majority required to win the US election?
While not highly likely, such an outcome remains possible, tormenting Americans already perched painfully on the edge of their seats ahead of the November 5 election.
Read more
12:36am, 5 Nov
US to make history either way
Harris vs Trump 2024 US election race
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump launched a final frenzied campaign blitz yesterday, hitting must-win Pennsylvania on the last day of a volatile US presidential race that polls say is hurtling towards a photo finish.
At his first rally of the day in North Carolina, Trump, 78, shrugged off accusations that his age and the grueling election schedule had left him physically and mentally exhausted.
Read more
12:23am, 5 Nov
How the US elects its president
How the US elects its president
You vote for a candidate and the candidate with the most votes wins.
It, however, does not work like that in the US. There the electoral college decides the winner.
Each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia has electoral votes equal to the number of representatives it has in the Senate and the House of Representatives, which depends on the population of the state. Big states have more representatives -- California has 54 electoral votes.
Read more
12:54pm, 5 Nov
Texas, Missouri sue to block Justice Department from sending poll monitors
Voters mark their ballots at a Ferguson polling station during Election Day in Missouri, US, November 3, 2020. REUTERS File Photo
The Republican-led states of Missouri and Texas sued the US Justice Department on Monday to block the federal government from sending lawyers to their states on Election Day to monitor for compliance with federal voting rights laws.
Both states are among 27 the Justice Department said on Friday it would send staff out to monitor voting locations, as it has done regularly during national elections.
Read more
09:50am, 5 Nov
Important dates in the US presidential race
A woman cheers during a campaign rally for Democratic presidential nominee U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S., November 4, 2024. REUTERS
US voters will go to the polls on Tuesday to cast their votes in the presidential election after a closely fought contest between Vice President Kamala Harris, a Democrat, and Republican former President Donald Trump.
Here is a timeline of events that will take place between now and Inauguration Day in January 2025.
Read more
09:24am, 5 Nov
Who has Trump threatened to prosecute if he becomes president again?
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has vowed to investigate or prosecute political rivals, election workers and left-wing Americans if he becomes president again.
Democratic candidate Kamala Harris says that if Trump wins Tuesday's presidential election, he will seek extreme and unchecked powers.
Read more
12:46am, 5 Nov
Pennsylvania holds the key
Democratic candidate Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump remain in a tight race in the country's seven battleground states that will determine who will be the next president of the United States of America.
According to the RealClearPolitics Poll Average, Vice President Harris held marginal leads in Wisconsin (+0.4) and Michigan (+1.2). Former president Trump was ahead in Nevada (+1.0), North Carolina (+1.5), Georgia (+1.7), Arizona (+2.7), and Pennsylvania (+0.3).
Read more
12:03am, 5 Nov
Bangla will be on New York City's ballot papers
In today's US elections, New York City ballots will feature Bangla, making it one of the four languages available alongside English for voters.
"We are required to service four other languages besides English. They are Chinese, Spanish, Korean and Bengali as the Asian languages," said Micheal J Ryan, executive director, Board of Elections, NYC.
Read more
12am, Nov 5
What Americans are voting for
It's not just the Harris-Trump show: US voters will cast ballots today for members of Congress, tens of thousands of state and local officials, and in multiple referendums on topics including hot-button issues like abortion.
Read more
12am, 5 Nov
Trump counts on young men
In this election, Trump has made a concerted effort to court Gen Z men, especially white, Black and Latino men without a college degree, seeking out the podcasts and influencers that they flock to and appearing on shows where he exhibits a bravado and disdain for cultural norms.
In recent years, young men have become more conservative and increasingly anxious about their economic status.
Read more
12am, 5 Nov
Harris banks on women's votes
In an ad for Kamala Harris, a woman marks her ballot for the Democratic candidate while her husband thinks she's voting for Republican Donald Trump: "What happens in the booth, stays in the booth" a voiceover says.
The 30-second-clip, narrated by actor Julia Roberts, shows the couple arriving at a polling station wearing baseball caps featuring the American flag, a symbol often sported by Trump supporters.
Read more
08:49am, 4 Nov
Trump rhetoric darkens, Harris vows Gaza peace in final hours
Kamala Harris courted voters angered by the Gaza war while Donald Trump doubled down on violent rhetoric with a comment about journalists being shot as the tense US election campaign headed into its final hours.
The Democratic vice president and the Republican former president frantically blitzed several swing states as they tried to win over the last holdouts with less than 36 hours left until polls open on Election Day.
Read more
12am, 4 Nov
'A landslide' or 'lot of fraud'
Republican presidential nominee and former US president Donald Trump gestures on the day of a campaign rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, US on Saturday. PHOTO: REUTERS
One day before the US presidential election, supporters of Donald Trump are ready to reject the results -- unless their man wins.
"I really wouldn't believe it if they told me she won," Brandon Dent, 22, told AFP, referring to Trump's rival, Vice President Kamala Harris.
"He'll take it in a landslide," the delivery driver said, observing the thousands of fellow Trump supporters lining up to see the president speak in the Virginia city of Salem, nestled among gentle mountains brushed in red and orange by the fall foliage.
Highlights
Millions of voters in the US head to the polls
Opinion polls show Trump and Harris even
More than 82 million early votes already cast
Trump vows to lead America to 'new heights of glory'
Harris has advocated for abortion rights and pledged to lower food and housing costs for working families
Election day voting has begun in the United States, where millions of Americans will choose between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris as the next president. Key battleground states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, and Georgia will likely influence the outcome in the Electoral College.
Follow the live updates below -
04:50pm, 5 Nov
How will swing state voters decide the US election 2024 results?
Donald Trump Jr. speaks as former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (L) listens alongside Tiffany Trump's spouse Michael Boulos (2nd L), Tiffany Trump (3rd L), Co-chair of the Republican National Committee Lara Trump (3rdR) and Eric Trump (R), during a campaign rally at Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan on November 5, 2024. Photo: AFP
The winner of November's U.S. presidential election will govern a nation of more than 330 million people, but the contest will almost certainly be decided by just tens of thousands of voters – a tiny fraction of the populace – in a handful of states.
That's because only seven of the 50 states are truly competitive this year, with the rest all comfortably Democratic or Republican, according to public opinion polls.
Among those seven battlegrounds, Pennsylvania, the most populous, stands out as the most likely state to determine whether Democrat Kamala Harris or Republican Donald Trump is the next president.
The candidates' strategies reflect this reality, with the vast majority of their ad spending and campaign events directed at those seven states that swing between political parties.
Read more
03:18pm, 5 Nov
Harris or Trump: America decides in knife-edge election
People cast their ballots on the last day of early voting for the general election in Michigan at the Livingston Educational Service Agency in Howell, Michigan on November 3, 2024. Photo: AFP
American voters deliver their verdict Tuesday after an extraordinarily turbulent election that will either make Kamala Harris the first woman president in US history or deliver Donald Trump a comeback that sends shockwaves around the world.
As polling stations open nationwide on Election Day, Democratic vice president Harris, 60, and Republican former president Trump, 78, are dead-even in the tightest and most volatile White House race of modern times.
Read more
12:39pm, 5 Nov
New Hampshire hamlet tied in first US Election day votes
A resident of Dixville Notch shows their ID 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 on November 5, 2024. The six people voting in Dixville Notch, four Republican and two undeclared, kick off Election Day at the stroke of midnight. Photo: AFP
Voters in the US hamlet of Dixville Notch launched Election Day in the first minutes of Tuesday with a tied vote, mirroring the incredibly close national polls in the White House race.
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump each got three ballots in the tiny community in the northeastern state of New Hampshire which for decades has kicked off Election Day at the stroke of midnight Monday -- hours before the rest of the country's polling stations open.
Read more
02:29pm, 5 Nov
Harris, Trump campaign draws to a close before final vote
This combination of pictures created on November 04, 2024 shows US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris (L) arrives to speak during a campaign rally on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on November 4, 2024, former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (R) waves as he leaves after speaking at his last campaign rally at Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan on November 5, 2024. Photo: AFP
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris both predicted victory as they campaigned across Pennsylvania and other battleground states on Monday in the final, frantic day of an exceptionally close U.S. presidential election.
The campaign has seen head-spinning twists: two assassination attempts and a felony conviction for Republican former President Trump, and Democratic Vice President Harris' surprise elevation to the top of the ticket after President Joe Biden, 81, dropped his reelection bid under pressure from his own party. More than $2.6 billion has been spent to sway voters' minds since March, according to AdImpact, an analytics firm.
Read more
01:46pm, 5 Nov
When will we know who won?
As Americans prepare to vote on Election Day Tuesday, officials are calling for patience as they tally ballots in what could be a historically close presidential race -- and warning that it could take days to find out who has won.
Under the US system, citizens do not vote directly for their leader. Instead, their ballots elect the 538 members of a group called the Electoral College, which then elects the president and vice president.
Read more
08:36am, 5 Nov
What if the US election ends in a Trump-Harris tie?
So what exactly happens if neither Kamala Harris or Donald Trump achieves the Electoral College majority required to win the US election?
While not highly likely, such an outcome remains possible, tormenting Americans already perched painfully on the edge of their seats ahead of the November 5 election.
Read more
12:36am, 5 Nov
US to make history either way
Harris vs Trump 2024 US election race
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump launched a final frenzied campaign blitz yesterday, hitting must-win Pennsylvania on the last day of a volatile US presidential race that polls say is hurtling towards a photo finish.
At his first rally of the day in North Carolina, Trump, 78, shrugged off accusations that his age and the grueling election schedule had left him physically and mentally exhausted.
Read more
12:23am, 5 Nov
How the US elects its president
How the US elects its president
You vote for a candidate and the candidate with the most votes wins.
It, however, does not work like that in the US. There the electoral college decides the winner.
Each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia has electoral votes equal to the number of representatives it has in the Senate and the House of Representatives, which depends on the population of the state. Big states have more representatives -- California has 54 electoral votes.
Read more
12:54pm, 5 Nov
Texas, Missouri sue to block Justice Department from sending poll monitors
Voters mark their ballots at a Ferguson polling station during Election Day in Missouri, US, November 3, 2020. REUTERS File Photo
The Republican-led states of Missouri and Texas sued the US Justice Department on Monday to block the federal government from sending lawyers to their states on Election Day to monitor for compliance with federal voting rights laws.
Both states are among 27 the Justice Department said on Friday it would send staff out to monitor voting locations, as it has done regularly during national elections.
Read more
09:50am, 5 Nov
Important dates in the US presidential race
A woman cheers during a campaign rally for Democratic presidential nominee U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S., November 4, 2024. REUTERS
US voters will go to the polls on Tuesday to cast their votes in the presidential election after a closely fought contest between Vice President Kamala Harris, a Democrat, and Republican former President Donald Trump.
Here is a timeline of events that will take place between now and Inauguration Day in January 2025.
Read more
09:24am, 5 Nov
Who has Trump threatened to prosecute if he becomes president again?
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has vowed to investigate or prosecute political rivals, election workers and left-wing Americans if he becomes president again.
Democratic candidate Kamala Harris says that if Trump wins Tuesday's presidential election, he will seek extreme and unchecked powers.
Read more
12:46am, 5 Nov
Pennsylvania holds the key
Democratic candidate Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump remain in a tight race in the country's seven battleground states that will determine who will be the next president of the United States of America.
According to the RealClearPolitics Poll Average, Vice President Harris held marginal leads in Wisconsin (+0.4) and Michigan (+1.2). Former president Trump was ahead in Nevada (+1.0), North Carolina (+1.5), Georgia (+1.7), Arizona (+2.7), and Pennsylvania (+0.3).
Read more
12:03am, 5 Nov
Bangla will be on New York City's ballot papers
In today's US elections, New York City ballots will feature Bangla, making it one of the four languages available alongside English for voters.
"We are required to service four other languages besides English. They are Chinese, Spanish, Korean and Bengali as the Asian languages," said Micheal J Ryan, executive director, Board of Elections, NYC.
Read more
12am, Nov 5
What Americans are voting for
It's not just the Harris-Trump show: US voters will cast ballots today for members of Congress, tens of thousands of state and local officials, and in multiple referendums on topics including hot-button issues like abortion.
Read more
12am, 5 Nov
Trump counts on young men
In this election, Trump has made a concerted effort to court Gen Z men, especially white, Black and Latino men without a college degree, seeking out the podcasts and influencers that they flock to and appearing on shows where he exhibits a bravado and disdain for cultural norms.
In recent years, young men have become more conservative and increasingly anxious about their economic status.
Read more
12am, 5 Nov
Harris banks on women's votes
In an ad for Kamala Harris, a woman marks her ballot for the Democratic candidate while her husband thinks she's voting for Republican Donald Trump: "What happens in the booth, stays in the booth" a voiceover says.
The 30-second-clip, narrated by actor Julia Roberts, shows the couple arriving at a polling station wearing baseball caps featuring the American flag, a symbol often sported by Trump supporters.
Read more
08:49am, 4 Nov
Trump rhetoric darkens, Harris vows Gaza peace in final hours
Kamala Harris courted voters angered by the Gaza war while Donald Trump doubled down on violent rhetoric with a comment about journalists being shot as the tense US election campaign headed into its final hours.
The Democratic vice president and the Republican former president frantically blitzed several swing states as they tried to win over the last holdouts with less than 36 hours left until polls open on Election Day.
Read more
12am, 4 Nov
'A landslide' or 'lot of fraud'
Republican presidential nominee and former US president Donald Trump gestures on the day of a campaign rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, US on Saturday. PHOTO: REUTERS
One day before the US presidential election, supporters of Donald Trump are ready to reject the results -- unless their man wins.
"I really wouldn't believe it if they told me she won," Brandon Dent, 22, told AFP, referring to Trump's rival, Vice President Kamala Harris.
"He'll take it in a landslide," the delivery driver said, observing the thousands of fellow Trump supporters lining up to see the president speak in the Virginia city of Salem, nestled among gentle mountains brushed in red and orange by the fall foliage.