US Election live: Americans choose between Trump and Harris in tight race

Trump has won Georgia and its 16 electoral votes, according to the Associated Press, a state he narrowly lost to Joe Biden in 2020. Trump campaigned heavily in the Peach State and emerged with a win despite his on-and-off criticism of Brian Kemp, Georgia’s popular Republican governor.

Dogs in MAGA tops and crochet puppets of Donald Trump have been spotted in the Republican candidate's home town on election day.

The scenes unravelled in Palm Beach, Florida. at the Mandel Center which sits just three miles away from Trump's Mar-a-Lago complex.

Trump visited the very area just hours earlier to cast his vote for the US election.

Read the full story on The Telegraph.

Kamala Harris has been spotted joining volunteers at the phone banks at the DNC's Washington headquarters.

In a surprise visit to thank staff for their contributions, she said their efforts "truly makes the best of what we are".

Calling one voter, she asked: “Have you voted already?”

The person responded that they had, to which Harris said, “You did? Thank you.”

According to the Harris campaign, she has plans to do more radio call-ins this evening.

One of the more vocal and supporters of Trump has been Robert Francis Kennedy Jr.

The US politician and nephew of former US president John F Kennedy is the chairman and founder of Children's Health Defense, an anti-vaccine advocacy group that is a leading proponent of Covid-19 vaccine misinformation.

Speaking to NBC about Kennedy on Sunday, Trump said he was "a very talented guy and has strong views".

Kennedy has been known to claim that vaccines cause autism, a theory that has been routinely debunked.

Kennedy has also recently hit the headlines for campaigning to ban flouride in the water supply, claiming that it was an industrial waste linked to cancer.

Flouride, a compound naturally found in water, is said to be instrumental in fighting tooth decay.

One of the few places that has removed flouride from its water — Calgary, in Canada — intends to reverse its decision in 2025 after it found the removal of flouride resulted in worsening tooth decay among young children after its removal.

In such a tight election race, every vote counts - which is why the presence of Green Party candidate Jill Stein is causing the Democrats some concern.

While the US election has long been considered a two-horse race, frustration over the Republican and Democrat positions on the Israel-Hamas war as well as environmental issues has led many to speculate whether it will bolster the Green Party’s position.

Both Team Trump and the Harris campaign have said that a vote for Stein is a vote for Trump. In a race with a razor thin majority, both camps are recognising that every vote counts – and those that vote Green are significantly more likely to vote Democrat.

Stein, a Harvard graduate and practising doctor, previously ran for the Greens in the 2012 and 2016 elections.

Some voters said they felt compelled to back Stein because they are haunted by the violence raging on in the Middle East.

"Every time I watch the news or get on social media, I see my people being decimated, I see my home country being destroyed," a 32-year-old Lebanese-American, disillusioned by the Biden-Harris administration's unwavering support for Israel, told AFP.

Overall, Stein was polling at about 1 percent nationally in October.

Anne Hathaway, Julia Roberts and Eva Longoria are among the celebrities sharing that they have voted for Kamala Harris as the US goes to the polls.

Posting on Instagram on Tuesday, Pretty Woman star Roberts shared an image of herself wearing a Potus (President of the United States) t-shirt with a female sign, and a sticker saying: “I voted.”

She wrote: “There is a time to hope, there is a time to pray and there is time to vote. Today is the day.”

Read the full story from PA.

Considering pulling an all-nighter to keep up with the election? Here's what to expect as the evening progresses.

• The first batch of exit poll data will be released at 10pm. Unlike in the UK, this exit poll won’t try to determine the result of the election. Instead, it will map out people’s voting priorities, as well as how certain demographics voted.

• By midnight, the east coast polls will have closed, including in the first swing state of the night, Georgia. Others, like Ohio, will shortly follow.

• By 1am, the crucial swing state of Pennsylvania will have also closed to voters, with more exit poll data also coming to light.

• By 6am, Alaska and Hawaii, the last remaining states, will close their polls.

• And the election result? That’s all to play for. While many elections are called within a 24 to 36-hour period, some counts — due to the size of the country and its voting system — take days. Let’s hope it’s shorter than the gruelling 36-day recount battle in 2000, which saw the Supreme Court weighing in to determine who was the presidential victor out of George W Bush and Al Gore.

Kamala Harris will claim an historic victory as the first woman to get the keys to the White House if she wins the US presidential election.

While Harris has enjoyed various small leads over her Republican rival Donald Trump since taking over the campaign from incumbent president Joe Biden, the margins are closing and the race remains anyone's to win.

The results of this November’s presidential election could not only spell significant changes for the US in the four years ahead, but also closer to home.

Read the full story here.

Since 2008, North Carolina has begun to break away from its Southern neighbours to become a swing state.

In 2008, Barack Obama became the first Democrat to claim victory here since Jimmy Carter in 1976 – albeit by just 14,000 votes over John McCain.

It flipped back to the Republicans with Mitt Romney in 2012 and then Donald Trump in each of the last two elections, but remains in the toss-up column this year – with one extra electoral college vote up for grabs.

Number of electoral votes: 16

It's been a mostly quiet election day so far, despite a man arrested being arrested at the Capitol, and some false bomb threats.

Police arrested a man who turned up to the building's visitor centre smelling like fuel and armed with potential incendiary devices.

"The CVC [Capitol Visitor Centre] is closed for tours for the day while we investigate," US Capitol police wrote on X.

Some fake bomb threats to polling stations were also identified by the FBI.

The threats, made in several states, appear to originate from Russian email domains, Reuters reported.

"None of the threats have been determined to be credible thus far," the FBI said in a statement.

At least two polling locations in Fulton County, Georgia, were also briefly evacuated on Tuesday morning.

State secretary Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, confirmed that at least one bomb threat made against the polling station was from a person of Russian origin.

Raffensberger said that he thought the calls were made because the Russian authorities "don't want us to have a smooth, fair and accurate election".

NASA astronauts have taken to Instagram to encourage voters to cast their ballot.

Astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams and Don Pettit voted early for the presidential election from the International Space Station, according to the Harris County Clerk of Court’s Office in Texas, CNN reported.

"It doesn’t matter if you are sitting, standing, or floating – what matters is that you vote!" NASA astronaut Nick Hague wrote.

But how does someone vote in space? It turns out that ballots cast in space get beamed to Earth in the same way that most data is transmitted between the space station and mission control.

People around the world are waiting for the results of the US presidential election to come in.

With Ohio expected to back Donald Trump again, Pennsylvania has become the key swing state in the so-called ‘Rust Belt’.

The fifth most populous state in the nation voted Democratic in six straight elections before 2016, but went for Donald Trump by 0.7% in 2016 – a key element in his upset victory over Hillary Clinton.

Joe Biden beat Trump by 1.2% in 2020 and another close battle is expected for its 19 electoral votes this time.

Number of electoral votes: 19

With US election polls still too close to call, many are already considering the potential consequences on the rest of the world if former president Donald Trump is re-elected.

The results of 5 November’s presidential election could not only spell significant changes for the US in the four years ahead, but also further afield – including in the UK.

Read the full story here.

British voters trust Kamala Harris more than Donald Trump to carry out a range of everyday tasks, according to a new poll.

The Savanta survey gives the vice president a clear lead over her Republican rival as Americans decide who should be their new president.

According to the poll, just one in seven UK adults (15%) would trust Trump to babysit small children, compared to 59% who would trust Harris.

Read the full story from the Huffington Post.

It's a race of razor-thin margins, and it could be days before we know the results.

However, those who want to follow along in the UK as the US election results begin to trickle in have plenty of options — with coverage starting from 7pm tonight.

Whether you want to check out the coverage on BBC, ITV or Sky News, we've got you covered.

Read the full story from Oxford Mail.

The home of Las Vegas was a solid bet for the Republicans between 1968 and 1988, but a rapidly growing population – it has tripled since 1980 – has pushed the Silver State back into the toss-up territory.

Hillary Clinton edged out Donald Trump by 48% to 46% in 2016 and Joe Biden beat Trump 50% to 48% in 2020. Clinton’s win was only the second time since 1912 Nevada had not voted for the winner of the election – they also voted for Republican Gerald Ford in 1976.

Number of electoral votes: 6

Dogs at polling stations has been a big thing over the last few UK elections... so here's some of the pooches turning out at the polling station for the presidential election in the US.

US expats living in the UK have shared their anxiety and anticipation as polls open in the US for the 2024 presidential election.

The run-off between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump is one of the closest races in US history, and on Tuesday millions of Americans headed to their local polling station to cast their votes.

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Michigan has emerged as one of the new battleground states which will decide this election. It was solidly Republican between 1972 and 1988, then solidly Democratic between 1992 and 2012.

But in 2016, Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton here by just 0.2% of the vote, before losing to Joe Biden by 2.8% four years later.

The Great Lake State has lost one electoral college vote since the last election as its population has declined.

Number of electoral votes: 15

Have you ever wondered where the US election starts and ends?

The first and last towns to vote are more than 4,400 miles apart — with the first vote cast in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, and the final votes cast in Adak Island, Alaska.

As of an hour ago, polls are officially open across the US.

Take a look at the stats below.

YouGov has been asking people across the UK one big election question: regardless of who they want to win, who do Britons expect will win the US election?

It looks like Kamala Harris will win out, according to the UK, with Donald Trump and "don't know" both sitting at 31%.

Donald Trump has now stopped to thank Republican election workers in Palm Beach County for their support.

At the end of his speech, he warned them to "make sure there’s no cheating, right?"

He also expressed his distaste in waiting for the election results to come through.

"After spending billions of dollars, wouldn’t it be nice if they could have a computer give an answer by 10 o’clock in the evening? Doesn’t really make sense," he joked.

Kamala Harris's running mate Tim Walz has now spoken about the campaign, saying that he "could not be prouder" to be on the electoral ticket.

Speaking to campaigners, he said: "We are trying to be part of a system, a democracy where voices matter, every voice matters.

"The vice president has laid out a path and been very clear. She wakes up every morning thinking you, about what we can do better. And that's a pretty stark contrast to the other side.

"I could not be prouder to be on this ticket to watch that contrast. One that is hopeful, rule of law matters, constitution matters, the American experiment matters, neighbours matter."

Trump did make one stinging rebuttal: taking aim at talk show host Oprah Winfrey.

Winfrey has made a ringing endorsement for Kamala Harris, and has featured on the campaign trail — to the distaste of Trump.

“I think Oprah has become a major divider of this country," he told reporters when he cast his vote in Palm Beach, Florida.

"She should be ashamed of herself. You know who else should be ashamed, Fox News. They’ve put Oprah on all morning long. All I see is Oprah. I know Oprah very well, she was at Mar A Lago a lot.”

Trump has also said that this presidential race will be his final campaign - regardless of the outcome.

Responding to reporters, he said he felt "sad and fulfilled".

"I think we're going to have a big victory today," he added.

The 2024 election between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump has seen an attempted assassination, heaps of controversy and discussion of a "little secret".

But it's not the first US presidential race to be fraught with surprise, passion and jeopardy - particularly as the contest reaches its crescendo on election night.

Read the full story from Sky News.

Donald Trump has said that the Conservatives are "voting very powerfully".

The Republican presidential hopeful stopped to respond to questions about his campaign just a few minutes ago, telling reporters that the party "went in with a very big lead today".

He said: "It looks like Republicans have shown up in force. We’ll see how it turns out.

"I ran a good campaign, I think it was the best of the three."

From 1988 until 2012 Democratic candidates won seven out of seven in the Badger State, but Wisconsin has shifted into the toss-up category more recently.

The first warning signs for Democrats came in 2000 and 2004 when their margin of victory was less than 1% on both occasions.

Barack Obama carried Wisconsin twice, but in 2016 Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton by 47.2% to 46.5% despite no polls predicting a Republican victory.

Four years ago Wisconsin backed Joe Biden, but again by less than one percentage point.

Number of electoral votes: 10

It's been a whirlwind of a presidential election campaign, consisting of an assassination attempt (and another alleged one), changing candidates and some bizarre claims on the campaign trail.

Read the full story from Sky News for a breakdown of the most shocking moments of the 2024 election campaign.

Donald Trump is now casting his election ballot.

Trump and his wife, Melania Trump, have voted in Palm Beach, near the pair's Mar-a-Lago resort.

At the polling station, Trump responded to a question about potential violence if the result is not what he wants.

"My supporters are not violent people," he said.

The presidential hopeful also promised to admit if he lost.

However, Trump has repeatedly urged his supporters to deliver a victory “too big to rig", telling them the only way he can lose is if Democrats cheat.

In a speech in August, he said: : “The only way they can do anything is if they cheat like hell, and we’ve been victims of that. … We don’t need the votes, we just want to make sure that they don’t cheat.”

It's polling day in the US, with Americans set to decide whether Kamala Harris and Donald Trump will be the next president of the United States.

Opinion polls show the pair are locked in a tight race, with Harris bolstered by strong support among female voters while Trump gains ground with Hispanic voters, especially men.

Read the full story from Yahoo News.

As Americans cast their votes in the US election, polls have consistently shown a tight race between Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump.

The Harris campaign may have gained momentum since she took the baton from incumbent president Joe Biden, but Trump's base remains strong, and his supporters turn out in droves in traditional battleground states that play a disproportionate role in deciding the outcome of the US election.

Read the full story from Yahoo News.

The former president said he would be sharing tweets throughout the day.

With sacred chants, ringing of bells and offerings of flowers and bananas, a Hindu priest in Kamala Harris' ancestral village in southern India conducted prayers on Tuesday for her victory in the U.S presidential election.

The temple ceremony in Thulasendrapuram, in the state of Tamil Nadu, was organised by local villagers and attended by more than a dozen of them and a few tourists.

Harris' maternal grandfather PV Gopalan was born more than a century ago in Thulasendrapuram before migrating to the state capital Chennai. He was a high-ranking government official at the time of his retirement.

After lighting incense, the priest ended the prayer pronouncing "Kamala Harris should win", as he offered vermilion powder and ash to those attending.

At the temple, Harris' name is engraved on a stone that lists public donations, along with that of her grandfather. Outside, Arulmozhi Sudhakar, a local politician, erected a banner on Tuesday, wishing "the daughter of the land" success in the election.

"She is one of us. She will win," said Sudhakar, a representative of a local village body. "Once she wins, we will offer special prayers (on Wednesday) and also donate food at the temple."

Once a Republican stronghold, the Grand Canyon state has become one of the key swing states in the last few presidential elections – thanks in part to a significant growth in population.

It was long known as a home of conservative politics, once represented by John McCain, and between 1952 and 2016, Bill Clinton was the only Democrat to win in Arizona (in 1996).

But Donald Trump took it by a narrow margin in 2016 and Joe Biden won it by 0.3% four years later.

Number of electoral votes: 11

People across the world are joining millions of Americans in waiting for the US election result. Will it be Kamala Harris or Donald Trump?

The Peach State is the economic powerhouse of the South thanks to its capital Atlanta, the sixth most populous city in the country and home to more than half of Georgia’s population.

Like much of the South, it flipped from Democrat to Republican in the 1960s, changing only to vote for Southern candidates in Georgian Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton.

But, changed by its growing population, it has emerged as a swing state in recent years. Joe Biden beat Donald Trump by just 0.2% in 2020.

Number of electoral votes: 16

As polling day rolls on, let’s take a look at the flagship policies that have defined Kamala Harris’s campaign.

• The vice president has been the party’s leading voice on reproductive rights. In fact, Harris launched a nationwide “fight for reproductive freedoms” tour earlier this year. She is also understood to be the first vice president to visit an abortion clinic – a key signal to states in the midst of dismantling abortion care.

• Harris is keen to build an “opportunity economy” if she gets into power. She has outlined a package of proposals designed to win over the middle class, including combatting price gouging, building three million new homes, expanding tax credits for parents and expanding Medicare to cover in-home senior care.

• Harris has also been a long-time advocate for a two-state solution in response to the Israel-Hamas conflict, and has called for an end to the war. She has also insisted that Israel remains secure. In terms of Ukraine, she has pledged to support the nation for “as long as it takes”, backing the US’s Nato membership.

• Throughout her career, Harris has been a vocal supporter of progressive climate policy. However, she has been keen to impress that she has no plans to ban fracking, something that she hopes will appeal to voters in the key battleground state of Pennsylvania.

Want to find out more? Check out Harris’s campaign website here.

The Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance has cast his ballot in the US election.

As polling day rolls on, let’s take a look at the flagship policies that have defined Donald Trump's campaign.

• Trump’s flagship policy takes aim at immigration. The former president has pledged to reinstate the Muslim travel ban, and wants to bring in immigration raids and mass deportations targeting undocumented migrants.

• Trump’s nativist economic policy will instruct people to ‘buy American’ and ‘hire American’. He wants to bring more supply chains into the US, make it the world’s biggest energy producer, and turn it into a manufacturing superpower. Part of this vision is cutting the corporate tax rate from 21% to 15%.

• Trump describes himself as “the best friend Israel has ever had”. While he said he wants peace, he has suggested that he would ban refugees from Gaza under the Muslim travel ban and expel immigrants that sympathise with Hamas. Trump has also vowed to end the three-year Russia-Ukraine conflict on his first day in office – but the plans on how he will do this are still up in the air.

• The former president has been clear that he wants to turn towards fossil fuels and away from the global climate agenda. In fact, a spokesperson from Team Trump said in November that the presidential hopeful would drop out of the Paris Agreement once again if he returns to power.

Want to learn more? Check out Trump’s campaign website here.

Celebrity endorsements for Kamala Harris and Donald Trump continue to pour in as the US goes to the polls to elect a new president.

Singer and actress Lady Gaga was the latest high-profile name to lend her backing to Harris, performing God Bless America at the Democratic nominee's final rally in Philadelphia, which also featured talk show host Oprah Winfrey, as well as performers Katy Perry, Jon Bon Jovi and Ricky Martin.

Read the full story from Yahoo News.

New economic policy promises typically aren't rolled out during the final weeks of a presidential campaign. But that's one more norm Donald Trump and his allies have been upending in recent days.

The pledges have been coming fast and furious, including one last escalation of Trump's tariff promises on the final day of campaigning with the former president pledging to impose new blanket tariffs on Mexico.

Read the full story from Yahoo Finance.

As millions of Americans head to the polls, thunderstorms are forecast from the Great Lakes to the Gulf Coast, with the potential to cause inconveniences to voters across the country.

The heaviest concentration of rain is expected in Wisconsin, Louisiana, eastern Texas and Arkansas but heavy rain along the Mississippi River and Ohio River valleys could bring flash flooding and approximately 2 inches to 4 inches of rain between Louisiana and southern Indiana.

Read the full story from Good Morning America.

Sky News breaks down the issues that will decide the election.

The first local result for the US election has been called, as always, by the six-person community Dixville Notch.

Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump tied in the tiny New Hampshire town with three votes each.

The US always kicks off election day in Dixville Notch at midnight, with the town being one of the first places in the country to report its election results.

Here’s all you need to know about the township and its long-standing practice of calling results so early.

Read the full story from The Standard.

Sir Keir Starmer will be following the results of the US election and looks forward to working with whoever the American people choose, No 10 has said.

The prime minister’s official spokesman said: “It’s obviously for the American people to decide who they want to be their president when they vote today.

“The UK and US share a special relationship, and we look forward to working closely with whoever wins the election.

“We look forward to further strengthening our close ties across all parts of the close relationship.”

Starmer will be following the results and being kept updated. His spokesman did not say whether the prime minister would be staying up overnight to watch the results roll in.

Labour has been working hard to win over Donald Trump in case he is re-elected, health secretary Wes Streeting said.

Polls have opened in the US for Americans to start voting in what is set to be a neck-and-neck race for the US presidency between Kamala Harris and Mr Trump.

Sir Keir Starmer will have rocky terrain to navigate if Mr Trump wins, in part due to scathing criticism that current Cabinet ministers made of the Republican politician while Labour was in opposition and because of a row over Labour Party volunteers who travelled to the US to support the Harris campaign.

Read the full story from PA.

Kamala Harris will claim an historic victory as the first woman to get the keys to the White House if she wins the US presidential election on 5 November.

While Harris has enjoyed various small leads over her Republican rival Donald Trump since taking over the campaign from incumbent president Joe Biden, the margins are close and the race remains anyone's to win.

The results of this November’s presidential election could not only spell significant changes for the US in the four years ahead, but also closer to home.

Read the full story from Yahoo News.

Watch Barack Obama's final pitch for Kamala Harris ahead of the US election.