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The small New Hampshire hamlet of Dixville Notch began the 2024 US Election Day with a unique midnight vote, ending in a tie between Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris and former Republican President Donald Trump. Each candidate received three votes, reflecting the extremely close nationwide polling in this year’s White House race.

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Kamala Harris and Donald Trump received 3 votes each in New Hampshire's Dixville Notch in the early hours of Tuesday, reflecting the tight contest in the presidential race.

The tiny settlement in New Hampshire's northeast, traditionally begins Election Day at midnight on Monday before other polling stations open.

The fight between the Democratic vice president and the former Republican president has remained remarkably close.

New Hampshire's electoral regulations permit communities with populations under 100 to commence voting at midnight and conclude once all registered voters have cast their ballots.

At a final campaign rally in Detroit on Monday night, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz said that female voters would decisively vote against former President Donald Trump in the upcoming election.

"Folks, this is getting pretty simple now: Kamala and I trust women. Now tomorrow, women all across America, of every age, both parties, are going to send a loud, clear message to Donald Trump, whether he likes it or not," Walz said.

This statement references Trump's recent remarks in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where he declared he would protect women "whether the women like it or not. I am going to protect them." Trump admitted during his speech that his advisers had cautioned him against portraying himself as a protector, deeming it "inappropriate."

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump vowed Tuesday to lead the United States to "new heights of glory" as he delivered his closing pitch at the final rally of his campaign.

"With your vote tomorrow, we can fix every single problem our country faces and lead America, indeed, the world, to new heights of glory," said Trump.

EAM S Jaishankar, speaking at a joint press conference with Australian foreign minister Penny Wong at Parliament House in. Jaishankar also credited former US President Donald Trump with reviving the QUAD alliance in 2017, marking a significant development in Indo-Pacific cooperation.

"We have seen steady progress in our relationship with the US over the last five presidencies, including a previous Trump presidency," Jaishankar said in response to a question on how India-US ties may evolve after the elections.

"So, when we look at the American election, we are confident that, regardless of the outcome, our relationship with the US will continue to grow," he added.

Elon Musk during his appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience, expressed his scepticism about Hollywood's political endorsements, specifically targeting Sean "Diddy" Combs and Jennifer Lopez. Musk, who has become increasingly vocal about his support for Donald Trump, questioned the authenticity and motivations behind celebrity endorsements.

During the podcast, Rogan pointed out that Diddy’s inner circle has long been supportive of Democratic candidates, including Kamala Harris. Musk responded by questioning the credibility of Jennifer Lopez's endorsement of Harris, noting that Lopez, Diddy's ex-girlfriend, had never spoken out against him despite his controversial behaviour.

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Trump campaigned in North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Michigan on the final full day of the campaign and was due to return to his home in Palm Beach, Florida, to vote and await election results.

Harris scheduled five campaign stops in Pennsylvania, including two cities where Trump also visited, Reading and Pittsburgh.

She ended the day in Philadelphia with a star-studded event at the "Rocky steps" of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the site of a famous scene from the movie "Rocky."

Despite enjoying the support of A-list celebrities including Lady Gaga and Oprah Winfrey, both of whom rallied the Philadelphia crowd before Harris took the stage, Harris called herself the underdog who like Rocky was ready to "climb to victory."

"The momentum is on our side," Harris told a crowd that chanted back, "We will win."

In the final 'Last Week Tonight' episode before the US goes to the polls tomorrow, John Oliver made an emotional pitch for vice president Kamala Harris. He said Kamala Harris' policies are not perfect but he would vote for her. "Wouldn't it be great to live in a world where Trump is not longer an active threat?" he said fighting back tears. He said he's an immigrant and loves the country. Born in the UK, John Oliver became an American citizen in 2019 and this is his second-time voting in the presidential election.

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Poll guru Nate Silver's Silver Bulletin has revealed its final prediction a day ahead of the polls and said the White House battle will be a "pure toss-up". Former president Donald Trump has a 51.5 per cent chance of winning while vice president Kamala Harris has a 48.1 per cent chance. His prediction took note of the final battleground polls from Morning Consult and The New York Times.

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Vice President Kamala Harris experienced an awkward moment during a rally in Pennsylvania on Monday, as she struggled to engage the crowd with a chant that didn't quite land as intended. Speaking at a Pennsylvania rally, as the crowd was chanting "Kamala!" Harris tried to rally supporters by leading a chant of "Let’s get out the vote!” but her call was met with confusion.Without missing a beat, Harris quickly adapted, repeating her original chant a few more times: “Let’s get out the vote! Let’s get out the vote! Let’s get out the vote!” She then wrapped up with, “Let’s win! All right. Let’s get to work,” trying to regain momentum.

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GOP leader Nikki Haley who was not seen in Donald Trump's campaigning said the choice for her between Trump and vice president Kamala Harris is very easy. In an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal, Nikki Halet wrote, "I don't agree with Mr Trump 100% of the time. But I do agree with him most of the time and I disagree with Ms Harris nearly all the time. That makes this an easy call."Shark Tank businessman, billionaire Mark Cuban recently attacked Donald Trump over the absence of Haley in his campaign and said the former president does not like strong and intelligent women. While his comment rattled GOP women and several of them, including Tulsi Gabbard and Elon Musk's mother Maye Musk, condemned Mark Cuban for the comment, Cuban apologized and said his comment was only in the context of Nikki Haley.

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The early vote numbers are a little scary for vice president Kamala Harris, Jim Messina, who ran the Obama campaign in 2012, told on MSNBC adding that several of his friends called him panicking as the early voting numbers indicate a surge in Republican vote turnout.

“Republicans didn’t do what they did last time,” Messina continued. “Last time, Trump said don’t early vote so they didn’t. Republicans do have an advantage in early vote numbers. When the early votes come in, it’s going to look a little bit different than 2020 and that’s scary.”

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Monica Lewinsky's 9-word post on X went viral and she got viciously trolled as she urged people to vote on November 5, the Election Day. "PLEASE VOTE! (preferably like I did for harris/walz)" Monica wrote posting a photo of herself showing that she already cast her vote. Social media users called her stupid and a victim of Stockholm syndrome and reminded her that the Democrat party called her a whore after her infamous scandal with then-president Bill Clinton broke out.

About 25 years ago, Lewinsky was an intern at the White House and Bill Clinton was accused of having sexual relations with her. 51-year-old Lewinsky is an activist now and has spoken extensively about how she was bullied after that episode and how scathed she was. The trolling came back again on Monday as the activist announced her endorsement of Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris.

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A Pennsylvania court has ruled that a high-profile $1 million-a-day sweepstakes, hosted by Elon Musk's America PAC in key swing states, can continue through the presidential election. The decision by Judge Angelo Foglietta on Monday comes after Musk’s lawyers argued that recipients of the sweepstakes are not chosen at random but rather selected based on alignment with the PAC’s values. Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, however, had attempted to halt the programme, describing it as a "scam" that breaches state election laws.

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Fahrenheit 9/11 director Michael Moore who wrote a blog post last month saying that former president Donald Trump is "toast" said his confidence in Kamala Harris continues and MAGA people are going to be very surprised by what's going to happen Tuesday. On MSNBC, the 70-year-old Academy Award winner who rightly predicted the 2016 election said, "I don’t want to say it too loudly, because our work isn’t done, right?".

“I feel the same way that I felt a few weeks ago — that Trump is toast. Absolutely, I feel it more now.”“Frankly, I know people watching this [will say] ‘Mike, how can you say that? You know all these crazy people, and all these Trumpsters and MAGA nation.’ And what I say to them is, honestly, I have a lot of personal, deep faith in my fellow Americans.”

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ABC News chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl revealed that he had a phone chat with Donald Trump when he asked him whether the former president thought there was any way he could lose the election. The phone call took place on Sunday morning and Karl said Trump admitted that there's a possibility he could lose. "Yeah, I guess, you know," Trump said in response.“I guess you could lose, can lose. I mean, that happens, right?” he said. “But I think I have a pretty substantial lead. But, you could say — yeah, yeah, you could lose. Bad things could happen. You know, things happen, but it’s going to be interesting.”

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A tie in the US presidential election, with neither Kamala Harris nor Donald Trump reaching the 270 electoral votes needed to win, remains unlikely yet possible. If such a situation erupts which is unlikely to happen here’s how an Electoral College deadlock would unfold and what it means for the election outcome.

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Influential podcaster Joe Rogan endorsed former US President Donald Trump in his bid to return to the White House a day before US elections.The endorsement follows a lengthy, nearly three-hour interview Rogan conducted with Trump in October.Confirming his support on X (formerly Twitter), Rogan said, “For the record, yes, that's an endorsement of Trump."

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Indian American supporter of Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump, Shalabh Kumar, who is the founder of lobby group Republican Hindu Coalition (RHC), is running a whopping $1.2 million campaign, over the past four days, targeted at Hindu American and Indian American voters.

“Our educational advertisement is running across 40 TV channels every 15 minutes, in the crucial battleground states; pointing out the policy differences between former President Trump and Vice-President Kamala Harris regarding India and Hindu Americans. It talks about their past actions and expected future actions if elected,” Kumar told the Times of India.

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New York City's linguistic diversity encompasses over 200 languages, as confirmed by the Department of City Planning, establishing its status as America's diverse cultural centre. For the US presidential elections, however, ballot papers will be available in only five languages, including English, with the inclusion of an Indian language. A key decision stemming from a lawsuit settlement led to the inclusion of Bengali on the ballot.The Bengali language is included alongside Chinese, Spanish, and Korean. This decision stems from a lawsuit settlement concerning language access for the city's diverse population.

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Ohio Senator JD Vance took direct aim at Vice President Kamala Harris during a rally in Atlanta on Sunday, calling her “trash” and declaring that in just two days, the American public would be “taking out the trash in Washington DC.”"The citizens of this country are not garbage for thinking you're doing a bad job," Vance said. “They are not racist for wanting to secure the southern border, and they are not wrong for wanting to afford groceries and a decent place to live. In two days, we are going to take out the trash in Washington DC, and the trash’s name is Kamala Harris.”

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Joe Rogan, who recently interviewed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump for nearly three hours, endorsed the former president on the eve of the US election. "For the record, yes, that's an endorsement of Trump," Rogan said on X.

'Thank you, Joe! That's so nice,' said Trump in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania after Joe Rogan endorsed him.

Tech mogul Elon Musk made a surprise appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, where he accused the Democratic Party of hypocrisy and spreading misinformation. During the conversation, Musk also weighed in on the ongoing allegations against former President Donald Trump, dismissing them as "hoaxes" and drawing comparisons to authoritarian tactics.

The podcast appearance comes after both Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, appeared on Rogan's show in the past week. Musk, who has been actively campaigning for Trump in Pennsylvania, once again reiterated this claim that "if Trump doesn’t Win, this will be the last real election".

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A new poll from AtlasIntel claimed former president Donald Trump is leading vice president Kamala Harris in each of the seven swing states though the margin is narrow. Trump is favored to win in North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. The new poll comes amid Ann Selzer poll sent shockwaves that Kamala Harris is ahead in Iowa which is a reliably conservative turf that Donald Trump won both in 2016 and 2020.

The AtlasIntel survey said Donald Trump is holding the widest margin in Arizona -- with a 52.3 per cent to Harris 45.8 per cent.

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Indian Americans have traditionally supported the Democrats but since 2016, when Donald Trump became President, and after the Covid pandemic, there has been a big change in the mindset among many members of the community and an increasing number are moving towards the Republicans as well, feels Dr Srilekha Reddy Palle, a healthcare executive in the Washington DC area who is also political director of American Hindu Coalition, an organisation that advocates for Hindu Americans, and chair of the Virginia Asian advisory board.

“Some of the reasons for Democrats losing favour among the Indian American community are their support for affirmative action in the education sector and over-use of the principles of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in employment. Many of us immigrated to the US because we were attracted by the culture of meritocracy and preferred it over socialism that was prevalent in India. But affirmative action has hit many Indians professionals,” says Palle, who is a consultant specialising in healthcare and political consulting.

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At his Pittsburgh address, Trump opened by portraying a grim assessment of the United States during Democratic governance, whilst pledging to resolve the nation's challenges. He emphasised the notion that Americans have endured "catastrophic failure, betrayal and humiliation."

"We do not have to settle for weakness, incompetence, decline and decay," Trump said. "With your vote tomorrow, we can fix every single problem our country faces and lead America, and indeed the whole world, to new heights of glory."

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump delivered their concluding messages to voters on Monday in neighbouring areas of Pennsylvania, utilising the campaign's final full day in a state crucial to their electoral success.

Both candidates concentrated on Pennsylvania's southeastern region, with Trump speaking in Reading, approximately 30 miles from Allentown, where Harris conducted her event shortly afterwards.

"If we win Pennsylvania, we win the whole ball of wax," Trump said. "It's over."

A Trump victory in Pennsylvania, securing its 19 Electoral College votes, would significantly impact the Democrats' stronghold and complicate Harris's path to achieving the required 270 votes.
Harris, representing the Democratic party, dedicated Monday entirely to Pennsylvania, the most significant state among those likely to determine the Electoral College results, and shared her straightforward perspective.

"We need everyone in Pennsylvania to vote," she said. "You are going to make the difference in this election."

Harris's schedule included visits to Allentown and Scranton - President Joe Biden's hometown - followed by Reading. Her itinerary concluded with a planned stop in Pittsburgh before a final evening rally in Philadelphia, featuring appearances by Lady Gaga and Oprah Winfrey.

NASA has established a streamlined process for astronauts to cast their votes whilst in space.

The procedure involves astronauts completing their ballots on the space station's computer systems. These secure, encrypted votes travel via satellite to New Mexico ground stations before reaching Mission Control at Johnson Space Center in Houston. From there, NASA forwards the electronic ballots to the relevant Texas county clerk's office for processing, according to the AP news agency.

The four NASA astronauts currently aboard the International Space Station arranged for absentee ballots before Election Day. However, NASA has left it to the individual astronauts to disclose whether they exercised their right to vote from orbit.

During a television interview last month, Space Station Commander Suni Williams stated that all four would participate in voting. "It's a civic duty. It's the right thing to do," she said.

Since 1997, American astronauts have had the ability to vote whilst in space.

Early voting turnout surpassed previous records in multiple American states, showing a significant increase from the 2020 presidential election, even though that year had seen exceptional advance voting numbers due to pandemic restrictions.

The state of New York recorded approximately 3 million early votes, doubling the 1.5 million advance ballots cast in 2020. Republican voter participation in early voting notably increased in Louisiana and the crucial swing states of Florida and North Carolina, exceeding the figures from the previous presidential election.

Meta will extend its ban on new election ads for the week leading up to the election until several days after the polls close.

A line of 400 to 500 people extended outside and wrapped around the Douglas County Election Commission office, which serves as the sole location for in-person early voting in the county's largest population centre. For the past fortnight, steady crowds have been arriving daily to vote, with Monday witnessing an exceptionally large turnout.

Douglas County has approximately 370,000 registered voters, with County Election Commissioner Brian Kruse forecasting a 73% voter turnout. According to the commission office, roughly half of the county's voters are anticipated to participate in early voting.

A Pennsylvania judge ruled on Monday that Elon Musk's political action committee can proceed with its daily $1 million voter sweepstakes in swing states through Tuesday's presidential election.

Judge Angelo Foglietta issued the ruling after Musk's legal team argued that winners serve as paid spokespersons rather than being randomly selected. The judge's rationale for the decision was not immediately provided.

In defending the initiative, Musk's attorneys characterised it as protected "core political speech", noting that participants must sign a petition supporting the U.S. Constitution. They also argued that Krasner's attempt to halt the programme under Pennsylvania law was irrelevant, as no more Pennsylvania winners would be selected before the programme's conclusion on Tuesday.

Democratic District Attorney Larry Krasner contends that the giveaways violate state election regulations and conflict with Musk's original statement made during a Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's campaign event in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on October 19: "We're going to be awarding a million dollars randomly to people who have signed the petition every day from now until the election," Musk vowed.

The Georgia Supreme Court issued a ruling on Monday requiring all ballots in Cobb County to arrive by Election Day, overturning a lower court's decision.

The earlier ruling had permitted specific Cobb County voters, who received their absentee ballots with delays, to submit them after the standard deadline if they bore Tuesday's postmark.

The county, situated north of Atlanta, had delayed sending absentee ballots to certain requesters until the previous week. According to Georgia's regulations, all absentee ballots must reach officials before polls close on Election Day.

Following this supreme court decision, affected voters must either cast their votes in person on Election Day or ensure their absentee ballots reach the county elections office by 7 p.m. on the same day.

The court's directive requires county election officials to inform impacted voters through email, text messages and a public notice on the election board's website. Additionally, officials must separately store and seal any ballots that arrive after the Election Day deadline but before 5 p.m. Friday.

Trump brought some of his children on stage at his rally in Reading after he gave them a shoutout from the podium and appeared to get wistful in his final campaign events, saying, “This is our last time now, for forever.”

His children Eric, Don Jr. and Tiffany, along with Eric’s wife and Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump, and Tiffany’s husband, Michael Boulos, all appeared with the Republican presidential candidate on stage.

Trump’s children, as well as Lara, each addressed the crowd, including a rare turn speaking from Tiffany.

“They’re kind people,” Trump said. “They have big hearts. They’re strong. They can be nasty. But they have big hearts, those great children of mine.”

I am a gun owner, and I believe we can protect the Second Amendment while also passing gun safety laws.

We need to reinstate the assault weapons ban and pass universal background checks, safe storage laws, and red flag laws to keep our children and communities safe.

Vice President Kamala Harris addressed an additional group of supporters at a secondary venue near Muhlenberg College Memorial Hall in Allentown, Pennsylvania, after the main hall reached capacity on Monday. She encouraged the audience to help others recognise their electoral influence.

At the overflow gathering, Harris expressed gratitude to attendees and emphasised the significance of voter participation. She stated, "We are fighting to live forward," and added, "We are all in this together."

Allentown, formerly a steel manufacturing hub, has evolved demographically with its Hispanic population now comprising more than half of the city's residents, many having Puerto Rican heritage. The city recently faced criticism when a comedian at a Trump rally referred to it as a "floating island of garbage."

Donald Trump took the stage in Reading, Pennsylvania. The crowd responded with a roaring “No!” as Trump opened his second rally of the day by asking whether they were better off now than four years ago.

“I’ve been waiting four years for this,” Trump said the day before Election Day.

“You’ve got to show up,” he tells the crowd, calling the election “the most important political event in the history of our country.”

“Just swamp them tomorrow,” he says. He said that if he wins Pennsylvania, “we win the whole ball of wax.”

At the Santander Arena, whilst Trump attracted several thousand followers, a significant portion of the 7,200-seat venue remained vacant over an hour past his scheduled appearance time.

To conceal the unoccupied rear sections behind the press platform, the campaign team strategically positioned a sizeable American flag near the arena's back area.

Democrat nominee for presidential post, Kamala Harris, took her X account and said, "Throughout my career, I have had one client: the people.

I took on big banks and delivered $20 billion for American homeowners, stood up for veterans and students, and prosecuted transnational criminal organizations.

As president, I will continue to put you first."