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Latest Trump-Harris results, vote count, Senate and House elections

Sakege November 5, 2024

Top line

Voters will head to the polls Tuesday after the latest battleground attacks by former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, as polls remain deadlocked in one of the most tumultuous presidential campaigns in history, ending with Americans electing the oldest president ever elected or the first. female president.

Democratic presidential candidate US Vice President Kamala Harris (left) and Republican presidential candidate. … (+) candidate, former US President Donald Trump (R). (Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)

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Key facts

The candidates spent Monday making their final presentations to voters in battleground states: Trump held a rally in North Carolina on Monday morning, before traveling to Pennsylvania and closing out his 2024 campaign with an evening rally in Grand Rapids. , Michigan.

Meanwhile, Harris focused on Pennsylvania, with campaign events in Scranton, Allentown, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia.

On Sunday, Harris campaigned in Michigan, while Trump held rallies in North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Georgia.

Harris, for the first time since becoming the Democratic nominee, did not mention Trump at her rally in East Lansing on Sunday, a senior campaign official said. noted to NBCas Trump continued to make headlines with his incendiary rhetoric, telling an audience in Pennsylvania that I wouldn’t mind whether a would-be assassin shot through the designated media area and who should not have left the White House in 2021.

Key background

Tuesday marks the culmination of one of the most chaotic election cycles in history: A former president, convicted of felonies and facing dozens of other criminal charges, challenges a vice president who was elevated to the top of the ticket after the primaries when President Joe Biden, 81, withdrew from the race following a pressure campaign within his own party. Harris would be the first woman elected president and Trump would be the oldest. Polls show the race is deadlocked nationally and in the seven swing states that will decide the election, after Trump led President Joe Biden in polls before his departure and Harris built an early lead after she entered the race. contest. Trump has centered his most recent campaign around immigration, blaming Harris for the increase in border crossings and increasing his dark rhetoric linking undocumented immigrants (often without evidence) to crime and economic hardship. He has also tried to link Harris to the high inflation rate the country experienced under Biden. Harris, meanwhile, has focused her campaign on turning the tide on the political divide the country has experienced under Trump, repeatedly highlighting Trump’s role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, his promises to seek retaliation against his political enemies and the bombing of damning representations of the former president by his former White House staff and within his own party. Harris is widely seen have fell short explaining how I would do it differentiate of Biden, however, and his policy positions are sometimes short on details.

What to take into account

Republicans are ready to resume the Senate, although the House of Representatives is more of a volatility. In the Senate, where Democrats hold a narrow majority of 51 to 49 seats, 23 seats held by Democrats are up for re-election, compared to just 11 held by Republicans, none of which are classified as flipped by Cook Political Report. In the House, where Republicans have a 221-214 majority, Republicans have a 51% chance of maintaining control, according to five thirty eightwhile Democrats would gain control 49 out of 100 times.

When do the polls close?

The first polls close in eastern Kentucky and most of Indiana at 6 p.m., but the true indicators of who might win won’t come until later in the evening, when the seven swing states begin releasing counts. , with Georgia and North Carolina probably being the first to do so. report results.