Almost two years after launching his campaign to return to the White House, of former president trump The bid to win back his old position is now in the hands of American voters, as Election Day 2024 arrives.

Facing the Republican presidential candidate is Vice President Kamala Harris, who just three and a half months ago replaced his boss, President Biden, at the top of the national Democratic ticket.

With approximately 75 million votes already cast nationwide in early voting and day of in-person voting already underway, candidates from both major parties are optimistic about their chances in this historic showdown.

“The momentum is on our side,” Harris told supporters at a rally in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on Monday. “Can you feel it?”

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Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign rally at Carrie Blast Furnaces in Pittsburgh, Monday, Nov. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

And hours later, at a rally in Pittsburgh, the vice president reiterated: “make no mistake, we will win.”

Trump, also campaigning in battlefield pennsylvania, He told his followers “we’ve been waiting for this. I’ve been waiting for this for four years.”

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And although the final national polls and key polls in swing states pointed to a race with a margin of error, the former president has trumpeted that “we have a big lead. We have a big lead.”

Trump and Harris held dueling rallies on the eve of the election in Pennsylvania, which, with 19 electoral votes at stake, is the largest prize among the seven key battleground states.

Former President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures during a campaign rally at the PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on November 4, 2024. (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP) (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images ) (Getty Images)

Harris closed her campaign agenda with a large nighttime demonstration in Philadelphia, next to the famous “Rocky Steps” in front of the city’s Museum of Art.

Around the same time Harris was in Philadelphia, Trump held his final rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the same place where he closed his 2016 and 2020 campaigns.

Pennsylvania and Michigan, along with Wisconsin, North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada, are the seven swing states whose narrow margins decided President Biden’s 2020 victory over Trump and will likely determine whether Trump or Harris wins the 2024 election.

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Harris, Trump, their running mates and their top surrogates have deployed to all seven battlegrounds in recent months. And the two presidential campaigns and allied super PACs have spent almost all of the $2.3 billion they have shelled out to run ads in the White House race in battleground states.

The vice president and the former president closed their campaigns with very divergent messages.

Vice President Kamala Harris, Democratic presidential candidate, leads a rally in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on the eve of the election, November 4, 2024. (Fox News – Paul Steinhauser)

Harris, who for the second day in a row avoided mentioning Trump by name, closed with a positive and optimistic message as she painted a unified future for the nation.

Trump painted a negative picture of the country over the past four years under the Biden administration, while criticizing Democratic policies and highlighting the dangers of unchecked immigration.

For Trump, the 2024 campaign has been a grueling two-year marathon. He announced his candidacy at his South Florida Mar-a-Lago club days after the 2022 midterm elections. After a slow start, the former president easily dispatched a group of opponents in the Republican primary – which the briefly expanded to more than a dozen contenders last year – and ran the table earlier this year in the Republican presidential primaries.

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Trump, charged in four different criminal cases, saw his support and fundraising surge in late spring after making history as the first former or current president convicted of felonies.

A month later, Biden suffered a major setback after a disastrous late June debate performance against Trump reignited long-standing questions about whether the 81-year-old president was physically and mentally prepared for another four grueling years in the White House. , and provoked calls from within. his own party to resign.

Trump’s electoral lead over Biden widened, with the former president receiving a further political boost after surviving an assassination attempt on his life at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, two days before the start of the Republican National Convention in July.

Former President Donald Trump rallies in Raleigh, North Carolina, before Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to supporters in Scranton, Pennsylvania, on Monday, November 4, 2024. (REUTERS/Brian Snyder/Kevin Mohatt)

But the race instantly turned around days later, when Biden ended his re-election bid and endorsed his vice president. Democrats quickly rallied around Harris, and her fundraising increased as her poll numbers soared.

Harris’ honeymoon continued through the Democratic National Convention in late August and into September, when most pundits declared her the winner of the only presidential debate between her and Trump.

But as the calendar turned from September to October, Trump appeared to regain his footing and public opinion polls indicated the former president was gaining momentum.

Veteran Republican strategist and Fox News contributor Karl Rove called the confrontation between Harris and Trump a “coin toss.”

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump takes the stage during a campaign rally at the JS Dorton Arena on November 4, 2024 in Raleigh, North Carolina. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) (Chip Somodevilla)

But veteran Republican consultant Alex Castellanos, disagreeing with the polls, pointed to gains in voter registration by Republicans.

“I think the pollsters are making a mistake. We are all missing something because they give us the same survey over and over again… Someone is missing something.”

And Castellanos, a veteran of numerous presidential campaigns, argued “what I think is being lost is a massive shift in voter registration underneath all of this. Thirty-one states have voter registration by party. Thirty of them in the last “Four years have seen Republican movement.”

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Veteran Democratic pollster Mark Penn, on Fox News’ “Special Report,” noted an apparent surge in early voting by Republicans, after Trump, long a vocal critic of early voting, in recent days would embrace the GOP’s long-standing effort to make Republicans more tolerant. of early voting – and said that “the only fact we know is that Republicans have done much better than ever in mail-in and early voting.”

Harris, a California resident, cast her vote by mail before Election Day.

Trump’s campaign said the former president would cast his vote in person on Election Day in Palm Beach, Florida, where he resides.

Trump, according to his campaign, also planned to spend Election Day with family, friends and staff, and also hold some phone rallies at specific locations.

The former president was scheduled to hold his election night headquarters at a convention center in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Harris was expected to spend part of Election day pleading his case in radio interviews. And the vice president was scheduled to hold her election night headquarters at her alma mater, historic Black Howard University in Washington, DC.

During the campaign’s final closing week, Trump, who for four years has made false claims that his 2020 loss was due to a rigged election, appeared to be trying to discredit the 2024 election.

Trump, on Sunday, again argued without providing evidence that Democrats were trying to cheat.

“They are fighting very hard to steal this damn thing,” the former president accused on Sunday.

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