2024 US Election LIVE Updates: Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have entered the home stretch and are running a tight race to the White House in what is being called the “closest race in the history” of high-stakes games. 2024 US presidential elections.

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are securing solid victories in early projections as polls close in critical states following a close race for the White House. Republican Trump is projected to win 8 states, while Democrat Harris has claimed 5 states, according to initial projections from the Associated Press.

Former President Donald Trump scored a victory in South Carolina on Tuesday, claiming the state’s nine electoral votes for the third consecutive election.

South Carolina has not supported a Democratic presidential candidate since 1976, when Democrat Jimmy Carter, governor of neighboring Georgia, triumphed over Republican President Gerald Ford in the South.

Vice President Kamala Harris is the Democratic candidate in the 2024 United States presidential election, aiming to make history as the first woman and first person of Indian descent to become president of the United States.

On the Republican side, Donald Trump, the former president, is seeking a historic return to the White House after his controversial defeat in 2020. If Trump wins, it would be the first time in more than a century that a president has served two non-presidential terms. consecutive terms.

In the 2016 election, Trump won the presidency by winning 304 electoral votes to 227 against Hillary Clinton, even though he trailed Clinton by more than 2 percentage points and about 2.8 million votes in the popular vote.

However, in the 2020 elections, Triumph He was defeated by Joe Biden, who won with 306 electoral votes to 232 and led Trump by more than 700,000 votes in the popular vote. Trump has continued to deny the results of the 2020 election, alleging widespread voter fraud, a stance that sparked protests from his supporters and culminated in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

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