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US election 2024 highlights: Trump won’t contest ‘fair results’, will concede defeat
US Election 2024 highlights: Americans are voting to decide whether to return Donald Trump to the White House or elevate Kamala Harris to the Oval Office.
- 11:24 PM IST, Nov 5Man arrested in upstate New York for threatening to set polling site on fire
- 11:00 PM IST, Nov 5Trump hints he won’t contest election results if they are fair
- 10:45 PM IST, Nov 5Michigan officials hope ‘to see results by mid-day Wednesday’
- 10:37 PM IST, Nov 5Republican Senator and vice presidential candidate JD Vance casts his ballot in Ohio
- 10:32 PM IST, Nov 5Trump and his wife, Melania, cast their ballots in Palm Beach
- 10:20 PM IST, Nov 5Alaska voters face pivotal choice in competitive US House race amid election challenges
- 10:08 PM IST, Nov 5Issues with vote-counting machines reported in Pennsylvania's Bedford County
- 9:53 PM IST, Nov 5What is Wisconsin's election administrator saying about ongoing voting?
- 9:43 PM IST, Nov 5What did Kamala Harris talk about during her ast-minute radio interviews?
- 9:38 PM IST, Nov 5Dollar slips as Americans head to cast their votes
US Election 2024 highlights: Kamala Harris and Donald Trump wrapped up this year’s presidential race with a heated battle for Pennsylvania on Monday, making their final appeals to voters in a state that could be pivotal in deciding the next president. Follow the live updates on US voting...Read More
Harris ended her day in Philadelphia at the iconic steps of the art museum, made famous by the movie Rocky, where she declared, “the momentum is on our side.” Earlier, she had visited Allentown, Scranton, and Pittsburgh, and stopped in Reading to connect with voters at a Puerto Rican restaurant, even canvassing door-to-door alongside campaign volunteers. At 60, Harris would make history as the first woman, Black woman, and person of South Asian descent to become president. She would also be the first sitting vice president in 32 years to win the presidency.
“It’s the day before the election, and I just wanted to come by and say I hope to earn your vote,” Harris told one woman, who had already cast her ballot for the Democratic ticket.
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• Harris and Trump entered Election Day concentrated on seven key battleground states. Five of these—Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, and Georgia—were won by Trump in 2016 but flipped to Biden in 2020. Nevada and North Carolina, carried by Democrats and Republicans respectively in the last two elections, were also hotly contested.
• Trump began his day in North Carolina and wrapped it up in Michigan, but made stops in Reading and Pittsburgh along the way. The former president delivered fiery speeches at each location, mixing unfounded claims about voter fraud with warnings about migrant crime and promises to "revitalize" America. “With your vote tomorrow, we can fix every single problem our country faces and lead America—and the whole world—to new heights of glory,” Trump told the crowd.
• While Harris focused on optimism for the future and avoided mentioning Trump by name, the Republican nominee did not hold back, repeatedly attacking his opponent. His running mate, Ohio Senator JD Vance, echoed the sentiment during his own rally in Atlanta, declaring, “We are going to take out the trash in Washington, D.C., and the trash’s name is Kamala Harris.”
• More than 82 million Americans have already cast their votes as of Sunday, according to the University of Florida's Election Lab, which tracks early and mail-in voting across the US.
• Voters on Election Day generally experienced a smooth process nationwide, with only occasional issues typical of past elections, such as long lines, technical glitches, and ballot printing errors.
US Election 2024 live: Over three dozen Indian Americans running for elections
US Election 2024 live: More than three dozen Indian Americans are running for local and state elections across the US. California has the largest number of Indian Americans running for local offices, including representatives Ro Khanna and Dr. Ami Bera, along with Vice President Kamala Harris, whose mother is of Indian descent.
US Election 2024 live: Harris in Pennsylvania as Trump Hosts four rallies across three states
US Election 2024 live: Kamala Harris will spend Monday in Pennsylvania, which has 19 electoral votes critical for the Electoral College. Meanwhile, Donald Trump plans to hold four rallies across three states, starting in Raleigh, North Carolina, then stopping in Reading and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, before concluding in Michigan.
US Election 2024 live: Prayers offered for Kamala Harris in TamiL Nadu
US Election 2024 live: Prayers were held in Thulasendrapuram of Tamil Nadu for the success of US presidential candidate Kamala Harris. The elections are set for November 5, where she will face former President Donald Trump, the Republican candidate.
US Election 2024 live: Excitement and concern at Kamala Harris's final rally
US Election 2024 live: At Kamala Harris's final rally in Philadelphia, supporters showed excitement for her campaign and concern over a potential Trump return. A community organiser expressed cautious optimism, while a long line of attendees waited outside the Philadelphia Museum of Art for Harris’s speech, set to occur just hours before Tuesday's polls open.
US Election 2024 live: Security tightens for Harris, Walz rally in Philadelphia
US Election 2024 live: Security measures were intensified in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art ahead of the rally featuring Kamala Harris and Tim Walz for the U.S. election.
US Election 2024 live: Trump campaign claims Democrats are facing a ‘massive turnout deficit’
US Election 2024 live: As early voting figures pour in, the Trump campaign has claimed a “massive turnout deficit” in Democrat voting patterns, reported news agency PTI.
In a confidential memo, the campaign's chief data consultant Tim Saler, stated that the Democrats are allegedly facing a decline in urban turnout rates.
Former president Barack Obama’s ex-campaign manager, Jim Messina, said on MSNBC that “the early vote numbers are a little scary”.
US Election 2024 live: Harris reflects on mother's journey as an immigrant before elections
US Election 2024 live: In a one minute 30 second campaign film, narrated by actress Viola Davis, Democratic candidate Kamala Harris reflected on her mother's journey as an immigrant and it's impact on her leadership, as she gears up for polls to close on November 5.
In a post on X, Harris shared the short clip and said, “My mother, Dr. Shyamala Gopalan Harris, came to the United States from India at 19. She taught me and my sister, Maya, about courage and determination. It is thanks to her that I am ready to lead us forward.”
Harris has been campaigning in swing state Pennsylvania ahead of the race against Republican candidate Donald Trump for the US presidency.
US Election 2024 live: Top US election official calls voter fraud claims “corrosive to democracy”
US Election 2024 live: Jen Easterly, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, on Monday addressed the misinformation and claims of voter fraud during the elections, calling them “corrosive to the democracy”.
While Easterly did not mention anyone by name, her comments came after claims by Republican candidate Donald Trump and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk claiming that Democrats were trying to rig the elections in key states.
“It does the work of our foreign adversaries for them, and it’s creating very real threats to election officials of both parties," she added.
US Election 2024 live: Florida and Texas push back against election monitors
US Election 2024 live: Florida, Texas and a few other Republican-led states have declared that they will block election monitors appointed by the US Justice department from entering polling stations on November 5.
The announcement goes against a decades-long practice of election monitors to prevent voter fraud or any other violations of voting laws.
Missouri has also filed a federal lawsuit, seeking to block the election monitors, on Monday.
US Election 2024 live: Republican Hindu leader claims Trump would crackdown on Khalistani separatists if re-elected
US Election 2024 live: Shalabh Shalli Kumar, founder of the Republican Hindu Coalition told news agency ANI that if Donald Trump was re-elected as US President, he would crackdown on Khalistani separatists.
He also added that Trump's stand on the issue could soften Canadian PM Trudeau's position as well, thawing the icy relations between Canada and India.
US Election 2024 live: Trump says election is “ours to lose” in first campaign rally in North Carolina
US Election 2024 live: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump announced that the election was “ours to lose” in his first campaign stop in swing state North Carolina, reported Reuters.
In his speech in Raleigh, he urged voters to get out and vote, along with Arkansas governor Sarah Huckabee and US senator Marco Rubio.
“If we get everybody out and vote, there’s not a thing they can do, and if we don’t, they have to get every person that ever signed anything,” Trump said.
US Election 2024 live: Worker unions back Harris on promise of social security
US Election 2024 live: Unions knocking on doors on behalf of Vice President Kamala Harris are finding what they say is an effective line of attack against Republican Donald Trump — that he’ll defund Social Security.
The former U.S. president has said he would make Social Security income tax-free. That’s problematic because those revenues help to fund the program and the loss of that money means Social Security would be unable to pay out its full benefits in fiscal year 2031, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a fiscal watchdog.
“That’s one of the big issues for our folks,” said Laura Dickerson, the United Auto Worker’s Region 1A director in Michigan. “People need to think about that they do not want to fully fund Social Security.”
The UAW has twice as many staff working on turnout compared to 2020 and 2016, enabling the union to directly contact all of its members and retirees and families of its members in support of Harris. (AP)
US Election 2024 live: Kamala Harris' ancestral village in India to pray for her election victory
US Election 2024 live: Residents in U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris' ancestral village in southern India will hold prayers on election day on Tuesday in a Hindu temple more than 8,000 miles (13,000 km) from Washington.
Harris' maternal grandfather P.V. Gopalan was born more than a century ago in the leafy village of Thulasendrapuram in what is now southern India's Tamil Nadu state.
"There will be a special prayer on Tuesday morning at the temple," G. Manikandan, a villager who runs a small store near the temple, said. "Celebrations will follow if she wins."
At the temple, Harris' name is engraved into a stone that lists public donations, along with that of her grandfather. Outside, a large banner wishes "the daughter of the land" success in the election. (Reuters)
US Election 2024 live: Here's how you can register to vote; know documents required
US Election 2024 live: Voting for the US presidential election 2024 will take place on November 5, with all the polling booths likely to be open by 6 am EST.
The polling process is expected to end by 8 pm local time, and the counting of the ballots will commence shortly after. It is expected that the results of the US election 2024 will be declared on November 6, but the close call in swing states can lead to a slight delay.
While people across the country will be lining up to cast their ballots on November 5, it is important to know that each voter is required to register themself to be eligible to vote on the polling day. Read more
US Election 2024 live: Dollar drops as survey results tilt in favour of Harris
US Election 2024 live: The dollar dropped and US Treasuries rallied as investors walked back bets on Donald Trump winning the presidential election after weekend polls indicated Kamala Harris was gaining ground.
An index of the greenback dropped the most in six weeks. Ten-year Treasury yields fell 10 basis points to 4.28%. The Mexican peso — which tumbled in the aftermath of Trump’s 2016 victory — was among the top performing major currencies tracked by Bloomberg.
Harris received some encouraging signals from an ABC News and Ipsos poll giving her a 49%-46% edge nationally against Trump in the race for the White House. Other surveys showed the two candidates poised for a photo finish, with voters narrowly split both nationally and across the pivotal swing states. (Bloomberg)
US Election 2024 live: Trump victory may lead to stronger dollar
US Election 2024 live: A victory of Donald Trump in the upcoming US presidential elections could lead to a stronger US dollar says a report by Barclays.
The report noted that in previous US presidential elections, such as in 2019, a possible Trump win was also linked with expectations of a stronger dollar.
The report said "one key difference this time compared with 2019 is that a potential Trump victory would likely imply a stronger USD. This would likely complicate the policy calculus for some - but, importantly, not all - central banks in Emerging Asia".
As per the report, this anticipated strength in the dollar may influence the monetary policy strategies of some central banks, particularly in emerging markets across Asia. (ANI)
