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With millions of voters expected to show up to the polls today, the world will be anxiously watching for the election results to start pouring in on Tuesday night.

Here is what you need to know about the 2024 presidential election results.

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When do the polls close?

Kentucky (eight electoral votes) will be the first state to close its polls at 6 p.m. Eastern.

For most of the eastern half of the country, voting polls will close between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m., while polls on the West Coast will close at 11 p.m. Eastern.

The last states to close will be Hawaii (four electoral votes) and Alaska (three electoral votes), which will close their polls at midnight and 1 a.m. respectively.

When will the 2024 Election Day results be announced?

Election Day results have historically often been announced just hours after the polls close. However, recent elections have required longer waiting periods before all the votes can be tallied, and a winner can be declared.

One reason for this is the prevalence of mail-in absentee voting. Fourteen states legally require that mail-in ballots be counted only after polls close on Election Day.

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The first election results of the night will likely begin being called after 7 p.m. Eastern. Results for some of the critical swing states such as Pennsylvania (19 electoral votes) will likely not be called till much later.

In 2020, news outlets called the election in President Biden’s favor four days after Election Day. In 2016, the race was called in Trump’s favor at 3 a.m. the day after Election Day.

The closer the election, the longer it will take to know the result. Barring an unexpected landslide victory by either candidate, the winner of the 2024 presidential election may not be known until a day or several days after Election Day.

Election results may also be further delayed by legal challenges by either former President Trump or Vice President Kamala Harris.

What are the key states to watch on Election Day?

With 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the presidency, the 2024 presidential election is expected to be extremely close.

There are seven states – Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina, Michigan, Wisconsin and Nevada – considered close swing states. Experts will be closely watching these states as they will likely determine who the next president will be.

Here is when polls will close in each of the swing states.

7 p.m. Eastern – Georgia (16 electoral votes) 

7:30 p.m. Eastern – North Carolina (16 electoral votes) 

8 p.m. Eastern – Pennsylvania (except for Cambria County, which will close at 10 p.m. Eastern due to electronic voting system software issues) 

9 p.m. Eastern – Michigan (15 electoral votes), Arizona (11 electoral votes) and Wisconsin (10 electoral votes) 

10 p.m. Eastern – Nevada (six electoral votes) 

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How do I watch the election live?

You can stream Fox News election coverage live online. You can also keep track of the election results on Fox News Digital’s live election blog.

Each of the seven major battleground states has different rules governing how – and when – candidates can request ballot recounts in the event of a close election.

Now, as voters continue to cast their ballots this Election Day, here’s a rundown of the rules each of the seven swing states – Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – use before ordering a recount, and the various types of recount requests candidates can legally submit.

Arizona: Arizona law allows for an automatic recount if the candidate with the most votes leads the closest competitor by half of 1% or less of total votes cast for both contenders. 

Georgia: Georgia law does not require any automatic recounts – however, a recount can be requested by either candidate if the winner’s margin of victory is 0.5% or less. The request must be made within two days of the state’s certification of the results.

Michigan: Michigan law allows candidates to request a recount on the grounds of “suspected fraud or error” within a precinct. The law requires candidates to submit their request – as well as a deposit – for each precinct where they are seeking a recount within six days of the conclusion of the canvassing process.

Nevada: Nevada allows candidates to send a written request for a recount within three business days of its state result certification. Like Michigan, candidates must pay the advance deposit ahead of time to cover any estimated recount costs.

The recount also must begin within five days of the Nevada Secretary of State’s office receiving the request.

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North Carolina: Candidates may submit a written recount request if the margin of victory is “less than or equal to half of 1% of the vote, or fewer than 10,000 votes,” according to the North Carolina General Assembly. The request must be made by noon on the second business day after the county canvas process concludes.

Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania law allows three separate types of recounts: statewide automatic recounts ordered by the secretary of the commonwealth; recounts ordered by a county election board; and recounts that are ordered by the court. 

An automatic recount occurs if a candidate’s margin of victory is no more than 0.5% of total votes cast. In this case, a recount submission must be submitted to the Pennsylvania Secretary of State’s office no later than 5 p.m. on the second Thursday after Election Day.

Any request for a court-ordered recount must be filed by at least three qualified electors within five days of the end of canvassing, according to the Pennsylvania Secretary of State’s office. An advance deposit is also required.

In the case of any fraud, state laws allows relevant parties to have five additional days to continue counting ballots. Read more on Keystone State recounts here.

Wisconsin: Wisconsin law allows candidates to file a sworn recount petition with the state clerk or local officer, stating both the areas they are seeking a recount in and their basis for requesting a recount. Candidates must indicate belief of mistake or fraud.

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The request must be made by 5 p.m. on the third business day after the board of canvassers certifies the election results, according to the Wisconsin State Election Board.

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A Pennsylvania judge approved a petition to extend voting hours until 10 p.m. ET after a “malfunction” prevented voters in Cambria County from scanning their ballots.

Election officials emphasized that no one who wishes to cast their ballot will be turned away and that all votes will be counted. Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Michael Whatley urged voters to stay in line and cast their ballots regardless of the delay.

“The Cambria County Board of Election learned early this morning that a software malfunction in the County’s Electronic Voting System has prevented voters from scanning their ballots,” County Solicitor Ron Repak said in a statement. “This should not discourage voters from voting at their precincts.”

“All completed ballots will be accepted, secured, and counted by the Board of Elections. The County Board of Elections has express voting machine [sic] at precinct locations to continue to allow voting electronically, while still allowing hand ballots to be cast,” said Repak.

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All votes cast after the original closing time of 8 p.m. ET will be by provisional ballot, the court ordered.

The Pennsylvania Department of State said it was working with local officials to resolve the issue.

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“The Department of State is in contact with county officials in Cambria County. Voters are continuing to vote by paper ballot, in accordance with normal operations, while the county resolves the issue with in-precinct scanning. We are working with the County to resolve this technical matter and remain committed to ensuring a free, fair, safe, and secure election.”

Prior to the court granting the extension, Whatley had assured voters that the Republican Party’s lawyers were “all over” the issue.

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“We understand that there are some line delays on the ground,” Whatley wrote on X. “We need you to stay in line. We need you to fill out your ballot in full and deliver it. Our Pennsylvania lawyers are all over this issue and will ensure fairness and accuracy in the process.”

Vice President Harris used her remaining campaign time before Election Day to make a stop in Pennsylvania alongside Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., a member of the progressive “Squad.”

Harris visited Old San Juan Café in Reading with Ocasio-Cortez and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro on Monday night. Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, D-Penn., and Reading Mayor Eddie Moran also joined.

Supporters chanted “Sí, se puede” and “Kamala” as the vice president’s motorcade pulled up to the café. Harris chatted with some diners inside and later ordered cassava, yellow rice and pork, saying, “I’m very hungry” as she noted that she has been too busy campaigning to find time to eat.

Diana de La Rosa, owner of the café, told the Reading Eagle that she was glad the vice president took the time to visit her business.

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“[Harris] said she was very proud of me, that my restaurant is beautiful, and that she is very proud of women in business,” de La Rosa told the outlet.

While in Reading, Harris also canvassed with supporters, knocking on doors. 

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Harris stopped at the café between campaign rallies in Allentown, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia.

Meanwhile, Trump started his final day campaigning in North Carolina before finishing in Michigan, though he spoke in Reading and Pittsburgh in between. 

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Pennsylvania has the most Electoral College votes of any battleground state, making it the top prize of the campaign. A victory there would clear a path to White House for either candidate.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Former President Donald Trump declared on Election Day that he has no regrets and “this was the best campaign we ran” after casting his ballot in Palm Beach, Florida. 

“I ran a great campaign. I think it was maybe the best of the three,” Trump said, referring to his victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016 and his loss to President Joe Biden four years later. 

“We did great in the first one. We did much better in the second one, but something happened. And, this was the best, I would say this was the best campaign we ran,” Trump said. 

Trump also told the media that “I’m hearing the same things you are hearing” when asked if he foresees a scenario in which he doesn’t declare victory tonight. 

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“I’m hearing states where I’m up by a lot, but they won’t have a final number for a long time,” the Republican said.  

“I’m hearing in Pennsylvania they won’t have an answer until two or three days from now. I think it’s an absolute outrage if that is the case, now maybe it will be later [tonight],” he added. 

When asked if he has any speeches ready, Trump says he does not. 

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“I did speeches last night. All day long. All night long. At 2:00 in the morning, we left, we did we did a lot of speeches,” Trump said. 

“I’m not a Democrat. I’m able to make a speech on pretty quick notice – if I win, I know what I’m going to say. And I don’t even want to think about the losing part,” Trump told reporters. 

Trump also said “I think we are going to have a very big victory today.” 

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“We have a great country, but we have a country that’s in trouble. That’s in big trouble in many ways. And we have to straighten it out,” he added. 

Republican National Committee co-Chair Lara Trump tells “Fox & Friends” that GOP poll watchers are now being admitted into various facilities in Pennsylvania after initially being turned away. 

RNC Chairman Michael Whatley first wrote on X that “Early this morning we learned that Republican poll watchers in Philadelphia, York, Westmoreland, Allegheny, Lehigh, Cambria, Wyoming and Lackawanna counties were being turned away. 

Trump later said “all of our poll watchers I’m happy to report are in.” 

“We already this morning from the RNC had to do a little work with our attorneys because our poll watchers – if you can believe this, and I’m sure people can – were being prevented from entering in the buildings in eight different counties, some of them around Philadelphia, some of them outside of Pittsburgh, where they prevented our poll watchers, our Republican poll watchers from going in,” she told “Fox & Friends.”  

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“So we had to act in a moment’s notice and that is why we designed this election integrity operation the way we did to identify problems and strike at a moment’s notice,” she continued. 

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“And all of our poll watchers I’m happy to report are in, but look it’s a tight state and it’s a must-win state and I think, you know, we have seen so much emphasis put in that state,” Trump said. “We were there twice yesterday, we did two rallies with Donald Trump. Obviously Kamala Harris was there yesterday, but I got to tell you we felt a lot of love from people in Pennsylvania yesterday so we are very optimistic.” 

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Whatley also wrote on X that “We deployed our roving attorneys, engaged with local officials, and can now report that all Republican poll watchers have been let into the building.” 

Tens of millions of Americans are headed to the polls across the country Tuesday, but polling locations will not remain open forever.

Here are the poll closing times for every state in the country.

6 PM EST

Kentucky: Partial poll closure. Some polling locations will remain open.

Indiana: Partial poll closure. Some polling locations will remain open.

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7 PM EST

Alabama: Partial poll closure. Some polling locations will remain open.

Florida: Partial poll closure. Some polling locations will remain open.

Georgia: Polls will fully close.

Kentucky: Polls will fully close.

Indiana: Polls will fully close.

New Hampshire: Partial poll closure. Some polling locations will remain open.

South Carolina: Polls will fully close.

Vermont: Polls will fully close.

Virginia: Polls will fully close.

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7:30 PM EST

New Hampshire: More partial closures.

North Carolina: Polls will fully close.

Ohio: Polls will fully close.

West Virginia: Polls will fully close.

8 PM EST

Alabama: Polls will fully close.

Connecticut: Polls will fully close.

Delaware: Polls will fully close.

Maine: Polls will fully close.

Florida: Polls will fully close.

Illinois: Polls will fully close.

Kansas: Partial poll closure. Some polling locations will remain open.

Maryland: Polls will fully close.

Massachusetts: Polls will fully close.

Michigan: Partial poll closure. Some polling locations will remain open.

Mississippi: Polls will fully close.

Missouri: Polls will fully close.

New Hampshire: Polls will fully close.

New Jersey: Polls will fully close.

North Dakota: Partial poll closure. Some polling locations will remain open.

Oklahoma: Polls will fully close.

Pennsylvania: Polls will fully close.

Rhode Island: Polls will fully close.

South Dakota: Partial poll closure. Some polling locations will remain open.

Tennessee: Polls will fully close.

Texas: Partial poll closure. Some polling locations will remain open.

Washington, DC: Polls will fully close.

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8:30 PM EST

Arkansas: Polls will fully close.

9 PM EST

Arizona: Polls will fully close.

Colorado: Polls will fully close.

Iowa: Polls will fully close.

Kansas: Polls will fully close.

Louisiana: Polls will fully close.

Michigan: Polls will fully close.

Minnesota: Polls will fully close.

Nebraska: Polls will fully close.

New Mexico: Polls will fully close.

New York: Polls will fully close.

North Dakota: Polls will fully close.

South Dakota: Polls will fully close.

Texas: Polls will fully close.

Wisconsin: Polls will fully close.

Wyoming: Polls will fully close.

10 PM EST:

Idaho: Partial poll closure. Some polling locations will remain open.

Montana: Polls will fully close.

Nevada: Polls will fully close.

Oregon: Partial poll closure. Some polling locations will remain open.

Utah: Polls will fully close.

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11 PM EST:

California: Polls will fully close.

Idaho: Polls will fully close.

Oregon: Polls will fully close.

Washington: Polls will fully close.

12 AM EST:

Alaska: Partial poll closure. Some polling locations will remain open.

Hawaii: Polls will fully close.

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1 AM EST:

Alaska: Polls will fully close.

Nine competitive Senate races will likely determine which party controls the upper chamber of Congress. 

Democrats are fighting to retain their narrow 51-49 majority in the Senate. Democrats are defending 23 seats, including three held by independents who caucus with them. That’s compared with just 11 seats that Republicans hope to keep in their column, according to the Associated Press. 

The Senate races in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin are considered Toss-Ups, according to the latest Fox News Power Rankings. The Montana and Nebraska races for Senate are considered leaning Republican, while the Senate contests in Arizona, Maryland and Nevada lean Democrat on Election Day. 

Michigan

In Michigan, Rep. Elissa Slotkin, a Democrat, and Republican candidate Mike Rogers are facing off for a chance to replace Sen. Debbie Stabenow, a Democrat who is concluding her 24-year Senate career. 

It could be the best chance Republicans have had in decades of winning a Senate seat in Michigan. The last time a Republican secured election to the upper chamber was in 1994, when Spencer Abraham defeated Democrat Bob Carr by 10 points. Abraham later lost to Stabenow in 2000. 

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Rogers was elected to Congress in 2000 and represented Michigan’s 8th District until 2014. The once chair of the House Intelligence Committee, the Republican served as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Army through the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps and later worked as a special agent in the FBI. 

Slotkin, who currently represents Michigan’s 7th District, has worked for the CIA and the U.S. Department of Defense and served three tours in Iraq. Both campaigns have focused on concerns over Chinese influence and highlighted their security experience in the Middle East and domestically. 

Ohio

In Ohio, Democratic incumbent Sen. Sherrod Brown faces a challenge from Republican Bernie Moreno in what’s projected to be the most expensive race outside the presidential contest, according to the Marion Star, given the outcome could determine which party controls the upper chamber of Congress. 

Former President Trump endorsed Moreno earlier this year in the Senate Republican primary. 

Moreno briefly ran for Senate in 2022 to replace retiring Republican Sen. Rob Portman, but JD Vance, now Trump’s vice presidential running mate, won the nomination and later the general election. 

Trump carried Ohio by eight points in both the 2016 and 2020 elections. 

Pennsylvania 

In Pennsylvania, considered a pivotal battleground in the presidential race, incumbent Democratic Sen. Bob Casey is up against Republican challenger Dave McCormick. 

McCormick, a West Point graduate who served in Iraq in the 82nd Airborne Division and later as the CEO of the world’s largest hedge fund, took the stage ahead of Trump at the Republican presidential nominee’s last rally in the state Monday night. McCormick told a Pittsburgh crowd that his opponent, Casey, was a “career politician” with more than 30 years in office, before also attacking Vice President Harris. 

McCormick previously ran an unsuccessful primary bid for Senate in 2022, losing the nomination to Dr. Mehmet Oz. Oz was defeated by Democrat John Fetterman.

Casey, whose father served as governor for two terms, is one of the most recognized politicians in the state. He is seeking a fourth term in the Senate and has been successful in six statewide elections since 1996.

Wisconsin

Wisconsin’s hotly contested Senate race pits two-term Democratic incumbent Tammy Baldwin against Republican Eric Hovde, a millionaire businessman backed by Trump who poured millions of his own money into the contest.

While Baldwin’s voting record is liberal, she emphasized bipartisanship throughout the campaign. Baldwin became the first statewide Democratic candidate to win an endorsement from the Wisconsin Farm Bureau, the state’s largest farm organization, in more than 20 years.

Her first television ad noted that her buy-American bill was signed into law by Trump. In July, she touted Senate committee approval of a bill she co-authored with Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance, that seeks to ensure that taxpayer-funded inventions are manufactured in the United States.

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Hovde has portrayed Baldwin as an out-of-touch liberal career politician who didn’t do enough to combat inflation, illegal immigration and crime. He has stressed that Baldwin has been in elected office since 1987, including the past 12 years in the Senate and 14 in the House before that. 

Hovde’s wealth, primarily his management of Utah-based Sunwest Bank and ownership of a $7 million Laguna Beach, California, estate, has been a key line of attack from Baldwin, who has tried to cast him as an outsider who doesn’t represent Wisconsin values.

Montana 

Three-term incumbent Democratic Sen. Jon Tester of Montana faces perhaps his toughest election challenge yet on Tuesday, with control of the Senate on the line in a state that’s veered sharply rightward since the 68-year-old grain farmer’s first election.

Republicans have pinned their hopes on Tim Sheehy, a former U.S. Navy SEAL and founder of an aerial firefighting company. Sheehy, 38, had early backing from party leaders, including Trump, clearing the political newcomer’s path to win the June primary.

This is the first time Tester’s name appears on the same ballot as Trump, who won Montana by wide margins in 2016 and 2020.

A Sheehy victory would seal Republican Party dominance across the five-state Northern Plains region: Tester entered office as one of six Democratic senators in the largely rural swath of American heartland that also includes Wyoming, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota. He’s now the only one.

The lawmaker also is the sole remaining Democrat to hold statewide office in Montana.

Nebraska 

Two-term Republican Sen. Deb Fischer faces her strongest re-election challenge yet Tuesday as she takes Dan Osborn, a former labor union boss who eschewed both major political parties to run as an independent while painting himself as a working class champion.

The state GOP, whose leadership is loyal to Trump, endorsed primary challengers to all five of the Republicans who represent Nebraska in Congress, including Fischer.

Fischer held a recent news conference to showcase the backing of several state Republicans, including popular former Gov. Dave Heineman. She also leaned into her support for Trump, despite having called for him to leave the 2016 race in response to the notorious “Access Hollywood” tape.

Trump has endorsed Fischer for re-election, which she has touted in her campaign ads.

Osborn, a 20-year industrial mechanic and veteran of the Navy and Nebraska Army National Guard, successfully led a 2021 strike at the Kellogg’s cereal plant in Omaha to gain higher wages for roughly 1,400 workers following a year in which the company saw soaring revenue.

Osborn has leaned into that background in centering his platform on what he says is a need for equitable economic policies. In his political ads, he’s contrasted his own story with Fischer’s, accusing her of enriching herself while in office as average families struggle financially.

Arizona

Well-known former television news anchor and staunch Trump ally Kari Lake is competing against Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego, an Iraq War veteran, in Tuesday’s election for U.S. Senate in a state with a recent history of extremely close elections.

The winner of the Senate race will replace Kyrsten Sinema, who left the Democratic Party two years ago. 

Lake made national headlines with her 2022 campaign for Arizona governor. She has never acknowledged losing that race and called herself the “lawful governor” in her 2023 book, according to the Associated Press. She continued her unsuccessful fight in court to overturn it even after beginning her Senate campaign, and, as recently as last week refused to admit defeat in a contentious CNN interview.

Lake has focused on border security in her Senate campaign. 

Gallego, who enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve and fought in Iraq in 2005 in a unit that sustained heavy casualties, has relentlessly attacked Lake’s support for a state law dating to the Civil War that outlawed abortions under nearly all circumstances. Lake has tacked to the middle on the abortion issue. 

Maryland 

Larry Hogan, a popular Republican who won two terms as governor, is the most competitive candidate for the GOP in years in the race to replace retiring Democratic Sen. Ben Cardin. Still, he is facing an uphill battle against Democrat Angela Alsobrooks, the county executive of Prince George’s County, who could make history as the state’s first Black U.S. senator in a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans 2-1.

The stakes are unusually high for a Maryland race that includes a Republican who won significant Democratic support in his 2014 and 2018 gubernatorial victories. Hogan is only the second Republican in Maryland history to be re-elected governor.

Abortion has been a major issue in a campaign taking place at the same time that voters in Maryland and eight other states will be considering a constitutional amendment to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution, after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade in 2022.

Alsobrooks has prioritized abortion rights in her campaign, saying one of her first actions as a senator would be to sponsor legislation to codify Roe into federal law. Hogan also says he would co-sponsor such legislation, but Alsobrooks is quick to point to a Hogan veto when he was governor of a bill in Maryland to expand abortion access in 2022.

Nevada

In a presidential swing state, Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen – a former computer programmer and synagogue president – is facing a challenge from Republican Sam Brown, a retired Army captain whose face is still scarred from injuries he suffered in Afghanistan. 

The first-term Rosen has outspent Brown by more than 3-1 in the contest, positioning herself as a nonideological senator who delivers for her home state on issues like broadband internet access and a high-speed rail connection with Southern California. 

Brown, who was awarded the Purple Heart, has campaigned on his biography and the state’s cost-of-living crisis, particularly acute in working-class Nevada. He’s had trouble gaining traction, though a last-minute infusion of GOP money in late October came as Republicans, cheered by strong turnout for their party in early voting, hoped Brown could upend expectations in the race.

Trump endorsed Brown in the state’s primary. 

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Brown in 2008 was grievously wounded by an improvised explosive device during a Taliban ambush of his unit in southern Afghanistan. He left the army in 2011 after 30 surgeries and years of recovery, founding a business to help veterans get medical care. Brown’s face remains seriously scarred and has become central to his campaign ads.

 The Associated Press contributed to this report.

The Republican Party is determined not to be outmanned in the courts regarding the 2024 elections, with GOP leaders leaning heavily on a new, litigation-focused “election integrity” effort launched earlier this year in a bid to avoid many of the same pitfalls as 2020.

The two-pronged effort seeks to improve the GOP ground game across the country, both by recruiting and training poll observers and by adding more transparency to the voting process, senior Republican Party officials told Fox News Digital in an interview.

To date, they have recruited some 230,000 volunteers across the country, RNC officials said, including 5,000 lawyers concentrated primarily in the battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

On the eve of Election Day, it is the lawyers whose talents could be especially useful in the days and weeks to come. 

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That is because the second half of the election integrity push focuses on litigation. Some of the lawsuits are aimed at ensuring “poll worker parity” and access for Republican observers at many election sites across the country, senior party officials told Fox News Digital.

However, they have also filed dozens of lawsuits aimed at cracking down on voter identification laws, tightening citizenship verification standards and adding new requirements for mail-in ballots and provisional ballots accepted by various states. 

The Republican Party has been especially aggressive in filing these pre-election lawsuits, which officials describe as helping “set the rules of the road in key swing states.”

As of this writing, party officials said they have filed more than 130 lawsuits—the vast majority of the roughly 200 election-related lawsuits in the 2024 election.

While the flurry of GOP-led lawsuits have dominated headlines in the final race to Election Day—primarily in the seven swing states considered to hold outsize importance in determining the next president— Republican Party officials pointed to courtroom victories won as early as this summer as some of their biggest achievements.

One example was the RNC’s successful lawsuit against the city of Detroit in August. 

The RNC had sued to add more Republican election inspectors to the city’s 300-plus voting precincts, citing a “7.5-to-one” ratio of Democrat inspectors to Republican inspectors. Republicans successfully argued that the disparity ran afoul of state law, which requires “an equal number, as nearly as possible” of election officials from both major political parties. More Republican observers were added as a result. 

A more recent win occurred last week in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where a judge sided with the GOP’s request to extend early voting deadlines from Tuesday, Nov. 5, to Friday, Nov. 8.

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Republican officials have touted success in achieving more transparency in state elections. 

“We really view this as making America’s elections run in a transparent and trustworthy way. And that’s a net positive for everyone in this country, regardless of Republican or Democrat [party affiliation],” a senior RNC official told Fox News Digital in an interview.

Still, on the eve of Election Day, it remains to be seen whether these efforts will have accomplished their stated goal of establishing more trust in U.S. elections.

That is because the concept of “election security” not only requires certain safeguards to be placed around the voter registration and ballot-casting process, but also that the voters themselves then trust the results of the vote as legitimate.

A fresh AP-NORC poll found that Democrats are far more likely than their Republican counterparts to express confidence in the outcome of the 2024 presidential election. 

The poll found that while 71% of registered Democratic voters said they have “a great deal” of confidence in the national election outcome, just one-third of their Republican counterparts, or 24%, reported the same. 

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Looking ahead

While some of these lawsuits could be used by the RNC as a pretext to challenge the outcome of certain states after Election Day, legal experts said it is unclear what impact any of these legal challenges could have in contesting the results — even if the outcome in certain states is just as close as expected in a neck-and-neck election. 

Courts are highly disinclined to take up cases after Election Day, Andrew McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, told Fox News in an interview. 

“We want to have the game be fair, in the sense that there’s bright lines way before you ever get to Election Day,” McCarthy said. “So everybody has their eyes open about what the rules are.”

“It’s really hard to get a court to involve itself after an election has taken place and where they’re in a position of potentially changing the outcome of the election,” he added.

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That is especially true of the nation’s top court, Trey Gowdy, a former federal prosecutor and member of Congress, told Fox News Digital in an interview.

“I think the Supreme Court is very wary of being drawn into overtly political fights,” he said. 

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Officials in battleground states say lawyers are ready on this Election Day to pursue legal action against any counties who try to disrupt or delay the vote certification process. 

The warnings come after a few counties in Arizona, Pennsylvania and New Mexico initially did not certify results or did so with incomplete tallies following the 2022 midterm elections, according to Politico. 

“If you don’t certify an election at the county level, or certify a canvas, you’re going to get indicted,” Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes told Politico. “We’ve sent, on top of that, some what I would call sternly-worded letters out to folks to let them know.” 

Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson also said that lawyers have prepared draft legal filings in order to sue any county that tries to avoid certifying this year’s results. 

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“We’ve got great attorneys that we’re working with at the attorney general’s office, who are prepared as well, who were there in 2020 and ready to go,” Benson told Politico. “It’s more about just making sure we’re able to rapidly respond and are prepared to ensure that the law is followed.” 

During the last presidential election, former President Trump urged two members of Michigan’s Wayne County Board of Canvassers not to certify the results, according to a report from The Detroit News. 

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In September, during an event hosted by the nonprofit Center for Election Innovation & Research, Gabriel Sterling, the chief operating officer for the Georgia secretary of state’s office, said, “There are those who think they can magically hold up everything by one county… That is not going to happen, and the courts won’t allow for that,” according to Politico. 

“With the system we have in place, with the lawyers we have in place, we have game-planned a lot of this out,” he reportedly added. 

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State election officials tell Politico that local officials are duty-bound to certify results and the task is not optional. 

Now that Election Day is finally here, there are a few counties that experts are closely watching as their results could indicate who the next president will be.

Known as “bellwether counties,” these swing counties have, with some exceptions, consistently sided with the winning candidate for decades.

Matthew Bergbower, a political science professor at Indiana State University, described a bellwether county as a “microcosm of the nation” in terms of political preferences.

Though his county, Vigo County in Indiana, deviated by voting for Donald Trump in 2020, it has chosen the winning candidate in every election since 1952.

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Clallam County in Washington state stands out as the only county to have voted for the winning presidential candidate in every election since 1980. The people of Clallam County are proud of their history as the “last bellwether county” in America.

This year, the county looks just as divided as ever.

Pam Blakeman, chair of the Clallam County Republicans, told Fox News Digital that she thinks the election “will be close in our County, but I see it swinging towards Trump.”

She bases this on good Republican turnout and a ground game that she said “is the most active I have ever seen.”

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However, Ben Anderstone, a progressive Washington-based political consultant, told Fox News Digital that “a Trump win in Clallam County would be a bit of a surprise at this point.”

“This year, it looks likely that Clallam County will be to the nation’s left,” he said. “In our August primary, Clallam County was very Democratic, about 57% to 43%. Lower-turnout voters in Clallam County are much more Republican, so we expect the presidential election will be a lot tighter. Still, our model suggests Clallam will only tighten to 53%-47% Democratic or so.”

Like Clallam County, the presidential election could easily go either direction. Yet with GOP nominee former President Trump and Democrat nominee Vice President Harris facing razor-thin margins, three counties – Bucks, Erie and Northampton in Pennsylvania – stand out as particularly important.

Pennsylvania, which has 19 electoral votes, is the largest swing state and thus the biggest target for both Trump and Harris. During this election cycle, Trump and Harris have had a significant presence in the state and in these three counties.

On the final day before election day, Trump campaigned in both eastern and western Pennsylvania and Harris devoted the entire day to stops across the state. Vice presidential candidates Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, and Democrat Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz have similarly been making stops in Pennsylvania throughout the campaign.

“Both campaigns see the path to the White House running through Pennsylvania,” said Berwood Yost, the director of the national survey group the Center for Opinion Research. Similarly, he said the path to victory in Pennsylvania runs through Bucks, Erie and Northampton counties.

Bucks is a primarily suburban county just north of Philadelphia. Erie, which is situated in far northwestern Pennsylvania on Lake Erie, is primarily rural and significantly smaller in terms of population. Finally, Northampton in eastern Pennsylvania is suburban and home to Lehigh University, a private research college.

According to Yost, all three mirror many of the key demographics, such as racial composition, educational attainment and population density, that make Pennsylvania so competitive.

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President Biden won Pennsylvania by a narrow 1.17 percent margin in 2020. The margins in Bucks (4.37), Erie (1.03) and Northampton (0.72) were similarly close.

Yost said that like the rest of the country, people in these counties are “generally dissatisfied” with the economy and want to see some kind of change, something that is a positive indicator for Trump. However, he said “the closest to the closeness of the race makes it seem that they haven’t been able to take advantage of that.”

“I think part of the reason the race is so close is that that message has not been consistently articulated by the top of the ticket,” he said. “Those distractions have raised some concerns among some voters.”

Yost said the race will come down to what independents and traditional Republicans who are not enthusiastic about Trump decide at the ballot box.

“That to me is really going to be the inflection point of this election,” he said. “If they’re wobbly, and they think it’s the economy, that’s a plus for Trump. If they go into the voting booth, and they think about something else, that’s a negative for the Trump campaign.”  

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Nearly two years after launching his campaign to return to the White House, former President Trump’s bid to win back his old job is now in the hands of America’s voters, as Election Day 2024 has arrived.

Facing off against the Republican presidential nominee is Vice President Kamala Harris, who just three and a half months ago replaced her boss – President Biden – atop the Democrats’ national ticket.

With roughly 75 million ballots already cast across the country in early voting, and in-person day-of voting now getting underway, both major party nominees are optimistic about their chances in this historic showdown.

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

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

Trump, also campaigning in battleground Pennsylvania, told supporters “we’ve been waiting for this. I’ve been waiting four years for this.”

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And even though the final national polls and key swing state surveys pointed to a margin-of-error race, the former president has touted that “we have a big lead. We have a big lead.”

Trump and Harris held dueling rallies on Election Eve in Pennsylvania, which, with 19 electoral votes at stake, is the biggest prize among the seven key battleground states.

Harris closed out her campaign schedule with a large late night rally in Philadelphia, by the famed “Rocky Steps” outside the city’s Art Museum.

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

Pennsylvania and Michigan, along with Wisconsin, North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada, are the seven swing states whose razor-thin 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 top surrogates, have fanned out across the seven battlegrounds the past couple of months. And the two presidential campaigns and allied super PACs have spent nearly all the $2.3 billion they’ve shelled out to run ads in the White House race in the battleground states.

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

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

Trump painted a negative picture of the country the past four years under the Biden administration, as he railed against Democratic policies and spotlighted 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 field of GOP primary opponents – which last year briefly expanded to over a dozen contenders – and ran the table earlier this year in the Republican presidential primaries.

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Trump – who was indicted in four different criminal cases – saw his support surge and his fundraising soar in the late spring, after he made 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 longstanding questions over whether the 81-year-old president was physically and mentally up for another four grueling years in the White House – and sparked calls from within his own party for him to step down.

Trump’s polling advantage over Biden widened, and the former president was further politically boosted 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.

But the race was instantly turned upside down days later, as Biden ended his re-election bid and endorsed his vice president. Democrats quickly coalesced around Harris, and her fundraising surged as her poll numbers soared.

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

But as the calendar moved from September into October, Trump appeared to regain his footing, and public opinion surveys indicated the former president gaining momentum.

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

But longtime Republican consultant Alex Castellanos, taking issue with the polls, pointed to voter registration gains by Republicans.

“I think the pollsters are getting this wrong. We’re all missing something because they’re giving us the same poll over and over again. .. Somebody’s missing something.”

And Castellanos, a veteran of numerous presidential campaigns, argued “what I think they’re missing a massive shift in voting registration underneath all of this. Thirty-one states have voter registration by party. Thirty of them in the past four years have seen movement by Republicans.”

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Longtime Democratic pollster Mark Penn, on Fox News’ “Special Report,” pointed to an apparent surge in early voting by Republicans – after Trump, long a vocal critic of early voting – in recent days embraced the GOP’s longstanding effort to make Republicans more accepting of early voting – and said “the only fact we know is that Republicans have done a lot better in the mail in and early voting that they ever have.”

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

The Trump campaign said that the former president would cast his ballot 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 do some phone-based tele rallies to targeted spots. 

The former president was set to hold his Election Night headquarters at a convention center in West Palm Beach, Florida..

Harris was expected to spend part of Election Day making her case in radio interviews. And the vice president was scheduled to hold her Election Night headquarters at her alma mater, the historically Black Howard University in Washington D.C.

During the closing final week of the campaign, 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, once again argued without providing proof that the Democrats were trying to cheat.

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

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On the eve of the U.S. election, President Trump received a round of last-minute endorsements from high-profile names, including Joe Rogan and Roberto Clemente Jr., son of the baseball legend. 

With less than 24 hours to go before the election, podcaster and comedian, Joe Rogan formally endorsed Trump for president, ending speculation. 

Posting on X, Rogan highlighted his nearly three hour interview with SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who has already supported Trump. 

“The great and powerful @elonmusk. If it wasn’t for him we’d be f—ed,” Rogan said. “He makes what I think is the most compelling case for Trump you’ll hear, and I agree with him every step of the way.” 

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And leaving no room for doubt, Rogan wrote: “For the record, yes, that’s an endorsement of Trump.” 

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Earlier Monday, Robert Clemente Jr., son of the Puerto Rican baseball legend, formally endorsed Trump in the city where his father played. 

Clemente Jr. joined Trump on stage in Pittsburgh where he praised the former commander-in-chief. 

“For the first time, I had to take a step forward. It is very important for me to support this man, because I believe tomorrow is a change of time,” Clemente Jr. said. “My father, the name Clemente, what it means is goodwill and unity. I believe that your team is going to bring it all home. I believe in everything that you stand for right now,” he told Trump.

And earlier Monday, Randi Mahomes, the mother of star Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, endorsed Trump during a game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. 

In an exclusive video to OutKick, Randi Mahomes, wearing a red “Make America Great Again” hat with a Chiefs sweatshirt revealed her endorsement of Trump. 

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“Make America great again. Let’s do it. Woo!” Randi Mahomes said. 

Additionally, Trump was joined on stage in Pittsburgh earlier Monday by podcast host Megyn Kelly, who touted the former president as a “protector of women.”

Fox News Digital’s Scott Thompson contributed to this report. 

Tim Walz spoke about abortion rights to cap off his final campaign rally before Election Day during a barely five minute address to Michigan voters Monday night.

At a star-studded campaign rally from Hart Plaza in downtown Detroit on Election Day eve, which included a performance from Jon Bon Jovi and others, Walz told rally goers that he wanted to talk to them about “one issue in particular.”

“Everything’s on the line,” Walz began in his short address from downtown Detroit. “But I want to take tonight to talk about one issue in particular that really underlines the stakes in this election. So let me speak to the guys in the crowd tonight. I want you to think about the women in your life that you love. Their lives are at stake in this election” Walz continued, before slamming Trump for appointing “Supreme Court Justices who repealed Roe v. Wade.” 

“And he brags about it,” Walz added. “He is glad that those women you’re thinking about – and you love – have fewer rights than their mothers and their grandmothers.”

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Walz lamented that women were allegedly being turned away from emergency rooms and being forced to undergo miscarriages in the parking lot, blaming Trump and the work he did to overturn federal abortion protections. Walz also blamed Trump for rape victims having to carry unwanted pregnancies to full term. Such claims from Walz – that state abortion laws have resulted in the deaths of pregnant women – previously earned him heat on the campaign trail from OB-GYNS, who decried Walz for claiming a Georgia woman died due to the state’s abortion laws during a debate with his opponent, Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio.  

“When Congress passes that bill to restore reproductive freedom, President Harris will sign it into law,” Walz said. “Kamala and I trust women. It’s that simple.”

Walz did not touch on any other policy issues during his barely five minute speech, which was preceded by his wife, Gwen, and the Democrat Governor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer. Earlier in the day, Walz campaigned in several spots around Wisconsin, including Milwaukee. 

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In closing on Monday evening, Walz insisted that “women all across America” would be “send[ing] a loud and clear message to Donald Trump” on Election Day in response to his efforts to overturn Roe v. Wade. 

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“Here’s the deal, folks, there’s going to be a day you’re going to be sitting in that rocking chair, and you’re going to be rocking on that porch, and a little one’s going to come home from school and ask, ‘What did you do in the 2024 election?’” Walz concluded at his last rally before Election Day. “And you’re going to be able to answer, ‘Every damn thing I could.”

Former President Donald Trump bid farewell to his trademark rallies during an early morning stop in Grand Rapids, Michigan, his last event on the 2024 campaign trail.

“Your support means more than anything you can even understand… this is my last rally, can you believe it? The rallies, these big beautiful rallies, there’s never been anything like it and there never will be,” Trump told supporters at Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan at a rally in the early morning hours on Tuesday.

The comments come after a whirlwind day for Trump, who wrapped up his 2024 campaign with stops in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.

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The former president didn’t take the stage in Grand Rapids until after midnight Tuesday, meaning Trump spoke to supporters at his last event on election day in his final pitch to be sent back to the White House.

Trump’s Grand Rapids event marked the third time the former president ended his campaign in the West Michigan city, having concluded his former runs at DeVos Place in Grand Rapids in 2016 and the city’s airport in 2020.

The event also signified how critical of a prize the swing state of Michigan would be for his White House bid, a state where both campaigns have combined to double the number of events and visits that were held there in 2016 and 2020.

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Trump was able to narrowly capture the state in his race against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2016, but then lost it to President Biden in another nail-biter in 2020. Michigan promises to play a similar role in determining who ultimately wins in 2024, joining the states of Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin as the critical battlegrounds in this year’s election.

Trump, who has said this will be his last campaign even if he were to lose to Vice President Kamala Harris, at times struck a reflective tone during the Grand Rapids event, thanking supporters in Michigan who have supported him through three runs for president.

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“You’re really incredible people,” Trump said.. “Now it’s nine years and we’ve been fighting side-by-side every step of the way we’ve been together.”

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Shortly before Vice President Kamala Harris took the stage on the “Rocky Steps” of the Philadelphia Art Museum at her final rally before Election Day, billionaire Oprah Winfrey declared her fear a Donald Trump presidency could curtail Americans’ right to vote.

Winfrey was introduced by Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff around 11 PM ET on Monday, and brought to the dais with her 10 first-time voters who have or will be casting a ballot for Harris, including MLS Philadelphia Union forward Eddy Davis III.

Winfrey recounted hiking on a recent Sunday and meeting a woman who said she would “sit this [election] out.”

“So I said, ‘sit this one out’. We don’t get to sit this one out. — If we don’t show up tomorrow, it is entirely possible that we will not have the opportunity to ever cast a ballot again.”

“And let me be very clear, if you do not make sure that the people in your life can get to the polls, that is a mistake.”

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Winfrey added that supporting Harris is a vote to protect and defend the Constitution.

She also quoted from former President John F. Kennedy’s “ask not what you can do for your country” address, adding “what you can do for every young woman who has died because she was not eligible to receive the emergency medical care she desperately needed because of the abortion ban – and what you can do for yourself and what you can do for everyone and everything you cherish, is vote.”

Winfrey was followed by musician Will.i.am. The performer, whose real name is William Adams Jr., performed a song with the refrain “Yes, She Can,” in support of Harris.

In her address, Harris said her campaign has shown “who America is,” and that “we are all in this together.”

“Philadelphia; are you ready to do this?” she asked, adding the city was where “democracy was forged,” and nodded to the 1976 Sylvester Stallone classic in saying the location of the rally was a “tribute to those who start as the underdog and climb to victory.”

Harris called Tuesday the “most consequential election of our lifetimes, and the momentum is on our side.”

Our campaign has tapped into the ambitions and the aspirations and the dreams of the American people. We are optimistic, and we are excited about what we can do together. And we know it is time for a new generation of leadership in America. And I am ready to offer that leadership as the next president of the United States of America.”

Harris went on to pledge that she will be a president who knows the “true measure of a leader is not based on who you beat down but who you lift up.”

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“It is my pledge to you that if you give me a chance to fight on your behalf as president, there is nothing in the world that will stand in my way… Instead of stewing over an enemies list, I will spend every day on your behalf working on my to-do list full of priorities to improve your lives.”

Chants of “we are not going back” soon erupted.

She added that she will listen to people who disagree with her and that they will have a “seat at the table” as is custom for “strong leaders.”

“I pledge to put country above party and self and to be a president for all Americans,” she said. “We are the promise of America.”

Harris also credited Republicans who may or may not have ever voted for a Democrat in the past but endorsed her in this cycle. Such figures have included former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., former Rep. Charlie Dent, R-Pa., former Pence aide Olivia Troye, former Trump aide Anthony Scaramucci, former Melania Trump aide Stephanie Grisham, former G.W. Bush Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and Reagan-era FBI Director William Webster.

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“Tonight, we finish as we started with optimism, with energy, with joy, knowing that ‘we the people’ have the power to shape our future and that we can confront any challenge we face when we do it together,” Harris said, later adding, “When we fight, we win.”

Other speakers at the rally included Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro – widely considered the runner-up to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz in the vice presidential sweeps. Shapiro also noted Philadelphia’s prominence in the founding of America, adding, “we are not going back to a king.”

In an apparent response to a comic at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally making a crack about Puerto Rico being an “island of garbage,” two Puerto Rican musicians took the stage Monday night.

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Rapper Fat Joe said, “I heard they needed a Puerto Rican in Philly, and I was so happy to be here” and slammed Trump’s comments about the immigration crisis at his first campaign launch:

“Seeing Donald Trump come down that escalator and call my Mexican brothers and sisters rapists and drug dealers, he obviously didn’t know the contributions of Mexican-Americans to this country,” the Bronx-born Joe, né Joseph Antonio Cartagena, said.

San Juan-born Ricky Martin later took the stage and performed his 1999 hit “Livin’ La Vida Loca” before also endorsing Harris.

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The first results of the 2024 election day are in from Dixville Notch, New Hampshire with former President Donald Trump and Vice-president Kamala Harris splitting the tiny town’s six votes. 

The final count read out by officials around 12:10 a.m. on Tuesday morning were 3 for Trump and 3 for Harris. 

The six citizens of Dixville Notch, which is a remote unincorporated township in New Hampshire’s North Country region, cast their ballots at midnight. 

Before voters cast their ballots, Cory Pesaturo, three-time world accordion champion, performed an accordion rendition of the national anthem as voters held their hands over their hearts. 

The tiny village began its tradition of midnight voting in 1960. Four years ago, then-former Vice President Biden swept all five votes cast in the tiny township near the U.S.-Canadian border, en route to his White House victory over Trump.

All eligible voters in the township – which totaled six in New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation presidential primary in January – gathered in Dixville’s Tillotson House, where voting remained open until everybody cast their ballot.

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Dixville Notch isn’t the only New Hampshire town which has grabbed national attention with midnight voting on Election Day.

Harts Location – in the state’s White Mountains – started midnight voting in 1948. And Millfield, which is near Dixville Notch in New Hampshire’s North Country, has also held midnight voting. 

But in the 2024 general election, Dixville Notch was the only location in New Hampshire holding midnight voting.

Every four years – during the state’s presidential primary and the general election – reporters and media outlets from around the country and the globe descend on Dixville Notch to cover the midnight vote.

Tom Tillotson, the longtime town moderator of the vote, has noted that “we get our 15 minutes of fame every four years.”

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Donald Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, blamed Kamala Harris’ poor leadership over the last four years for the economic woes Americans have faced, such as increased housing costs, lost jobs, inflation and higher than average credit delinquency rates, during a rally in Pennsylvania Monday night. 

“She’s been in Washington for four years, and the consequence is that our fellow citizens are seeing credit card delinquency rates going through the roof, unaffordable housing, unaffordable grocery prices,” Vance said on Election Day eve from a venue in Newtown, Pennsylvania. 

“You know, 8% of our fellow citizens can’t afford to pay their car payments right now because of Kamala Harris’ policies. The state of Pennsylvania, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, has seen a bigger increase in the cost of groceries than any state in the entire union. Pennsylvania families are being crushed by the cost of everything from groceries to housing.”

In battleground Pennsylvania, one of the most coveted states for both candidates this election cycle, inflation remains higher than the national average. In September, food prices in Philadelphia were up 3.7% annually, compared to the national average of 1.3%. Meanwhile, energy prices in the Philadelphia metro area have increased at more than double the rate of the national average.

Vance described Harris’ record when it comes to the economy as a “failure” and insisted she has no plan to fix it. He blasted the vice president over her approach to taxes as well, noting that she plans to let former President Trump’s tax cuts expire, which Vance said will lead to “every single person” paying thousands of dollars in extra taxes each year.

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“She thinks we ought to raise taxes on American citizens and reward foreign corporations that ship American jobs overseas,” Vance argued from his podium Monday night. “You know what Donald J. Trump thinks? President Trump thinks that we ought to cut your taxes and punish the corporations that are shipping American jobs overseas.”

American jobs would be at risk under a potential Harris administration, Vance also added, pointing out that a recent jobs report showed 28,000 private sector jobs disappeared last month. “We lost 46,000 manufacturing jobs under Kamala Harris’ leadership,” he told the crowd. “But you know what? You know who we did hire? We hired a lot of government bureaucrats.”

While Vance insisted that Harris’ policy record was poor on the economy and proves she would do little for Pennsylvanians’ cost-of-living concerns, the Ohio Senator praised former President Trump for already delivering a strong economy when he was president. 

“We want the president who had inflation at 1.5%.” Vance implored rally goers. “We know that Donald J Trump’s leadership delivered the fastest rising take-home pay in 40 years in the United States of America. He already did it.”

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Vance added that Trump has plans to increase the supply of housing, something the Harris campaign has also proposed, and said that the former president would fight to lower mortgage interest rates as well.  

Vance, Trump and Harris all spent time in Pennsylvania on Election Day eve, as they campaigned across numerous battleground states. Trump rallied Monday in Reading and Pittsburgh, while Harris spent time in Allentown, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. During Harris’ rally in Allentown, she told rally goers that she would strengthen the economy by cutting taxes on the middle-class, while raising them for the nation’s most wealthy and for corporations. She also insisted she would make everyday costs, like childcare, more affordable, and work to reduce costs for seniors.  

“It is my pledge to you that when I walk in the White House – instead of stewing over an enemy’s list – I will spend every day working on my to-do list on your behalf full of priorities that are about improving your life about bringing down the cost of living,” Harris said from Allentown Monday. “About banning corporate price gouging on groceries, about making housing and child care more affordable. My plan will be about cutting taxes for workers in middle-class families and small businesses. Lowering health care costs, including the cost of home care for home care for our seniors.”

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., came under fire on Sunday after falsely claiming on social media that 50,000 attendees at a colonial elections festival in Puerto Rico were rallying for the “anti-Trump, anti-corruption Alianza movement.”

“Eyes on Puerto Rico: Tonight, Puerto Ricans amassed the second-largest political rally this ENTIRE cycle – behind only Harris’ 75k-person Ellipse speech,” AOC wrote in a post on X. “Over 50,000 Boricuas rallying for the anti-Trump, anti-corruption Alianza movement & @juandalmauPR. Political earthquake.”

The representative was referring to a festival that appeared to amass more people than Vice President Harris’s speech last week at the Ellipse, next to the White House, but the post did not tell the entire story.

In fact, critics accused AOC of lying and slapped the social media post with a community note.

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“The depicted rally is the Festival de la Esperanza, hosted by the anti-colonial parties of Movimiento Victoria Ciudadana (MVC) and Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño (PIP) ahead of the next colonial elections,” the note read. “It had nothing to do with any of the US’s main parties.”

Several users on X accused AOC of lying and misleading people, with one even accusing her of using Puerto Rico for her own political goals.

Fox News Digital has reached out to her for comment on the matter, but did not immediately hear back.

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In a follow-up post on X, AOC attempted to clear up her remarks.

“I did not mention Kamala and stated this is about anti-corruption Alianza,” she wrote. “To build a coalition, it is relevant to note that PNP’s Jenniffer Gonzalez ran Latinos for Trump & campaigns on scare tactics about Dalmau cutting [Social] Security when she’s empowered cuts via membership w/GOP.”

Still, users continue to bash AOC on her post that amassed over 5.7 million views.

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Billionaire Elon Musk, who owns X, also chimed in on her post, simply writing, “lol.”

AOC and Musk have feuded over various issues for at least the last two years.

In an instance in September 2023, AOC slammed Musk on social media after he said she is “not that smart.”

AOC had mocked House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., playing off a social media meme of “girl math,” where people use bad math to justify spending habits, by saying, “Boy math is needing 15 attempts to count the votes correctly to become Speaker and then shutting down the government 9 months later.” 

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In response, conservative influencer Ashley St. Clair shared a clip of AOC in which she argued that the numbers of legal immigrants who traveled to Ellis Island, New York, around the turn of the century “far eclipsed what we’re seeing now” in terms of the current migrant crisis.

“Girl math is saying immigrants coming legally through Ellis Island is the same as 3 million undocumented migrants pouring through our border and costing NYC $1,000,000,000 to house migrants for free in hotels,” St. Clair said. 

Musk chimed in, commenting, “She’s just not that smart.”

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The insult grabbed AOC’s attention, who fired back with a list of her accomplishments and a bitter send off for the X owner.

“I wasn’t born rich and became the youngest woman in American history to be elected to Congress. Then I investigated Cohen, authored the largest FEMA funeral assistance program in history and led [the] creation of a US Climate Corps to create tens of thousands of new jobs,” she replied. “Stay mad.” 

Fox News Digital’s Gabriel Hays contributed to this report.

American intelligence officials released a recent statement warning about Russian actors conducting “additional influence operations” to impact the upcoming election on Tuesday.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) published the latest update on its website on Monday evening. Speaking on behalf of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the ODNI detailed the latest intelligence findings.

Last week, officials said that they observed Russian actors creating and disseminating a fake video that showed individuals voting illegally, and a video accusing a politician of taking a bribe. Since then, the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) has observed Russia and other foreign adversaries “conducting additional influence operations intended to undermine public confidence in the integrity of U.S. elections and stoke divisions among Americans.”

“The IC expects these activities will intensify through election day and in the coming weeks, and that foreign influence narratives will focus on swing states,” the statement read.

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Of all the foreign adversaries seeking to impact the election, the ODNI said that Russia “is the most active threat.”

“Influence actors linked to Russia in particular are manufacturing videos and creating fake articles to undermine the legitimacy of the election, instill fear in voters regarding the election process, and suggest Americans are using violence against each other due to political preferences, judging from information available to the IC,” the ODNI continued. “These efforts risk inciting violence, including against election officials.”

“We anticipate Russian actors will release additional manufactured content with these themes through election day and in the days and weeks after polls close.”

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In recent days, Russian actors created an article reporting about false plans for swing state officials to orchestrate election fraud, and also made a recent video that “falsely depicted an interview with an individual claiming election fraud in Arizona.

Officials also believe that Iranian actors may be meddling with the election and disseminating false information, as they have done in the past. The meddlers may intend “to create fake media content intended to suppress voting or stoke violence, as they have done in past election cycles,” the ODNI noted.

The FBI encourages anyone who observes suspicious or criminal activity to call 1-800-CALL-FBI. Cyber incidents impacting election infrastructure can be reported to the CISA through the number 1-844-SAY-CISA.

The report came less than 24 hours before polls are set to open on Nov. 5, in what is expected to be a toss-up election between Vice President Harris and former President Trump. Swing states across the country have been on the lookout for fake ballots.

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On Monday, the chair of a Pennsylvania county election board announced that he had found 2,500 suspicious registration and mail-in ballot applications. At least 17% of the applications were fraudulent.