Election 2024: Live results map

One of the most tumultuous presidential campaigns in American history enters its final phase on November 5, when voters go to the polls to choose between Donald J. Trump, the forty-fifth president and three-time Republican candidate, and Vice President Kamala Harris, who is running for office President Joseph R. Biden's withdrawal from the race rose to the top of the Democratic ticket. In the weeks leading up to Election Day, polls showed intensifying national competition and a dispute in key battleground states that will decide the outcome. The first polling stations close at 8 a.m PM ET on November 5th and The New Yorker will release the results until the final vote is counted, as reported by the Associated Press.

In addition to the presidential race, control of the House of Representatives, the Senate and the mansions of eleven governors is at stake. In the House, Republicans will seek to expand their seven-seat majority, while Democrats hope to overturn their narrow loss in the House in 2022. In the Senate, 34 seats are contested, 23 of which are held by Democrats or by independents who caucus with the party. Republicans need a net gain of just two seats to gain control of the body.

The results could prove historic in many ways. If Harris wins, she will become the first woman elected president and the first person of Asian descent. In her unusually short campaign, Harris has tried to win support by offering an economic platform focused on the middle class and families and by tapping into popular anger over the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision in 2022 that overturned abortion protections in Roe vs. Calf. It faced challenges on several fronts, including widespread discontent over inflation that followed COVID-19 pandemic, for which many voters have blamed President Biden. In the final weeks of the race, Harris struggled to shore up waning support from several traditional Democratic voting blocs, including African-American men and Latinos, as well as young people and Arab Americans angered by U.S. support for Israel's war in Gaza.

Trump is hoping to become only the second politician to retake the White House in his third race, after losing a first bid for re-election. After a trial in New York over hush money payments to an adult film star, a jury found Trump guilty on 34 counts, making him the first former president to become a convicted felon. He survived two assassination attempts, including one in which a bullet grazed his ear at a rally. In the final days of his campaign, Trump has returned to the themes that have defined his career in politics: stoking xenophobia, lying about the outcome of the 2020 election and refusing to say whether he would accept defeat in this election.

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