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(NEXSTAR) – Polls are starting to adjacent arsenic Americans formed their ballots Tuesday successful the 2024 statesmanlike election, a contention that volition marque past successful the lawsuit of either a Harris oregon Trump victory.
Should Vice President Kamala Harris win, she would go the nation's archetypal pistillate president, portion a Donald Trump triumph would marque him the archetypal erstwhile president since 1892 to suffer the White House and instrumentality it backmost successful non-consecutive terms. A Trump reelection would besides marque him the archetypal U.S. president convicted of a crime to triumph office.
Emotions astir the contention person been rising implicit the past 4 years, which saw (among different captious events): rioters tempest the U.S. Capitol connected Jan. 6; the dismantling of Roe v. Wade; Trump's unfounded election denial; simmering choler implicit the U.S.-Mexico border; warfare successful the Middle East; 2 assassination attempts against Trump; and Harris' last-minute introduction into the race.
Early voters formed their ballots in ample numbers during the days starring up to Tuesday, with some candidates making last-minute pitches to triumph over important voting blocs, specified arsenic women and young men.
Recent polling from Emerson College Polling and The Hill shows Harris and Trump deadlocked successful several pivotal plaything states, with Harris somewhat up successful Michigan and Trump maintaining an borderline successful Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina and Pennsylvania. The 2 candidates are tied successful Nevada and Wisconsin up of the contention to 270 electoral assemblage votes.
Stay tuned for unrecorded updates, streaming video and afloat sum of the 2024 U.S. statesmanlike election.
