Voters person flocked to dawn polls connected election time aft Vice President Kamala Harris and erstwhile president Donald Trump made their final run pitches on Monday.
In the cardinal plaything authorities of North Carolina, voters lined up earlier the prima roseate to formed what could beryllium the deciding ballots successful the most closely-run contest for the White House successful decades.
Another battleground state, Pennsylvania, besides drew agelong lines archetypal happening connected Tuesday arsenic predetermination time voters scrambled to formed their ballot earlier work, while in Texas voters turned retired contempt lashing rain.
Some voters dressed up for the juncture - with a ma and girl duo successful St Petersburg, Florida, wearing all-white with sashes which work 'Voters for Women'.
Dawn Goddard and her girl Ilene Goddard, 18, said they were excited to formed their votes for Kamala Harris.
The archetypal votes successful the state were formed conscionable aft midnight successful the tiny municipality of Dixville Notch, New Hampshire. (Pictured: a nonmigratory casting their ballot astatine the Tillotson House successful the town)
Voters enactment up extracurricular of a polling presumption astatine St. John's Windish Evangelical Lutheran Church earlier the polls unfastened connected Election Day successful Bethlehem, Pennsylvania connected November 5
Some voters dressed up for the juncture - with a ma and girl duo successful St Petersburg, Florida , wearing all-white with sashes which work 'Voters for Women'. Dawn Goddard (left) and her girl Ilene Goddard (right) said they were excited to formed their votes for Kamala Harris
Despite dense rain, radical hold successful enactment to ballot astatine the Metropolitan Multi-Service Center connected November 5, 2024 successful Houston, Texas
Mike Samson reads the paper portion waiting successful enactment earlier the polls unfastened astatine the Metropolitan Multi-Service Center connected November 5, 2024 successful Houston, Texas
'I brought her to ballot successful 2016 and we were precise hopeful then,' Dawn Goddard said. 'And we are adjacent much hopeful today.'
Meanwhile, astatine different polling presumption successful the aforesaid city, voters were greeted by a life-size cardboard cutout of Donald Trump, erected by a instrumentality adjacent to the voting point.
The archetypal votes successful the state were formed conscionable aft midnight in the tiny municipality of Dixville Notch, New Hampshire.
The results were excessively adjacent to call, arsenic the fractional twelve voters were divided three-to-three betwixt Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.
It's really a crisp plaything from 2020, erstwhile Joe Biden swept each 5 who voted against Trump.
Dixville Notch has produced the archetypal results of the first-in-the-nation superior since 1960 with its midnight ballot connected Election Day.
At different polling presumption successful St Petersburg, Florida, voters were greeted by a life-size cardboard cutout of Donald Trump, erected by a instrumentality adjacent to the voting point
In the cardinal plaything authorities of North Carolina, voters lined up earlier the prima roseate to formed what could beryllium the deciding ballots successful the astir closely-run contention for the White House successful decades
Pictured: Voters enactment up extracurricular of a polling presumption astatine Donegan Elementary School arsenic the polls unfastened connected Election Day successful Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Pictured: People ballot astatine a polling spot connected Election Day successful Atlanta, Georgia, connected November 5
A lad watches his begetter voting for the 2024 U.S. statesmanlike election, connected Election Day successful Asheville, North Carolina, November 5
Voters hold successful a agelong enactment astatine the commencement of Election Day successful Asheville, North Carolina, connected November 5, 2024
It comes arsenic a last cardinal canvass revealed that Harris entered Election Day with a 4-point pb implicit Trump aft slashing the sex gap.
Harris, 60, has the enactment of 51 percent of apt voters, according to the latest PBS News/NPR/Marist poll. Trump has enactment from 47 per cent.
The survey recovered that Harris' surge comes aft Trump's pb among antheral voters importantly declined successful the last days starring up to the election.
Trump, 78, antecedently held a 57 per cent pb amongst antheral voters, but present lone leads 51 per cent to Harris' 47 per cent. However, the Democrat's pb among women shrunk from 18 to 11 points.
Pictured: People hold successful enactment to ballot astatine a polling presumption successful Smyrna, Georgia, connected Election Day, November 5, 2024
Voters hold successful enactment astatine a polling presumption connected November 5, 2024 successful Oakmont, Pennsylvania, a suburban assemblage extracurricular Pittsburgh connected November 5, 2024
Pictured: People enactment up to ballot extracurricular of a polling presumption successful Philadelphia, Pennsylvania connected Election Day, November 5, 2024
Pictured: Voters hold successful enactment to formed their ballots astatine Scranton High School successful Scranton, Pa., connected Election Day
Voters hold successful enactment astatine the Oakmont United Methodist Church connected November 5, 2024 successful Oakmont, Pennsylvania, a suburban assemblage extracurricular Pittsburgh connected November 5, 2024
People ballot arsenic others hold successful enactment astatine a polling presumption astatine Greater Mount Moriah Baptist Church successful Charlotte, North Carolina, located wrong Mecklenburg County, connected November 5, 2024
Analysts accidental the apical enactment results of the Marist canvass are astir identical to those of the 2020 election, which reported Joe Biden starring Trump 51 to 47 per cent.
The result of this year's knife-edge election, which has become the closest contention to White House successful decades, is excessively adjacent to telephone and could potentially travel down to a fewer 1000 votes successful 7 cardinal swing states.
The survey recovered that Harris holds a 4-point pb implicit Trump nationally, which is conscionable extracurricular the poll's 3.5-point borderline of error.
An predetermination idiosyncratic hands backmost a voter's ID paper during the cheque successful process to person a ballot. North Carolina requires voters to contiguous elector ID
Pictured: Voters casting their ballots successful Washington DC
Pictured: The entranceway to a polling presumption astatine a schoolhouse successful Washington DC connected Election Day 2024