Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris spell head-to-head astatine the ballot boxes crossed America today, November 5, 2024, successful a contention to find the adjacent President of the United States.
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Media outlets volition apt marque immoderate unofficial calls on predetermination night from states wherever the contention is not precise close, but expect a process of astatine slightest a fewer days – and perchance arsenic agelong arsenic respective weeks – earlier the last telephone is made connected who the adjacent president is successful 2025.
Every authorities handles its elections differently, but they each person laws guiding the certification timeline. Generally, aft each votes successful a authorities are counted, a committee of authorities predetermination officials reviews the number to measure it for accuracy and completeness. Once that reappraisal is completed, the results indispensable past beryllium certified astatine some the section and authorities level.
The certification process includes a reappraisal by predetermination officials, boards of canvassers oregon those fixed authorization to certify nether authorities law. Certification whitethorn travel from the state’s main predetermination official, which tin scope from its Secretary of State oregon Lt. Governor to its committee of canvassers oregon different state-level entity. In the end, it is up to Congress to certify the results astatine the national level. At that point, we person a caller president.
In 2020, the past authorities to certify its vote number was California, connected Dec. 11. However, it took much than 2 months from Election Day earlier Congress officially certified the votes.
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Gwen Walz, woman of Minnesota politician and Democratic vice statesmanlike hopeful Tim Walz, indicated offering tampons successful schoolhouse bathrooms would assistance students larn to work during an quality on Katie Couric's podcast Sunday, October 27,
Couric asked Walz astir her husband being called "Tampon Tim," a nickname coined by conservatives aft helium signed a measure successful his authorities that would enactment escaped menstrual products successful each schoolhouse restrooms, including boys' rooms.
"If kids are bare successful school, what that does to encephalon and learning, you're not going to larn to read," Walz said. "So if you're talking astir learning to work and closing gaps past you amended instrumentality distant the barriers for that. If that's tampons, past that's tampons, right?"
"Take distant the barriers and let's get to the existent enactment of this, not get mislaid successful what are components and, arsenic immoderate radical would say, you know, equaling the playing tract oregon immoderate it mightiness be," she said.
This is an excerpt from an nonfiction written by Fox News' Kendall Tietz.
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Sirius XM vigor big Megyn Kelly campaigned for former President Trump in the cardinal battleground authorities of Pennsylvania successful hopes of convincing the remaining undecided president to rally down him implicit Vice President Kamala Harris.
Kelly revealed Monday connected her amusement that the Trump run had invited her to look alongside the Republican nominee successful Pittsburgh. She antecedently announced she would ballot for Trump successful the statesmanlike contention against President Biden earlier helium withdrew from the race.
Kelly joined Trump connected signifier to praise him arsenic a "protector of women" and that is the crushed she is endorsing him.
"He volition beryllium a protector of women. And it's wherefore I'm voting for him," she said. "He volition adjacent the border. He volition support the boys retired of girls sports and wherever they don't belong. And you cognize what else? One much thing. He volition look retired for our boys, to our forgotten boys and our forgotten men. Guys similar you. Guys similar these guys. Who got the calluses connected their hands? Who enactment for a surviving with the beards and the tats. Who possibly person a brew aft enactment and don't privation to beryllium judged by radical similar Oprah and Beyoncé, who volition ne'er person to look the consequences of her disastrous economical policies."
The erstwhile Fox News anchor famously had a tense narration with Trump during the 2016 predetermination cycle.
This is an excerpt from an nonfiction written by Fox News' Joseph A. Wulfsohn.
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Voters successful Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, were divided betwixt erstwhile President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris successful the celebrated midnight vote.
Trump and Harris each received 3 votes.
In 2020, President Biden secured each 5 votes successful Dixville Notch.
Four years prior, Democrat Hillary Clinton received the astir votes with four, followed by 2 votes for Trump, 1 ballot for Libertarian Gary Johnson and 1 write-in ballot for now-Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has indicated that former President Donald Trump plans to springiness him "control" implicit the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
Kennedy indicated that Trump "promised" him "control" implicit "public wellness agencies, which are HHS and its sub-agencies, CDC, FDA, NIH, and a fewer others," positive the USDA.
He made the comments successful a video clip that has been circulating online.
The New York Times reported that Kennedy noted via substance that the video was a signaling from an interior speech with run workers regarding get-out-the-vote efforts for Trump.
"I basal acceptable to assistance him escaped the public wellness agencies of their pervasive conflicts and corruption and reconstruct their contented of gold-standard, evidence-based science," Kennedy said successful a statement, according to the outlet.
The HHS caput and USDA caput posts are some cabinet-level positions.
"No ceremonial decisions astir Cabinet and unit person been made, however, President Trump has said helium volition enactment alongside passionate voices similar RFK Jr. to Make America Healthy Again by providing families with harmless nutrient and ending the chronic illness epidemic plaguing our children," Trump run nationalist property caput Karoline Leavitt said successful a statement.
"President Trump volition besides found a peculiar Presidential Commission of autarkic minds and volition complaint them with investigating what is causing the decades-long summation in chronic illnesses," she added.
This is an excerpt from an nonfiction written by Fox News' Alex Nitzberg.
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