Harris, Trump conclude campaigning -now its up to the voters as Election Day 2024 gets underway

Nearly 2 years aft launching his run to instrumentality to the White House, former President Trump's bid to triumph backmost his aged occupation is present successful the hands of America's voters, arsenic Election Day 2024 has arrived.

Facing disconnected against the Republican statesmanlike nominee is Vice President Kamala Harris, who conscionable 3 and a fractional months agone replaced her brag - President Biden - atop the Democrats' nationalist ticket.

With astir 75 cardinal ballots already formed crossed the state successful aboriginal voting, and in-person day-of voting present getting underway, some large enactment nominees are optimistic astir their chances successful this historical showdown.

"Momentum is connected our side," Harris told supporters astatine a rally successful Allentown, Pennsylvania connected Monday. "Can you consciousness it."

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Democratic statesmanlike nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a run rally astatine Carrie Blast Furnaces successful Pittsburgh, Monday, Nov. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

And hours later, astatine a rally successful Pittsburgh, the vice president reiterated, "make nary mistake, we volition win.

Trump, besides campaigning successful battleground Pennsylvania, told supporters "we've been waiting for this. I've been waiting 4 years for this."

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And adjacent though the last nationalist polls and cardinal plaything authorities surveys pointed to a margin-of-error race, the erstwhile president has touted that "we person a large lead. We person a large lead."

Trump and Harris held dueling rallies connected Election Eve successful Pennsylvania, which, with 19 electoral votes astatine stake, is the biggest prize among the 7 cardinal battleground states.

Former President and Republican statesmanlike nominee Donald Trump gestures during a run rally astatine PPG Paints Arena successful Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania connected November 4, 2024. (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP) (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images) (Getty Images)

Harris closed retired her run docket with a ample precocious nighttime rally successful Philadelphia, by the famed "Rocky Steps" extracurricular the city's Art Museum.

Around the aforesaid clip Harris was successful Philadelphia, Trump held his last rally successful Grand Rapids, Michigan, the aforesaid spot wherever helium closed retired his 2016 and 2020 campaigns.

Pennsylvania and Michigan, on with Wisconsin, North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada, are the 7 plaything states whose razor-thin margins decided President Biden's 2020 triumph implicit Trump and volition apt find whether Trump oregon Harris wins the 2024 election.

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Harris, Trump, their moving mates and apical surrogates, person fanned retired crossed the 7 battlegrounds the past mates of months. And the 2 statesmanlike campaigns and allied ace PACs person spent astir each the $2.3 cardinal they've shelled retired to tally ads successful the White House contention successful the battleground states.

The vice president and the erstwhile president closed retired their campaigns with precise divergent messages.

Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic statesmanlike nominee, headlines a rally successful Allentown, Pennsylvania, connected Election Eve, November 4, 2024. (Fox News - Paul Steinhauser)

Harris, who for a 2nd consecutive time avoided mentioning Trump by name, closed with a affirmative and upbeat connection arsenic she painted a unified aboriginal for the nation.

Trump painted a antagonistic representation of the state the past 4 years nether the Biden administration, arsenic helium railed against Democratic policies and spotlighted the dangers of unchecked immigration.

For Trump, the 2024 run has been a grueling two-year marathon. He announced his candidacy astatine his southbound Florida Mar-a-Lago nine days aft the 2022 midterm elections. After a dilatory start, the erstwhile president easy dispatched a tract of GOP superior opponents - which past twelvemonth concisely expanded to implicit a twelve contenders - and ran the array earlier this twelvemonth successful the Republican statesmanlike primaries.

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Trump - who was indicted successful 4 antithetic transgression cases - saw his enactment surge and his fundraising soar successful the precocious spring, aft helium made past arsenic the archetypal erstwhile oregon existent president convicted of felonies.

A period later, Biden suffered a large setback aft a disastrous precocious June statement show against Trump reignited longstanding questions implicit whether the 81-year-old president was physically and mentally up for different 4 grueling years successful the White House - and sparked calls from wrong his ain enactment for him to measurement down.

Trump's polling vantage implicit Biden widened, and the erstwhile president was further politically boosted aft surviving an assassination effort connected his beingness astatine a rally successful Butler, Pennsylvania 2 days earlier the commencement of the Republican National Convention successful July.

Former President Donald Trump rallied successful Raleigh, North Carolina, earlier Vice President Kamala Harris spoke with supporters successful Scranton, Pennsylvania, Monday, Nov. 4, 2024. (REUTERS/Brian Snyder/Kevin Mohatt)

But the contention was instantly turned upside down days later, arsenic Biden ended his re-election bid and endorsed his vice president. Democrats rapidly coalesced astir Harris, and her fundraising surged arsenic her canvass numbers soared.

The Harris honeymoon continued done the precocious August Democratic National Convention, and into September, erstwhile astir pundits declared her the victor of the 1 and lone statesmanlike statement betwixt her and Trump. 

But arsenic the calendar moved from September into October, Trump appeared to regain his footing, and nationalist sentiment surveys indicated the erstwhile president gaining momentum.

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

Republican statesmanlike nominee, erstwhile President Donald Trump takes the signifier during a run rally astatine the J.S. Dorton Arena connected November 04, 2024 successful Raleigh, North Carolina.  (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) (Chip Somodevilla)

But longtime Republican advisor Alex Castellanos, taking contented with the polls, pointed to elector registration gains by Republicans.

"I deliberation the pollsters are getting this wrong. We’re each missing thing due to the fact that they’re giving america the aforesaid canvass implicit and implicit again. .. Somebody’s missing something."

And Castellanos, a seasoned of galore statesmanlike campaigns, argued "what I deliberation they’re missing a monolithic displacement successful voting registration underneath each of this. Thirty-one states person elector registration by party. Thirty of them successful the past 4 years person seen question by Republicans."

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Longtime Democratic pollster Mark Penn, connected Fox News' "Special Report," pointed to an evident surge successful aboriginal voting by Republicans - aft Trump, agelong a vocal professional of aboriginal voting - successful caller days embraced the GOP's longstanding effort to marque Republicans much accepting of aboriginal voting - and said "the lone information we cognize is that Republicans person done a batch amended successful the message successful and aboriginal voting that they ever have."

Harris, a California resident, formed her ballot by message up of Election Day. 

The Trump run said that the erstwhile president would formed his ballot in-person connected Election Day successful Palm Beach, Florida, wherever helium resides.

Trump, according to his campaign, besides planned to walk Election Day with family, friends, and staff, and besides bash immoderate phone-based tele rallies to targeted spots. 

The erstwhile president was acceptable to clasp his Election Night office astatine a normal halfway successful West Palm Beach, Florida..

Harris was expected to walk portion of Election Day making her lawsuit successful vigor interviews. And the vice president was scheduled to clasp her Election Night office astatine her alma mater, the historically Black Howard University successful Washington D.C.

During the closing last week of the campaign, Trump - who for 4 years has made mendacious claims that his 2020 nonaccomplishment was owed to a rigged predetermination - appeared to beryllium trying to discredit the 2024 election.

Trump, connected Sunday, erstwhile again argued without providing impervious that the Democrats were trying to cheat.

"They are warring truthful hard to bargain this damn thing," the erstwhile president charged connected Sunday.

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