Election Day battlegrounds still too close to call as Trump, Harris sweep multiple states

Vice President Harris will not address the crowd at Howard University in Washington, D.C., tonight.

Instead, Harris-Walz Campaign co-chair Cedric Richmond, gave remarks at the university. Harris is expected to speak tomorrow.

Harris planned to watch the election results from her alma mater, Howard University on Election Night.

Three sources close to Harris expressed concern that Harris’ path to victory may be too narrow to overcome.

One source at the Harris friends and family party says “Her path is so narrow and she is not doing what she needs to do in PA, MI, WI….The exit polls I saw hours ago are all accurate, they need to suddenly outperform those. Don’t believe that will happen.”

Asked about this, a second source close to Harris told Fox News’ Jacqui Heinrich, “I 100% agree… The path to victory is very difficult…His numbers are higher than expected in counties where he should be losing by larger margins in PA and MI.”

A third source close to the campaign said, “I think we’re losing this”

A group of commentators discussed President Biden's decision to step down from the 2024 presidential race on NBC Tuesday night, as former President Trump gained momentum in swing states.

While the race was too close to call, NBC host Lester Holt asked former White House press secretary Jen Psaki if the Democratic Party was second-guessing the decision to change its ticket.

"Jen, has the conversation begun yet about Joe Biden and about the decision to ask him to step aside?" Holt asked.

"It will begin. It will begin depending on the outcome," Psaki replied. "And obviously, there hasn't been a race called yet... if this is not a Harris win, that will certainly be part of the discussion.

Fox News Digital's Brooke Curto contributed to this update.

In the final stretch leading up to Election Day, former President Donald Trump's campaign threw out the traditional playbook of trying to broaden the Republican presidential nominee's closing message to court moderate voters.

Instead, the former president aimed to further energize his base of MAGA faithful and also increased efforts to turn out young men and other low-propensity voters - with tough talk on the campaign trail and online events tailored to that specific audience.

The former president spent most of his time on the campaign trail in the seven crucial battleground states whose razor-thin margins decided President Biden's 2020 election victory over Trump and will likely determine if Vice President Kamala Harris or Trump succeed Biden in the White House.

But Trump, during the home stretch, also occasionally ventured into solid blue states, including New York, California, and Illinois.

On the issues, Trump spotlighted inflation, immigration and border security, crime, and overseas conflicts.

Liberal social media commenters and left-wing members of the media slammed Florida voters and Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis for rejecting an amendment that would have created a constitutional right to abortion, describing its failure as "openly fascist."

"He’s put everything on it, including, as you said, threats, whatever it takes to try to make sure that that amendment fails using the power of government in a way that is, I would say, openly fascist and very determined," MSNBC's Joy Reid said Tuesday evening on air about Florida's Amendment 4 failing. 

DeSantis signed the Heartbeat Protection Act into law last year, which banned most abortions after six weeks of gestation. This year, Florida residents voted on Amendment 4, the Right to Abortion Initiative, which worked to overturn the ban. 

In Florida, constitutional amendments must get 60% of the vote, not a simple majority, to pass. Amendment 4 received majority support among voters but failed to meet the 60% threshold, which sparked an onslaught of criticism from Democrats, left-wing media outlets and pro-choice advocates. 

"Desantis’ Dirty Tricks Pay Off as Florida Abortion Measure Fails," a Rolling Stone headline published Tuesday evening declared. And social media users chimed in with expletives aimed at voters who rejected the ballot measure. 

Fox News Digital's Emma Colton contributed to this report.

Minnesota governor and vice presidential candidate Tim Walz called former President Trump a "dictator" who wants to "overturn the Constitution" during his final pitch to voters in the battleground state of Arizona. 

Speaking in Tucson on Saturday, Walz said, "Momentum is on our side, but we take nothing for granted" and "We know in Arizona a vote or two per precinct could be what it takes to win the whole damn race for the country." 

"Someday you're going to be sitting on that porch. You're going to be in that rocking chair, and a little one is going to come up to you after being in school where they've been studying the 2024 election, and they're going to ask when everything was on the line and the American experiment was on the line, and there was somebody running who asked to be a dictator and to overturn the Constitution and talk about using the military against our own people. What did you do to stop that from happening?" Walz told the crowd on Saturday. 

This is an excerpt from an article written by Fox News' Greg Norman.

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In Michigan, Vice President Harris leads by 14 points among union households. That’s exactly the same as President Biden’s lead with union households in 2020.

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"I saw the picture and honestly it was a very nice looking family," former President Donald Trump told Sean Hannity during a Fox News hosted town hall event early in September. "His brother endorsed me, and the whole family endorsed me."

Family members of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, including his brother Jeff Walz, showed their support for Trump earlier this year when they were photographed wearing custom T-shirts which read "Walz's for Trump".

"There's something weird with that guy," Trump said of Kamala Harris' vice presidential running mate Walz. "He's a weird guy. JD is not weird. He's a solid rock. I happen to be a very solid rock. We're not weird. We're other things, perhaps, but we're not weird."

Trump told Hannity he was "honored" to receive the family's endorsement.

Vice President Kamala Harris announced her decision to choose Walz, a former high school teacher, coach and longtime National Guard member, on Aug. 6.

"I am proud to announce that I've asked @Tim_Walz to be my running mate," Harris officially announced on X at the time. "As a governor, a coach, a teacher, and a veteran, he's delivered for working families like his."

The Fox News Decision Desk can now project that Vice President Harris will win Hawaii. The Aloha State has voted for a Democrat in every election since 1984.

Vice President Kamala Harris' longtime pastor and mentor could be a key player in the reparations push on the federal level if she wins the presidential election on Tuesday.

Rev. Amos Brown, who has made several controversial comments, including blaming the United States for the 9/11 terrorist attacks, was appointed by California's Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom to serve as the vice chair of the state's reparations task force in 2021 and has called for a reparations push on the federal level.  

In 2022, Brown hosted an event at his church called "Solidarity for Reparations," which included the controversial Rev. Frederick Douglass Haynes III. 

Brown, who Harris previously said has "been on this journey with me every step of the way, from when I first thought about running for public office almost two decades ago" and has traveled with her to different events, introduced Haynes as a "son of Third Baptist" and the "right man to come and to inspire us, inform us, and make sure that we have the map to implement in all that we might make reparations a reality not in the sweet by-and-by, but right down here in the here and now."

"America, you owe us. What you done to us has been immoral. It’s been evil. It’s been unjust. It’s been downright wrong and the only way to bring salvation to America - you gotta pay us what you owe us," Haynes said at Brown's church. "I've come by to say San Francisco, California, Texas, United States of America, if you want salvation to come to this house, you've got to engage in reparations."

This is an excerpt from an article written by Fox News' Andrew Mark Miller and Cameron Cawthorne.

The Fox News Decision Desk can now project that Vice President Harris will win Virginia.

This race was closer than Democrats wanted it to be.

Trump did better among young voters and non-married men than he did four years ago, according to the Fox News Voter Analysis.

Jen OMalley Dillon is the Biden Campaign Manager. (photo by Andre Chung for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Jen O'Malley Dillon, the manager for the Harris-Walz campaign, urged supporters to “get some sleep, and get ready to close out strong tomorrow” amid a close race on election night.

In a memo, Dillon said the campaign outperformed in Philadelphia and early vote expectations in Bucks County in the crucial swing state of Pennsylvania. It was also waiting for votes to come in from Michigan and Wisconsin.

“While we continue to see data trickle in from the Sun Belt states, we have known all along that our clearest path to 270 electoral votes lies through the Blue Wall states," wrote Dillon, referring to a collection of states that had reliably voted Democrat in recent presidential elections through 2012. "And we feel good about what we’re seeing.”

She noted a winner may not be declared Tuesday night.

“Those of you who were around in 2020 know this well: It takes time for all the votes to be counted – and all the votes will be counted,” she wrote. “That’s how our system works. What we do know is this race is not going to come into focus until the early morning hours. We’ll continue to keep you all updated as we get more information. This is what we’ve been built for, so let’s finish up what we have in front of us tonight, get some sleep, and get ready to close out strong tomorrow.”

Votes from Wisconsin could come in the early morning hours on Wednesday, said Dillon, while polls in Nevada and Arizona, so it could take a while for those votes to be counted.

The Fox News Decision Desk can now project that former president Trump will win North Carolina.

It is one of four Sun Belt battlegrounds where both campaigns fought hard for a victory.

Trump is making gains with Black and Latino voters according to our Fox News Voter Analysis.

The win gives him sixteen more electoral votes.

The Fox News Decision Desk can now project that Vice President Harris will win New Mexico.

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Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance of Ohio was an aggressive advocate for former President Trump during the nearly four months he served as the GOP nominee's running mate.

Vance was a tireless surrogate, with scores of interviews and question-and-answer sessions on the campaign trail with reporters.

He also fully embraced the traditional running mate role of attack dog, as he repeatedly blasted Vice President Kamala Harris and Democratic Party vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.

But Vance toned down the rhetoric during last month's vice presidential debate with Walz, which earned him plaudits from many political prognosticators.

While Vance fanned out across all seven key battleground states that will likely determine the winner of the 2024 presidential election, since the senator hails from working-class roots in Ohio, he spent plenty of time in the three other Rust Belt states that are up for grabs in the White House race - neighboring Pennsylvania and Michigan, and Wisconsin.

As the voting continued in the crucial swing state of Wisconsin, a tabulator issue prompted a delay in the vote count out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, out of “an abundance of caution,” officials said.

Fox News’ Mike Tobin said that the counting hasn’t stopped in Milwaukee. “What they have done is put out an all call for city employees, so they’ve got firefighters, health care workers, IT workers here trying to move this count along. They have to verify all of the metadata, if you will, on the top of the ballot before they can run them through these machines again.”

He explained that there’s a red sticker on the back of the voting machine that acts like a seal “to prove that it hasn’t been broken, but there’s also a locking mechanism on the back of those machines. Now, the machines operated until the afternoon, and no one noticed that the stickers were in place, but the locking mechanisms hadn’t been engaged.”

A Republican observer noticed it and raised a red flag with the city officials who “say they believe the integrity of the vote was never compromised, but out of an abundance of caution, 31,000 ballots had to go back to the starting point and start all over again," Tobin said.

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In Nevada, former President Trump won White voters without a college degree by 14 points in 2020. Now, he’s winning them by 20 points.

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College students at a conservative-leaning Christian college in Virginia have shown up in numbers to vote in Tuesday's presidential election, according to a video shared on social media site X.

Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia "develops Christ-centered men and women with the values, knowledge, and skills essential to impact the world," according to their mission statement.

Liberty Law student Jesse Hughes shared a video to X earlier on Tuesday which has racked up over 60k views thus far.

"Huge line of students to vote at Liberty University," wrote X user @JesseHugesNC. "Students I talked to say this is the SHORTEST it’s been in a few hours."

The video shows several crowded halls on the Liberty University campus of students waiting to do their patriotic duty for the presidential election.

"The turnout at Liberty has big implications," said Hughes to Fox News Digital. "In 2020, only just over 2,000 students voted on campus." 

"Today, we saw at least 4,000-7,000, if not more come out. The hype around this election from GenZ conservatives is strong and people are excited to vote for President Trump. If Virginia remains close, Liberty students play a role in that," added Hughes.

Fox News Digital's Jasmine Baehr contributed to this update.

In the final stretch leading up to Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign mostly adhered to the traditional playbook of trying to broaden the Democratic presidential nominee's closing message to court moderate voters.

Harris, who replaced President Biden atop the Democrats' 2024 ticket in July, aimed to court the few remaining undecided voters, especially women and suburbanites.

In particular, she also made a major effort to win over dissatisfied Republicans, who cast ballots for Nikki Haley rather than former President Trump earlier this year in the GOP presidential primaries.

The vice president also courted Black and Hispanic voters - traditional Democratic loyalists whom Trump has made gains with this cycle.

The vice president spent most of her time on the campaign trail in the seven crucial battleground states whose razor-thin margins decided President Biden's 2020 election victory over Trump and will likely determine if Harris or Trump succeed Biden in the White House.

But Harris, during the home stretch, made a stop in red-state Texas.

On the issues, Harris spotlighted abortion.

RALEIGH, UNITED STATES - NOVEMBER 4: Josh Stein attorney general of North Carolina, gives a speech during ''Get out of the vote'' campaign event with musical guests Sugarland, Remi Wolf and James Taylor ahead of 2024 US Presidential Election in Raleigh, United States on November 4, 2024. (Photo by Peter Zay/Anadolu via Getty Images)

The Fox News Decision Desk projects Democratic North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein to win the state's gubernatorial election against Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson.

The high-stakes election pitted the progressive candidate, Stein, who was backed by term-limited Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper to fill his current seat, and Robinson, whose meteoric political career launched in 2018 after an impassioned speech about the Second Amendment in a viral video.

The Robinson campaign was rocked by scandal weeks ago when a local news outlet reported on Sept. 3 that Robinson allegedly routinely visited porn shops, viewing materials in a private booth, according to former employees and customers. Robinson’s alleged visits to adult stores unfolded in the 1990s and 2000s, before his transition into the political sphere, according to the report.

Robinson and his campaign denied the report as "complete and total fiction," but he stayed in the spotlight of scandal when CNN ran a report later that same month claiming Robinson frequented a pornography site called "Nude Africa," where he allegedly messaged with fellow users about peeping on women in locker rooms as a teenager, describing himself as a "black NAZI" and declaring a fondness for transgender pornography.

Fox News Digital’s Emma Colton contributed to this report.

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Former President Donald Trump bid farewell to his trademark rallies during an early morning stop in Grand Rapids, Michigan, his last event on the 2024 campaign trail.

"Your support means more than anything you can even understand… this is my last rally, can you believe it? The rallies, these big beautiful rallies, there’s never been anything like it and there never will be," Trump told supporters at Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan at a rally in the early morning hours on Tuesday.

The comments come after a whirlwind day for Trump, who wrapped up his 2024 campaign with stops in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.

The former president didn’t take the stage in Grand Rapids until after midnight Tuesday, meaning Trump spoke to supporters at his last event on election day in his final pitch to be sent back to the White House.

Trump’s Grand Rapids event marked the third time the former president ended his campaign in the West Michigan city, having concluded his former runs at DeVos Place in Grand Rapids in 2016 and the city’s airport in 2020.

The event also signified how critical of a prize the swing state of Michigan would be for his White House bid, a state where both campaigns have combined to double the number of events and visits that were held there in 2016 and 2020.

This is an excerpt from an article written by Fox News' Michael Lee.

The Fox News Decision Desk can project that in Maine, Vice President Harris will win the statewide vote.

Trump will win an electoral vote in the rural second district.

It’s now 11pm in New York, and four West Coast states have finished voting.

The Fox News Decision Desk can project that Vice President Harris will win California. The Golden State has 54 electoral votes on offer, more than any other state in the country.

Fox News can also project that Harris will win Oregon, adding eight more votes to her tally.

Harris will win Washington, another reliably Democratic northwestern state. But Trump will win Idaho’s four electoral votes.

"I have never been so offended in my life," Michigan Pastor Lorenzo Sewell told Fox News.

The 180 Church pastor in Detroit slammed Vice President Kamala Harris in October and accused her of exploiting the Black vote.

"We are extremely offended that she's bringing a podcaster here to talk to Black men about politics," he said, referring to Charlamagne, a podcaster who Sewell called "a false God".

"She brought a retired athlete to Flint, who is failing Magic Johnson, and she brought Oprah to Oakland County as if she understands the plight and the playing of people that look like me," he continued. "We will not allow virtual signaling. We will not allow identity politics. Black men are not political infants. We know exactly whats happening with the Democratic party. We know that they've exploited us for over six decades and we are saying, just like Moses said to Pharaoh, 'Let my people go.'"

The Fox News Decision Desk can now project that former President Trump will win Iowa. As expected, Trump is performing well in rural areas, which helped deliver victories to Trump in 2016 and 2020.

Republican Mike Ramone, left, ran against Democrat Matt Meyer, right, for Delaware governor. (Facebook)

The Fox News Decision Desk projects Democrat Matt Meyer has won the governor's race in Delaware, cementing the left's control over the small Northeastern state President Biden calls home.

Meyer, the New Castle County executive, defeated Mike Ramone, the Republican minority leader of the Delaware state House of Representatives.

The small state has long been known as a Democratic stronghold, with liberals serving in all three seats of its congressional delegation and as the majority members of the state legislature.

Biden served as its U.S. senator from 1973 through 2009.Meyer had won a three-way primary race to advance to the November race, and he was the only one of his fellow Democrats to not have political experience in Dover.

Before entering politics, he started "a recycled footwear company that sold environmentally friendly footwear to customers in 17 countries on five continents" while living in Kenya, according to Meyer's campaign website.

Fox News Digital's Elizabeth Elkind contributed to this update.

Barron Trump, the son of former U.S. President Donald Trump, attends his graduation ceremony, in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. May 17, 2024. REUTERS/Marco Bello

Barron Trump voted for his father, former President Trump, on Election Day, his mother said Tuesday.

Melania Trump, the former first lady, posted an image of the youngest of the former commander-in-chief's children from behind, at a voting booth.

“Voted for the first time - for his dad! #18yearsold #presidentialelection #proud,” she posted on X.

Barron Trump was 10-years-old when his father for first elected to the White House in 2016.

The presidential race in Wisconsin between Vice President Harris and former President Trump has a long way to go, though so far the numbers appear close.

Fox News co-anchor Bill Hemmer said Wisconsin is the “swingiest state,” showing that several counties flip and flop between Republican and Democrat.

For example, in Kenosha, Trump took 50.9% of the vote in 2020 compared to President Biden’s 47.8%, and currently Trump is carrying 57.9% of the vote compared to Harris’ 40.4%.

In Ozaukee County, Trump is carrying nearly 53.6% of the vote compared to Harris’ 45.1%, when in 2020 Trump collected 55.4% to Biden’s 43.4%.

Then in Waukesha County, Trump currently has 59% of the vote to Harris’ 39.7%, which is close to the numbers in 2020 when Trump had 59.8% to Biden’s 38.9%.

But in Door County, there is a close race between the two candidates, with Trump currently holding 51.6% of the vote to Harris’ 47.2%. In 2020, Biden collected 50.1% of the vote to Trump’s 48.6%.

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Minnesota first lady Gwen Walz is the wife of the Democratic vice presidential nominee, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.

Gwen Walz, a lifelong Minnesota native, began her career as an English teacher in western Nebraska, where she met Tim Walz.

The couple established a summer trip to China for their students and traveled there nearly every summer through 2003.

The Minnesota first lady served as an administrator and coordinator for Mankato Area Public Schools.

She is also an advocate for education in America’s prisons and has worked to bring “educational opportunities” to incarcerated men and women.

The Minnesota first lady is also an advocate for the LGBTQ movement.

She is a mother of two, Hope and Gus, who both joined their parents onstage at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago.

"Hope, Gus and Gwen, you are my entire world," Walz told his family during his speech on Aug. 22.

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In Pennsylvania, suburban voters are a key group that President Biden won by 10 points in 2020. And currently, these voters are going for Harris by 6 points.

-- Fox News Polling Unit

The economy has been a top issue for many 2024 voters. 

In a special Democracy 2024 broadcast, FOX Business reflected on what the business world told Liz Claman on "The Claman Countdown" recently. 

Jeff Greene, American real estate entrepreneur and member of the Democratic Party"

"There's no question that Donald Trump is pro-business."

Orlando Bravo, American billionaire private equity managing partner:

"Is it a bad economy or not, for people on Wall Street, for people in business that aren't these big companies? No, it's not. It's just not an incredibly booming economy."

Joe Moglia, former chairperson of TD Ameritrade:

"If our businesses in the United States are willing to pay those tariffs, they're not going to absorb that themselves. That will go to the consumer."

The Fox News Decision Desk says it’s too early to call Nevada, one of the most competitive states in play. Hispanic and working-class voters could be the key to victory.

Fox News can project that former President Trump will win Utah, adding another six votes to his column.

He will also win Montana’s presidential election.

Utah’s Republican Governor Spencer Cox will win another term according to our decision desk.

And in Montana’s governor race, Republican Greg Gianforte will win a second term.

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The inauguration of the next president of the United States will be on Jan. 20, 2025, in front of the U.S. Capitol.

Among the unofficial traditions of the day is the newly inaugurated president taking a stroll down Pennsylvania Avenue on a parade route cleared between the Capitol and the White House for the historic event. Jimmy Carter was the first president to make the walk in 1977.

Congressional leaders kicked off preparations for next year’s event in September at a quadrennial ceremony, where lawmakers hammer the first nails into the wooden frame that will eventually be the Inauguration Day platform.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., chair of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, noted the platform they started would eventually hold 1,600 people.

“This platform will serve as a stage for a momentous occasion where we will celebrate our democracy and the sacred values that tie us together as a nation,” she said. “These workers will literally set the stage for the peaceful transition of power.”

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Republicans hold onto the most highly contested governor's seat this year

Fox News projects former Sen. Kelly Ayotte, the Republican gubernatorial nominee in New Hampshire, will defeat Democratic nominee and former Manchester Mayor Joyce Craig to succeed retiring GOP Gov. Chris Sununu.

Republicans will hold onto the governor's office in swing state New Hampshire in what turned into the most highly contested gubernatorial election this year, a showdown that grabbed tons of national attention and outside money.

The Fox News Decision Desk projects that former Sen. Kelly Ayotte, the Republican nominee, will defeat Democratic nominee and former Mayor Joyce Craig of Manchester, New Hampshire's largest city.

Ayotte will succeed popular GOP Gov. Chris Sununu, who decided against running for re-election after winning and serving four straight two-year terms as governor. [New Hampshire and neighboring Vermont are the only states in the U.S. that elect governors every two years.]

Ayotte, a former state attorney general who was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2010 before narrowly losing re-election six years later, easily defeated a crowded field of rivals in early September to win the GOP nomination, while Craig edged out Executive Councilor Cinde Warmington to capture the Democratic nomination.

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In Georgia, there’s strong support for Harris among Black voters, but she is down 8 points from Biden’s level of support in 2020.

-- Fox News Polling Unit

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, appearing with medical doctors, holds a press conference to speak in opposition to Amendment 4, which would limit government interference with abortion in Florida at The Grove Bible Chapel in Winter Garden, Florida. The ballot measure is before voters in the November election. (Photo by Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis claimed victory on Tuesday evening over the defeat of two amendments that would have, respectively, created a constitutional right to abortion and legalized recreational marijuana. 

"With polls now closed in Florida — Amendment 3 has failed. Amendment 4 has failed," DeSantis posted to X shortly after polls closed in Florida. 

The two amendments are projected to fail, as they did not reach approval from 60% of Florida voters after polls closed at 7 p.m. in the state. 

Amendment 3 would have legalized recreational marijuana, which has increasingly been legalized in states across the nation. While on the issue of abortion, DeSantis signed The Heartbeat Protection Act into law last year, which banned most abortions after six weeks of gestation. 

This year, Florida residents voted on Amendment 4, the Right to Abortion Initiative, which works to overturn the ban. 

Voting data on the amendments comes after Fox News Decision Desk projected earlier Tuesday that former President Donald Trump will win Florida in the general election. 

Conservative and pro-life social media users celebrated DeSantis' victory lap over the amendments' reported failures, calling the expected failure of Amendment 4 a "huge win for life." 

"The demise of pro-abortion Amendment 4 is a momentous victory for life in Florida and for our entire country," said SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser in comment provided to Fox Digital Tuesday. "Thanks to Gov. Ron DeSantis, when we wake up tomorrow, babies with beating hearts will still be protected in the free state of Florida.

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Election Day was established to always be the Tuesday after the first Monday of the month in 1845, taking into account religion as well as travel and harvest schedules. In the 1800s, it could take an entire day to travel to one’s polling location. Scheduling the election for Tuesday allowed for a day of travel so voters could make their way. Before gas-powered or electric vehicles and the widespread polling locations that exist today, voters were traveling by horse and buggy.

Traveling to polling locations on Monday also allowed for Sundays to be devoted to church, as many religious Americans attended weekly. Another reason is that Wednesdays were typically the day that farmers would bring crops into town to sell. In between Church and market day, Tuesday made the most sense at the time. The purpose for assuring that the election would be after the first Monday, and not fall on Nov. 1, was to prevent it from interfering with merchants who were busy filling out their books and doing their accounting. With modern developments, there are few remaining benefits to having Election Day on a Tuesday. 

The Fox News Decision Desk can now project that Vice President Harris will win the state of New Hampshire. Trump came closer than many expected, but Harris did well in cities and suburban areas.

SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk speaks during an America PAC town hall Oct. 26, 2024, in Lancaster, Pa. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said election night he plans to continue to be active in politics through the presidential election into the 2026 midterms. 

"America PAC is going to keep going after this election — and preparing for the midterms and any intermediate elections, as well as looking at elections at the district attorney and sort of judicial levels," Musk said on X Spaces Tuesday. 

Musk has taken an active role on the campaign trail for the former president and has helped canvass for Trump in key battleground states like Nevada, Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia and North Carolina.

According to its website, America PAC aims to "promote free speech, free markets, and a merit-based society." 

Musk made waves on the Pennsylvania campaign trail in support of Trump's campaign, including offering $1 million a day to swing-state voters who signed his political action committee’s petition backing the Constitution.

Musk was sued by Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, who called the contest an "illegal lottery" aimed at influencing the results of a presidential election.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis dances while greeting her supporters after winning re-election during her election night watch party in the Buckhead neighborhood in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., May 21, 2024. REUTERS/Alyssa Pointer

Fani Willis, the Fulton County District Attorney who tried to prosecute former President Trump for alleged election interference, has been re-elected.

Willis defeated Republican Courtney Kramer, an attorney and former Trump White House intern, The Associated Press reproted.

Willis' office indicted Trump in August 2023 along with 18 co-defendants stemming from the yearslong criminal investigation led by state prosecutors in Georgia into his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in the state.

In February, Michael Roman, a GOP operative and co-defendant in the case, dropped bombshell accusations that Willis had an "improper" affair with former special prosecutor Nathan Wade, whom she hired to help prosecute the case.

The Fox News Decision Desk can now project that former President Trump will win Ohio.

The Fox News Decision Desk can now project that Vice President Harris will win Delaware.

U.S. Rep. Kelly Armstrong, R-N.D., speaks during a House Judiciary Committee markup hearing May 16, 2024, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

The Fox News Decision Desk can project that North Dakota’s lone congressman, Kelly Armstrong, will be the state’s next governor. He succeeds Doug Burgum, who is not running for a third term.

It’s 9 o’clock in New York. Another fifteen states have just finished voting.

The Fox News Decision Desk says it’s too early to call Michigan, one of two battlegrounds in the Rust Belt that just finished voting.

The other is Wisconsin, where Vice President Harris and former President Trump appear to be locked into a tight race. It’s too early to call.

Arizona is also too early to call as polls close.

Fox News can project that Trump will win Texas. That locks 40 more electoral votes into his column.

Trump has a lead in Iowa, where there is no call at the top of the hour.

In Nebraska, the Fox News Decision Desk can project that Trump will win the statewide vote.

Nebraska gives two electoral votes to the winner of the state, and one vote to the presidential winner in each of their districts.

Trump will also win Nebraska’s first and third districts.

The more suburban second district in Omaha is too early to call, but Harris has a lead.

The Fox News Decision Desk projects that Harris will win New York, giving the Vice President 28 more votes.

Harris has a lead in Minnesota, but it’s too early to call.

Fox News can project a Harris victory in Colorado, giving her ten more electoral college votes.

New Mexico is too early to call, but Harris has a lead according to our Fox News Voter Analysis.

Former President Trump will win Louisiana, which has voted for a Republican in every election this century.

Trump will also win Kansas, adding another six votes to his tally.

The former president will win North Dakota, a longtime conservative state.

He will also win South Dakota, which often mirrors the vote of its neighbor to the north.

Fox News can also project that Trump will win Wyoming, worth three electoral votes.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Kelly Ayotte, who faces Democrat Joyce Craig in the November 2024 election, answers a question during a visit to a local concrete coating business, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024, in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Fox News can project that Republican Kelly Ayotte will become the next governor of New Hampshire. She defeats Democrat Joyce Craig.

It’s a key win.

In Indiana, Republican Mike Braun, who currently serves in the U.S. Senate, will win his race against Democrat Jennifer McCormick.

And Fox News projects that Democrat Matt Meyer will become the 75th governor of Delaware.

Former President Trump’s campaign believes it is “on track for a great night” saying, “early signs are the night could be shaping up like we hoped,” Fox News has learned.

A Trump official said the direction indicated by early voting is continuing and that the Republicans who voted early haven’t cannibalized the Election Day vote.

The official also says that Republican turnout in Philadelphia is “high” where Trump was successful in 2016 and 2020, specifically in south and Northeast Philadelphia.

Rural turnout has also be “through the roof,” the official said.

Reliably Republican states like Florida, South Carolina, Mississippi have been called by the Fox News Decision Desk in the first hours since polls started closing while Vice President Kamala Harris is projected to win states like liberal states like Vermont, Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Jersey.

None of the seven battleground state have been called yet.

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Vice President Harris and her running mate Gov. Tim Walz are endorsed by Democrat former Presidents Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter. They boast the support of all current Democrat governors, as well as most Democrat members of Congress and Democrat senators. The party leaders in the Congress, including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries have pledged their enthusiastic support for Harris, as well as former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who still has significant influence in the party. The exceptions who haven’t thrown their support behind her are facing competitive re-election races.

Harris is also endorsed by former Republican Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger. Further, Cheney’s father, former Vice President Dick Cheney offered his endorsement of the Democrat nominee. The Harris campaign has also announced groups of lesser known state-level Republicans in battleground states who have backed her presidential bid.

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In Georgia, one of the key battleground states, over three-quarters said they voted before election day and these voters are split on who they supported.

- Fox News Polling Unit

With the 2024 U.S. election around the corner, celebrities have been stepping forward to publicly endorse either Vice President Kamala Harris or former President Trump for president of the United States.

From Taylor Swift and Jennifer Lopez to Jason Aldean and Kelsey Grammer, these stars have used their platforms to share their thoughts and beliefs on why their preferred candidate should win. 

Here's a look at celebrities who have publicly supported the presidential candidates. 

Vice President Kamala Harris

Bruce Springsteen

On Oct. 3,  Bruce Springsteen took to social media to share his support for Harris and Walz. 

"Friends, fans and the press have asked me who I'm supporting in this most important of elections," he said from the bar stool of an undisclosed diner. "And with full knowledge that my opinion is no more or less important than those of any of my fellow citizens, here's my answer: I'm supporting Kamala Harris for president and Tim Walz for vice president and opposing Donald Trump and J.D. Vance."

Springsteen went on to call Trump "the most dangerous candidate for president" in his lifetime, citing "his disdain for the sanctity of our constitution, the sanctity of democracy, the sanctity of the rule of law, and the sanctity of the peaceful transfer of power" as reasons he should never be allowed in the Oval Office again.

This is an excerpt from an article written by Fox News' Caroline Thayer and Christina Dugan Ramirez.

The Fox News Decision Desk can project that former President Trump will win Arkansas. The state hasn’t voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since Bill Clinton.

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Vice President Kamala Harris was criticized on Sunday for flying to New York City to do a skit on "Saturday Night Live" (SNL), after she ended up not doing a sitdown with podcast host Joe Rogan.

Harris appeared as the mirror image of Maya Rudolph, who regularly plays the vice president on SNL, in a last-minute appearance, just days before the election.

Rogan revealed recently that the Harris campaign reached out to Rogan about sitting down with the podcast host, demanded that Rogan travel to her for it and said their interview could only be an hour long. Trump's interview with Rogan lasted three hours. 

Critics, including Sen. Ted Cruz, hit the vice president for how she run her campaign and for declining to sit down with Rogan while being willing to fly to NYC to do SNL. 

Brendan Carr, the senior Republican on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), argued on social media that SNL evaded the FCC's "equal time" rule. Trump campaign senior advisor Jason Miller told the Fox News Channel's Jacqui Heinrich that SNL did not extend an invitation to Trump. She added that executive producer Lorne Michaels said just last month that he didn't have plans to invite either candidate.

This is an excerpt from an article written by Fox News' Hanna Panreck.

Now that Election Day is finally here, there are a few counties that experts are closely watching as their results could indicate who the next president will be.

Known as "bellwether counties," these swing counties have, with some exceptions, consistently sided with the winning candidate for decades.

Matthew Bergbower, a political science professor at Indiana State University, described a bellwether county as a "microcosm of the nation" in terms of political preferences.

Though his county, Vigo County in Indiana, deviated by voting for Donald Trump in 2020, it has chosen the winning candidate in every election since 1952.

Clallam County in Washington state stands out as the only county to have voted for the winning presidential candidate in every election since 1980. The people of Clallam County are proud of their history as the "last bellwether county" in America.

This year, the county looks just as divided as ever.

Pam Blakeman, chair of the Clallam County Republicans, told Fox News Digital that she thinks the election "will be close in our County, but I see it swinging towards Trump."

She bases this on good Republican turnout and a ground game that she said "is the most active I have ever seen."

This is an excerpt from an article written by Fox News' Peter Pinedo.

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The economy is the number one issue for voters across the country, and Trump is seen as the one who can help more there.

- Fox News Polling Unit

The Harris-Walz campaign is struggling to appeal to male voters, a demographic that has continued to be courted by former President Trump.

“Harris isn't getting enough from women, at least in Georgia, that she would need to overcome at least what Trump is getting from men,” Fox News' Laura Ingraham said.

Trump has tried to mobilize men, including Joe Rogan and Elon Musk, she said. Harris has tried appealing to men with new ads which have been criticized by opponents and the Trump campaign.

All eyes are on Pennsylvania and its 19 electoral votes. The Fox News Decision Desk says it’s too early to call this state, which could be the decider for a Harris or Trump victory.

Fox News is projecting that former President Trump will win Florida, putting him 30 electoral votes closer to the White House.

It’s too early to call a winner in New Hampshire, where Harris has an edge.

In Maine, the Fox News Decision Desk says it’s too early to call the statewide race.

Maine gives two electoral votes to the winner of the state, and one vote to the presidential winner in each of their congressional districts.

Harris will win the first district. The rural second district is also too early to call.

In the southeast, Fox News can first project that Trump will win Tennessee, a longtime Republican stronghold.

Further south, Trump will once again win Alabama.

And the former president will win neighboring Mississippi.

Trump will cruise to victory in Oklahoma, where Democrats haven’t won a single county since 2000.

And Missouri will also deliver a Trump win.

Harris will also take some big victories this hour. The Fox News Decision Desk can project that the Vice President will win Illinois, adding 19 electoral votes to her tally.

Harris will win New Jersey, another reliably Democratic state.

Voters in Massachusetts will deliver a clear Harris victory.

And staying in the northeast, Fox News projects that Harris will win Connecticut.

The Vice President will also win Maryland. That state is worth 10 electoral votes.

Harris will easily win Rhode Island, a Democratic stronghold.

Harris has a lead in Delaware, but it’s too early to call.

And the Vice President will win the District Of Columbia, which has never voted for a Republican.

Voters have just finished casting ballots in three governor's races.

First to New Hampshire , where there is a very competitive race between former Democratic Mayor Joyce Craig and former Republican senator Kelly Ayotte. The Fox News Decision Desk says it’s too early to call.

But we can project a winner in Missouri, where Republican Lieutenant Governor Mike Kehoe will step up to become the next governor of his state.

It’s too early to call Delaware’s governor race.

The Fox News Decision Desk can now project that former President Trump will win South Carolina and its 9 electoral votes.

Volunteers with For Michigan and NextGen America encourage students to vote outside the polling station on the campus of Wayne State University on November 5, 2024 in Detroit, Michigan. Americans cast their ballots today in the presidential race between Republican nominee former President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, as well as multiple state elections that will determine the balance of power in Congress. Sarah Rice/Getty Images

The Harris campaign is seeing signs of enthusiasm among college students as the presidential race comes into the homestretch.

The campaign cited long lines at the University of Reno, Nevada and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, as well as colleges in Pennsylvania and North Carolina.

In an effort to encourage voters, the campaign has mobilized actor Paul Rudd to visit with students in line in Pennsylvania, actress Jennifer Garner at Villanova University, Josh Gadd at Lehigh University, Mark Cuban at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, and Demi Lovato in UNLV.

Harris has exceeded 2016 raw turnout and overperforming internal turnout expectations, the campaign told Fox News.

As of 5 p.m. in the 3 Philadelphia wards with high densities of Puerto Rican voters, crowdsourced turnout numbers indicate that total turnout has already reached 100% of 2020 turnout, the campaign said.

As votes continue to pour in across the country, sources told Fox News senior White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich that no one is feeling very comfortable” in the Harris campaign.

The Harris campaign has continued to maintain that they have multiple paths to 270, but Harris campaign manager says the margins are very close.

The campaign told Heinrich that the early Republican turnout “really spooked them.”

Democrats have previously led in early voting and the shift in early Republican turnout has left the Harris campaign feeling uncomfortable.

The source added that it will be difficult for either candidate to get to 270 if they don’t win Pennsylvania, but said Harris is feeling extra pressure to win Michigan, North Carolina, and Nevada.

An electoral workers counts votes during the 2024 U.S. presidential election, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S., November 5, 2024. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz

Nearly 31,000 ballots in Milwaukee need to be recounted after about 13 tabulation machines were reportedly not properly locked on Election Day.

Fox News’ Mike Tobin reported that Milwaukee spokesman Jeff Fleming said a Republican observer noticed that about 13 tabulation machines had been sealed but not properly locked.

City officials said they did not doubt the integrity of the vote, but out of an abundance of caution, they decided to rerun more than 31,000 ballots.

City officials also said they expect the final numbers out of Milwaukee to be reported between 1 and 2 a.m.

Most of the ballots being recounted are mail-in ballots, dropbox ballots and some in-person early vote ballots.

“This is an unacceptable example of an incompetent election administration in a key swing state,” Republican National Committee co-chairs Michael Whatley and Laura Trump said in a joint statement.

Turning to the governor’s races.

Fox News can project that North Carolina’s Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein will defeat Republican Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson.

And in West Virginia, Republican Attorney General Patrick Morrisey will succeed Jim Justice as the state’s 37th governor.

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Looking at the mood of the country, over 8-in-10 said that they want a lot of change, with over a quarter saying they want total upheaval.

--Fox News Polling Unit

It’s now 7:30PM and polls just closed in three more states.

North Carolina is the next state to watch. Like Georgia, it came down to the wire in the last presidential election and has 16 electoral college votes on offer. The Fox News Decision Desk says it’s too early to call.

It’s also too early to call Ohio, but former President Trump has a lead in our Fox News Voter Analysis.

Fox News can project that Trump will win West Virginia.

President Biden will not attend Vice President Kamala Harris' election night watch party, according to media reports.

“Tonight, the president and First Lady will watch election results in the White House residence with longtime aides and senior White House staff,” a White House official told the Washington Examiner. “The president will receive regular updates on the state of races across the country.”

Harris will be watching the results from her lama mater, Howard University, in Washington D.C.

Biden has done limited campaigning for Harris, but has still produces several awkward gaffes, including appearing to call supporters of former President Trump “garbage” during a virtual campaign call in October.

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We asked voters when they decided who they would vote for. About 7-in-10 said that they’ve known all along, while a quarter said they decided around the time when President Biden dropped out of the race.

- Fox News Polling Unit

In the Indiana governor’s race, Republican Mike Braun has a lead against Democrat Jennifer McCormick. There isn’t enough data to make a call. And in Vermont, Republican Phil Scott will win a fifth term.

First lady Jill Biden casts her vote on Election Day

A social media fire storm erupted after first lady Jill Biden was spotted wearing a GOP-colored pantsuit to cast her ballot on Election Day.

The Republican Party is typically identified with the color red, and the color is even used to indicate which states support former President Trump when election coverage features maps on television.

"Jill Biden is wearing the GOP's shade of red to cast her vote. Joe Biden is skipping the Kamala Harris watch party. Do the math," conservative influencer Ian Miles Cheong posted on X.

Many took to X to mock that the first lady voted for Trump, as there has been speculation the Bidens are not thrilled with the way the president was forced to end his re-election bid.

"Jill wore all red to vote. As the wife of a democrat politician, there’s no way she doesn’t know how this looks. Biden and Jill are pissed," one user responded on X.

This is an excerpt from an article written by Fox News' Brian Flood

It’s 7 o’clock in New York and polls have just closed in half a dozen states. The Fox News Decision Desk is making its first calls.

The most closely watched state at this hour is Georgia, one of seven battleground states that could decide the presidency. It’s too early to call.

It’s also too early to call Virginia, though Harris has a lead in our Fox News Voter Analysis.

Fox News can project that former President Trump will win Indiana.

Trump will also carry nearby Kentucky for a third time.

It’s too early to call South Carolina, but Trump has the lead in our Fox News Voter Analysis.

Meanwhile, Vice President Harris will sail to victory in liberal Vermont.

The polls have closed across several states, including Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, South Carolina, Virginia and Vermont, at 7 p.m. ET, as some of the first Election Day results come in.

All eyes will be on Georgia, which is one of a handful of swing states where former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris have been courting voters during the campaign.

President Biden narrowly won the state in 2020 by less than 12,000 votes, flipping it blue for the first time in decades. Trump beat Hillary Clinton there in 2016.

This year, the state has broken records in early turnout.

Indiana, Kentucky and South Carolina usually go Republican, while Vermont and Virginia lean Democratic.

Polls in other swing states such as North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona and Nevada will close over the next few hours.

Fox News co-anchor Sandra Smith broke down state-to-state approval ratings related to the 2024 election on "The Five" Tuesday.

The issues that Americans were polled on ranged from FEMA to abortion access to the state of the U.S. economy.

Voters were also asked about their family's financial situations, their opinions of asylum seekers and what they thought the direction of the U.S. is.

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Immigration is one of the top issues across the country. When asked about reducing the number of immigrants allowed to seek asylum in the U.S., twice as many favor reducing the number of immigrants allowed to do so.

- Fox News Polling Unit

With the first polls closing across the country, results are starting to come in and critics of Donald Trump are already having meltdowns.

Several are pushing “insane Doomsday scenarios” even suggesting that Trump could ban historians from banning books.

One of the hosts pointed out that Nicole Wallace, of MSNBC, having one of the biggest meltdowns on Vice President potential JD Vance.

“JD Vance, you just effed up in way that I’ve never seen in my political life and I worked for Sarah Palin,” Wallace said.

The cast recounted the last election and if the Democrats would continue their divisive rhetoric and react as they did in 2016.

“MSNBC is going to be a psych ward,” co-host Jesse Watters predicted.

Many businesses have boarded up their businesses in anticipation of the results.

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Fox News Voter Analysis: Is this a change election? Top issues and mood of the nation as voters weigh in

As the nation waits for the election results, voters way in on the issues facing the country and which candidate will being the change they are looking for.

As the nation waits for election results, voters weigh in on the issues and whether former president Donald Trump or Vice President Kamala Harris will bring the kind of change they are looking for. Because it appears change is very much what they want.

Economic concerns and worries about the future are major considerations as voters make their choice in this year’s election. 

Preliminary data from the Fox News Voter Analysis, a survey of more than 110,000 voters nationwide provide an early look at the mood of voters as they cast their ballots.   

This year, more voters headed to the polls believing the country was on the wrong track (70%) than in 2020 (60%).  And voters across the country are seeking something different: most want a change in how the country is run, with a quarter (26%) seeking complete and total upheaval. 

This is an excerpt of an article by the Fox News Polling Unit.

Dr. Ben Carson said he was glad to see many Americans going out to vote, saying the United States was at a "crossroads."

"I think they recognize that we're at a crossroads. Which way are we going to go?" Carson asked Neil Cavuto on "Your World Cavuto." "Are we going to be a country that is of, by and for the people or of, by and for the government?"

"And our founders knew that we would come to this point because they studied every government that ever existed and they see that no matter how righteous they are when they start, they grow, they infiltrate and they dominate," he added.

Carson also stressed the need for governments to address health issues among its citizens as well as the consumption of processed foods.

"We do need to talk about it. We're falling behind alot of the the other countries in the world who do take a more proactive stance when it comes to health," he said while praising Robert Kennedy Jr., for raising various health-related issues that need to be addressed.

"I'm glad RFK is sounding the alarm," Carson said.

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On a personal level, what do voters across the country think about their family’s financial situation?

A majority say they’re holding steady. But just about 1-in-10 say they’re getting ahead, while three times that say they are falling behind. That’s 13 points worse than four years ago.

- Fox News Polling Unit

Several battleground states extended the hours of polling sites on Tuesday, Election Day, citing unexpected wait times, technical issues, and other issues for voters in key precincts. 

Here's a rundown of the states and precincts impacted so far. 

In Pennsylvania, where state polling locations are scheduled to close at 8 p.m. voters saw extensions in Luzerne County, where local election officials said residents will have until 9:30 p.m. to cast their ballots.

Georgia also announced an extension for voters in the Atlanta-area precincts of Cobb County, Fulton County, and Gwinnett County.

In North Carolina, state election officials extended voting hours by 30 minutes in the precincts of Burke County and Wilson County. Voters there will have until 8 p.m. to cast their ballots — longer than the 7:30 p.m. deadline in the rest of the state.

Could tonight deliver a populist surprise, part II? That's the subject of the riff. As we talked about last night, all the ace pollsters could be missing a number of built-in advantages for former President Donald Trump: a big voter registration shift favoring Republicans in more than thirty states, and a big GOP early voting turnout. Both are completely unlike 2020.

Here's a quick example from the crucial swing state of Pennsylvania. In 2020, Democrats had a 1.1 million advantage in early voting ballot. This year, that margin has been cut down to only 400,000. Staying in Pennsylvania, party registration favored Democrats by 1.2 million during the Obama years and 686,000 in 2020. Now, in 2024, that registration margin has been cut down to only 281,000.

What's more, the GOP is basically keeping its gains. In recent years, 203,000 Democrats switched to the Republican column, but only 97,000 Republicans switched to the Democratic column. Big hat-tip to James Freeman's Wall Street Journal column. So, have pollsters picked up on this? Kinda don't think so.

The Democratic slump in early voting spans across all the swing states. The Republican advantage in registration covers over thirty states throughout the country. Not only are these trends a function of better GOP political management of the election machinery, but they also reflect how much Mr. Trump has widened his working-class coalition.

This article is adapted from Larry Kudlow’s opening commentary on the Nov. 5, 2024, edition of "Kudlow."

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk will spend election night with former President Donald Trump in Florida, sources with knowledge confirmed to Fox News Digital. 

The New York Times first reported the news, citing two people familiar with Musk’s schedule, that Musk will be among a small group of people watching the election results with Trump as they come in. 

Trump later in the evening will host a larger audience at the Palm Beach County Convention Center. 

The former president has already cast his ballot Tuesday in Palm Beach, Fla., where his Mar-a-Lago residence is located. 

Musk, following the first assassination attempt against Trump in Butler, Pa., in July, wrote on X "I fully endorse President Trump and hope for his rapid recovery."

Musk has since campaigned for Trump heading into Election Day.

Fox News Digital's Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump visits his campaign headquarters, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Some U.S. embassies in Europe are ditching the usual festivities that come with election watch parties over another possible victory for former President Trump.

Politico reported that embassies in Brussels to London, Paris and Berlin have decided against holding their usual watch parties.

“I don’t think there was appetite to watch another Trump victory,” said a senior diplomat based in Europe, adding that the 2016 embassy events had been “calamitous.”

Most of the State Department’s top envoys around the world are political appointees and allies or donors of the sitting president, in this case, President Biden.

A spokesperson for the U.S. Embassy in London told the news outlet that it “appreciates the long-standing energy and excitement around U.S. presidential elections which have been carried out over nearly 250 years of democracy.”

However, “election day does not end on election night. Time may be required to count votes and let the electoral process work.” 

Voters line up to cast their ballots at the Highview Baptist Church East Campus in Louisville, Ky., Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

Polls in Kentucky and certain parts of Indiana have officially closed as of 6 p.m. ET.

The Indiana polling locations that are in the Eastern Standard Time Zone have officially wrapped up, but the 12 Indiana counties that are in the Central Time Zone are open until 7 p.m. ET.

The states are the first in the country to close their polls on Election Day 2024. Both Indiana and Kentucky are considered red states.

“We’re seeing such optimism in terms of our camp,” Trump 2024 senior adviser Alina Habba  told Martha MacCallum as voting was underway on Election Day, adding the Trump campaign is “leading in the polls right now” but that everyone needs to get out to vote.

Habba said the campaign has also targeted younger men strategically for the first time with media appearances on podcasts, etc.

“He’s the kind of guy who could speak to anybody, unlike Kamala, which is why we’re doing so well and we’re seeing such a good turnout.”

She added that while turnout with women is high, “they are voting because we have been given more rights. We are being protected now. We are getting a choice to vote, to say what we want with our bodies. That is what President Trump did and this fearmongering as you just saw with Sen. [Mark] Kelley is the concern with the radical left and that narrative, it’s damaging and it’s frankly untrue.”

Republican National Convention Chair Michael Whatley told “America Reports” on Tuesday that Republicans are going to have “a very good night” on Election Day.

Whatley was a guest on the Fox News Channel show, when host John Roberts asked how Republicans are feeling going into Election Day.

“We feel pretty bullish,” Whatley said. “You know, what we saw during the early vote and absentee vote period over the last several weeks was a great turnout for Republicans. President Trump had pushed very aggressively this year to get Republicans to embrace early voting absentee vote, and they did.”

Whatley explained further, saying for every vote from an Election Day voter in 2020, there were two who were first time voters or who had not voted in 2020.

That means there were a lot of same day voters who are still going to vote on Election day, Whatley said, and Republicans feel very optimistic going into Tuesday.

When asked by Roberts what Whatley and other leaders of the Republican Party will be watching for as the polls close and results start to come in, the chairman said they will be watching to see if there will be a last minute surge in turnout from major cities like Philadelphia, Detroit, Milwaukee and Atlanta.

“I think that Republicans are going to have a good night,” Whatley said. “We have seen very solid turnout in rural areas all across the country throughout the course of the day.”

He also said Republicans saw a substantial lead in most of the rural states from the early voting absentee voting period.

Social media erupted with criticism of Google on Tuesday after voters noticed the tech giant helped locate where to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris but failed to inform potential voters of former President Trump where they could cast a ballot. 

While many have insisted Google was interfering in the election, the company claims it was simply a technical glitch that has been fixed. 

When "Where can I vote for Harris?" was entered into Google, the site provided information on "where to vote" and allowed users to input their address to determine the closest voting location. However, when "Where can I vote for Trump?" was asked, Google failed to inform users where to vote and instead offered links to CNN, CBS and NBC Election Day coverage. 

"The ‘where to vote’ panel is triggering for some specific searches bc Harris is also the name of a county in TX. Happens for ‘Vance’ too bc it’s also the name of a county. Fix is coming. Note very few people actually search for voting places this way," Google posted on X in response to the backlash. 

This is an excerpt from an article written by Fox News' Brian Flood.

Voters in the crucial swing state of Pennsylvania will have an extra two hours to cast their ballots on Election Day following issues with voting machines and long lines.

Problems were also reported with tabulation machines in Bedford County, as well as issues in Cambria County, the New York Post reported. Authorities told voters that their ballots will be counted despite the malfunctions.

Former President Trump won both counties with 68% and 83% of the vote in 2020, respectively.

“The Cambria County Board of Election learned early this morning that a software malfunction in the County’s Electronic Voting System has prevented voters from scanning their ballots,” Cambria County Solicitor Ron Repak said in a statement.

“This should not discourage voters from voting at their voting precincts. The Board has filed a Court Order extending the time to vote within Cambria County.”

Election officials filed emergency paperwork to extend the voting time by two hours to 10 p.m. in an effort to rectify the issue and ensure all ballots are counted, according to the petition filed in county court.

“The malfunction caused voter confusion, long lines of voters, and many individuals left the polling locations without casting a ballot," Repak said in the filing.

He added that the malfunction “threatens to disenfranchise a significant number of voters in Cambria County.”

A judge quickly approved the order, but noted that any ballot cast after the standard 8 p.m. deadline would be provisional.

Read Fox News Digital's real-time coverage from the morning of 2024 Election Day.

We are living in a time of instant gratification —press a button to order dinner and it is delivered minutes later.

But we are in for a longer wait tonight.

It will take time for us to find out who our next president will be.

This is one of the few nights when Americans all get together to await the results -- and the excitement and dread are palpable. 

This is the longest campaign in our history.

But people don’t live in history. They live in the here and now. 

This is an excerpt from an op-ed written by Fox News' Dana Perino.

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Some top Democrats are already signaling that they may not let former President Donald Trump take the White House without a fight even if he beats Vice President Kamala Harris on Election Day.

Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, told Axios in early October that if Trump “won a free, fair and honest election, then we would obviously accept it.”

Suggesting he did not believe that would be the case, Raskin said the ex-president “is doing whatever he can to try to interfere with the process, whether we're talking about manipulating Electoral College counts in Nebraska or manipulating the vote count in Georgia or imposing other kinds of impediments.”

It’s not unlikely that at least a few progressives would also rise to object to the certification of certain states’ ballots on Jan. 6, 2025 – just as they did in 2017.

Then-Vice President Biden, who was overseeing the certification, knocked down each and every progressive lawmakers’ objections.

However, it’s notable that this time around, Harris will be the one overseeing certification as vice president, whether she wins or loses the presidential race.

Conservative groups are already signaling that they are poised to investigate and challenge any possible voter abnormalities if former President Donald Trump loses his bid for re-election.

Some Trump allies, meanwhile, have questioned whether the election will be fair for months.

“As things stand right now, there’s a zero percent chance of a free and fair election,” Mike Howell, executive director of Heritage’s Oversight Project, said in July, according to the Washington Post. “I’m formally accusing the Biden administration of creating the conditions that most reasonable policymakers and officials cannot in good conscience certify an election.”

It's also likely that members of Congress will seek to challenge the results – nearly 150 Republican lawmakers voted against certifying Trump’s 2020 Electoral College loss, with many citing allegations of election fraud being promoted by the former president and others in his circle.

Trump himself has laid the groundwork to accuse Democrats of voter fraud, telling supporters in October at a Wisconsin rally, “They cheat. That's all they want to do is cheat. And when you see this, it's the only way they're gonna win.”

With millions of voters expected to show up to the polls today, the world will be anxiously watching for the election results to start pouring in on Tuesday night.

Here is what you need to know about the 2024 presidential election results.

When do the polls close?

Kentucky (eight electoral votes) will be the first state to close its polls at 6 p.m. Eastern.

For most of the eastern half of the country, voting polls will close between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m., while polls on the West Coast will close at 11 p.m. Eastern.

The last states to close will be Hawaii (four electoral votes) and Alaska (three electoral votes) which will close their polls at midnight and 1 a.m. respectively.

Real-time news from the morning of Election Day

When will the 2024 Election Day results be announced?

Election Day results have historically often been announced just hours after the polls close. However, recent elections have required longer waiting periods before all the votes can be tallied, and a winner can be declared.

One reason for this is the prevalence of mail-in absentee voting. Fourteen states legally require that mail-in ballots be counted only after polls close on Election Day.

This is an excerpt from an article by Peter Pinedo. 

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The 2024 election cycle has seen myriad “firsts,” including the first female non-White woman at the top of a major party ticket, and former President Donald Trump being the first nominee to run a campaign amid criminal trials and convictions.

It will join a string of other presidential races that are notably historic, including 2016, when Hillary Clinton became the first woman to be Democrats’ presidential nominee.

In 2000, the dispute over the election between former President George W. Bush and former Vice President Al Gore made it all the way to the Supreme Court, with Florida’s vote count famously a lightning rod of controversy.

And in the 1984 race, former President Ronald Reagan made history by carrying 49 states in a landslide victory for a second term.

Going back even further, the 1968 presidential election made headlines when then-President Lyndon Johnson, a Democrat, made a surprise address announcing he would not seek a second full term. That election wound up being won by Republican President Richard Nixon.

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It’s Election Day and our Fox News Voter Analysis has been asking voters across the country – more than 110,000 of them – who they are supporting and why. 

This is a new election survey approach conducted along with our partners the Associated Press and NORC at the University of Chicago. 

We’ll be asking questions about what traits voters think each candidate has, such as are they honest and trustworthy? Do they have the right policy ideas? And are they a strong leader? Are they voting more for their candidate or against the other? 

We’ll also be diving into the most important issues facing the country. Is it the economy? Abortion? Immigration? Election integrity? In 2020, economy voters backed Donald Trump and voters who thought health care was the top issue favored Joe Biden. 

All that and more is on deck. The survey questionnaire and results will be posted on foxnews.1eye.us after 8:00PM/ET. And keep checking back here for more news and analysis of the survey results.