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Americans faced a long night of agonizing suspense Tuesday as Kamala Harris and Donald Trump's historically close battle for the White House went down to the wire.I'm an American.
The state of democracy and the economy in the United States were the top issues on the minds of voters as they cast ballots in the 2024 presidential election, according to preliminary results from the NBC News Exit Poll.
As votes are counted across the country, here’s what you need to know.
Democrat Angela Alsobrooks racked up a big lead with Maryland's large early vote share and kept it close with Republican Larry Hogan among Election Day voters at the time The Associated Press called the race. Alsobrooks was carrying the populous Washington suburbs, where she holds county-elected office, and won in Baltimore and its periphery as well, when the race was called at 9:32 p.m. She was winning in deeply Democratic areas and won with moderate voters, whom Hogan courted in a state that leans Democratic particularly in presidential years. Hogan would need to win about 55% of the outstanding ballots at the time the race was called, greater than the share he was getting.
Sarah McBride has won a House seat in Delaware, becoming the first openly transgender member of Congress.
Rick Scott will return to the U.S. Senate for a second six-year term after defeating Democratic challenger Debbie Mucarsel-Powell.
Amendment 3, which would have legalized the recreational use and manufacturing of marijuana in the state, failed to get the 60% voter support.
Even with the outcome uncertain Tuesday night, the 2024 presidential election already has exposed the depths of a fractured nation as the candidates navigated a political realignment based on gender and class under the near-constant threat of misinformation and violence. Not since the 1968 election, when the nation was torn over racial strife and the Vietnam war, has the divide seemed so apparent. The United States is poised to elect either its first female president in Vice President Kamala Harris or its first president with a felony conviction in former president Donald Trump, whose enduring political strength through chaos — much of it his own making — has carried few political costs so far.
The dollar surged and bitcoin hit a record high Wednesday while equity markets advanced as traders bet on a victory for Donald Trump as early results for the US presidential election rolled in.Bitcoin piled almost $6,000 higher to a record $75,005.06, topping its previous peak of $73,797.98 hit in March.
For the first time ever, two Black women were elected Tuesday to serve in the U.S. Senate, while voters also sent a transgender lawmaker to the U.S. House of Representatives. Delaware’s Lisa Blunt Rochester and Maryland’s Angela Alsobrooks prevailed in their races, doubling the number of Black women ever elected to the Senate – from two to four. Delaware voters also elected Sarah McBride to an at-large House seat, making her the first openly transgender person elevated to Congress.
Americans are poised to elect a new Congress as every seat in the House of Representatives and one-third of the Senate is up before voters on Election Day.
Delaware state senator Sarah McBride won a seat in the US House of Representatives on Tuesday, making her the first openly transgender politician elected to Congress.The LGBTQ+ Victory Fund congratulated McBride for "making history" in American politics.
Florida residents Tuesday defeated a measure that would have overturned the state's ban on abortion after six weeks and allowed the procedure until fetal viability, in a major blow for rights advocates.The extension until fetal viability would have allowed the procedure until approximately 24 weeks.
Investors are in wait-and-see mode to find out whether Harris or Trump will win the US election.
Sarah McBride made history Tuesday winning Delaware's sole congressional seat and becoming the first transgender person in U.S. Congress.
Democrat Josh Stein won North Carolina's race for governor on Tuesday, defeating the swing state's embattled lieutenant governor who had faced criticism after a report that he had called himself a "Black Nazi."Stein, the state's current attorney general, was some 14 percentage points ahead, with about half of voter precincts reporting, when US media called the race on Tuesday night.
Bomb threats targeted dozens of polling places in battleground states Georgia and Pennsylvania during voting on Tuesday, with the FBI reporting similar hoaxes in "multiple" US states.And so we aren't going to let bomb threats turn us around," Mayor Kobi of South Fulton told AFP. Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro told reporters that multiple bomb threats were called in to polling sites and public buildings across the state, but none appeared to be credible.
You can really feel at home while voting in San Francisco -- literally.The city of San Francisco has around 500 polling places, including many in schools.
Matt Meyer, a newcomer to state politics, defeated Republican nominee Mike Ramone, a businessman and the state Senate Minority Leader.
A massive lead gained from votes cast before Election Day helped deliver victory to North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein, a Democrat who handily defeated Republican Mark Robinson, the state's scandal-plagued lieutenant governor. Two factors were largely responsible for Stein's win. First, most of the state's votes were cast before Election Day — roughly three-quarters — and Stein won those by more than 16 percentage points.