Time to vote for the presidential election this Tuesday, November 5. Kamala Harris and Donald Trump delivered their last campaign speech during the night to mobilize as many voters as possible while the vote promises to be very close. “Every vote counts” insisted the Democrat.
09:19 – Donald Trump makes his final in Michigan for the third time
Donald Trump ended his campaign with a large meeting in Grand Rapids, Michigan, for the 2024 presidential election. A choice of location not insignificant since the Republican candidate had already closed his campaigns in this city of the key state in 2016 and in 2020. If in 2016, Donald Trump won the election in this state and at the national level, in 2020 the outcome of the presidential election was less fortunate for the Republican. Moreover, during his speech the billionaire referred to the results of 2016, without mentioning those of 2020, which he never recognized.
08:58 – The risk of a self-proclaimed victory for Trump before the final results
Kamala Harris’ campaign team said it “expects” that the Republican will declare himself the winner prematurely, before the final results are known, as he did in 2020. And Donald’s statements Trump during his last campaign speech opened the door to such a scenario: the candidate indicated that he would not wait “10 days, 12 days, three days, two days or two hours” to know the results. He expects them during election night, but if the results are too close you will have to wait several hours later and for the end of the counting to get the results. “We will never surrender, together we will fight, fight, fight and we will win, win, win,” he concluded.
08:40 – Washington accuses Moscow of carrying out disinformation operations
The American presidential election suffers from the phenomenon of disinformation. If the Republican camp has for several days accused the Democratic camp of organizing fraud and cheating to win the vote, the American intelligence services accuse Russia of being “actively” involved in disinformation operations in the seven swing states decisive for the outcome of the election. Accusations made by the Federal Police (FBI), the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) assure in a press release that “Russia is the most active threat “.
The American services believe in particular that a video circulating on the networks and showing a person claiming that Kamala Harris was favored by fraud carried out in Arizona with false ballots and altered electoral lists would be the fruit of the work of “agents of influence Russians. Moscow responded by denouncing “baseless allegations” and “all insinuations about ‘Russian machinations’ (as) malicious slander.”
08:29 – Voting for the presidential election will begin in a few hours
The presidential vote will begin with the opening of polling stations scheduled for 6 or 7 a.m. in the United States, or at 12 or 1 p.m. in France (for the opening of polls in the states on the eastern side, including Washington). DC) and until approximately 3 p.m. (for offices in west coast states, including Los Angeles). As a reminder, the United States has several time zones: Paris 6 hours ahead of Washington DC, but 9 hours ahead of Los Angeles.
08:17 – Already voters in the United States and a count
An American village has already launched the vote at midnight on the night of November 4 to 5, this is the hamlet of Dixville Notch located in the New Hampshire forest. Since 1960, this village has been used to being the “First in the Nation” to vote in the presidential election. But the six votes cast, already counted, did not make it possible to decide between the candidates: three votes for Democrat Kamala Harris and three votes for Republican Donald Trump. Confirmation that the vote will be close as predicted by the polls?
08:11 – New insults from the Trump camp against Kamala Harris
Donald Trump’s speech in Michigan seemed a little disjointed, but the Republican candidate did not miss the last opportunity to attack Kamala Harris with his usual insults and attacks. “Kamala Harris has a very low IQ, we don’t need people like that,” said the Republican who also attacked Joe Biden and other Democrats like Nancy Pelosi or Hilary Clinton. An aggressive tone also adopted by Donald Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, who gave a meeting in Atlanta: “We are going to take out the trash from Washington and that trash is called Kamala Harris.” The man is seeking the vice presidency, a position currently held by Kamala Harris.
08:05 – Donald Trump says he is in a “very good position” to win the presidential election
Donald Trump spoke shortly after his Democratic rival in Michigan, the end of a series of four meetings held on November 4. He too presented himself with confidence regarding the outcome of the presidential election: “With your vote tomorrow, we can solve all the problems facing our country and lead America and the world to new heights of glory “. The candidate has already said he is in a “very good position” to win the election.
08:01 – “The time has come for a new generation of leaders in America” says Kamala Harris
“Are we ready to vote? Are we ready to win?” Kamala Harris told her supporters to the applause of the crowd during her last rally in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, late in the evening of November 4 before the end of the campaign. The Democratic candidate was confident about her chances of winning, provided there is massive support from her voters and she reiterated: “Every vote counts”. “We are optimistic about what we can do together. The time has come for a new generation of leaders in America,” she added, echoing an idea hammered out during the campaign and according to which she would be the face of political renewal in the United States. UNITED STATES. And the vice-president added: “We have the opportunity to finally turn the page on a decade of political project guided by fear and division. We have had enough” to the attention of his rival Donald Trump, without however name it.
07:57 – Americans choose between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump
The American presidential campaign is over, now it’s time to vote. More than 80 million Americans have already participated in the vote thanks to advance voting on 244 million voters. All the others are expected at the polling stations this Tuesday, November 5. Both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump called on their supporters to support them and vote. “Every vote counts” insisted the Democratic candidate, describing the vote as “the election that could be one of the closest elections in history”.
04/11/24 – 23:57 – Elon Musk authorized to distribute million-dollar checks to certain voters in key states
END OF LIVE – The Philadelphia court has ruled. Democratic prosecutor Larry Krasner had described the billionaire’s “lottery”, aimed at giving a million dollars every day to one of the voters in key states, where the American presidential election is being played, as a fraud process “designed to influence a national election. The judge did not agree with him. Elon Musk’s lawyers argued this Monday that the winners were not drawn at random, but well known in advance and even chosen for having been loyal spokespeople for Elon Musk’s pro-Trump super PAC. Likewise, lawyers argued that there would no longer be a winner in Pennsylvania, with the next two winners being in Arizona and Michigan. Elements which could have tilted the judge’s decision in favor of the billionaire.
04/11/24 – 23:33 – Several days of waiting before knowing the final results of the American presidential election?
“New ballots will continue to be counted several days after the election. This is obviously not a sign of fraud, it’s just the way it works,” said during a conference call Jen O’Malley Dillon, the chair of the Democratic campaign. He added: “We think this race is going to be incredibly close, which means we may not know the results of this election for several days.”
04/11/24 – 22:58 – “We have an opportunity to turn the page on a decade of policies driven by fear and division”
From Allentown, Pennsylvania, Kamala Harris hammered to her supporters: “We are going to win!” Believing: “We have an opportunity to turn the page on a decade of policies driven by fear and division.” The candidate for the American presidential election clearly “demanded[é] [leur] vote” to those present, assuring that “America is ready for a new beginning.”
04/11/24 – 22:29 – Towards a particularly time-consuming vote count in Pennsylvania?
On the eve of the election, Pennsylvania Secretary of State Al Schmidt once again warned: the State Department “never had final, official results on election night.” While “nearly two million mail-in ballots have already been sent out,” he pointed to the fact that, unlike other states, Pennsylvania cannot begin opening them until 7 a.m. on Election Day. poll, which partly explains his warning. First unofficial results may also be indicated by the counties from 8 p.m., but they will then be updated.
04/11/24 – 9:58 p.m. – Washington DC National Guard to support emergency services during election
The Pentagon announced this Monday, via its spokesperson Major General Pat Ryder, that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin “approved last week a request from the District of Columbia for National Guard troops of DC are supporting DC’s fire and emergency medical services from November 5-13.” However, this is a rather common practice during large-scale events, he said, adding that nearly 60 guards from six other states will also be mobilized to support their respective states.
The US presidential election will take place on November 5, 2024 and will mainly be between Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Kamala Harris, despite the presence of a few other small candidates in the race for the White House. The election promises to be particularly close this year, according to the various national polls or those carried out in each state. In the United States, it is the results of the state-by-state vote that are decisive for the outcome of the election.
Each of the country’s 50 states represents a certain number of electors; the more populated the state, the greater the number of electors. It is ultimately these electors who vote for the future president of the United States. But the major voters are not distributed to the Republican and Democratic camps in proportion to the results of the vote, they all go to one and the same party: the one which obtained the highest score. To hope to win the presidential election, candidates must win the vote in as many states as possible to obtain as many electors as possible. You must win 270 electoral votes to be assured of victory.
The outcome of the election is already known in most American states which have very ingrained electoral habits: the territories on the east and west coasts are usually very progressive like California or New York and vote for the Democratic camp. , those in the Midwest are rather conservative and mostly support the Republican Party. But there are a handful of states, called swing states, which can switch from one camp to another from one election to another. These are the states that decide the outcome of the election: Arizona, North Carolina, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.