Harris or Trump: the moment of truth is here!
As Americans headed to the polls Tuesday to elect their 47th president, one question nagged voters and pundits alike — will Kamala Harris pull off a historic victory or would Donald Trump stage a staggering political comeback.
In line with the stubbornly deadlocked race for the White House, Vice President Harris, 60, and former President Trump Trump, 78, shared the spoils — three votes each — in the tiny New Hampshire community of Dixville Notch, which opened and closed its poll just after midnight ET in a decades-old tradition.
Indian American Republican Nikki Haley swept the primary with all six votes in the hamlet with four registered Republicans and two independents. Four years ago, all five votes went to President Joe Biden. In 2016, Hillary Clinton got four votes and Trump two.
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The battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin are expected to be pivotal to the path to victory for Harris and Trump.
Harris will watch results come in at her alma mater of Howard University in Washington, DC, while Trump will be at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, according to the Hill.
Harris campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon said Tuesday morning that she’s never seen margins this close in a presidential election, highlighting that Harris and Trump are neck and neck on Election Day.
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“We really see that in each one of our battleground states, this is truly a margin-of-error race. I’ve never seen margins this close,” O’Malley Dillon said on MSNBC.
She also said that all the swing states “might not operate the same” and that some of the bigger battleground states won’t be “fully tallied until later in the night, early in the morning.”
David Plouffe, a senior adviser to Harris’s campaign, suggested Monday that the Democratic nominee could win all seven swing states.
“And, you know, just a couple hours ago, reviewing all the early vote data, what we’re projecting for Election Day, how we think undecideds are breaking, we have a credible pathway to all seven states tomorrow night to go into Kamala Harris’s column,” Plouffe told CNN’s Erin Burnett. “But we believe they’re all going to be close.”
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Burnett then asked Plouffe, “You think you could win all seven?”
“Yes,” he responded.
Meanwhile, Trump in a post on Truth Social called it the “most important day in American History” and urged his supporters to stay in line to vote.
“Voter enthusiasm is THROUGH THE ROOF because people want to Make America Great Again. That means lines are going to be long!” Trump posted.
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“I need you to deliver your vote no matter how long it takes. STAY IN LINE!” he added.
Both campaigns have gone all out to woo South Asians numbering about 6.5 million, including about 5.2 million people of Indian origin, making up the second largest immigrant group, giving them an outsize political clout, especially in the battleground states.