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What time the polls close
- 5:00 PM Tuesday (Eastern Time) / 12:00 AM Wednesday (Greece Time): The polls will still be open, but this is when the first exit poll reports are expected to begin.
- 6:00 PM ET / 1:00 AM (Greece): Polls close in eastern Kentucky and much of Indiana. Both are Republican-leaning states, with no surprises expected.
- 7:00 PM ET / 2:00 AM (Greece): Polls close in six states, including Georgia. Georgia is one of the seven key swing states. In 2020, Joe Biden won it by a narrow margin of just 0.2%. A win here would be a strong start for Kamala Harris. Other states closing at this time include Indiana, Kentucky, South Carolina, Virginia, and Vermont.
- 7:30 PM ET / 2:30 AM (Greece): Polls close in North Carolina, Ohio, and West Virginia. North Carolina is expected to be highly competitive: if Donald Trump wins, he stands a strong chance of winning the election, while Harris’s chances would diminish.
- 8:00 PM ET / 3:00 AM (Greece): Polls close in 18 states, including Illinois, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Alabama, Missouri, and Mississippi.
- 8:30 PM ET / 3:30 AM (Greece): Polls close in Arkansas. This state is also considered safely Republican.
- 9:00 PM ET / 4:00 AM (Greece): Polls close in 15 states, including New York, Arizona, Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska, Texas, Michigan, and Wisconsin. According to The Guardian, this is a critical moment for Kamala Harris: a win here would boost her chances, but a loss would reduce her prospects for the White House. Trump won these states in 2016 (along with Pennsylvania) and secured the election, and Biden won them in 2020. This year, Trump only needs one of these three states.
- 10:00 PM ET / 5:00 AM (Greece): Polls close in Nevada, Montana, and Utah. Here, Harris might hope for a win, reversing initial polls that showed Trump leading.
- 11:00 PM ET / 6:00 AM (Greece): Polls close in four states: Washington, California, Idaho, and Oregon.
- 12:00 AM Wednesday ET / 7:00 AM (Greece): Polls close in Hawaii. Past elections show that, in 2020, AP declared Biden the winner on November 7, nearly four days after the election. In 2016, however, Trump was declared the winner at 2:29 AM Wednesday by the news agency.
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“We expect to win,” stated Republican vice-presidential candidate J.D. Vance after casting his vote in Cincinnati, Ohio.
He thanked the American people for their votes and for the opportunity to run for vice president.
“We can have a golden era of prosperity,” he said, referring to the potential Trump-Vance administration.
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Biden to watch election results from the White House. The American president has kept a relatively low profile in recent days and is expected to do the same today. Biden and First Lady Jill Biden will watch the election results from the White House with close advisors, according to a U.S. official.
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Biden urged citizens to go vote. “Go vote. Let’s make history by electing Kamala Harris,” he wrote in a post on “X.”
Go vote.
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) November 5, 2024
Let’s make history by electing @KamalaHarris. https://t.co/Hy8C4mIL2M
Before the polls opened this morning, approximately 80 million Americans had already voted. According to the Election Department at the University of Florida, 82 million Americans voted early, with just under 45 million voting in person and about 38 million voting by mail.
