With just hours until Election Day in the United States on Tuesday, the nation and the world are wondering whether Kamala Harris will become America's first female president or whether Donald Trump will return to power. In my opinion, this is an unprecedented and sometimes violent campaign to get back at Joe Biden for his defeat in the 2020 election. Both candidates for the White House have hit hard in several battleground states to put maximum pressure on voters and conquer the last holdouts ahead of the tense US presidential election. The 2024 race will be very close, with more key states tied than in comparable elections. As Election Day approaches on Tuesday, more than 75 million people have already cast their votes, nearly half of all votes cast in 2020.
On November 5th, polling stations in some US states will open between 7 a.m. and 9 a.m. (US time). According to Indian Standard Time, the US elections are scheduled to begin on November 5 at around 4:30 p.m. and will last until November 6 at 6:30 a.m. The rival parties began their latest frenzied election campaign on Monday, defeating Pennsylvania on the 19th. On the final day of the election, Trump had vowed to "slide" in his bid for a sensational return to the White House, but Harris said the "momentum" to become America's first female president was on her side.
Harris will campaign throughout the day in Pennsylvania's Rust Belt state, culminating in a huge rally with singer Lady Gaga in its largest city, Philadelphia. President Trump is expected to visit North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Michigan. In a sign of Pennsylvania's importance to their chances of occupying the Oval Office, Mr. Trump and Ms. Harris will also hold dueling rallies in the industrial city of Pittsburgh. With minutes running out, Harris, 60, spent the rest of November in Michigan and risks losing crucial support among the 200,000-strong Arab American community, which has condemned the U.S. response to the Israeli-Hamas war. Meanwhile, on November 3, President Trump swept Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Georgia, three swing states in an electoral system that infiltrates US states based on population.
Trump, 78, the oldest major party candidate in U.S. history, tweeted to his supporters in Lititz, Pennsylvania, "I don't care if journalists get shot," adding to his somber remarks. Most polls across the country and in the seven battleground states where the outcome is expected to be determined show gridlock, and the election is expected to be historically close. However, a Nov. 2 Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa poll showed Harris ahead of Trump, with female voters helping Trump handily run the state in 2016 and 2020. Support for Harris has unexpectedly grown.
