In the heart of northern New Hampshire, the small town of Dixville Notch kicked off the Election Day with its traditional midnight vote early Tuesday.
At midnight, the town's six registered voters gathered at the Tillotson Room of the Balsams Resort to cast the first votes on Election Day. Residents have cast the first ballots here for the last 60 years.
In the 2020 election, only five residents casted their vote in this small community located in the northern White Mountains near the Canadian border.
Former President Donald Trump, at his final rally in Pennsylvania, thanked podcaster Joe Rogan for his endorsement.
“It just came over the wires that Joe Rogan just endorsed me," Trump told the audience at the packed 18,000-seat PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburg at around 9 p.m.
“To me, it’s very big, because he’s the biggest there is, I guess, in the world, by far,” Trump said.
More than 1.1 million Oregon voters had already cast their ballots heading into Election Day.
As of Nov. 4, the Oregon Secretary of State’s office shows that more than 46 percent of the state’s more than 3 million registered voters had returned their ballots.
Those numbers include 56.1 percent of the state’s 1 million registered Democrats, 60.6 percent of the almost 743,000 registered Republicans, and 28.4 percent received from 1.1 million nonaffiliated voters.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who campaigned for president this year as an independent before joining the Trump campaign, told his supporters on Nov. 4, "Do not vote for me."
In a video posted to X, Kennedy told his remaining supporters on the eve of Election Day to support former President Donald Trump.
"Vote Trump. No matter what state you live in, do not vote for me," Kennedy said.
Podcaster Joe Rogan has formally endorsed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on the eve of Election Day.
In a Nov. 4 statement posted on X, accompanying a video of his interview with Elon Musk, Rogan said during the podcast the billionaire had made the “most compelling case for Trump you'll hear, and I agree with him every step of the way.”
MILWAUKEE—Hours before polls open on Election Day, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate, capped off several appearances in Wisconsin at a rally in greater Milwaukee, ahead of a visit to Michigan.
“We’re in the last two minutes of the game. This thing’s tied, but we’ve got the damn ball,” Walz told the crowd at the Wisconsin State Fair Park Exposition Center in West Allis, a community to the west of the Badger State’s largest city.
Polling averages for battleground states shows the race neck-and-neck on the eve of the election. In Wisconsin, Harris holds an 0.4 percent lead over Trump.
The Georgia Supreme Court has ruled that Cobb County will accept—but not immediately count—absentee ballots after close of Election Day for over 3,000 voters who received late ballots, departing from a lower court decision that granted an extension for the voters to return their ballots by Nov. 8.
The Cobb County Board of Elections has been ordered to notify the affected voters that they are now also subject to the Nov. 5 deadline, which a lower court previously extended.
PHILADELPHIA—Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-Pa.) said that women who are motivated to protect their access to abortion will turn out in large numbers to vote for Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris.
Speaking during a press conference on Nov. 4 at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Dean said female voters are “fired up” and “angry.”
“Women, we believe, are turning out. Whether it's by mail-in ballot or tomorrow in person, they're going to turn out,” she said, adding that women of all ages are motivated.
ATLANTA—Voters in Georgia have been inundated with appeals for their support—campaign rallies, texts, and calls encouraging them to donate to one candidate or the other, and perpetual advertisements—for months now.
Billboards, yard signs, and bumper stickers expressing support for one candidate or the other litter Buckhead, a neighborhood to the north of Atlanta’s city center.
Several Atlanta residents told The Epoch Times they’re sick of it, and look forward to the end of the election season.
The 2024 road to the White House has been riddled with more potholes, landmines, and detours than anyone could have imagined.
Amid a string of historic events, a few stand out as the most pivotal. The Republican nominee, former President Donald Trump, faced multiple criminal and civil court cases, and survived two assassination attempts. His opponent for the majority of the two-year campaign, President Joe Biden, exited the race after a difficult debate; then the Democratic Party chose Vice President Kamala Harris as a last-minute replacement to oppose Trump.
Missouri state officials filed a lawsuit on Monday to prevent the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) from sending federal personnel to monitor polling places on Election Day.
The legal action, filed by Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft and the Missouri Attorney General’s office, seeks to block what Ashcroft describes as “illegal interference” by the federal government in Missouri’s elections.
As of 2 p.m. local time, Nov. 4, approximately 1.5 million early voter ballots in Arizona’s Maricopa County had been cast, with around 600,000 ballots anticipated to be cast on Election Day, according to Maricopa County Supervisor Bill Gates.
There are currently 2.6 million active voters in the county, Gates said at a press conference.
Maricopa County recorder Stephen Richer said 1.4 million ballots have been signature verified, with 27,000 being sent for curing due to signatures that didn’t match. Of those, 15,000 have already been cured, or fixed.
PHILADELPHIA—A judge has denied Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner’s request to block the $1 million giveaway program that billionaire Elon Musk and America PAC have been operating in the lead-up to the Nov. 5 election.
Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas Judge Angelo Foglietta issued the denial after a Nov. 4 hearing that was prompted by Krasner’s civil lawsuit against Musk and America PAC.
Krasner had accused Musk and America PAC of running an illegal lottery, which he said created a public nuisance, and violating a state consumer protection law. The program is set to conclude on Election Day, Nov. 5.
Former President Donald Trump in a new interview did not rule out banning some vaccines if he wins the upcoming election.
Trump was referring to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a lawyer who founded the nonprofit Children’s Health Defense.
READING, Pa.—In one of the final rallies of the 2024 election, Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump exhorted his supporters to turn out to vote on Election Day.
“If we win Pennsylvania, we win the whole thing,” Trump said. The state has 19 Electoral College votes, making it the most influential battleground state in the country. Trump made border security and national security the policy themes of his speech.
Former President Donald Trump said that if he gets a second term in the White House, he would impose a new 25 percent tariff on Mexico if it does not stem the flood of illegal immigrants into the United States.
“One of the first calls I’m going to make is to Mexico: ‘You stop letting people come in through our border,'” Trump told a rally on Monday in Raleigh, North Carolina.
After noting that Mexico recently elected a new president, Claudia Sheinbaum, Trump said that he would “inform her on Day 1 or sooner that if they don’t stop this onslaught of criminals and drugs coming into our country, I’m going to immediately impose a 25 percent tariff on everything they send into the United States of America.”
Voters were asked what the most important factor was in determining which candidate they’re voting for in the Nov. 5 election.
The most frequent answer was the economy. Overall, 21 percent of respondents chose the economy, including 35 percent of Republicans and people leaning Republican and 7 percent of Democrats and people leaning Democrat.
Voters in battleground states will head to the polls on Tuesday amid mostly mild temperatures, while scattered showers are expected throughout the day.
Georgia and North Carolina are expected to see temperatures in the 70s and 80s. Light rainfall is possible in southwestern Georgia and some showers are possible in western North Carolina.
Pennsylvania voters are expected to have a dry election day, with temperatures nearing 80 degrees.
Media personality Megyn Kelly is officially on Team Trump in 2024.
On Nov. 4, the host of The Megyn Kelly Show on SiriusXM and formerly a reporter, anchor, and talk show host with Fox News and NBC, said she will speak at former President Donald Trump's rally in Pittsburgh on Monday night.
In a segment published online, Kelly said she received an invitation to speak at the rally and accepted. The rally will be Trump's final campaign stop in the Keystone State.
LANSING, Mich.—Women accounted for 55 percent of the 3.2 million Michiganders who cast early ballots in the 2024 election, according to Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson. Voters aged 60 and older dominated the age demographic at 51.4 percent of early voters.
Early voting numbers indicate that overall participation in the general election will be high, Benson told reporters at a midday press conference.
“We are on pace to see another high turnout election, with voters all across this state enthusiastic and engaged,” Benson said.
Eight-foot-high metal security fencing was installed around key government sites in Washington over the weekend as authorities brace for potential unrest on or after Election Day.
The fencing was erected around the White House, the Treasury Department building complex, adjacent parts of Lafayette Square, as well as outside of the Naval Observatory on Massachusetts Avenue, where Vice President Kamala Harris resides.
At the U.S. Capitol, authorities surrounded the perimeter with bicycle rack barriers displaying signs reading, “Police Line: Do Not Cross.”
With the hours ticking down to the 2024 presidential election on Nov. 5, many voters on both sides of the political aisle worry about the outcome, they told Epoch Times reporters dispatched across the country.
It’s no wonder. It’s been a long—and unusually chaotic—election cycle.
After being beaten as the incumbent in 2020, former President Donald Trump announced his intention to run again in mid-November 2022, just shy of two years before Election Day 2024.
Former Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) is leading former Manchester Mayor Joyce Craig, a Democrat, by 4 percent in New Hampshire’s governor race, according to a new poll from the University of New Hampshire.
In the college’s previous survey, Craig was leading Ayotte by 1 percent.
Forty-eight percent of likely voters said they would vote for Ayotte, while 44 percent said they are supporting Craig. Six percent of likely voters remain undecided, including 14 percent of independent voters.
More than 82 million people voted early in the 2024 election, with the Republicans coming within 2 percentage points of Democrats for the early-vote total.
The majority, or 44.9 million, have voted early and in person, according to data from the University of Florida’s Election Lab. Meanwhile, about 37.8 million have returned mail-in ballots.
In states reporting by party affiliation, registered Democrats are ahead of registered Republicans by about 800,000 votes, a much closer gap than in 2020, primarily because Republican voters have shown a higher likelihood of voting early this year.
Vice President Kamala Harris is leading former President Donald Trump by 34 percent among Pennsylvania’s Latino voter population, according to a new poll from Univision and YouGov.
The poll surveyed 400 registered Latino voters in the state and found that 64 percent of them said they would vote for Harris, while 30 percent said they would vote for Trump.
The survey was conducted after comedian Tony Hinchcliffe made a controversial joke at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally on Oct. 27, in which he likened Puerto Rico to a “floating island of garbage.” Trump had been making consistent inroads with the Keystone State’s Hispanic population and Harris has leaned into the remarks during her recent outreach in the state.
In the run-up to Election Day, court battles have emerged over various policies related to ballots, election integrity, and vote-processing procedures.
Each case raises a typical judicial question of whether the policies align with state or federal law. A common issue in many of these cases is whether judges should exercise their discretion to uphold or invalidate policies so close to Nov. 5.
Cases in Georgia, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Mississippi have each seen attorneys discussing something known as the Purcell principle, which is generally understood to caution against last-minute changes to election procedures. The exact contours of when and how that principle applies have been subject to debate.
FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va.—Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) told The Epoch Times Monday morning that China’s ‘Salt Typhoon’ hack—the hack that breached the phones of former President Donald Trump and his running mate Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio)—is “unprecedented in its size and scope.”
“I think it will go down as maybe one of the most significant cyber attacks we've faced in our country,” said the senator, who chairs the Select Intelligence Committee.
“It did not have election interference as its goal. It has been, unfortunately, going on for some time,” Warner said. “I believe it begs the fact that we do not have any minimum cybersecurity within our telecom section.”
LA CROSSE, Wis.—Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) capped off the Trump campaign’s efforts in Wisconsin, making the economic case for the former president, just ahead of an appearance by Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz in the same city.
“Our fellow citizens are struggling,” Vance said at a rally in La Crosse, Wisconsin.
Vance highlighted elevated credit card delinquency rates and the latest jobs report to reiterate his case that the Biden–Harris administration has mismanaged the economy.
The Supreme Court decided on Nov. 4 to hear a racial gerrymandering case from Louisiana.
Gerrymandering is the manipulation of electoral district boundaries to favor a particular party or constituency.
The case will not be heard in time for the Nov. 5 presidential and congressional elections.
PITTSBURGH—On Oct. 27, 2018, a gunman killed 11 people and injured six others at the Tree of Life synagogue in the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in U.S. history.
Less than five years later, the Hamas terrorist group launched in Israel the deadliest single-day anti-Semitic attack since the Holocaust.
More than six years after the synagogue shooting and a year after Hamas’s attack, the Jewish community in Squirrel Hill, where the synagogue is located, will head to the polls to vote in a key state amid a rise in anti-Semitism.
As the two leading presidential candidates make their final pitches to voters ahead of Tuesday’s election, a common theme has emerged in their camps’ final ads: unity.
In a two-minute ad released on Saturday, Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, promised to deliver a “brighter future” for all Americans.
“The vast majority of people in our country have so much more in common than what separates them,” Harris said in the ad. “Good people, hardworking people—we see in our fellow Americans: neighbors, not enemies. … We’re not falling for these folks who are trying to divide us.”
With just one day left before the election, both Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are busy on the campaign trail.
Harris will be crisscrossing Pennsylvania, the largest, and possibly the most consequential, battleground state. The vice president will start in President Joe Biden’s hometown of Scranton, before moving to Allentown, where a large population of Puerto Rican Americans live.
Harris then heads to Reading, joined by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.); Pittsburgh with her husband; and finally, Philadelphia, where the vice president will share the stage with Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, and celebrities Oprah Winfrey, Lady Gaga, Ricky Martin, and others.
LA CROSSE, Wis.—Ahead of Sen. JD Vance’s (R-Ohio) pre-Election Day rally, Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-Wisc.) told The Epoch Times the slow-moving Farm Bill will be his top priority if he is re-elected—not a guarantee in his race.
“We have until January 1 to get something done, or our agriculture industry is going to take the biggest punch to the face it’s ever taken,” he said in La Crosse, Wisconsin.
That legislation expired Sept. 30 of this year.
Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, will spend her final campaign day in Pennsylvania, holding three “Get Out The Vote” rallies in three different cities.
Pennsylvania is an important battleground for the Nov. 5 election, with 19 electoral votes—more than any other swing state. Whoever wins the Keystone State this year seems likely to be the next president of the United States, according to pollsters.
In the 2016 presidential election, candidate Donald Trump won Pennsylvania by a narrow margin of 0.7 points, securing a crucial victory in a state that had traditionally leaned Democratic. He lost the state to candidate Joe Biden four years later.
Early voting has exploded in popularity in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, but some voters still prefer to cast their ballots in person on Election Day.
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NBC aired a message from former President Donald Trump one day after Vice President Kamala Harris appeared on Saturday Night Live (SNL).
Trump, after greeting fans of sports, noted that the presidential election is slated for Nov. 5.
WASHINGTON—Cities across the United States have seen buildings boarded up as voters prepare to cast their ballots in a highly contentious election.
On the weekend before the Nov. 5 election, buildings near the White House could be seen with wooden boards placed over their exteriors—including on a McDonald’s, Peet’s Coffee, and U.S. Post Office location.
Similar scenes have been reported in Portland, Boston, San Francisco, and New York City, serving as visible signs of caution as state and local governments discussed potential unrest.
Even though the presidential candidates haven’t discussed it much, school choice is an election year issue in many parts of the nation.
In Nebraska, voters will decide whether to repeal a 2023 law that funds private school tuition with taxpayer dollars, which has cost about $10 million. Referendum 435 notes the arguments for and against the current law.
BETHLEHEM, Pa.—With its 19 electoral votes dwarfing any other swing state, Pennsylvania is perhaps the most critical battleground in the fight for the Electoral College. Whoever wins the Keystone State this year appears likely to become the next president.
It’s part of the “blue wall”—which also includes Michigan and Wisconsin—that had voted for a Democratic candidate in every presidential election for 20 years before then-candidate Donald Trump snatched them in 2016. Trump lost all three to then-candidate Joe Biden four years later.
Pennsylvania’s industries, its population demographics, and its regional geography all make the state critical to win in the presidential election, political experts told The Epoch Times.
Pennsylvania’s top election official confirmed his office is investigating potentially fraudulent voter registration applications after authorities in multiple counties reported the issue.
Lancaster County officials set the problematic registrations aside and they were sent to local law enforcement, Schmidt said.
Health care access and affordability seem to have received limited attention during the 2024 presidential campaigns, despite the industry accounting for more than 17 percent of the United States’ GDP.
“For perhaps the first election season since 2004, health coverage policies have had a relatively low profile,” Sharon Glied, dean of New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, wrote in an opinion piece in the New England Journal of Medicine.
John C. Goodman, health economist and health policy expert, told The Epoch Times: “The two biggest problems in health care: Millions of people can’t afford the care they need, and millions of people don’t have access to the care they need. And neither candidate is addressing these two problems in any serious way.”
BETHLEHEM, Pa.—Nestled in the heart of eastern Pennsylvania is one of two state counties that have been bellwethers in the past four presidential elections and may decide who controls the White House next year.
Northampton County, home of the former Bethlehem Steel plant—once the world’s largest producer of steel—is one of two once-blue counties in the Keystone State, along with Erie County, that then-candidate Donald Trump flipped in 2016 before they moved back to the Democrats in 2020.
Now considered a swing county in the largest battleground state, Northampton is seeing significant attention this year. Democrats visited the county in September. Trump, now a former president and the Republican presidential nominee, has stopped repeatedly in the larger Lehigh Valley area. And House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has been to Bethlehem twice recently.
On paper, voters will be casting their ballots on Nov. 5 for just one presidential candidate and a handful of other candidates for federal office. Their choices, however, will ultimately bear on dozens of other powerful officials who aren’t on the ballot but can nonetheless determine the future course of the country.
Upon assuming the presidency next January, Vice President Kamala Harris or former President Donald Trump will receive the power to nominate these individuals who could nevertheless rule against the policies they seek to implement.