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Election Day is nearly upon us. In a matter of hours, the final votes in the 2024 presidential election will be cast.In a deeply divided nation, the election is a true toss-up between Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump.We know there are seven battleground states that will decide the outcome, barring a major surprise. But major questions persist about the timing of the results, the makeup of the electorate, the influx of misinformation even the possibility of political violence. At the same time, both sides are prepared for a protracted legal battle that could complicate things further.Here’s what to watch on the eve of Election Day 2024:History will be made either wayGiven all the twists and turns in recent months, it’s easy to overlook the historical significance of this election.Harris would become the first female president in the United States’ 248-year history. She would also be the first Black woman and person of South Asian descent to hold the office. Harris and her campaign have largely played down gender and race fearing that they might alienate some supporters. But the significance of a Harris win would not be lost on historians.A Trump victory would represent a different kind of historical accomplishment. He would become the first person convicted of a felony elected to the U.S. presidency, having been convicted of 34 felony counts in a New York hush-money case little more than five months ago.Trump, who is still facing felony charges in at least two separate criminal cases, argued that he is the victim of a politicized justice system. And tens of millions of voters apparently believe him or they’re willing to overlook his extraordinary legal baggage.How long will it take to know the winner?Election Day in the United States is now often considered election week as each state follows its own rules and practices for counting ballots not to mention the legal challenges that can delay the results. But the truth is, nobody knows how long it will take for the winner to be announced this time.In 2020, The Associated Press declared President Joe Biden the winner on Saturday afternoon four days after polls closed. But even then, The AP called North Carolina for Trump 10 days after Election Day and Georgia for Biden 16 days later after hand recounts.Four years earlier, the 2016 election was decided just hours after most polls closed. The AP declared Trump the winner on election night at 2:29 a.m. (it was technically Wednesday morning on the East Coast).This time, both campaigns believe the race is extremely close across the seven swing states that are expected to decide the election, barring a major surprise: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.The size of the map and the tightness of the race make it hard to predict when a winner could be declared.Where can I find early clues about how the contest might unfold?Look to two East Coast battleground states, North Carolina and Georgia, where the results could come in relatively quickly. That doesn’t mean we’ll get the final results in those states quickly if the returns are close, but they are the first swing states that might offer a sense of what kind of night we’re in for.To go deeper, look to urban and suburban areas in the industrial North and Southeast, where Democrats have made gains since 2020.In North Carolina, Harris margins in Wake and Mecklenburg Counties, home to the state capital of Raleigh and the states largest city, Charlotte, respectively, will reveal how much Trump will need to squeeze out of the less-populated rural areas he has dominated.In Pennsylvania, Harris needs heavy turnout in deep blue Philadelphia, but she’s also looking to boost the Democrats advantage in the arc of suburban counties to the north and west of the city. She has campaigned aggressively in Bucks, Chester, Delaware and Montgomery counties, where Biden improved on Clintons 2016 winning margins. The Philadelphia metro area, including the four collar counties, accounts for 43 percent of Pennsylvanias vote.Elsewhere in the Blue Wall, Trump needs to blunt Democratic growth in Michigan’s key suburban counties outside of Detroit, especially Oakland County. He faces the same challenge in Wisconsin’s Waukesha County outside of Milwaukee.Where are the candidates?Trump will likely spend the very early hours of Election Day in Michigan, where he is scheduled to hold a final late-night rally in Grand Rapids as has become his tradition.The Republican candidate plans to spend the rest of the day in Florida, where he is expected to vote in person — despite previously saying he would vote early. He’s scheduled to hold a campaign watch party in Palm Beach Tuesday night.Harris plans to attend an Election Night party at Howard University in Washington, a historically Black university where she graduated with a degree in economics and political science in 1986 and was an active member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.Aside from Howard, she has no public schedule announced for Election Day.Harris said Sunday that she had just filled out her mail-in ballot and it was on its way to California.Who’s left to show up on Election Day?On the eve of Election Day, it’s unclear which voters will show up to cast ballots on Tuesday.More than 77 million people participated in early voting either in person or through the mail. So many people already cast ballots that some officials say the polls in states like Georgia might be a ghost town on Election Day.One major reason for the surge is that that Trump has generally encouraged his supporters to vote early this time, a reversal from 2020 when he called on Republicans to vote only in-person on Election Day. The early vote numbers confirm that millions of Republicans have heeded Trump’s call in recent weeks.The key question, however, is whether the surge of Republicans who voted early this time will ultimately cannibalize the number of Republicans who show up on Tuesday.There are also shifts on the Democratic side. Four years ago, as the pandemic lingered, Democrats overwhelmingly cast their ballots early. But this time around, without the public health risk, it’s likely that more Democrats will show up in person on Election Day.That balance on both sides is critical as we try to understand the early returns. And it’s on the campaigns to know which voters they still need to turn out on Tuesday. On that front, Democrats may have an advantage.Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee have outsourced much of their get-out-the-vote operation operation to outside groups, including one funded largely by billionaire Trump ally Elon Musk thats facing new questions about its practices. Harris campaign, by contrast, is running a more traditional operation that features more than 2,500 paid staffers and 357 offices in battleground states alone.Could there be unrest?Trump has been aggressively promoting baseless claims in recent days questioning the integrity of the election. He falsely insists that he can lose only if Democrats cheat, even as polls show that show the race is a true toss-up.Trump could again claim victory on election night regardless of the results, just as he did in 2020.Such rhetoric can have serious consequences as the nation saw when Trump loyalists stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 in one of the darkest days in modern American history. And unfortunately, there is still a potential of further violence this election season.The Republican National Committee will have thousands of election integrity poll monitors in place on Tuesday searching for any signs of fraud, which critics fear could lead to harassment of voters or election workers. In some key voting places, officials have requested the presence of sheriff deputies in addition to bulletproof glass and panic buttons that connect poll managers to a local 911 dispatcher.At the same time, Trump allies note that he has faced two assassination attempts in recent months that raise the possibility of further threats against him. And police in Washington and other cities are preparing for the possibility of serious Election Day unrest.As always, it’s worth noting that a broad coalition of top government and industry officials, many of them Republicans, found that the 2020 election was the most secure in American history.___ AP writers Tom Beaumont and Will Weissert in Washington and Jill Colvin in Grand Rapids, Michigan contributed.
FAYETTEVILLE, AND SHE TALKED TO STUDENTS HERE AT THE U OF A. >> I CAUGHT UP WITH STUDENTS IN BETWEEN CLASSES AND MANY OF THEM HAVE ALREADY VOTED. >> ITS OBVIOUSLY VERY TRICKY TO GO AGAINST WHAT YOU KNOW, GROWING UP. >> CRYSTAL MEJIA SAYS, BUT ITS IMPORTANT TO USE YOUR CIVIL RIGHT. >> AND VOTE NO MATTER WHICH SIDE. >> HONESTLY, A LOT OF MY FRIENDS ARE FROM TEXAS, SO ITS LIKE THEYRE GOING AGAINST A LOT OF THEIR PARENTS. SO ITS A KIND OF LIKE A NERVOUS TO GO VOTE BECAUSE THEY DONT WANT TO GO AGAINST THEIR PARENTS. BUT ITS ALSO LIKE WE KIND OF NEED TO MAKE THE CHANGE. I GUESS. >> ELIZA VARGAS DESCRIBED THE BALLOT ISSUES THAT INTEREST HER FUNNELING MONEY OUT OF CASINOS TO GO INTO SCHOLARSHIPS FOR ARKANSAS RESIDENTS. >> I THINK THAT WAS A PRETTY BIG ISSUE FOR ME. AND THEN ALSO THE MEDICAL MARIJUANA ONE. I VOTED BACK HOME IN TEXAS. >> AND SO MY BIGGEST ISSUES WERE HONESTLY MORE ABOUT PROTECTING WOMENS RIGHTS. >> ANDREW HUBBARD SAYS HES ALSO PASSIONATE ABOUT WOMENS RIGHTS AND THE FUTURE OF THE ECONOMY, MORE FOCUSED ON TAX CUTS FOR LOWER INCOME THAN HIGHER INCOME. >> AND CLIMATE CHANGE IS A BIG ONE. I REALLY CARE ABOUT MY KIDS FUTURE AND JUST TAKING CARE OF THE PLANET AROUND US. >> HUBBARD WANTS ELECTED OFFICIALS WHO ARE DEDICATED TO SERVING THE PEOPLE VOTING FOR THEM. >> PLEASE VOTE. I THINK PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY IN ARKANSAS, TAKE IT FOR GRANTED BECAUSE THEY JUST THINK ITS A FAR GONE RED STATE. BUT, YOU KNOW, THE YOUTH CAN CHANGE. AND I THINK IN THE FUTURE ITS GOING TO CHANGE. SO IF WE JUST KEEP VOTING AND KEEP USING OUR VOICE, ITS REALLY IMPORTANT. >> SOME STUDENTS WHO HAVENT VOTED YET ARE STILL PLANNING TO AHEAD OF ELECTION DAY TO AVOID ANY LONG LINES. EARLY VOTING LASTS UP UNTIL NOVEMBER 4TH.
For the millions of Americans on the radar of the Kamala Harris and Donald Trump campaigns and those of their allies, the apocalypse is only a text message away.The very future of the republic is at stake, some of the texts say and many others imply. But you yes, YOU, Sally, Jose or insert-your-first-name here can save it. For as little as $7.Texting is a cheap and easy way to reach potential voters and donors, without all the rules meant to keep traditional paid broadcast advertising a bit honest. Both sides are working the texting pipeline aggressively. In the last days of the campaign, the pinging of phones can be relentless.All day, every day, Robyn Beyah said of the torrent as she stood in line to get into a Kamala Harris rally outside Atlanta last week. They have my number. Were practically besties.Beyah is cool with that. She considers the text bombing harmless because its for a candidate she believes in. She even invites the Harris campaign to harass me with text messages. Not all voters are so charitable.To be honest with you, at this point, Ive tuned it out of my brain,” said Ebenezer Eyasu of Stone Mountain, Georgia, standing in the same Harris rally line. He said the dozen or so texts he gets each day have become background noise.”Sarah Wiggins, a 26-year-old graphic designer from Kennesaw, Georgia, who supports Harris, prefers face to face persuasion. I feel like its all about people around you,” she said. “Word of mouth is underrated. As for the texts, I just delete, to be honest. I dont want to read it.Many Trump supporters also get pestered. Several at his rally in Tempe, Arizona, last week professed low-grade aggravation about that.Theyre more of an annoyance than anything else, said Morse Lawrence, 57, a physician assistant from Mesa, Arizona. “I get bombarded by text messages outside of political things as well. People wanting to buy my house, people wanting to sell me insurance, its all of it.He figures it’s an effective marketing strategy for campaigns even if the great majority of recipients don’t bite. You go fishing and you catch two fish, youve got a meal for the day.Jennifer Warnke, 57, of St. John’s, Arizona, also at the Trump rally, expressed mixed feelings about what’s happening on her phone.Theyre at least reaching out, because for years nobody ever called me, she said. I’ve been a registered Republican all my life and nobody ever called.She added: Its annoying, but its almost over.The campaigns spin a fantasyTrump’s campaign, although uniquely fixated on selling hats via text, shares certain traits with the Democrats.Both sides traffic in dire warnings should the other side win. Both cook up phony deadlines to get you to hurry up with your money. Both play on the fantasy that luminaries whether Harris, Trump, George Clooney, Nancy Pelosi or Donald Trump Jr. are texting you personally, instead of the machinery that really is.Texts under the name of Trump Jr. come with a twist, if a transparent one: Please dont give $5 to help dad before his critical deadline. Im serious. Dont. … Let me explain.”The explanation is a link to a page asking for lots more than $5. You can choose $20.24 if you are a basic Trump supporter in 2024 or $47 if you think the 45th president was the greatest ever and want to make him the 47th.Trump himself seems to be heavily into merch. I’m shipping you a Gold MAGA Hat! say texts in his name. Should I sign it?Tap through and you see the MAGA hat with gold lettering will cost you $50. But there’s more.Here’s my offer to you,” the digital Trump says. “If you place your order before the midnight deadline, I may add my signature and a quick personal note right on the brim! May or may not.Thirteen days from Election Day, as she prepared to take the stage for a CNN town hall, Harris took a moment to confide in a Virginian she doesnt know at all. At least that’s the scene sketched by a text in her name.Hi Chris, its Kamala Harris, says the message. It would mean the world to me if you added another donation to our campaign before my town hall on CNN tonight. Donald Trump and his allies are currently outspending us across the battleground states.A donation of $40 is suggested. No hat is offered. Despite the message’s angst over cash, Harris’ campaign and affiliated Democratic groups have raised over $1 billion in mere months and kept a large financial advantage over Trump in the campaign’s last leg.The pings keep comingPing: Its Elizabeth Warren. Ping: From Trump: I JUST LEFT MCDONALDS.”Ping: Weve asked NINE TIMES if you support Kamala Harris but you never completed the poll.Ping: I just got off the debate stage. signed by Harris running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.Ping: This is a BIG DEAL. in the name of Democratic strategist James Carville.Ping: “It’s Nancy Pelosi. I need you to see this.”Ping: But you havent stepped up to defend our Senate majority!?! Rush $7 now.Ping: I have a McGift for you! It’s President Trump. Want to take a look?Are they legit?Despite the sucker-born-every-minute undertone of some of the presidential campaign texts, experts say you can be reasonably confident that donations to the official candidate campaigns or the main party organizations will be used for your intended purpose.But many more groups are pitching for your election-season cash, not all of them are legit and sorting that out takes work. Some voter-mobilization groups that claim to be funded by the left, for example, may be mischief-makers from the right, or just out to collect personal information on you.This month, the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin wrote to the U.S. and state attorneys general to report that thousands of fraudulent text messages from an anonymous source were sent to young people threatening $10,000 fines or prison time if they vote in a state where they are not eligible to cast ballots.The scam was meant to intimidate students from out of state who are legally entitled to vote in Wisconsin if they are attending college there, or to vote back at home instead, the letter said.Last weekend, thousands of Pennsylvania voters received a text message that falsely claimed they had already voted in the election, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported Monday. It was from AllVote, which election officials have repeatedly flagged as a scam, the paper said. The group said the false claim was the result of a typo.Experts say to read the fine print at the bottom of any fundraising link you open. It must outline the name of the group and where the money will go.From there, people can go to sites such as OpenSecrets or the Federal Election Commission to see breakdowns of revenue and spending by groups that are registered political action committees. High overhead and low or no spending on ads or canvassing are red flags.For all those traps, Beverly Payne of Cumming, Georgia, who has already voted for Harris and volunteers for her, welcomes the pings.I get texts every 30 minutes and I answer every single one of them, Payne said. One favorite was about an ice cream flavor rolled out for Harris by Ben & Jerrys, Kamalas Coconut Jubilee layered with caramel and topped with red, white and blue star sprinkles. I had to donate to that, she said.Its our culture now, were all addicted, Payne said of texts and Harris’ use of them. Maybe thats why she has a billion dollars.”
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