Sharjah 24 – WAM: Voters headed to the polls Tuesday to cast their ballots in a historic presidential race that could profoundly change the country and the world, CNN reported.
Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party’s nominee, is hoping to shatter a nearly 250-year-old glass ceiling to become the nation’s first-ever female president. Former President Donald Trump, the Republican nominee who lost in 2020, is trying to become just the second defeated president in history to win a non-consecutive term.
Polls nationally and in the vital swing states show no clear leader, reflecting a country that is polarised just as sharply as when the race started.
More than 77.5 million Americans voted before Election Day, either by mail or through early in-person voting.
Millions of Americans cast a ballot on Tuesday as polls opened across the country to wrap up what is expected to be one of the closest presidential races in U.S. history after a historic and unprecedented year in politics.
The presidential race between Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican former President Donald Trump has come down to the after several shocks to the race and little evidence from pollsters that has shown either with a clear advantage in any of the swing states that will decide the winner.
Harris and Trump agree on next to nothing on most of the political and cultural issues that separate the parties in an increasingly divided and partisan electorate, offering very different paths forward for the country depending on who wins the Oval Office.
It’s unclear who the winner will be headed into Election Day and also uncertain is when it will be known with several critical battleground states likely to take days to tally all the votes.
Out of tens of millions of votes across the country, the race may be decided by margins of just thousands in seven states — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — that have received the overwhelming majority of both presidential campaigns’ attention and advertising dollars over the last few months.
Millions of Americans are starting to cast their ballots Tuesday as polling stations begin to open across the US with the future of the American presidency coming down to a nail-biter race between Democratic candidate Kamala Harris and Republican nominee Donald Trump
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