‘very likely we won’t know the result tonight’

(TNND) — Americans are heading to the polls on Tuesday to choose a new president.

Polls leading up to Election Day have shown a real toss-up between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump.

All times listed below are Eastern.

VOTERS UNHAPPY, 5 p.m

Initial exit poll results shared by CNN on Tuesday night almost three-quarters of voters are dissatisfied with the US government

CNN shared the data around 17 Eastern Tuesday, an hour before the first polls closed. The network said it asked Americans how they “feel about the way things are going” in the country.

A total of 72% of respondents indicated that they feel negatively, with 43% saying “dissatisfied” and 29% saying “angry”. Meanwhile, 19% told CNN they are “satisfied” and 7% responded “enthusiastic.”

VOTING PROTECTIONS

It’s officials in Denver investigation of potential voter fraud after discovering suspicious ballots, according to The Denver Post.

And that’s what election officials in Milwaukee announced Tuesday afternoon they must rerun about 31,000 ballots due to a “sealing” error with the tabulating machines, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and other local news outlets.

OBAMA preaches patience, at

Former President Barack Obama is warns voters not to jump to conclusions if it takes days to determine the winner of the 2024 presidential election.

The former president reminded social media users Tuesday afternoon that “it took several days to count every ballot in 2020.” He added that it is “very likely that we will not know the result tonight either.”

GOOGLE

Google said in a statement Tuesday afternoon fixed an issue causing its “where to vote” feature to populate for users who want to vote for Harris, but not those searching for information on how to vote for Trump.

Social media users flagged that Google would show its “where to vote” map feature when a user searched for “where to vote for Harris.” Meanwhile, the map feature would not appear when “where to vote for Trump” was entered into the Google search bar.

Google claimed the problem was due to the fact that a county in Texas, Harris County, shares a name with the vice president. There is no “Trump County” in the United States.

The statement also explained that “very few people” search for polling places by searching “where to vote for Trump” and “where to vote for Harris” on Google, suggesting that the issue had a negligible impact on the election.

TRUMP RESPONDS TO OPRAH COMMENT

Trump said he was less than thrilled when he heard Oprah Winfrey tell voters that it is “quite possible that we will not have the opportunity to ever cast a vote again” if they do not vote for Harris.

Winfrey made the comment Monday night at a rally for Harris in Pennsylvania, a key battleground state.

“She should be ashamed of herself” Trump said of Winfrey after he voted in Florida on Tuesday.

TRUMP CAMPAIGN GETS A ‘GOOD NIGHT’

The Trump campaign has paraded the results of an NBC poll released Sunday that suggests women and urban voters are voting early in lower numbers.

Trump campaign spokeswoman Elizabeth Pipko called the vote “monumental” and that it means Trump would have a “good night” this Election Day.

HARRIS VOTES BY MAIL

The presidential candidates have cast their votes in this razor-thin election.

Harris told reporters over the weekend that she postal vote in her home state of California.

Trump voted Tuesday at a polling place in Florida.

CLOSER THAN A COIN FLIP, 3 p.m

Honored statistician Nate Silver released the results of his “last and final” election forecast model Tuesday.

Silver, the founder of the poll aggregation website FiveThirtyEight, ran 80,000 simulations of the matchup between Trump and Harris.

Harris won in 40,012 of those simulations, leaving Trump with 39,988 simulated victories.

“This is my fifth presidential election — and ninth general election overall, counting the midterms — and there’s never been anything like it,” Silver wrote in his newsletter. “From the model’s point of view, however, the race is literally closer than a coin flip: Empirically, heads win 50.5 percent of the time, more than Harris’s 50.015 percent.”

STAND IN THE QUEUE

Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, urged voters to do so queue despite long waiting times at the polling stations.

THE TRUMP TIME

Trump has been at the center of American politics for about a decade now, reshaping his party in his image and trying to regain the White House as a rare three-time presidential candidate.

Whether Trump wins Tuesday or not, has the Trump era changed the Republican Party for the foreseeable future?

“Yes, this is the fundamental question,” Casey Burgat, program director of legislative affairs at George Washington University, said Monday. “And to me, he’s already reshaped it. We’re seeing it with the types of candidates who are running, the types of legislators who are retiring and choosing not to run in who is entering which primary races, in which districts. He has fundamentally reshaped it. And the big question was always going to be what comes next.”

Read the whole story here.

MARYLAND GOVERNOR ON PRESIDENTIAL RACE, 2:21 p.m

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore said Tuesday that men who choose not to vote for Harris are disregarding the protection of their female family members.

The comment came during an Election Day appearance by Moore on MSNBC.

HOW DOES AP RECALL RACING?

The Associated Press — which has compiled polling results and declared winners from election offices around the country for more than 170 years — said that call race when there is “no possibility for the succeeding candidate to make up the gap.”

TRUMP VOTES, 11:30 a.m. Eastern

Trump cast his vote Tuesday in Florida and expressed optimism while speaking with reporters.

“We went in with a very large lead today and it looks like the Republicans have shown up in force,” Trump said. “So we’ll see how it ends.”

Florida is likely to go Trump’s way, with the race coming down to a handful of swing states, including neighboring Georgia.

Trump said he ran a great campaign.

“Maybe the best of the three,” he said.

Acknowledging that a winner might not be known Tuesday night, he said he has not prepared a speech.

WHO WILL THE VOTERS RUN FOR?

A mixture of hundreds of polls published by The Hill show both candidates with 48% of the vote.

The election is decided by the voters in seven swing modes: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

The Last New York Times/Siena College swing state polls featured almost all the runs within the margin of error, meaning any apparent lead should be taken with a grain of salt.

Another element of two swing modes is abortion question.

Voters will decide on 11 abortion initiatives in 10 states, including battleground states Arizona and Nevada.

“It can get people off the couch, get people out of the house to vote for abortion rights. And my guess is that those people are likely to vote for Harris, Anne Whitesell, an assistant professor of political science at Miami University in Ohio, previously told The National News Desk.

Immigration is a top issue for many voters, and that issue favors Trump.

The economythe most important issue for voters, has also generally favored Trump in polls conducted in the weeks and months leading up to the election.

Voter divisions other than party could also decide this election.

One such division is the gender gap, where Times/Siena College poll showed Harris leading Trump 54% to 42% among women, and Trump leading Harris 55% to 41% among men.

There is a degree gap, with polls showing nearly 60% of people with college degrees favoring Harris and 54% without a degree favoring Trump.

And Trump’s ability to return to the White House may depend on his ability to win back suburban voters he lost in 2020.

When Trump won in 2016, he did so with one two point advantage among suburban voters.

When he lost in 2020, he did so at an 11-point disadvantage among suburban voters.

Polls leading up to this election show Trump once again trailing suburban voters. Reuters/Ipsos polling shows him trailing Vice President Kamla Harris by six percentage points among suburban voters.

“I think things are so intertwined that it’s only 99% mobilization (of each side’s voters) at this point,” said Oklahoma State University politics professor Seth McKee previously said.