Who will win the race to the White House is the biggest question everybody seems to be asking. Few more hours to go when it will be clear. However, both Democrat’s Kamala Harris and Republican’s Donald Trump are running neck to neck according to numerous survey polls or opinion polls.
Election is taking in eight states, including key battlegrounds New York and Virginia. Voters in Connecticut, New Jersey, and New Hampshire also began casting ballots at 6 in the morning. However, voters in Indiana and Kentucky are yet to cast their mandate. The first ballot for the 2024 US Presidential Elections was cast in New Hampshire. Harris and Trump tied with three votes each in the tiny New Hampshire community of Dixville Notch, which opened and closed its poll just after midnight ET in a decades-old tradition.
Polling in the United States of America will begin between 6 am and 8 am local time, which will be around 4:30 pm IST in India. Polling will end at around 6:30 am IST on November 6.
A large number of Americans will be casting their votes on Tuesday, November 5. Their choices are Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, the current vice president, and former US President Donald Trump from the Republican side.
Among other important decisive aspects, the Silicon Valley has long been considered as the territory of tech progressives. But several vocal tech billionaires such as Elon Musk have veered sharply to the right in the past few years.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), in an unique gesture, instituted a plan that allows astronauts to perform their civic duty even when they are in space. Reports suggest that four Americans are currently in space who would want to exercise their voting rights, including the two Boeing Starliner astronauts – Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore.
Among other issues that will remain a key issue in this US elections will certainly be the Immigration. Trump pledges to secure the U.S.-Mexico border, expand ICE, and execute mass deportations. Democrat’s Kamala Harris Harris, who is vocal on abortion and other women related issues is facing mixed reactions, promises strict action against illegal migration, citing her past work against traffickers.
