Millions of Americans headed to polling places Tuesday morning to choose their next president between two starkly different candidates in one of the closest presidential races in modern US history.
Roughly 82 million ballots were already cast as of Monday, according to the Associated Press. The number is more than half the total of votes cast in the last presidential election.
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris spent the final hours of their campaigns reaching to supporters in Pennsylvania, the biggest of seven battleground states that include Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, and North Carolina.
If elected, Kamala Harris would become the first Black woman of South Asian descent to ever serve as POTUS and the first sitting vice president to elevate to the Oval Office in 32 years.
The 60-year-old promised to work on economic worries, restore a federal right to abortion, and put the country above the party.
She warned of granting Trump a second presidential term citing his former aides’ revelations and labeling him a “fascist” and a fan of “Adolf Hitler.”
Trump, 78, would be the oldest US president ever elected and the first candidate convicted of a felony to win the White House.
The former president vowed to carry out the largest mass deportation of migrants in US history, stop the taxing on tips and Social Security income, expand the child tax credit, and end the war in Ukraine before Inauguration Day.
