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Washington, Nov 03: The United States of America goes to the polls today to elect its 46th president. On November 3, the country will decide whether Donald Trump would continue in office or will Joe Biden take over.
With less than 16 hours to go for the US presidential election 2020, President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden are making a last ditch efforts to convince undecided voters of their plans and policies on the final day of the campaign in critical battleground states, with polls indicating that the race for the White House could be headed for a photo-finish.
Trump, 74, toured five battleground states of Michigan, Iowa, North Carolina, Georgia and Florida while his 77-year-old rival spoke at a campaign event in Pennsylvania, where the race also looks tight. Biden is set to close his campaign in Pittsburgh where he made his maiden campaign appearance in April 2019.
US Elections 2020: Time, Date, Results; Where to watch in India
Meet the candidates
Republican: Donald Trump
Vice presidential candidate: Mike Pence
Democratic: Joe Biden
Vice-presidential candidate: Kamala Harris
Results
US election results 2020 may take longer to be announced this time because of the sheer volume of mailed-in ballots. Some states will begin counting their mail-in ballot before election day, some will start on election day, some will wait till the close of polling.
On January 20, 2021, the US will welcome its new President.
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3:10 PM, 3 Nov
According to a Reuters report, Trump’s odds of winning the election improved to 39% from 35% on the UK-based platform, while former vice-president and Democratic challenger Joe Biden saw his chances dip to 61% from 65%.
3:09 PM, 3 Nov
U.S. President Donald Trump’s chances of re-election gained sharply overnight in online betting markets as Americans head to the polls on Tuesday, according to Betfair Exchange.
3:02 PM, 3 Nov
VOTE! VOTE! VOTE!pic.twitter.com/85ySh1KYkh
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 3, 2020
Trump tweets a video of him dancing on his campaign rallies
3:00 PM, 3 Nov
A Pennsylvania case at the Supreme Court pits Donald Verrilli, who was President Barack Obama's top Supreme Court lawyer, against John Gore, a onetime high-ranking Trump Justice Department official.
2:58 PM, 3 Nov
Since the 2000 presidential election, which was ultimately decided by the Supreme Court, both parties have enlisted legal teams to prepare for the unlikely event that voting wouldn't settle the contest. But this year, there is a near presumption that legal fights will ensue and that only a definitive outcome is likely to forestall them.
2:54 PM, 3 Nov
President Donald Trump is promising more to come. The candidates and parties have enlisted prominent lawyers with ties to Democratic and Republican administrations should that litigation take on a new urgency if a narrow margin in a battleground state becomes the difference between another four years for Trump or a Joe Biden administration.
2:51 PM, 3 Nov
Even before Election Day, the 2020 race was the most litigated in memory.
2:44 PM, 3 Nov
The social media post of President Donald Trump in which he called a US Supreme Court decision in the battleground state of Pennsylvania very dangerous has flagged by both Twitter and Facebook.
2:36 PM, 3 Nov
Tamil Nadu: Posters showing support for US vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris put up in her native village Thulasendrapuram.
2:30 PM, 3 Nov
November 3 is trending on Twitter as Election Day in the United States begins. Some users are simply urging everyone to vote, while others wait eagerly for the results.
2:26 PM, 3 Nov
In a live telecast on state TV on this morning, Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has said that the US election result has “no impact on our policies.”
2:15 PM, 3 Nov
In the final hours before results of the US election start coming in, a Reuters report says that Joe Biden appears to be in the lead in the key state of Florida.
2:13 PM, 3 Nov
Joe Biden concludes his campaign with short Twitter note to his supporters, “Let's bring this home”.
2:11 PM, 3 Nov
Nearly 100 million people have already casted their votes, a tally by the US Elections Project at the University of Florida revealed. This record has been facilitated by the sharp increase in mail-in and early -in-person voting.
1:49 PM, 3 Nov
Joe Biden won in the tiny town of Dixville Notch in New Hampshire in a sweep. He got all five votes. In the nearby town of Millsfield Donald Trump won by 16-5 lead over Biden.
1:46 PM, 3 Nov
To be elected a candidate would need at least 270 votes in what is called the electoral college. Each state gets a particular number of votes partly based on its population. There are a total of 538 up for grabs.
1:28 PM, 3 Nov
The national polls have given a firm lead to Joe Biden. However the race is closer in the states that could decide the outcome.
1:21 PM, 3 Nov
Former vice president Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential candidate, has a strong track record of being an ardent advocate of a strong India-US relationship both as a Senator from Delaware for over three decades and then as deputy of President Barack Obama for eight years.
1:16 PM, 3 Nov
President Donald Trump, in the first term of his presidency, has emerged as the best friend of India at the White House taking the relationship to a new level and his friendship with Prime Minister Narendra Modi is well known, which was reflected in the two addressing massive two joint rallies in the US and India in less than a year.
1:07 PM, 3 Nov
Irrespective of the outcome of the November 3 presidential elections, relationship between India and the US is expected to continue at the same pace as it has in the last two decades and strengthen further, policy documents and remarks from the two campaigns indicate.
1:07 PM, 3 Nov
Three states -- Hawaii, Texas and Montana -- have already exceeded their 2016 voter turnout. Other states such as North Carolina, Georgia, New Mexico, Nevada and Tennessee have already witnessed a record early voting that has crossed more than 90 per cent of their 2016 turnout.
1:07 PM, 3 Nov
An estimated 23.9 crore people are eligible to vote, according to the US Election Project. "It appears likely that around 100 million early votes will be cast by the time Tuesday morning reports are processed," McDonald said on Monday on the eve of the crucial election. The voter turnout, he said, will be higher than 2016, because some states have already exceeded their 2016 turnout or are close to doing so.
1:00 PM, 3 Nov
An estimated 16 crore people casting their votes in a presidential election is a record in itself in terms of turnout after 1900, according to Michael P McDonald, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida, who leads the US Election Project that tracks early voting.
12:51 PM, 3 Nov
The first ballots have been cast in Dixville Notch and Millsfield towns of northeastern state of New Hampshire. In the make shift Ballot Room at Dixville Notch's Balsams Resort, Les Otten, one of the only five local registered voters, cast the first ballot.
12:48 PM, 3 Nov
A record number of nearly 10 crore Americans have already exercised their franchise in the presidential election, with another six crore likely to vote on the real election day on Tuesday.
12:36 PM, 3 Nov
Fearing poll-related violence, White House, US businesses take additional security cover.
12:28 PM, 3 Nov
Americans vote Tuesday in an election amounting to a referendum on Donald Trump and his uniquely brash, bruising presidency that Democratic opponent and frontrunner Joe Biden urged supporters to end, restoring "our democracy." The United States is more divided and angry than at any time since the Vietnam War era of the 1970s -- and fears that Trump could dispute the result of the election are only fueling those tensions.
12:23 PM, 3 Nov
The social media post of President Donald Trump in which he called a US Supreme Court decision in the battleground state of Pennsylvania very dangerous has flagged by both Twitter and Facebook.
12:21 PM, 3 Nov
According to data published by the New York Times, the highest volume of misinformation regarding in-mail voting has been floating in the battleground states. These states saw the most distortions and falsehoods about voting by mail between Sept. 1 and Oct. 29, according to Zignal Labs, a media insights company that tallied the likely misinformation mentions across online news outlets.
12:20 PM, 3 Nov
America cannot afford four more years of Trump, says Kamala Harris
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