A spectacle of global significance is taking place in the United States of America and is being watched closely around the world. Americans have started lining up to vote for the next president.
While Republican candidate and incumbent Donald Trump seeks to return to office for a second term, his challenger and Democratic leader Joe Biden has campaigned aggressively to take over the White House.
Nearly 100 million American voters have already cast their votes, nearly doubling the 2016 total. Another 60 million are likely to vote in person on Tuesday. On their last full day of campaigning, Trump and Biden abruptly broke with the mechanics of voting itself while visiting the most contested battlefield, Pennsylvania.
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Here are all the latest updates on the 2020 U.S. elections:
21.00 hours:
Biden, Harris will build a better future for us all, says Bill Clinton
Former President of the United States, Bill Clinton, along with his wife and former Secretary of State of the United States, Hillary Clinton, voted for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Bill via tweet said that Biden and Harris will work tirelessly to heal our divisions and build a better future for all of us.
20:48 pm:
Democrats push to extend House control for two more years
Democrats lobbied to seal control of the House for two more years on Tuesday as they gambled on their focus on health care, dominant fundraising, and broad suburban outrage with President Donald Trump to make his majority in the camera is even higher.
Nearly all Democratic incumbents in potentially vulnerable districts spent more than their Republican rivals, often by wide margins.
20:08 pm:
US stocks open higher in Election Day session, Dow + 1.2%
Shares on Wall Street rose early Tuesday, extending the gains of the previous session as voters headed to the polls at the culmination of a long and bitter US presidential campaign.
Shortly after the opening bell, the Dow Jones Industrial Average stood at 27,251.58, an increase of 1.2 percent.
The broad-based S&P 500 gained 1.0 percent to 3,342.33, while the technology-rich Nasdaq Composite Index rose 0.7 percent to 11,035.54.
19:55 pm:
America on the edge when the nation decides between Trump and Biden
Americans voted Tuesday under the shadow of a growing coronavirus pandemic to decide whether to re-elect Republican Donald Trump, one of the most polarized presidents in US history, or send Democrat Joe Biden to the White House.
A record number of early votes, some 100 million, have already been cast in elections that have the country on the edge and are being closely watched in capitals around the world.
19:49 pm:
‘Vote as if our lives depended on it, because they do’: Kamala Harris
19:36 pm:
Trump says large crowds are the ‘definitive poll’
President Donald Trump says he believes his large crowd of demonstrations during his fast-paced campaign weeks are the “latest poll” and translate into many votes for his re-election.
Trump told Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends” on Tuesday that he will spend Election Day making phone calls to people who have been loyal to him and that he will go to his campaign headquarters in suburban Virginia to thank the staff. .
Trump said he would declare himself the winner of the elections “Only when there is victory.” There has been concern that Trump will declare victory early, before the vote count is final.
19:20 pm:
Biden kicks off Election Day by visiting his son’s grave
Joe Biden has started Election Day with a visit to the church and grave of his late son Beau.
Biden and his wife, Jill, made an early morning stop at St. Joseph’s on the Brandywine in Wilmington, Delaware, the church he usually visits on Sundays when he’s home. Biden brought his granddaughters Finnegan and Natalie with him on Tuesday.
19:13 pm:
Nation by nation, the world observes Election Day in America.
For countries across the globe, Donald Trump’s presidency in his first term has been, safe to say, a singular experience to watch. Now that a turning point in Trump’s time in office is approaching with Tuesday’s US election, what is at stake if his presidency ends – or continues? Country by country, how is Election Day observed, viewed and evaluated in the United States?
19:01 pm:
Election day overshadowed by threats of legal challenges
Even before Election Day, the 2020 race was the most disputed in memory. President Donald Trump promises more to come.
Candidates and parties have recruited prominent attorneys with ties to the Democratic and Republican administrations in case the litigation takes on new urgency if a narrow margin in a battlefield state becomes the difference between another four years for Trump or a Joe Biden’s administration.
18:54 pm:
Vice President Candidate Kamala Harris Urges People to Go Out and Vote
18:48 pm:
Vote for a new day in America, tweets Joe Biden
18:34 pm
Trump ‘army’ of election observers led by veterans in fraud claims
A veteran Republican operative who got his start in politics by helping persuade a judge to cast hundreds of mail-in ballots is building an “army” of volunteers for President Donald Trump’s campaign to monitor voting in Democratic-leaning areas. Tuesday.
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