Election Day battlegrounds still too close to call as Trump, Harris sweep multiple states

The Fox News Decision Desk can now project that Vice President Harris will win the state of New Hampshire. Trump came closer than many expected, but Harris did well in cities and suburban areas.

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said election night he plans to continue to be active in politics through the presidential election into the 2026 midterms. 

"America PAC is going to keep going after this election — and preparing for the midterms and any intermediate elections, as well as looking at elections at the district attorney and sort of judicial levels," Musk said on X Spaces Tuesday. 

Musk has taken an active role on the campaign trail for the former president and has helped canvass for Trump in key battleground states like Nevada, Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia and North Carolina.

According to its website, America PAC aims to "promote free speech, free markets, and a merit-based society." 

Musk made waves on the Pennsylvania campaign trail in support of Trump's campaign, including offering $1 million a day to swing-state voters who signed his political action committee’s petition backing the Constitution.

Musk was sued by Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, who called the contest an "illegal lottery" aimed at influencing the results of a presidential election.

Fani Willis, the Fulton County District Attorney who tried to prosecute former President Trump for alleged election interference, has been re-elected.

Willis defeated Republican Courtney Kramer, an attorney and former Trump White House intern, The Associated Press reproted.

Willis' office indicted Trump in August 2023 along with 18 co-defendants stemming from the yearslong criminal investigation led by state prosecutors in Georgia into his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in the state.

In February, Michael Roman, a GOP operative and co-defendant in the case, dropped bombshell accusations that Willis had an "improper" affair with former special prosecutor Nathan Wade, whom she hired to help prosecute the case.

The Fox News Decision Desk can now project that former President Trump will win Ohio.

The Fox News Decision Desk can now project that Vice President Harris will win Delaware.

The Fox News Decision Desk can project that North Dakota’s lone congressman, Kelly Armstrong, will be the state’s next governor. He succeeds Doug Burgum, who is not running for a third term.

Fox News can project that Republican Kelly Ayotte will become the next governor of New Hampshire. She defeats Democrat Joyce Craig.

It’s a key win.

In Indiana, Republican Mike Braun, who currently serves in the U.S. Senate, will win his race against Democrat Jennifer McCormick.

And Fox News projects that Democrat Matt Meyer will become the 75th governor of Delaware.

Former President Trump’s campaign believes it is “on track for a great night” saying, “early signs are the night could be shaping up like we hoped,” Fox News has learned.

A Trump official said the direction indicated by early voting is continuing and that the Republicans who voted early haven’t cannibalized the Election Day vote.

The official also says that Republican turnout in Philadelphia is “high” where Trump was successful in 2016 and 2020, specifically in south and Northeast Philadelphia.

Rural turnout has also be “through the roof,” the official said.

Reliably Republican states like Florida, South Carolina, Mississippi have been called by the Fox News Decision Desk in the first hours since polls started closing while Vice President Kamala Harris is projected to win states like liberal states like Vermont, Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Jersey.

None of the seven battleground state have been called yet.

Vice President Harris and her running mate Gov. Tim Walz are endorsed by Democrat former Presidents Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter. They boast the support of all current Democrat governors, as well as most Democrat members of Congress and Democrat senators. The party leaders in the Congress, including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries have pledged their enthusiastic support for Harris, as well as former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who still has significant influence in the party. The exceptions who haven’t thrown their support behind her are facing competitive re-election races.

Harris is also endorsed by former Republican Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger. Further, Cheney’s father, former Vice President Dick Cheney offered his endorsement of the Democrat nominee. The Harris campaign has also announced groups of lesser known state-level Republicans in battleground states who have backed her presidential bid.

In Georgia, one of the key battleground states, over three-quarters said they voted before election day and these voters are split on who they supported.

- Fox News Polling Unit

With the 2024 U.S. election around the corner, celebrities have been stepping forward to publicly endorse either Vice President Kamala Harris or former President Trump for president of the United States.

From Taylor Swift and Jennifer Lopez to Jason Aldean and Kelsey Grammer, these stars have used their platforms to share their thoughts and beliefs on why their preferred candidate should win. 

Here's a look at celebrities who have publicly supported the presidential candidates. 

Vice President Kamala Harris

Bruce Springsteen

On Oct. 3, Bruce Springsteen took to social media to share his support for Harris and Walz. 

"Friends, fans and the press have asked me who I'm supporting in this most important of elections," he said from the bar stool of an undisclosed diner. "And with full knowledge that my opinion is no more or less important than those of any of my fellow citizens, here's my answer: I'm supporting Kamala Harris for president and Tim Walz for vice president and opposing Donald Trump and J.D. Vance."

Springsteen went on to call Trump "the most dangerous candidate for president" in his lifetime, citing "his disdain for the sanctity of our constitution, the sanctity of democracy, the sanctity of the rule of law, and the sanctity of the peaceful transfer of power" as reasons he should never be allowed in the Oval Office again.

This is an excerpt from an article written by Fox News' Caroline Thayer and Christina Dugan Ramirez.

The Fox News Decision Desk can project that former President Trump will win Arkansas. The state hasn’t voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since Bill Clinton.

Vice President Kamala Harris was criticized on Sunday for flying to New York City to do a skit on "Saturday Night Live" (SNL), after she ended up not doing a sitdown with podcast host Joe Rogan.

Harris appeared as the mirror image of Maya Rudolph, who regularly plays the vice president on SNL, in a last-minute appearance, just days before the election.

Rogan revealed recently that the Harris campaign reached out to Rogan about sitting down with the podcast host, demanded that Rogan travel to her for it and said their interview could only be an hour long. Trump's interview with Rogan lasted three hours. 

Critics, including Sen. Ted Cruz, hit the vice president for how she run her campaign and for declining to sit down with Rogan while being willing to fly to NYC to do SNL. 

Brendan Carr, the senior Republican on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), argued on social media that SNL evaded the FCC's "equal time" rule. Trump campaign senior advisor Jason Miller told the Fox News Channel's Jacqui Heinrich that SNL did not extend an invitation to Trump. She added that executive producer Lorne Michaels said just last month that he didn't have plans to invite either candidate.

This is an excerpt from an article written by Fox News' Hanna Panreck.

Now that Election Day is finally here, there are a few counties that experts are closely watching as their results could indicate who the next president will be.

Known as "bellwether counties," these swing counties have, with some exceptions, consistently sided with the winning candidate for decades.

Matthew Bergbower, a political science professor at Indiana State University, described a bellwether county as a "microcosm of the nation" in terms of political preferences.

Though his county, Vigo County in Indiana, deviated by voting for Donald Trump in 2020, it has chosen the winning candidate in every election since 1952.

Clallam County in Washington state stands out as the only county to have voted for the winning presidential candidate in every election since 1980. The people of Clallam County are proud of their history as the "last bellwether county" in America.

This year, the county looks just as divided as ever.

Pam Blakeman, chair of the Clallam County Republicans, told Fox News Digital that she thinks the election "will be close in our County, but I see it swinging towards Trump."

She bases this on good Republican turnout and a ground game that she said "is the most active I have ever seen."

This is an excerpt from an article written by Fox News' Peter Pinedo.

The economy is the number one issue for voters across the country, and Trump is seen as the one who can help more there.

- Fox News Polling Unit

The Harris-Walz campaign is struggling to appeal to male voters, a demographic that has continued to be courted by former President Trump.

“Harris isn't getting enough from women, at least in Georgia, that she would need to overcome at least what Trump is getting from men,” Fox News' Laura Ingraham said.

Trump has tried to mobilize men, including Joe Rogan and Elon Musk, she said. Harris has tried appealing to men with new ads which have been criticized by opponents and the Trump campaign.

All eyes are on Pennsylvania and its 19 electoral votes. The Fox News Decision Desk says it’s too early to call this state, which could be the decider for a Harris or Trump victory.

Fox News is projecting that former President Trump will win Florida, putting him 30 electoral votes closer to the White House.

It’s too early to call a winner in New Hampshire, where Harris has an edge.

In Maine, the Fox News Decision Desk says it’s too early to call the statewide race.

Maine gives two electoral votes to the winner of the state, and one vote to the presidential winner in each of their congressional districts.

Harris will win the first district. The rural second district is also too early to call.

In the southeast, Fox News can first project that Trump will win Tennessee, a longtime Republican stronghold.

Further south, Trump will once again win Alabama.

And the former president will win neighboring Mississippi.

Trump will cruise to victory in Oklahoma, where Democrats haven’t won a single county since 2000.

And Missouri will also deliver a Trump win.

Harris will also take some big victories this hour. The Fox News Decision Desk can project that the Vice President will win Illinois, adding 19 electoral votes to her tally.

Harris will win New Jersey, another reliably Democratic state.

Voters in Massachusetts will deliver a clear Harris victory.

And staying in the northeast, Fox News projects that Harris will win Connecticut.

The Vice President will also win Maryland. That state is worth 10 electoral votes.

Harris will easily win Rhode Island, a Democratic stronghold.

Harris has a lead in Delaware, but it’s too early to call.

And the Vice President will win the District Of Columbia, which has never voted for a Republican.

Voters have just finished casting ballots in three governor's races.

First to New Hampshire, where there is a very competitive race between former Democratic Mayor Joyce Craig and former Republican senator Kelly Ayotte. The Fox News Decision Desk says it’s too early to call.

But we can project a winner in Missouri, where Republican Lieutenant Governor Mike Kehoe will step up to become the next governor of his state.

It’s too early to call Delaware’s governor race.

The Fox News Decision Desk can now project that former President Trump will win South Carolina and its 9 electoral votes.

The Harris campaign is seeing signs of enthusiasm among college students as the presidential race comes into the homestretch.

The campaign cited long lines at the University of Reno, Nevada and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, as well as colleges in Pennsylvania and North Carolina.

In an effort to encourage voters, the campaign has mobilized actor Paul Rudd to visit with students in line in Pennsylvania, actress Jennifer Garner at Villanova University, Josh Gadd at Lehigh University, Mark Cuban at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, and Demi Lovato in UNLV.

Harris has exceeded 2016 raw turnout and overperforming internal turnout expectations, the campaign told Fox News.

As of 5 p.m. in the 3 Philadelphia wards with high densities of Puerto Rican voters, crowdsourced turnout numbers indicate that total turnout has already reached 100% of 2020 turnout, the campaign said.

As votes continue to pour in across the country, sources told Fox News senior White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich that no one is feeling very comfortable” in the Harris campaign.

The Harris campaign has continued to maintain that they have multiple paths to 270, but Harris campaign manager says the margins are very close.

The campaign told Heinrich that the early Republican turnout “really spooked them.”

Democrats have previously led in early voting and the shift in early Republican turnout has left the Harris campaign feeling uncomfortable.

The source added that it will be difficult for either candidate to get to 270 if they don’t win Pennsylvania, but said Harris is feeling extra pressure to win Michigan, North Carolina, and Nevada.

Nearly 31,000 ballots in Milwaukee need to be recounted after about 13 tabulation machines were reportedly not properly locked on Election Day.

Fox News’ Mike Tobin reported that Milwaukee spokesman Jeff Fleming said a Republican observer noticed that about 13 tabulation machines had been sealed but not properly locked.

City officials said they did not doubt the integrity of the vote, but out of an abundance of caution, they decided to rerun more than 31,000 ballots.

City officials also said they expect the final numbers out of Milwaukee to be reported between 1 and 2 a.m.

Most of the ballots being recounted are mail-in ballots, dropbox ballots and some in-person early vote ballots.

“This is an unacceptable example of an incompetent election administration in a key swing state,” Republican National Committee co-chairs Michael Whatley and Laura Trump said in a joint statement.

Turning to the governor’s races.

Fox News can project that North Carolina’s Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein will defeat Republican Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson.

And in West Virginia, Republican Attorney General Patrick Morrisey will succeed Jim Justice as the state’s 37th governor.

Looking at the mood of the country, over 8-in-10 said that they want a lot of change, with over a quarter saying they want total upheaval.

--Fox News Polling Unit

It’s now 7:30PM and polls just closed in three more states.

North Carolina is the next state to watch. Like Georgia, it came down to the wire in the last presidential election and has 16 electoral college votes on offer. The Fox News Decision Desk says it’s too early to call.

It’s also too early to call Ohio, but former President Trump has a lead in our Fox News Voter Analysis.

Fox News can project that Trump will win West Virginia.

President Biden will not attend Vice President Kamala Harris' election night watch party, according to media reports.

“Tonight, the president and First Lady will watch election results in the White House residence with longtime aides and senior White House staff,” a White House official told the Washington Examiner. “The president will receive regular updates on the state of races across the country.”

Harris will be watching the results from her lama mater, Howard University, in Washington D.C.

Biden has done limited campaigning for Harris, but has still produces several awkward gaffes, including appearing to call supporters of former President Trump “garbage” during a virtual campaign call in October.

We asked voters when they decided who they would vote for. About 7-in-10 said that they’ve known all along, while a quarter said they decided around the time when President Biden dropped out of the race.

- Fox News Polling Unit

In the Indiana governor’s race, Republican Mike Braun has a lead against Democrat Jennifer McCormick. There isn’t enough data to make a call. And in Vermont, Republican Phil Scott will win a fifth term.

A social media fire storm erupted after first lady Jill Biden was spotted wearing a GOP-colored pantsuit to cast her ballot on Election Day.

The Republican Party is typically identified with the color red, and the color is even used to indicate which states support former President Trump when election coverage features maps on television.

"Jill Biden is wearing the GOP's shade of red to cast her vote. Joe Biden is skipping the Kamala Harris watch party. Do the math," conservative influencer Ian Miles Cheong posted on X.

Many took to X to mock that the first lady voted for Trump, as there has been speculation the Bidens are not thrilled with the way the president was forced to end his re-election bid.

"Jill wore all red to vote. As the wife of a democrat politician, there’s no way she doesn’t know how this looks. Biden and Jill are pissed," one user responded on X.

This is an excerpt from an article written by Fox News' Brian Flood

It’s 7 o’clock in New York and polls have just closed in half a dozen states. The Fox News Decision Desk is making its first calls.

The most closely watched state at this hour is Georgia, one of seven battleground states that could decide the presidency. It’s too early to call.

It’s also too early to call Virginia, though Harris has a lead in our Fox News Voter Analysis.

Fox News can project that former President Trump will win Indiana.

Trump will also carry nearby Kentucky for a third time.

It’s too early to call South Carolina, but Trump has the lead in our Fox News Voter Analysis.

Meanwhile, Vice President Harris will sail to victory in liberal Vermont.

The polls have closed across several states, including Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, South Carolina, Virginia and Vermont, at 7 p.m. ET, as some of the first Election Day results come in.

All eyes will be on Georgia, which is one of a handful of swing states where former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris have been courting voters during the campaign.

President Biden narrowly won the state in 2020 by less than 12,000 votes, flipping it blue for the first time in decades. Trump beat Hillary Clinton there in 2016.

This year, the state has broken records in early turnout.

Indiana, Kentucky and South Carolina usually go Republican, while Vermont and Virginia lean Democratic.

Polls in other swing states such as North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona and Nevada will close over the next few hours.

Fox News co-anchor Sandra Smith broke down state-to-state approval ratings related to the 2024 election on "The Five" Tuesday.

The issues that Americans were polled on ranged from FEMA to abortion access to the state of the U.S. economy.

Voters were also asked about their family's financial situations, their opinions of asylum seekers and what they thought the direction of the U.S. is.

Immigration is one of the top issues across the country. When asked about reducing the number of immigrants allowed to seek asylum in the U.S., twice as many favor reducing the number of immigrants allowed to do so.

- Fox News Polling Unit

With the first polls closing across the country, results are starting to come in and critics of Donald Trump are already having meltdowns.

Several are pushing “insane Doomsday scenarios” even suggesting that Trump could ban historians from banning books.

One of the hosts pointed out that Nicole Wallace, of MSNBC, having one of the biggest meltdowns on Vice President potential JD Vance.

“JD Vance, you just effed up in way that I’ve never seen in my political life and I worked for Sarah Palin,” Wallace said.

The cast recounted the last election and if the Democrats would continue their divisive rhetoric and react as they did in 2016.

“MSNBC is going to be a psych ward,” co-host Jesse Watters predicted.

Many businesses have boarded up their businesses in anticipation of the results.

As the nation waits for election results , voters weigh in on the issues and whether former president Donald Trump or Vice President Kamala Harris will bring the kind of change they are looking for. Because it appears change is very much what they want.

Economic concerns and worries about the future are major considerations as voters make their choice in this year’s election. 

Preliminary data from the Fox News Voter Analysis, a survey of more than 110,000 voters nationwide provide an early look at the mood of voters as they cast their ballots.   

This year, more voters headed to the polls believing the country was on the wrong track (70%) than in 2020 (60%).  And voters across the country are seeking something different: most want a change in how the country is run, with a quarter (26%) seeking complete and total upheaval. 

This is an excerpt of an article by the Fox News Polling Unit.

Dr. Ben Carson said he was glad to see many Americans going out to vote, saying the United States was at a "crossroads."

"I think they recognize that we're at a crossroads. Which way are we going to go?" Carson asked Neil Cavuto on "Your World Cavuto." "Are we going to be a country that is of, by and for the people or of, by and for the government?"

"And our founders knew that we would come to this point because they studied every government that ever existed and they see that no matter how righteous they are when they start, they grow, they infiltrate and they dominate," he added.

Carson also stressed the need for governments to address health issues among its citizens as well as the consumption of processed foods.

"We do need to talk about it. We're falling behind alot of the the other countries in the world who do take a more proactive stance when it comes to health," he said while praising Robert Kennedy Jr., for raising various health-related issues that need to be addressed.

"I'm glad RFK is sounding the alarm," Carson said.

On a personal level, what do voters across the country think about their family’s financial situation?

A majority say they’re holding steady. But just about 1-in-10 say they’re getting ahead, while three times that say they are falling behind. That’s 13 points worse than four years ago.

- Fox News Polling Unit

Several battleground states extended the hours of polling sites on Tuesday, Election Day, citing unexpected wait times, technical issues, and other issues for voters in key precincts. 

Here's a rundown of the states and precincts impacted so far. 

In Pennsylvania, where state polling locations are scheduled to close at 8 p.m. voters saw extensions in Luzerne County, where local election officials said residents will have until 9:30 p.m. to cast their ballots.

Georgia also announced an extension for voters in the Atlanta-area precincts of Cobb County, Fulton County, and Gwinnett County.

In North Carolina, state election officials extended voting hours by 30 minutes in the precincts of Burke County and Wilson County. Voters there will have until 8 p.m. to cast their ballots — longer than the 7:30 p.m. deadline in the rest of the state.

Could tonight deliver a populist surprise, part II? That's the subject of the riff. As we talked about last night, all the ace pollsters could be missing a number of built-in advantages for former President Donald Trump: a big voter registration shift favoring Republicans in more than thirty states, and a big GOP early voting turnout. Both are completely unlike 2020.

Here's a quick example from the crucial swing state of Pennsylvania. In 2020, Democrats had a 1.1 million advantage in early voting ballot. This year, that margin has been cut down to only 400,000. Staying in Pennsylvania, party registration favored Democrats by 1.2 million during the Obama years and 686,000 in 2020. Now, in 2024, that registration margin has been cut down to only 281,000.

What's more, the GOP is basically keeping its gains. In recent years, 203,000 Democrats switched to the Republican column, but only 97,000 Republicans switched to the Democratic column. Big hat-tip to James Freeman's Wall Street Journal column. So, have pollsters picked up on this? Kinda don't think so.

The Democratic slump in early voting spans across all the swing states. The Republican advantage in registration covers over thirty states throughout the country. Not only are these trends a function of better GOP political management of the election machinery, but they also reflect how much Mr. Trump has widened his working-class coalition.

This article is adapted from Larry Kudlow’s opening commentary on the Nov. 5, 2024, edition of "Kudlow."

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk will spend election night with former President Donald Trump  in Florida, sources with knowledge confirmed to Fox News Digital. 

The New York Times first reported the news, citing two people familiar with Musk’s schedule, that Musk will be among a small group of people watching the election results with Trump as they come in. 

Trump later in the evening will host a larger audience at the Palm Beach County Convention Center. 

The former president has already cast his ballot Tuesday in Palm Beach, Fla., where his Mar-a-Lago residence is located. 

Musk, following the first assassination attempt against Trump in Butler, Pa., in July, wrote on X "I fully endorse President Trump and hope for his rapid recovery."

Musk has since campaigned for Trump heading into Election Day.

Fox News Digital's Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.

Some U.S. embassies in Europe are ditching the usual festivities that come with election watch parties over another possible victory for former President Trump.

Politico reported that embassies in Brussels to London, Paris and Berlin have decided against holding their usual watch parties.

“I don’t think there was appetite to watch another Trump victory,” said a senior diplomat based in Europe, adding that the 2016 embassy events had been “calamitous.”

Most of the State Department’s top envoys around the world are political appointees and allies or donors of the sitting president, in this case, President Biden.

A spokesperson for the U.S. Embassy in London told the news outlet that it “appreciates the long-standing energy and excitement around U.S. presidential elections which have been carried out over nearly 250 years of democracy.”

However, “election day does not end on election night. Time may be required to count votes and let the electoral process work.” 

Polls in Kentucky and certain parts of Indiana have officially closed as of 6 p.m. ET.

The Indiana polling locations that are in the Eastern Standard Time Zone have officially wrapped up, but the 12 Indiana counties that are in the Central Time Zone are open until 7 p.m. ET.

The states are the first in the country to close their polls on Election Day 2024. Both Indiana and Kentucky are considered red states.

“We’re seeing such optimism in terms of our camp,” Trump 2024 senior adviser Alina Habba told Martha MacCallum as voting was underway on Election Day, adding the Trump campaign is “leading in the polls right now” but that everyone needs to get out to vote.

Habba said the campaign has also targeted younger men strategically for the first time with media appearances on podcasts, etc.

“He’s the kind of guy who could speak to anybody, unlike Kamala, which is why we’re doing so well and we’re seeing such a good turnout.”

She added that while turnout with women is high, “they are voting because we have been given more rights. We are being protected now. We are getting a choice to vote, to say what we want with our bodies. That is what President Trump did and this fearmongering as you just saw with Sen. [Mark] Kelley is the concern with the radical left and that narrative, it’s damaging and it’s frankly untrue.”

Republican National Convention Chair Michael Whatley told “America Reports” on Tuesday that Republicans are going to have “a very good night” on Election Day.

Whatley was a guest on the Fox News Channel show, when host John Roberts asked how Republicans are feeling going into Election Day.

“We feel pretty bullish,” Whatley said. “You know, what we saw during the early vote and absentee vote period over the last several weeks was a great turnout for Republicans. President Trump had pushed very aggressively this year to get Republicans to embrace early voting absentee vote, and they did.”

Whatley explained further, saying for every vote from an Election Day voter in 2020, there were two who were first time voters or who had not voted in 2020.

That means there were a lot of same day voters who are still going to vote on Election day, Whatley said, and Republicans feel very optimistic going into Tuesday.

When asked by Roberts what Whatley and other leaders of the Republican Party will be watching for as the polls close and results start to come in, the chairman said they will be watching to see if there will be a last minute surge in turnout from major cities like Philadelphia, Detroit, Milwaukee and Atlanta.

“I think that Republicans are going to have a good night,” Whatley said. “We have seen very solid turnout in rural areas all across the country throughout the course of the day.”

He also said Republicans saw a substantial lead in most of the rural states from the early voting absentee voting period.

Social media erupted with criticism of Google on Tuesday after voters noticed the tech giant helped locate where to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris but failed to inform potential voters of former President Trump where they could cast a ballot. 

While many have insisted Google was interfering in the election, the company claims it was simply a technical glitch that has been fixed. 

When "Where can I vote for Harris?" was entered into Google, the site provided information on "where to vote" and allowed users to input their address to determine the closest voting location. However, when "Where can I vote for Trump?" was asked, Google failed to inform users where to vote and instead offered links to CNN, CBS and NBC Election Day coverage. 

"The ‘where to vote’ panel is triggering for some specific searches bc Harris is also the name of a county in TX. Happens for ‘Vance’ too bc it’s also the name of a county. Fix is coming. Note very few people actually search for voting places this way," Google posted on X in response to the backlash. 

This is an excerpt from an article written by Fox News' Brian Flood.

Voters in the crucial swing state of Pennsylvania will have an extra two hours to cast their ballots on Election Day following issues with voting machines and long lines.

Problems were also reported with tabulation machines in Bedford County, as well as issues in Cambria County, the New York Post reported. Authorities told voters that their ballots will be counted despite the malfunctions.

Former President Trump won both counties with 68% and 83% of the vote in 2020, respectively.

“The Cambria County Board of Election learned early this morning that a software malfunction in the County’s Electronic Voting System has prevented voters from scanning their ballots,” Cambria County Solicitor Ron Repak said in a statement.

“This should not discourage voters from voting at their voting precincts. The Board has filed a Court Order extending the time to vote within Cambria County.”

Election officials filed emergency paperwork to extend the voting time by two hours to 10 p.m. in an effort to rectify the issue and ensure all ballots are counted, according to the petition filed in county court.

“The malfunction caused voter confusion, long lines of voters, and many individuals left the polling locations without casting a ballot," Repak said in the filing.

He added that the malfunction “threatens to disenfranchise a significant number of voters in Cambria County.”

A judge quickly approved the order, but noted that any ballot cast after the standard 8 p.m. deadline would be provisional.

Read Fox News Digital's real-time coverage from the morning of 2024 Election Day.

We are living in a time of instant gratification —press a button to order dinner and it is delivered minutes later.

But we are in for a longer wait tonight.

It will take time for us to find out who our next president will be.

This is one of the few nights when Americans all get together to await the results -- and the excitement and dread are palpable. 

This is the longest campaign in our history.

But people don’t live in history. They live in the here and now. 

This is an excerpt from an op-ed written by Fox News' Dana Perino.

Some top Democrats are already signaling that they may not let former President Donald Trump take the White House without a fight even if he beats Vice President Kamala Harris on Election Day.

Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, told Axios in early October that if Trump “won a free, fair and honest election, then we would obviously accept it.”

Suggesting he did not believe that would be the case, Raskin said the ex-president “is doing whatever he can to try to interfere with the process, whether we're talking about manipulating Electoral College counts in Nebraska or manipulating the vote count in Georgia or imposing other kinds of impediments.”

It’s not unlikely that at least a few progressives would also rise to object to the certification of certain states’ ballots on Jan. 6, 2025 – just as they did in 2017.

Then-Vice President Biden, who was overseeing the certification, knocked down each and every progressive lawmakers’ objections.

However, it’s notable that this time around, Harris will be the one overseeing certification as vice president, whether she wins or loses the presidential race.

Conservative groups are already signaling that they are poised to investigate and challenge any possible voter abnormalities if former President Donald Trump loses his bid for re-election.

Some Trump allies, meanwhile, have questioned whether the election will be fair for months.

“As things stand right now, there’s a zero percent chance of a free and fair election,” Mike Howell, executive director of Heritage’s Oversight Project, said in July, according to the Washington Post. “I’m formally accusing the Biden administration of creating the conditions that most reasonable policymakers and officials cannot in good conscience certify an election.”

It's also likely that members of Congress will seek to challenge the results – nearly 150 Republican lawmakers voted against certifying Trump’s 2020 Electoral College loss, with many citing allegations of election fraud being promoted by the former president and others in his circle.

Trump himself has laid the groundwork to accuse Democrats of voter fraud, telling supporters in October at a Wisconsin rally, “They cheat. That's all they want to do is cheat. And when you see this, it's the only way they're gonna win.”

With millions of voters expected to show up to the polls today, the world will be anxiously watching for the election results to start pouring in on Tuesday night.

Here is what you need to know about the 2024 presidential election results.

When do the polls close?

Kentucky (eight electoral votes) will be the first state to close its polls at 6 p.m. Eastern.

For most of the eastern half of the country, voting polls will close between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m., while polls on the West Coast will close at 11 p.m. Eastern.

The last states to close will be Hawaii (four electoral votes) and Alaska (three electoral votes) which will close their polls at midnight and 1 a.m. respectively.

Real-time news from the morning of Election Day

When will the 2024 Election Day results be announced?

Election Day results have historically often been announced just hours after the polls close. However, recent elections have required longer waiting periods before all the votes can be tallied, and a winner can be declared.

One reason for this is the prevalence of mail-in absentee voting. Fourteen states legally require that mail-in ballots be counted only after polls close on Election Day.

This is an excerpt from an article by Peter Pinedo. 

The 2024 election cycle has seen myriad “firsts,” including the first female non-White woman at the top of a major party ticket, and former President Donald Trump being the first nominee to run a campaign amid criminal trials and convictions.

It will join a string of other presidential races that are notably historic, including 2016, when Hillary Clinton became the first woman to be Democrats’ presidential nominee.

In 2000, the dispute over the election between former President George W. Bush and former Vice President Al Gore made it all the way to the Supreme Court, with Florida’s vote count famously a lightning rod of controversy.

And in the 1984 race, former President Ronald Reagan made history by carrying 49 states in a landslide victory for a second term.

Going back even further, the 1968 presidential election made headlines when then-President Lyndon Johnson, a Democrat, made a surprise address announcing he would not seek a second full term. That election wound up being won by Republican President Richard Nixon.

It’s Election Day and our Fox News Voter Analysis has been asking voters across the country – more than 110,000 of them – who they are supporting and why. 

This is a new election survey approach conducted along with our partners the Associated Press and NORC at the University of Chicago. 

We’ll be asking questions about what traits voters think each candidate has, such as are they honest and trustworthy? Do they have the right policy ideas? And are they a strong leader? Are they voting more for their candidate or against the other? 

We’ll also be diving into the most important issues facing the country. Is it the economy? Abortion? Immigration? Election integrity? In 2020, economy voters backed Donald Trump and voters who thought health care was the top issue favored Joe Biden. 

All that and more is on deck. The survey questionnaire and results will be posted on foxnews.com after 8:00PM/ET. And keep checking back here for more news and analysis of the survey results.