US Election 2024 LIVE Updates: Kamala Harris and Donald Trump in tight contest in Georgia, North Carolina

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US Election 2024 LIVE Updates: With just a few days left until the United States elections, 61.0 million Americans have already cast their votes for the November election.

Voters have participated either by mail or through early in-person voting in the presidential race between Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican former President Donald Trump.

Notably, North Carolina, which backed former PresidentObama in 2008, has leaned Republican in the last three presidential elections. In 2020, Trump defeated President Joe Biden in the state.

In Georgia, Joe Biden made history four years ago by winning against Donald Trump by less than 1 percentage point, marking the first Democratic victory there since Bill Clinton in 1992.

In both Georgia and North Carolina, Harris is ahead among Black likely voters, receiving 84 per cent to 13 per cent in Georgia and 78 per cent to 19 per cent in North Carolina. She also leads among voters with college degrees, garnering 55 percent to 39 percent in Georgia and 53 percent to 42 percent in North Carolina.

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01 Nov 2024, 08:24:32 AM IST

US Election 2024 LIVE: In US, transgender candidates enter political lion's den

Mel Manuel never considered themself to be particularly political. But after repeated attacks from Republicans against transgender people, the former Spanish teacher is running for a seat in the US Congress.

In the United States, transgender rights have become a hot-button election issue -- and the latest battle in America's culture wars.

Manuel, who identifies as transgender and nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns, serves as the director of operations for the Louisiana Abortion Fund, which helps provide access to abortion services.

Despite an initial aversion to unveiling their private life, they are running for Congress as a Democrat in the southern state, one of the most traditionally conservative in the country. (AFP)

01 Nov 2024, 07:50:26 AM IST

US Election 2024 LIVE: White House altered record of Biden's 'garbage' remarks despite stenographer concerns

White House press officials altered the official transcript of a call in which President Joe Biden appeared to take a swipe at Donald Trump's supporters, drawing objections from the federal workers who document such remarks, according to two officials and an email obtained Thursday by The Associated Press.

Biden created an uproar earlier this week with his remarks to Latino activists responding to racist comments at a Trump rally made by the comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who referred to the US island territory of Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage."

Biden, according to a transcript prepared by the official White House stenographers, told the Latino group on a Tuesday evening video call, "The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters — his — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it's un-American." (AP)

01 Nov 2024, 07:42:44 AM IST

US Election 2024 LIVE: Kamala Harris struggles to secure men's support in labor unions

With the U.S. election days away, Vice President Kamala Harris is struggling to secure the support of male volunteers in some labor unions whose phone calls and house visits are needed to get Democratic supporters out to vote, senior labor officials said.

Most unions have long supported Democratic candidates, and both Harris and President Joe Biden have backed unions in contract negotiations and championed workers' rights.

But Republican candidate Donald Trump, who was president from 2017-2021, has made inroads with union workers in recent years and any drop in support for Harris could be a decisive factor in the neck-and-neck race. (Reuters)

01 Nov 2024, 07:36:25 AM IST

US Election 2024 LIVE: Georgia says US election disinformation likely coming from Russian troll farms

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger's office said on Thursday "targeted disinformation" circulating online about the Nov. 5 U.S. election was probably a result of "foreign interference attempting to sow discord and chaos."

The office, working with state and federal officials to track the source of the disinformation, urged billionaire Elon Musk, owner of X, and other social media companies, to remove it, saying it probably came from "Russian troll farms."

Georgia is one of seven battleground states in Tuesday's election, which polls show to be a tight race between Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican former President Donald Trump. (Reuters)

01 Nov 2024, 07:19:45 AM IST

US Election 2024 LIVE: 'Kamala is low energy', says Trump

01 Nov 2024, 06:54:12 AM IST

US Election 2024: Donald Trump vows to protect Hindu Americans from ‘radical left’

Ahead of the upcoming presidential elections, former US President Donald Trump vowed to safeguard the interests of Hindu Americans, protecting them from the "anti-religion agenda of the radical left."

In a bid to strengthen ties with India, Trump also expressed his desire to boost partnership with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whom he referred to as a "good friend."

Sharing a post on X, Trump wrote, “We will also protect Hindu Americans against the anti-religion agenda of the radical left. We will fight for your freedom. Under my administration, we will also strengthen our great partnership with India and my good friend, Prime Minister Modi."

01 Nov 2024, 06:21:00 AM IST

US Election 2024 LIVE: Donald Trump escalates false election claims in battleground Pennsylvania

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his supporters are spreading false claims about the election in battleground Pennsylvania ahead of Tuesday's vote, escalating concerns in a state that could tip the outcome of the race.

Trump on Thursday stepped up his unfounded allegations that probes into suspect voter registration forms are proof of voter fraud. Some of his supporters alleged voter suppression when long lines formed this week to receive mail-in ballots.

State officials and democracy advocates said the incidents show a system working as intended. A judge extended the mail-in ballot deadline by three days in Bucks County, north of Philadelphia, after the former U.S. president's campaign sued over claims that some voters were turned away before a Tuesday deadline. (Reuters)

01 Nov 2024, 05:41:26 AM IST

US Election 2024 LIVE: Donald Trump gambles with late-stage trips to Democratic New Mexico and Virginia

Donald Trump is traveling to New Mexico and Virginia in the campaign's final days, taking a risky detour from the seven battleground states to spend time in places where Republican presidential candidates have not won in decades.

The former president campaigned in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Thursday and was scheduled to visit Salem, Virginia, on Saturday. (AP)

01 Nov 2024, 05:36:16 AM IST

US Election 2024 LIVE: Donald Trump escalates false election claims in battleground Pennsylvania

01 Nov 2024, 05:29:50 AM IST

US Election 2024 LIVE: Judge declines to block Elon Musk $1 million voter giveaway as billionaire seeks to move case

A Pennsylvania state judge said on Thursday he would not immediately move forward with a lawsuit that seeks to stop Elon Musk's $1 million voter giveaway ahead of the Nov. 5 U.S. presidential election.

At a hearing in Pennsylvania, Judge Angelo Foglietta said he would place the lawsuit on hold while a federal court considers whether to take up the case.

Musk's bid to move the case frees him to continue the giveaway, because the matter likely won't be resolved until after Tuesday's election.

01 Nov 2024, 05:29:23 AM IST

US Election 2024 LIVE: Republicans ask Pennsylvania court to put on hold decision on mail ballot envelope rules

Republicans wasted no time in appealing a Pennsylvania court decision that would relax the rules for mail ballots, asking the state Supreme Court on Thursday to reverse a lower-court opinion issued one day earlier.

The state and national GOP filed an emergency request that that justices put on hold a Commonwealth Court ruling that envelopes voters use to send in mail ballots don't need to have been accurately hand-dated, as required under state law.

The Republican groups said that if the high court does not stay the order it should at least modify it to say it's not in force for the voting that concludes on Tuesday. (AP)

01 Nov 2024, 05:28:36 AM IST

US Election 2024 LIVE: Trump vows to protect Hindu Americans from radical left; strengthen ties with India

In a bid to strengthen ties with India, Trump also expressed his desire to boost partnership with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whom he referred to as a "good friend."

Sharing a post on X, Trump wrote, "We will also protect Hindu Americans against the anti-religion agenda of the radical left. We will fight for your freedom. Under my administration, we will also strengthen our great partnership with India and my good friend, Prime Minister Modi." (ANI)

01 Nov 2024, 05:27:38 AM IST

US Election 2024 LIVE: Trump sues CBS over Kamala Harris '60 Minutes' interview

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump sued CBS on Thursday over an interview of his Democratic rival Kamala Harris aired on its "60 Minutes" news program in early October that the lawsuit alleged was misleading, according to a court filing.

The complaint, filed in federal court in the Northern District of Texas, alleges the network aired two different responses from Harris responding to a question about the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.

The version that aired during the "60 Minutes" program on Oct. 6 did not include what the lawsuit calls a "word salad" response from Harris about the Biden administration's influence on Israel's conduct of the war. (Reuters)

01 Nov 2024, 05:27:00 AM IST

US Election 2024 LIVE: Donald Trump gambles with late-stage trips to Democratic New Mexico and Virginia

The former president campaigned in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Thursday and was scheduled to visit Salem, Virginia, on Saturday.

The Trump team is projecting optimism based in part on early voting numbers and thinks he can be competitive against Democrat Kamala Harris in both states — New Mexico in particular, if he sweeps swing states Nevada and Arizona. That hope comes even though neither New Mexico nor Virginia has been carried by a GOP nominee for the White House since George W. Bush in 2004. (PTI)

01 Nov 2024, 05:26:29 AM IST

US Election 2024 LIVE: Kamala Harris says Trump's comment on women 'is offensive to everybody'

Kamala Harris said Thursday that Donald Trump’s comment that he would protect women whether they “like it or not" shows that the Republican presidential nominee does not understand women’s rights “to make decisions about their own lives, including their own bodies."

“I think it’s offensive to everybody, by the way," Harris said before she set out to spend the day campaigning in the Western battleground states of Arizona and Nevada.

She followed up those remarks at her rally in Phoenix: “He simply does not respect the freedom of women or the intelligence of women to know what’s in their own best interests and make decisions accordingly. But we trust women." (AP)

01 Nov 2024, 05:22:38 AM IST

US Election 2024 LIVE: Over 60 million cast early votes; Harris and Trump in tight contest in Georgia, North Carolina

With just a few days to go for the United States elections, a staggering 61.0 million Americans have already made their voices heard by casting their ballots in the November election, according to a report by CNN.

Notably, voters have cast their ballots either by mail or through early in-person voting for the presidential elections between Vice President Kamala Harris, a Democrat and former President Donald Trump, a Republican.

Meanwhile, according to new CNN polls conducted by SSRS, the presidential race is heating up in Georgia and North Carolina, with the latest polls showing a neck-and-neck contest between Harris and Trump. (ANI)

01 Nov 2024, 05:21:59 AM IST

US Elections 2024 LIVE: Trump vows to protect Hindu Americans from radical left; strengthen ties with India

In a bid to strengthen ties with India, Trump also expressed his desire to boost partnership with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whom he referred to as a "good friend."

The former President also condemned the violence against the Hindus and other minority groups in Bangladesh after the resignation of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. He said, "I strongly condemn the barbaric violence against Hindus, Christians, and other minorities who are getting attacked and looted by mobs in Bangladesh, which remains in a total state of chaos."