In compliance with an electoral tradition dating back to the 1960s, in New Hampshire, in the town of Dixville Notch, near the border with Canada, those eligible are the first to voteahead of the rest of the country. In fact, they have already expressed their preference, placing their ballots in the ballot box shortly after midnight. The votes are then counted and the results announced, hours before other states open the polls.
According to CNN, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump got three votes each. Also according to CNN, four Republicans and two undeclared voters participated in the vote shortly after midnight on Tuesday.
Trump’s last rally in Michigan
The promise of “bring America and the world” to “new heights of glory” during the last meeting of his presidential campaign. “With your vote tomorrow, we can solve all the problems that afflict our country,” declared the Republican candidate.
And also in his last electoral rally in Grand Rapidsin Michigan, the former president he insulted his opponentsparticularly Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi and Representative Adam Schiff, lead investigator of Trump’s first impeachment. “Joe Biden in one of his crazy moments said we were all garbage,” Trump commented, adding “they stole the election from a president,” in apparent reference to Biden’s abandonment of the campaign to be replaced by Kamala Harris. Then the Republican candidate said that Pelosi “is an evil, sick, crazy corrupt person. It starts with a ‘b’ but I won’t say it! I want to say it.” Schiff said of Adam Shifty that “he has a bigger head, he’s an unattractive guy inside and out.”
Obviously there was no shortage of attacks on her direct opponent. «Kamala, is a person with a very low IQ and we don’t need a person with a very low IQ. We’ve had it for four years and our country is falling apart,” he said. “If you vote for the lying Kamala you will have four more years of misery, failure and disaster from which our country may never recover,” Trump added.
More than half the crowd left during a meandering speech – nearly two hours long, after arriving extremely late – particularly when he began to muse that God may have saved him from an assassin’s bullet so he could become president, claiming he had “a 95% chance or something of the kind” to win the elections. He also said he would not run for president again and, if this were to be his last rally, it would be a rather ignominious end.
In Michigan he also issued serious racist warnings about immigrationdescribed American cities as crime-ridden hellholes and made vague, hyperbolic promises about how only he could fix the country.
He also ranged further on various topics, including promises to defend religious freedom, the right to keep and bear arms, to «keep men out of women’s sports» and strengthen our borders.
There was no lack of an appeal to Arab voters either. Kamala Harris «will invade the Middle East. We are building the largest and broadest coalition in American political history. This includes record numbers of Arab and Muslim voters in Michigan who want peace», writes Trump on X. «They know that Kamala and her warmongering cabinet will invade the Middle Eastthey will kill millions of Muslims and start the Third World War”, adds the tycoon, promising to “restore peace” to the region.
«We will never give up, together we will fight, we will fight and we will win, we will win, we will win! November 5, today, will be the most important day in the history of our country,” Trump insisted. “I love you all, God bless you, God bless you Michigan, God bless the United States of America!”, concluded the candidate for the White House who he then danced to the tune of YMCA.
Donald Trump does not abandon violent rhetoric even on the last day of the campaign. At a rally in Pennsylvania, the former US president suggested that Kamala Harris should get in the ring with boxer Mike Tyson. «Put Mike in the ring with Kamala. It will be interesting,” Trump said. In recent days the tycoon had said that he wouldn’t mind if they shot the media, then he evoked the firing squad for Liz Cheney and said that he would like to return the “blow” that Obama gave him, criticizing him heavily.
“Every vote counts”
«This could be one of the most closely contested elections in history. Every vote counts”, warned Kamala Harris in her last rally, a few hours after the opening of the polls in the United States. “In this election we have the opportunity to finally turn the page on a decade of politics driven by fear and division. We have had enough,” said the vice president and Democratic candidate without naming her rival, Republican Donald Trump.
Russian disinformation in key states
US intelligence has accused Russia of being “actively” involved in disinformation operations in the seven key states of the country that will determine the outcome of Tuesday’s presidential elections. Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin will be decisive in the vote that will allow Democrat Kamala Harris or Republican Donald Trump to enter the White House.
“Russia is the most active threat” in these American states, accused in a joint statement the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA ) “These attempts have the potential to incite violence, including against election officials,” they warn. According to the ODNI, a video with an interview with a person claiming ballot fraud recently circulated on social networks. false and alterations of the electoral lists were aimed at favoring Kamala Harris in Arizona.
4,000 overseas votes contested in Pennsylvania
The votes of more than 4,000 people living abroad were contested in 14 counties in the swing state of Pennsylvania. The Guardian reports it. Pennsylvania law requires someone to be a resident of the state to vote. But the challenges are invalid, says the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), because federal law allows American citizens to vote in federal elections in the last place in the United States where they lived if they live abroad and are not confident of being able to return to the country. The ACLU, through its lawyers, requests that these challenges be rejected. It is not easy to identify all the authors of the protests, but some seem to be attributable to the orbit of the Maga conspiracy world. In September Donald Trump said that votes from abroad were fraudulent. Judges rejected similar challenges in North Carolina and Michigan.