The Race For President: Breaking Down Vote Counting, Candidates & What To Expect

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

76% : Trump will likely spend the very early hours of Election Day in Michigan, where he is scheduled to hold a final late-night rally in Grand Rapids as has become his tradition.
69% : Trump set the pattern in 2020, when he declared that he had won during the early morning hours after Election Day.
65% : Trump could again claim victory on election night regardless of the results, just as he did in 2020.
64% : The AP declared Trump the winner on election night at 2:29 a.m. (it was technically Wednesday morning on the East Coast).
61% : Trump went first to North Carolina before visiting Reading.
58% : Focusing on Pennsylvania's southeast corner, Trump took the stage in Reading, about 30 miles from Allentown, where Harris held her own event about half an hour later.
56% : "Trump wants the race decided Tuesday nightDuring a Sunday rally in Pennsylvania, Trump demanded that the race be decided soon after some polls begin closing.
56% : His Education Department issued a rule that says Title IX, the 1972 law protecting women's rights, also bars discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
55% : She has done something of an about-face, saying in her campaign that it's possible to continue hydraulic fracturing for fossil fuels even as she embraces policies that favor renewable energy resources.
53% : "If we win Pennsylvania, we win the whole ball of wax," Trump said.
53% : Trump exploited that dynamic in 2020 when he had his supporters demand an abrupt end to vote counts -- the ballots that remained untallied were largely mail ones that were for Joe Biden.
52% : But even then, The AP called North Carolina for Trump 10 days after Election Day and Georgia for Biden 16 days later after hand recounts.
47% : "They have to be decided by 9 o'clock, 10 o'clock, 11 o'clock on Tuesday night," Trump said.
47% : But many of the vice president's ideas are well trod by Biden: middle-class tax cuts, tax increases on the wealthy and corporations, a restoration of abortion rights, a government that aggressively addresses climate change.
46% : Harris says her administration would expand tax credits for first-time homebuyers and would push to build 3 million new housing units in four years, while wiping out taxes on tips and endorsing tax breaks for entrepreneurs.
44% : Elsewhere in the Blue Wall, Trump needs to blunt Democratic growth in Michigan's key suburban counties outside of Detroit, especially Oakland County.
44% : Trump wants to push that higher by increasing oil drilling on public lands, offering tax breaks to oil, gas and coal producers, speeding the approval of natural gas pipelines, opening dozens of new power plants, including nuclear facilities, and rolling back the Biden administration's aggressive efforts to get people to switch to electric cars, which he argues have a place but shouldn't be forced on consumers.
44% : Trump would urge Congress to pass legislation giving the president authority to impose a reciprocal tariff on any country that imposes one on the U.S.
44% : Trump wants to eliminate taxes on Social Security benefits and taxes on overtime pay, and has pledged to make interest on car loans tax-deductible like mortgage payments -- but only for cars built in the U.S.The former president has promised to extend and even expand all of the 2017 tax cuts that he signed into law, while also paying down the debt.
43% : The former president wants to undertake a mass deportation of migrants who are living in the United States illegally, extend and expand his 2017 tax cuts, greatly increase tariffs and offer more support for fossil fuels and less support for renewable energy.
42% : Trump would also become only the second president in history to win nonconsecutive White House terms, after Grover Cleveland in the late 19th century.
42% : The plan lays out how to move as swiftly as possible to dramatically remake the federal government and push it to the right if Trump wins the White House.
41% : That was in response to Schedule F, a 2020 executive order from Trump that reclassified tens of thousands of federal workers to make firing them easier.
41% : TaxesHARRIS:
40% : During her rallies, Harris accuses Trump and his party of seeking to roll back a long list of freedoms, including the ability "to love who you love openly and with pride."
39% : Trump has led conservatives to bemoan that the U.S. doesn't count elections as swiftly as France or Argentina, where results for recent races have been announced within hours of polls closing.
39% : In North Carolina, Harris' margins in Wake and Mecklenburg Counties, home to the state capital of Raleigh and the state's largest city, Charlotte, respectively, will reveal how much Trump will need to squeeze out of the less-populated rural areas he has dominated.
37% : Trump also proposes to revoke the student visas of those who espouse antisemitic or anti-American views and deport those who support Hamas.
36% : She said she would bring back that bill and sign it, saying that Trump "talks the talk, but doesn't walk the walk" on immigration.
36% : Trump has proposed phasing out Chinese imports of essential goods including electronics, steel and pharmaceuticals and wants to ban Chinese companies from owning U.S. infrastructure in sectors such as energy, technology and farmland.
35% : Harris, 60, has pitched herself as a generational change from 81-year-old Biden and Trump, who is 78.
34% : "Trump would support a national prohibition of hormonal or surgical intervention for transgender minors and bar transgender people from military service.
34% : Trump drew alarms this year when he said that, as president, he had warned leaders that he would not only refuse to defend nations that don't hit those targets, but that he also "would encourage" Russia "to do whatever the hell they want" to countries that are "delinquent.
33% : It wasn't right, and I feel that Trump should have apologized to Latinos."
33% : After dodging questions about when in pregnancy he believed abortion should be restricted, Trump announced last spring that decisions on access and cutoffs should be left to the states.
33% : "TRUMP: After refusing to accept that Biden won, Trump hasn't committed to accepting the 2024 results.
33% : "Trump has pledged to terminate the Education Department and wants to curtail the independence of regulatory agencies such as the Federal Communications Commission.
32% : He dismissed the comments about Puerto Rico despite his family being Puerto Rican, saying he cares about the economy and that's why he will vote for Trump.
31% : Trump has pledged retaliation against rivals as he pushes to fulfill an agenda sidetracked during his previous term by the global pandemic.
30% : After Trump tried to overturn his defeat to Democrat Joe Biden and his supporters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, Congress updated the 1800s-era Electoral Count Act to make it harder to object and to more clearly lay out the vice president's ceremonial role, among other changes.
29% : Republicans Trump and Bush lost the popular vote during their presidential runs but won the Electoral College to claim the nation's top office.
28% : "Related: Trump And Harris Make Last Push In Key Battleground States Ahead Of ElectionWill The Polls Be Right In 2024?
28% : Trump has been aggressively promoting baseless claims in recent days questioning the integrity of the election.
28% : Trump would revive and expand the travel ban that originally targeted citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries.
28% : After the Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Hamas on Israel, Trump pledged new "ideological screening" for immigrants to bar "dangerous lunatics, haters, bigots, and maniacs."
27% : If Harris won just a tiny fraction more of those votes than Trump, it would erase the small leads Republicans have.
27% : Trump, who in the past said climate change was a "hoax" and harbors a particular disdain for wind power, says it's his goal for the U.S. to have the cheapest energy and electricity in the world.
25% : One major reason for the surge is that that Trump has generally encouraged his supporters to vote early this time, a reversal from 2020 when he called on Republicans to vote only in-person on Election Day.
24% : Early in Biden's term, his administration reversed an executive order from Trump that had largely banned transgender people from military service.
22% : Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign has been explicitly targeting Republicans disillusioned by Trump.
21% : Trump, who is still facing felony charges in at least two separate criminal cases, argued that he is the victim of a politicized justice system.
21% : While Trump and Harris agree on not taxing workers' tips, the similarities largely stop there -- a further sign of how the election's outcome could reshape the country.
21% : Trump has called his Democratic rivals the "enemy within" who are "more dangerous than China, Russia and all these countries."
21% : Trump has promised a slew of new tax cuts aimed at groups he has been trying to win over this election, including eliminating taxes on tips received by workers -- a policy later embraced by Harris, who would also raise the minimum wage for tipped workers.
20% : Trump survived by millimeters an assassination attempt at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
20% : Trump had pressured Vice President Mike Pence to try and object to the results -- something the vice president has no legal standing to do.
19% : The vice president has yet to specify how her positions on Russia's war with Ukraine might differ from Biden's, other than to praise his efforts to rebuild alliances unraveled by Trump, particularly NATO, the military alliance that is a critical bulwark against Russian aggression.
18% : Harris and her allies have repeatedly hit Trump for a comedian's dig at Puerto Rico during the former president's marquee Madison Square Garden event.
18% : Can you feel it?"Trump, meanwhile, stuck to talking about his proposed crackdown on immigration.
15% : "As recently as Sunday, Trump renewed his false claims that U.S. elections are rigged against him, mused about violence against journalists and said he " shouldn't have left" the White House in 2021 -- dark turns that have overshadowed another anchor of his closing argument: "Kamala broke it.
13% : "Harris has leaned more heavily into her personal background as a prosecutor and contrasted that with Trump being found guilty of 34 felony counts in a New York hush money case and being found liable for fraudulent business practices and sexual abuse in civil court.
9% : Democracy and the rule of lawHARRIS: Like Biden, Harris has decried Trump as a threat to the nation's democracy.
9% : Federal governmentHARRIS: Like Biden, Harris has campaigned hard against "Project 2025" -- a plan that Trump has denounced but that was written by leading conservatives and many of his former administration officials.
8% : "Heading into Monday, Harris has mostly stopped mentioning Trump by name, calling him instead "the other guy."
1% : Assembling a coalition ranging from progressives such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York to Republican former Vice President Dick Cheney, Harris has called Trump a threat to democracy and late in the campaign even embraced the critique that Trump is accurately described as a "fascist.

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