Donald Trump and Joe Biden have each secured several states in early election results. Key states such as Florida and Pennsylvania have yet to be called. Follow the latest with DW.
- 100 million people have already voted early by mail or in person
- Trump has won Kentucky, Kansas, Louisiana, Wyoming, West Virginia, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Arkansas, South Dakota and Nebraska.
- Joe Biden has sealed Colorado, New Mexico, Vermont, Virginia, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Maryland, Illinois, Delaware and Connecticut, as well as the District of Columbia.
- Polls indicate clearly which way 38 of the 50 states will go
- The focus is on tightly contested "swing states" like Pennsylvania, Florida and Ohio
03:16 The Republicans have taken back the Alabama Senate seat from Doug Jones. Tommy Tuberville's win may be enough to prevent the Democrats from clenching a majority in the Senate.
03:10 The foreign policy spokesman for the Angela Merkel's ruling conservative party CDU/CSU, Jürgen Hardt, has expressed his support for a Joe Biden presidency, from a international diplomacy perspective.
"I think Joe Biden believes in multilateral approaches to every challenge we have with the world: climate security, economic cooperation. And I think this is the way of politics we as Germans and as Europeans want to go. [W]e don't like this blaming of Germany, only to get votes in the US. This is populism, and therefore we appreciate [Biden's different] approach."
03:03 Kansas, with its six electoral votes, has gone to President Donald Trump, according to the AP tally. The agency also called South Dakota for Donald Trump, giving him three electoral votes.
03:02 Polls have just closed in Utah, Nevada, Montana and Utah. Iowa and Nevada are both considered possible swing states.
02:58 DW FACT CHECK: On election day, Donald Trump urged his supporters to vote claiming that the US economy was growing 33.1% .
CLAIM: "Under my Administration, our ECONOMY is growing at the fastest rate EVER at 33.1%. Next year will be the GREATEST ECONOMIC YEAR in American History!" he wrote on Titter.
FACT: However, while GDP in the US did indeed grow at an annual rate of 33.1% in the third quarter of 2020, this was after a 31.4% decline in GDP the second quarter due to economic impacts from COVID-19. These figures come from advance estimates from the Bureau of Economic Analysis on October 29. More complete data will be available November 25.
Overall, GDP grew at an annual average rate of 2.5% during the first three years of Trump's presidency, slightly higher than the 2.3% seen in the last three years of the Obama administration.
02:54 Julia Bryan, global chair of Democrats Abroad, spoke to DW about support for Republican presidential candidate from Americans living abroad, saying that "most Americans abroad do not support Donald Trump.
"We respect leadership that's helping people and not just a small mafioso class of folk who Donald Trump is trying to go for."
02:46 The US dollar clawed back early losses against risk-sensitive currencies as the US election results began streaming in.
Stocks powered higher on Wall Street as investors hoped for a clear result in the contentious election. Ambiguity in the outcome of the presidential contest creates further uncertainty for the markets, both in the US and elsewhere, as investors seek a clear winner in the race,
The end of a bruising campaign may help alleviate the increasing uncertainty of late, that's sent markets spinning.
The S&P 500 rose 58.92 points, or 1.8%, to 3,369.16 for its second straight healthy advance. The Dow Jones Industrial Average increased 554.98, or 2.1%, while the Nasdaq composite climbed 1.9%.
02:45 Gloria Browne-Marshall, a civil rights attorney, author, and professor of constitutional law spoke to DW about Donald Trump and racism in the US.
She said Trump had stoked the flames of racism "in a country that started off in slavery, and started off with a genocide of Native Americans and Jim Crow segregation, into what we have now with George Floyd's murder."
02:40 Joe Biden has won Colorado. The central US state carries 9 electoral votes. Additionally, Democratic candidate for the US Senate, John Hickenlooper, defeated the incumbent Republican senator Cory Gardner, flipping the seat for the Democrats — an important victory as the opposition party hopes to secure control of the chamber.
02:38 Across the US, 40% of older Latinos said they voted for Trump, according to Edison Research Poll quoted by the Reuters new agency. In 2016, only 25% of the older Latino population said the same. The bump could prove crucial for Trump in Florida, where the two candidates wrestle for the sizable Latino vote.
02:32 Biden has won the three electoral votes from Washington D.C., according to AP.
02:15 Polls have now closed in over a dozen more states, including Arizona, Michigan and Wisconsin, all possible swing states.
02:07 President Trump has now won North Dakota, Nebraska, Louisiana and Wyoming, according to the AP. His rival Biden claimed New York and New Mexico.
01:57 Donald Trump has won Indiana with its 11 electoral votes, according to the tally by the AP news agency. Indiana is the home state of his vice president, Mike Pence.
01:53 The key battleground state of Florida remains too close to call, with the US broadcaster CBS putting Trump ahead at 50.5% percent of the vote and Biden trailing at 48.4%. Roughly 10% of the votes have yet to be counted. Florida carries 29 electoral votes, or more than 10% of what each of the candidates need to ensure a win. Pennsylvania, another key battleground state, carries 20 electoral votes.
01:50 Sarah McBride has become the first transgender Senator in US History, winning the State Senate Seat in Delaware. In 2016, McBride became the first openly transgender person to address a major party convention when she spoke at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
01:32 Donald Trump has won the state of Arkansas, according to data published by the Associated Press.
01:28 Transgender Army Veteran Charlotte Clymer has told DW that Donald Trump had spent his tenure insulting military veterans.
"For Trump, ever since he launched his campaign in 2015, it has been year after year of nothing but insulting his opponents and ad hominem attacks. Insulting everyone, from military veterans who have served, to service members who have been killed in action, to ordinary Americans who are just trying to live and get by in a country that I think has forgotten about them under this government."
01:19 Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has held his seat in Kentucky and so won a seventh term. The 78-year-old key ally for Trump is the longest-serving Republican leader in Senate history.
01:02 A flurry of states have been called by AP. Biden has won Rhode Island, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Maryland, Illinois, Delaware and Connecticut. Trump has won Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee and Oklahoma.
01:00 German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has told broadcaster ARD that, regardless of the outcome of the US election, he hopes the Transatlantic relationship between the two nations will be "put in order" again.
00:58 South Carolina has been called by AP for Donald Trump.
00:41 Joe Biden has secured Virginia, a state worth 13 electoral votes. The state has grown increasingly liberal over the past four years, according to AP.
00:39 Donald Trump has won West Virginia, a state that traditionally goes Republican, sealing the president five electoral votes in the race for the threshold of 270, AP has reported.
People have gathered in "Black Lives Matter Plaza" near the White House to watch early Election Day results
00:35 Most polls have closed in North Carolina, Ohio and West Virginia, however, the Board of Elections voted to keep four polling places in North Carolina open, with the longest open an extra 45 minutes, after delays during the day.
00:04 Trump has won Kentucky and Joe Biden has won Vermont, according to the Associated Press.
00:00 The first big round of closing of polling stations has occurred in the states of Virginia, Georgia, Vermont, Kentucky, Vermont, South Carolina and parts of Florida.
23:20 Exit polls conducted by the Edison Research Polling Services on some of the key issues surrounding the election are beginning to emerge from some of the so-called swing states.
Not traditionally seen as a key battleground, Texas has been on the Democrats radar this time around. And Texans are evenly split over whether there should be a wall built along the Mexican border, according to the research conducted on election day. Locals are equally divided over the coronavirus, with five out of 10 residents saying containing the pandemic is vital, even if it hurts the economy. Six out of 10 Texans, meanwhile, see climate change as a 'serious problem,' according to the poll. One in 10 people who voted were first-time voters.
In Virginia, five out of 10 locals suggested they were better off than four years ago.
The Trump and Biden campaigns insist they are making a real push for Virginia's 13 electoral college votes after similar efforts were made by presidential candidates in previous elections.
In 2016, President Trump staged rally after rally in the Old Dominion, while Hillary Clinton picked a Virginian as her running mate.
Electoral workers busy opening ballots in West Palm Beach, Florida
23:06 The first polls are closing in most of Indiana and Kentucky. Both states cross two time zones and so polling stations in the western parts of the states will remain open for another hour.
22:52 Singer Kanye West has shared a video of his ballot on Twitter, showing that he was voting for ... himself.
He had announced his run for the presidency earlier in the year, however, he had to write in his name on the ballot. He appeared to still have faith in his chances, saying "Keep believing Kanye 2020."
22:46 Democratic candidate Joe Biden has refused to make any predictions on the result of the elections saying he was "superstitious" about predictions, but was "hopeful" nonetheless.
He told reporters outside a Delaware community center that he had heard about an "overwhelming turnout" among young people, women and older Black adults in key battleground states like Florida.
He has also said that he wouldn't comment on results during election night, even if Trump does. "If there's something to talk about tonight, I'll talk about it, if not, I'll wait till the votes are counted the next day."
22:34 The FBI has said that it is investigating a large number of robocalls which have been telling people to "stay stafe and stay home."
The short call from a computerized female voice made no mention of the election and has been going since the summer but reports of the call during Election Day were a cause for concern for many.
"It felt like voter suppression," said Dan Doughty, a resident from Kansas City who received such a call on Tuesday morning.
Over 3 million calls were made to almost 90% of area codes in the US, according to research by the anti-robocall software companies, YouMail and TelTech.
22:30 More than 100 million US citizens have already voted, with observers anticipating a huge turnout as a result.
The US Elections Project said the number of people who had already cast their votes via mail-in ballots, early in-person voting, drive-through polls and other means represented 73% of the turnout of the 2016 presidential election.
22:10 US officials have said that the country's Cyber Command and the National Security Agency (NSA) have taken measures to inhibit foreign interference in the election, according to the Washington Post.
The measures taken over the past few weeks and months included an operation against Iran.
Hackers working for the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard had initiated a campaign several weeks ago to bring Americans' confidence in the electoral process into question, the authorities said.
21:50 Republican Governor Phil Scott from Vermont has told the gathered media that he voted for Biden, according to the Washington Post.
This was the first time he had voted for a Democratic presidential candidate, although he had previously stated his intention not to vote for Donald Trump, and didn't do so in 2016 either.
"It's been a bit of a struggle for me, but I ended up voting for Joe Biden," he said to local reporters.
19:50 Trump visited his campaign headquarters in Arlington, Virginia outside the US capital to thank dozens of campaign workers.
"I think we're going to have a great night, but it's politics and it's elections and you never know,'' Trump said. "Winning is easy. Losing is never easy ... not for me it's not,'' he added.
The president is expected to spend the rest of Election Day at the White House.
Biden spent the first part of Election Day in Pennsylvania, speaking to supporters in his birthplace of Scranton, before traveling to Philadelphia for a final campaign rally.
"We choose hope over fear, we choose truth over lies, we choose science over fiction," the former vice president told the crowd with a megaphone.
Biden is expected to return to his home state of Delaware for election night.
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Democrat candidate Joe Biden speaking to supporters in Philadelphia on election day
19:42 A US district judge has ordered the US Postal Service to carry out a sweep of processing facilities in central Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Detroit, South Florida, Arizona, and several other regions to make sure no ballots have been held up and to deliver any discovered ballots immediately. Many states require mailed ballots to be received by the end of Tuesday.
18:48 President Trump told the Fox & Friends news program that he would declare victory "when" and "if" he wins the election.
"I think we will have victory. But only when there is victory. You know, there is no reason to play games," said Trump in response to a question over suggestions in the US media that he intends to declare victory if early returns show him leading in key states.
Biden's campaign manager, Jen O'Malley Dillon, said Monday that "under no scenario" will Trump be declared the victor on election night, adding that there is no historical precedent for the vote to be completely tallied on election night.
"When Donald Trump says that ballots counted after midnight should be invalidated, he’s just making that up," she told a preelection briefing with reporters.
18:30 More than 100 million voters have already cast ballots in early voting, according to the US Elections Project, a non-partisan website. The number portends a major turnout. For comparison, the early votes cast in 2020 represent more than 70% of the total 2016 turnout.
What time do polls open and close?
Voting kicked off in two small towns in the northeastern state of New Hampshire, where polling stations stuck to their traditional midnight opening (0500 GMT/UTC).
Elsewhere, most polling stations in eastern states opened at 6 a.m. or 7 a.m. local time (1100 or 1200 GMT/UTC).
Most polls are to close around 7 or 8 p.m. local time. The final polls will close in the far western state of Alaska — by which time it will already be morning on the east coast.
Voters waiting in Wisconsin, which has been polled as a toss up for either candidate
How can I watch US election coverage?
There are several ways to keep up with DW's live election coverage.
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When can we expect results?
Results usually trickle in overnight, after polls have closed, with the candidates delivering their victory or concession speech in the early hours of the morning. But things may be a little different this year due to the record number of Americans voting by mail due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Mail-in ballots typically take longer to tally than votes cast in person, which means that if the race is tight in some key swing states, it could take days, or weeks, before a winner is confirmed.
Individual states begin counting these mail-in ballots at different times. Some, such as Florida, began the count ahead of November 3, while others can only start processing these ballots on election day.
Read more: US election: Which political party benefits from mail-in voting?
How does the voting system work?
The race for the US presidency isn't decided by popular vote. Rather, the winner is determined by the Electoral College, a body of 538 appointed electors, or delegates, from each state who in turn vote for the president, according to the popular vote result in individual states. The number of Electoral College votes assigned to each state depends on its population size. In order to be elected president, a candidate needs to win a majority, or 270 electors.
It's a winner-takes-all system, which means one candidate takes the full number of a state's electoral votes. It also means the outcome in key swing states will likely decide the election.
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What are the key states to watch?
While most of the 50 states are expected to stay Republican red or Democratic blue after election day, several key states could go to either candidate. It's these swing states that will ultimately decide who wins the White House.
Both Florida (29 electoral votes) and Pennsylvania (20 electoral votes) are split down the middle, and they'll prove crucial because of the weight they carry in the Electoral College. Other key battleground states to watch include Wisconsin (10), Michigan (16), North Carolina (15) and Arizona (11). Trump won them all in the last election in 2016, but polls put Biden ahead in all six.
The race is also expected to be tight in Georgia (16), Iowa (6), Ohio (18) and Nevada (6).
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