Vice President Harris and former President Trump are facing the moment of truth on Election Day as voters around the country head to the polls.
The race has remained stubbornly deadlocked for weeks, with many pundits acknowledging it’s essentially a jump ball. The Hill and Decision Desk HQ’s polling aggregate finds Harris and Trump tied nationally at 48 percent.
Harris will watch results come in at her alma mater of Howard University in Washington, D.C., while Trump will be at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
Control of the House is also up for grabs, and political observers of all stripes will be watching with anxious anticipation for early signs Tuesday of which party will hold the gavel in the next Congress.
Federal judges denied two states’ requests to bar the Justice Department (DOJ) from dispatching lawyers to monitor adherence to federal voting rights laws on Election Day.
Both Missouri and Texas asked federal courts to keep DOJ lawyers away from their polls. Missouri’s attorney general and secretary of state said any monitoring would “displace state election authorities,” and Texas’s attorney general contended that “Texas law alone determines who can monitor voting in Texas.”
The DOJ announced its intent to send poll monitors to 27 states in a press release Friday, asserting the agency “regularly deploys its staff to monitor for compliance with federal civil rights laws in elections in communities all across the country.” It plans to monitor one city in Missouri — St. Louis — and eight counties in Texas.
Sanders, Bolton predict Trump will claim early victory
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) warned Americans to “be ready” for former President Trump to declare an early victory Tuesday.
When asked in an interview by CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on Monday evening what could happen if Trump declares a victory that isn’t his, Sanders issued a warning.
“It’s not ‘what if.’ Kaitlan, it is not ‘what if’ — he will,” the senator said. “Everybody should be aware.”
Former national security adviser John Bolton echoed the sentiment, going a step further.
“I’m predicting between 9 and 10 o’clock he’ll announce that he’s won and hope that the states in the West — Arizona, Nevada, where polls will still be open — might be susceptible to what he has to say,” the former adviser said.
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