Election Day 2024 live updates: Latest Trump vs Harris news, polls, results and analysis

Politics is full of ‘what ifs’ - and one of the biggest in 2024 is what would have happened if Joe Biden had stayed in the presidential race.

A new YouGov poll looks at exactly that, surveying Americans on how they would have voted if the veteran Democrat had stayed the course. Although we still don’t know the final outcome of the presidential race, the speculative poll suggests replacing Biden with Kamala Harris was the right move for the Dems.

According to the 1,103 citizens YouGov surveyed between November 1-3, Trump would have been seven points ahead of his former rival in a race with Biden.

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A Republican candidate for the Indiana House of Representatives was arrested on the eve of the election on Monday after being accused of violating a protection order.

Jim Schenke, 57, a delegate for the state’s 26th House district, was booked into Tippecanoe County Jail after police received a complaint late that he had allegedly contacted an individual on Facebook who has a protection order against him, according to The Lafayette Journal and Courier.

Tippecanoe County Chief Deputy Terry Ruley said officers received the complaint at 8.35pm on Sunday and, after investigating, concluded there was probable cause to make an arrest.

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There is a fake video going around from bad actors pretending to be the FBI telling voters to vote “remotely” via some sort of link or QR code.

The videos make false claims of terrorist and safety threats that would require people to lock down.

The real FBI is now warning people to ignore this.

Of course, voting remotely is not a thing the U.S. does.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump dismissed critics who expressed concerns that he would not concede an election loss as “crazy” as he cast his vote in Florida on Tuesday, 5 November.

The former president, who has previously repeatedly and falsely claimed that the 2020 election was “stolen,” told reporters as he voted with his wife Melania Trump: “If I lose an election, if it’s a fair election I’d be the first one to acknowledge it.”

Mr Trump later declared that his supporters are “not violent people.”

We now have a new most expensive non-presidential race in history. Ohio’s Senate race between incumbent Democrat Sherrod Brown versus car dealer Bernie Moreno is now officially the most expensive race, clocking in at $476.8 million, according to AdImpact.

That surpasses the previous record of $407.4 million spent in the 2020 Georgia Senate race between Jon Ossoff and David Perdue.

Brown is one of two Democrats running for re-election in a state Donald Trump won twice. Trump endorsed Moreno during the Senate primary.

According to Federal Election Commission reports, the Mitch McConnell-aligned Senate Leadership Fund spent $55 million in the Ohio Senate race alone.

But that’s not the only race flooded with money. Pennsylvania’s Senate race between incumbent Democrat Bob Casey and hedge fund executive Dave McCormick is the fourth most expensive.

Democratic Senator Jon Tester and Republican Tim Sheehy’s race in Montana is the seventh most expensive at $237 million.

The race for Michigan’s open Senate seat has cost $196 million, Ted Cruz’s run for re-election cost $193.4 million and Democratic incumbent Tammy Baldwin’s race against Eric Hovde in Wisconsin cost $171.4 million.

Security fencing has been put up outside the White House and businesses nearby are boarding up amid fears of political violence in the wake of the 2024 presidential election.

Business owners, residents and federal workers in Washington D.C. have taken steps to protect themselves and their properties as Americans go to the polls on Tuesday.

In downtown DC, local businesses boarded up their storefronts in preparation for any protests that may emerge. Large metal fences were erected around government buildings including the Treasury Department and near Vice President Kamala Harris’s residence.

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Rudy Giuliani pulled up to the Florida polling station where Donald Trump cast his ballot on Election Day in the Mercedes-Benz he has been ordered to turn over to a pair of election workers he defamed.

The cash-strapped former New York City mayor — who told a bankruptcy court earlier this year that he does not have a driver’s license — sat in the passenger seat of the 1980 SL500 once owned by Lauren Bacall as reporters and cameras swarmed around him on Tuesday.

Hours earlier, a federal judge in New York ordered Trump’s now-disbarred former attorney to appear in person for a hearing on Thursday, after the election workers who have been trying to collect on a $150 million defamation verdict accused him of hiding his property from them.

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Two failed assassination attempts, the incumbent’s presidential campaign falling apart, and several major party defections later, the drama of the 2024 election is about to reach a crescendo.

On Tuesday, millions of voters are flocking to polling locations across the country to cast their votes in what is believed to be one of the most hotly-contested presidential elections in history, with Kamala Harris and Donald Trump effectively deadlocked in the national polls.

An estimated 82 million Americans – more than half of the 2020 electorate – have already voted early, according to the Associated Press.

Here’s what you need to know about timings on election night (and beyond):