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

Donald Trump Jr has peddled an unfounded conspiracy theory suggesting that Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs was arrested so celebrities who were affiliated with him would endorse his father’s opponent, Kamala Harris.

Combs was arrested in September on sex trafficking and racketeering charges. Federal prosecutors allege that Combs and his associates threatened, abused and coerced women and others around him “to fulfill his sexual desires” – which allegedly included forcing victims into engaging in recorded sexual activity which he referred to as “Freak Offs.”

One lawsuit also alleges that Combs regularly hosted “sex-trafficking parties” with underage women and illegal drugs, and implies record label executives who looked the other way financially benefited from access to celebrities and dignitaries, including the British royal Prince Harry.

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The US 2024 election results are in for one tiny New Hampshire town - and it’s a tie.

The six residents of Dixville Notch, near the Canadian border, waited for just 12 minutes to learn the results of their midnight vote.

Much like the rest of the country, the result was deadlocked; three votes for Donald Trump and three for Kamala Harris.

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Donald Trump is hoping to expand his “America First” agenda as he makes his third run for president, this time against Democratic rival Kamala Harris.

When he was defeated in the 2020 presidential election, the US was in the midst of a deadly pandemic, and he left the White House on the heels of a violent attack on the Capitol fueled by a false narrative of his loss.

Trump has campaigned on a theme of “retribution” to return to an office he wrongly believes was “stolen” from him, and he has broadly embraced reshaping or eliminating federal regulations and agencies while opening the door to staffing the government with a politized federal workforce to do what he could not in his first administration.

The former president has distanced himself from the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 agenda for the next Republican administration, though the policies he has publicly supported largely mirror the expansive document.

Here are some of those proposals, based on his public statements and limited policy documents.

This Election Day, voters across America are going to the polls to cast their vote for the 47th president of the United States.

As election workers count the ballots and voting data is released, media outlets will begin to call states in favor of either Kamala Harris or Donald Trump this evening. While outlets will likely call the final result in the days or week(s) after November 5, their determination is only ever a projection. The election will be officially certified on January 6 by Congress.

Check back this evening for live election updates from The Independent as exit poll data is released and the final ballots are cast.

The Harris campaign in Pennsylvania knocked on 100,000 doors before 11am on Election Day, according to CBS.

Nigel Farage said he had observed an increase in Donald Trump signs on voters’ lawns as he visited the US for its presidential election on Tuesday, 5 November.

The Reform UK MP for Clacton predicted a victory for the former president, whom he calls his friend, in the election as he told GB News he had been in Pennsylvania since before the polls opened.

“We’re in a very middle-class area here and there are a lot more Trump signs on lawns than there were four years ago or eight years ago. He’s not quite the bogeyman that he was,” Mr Farage went on, adding that he planned to attend Trump’s election party at Mar-a-Lago.

When Trump was asked on Tuesday how he voted on Amendment 4, which would enshrine a right to abortion access in Florida’s constitution, and effectively overturn the state’s bans, he said: “Stop talking about that.”

Here’s some background on the amendment and how Ron DeSantis’s administration is trying to defeat it:

Election officials in Fulton County, Georgia were forced to evacuate five polling sites this morning due to “non-credible” bomb threats.

This is Georgia’s most populous county and it was subject to threats in 2020 as well.

The county is now asking a court if they can extend polling hours past 7 p.m. to make up for the fact that there was a delay.

Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger believes it came from a foreign adversary potentially of “Russian origin.”

Maryland GOP senate candidate Larry Hogan has said that he left the spot for president blank on his ballot.

He said months ago he wasn’t supporting Trump but now it’s official.

“I’ve said all along that I would never vote for somebody I don’t believe in, and I think a lot of people respect that decision,” said Hogan to reporters outside Davidsonvillle Elementary, according to The Baltimore Banner.