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World
Trump vs Harris: US election races towards uncertain conclusion as Americans head to polls
The first ballots cast on Tuesday mirrored the nationwide divide
Washington DC (Reuters)The dizzying presidential contest between Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Kamala Harris hurtled toward an uncertain finish on Tuesday as millions of Americans headed to the polls to choose between two sharply different visions for the country.
A race churned by unprecedented events – two assassination attempts against Trump, President Joe Biden's surprise withdrawal and Harris' rapid rise – remained neck and neck as Election Day dawned, even after billions of dollars in spending and months of frenetic campaigning.
The first ballots cast on Tuesday mirrored the nationwide divide. Overnight, the six registered voters in the tiny hamlet of Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, split their votes between Harris and Trump in voting just past midnight.
Across the East Coast and Midwest, Americans began arriving at polls Tuesday morning to cast their votes.
In Raleigh, North Carolina, Johnny Graves had set up a DJ booth outside the polling station at Lincoln A.M.E. Church, pepping up morning voters with the Miley Cyrus track "Party in the USA."
Taylor Grabow, a 27-year-old nurse, said she voted for Harris after previously voting for Trump in 2016 and Biden in 2020, favoring Harris's opposition to criminalizing abortions.
"I woke up in such a good mood and feeling excited,” she said.
In Asheville, North Carolina, Ginny Buddenberg, a 38-year-old stay-at-home mom brought her two twin daughters with her to vote in Haw Creek. She voted for Trump.
"There's just a lot of politics in the classroom, and I feel like there's too much of a push about politics and introducing different kinds of sexual education at a younger and younger age," she said. "Let's go to school and learn how to read."
Trump's campaign has suggested he may declare victory on election night even while millions of ballots have yet to be counted, as he did four years ago. The former president has repeatedly said any defeat could only stem from widespread fraud, echoing his false claims from 2020. The winner may not be known for days if the margins in battleground states are as slim as expected.
No matter who wins, history will be made.
Harris, 60, the first female vice president, would become the first woman, Black woman and South Asian American to win the presidency. Trump, 78, the only president to be impeached twice and the first former president to be criminally convicted, would also become the first president to win non-consecutive terms in more than a century.
Opinion polls show the candidates running neck and neck in each of the seven states likely to determine the winner: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Reuters/Ipsos polling shows Harris leading among women by 12 percentage points and Trump winning among men by seven percentage points.
The contest reflects a deeply polarized nation whose divisions have only grown starker during a fiercely competitive race. Trump has employed increasingly dark and apocalyptic rhetoric on the campaign trail. Harris has urged Americans to come together, warning that a second Trump term would threaten the underpinnings of American democracy.
More than 80 million Americans had already voted before Tuesday, either via mail or in person, and lines at several polling stations on Tuesday morning were short and orderly.
Control of both chambers of Congress is also up for grabs. Republicans have an easier path in the U.S. Senate, where Democrats are defending several seats in Republican-leaning states, while the House of Representatives looks like a toss-up.
Dark Rhetoric
During the campaign, Trump hammered first Biden and then Harris for their handling of the economy, which polls show is at the top of voters' concerns despite low unemployment and cooling inflation. But he showed a characteristic inability to stay on message, at one point questioning Harris' Black identity and vowing to protect women "whether they like it or not."
His unbridled approach seemed designed to fire up his supporters, rather than expand his appeal. Even more than in 2016 and 2020, Trump has demonized immigrants who crossed the border illegally, falsely accusing them of fomenting a violent crime wave, and he has vowed to use the government to prosecute his political rivals.
Polls show he has made some gains among Black and Latino voters. Trump has often warned that migrants are taking jobs away from those constituencies.
By contrast, Harris has tried to piece together a broader coalition of liberal Democrats, independents and disaffected moderate Republicans, describing Trump as too dangerous to elect.
She campaigned on protecting reproductive rights, an issue that has galvanized women since the U.S. Supreme Court in 2022 eliminated a nationwide right to abortion.
Harris has faced anger from many pro-Palestinian voters over the Biden administration's military and financial support for Israel's war in Gaza. While she has not previewed a shift in U.S. policy, she has said she will do everything possible to end the conflict.
After Biden, 81, withdrew amid concerns about his age, Harris sought to turn the tables on Trump, pointing to his rambling rallies as evidence he is unfit, and has tried to court young voters, seen as a critical voting bloc.
Trump countered the likes of Harris supporters Taylor Swift and Beyoncé with Elon Musk, the world's richest man, who played an increasingly visible role as a surrogate and a top donor to Trump's cause.
Tuesday's vote follows one of the most turbulent half-years in modern American politics.
In May, a New York jury found Trump guilty of falsifying business records to hide hush money payments to a porn star. Four weeks later, Trump and Biden met for their only debate, where the incumbent president delivered a disastrous performance that supercharged voters' existing concerns about his mental acuity.
In July, Trump narrowly escaped a would-be assassin's bullet at a Pennsylvania rally, just before the Republican National Convention. Barely a week later, Biden exited the race, bowing to pressure from Democratic leaders.
Harris' entry into the race re-energized her party, and she raised more than $1 billion in less than three months while erasing Trump's lead over Biden in public polls.
Pakistan
PTI's Azam Swati rearrested after his release from Attock jail
He was arrested under the Terrorism Act in the cases, comprising 22 heinous charges
Rawalpindi: Police on Tuesday rearrested Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Azam Swati on Tuesday from outside Attock jail soon after his being released.
According to the police, Swati was arrested under the Terrorism Act in the cases, comprising 22 heinous charges, lodged at Taxila police station and Saddar Hasan Abdal police station.
Later, police produced Swati before an anti-terrorism court of Rawalpindi to seek his seven-day physical remand in the case lodged at Taxila police station on October 5. However, court court approved the two-day physical remand of the PTI leader.
ATC Judge Amjad Ali Shah announced the verdict that was reserved after completion of arguments of both the parties.
Swati is accused of sabotage, anarchy and interference in state affairs.
Sources said an anti-terrorism court had approved bail of the PTI leader a day ago in multiple cases related to his party’s protest on October 4.
PTI founder Imran Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur, Swati and others were booked on October 8 in different cases including one linked to the death of an Islamabad policeman during the party's protest in the federal capital.
The PTI leaders were charged under 12 sections including attempted murder, arson, attack on the state and violence against police personnel.
Other party politicians nominated in the case include, Omar Ayub, Barrister Muhammad Ali Saif, PTI Islamabad President Aamir Mughal, Malik Hafeez Ur Rehman Tipu and 400 other unidentified individuals.
The case was registered on the state's behalf at the Noon Police Station in Islamabad after the death of Constable Abdul Hameed on Sunday. The cop was allegedly attacked by miscreants during PTI's D Chowk protest while he was performing his duty at the Chungi Number 26 on GT Road on October 4.
The cop was reportedly subjected to violence after being "kidnapped" and later succumbed to his injuries.
As per the case, the policeman was tortured by the protestors at the behest of PTI leaders, including Khan and Gandapur.
"The protesters attacked the policemen with sticks, stones and iron rods. The protesters tore the uniforms of the policemen," read the content of the first information report (FIR).
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