Live US election 2024 updates — Kamala Harris vs Donald Trump

Former President Donald Trump is going to win Kentucky, CNN projected.

There are eight electoral votes in the stake of Kentucky. It takes at least 270 electoral votes to win the 2024 presidential election.

In 2020, Trump carried the state however, President Joe Biden won the general election.

It's now 19:00 EST (00:00 GMT). Polls have now closed in all of Kentucky and Indiana, as well as South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, and the key battleground state of Georgia.

Early results show former President Donald Trump leading in Kentucky and Indiana as vote counts progress, with polls closing shortly, according to Reuters.

In Kentucky, Trump holds 65.9% of the vote, totaling 35,417, while Vice President Kamala Harris has 32.9%, with 17,700 votes—representing 3% of votes counted. In Indiana, Trump leads with 62.5% (104,252 votes), and Harris follows at 36.5% (60,835 votes), with 6% of expected votes counted.

Democratic contender Kamala Harris and Republican nominee Donald Trump are both seeking to win over Black voters in the crucial southern state -- its largest minority voting bloc -- in a race that could be decided by razor-thin margins.

The Democratic bastion, which includes most of the capital Atlanta, is crucial in deciding who wins the southern state -- and its coveted 16 electoral college votes.

Among early voters in the state, women have outpaced male voters by double digits, according to Georgia Votes, a data aggregation site.

Among Black people in Georgia, the gap between female and male voters is even more pronounced, the data shows.

The gender gap suggests that Black men "don’t feel that their vote counts," South Fulton’s Mayor Kobi told AFP at a polling station that temporarily halted voting due to a bomb threat.

"I would ask elected officials: What policies have they enacted for Black men to make them feel like their vote has counted?"

Election surveys have shown Harris winning women by large margins -- who are driven in part by anxiety over reproductive rights -- while struggling with men.

Donald Trump sought to undermine Tuesday the credibility of voting in the biggest city of must-win US state Pennsylvania, an unsupported claim quickly and firmly denied by top Philadelphia officials.

Amid reports of exceptionally high voter turnout in a soundly Democratic area, Trump said there was "a lot of talk about massive cheating" in the city.

"Law enforcement coming!!" Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.

A city official promptly denied the claim, calling it "yet another example of disinformation," while Philadelphia police and the district attorney’s office also rejected the unsubstantiated allegation.

"There is no factual basis whatsoever within law enforcement to support this wild allegation," said District Attorney Larry Krasner.

"If Donald J. Trump has any facts to support his wild allegations, we want them now," he added.

Trump provided no evidence to support his claim made as Americans voted in a tense election that polls have suggested is effectively tied between Trump and Kamala Harris.

"There is absolutely no truth to this allegation," said City Commissioner Seth Bluestein, a Republican.

"Voting in Philadelphia has been safe and secure."

Democrat Kamala Harris faced Republican Donald Trump on Tuesday in the US presidential election, after the two candidates vied for support by staking positions on issues including abortion, the economy and foreign policy.

Following are preliminary results from an exit poll conducted by Edison Research. Results will be updated as additional poll responses are gathered.

* 44% of voters nationwide said they had a favourable view of Trump, compared to 46% who said so in Edison Research's 2020 exit poll. 54% viewed him unfavorably, compared to 52% in 2020.

* 48% of voters nationwide said they had a favourable view of Harris, compared to 52% who said the same of Biden in Edison Research's 2020 exit poll. 50% viewed her unfavourably, compared to 46% who viewed Biden that way in 2020.

The first polls in the US have closed in the states of Indiana and Kentucky, reports CNN.

A senior US cyber official on Tuesday said her agency had not seen any major incidents reflecting foreign interference in Tuesday's presidential election as voting moved into its final hours.

As of 1:30pm ET (1830 GMT), there was little evidence of significant disruption to election infrastructure, Cait Conley, a senior official at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, told reporters.

"At this point, we are not currently tracking any national level significant incidents impacting security of our election infrastructure," said Conley, whose agency is responsible for protecting critical American infrastructure, including election infrastructure, which can include voter databases, tabulators and vote counting software.

Democrat Kamala Harris faced Republican Donald Trump on Tuesday in the US presidential election, with the two candidates vying to attract support after staking positions on issues including abortion, the economy and foreign policy.

Following are preliminary results from an exit poll conducted by Edison Research. Results will be updated as additional poll responses are gathered.

* 43% of voters in North Carolina said they had a favorable view of Trump, compared with 47% who said so in Edison Research's 2020 exit poll. 55% viewed him unfavorably, compared with 51% in 2020.

* 48% of voters in North Carolina said they had a favorable view of Harris, compared with 50% who said the same of Biden in Edison Research's 2020 exit poll. 50% viewed her unfavorably, compared with 47% who viewed Biden that way in 2020.

Democrat Kamala Harris faced Republican Donald Trump on Tuesday in the US presidential election, with the two candidates vying to attract support after staking positions on issues including abortion, the economy and foreign policy.

Following are preliminary results from an exit poll conducted by Edison Research. Results will be updated as additional poll responses are gathered.

* 45% of voters in Michigan said they had a favorable view of Trump, compared with 45% who said so in Edison Research's 2020 exit poll. 53% viewed him unfavorably, compared with 53% in 2020.

* 48% of voters in Michigan said they had a favorable view of Harris, compared with 51% who said the same of Biden in Edison Research's 2020 exit poll. 50% viewed her unfavorably, compared with 47% who viewed Biden that way in 2020.