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Polls begin to close out West: Polls are now closed in more than half the country. Here’s an hour-by-hour guide to poll closings.
Former Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley has announced her intention to vote for Donald Trump, her former opponent and former boss, in the upcoming 2024 US presidential election.
Haley, who previously served as Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations, was the final major contender to withdraw from the Republican primary contest in early March.
At the time of her withdrawal, she refrained from endorsing Trump, instead encouraging him to earn the votes of her supporters.
In her first public statement since exiting the race, delivered on Wednesday, Haley acknowledged that Trump “has not been perfect,” but characterised President Joe Biden’s tenure as a “catastrophe.”
Earlier this year, a significant portion of anti-Trump Republican voters supported Haley’s campaign. Despite her departure from the race over two months ago, her candidacy continues to garner support. She achieved over 20% of the vote in at least two state primary elections in the past fortnight.
The Biden campaign is actively courting these Haley Republicans, a demographic that includes moderate and college-educated independent voters, who could potentially influence the election in favour of the Democratic candidate. President Biden contends that Trump has consistently indicated he does not value the support of those who backed Haley.
A recap of the major developments over the past 24 hours. More results are expected to trickle through in the early hours of Friday morning.
The Republicans are set to take the House of Representatives – but perhaps not the sweeping victory that had been predicted. Control of the Senate comes down to winning two of three key states: Arizona, Georgia and Nevada.
The race in Arizona has tightened in the 24 hours since polls closed and there are still more than 400,000 votes to count.
Organisers say they expect to have counted 95-99% of the votes by Friday and they are still on course to do so.
The Democratic candidates in the Senate and governor races – Mark Kelly and Katie Hobbs – have extended their leads over their Republican opponents, thanks to a new batch of votes.
But there are still hundreds of thousands of votes still uncounted and their races remain too close to call.
Katie Hobbs is up against Rep. Kari Lake – the Trump-endorsed election denier.
It’s still too early to predict as the votes yet to be counted are what are known as “late early votes” – they’re the last of the early votes to have been delivered before polling day. They need to be signature-verified and barcode-checked before being counted, and that takes time.
Exit polls suggest inflation and the economy were the most important issues to voters – a fact that should have benefited the Republicans.
Democrats had campaigned around abortion rights, gun control and the threat to democracy – something pundits thought was a mistake.
But considering the Democrats performed significantly better than anyone had expected, it suggests that a lot of voters were choosing to support pro-choice candidates and the issue of abortion rights were on the minds of voters.
In the five states that had special propositions on the ballot about abortion rights – California, Kentucky Michigan, Montana, and Vermont – a majority of voters supported allowing women to terminate pregnancies.
Colorado’s ultra-right-wing Congresswoman Lauren Boebert is fighting for her political life – just days ago, it seemed like she was easily walked back into re-election.
Polling site FiveThirtyEight put her odds of winning at a whopping 97%.
But she’s now neck and neck with her opponent, political newcomer Adam Frisch.
Frisch campaigned as a “conservative businessman” – he knew he was the underdog but believed Boebert’s combative style had made a surprise upset very possible.
“I think [Boebert] has done a good job on opening up a huge allowance for someone else to come in there,” Frisch said.
Today, the tone from his camp was celebratory, saying he was hopeful as the final votes were counted.
“Hopefully soon Coloradans and Americans alike can breathe a sigh of relief knowing that there is one less extremist in office,” Frisch said.
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