THE AMERICAN ELECTIONS LIVE – Follow throughout the day and tonight our big live dedicated to the duel between Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Kamala Harris.
2:00 p.m.: The dollar in decline before the American presidential election
The dollar continues to fall on Tuesday, presidential election day in the United States, a vote which promises to be particularly close. Around 10:25 a.m. GMT (11:25 a.m. in Paris), the American currency lost 0.12% against the euro, to $1.0891, and lost 0.19% to the pound, to $1.2983.
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12:30 p.m.: The star hippopotamus votes… Trump
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For baby pygmy hippopotamus Moo Deng, social media star, Donald Trump will win the US presidential election. At least that's what the animal predicted from its zoo in Thailand, when it was offered two different meals to decide between the two candidates. Will he be as reliable as Paul Le Poulpe?
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Polling stations open in the United States on Tuesday, presidential election day where Americans are asked to choose between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. More than 82 million people have already voted early for the former Republican president or the Democratic vice-president during a bitter campaign marked by multiple twists and turns, with two assassination attempts against Donald Trump and the replacement at the foot raised by Joe Biden by Kamala Harris.
The latest polls
Tuesday at midnight, Dixville Notch, a hamlet lost in the forests of New Hampshire on the northeastern border of the United States with Canada, traditionally launched the vote. Like the polls, its six voters were unable to decide between the two candidates: three votes each.
The latest polls give the two adversaries almost tied in the seven crucial states, those which, in this indirect vote, will give the Democrat or the Republican the sufficient number of electors to reach the threshold of 270 out of 538, synonymous with victory. To try to convince in just three months of campaigning, Kamala Harris focused on a message of protection of democracy and the right to abortion, aimed at women and moderate Republicans.
Fear of violence
Some polling stations have turned into fortresses, monitored by drones and with snipers on the roofs.
Electoral officials also underwent training to learn how to barricade themselves in a room or use a fire hose to repel possible intruders.
In the federal capital Washington, metal barriers surround the White House, the Capitol and other sensitive sites. An impressive number of downtown stores have covered their windows with wooden planks.
The uncertainty of the result
Observers fear a result so close that it will take several days to know the winner and therefore sow the seed of discord like four years ago, when Joe Biden triumphed at the polls, a result never admitted by Donald Trump. The latter has already laid the first stones of a new protest, accusing meeting after meeting the Democrats of “cheating like hell”. And the Democratic camp said it “expected” the Republican to declare himself the winner prematurely, as he did in 2020.
Two very symbolic election evenings
The Democrat, born to a Jamaican father and an Indian mother, is organizing her election night at her former university, the historically black Howard institution, in Washington. Donald Trump will of course be in Palm Beach, Florida, his state of residence.
