Election Day 2024 Live Updates: Voters cast their ballots today as Trump and Harris keep low profiles

Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy joined CNBC's "Squawk Box" this greeting to speech astir his expectations for tonight. McCarthy claimed polls are underestimating enactment for Trump successful Wisconsin, and laid retired however helium thinks Harris is faring successful Pennsylvania.

— Ece Yildirim

Harris and Trump tied the midnight contention successful Dixville Notch, an unincorporated assemblage successful a tiny New Hampshire township wherever determination are six registered voters this year.

Three of those voters went for Harris portion the different 3 went for Trump. The polls opened astatine midnight and closed astatine 12:07 a.m. E.T.

Since 1960, Dixville Notch voters person followed the contented of submitting their votes successful idiosyncratic successful a woody container conscionable aft midnight, earlier the results are announced minutes later.

Though the Dixville Notch effect is not a predictive measure, the contented has kicked disconnected Election Day events for decades of nighttime owls.

This year, the Harris-Trump necktie happens to reflector the dead-heat contention that polls person been reporting implicit the past respective months. In 2020, President Biden received each 5 of the Dixville Notch votes formed earlier winning the wide race.

— Rebecca Picciotto

Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group are trading higher this greeting arsenic investors marque immoderate of their last bets connected the erstwhile president's institution successful his last hours successful the contention against Harris.

The DJT banal was up astir 9% astatine 1 constituent earlier the marketplace opened.

The meme banal tends to fluctuate, but implicit the people of the election, it has often been viewed arsenic a proxy gauge for Trump's chances astatine a 2nd statesmanlike term.

Wall Street analysts listed it arsenic a banal to ticker going into Election Day.

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— Fred Imbert and Rebecca Picciotto

Trump closed retired his run connected Monday with 4 rallies successful 3 plaything states: Two successful Pennsylvania, positive 1 each successful North Carolina and Michigan.

On Election Day, the lone officially announced lawsuit is the Trump-Vance ticker enactment astatine the Palm Beach Convention Center successful West Palm Beach, Florida.

— Kevin Breuninger

More than 77 cardinal Americans person already formed their ballots by message oregon successful person, according to NBC News' tally of the aboriginal vote.

That's acold little than successful 2020, erstwhile much than 100 million Americans voted early. But those results came successful the mediate of the deadly Covid-19 pandemic, erstwhile galore Americans avoided nationalist gatherings and states had greatly expanded absentee and aboriginal voting rules.

Trump criticized aboriginal voting successful 2020 — a stance that whitethorn person helped President Joe Biden clinch respective cardinal plaything states.

While Trump has astatine times waxed nostalgic astir single-day voting successful the 2024 cycle, some his run and Harris' person mostly encouraged their supporters to ballot arsenic soon arsenic they can.

NBC's data, provided by TargetSmart, amusement Democrats somewhat starring Republicans successful the aboriginal ballot tally, 41% to 39%.

Among the 7 cardinal battleground states, much registered Democrats look to person voted aboriginal successful 3 — Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin — portion registered Republicans pb successful Arizona, Nevada, North Carolina and Georgia.

What it each means for the last effect is acold from clear.

While early-vote figures are often viewed arsenic a awesome astir definite voters' enthusiasm oregon expected turnout, it's hard to foretell however galore much voters volition amusement up connected Tuesday. It is besides hard to cognize up of clip whether a party's aboriginal ballot stock is "cannibalizing" its Election Day turnout.

An NBC analysis recovered that among aboriginal voters successful 2024 who did not ballot successful 2020, Democrats outpace Republicans successful Pennsylvania, and pistillate Democrats are the biggest radical of caller voters successful the state.

In Arizona, however, determination were much Republican caller voters than Democratic ones, and antheral Republicans led the way.

— Kevin Breuninger

After storming Pennsylvania connected Monday, Harris' Election Day docket is comparatively sparse — astatine slightest for now.

The lone point connected her docket is an predetermination nighttime ticker enactment astatine Howard University, her alma mater successful Washington, D.C.

The run volition clasp an lawsuit astatine "the Yard," the main quadrangle connected campus.

Walz and his wife, Gwen Walz, are besides acceptable to enactment successful a governmental lawsuit successful Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, NBC News reported.

— Kevin Breuninger