Looks like the American election will be covered on American television.
Looks like the American election will be covered on American television.

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Live: US election 2024, the final countdown

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Looks like the American election will be covered on American television.
Looks like the American election will be covered on American television.

With election day but hours away, the candidates are completing their final campaign lap and pundits are desperately seeking other ways to say ‘on a knife edge’. Keep up to date with the latest here.

It’s squeaky bum time in the land of the free, with the clock ticking inexorably into election day and the first hyper-eager polls opening as soon as midnight in the east (6pm in New Zealand). Stick with us here as we build up and into the day itself, following developments all the way through to the bitter end or full gastric atrophy, whichever comes first.

If you’re looking for a roundup of the timings for polls closing, a summary of the swing states, a sense of when we might learn what, and a guide to watching online the US television coverage from the hippodrome of democracy, here’s something we prepared earlier.

 

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