Trump, Harris in tight battle for White House
China DailyA man walks down to the Exposition Building to vote during the 2024 US presidential election on Election Day in Portland, Maine, US, Nov 5, 2024. The US presidential election reached a climax on Tuesday as Democratic Vice-President Kamala Harris and Republican former president Donald Trump vied for the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the White House. As of 11:55 pm ET, Trump held a lead in electoral votes with 230, while Harris had 200, after getting a boost from California's 54 electoral votes, according to The New York Times. To have any chance of winning the state, Harris would need a decisive victory in the late mail ballots tabulated after Election Day," Nate Cohn reported in the Times. In Georgia, a state judge decided that five voting locations could remain open after their 7 pm ET closing times "due to evacuation necessitated by a bomb threat", the Times reported.