2024 election updates: Harris, Trump scramble for votes in frenzied final push

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With conscionable hours near to Election Day, it's a neck-and-neck title to nan finish.

Last Updated: November 4, 2024, 8:42 AM EST

Election eve has arrived pinch nan title for nan White House still very tight -- pinch nan latest ABC News/Ipsos poll retired Sunday showing Kamala Harris somewhat up nationally but Donald Trump up successful immoderate cardinal plaything states -- and nan 2 candidates deadlocked successful Pennsylvania.

Harris is spending her past afloat time campaigning successful battleground Pennsylvania while Trump is hitting nan way successful North Carolina and Pennsylvania earlier ending nan time successful Michigan.

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Here's really nan news is developing:

Early ballot tops 78 million

As of 5:30 a.m. ET connected Monday, much than 78 cardinal Americans person voted early (a operation of absentee and early, in-person totals), according to nan Election Lab astatine nan University of Florida.

The full breaks down into 42,654,364 in-person early votes and 35,348,858 message ballots returned.

The number of in-person early votes has surpassed 2020's full number of in-person early votes. However, nan wide number of early votes truthful acold (including mail-in and absentee ballots) is still little than 2020’s wide number.

-ABC News’ Oren Oppenheim

Jeffries says Republicans 'will return a rustle torch' to societal security

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told "Good Morning America" connected Monday that Democrats are "on nan correct side" of nan statesmanlike election's astir pressing issues.

"The utmost MAGA Republicans person intelligibly and unequivocally articulated what they will do to America moving forward," Jeffries said.

"They will return a rustle torch to societal security, they will return a rustle torch to Medicare, they will return a rustle torch to nan Affordable Care Act," Jeffries said.

Vice President Kamala Harris, Jeffries said, is "closing pinch a affirmative vision" while erstwhile President Donald Trump and his Republican statement are "trying to tear america apart."

Jeffries will go House speaker if Democrats triumph backmost power of nan enclosure this week.

"The mostly of existent House Republicans voted not to certify nan predetermination successful 2020," Jeffries said. "My colleagues connected nan different broadside of nan aisle don't look to beryllium tin of unequivocally saying that they will certify nan predetermination and nan verdict that is rendered by nan American people."

"As House Democrats, that's what we will do," Jeffries added.

"We judge successful populist moreover erstwhile we disagree pinch nan outcome. That's been portion of what's made America nan top populist successful nan history of nan world."

Candidates vie for each ballot successful cardinal plaything states

Highlighting really important Pennsylvania and its 19 electoral votes are to her campaign, Kamala Harris is spending her past afloat time connected nan way pinch aggregate events successful nan state.

Her hunt for voters includes a rally successful Allentown and past she ends pinch an arena successful Philadelphia.

Donald Trump is trying to statement up support successful battleground North Carolina – wherever Harris has made inroads – for a rally successful Raleigh, earlier he, too, heads to Pennsylvania for events successful Reading and Pittsburgh earlier ending his last time campaigning successful Grand Rapids, Michigan.