Watch 2024 election results live as first states begin reporting votes

Vermont Gov. Phil Scott will win reelection, CBS News projects, defeating Democratic challenger Esther Charlestin. It will be Scott's fifth two-year term as governor.

Earlier Tuesday, the Republican told WPTZ and other news organizations that he cast his presidential ballot in the presidential election for Harris. 

The Pennsylvania Senate race between Dave McCormick and Sen. Bob Casey is a toss-up, CBS News estimates. 

Meanwhile, CBS News projects Sen. Rick Scott of Florida will win, keeping his seat. CBS News also projects Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts will win, keeping her seat. 

CBS News projects that Trump will win Alabama, Florida, Missouri, Oklahoma and Tennessee.

CBS News projects that Harris will win the District of Columbia, Massachusetts and Maryland.

CBS News also rates Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois and Rhode Island as likely Democratic, and Maine, New Hampshire and New Jersey as lean Democratic.

Mississippi is rated as likely Republican.

CBS News rates Pennsylvania, a battleground state, as a toss-up.

The 8 p.m. ET hour is a big one for poll closings in the East, including the battleground state of Pennsylvania.

Polls also closed at 8 p.m. ET in more than a dozen other states and the District of Columbia. 

CBS News projects that Sen. Bernie Sanders will win his Senate race. Sanders is an independent who caucuses with Democrats in the upper chamber. He was facing Republican Gerald Malloy.

Most North Carolina voters decided on their candidates long ago.

A small number of voters – just 5% of NC voters right now-  made up their minds in the last week. These voters are going for Harris, exit polls show.

Voters who decided earlier in the campaign are more toward Trump.

CBS News projects Republican Jim Justice will win the race for U.S. Senate in West Virginia, a seat currently held by independent Sen. Joe Manchin, who usually caucuses with Democrats. Manchin left the Democratic Party earlier this year. 

A billionaire, Justice has served as West Virginia's governor since 2017. His English bulldog, Babydog, has risen to fame along with his owner. 

CBS News estimates the race for president in North Carolina is a toss-up. In Ohio, CBS News estimates the race is leaning Republican.

CBS News projects Trump will win West Virginia and its four electoral votes.

The North Carolina race for governor between Democrat Josh Stein and embattled Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson is leaning Democrat, CBS News estimates.

At 7:30 p.m. ET, polls closed in critical battleground state North Carolina, as well as in Ohio and West Virginia. 

At the end of the 6 p.m. ET hour, Trump briefly called into Philadelphia station WPHT for a last-minute get out the vote effort.

Trump said his campaign "worked hard" in the state and he wanted the listening audience to "get off the phone and run down and vote and let your ratings go to zero for an hour."

"If we win Pennsylvania, we win the whole deal, " Trump said, adding "everyone has to stay in line."

CBS News exit polls show Black voters are making up a similar share of the electorate as they did in 2020 — 30% of voters are Black. Harris is getting the support of 86% of Black voters, currently just a bit lower than what Biden got in 88%. Harris is performing better with Black women than with Black men, just as Biden did in 2020.

Trump is maintaining his support among White voters, and doing particularly well with White voters without a college degree.

Read more CBS News exit polls here.

CBS News projects Trump will win Indiana and its 11 electoral votes.

CBS News projects Trump will win Kentucky, along with its eight electoral votes. 

CBS News projects that Harris will win Vermont and its three electoral votes.

At 7 p.m. ET, polls closed in Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia, Vermont, and the remaining parts of Indiana and Kentucky. Most of Florida's polls have closed. 

But polls will stay open slightly later in those five Fulton County polling locations, after threats required brief evacuations. 

The next round of polls closing will be 7:30 p.m. ET.

Vermont's Republican Gov. Phil Scott told WPTZ and other news organizations that he cast his ballot for Harris. 

"Not an easy thing to do, being a Republican, sitting governor, and voting against your party's nominee," Scott said, according to video captured by WPTZ. "But I thought again a lot about what I've been asking Vermonters to do over the last six months." 

In 2020, Scott said he voted for President Biden. 

California Democrat Sen. Laphonza Butler, a Kamala Harris ally, joins CBS News with her reasons to support the vice president's bid for the White House. Butler breaks down the kind of leader Harris promises to be.

Trump is expected to watch election results tonight with friends and allies, including billionaire backer Elon Musk, at Mar-a-Lago. Meanwhile, larger groups of his supporters will wait for results at the Palm Beach Convention Center, which is Trump's election night HQ. 

Fox News' coverage is playing in the convention hall, along with muted live streams of MSNBC and CNN. People are trickling in as polls begin to close. 

The first polls have closed in the eastern areas of Indiana and Kentucky, which are in the Eastern time zone. 

In a post on social media, Trump said: "A lot of talk about massive CHEATING in Philadelphia. Law Enforcement coming!!!" He provided no other information.

Philadelphia City Commissioner Seth Bluestein said there is "absolutely no truth to this allegation. It is yet another example of disinformation. Voting in Philadelphia has been safe and secure."

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner said in a statement, "There is no factual basis whatsoever within law enforcement to support this wild allegation. We have invited complaints and allegations of improprieties all day. If Donald J. Trump has any facts to support his wild allegations, we want them now. Right now. We are not holding our breath."

The Fulton County Superior Court ruled Tuesday afternoon that voting hours will be extended at five polling places because of threats that required brief evacuations.

Law enforcement officials estimate about 30 bomb threats hoaxes have targeted election-related locations nationwide, according to two sources familiar with the matter. Around 17 fake bomb threats have targeted the state of Georgia alone, two people familiar with the investigation told CBS News. 

Officials are working to pin down where the hoax threats are coming from, but believe them to be part of a foreign effort to disrupt election activity. These fake bomb threats are being tracked in Georgia, Arizona, Michigan and Wisconsin, sources said.

This comes after the FBI released a statement earlier today acknowledging the fake threats, adding they appear to have come from Russian domains. 

— Robert Legare and Dan Klaidman 

Harris made a surprise stop at the Democratic National Committee in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday afternoon, where campaign volunteers are phone banking. She spoke to some voters on the phone, thanking them for their support and participating in the election.

"I just wanted to stop by and thank everybody for all you are doing. This truly represents the best of who we are, just reaching out to folks, letting them know that we're all in it together, reminding them of the power of their vote," she said in brief remarks to volunteers. "This is the best."

The vice president's office announced a dinner lid until 9:45 p.m. ET, meaning Harris is not expected to make any movements before then. She is at the vice president's residence at the Naval Observatory. 

Early exit polls show the state of democracy and the economy are the top issues for 2024 voters. 

The economy is the top issue for Trump voters, followed by immigration. And democracy is the top concern for the Harris voters, followed by abortion - echoing some of the themes we've seen throughout the campaign. 

Most on each side are scared, not just concerned,  if the other side wins, and while most voters express confidence this election is being conducted fairly and accurately, Harris voters are more confident than Trump voters are.

About seven in 10 voters (majorities on both sides) expect there to be violence related to the results of the presidential election. 

This is the first time in its history – going back to the 1970s – that the exit poll has asked voters about the prospect of violence as it relates specifically to a U.S. presidential election. 

There is discontent with the state of the country — roughly seven in 10 are dissatisfied or angry about the way things are going — something that has long been the case. While this would not be a particularly favorable environment for an incumbent party, we saw a similar level of discontent during the 2022 midterms with a competitive race for control of congress. 

Voters' views of the nation's economy are more negative than they were in 2020 — despite the nation being in the throes of the COVID pandemic at the time. Trump voters overwhelmingly view today's economy as negative, more Harris voters think it is in good shape.

On the question of whether you are better off than you were four years ago, nationally and across the battlegrounds, more voters say they are financially worse off than better.

Read more CBS News exit polling. 

CBS News exit polls are surveys of thousands of voters across the country, including in-person interviews with Election Day voters, interviews with early voters at early voting locations and phone interviews are conducted to measure the views of those who cast their votes by mail. The surveys were conducted by Edison Research on behalf of the National Election Pool.

The man who was arrested at the Capitol Visitor Center on Tuesday afternoon had two bottles of an accelerant in his backpack and "quite a bit" of papers with him that he said he intended to deliver to Congress, U.S. Capitol Police Chief Thomas Manger told reporters.

Manger said the incident occurred at around 12:20 p.m., when the male entered the south entrance of the visitor center and was directed to put his coat and backpack on a conveyor belt for screening. There is no indication the incident had to do with the election, the police chief said, and the man appears to be from outside the D.C. area.

Manger said there were two bottles found in the suspect's backpack, which investigators believe is some sort of accelerant, such as gasoline. The man was wearing heavier clothes than the weather in D.C. warranted, he said.

Capitol Police are reviewing the suspect's social media, Manger said, and Israel and Gaza "may have been" a motivating issue.

Nearly 86 million people voted early in the 2024 election, according to the University of Florida Election Lab.

Nationwide, more than 85.9 million people had voted early as of Tuesday afternoon. That includes nearly 47 million in-person early votes and over 39 million mail-in ballots, out of more than 67.4 million requested.

Crime is a focal point of former President Donald Trump's bid for the White House, and he and Vice President Kamala Harris have both been working to assume the mantle of the tough-on-crime candidate.

Violent crime and property crime dropped overall last year, and the decline in the murder rate from 2022 to 2023 represents the largest drop in the last two decades, according to data from more than 16,000 law enforcement agencies released by the FBI in September.

But that hasn't stopped Trump from claiming U.S. cities are in decline and violence is rampant. Harris, meanwhile, has highlighted her experience as a former prosecutor in California and the state's attorney general as she seeks to show voters that she has experience targeting violent offenders.

Here's more about where Trump and Harris stand on policing.

Federal authorities in Michigan have charged two people in recent days with making election-related threats against Trump and a political action committee.

The FBI arrested Issac Sissel, who had both New York and Washington state driver's licenses. He's accused of using a "PlanningToKillTrump" account on Reddit and, according to an FBI tip, later threatened to "carry out an attack against conservative Christian filth in the event trump wins the election."

Court records say that Sissel has no fixed address, was living in a motel and also slept near a rehab clinic in Ann Arbor. Law enforcement tracked Sissel down in Canton, Michigan, where he allegedly stated Trump was a threat and "everything would be better if Trump was dead."

He allegedly told investigators he would not kill Trump but he would not intervene should he know someone who was going to target the former president. Based on court records, Sissel had numerous open warrants for arrest. 

Separately, the FBI arrested Christopher Pierce on the same federal charge as Sissel, a single count of communicating threats. He is accused of posting violent messages as far back as June 2022, allegedly writing "what comes next with (sic) make January 6th look like a Sunday stroll through the park! Democracy is dead! (if it ever existed)."

Investigators interviewed Pierce at his Jackson, Michigan, home in September 2022 and warned him of the repercussions of making violent threats. Last month, he allegedly sent multiple messages to a political action committee.

"I guarantee I can find each and every one of your (expletive) organizers… And we will turn you (expletive) inside out," he said, according to prosecutors.

Another message allegedly said: "It paints targets on your [sic] backs and the backs of your families. Your call centers have been located. Don't make these boys and girlsgo [sic] to work."

Pierce allegedly admitted to writing the messages when questioned by the FBI, but told them he did not view them as a threat.

Read more here.

– Nicole Vap and Rob Legare

Elon Musk, the world's richest man, will be spending election night with Trump in Florida, a source familiar with Musk's plans confirmed.

Musk has spent tens of millions of dollars on reelecting Trump and has appeared with him at rallies, funded a voter mobilization effort on Trump's behalf and has been holding $1 million voter giveaway events in battleground states.

A Cobb County Superior Court judge has issued an order to keep two Georgia voting sites open past the standard 7 p.m. time.

Voting precincts at the Mount Paran Church of God and Kell High School, both in Marietta, Georgia, will stay open until 7:20 p.m. after delayed openings this morning caused by equipment issues, according to the judge's order. 

Anyone voting during the extended hours will need to cast a provisional ballot.

The extensions are unrelated to bomb threats called into Fulton County, Georgia, earlier today.

The U.S. Capitol Police said Tuesday that a man was arrested at the Capitol Visitor Center.

"The man smelled like fuel, had a torch & a flare gun," the department said in a statement to CBS News.

The Capitol Visitor Center is now closed for tours for the day while police investigate.

The FBI said Tuesday it was aware of two instances of its name and insignia being used to spread misinformation surrounding the 2024 presidential election.

The videos were among a number of fabricated clips mimicking news organizations and officials circulated online on Monday, spreading false information about security threats and election integrity as tens of millions of Americans head to the polls. The videos were likely created by a Russian disinformation group, researchers say.

"Election integrity is among our highest priorities, and the FBI is working closely with state and local law enforcement partners to respond to election threats and protect our communities as Americans exercise their right to vote," the FBI said Tuesday. "Attempts to deceive the public with false content about FBI threat assessments and activities aim to undermine our democratic process and erode trust in the electoral system."

Read more here.

– Erielle Delzer, Kerry Breen

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said officials quickly recognized bomb threats made this morning as the work of "a foreign state actor," specifically Russia.

"Really what their whole motive is, is to try to destabilize America," Raffensperger said.

The Fulton County Police Department said in a statement that it has investigated "and found no active threats." The county evacuated two polling locations for about half an hour Tuesday morning and is seeking a court order allowing those locations to stay open late.

Over half a million people had voted in Georgia by midday Tuesday, Raffensperger said.

Texas' attorney general sued the Justice Department on Monday night, hitting back against a Friday announcement that the federal agency plans to monitor polling sites in parts of 27 states today, including Texas.

By daylight Tuesday, the issue was resolved. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that his office and the Department of Justice had reached an agreement. Federal monitors will not enter polling locations in the state, and Texas officials will not prevent voters from speaking with Justice Department personnel, "should they so choose."

The agreement may have been moot. This morning, U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk declined to enter a restraining order against the Justice Department — which Paxton's office originally sought — but ordered the agency to confirm that it would not violate Texas law by entering polling locations.

The former president told reporters he feels "very confident," appearing late Tuesday morning in Palm Beach, Florida, saying "it looks like Republicans have shown up in force" on Election Day.

Trump said he doesn't expect violence in the aftermath of the election, saying "of course there will be no violence" and adding that his supporters "are not violent people."

"I certainly don't want any violence," Trump said.

The former president touted the campaign as his "best campaign," citing "good policy." He called the border the "No. 1 issue," with inflation second.

"It just seems that the conservatives are voting very powerfully," Trump said, while encouraging his supporters voting on Election Day to stay in line. 

Asked whether this would be his final campaign, Trump responded, "I would think so," noting that the reality was a "sad" one, though he said he feels "very fulfilled."  

"I think we're going to have a very big victory today," he added. 

The comments to reporters came after Trump cast his vote in the 2024 election.

Officials in Georgia's most populous county said two polling locations were briefly closed Tuesday morning following bomb threats.

"Earlier today unfortunately we did have five non-critical bomb threats that were reported, leading to temporary evacuations of two locations for approximately 30 minutes each," said the county's elections director, Nadine Williams, during a Tuesday morning briefing. "Thankfully these locations are operational again, and all polling sites are secure with active security presence."

Williams said her office plans to seek a court order allowing the two sites to remain open an additional half-hour to make up for the lost time.

"Outside of these brief interruptions, Election Day has been quiet with minimal issues reported," Williams said. "And we remain prepared to address any misinformation or additional disruptions to ensure a smooth experience for all voters today."

About 29,500 people in the county had voted by 9 a.m. Tuesday, Williams said.

The Board of Elections in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, has filed a court order to extend voting hours after a software malfunction prevented voters from scanning their ballots early Tuesday morning, the county commissioner's office said.

People are casting their vote by paper ballot as technicians review the issue. 

"All votes will be counted and we continue to encourage everyone to vote," the commissioner's office said in a news release. 

The Pennsylvania Department of State said it is in contact with the county and is "committed to ensuring a free, fair, safe, and secure election." 

Derek Tisler, counsel in the Brennan Center's Elections and Government Program, told CBS News that election officials plan for these possibilities. 

"They have multiple systems in place to ensure voters can cast the ballot and have their vote counted," Tisler said. "They have secure compartments that can store those ballots until they can be counted on functioning equipment." 

Cambria County, with a population of 130,000 located between Pittsburgh and Harrisburg, was won by former President Donald Trump by a 68% to 31% margin in 2020, and he won by a similar margin in 2016.

– Steve Reilly, Julia Ingram and Layla Ferris

To kick off Election Day, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz recorded a series of live radio interviews from Detroit. 

Walz, the Democratic candidate for vice president, did interviews with radio stations in key battleground states: WILK in Wilkes-Barre and Scranton, Pennsylvania; WWJ and WHPR in Detroit; Caliente 97.9 in Milwaukee; WPTF in Raleigh, North Carolina; WSB in Atlanta; and WURD in Philadelphia.

Walz encouraged voters to head to the polls and cast their votes for Kamala Harris.

Later in the day, Walz will campaign in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

According to several sources familiar with the conversations, there have been discussions within the campaign to have Trump declare an early victory on election night, as he did in 2020. 

Trump could prematurely claim victory sometime after the first tranche of ballots comes in on Tuesday and well before any official calls are made. The first results could trend Republican in key battleground states and then shift Democratic as absentee and mail-in ballots are assessed, especially in the battleground state of Pennsylvania.

Therefore, Trump could take advantage of the appearance that he may have the lead ahead of a shift as later ballots are counted, and allow him to justify to his base, and muddy the waters, with unfounded claims that the election is being taken away from him. 

During a gaggle with reporters on Monday, Jason Miller, a senior adviser to Trump, did not rule out the possibility that Trump could declare victory on election night. He was asked by CBS News' Olivia Rinaldi  if Trump would come out and declare victory on election night, and Miller said, "We won't call it until we've crossed 270." Rinaldi asked by whose measure will they consider reaching 270, and Miller said again, "Once we have crossed 270 then we'll feel confident in it." 

Speaking from the cab of a garbage truck on Oct. 30, Trump was asked if he anticipates declaring victory on election night. "I hope that we're gonna declare a victory," Trump said. "I think we're going to have a big enough victory to maybe have it that night. You should always have it be" that night. 

Trump allies like Steven Bannon have also called for the former president to "address the nation" by 11 pm on election night to "explain to the American people where the voting is." 

Trump declared victory in 2020 around 2:30 a.m. ET on Nov. 4, although he had not won. President Biden was projected the winner on Nov. 7 after winning Pennsylvania.

The results could take a while to come in for several reasons, including different methods across states for counting mail-in and early voting.

– Olivia Rinaldi, Fin Gomez and Robert Costa

The vice president conducted a handful of radio interviews on the morning of Election Day, including with The Big Tigger Morning Show in Georgia, where Harris touted her economic policies and initiatives tailored to help Black men. 

"So my focus for Black men ranges from access to capital to what we need to do for healthcare," Harris said, while outlining the policies. 

Asked about how her presidency could make history, Harris said she's been focused on "task in front of me" and in making sure that she is "responding to the needs of folks around the policies."

"We gotta get it done," Harris said, encouraging Georgians to get out and vote.

Harris acknowledged that she would be "the first HBCU president," noting that the first office she ever ran for was freshman class representative at Howard University. She said that going back to Howard for her watch party on Election Night will be a "full circle" moment. 

On Trump's recent criticisms, Harris said "I don't hear that noise," saying "it's meant to distract me — and I'm clear about what's going on."

After the 2024 election results are in, former President Donald Trump will be met with one of two fates: a return to the Oval Office, or years of criminal court proceedings, and perhaps incarceration, experts say.

Perhaps no candidate in U.S. history has faced such stark personal stakes on Election Day.

Trump's third campaign for president has played out alongside the four criminal cases against him — two in halting fits and spurts, one toward dismissal and one that led to a conviction on 34 felony counts that he intends to appeal. 

Where they go from here could very well depend on whether Trump is elected. Here's more on how  those cases could play out if he wins the presidency.

The battle for the presidency is being waged not just at the ballot box but also in courtrooms in an election cycle marked by scores of lawsuits brought by both parties.

While many of the cases involve disputes over state laws that will be decided by state courts, some cases may wind up before the U.S. Supreme Court, though many observers believe the court will try to stay out of the election.

Ever since the high court's controversial ruling in Bush v. Gore in 2000, the possibility that the Supreme Court might decide a close presidential contest has loomed over electoral politics. And while that improbable scenario is unlikely to repeat, the proliferation of lawsuits this cycle has increased the odds that the Supreme Court may be forced to intervene yet again. 

Read here to find out more about the cases that may land before the justices.

A number of fabricated videos mimicking news organizations and officials circulated online on Monday, spreading false information about security threats and election integrity ahead of Election Day. The videos were likely created by a Russian disinformation group, researchers say.

One of the fabricated videos, created to look like a report from CBS News, falsely said the FBI was advising people to "vote remotely" due to a potential terror attack. No such warning has been issued by U.S. officials and no such report has been produced by CBS News. The account that posted the video on the social media platform X was suspended on Monday afternoon.

Two other videos, created to look like they were released by the FBI, made false claims about voter fraud. Another video was created to look like it was created by Fox News.

The FBI said Tuesday that the two videos falsely depicting FBI statements were "not authentic."

"Attempts to deceive the public with false content about FBI threat assessments and activities aim to undermine our democratic process and erode trust in the electoral system," the agency said in a statement to media outlets Tuesday.

The videos were likely created by the same Russian disinformation group that released two additional fabricated FBI videos in recent days, according to Antibot4Navalny, a collective of researchers that tracks online Russian disinformation.

The group has a history of mimicking international news outlets and U.S. government entities. Many of their posts include QR codes that link to legitimate news outlets to make the posts appear authentic. The group published similar false claims about threats ahead of the Olympics.

Typos will not invalidate a voter's ballot, election officials in many states say, despite recent social media posts in Virginia and Ohio that have claimed to show misspellings of former President Trump's name and suggesting that could impact results.

The Virginia video was posted to TikTok on October 22. It has since been reposted to X accounts with large followings. Washington County officials said the error appears only on a screen that people can use to review paper ballot selections. "The single typographical error on the optional ballot review screen will have no effect on anyone's vote," said Derek Lyall, the county's director of elections and general registrar.

CBS News reached out to election officials in every state. More than a dozen responded that a typo or misspelling would not affect a person's vote. States such as Arkansas, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Texas, and South Carolina said a typo would not affect a person's ballot. States such as Kansas, Florida, Minnesota, and West Virginia said voter intent is taken into consideration and a typo would have no effect.

A spokesperson for Massachusetts' election officials said they would attempt to correct the ballot if there was time, but it would not affect the outcome. Rhode Island officials said the most likely scenario would be that a notice would be posted to voters in the voting booth, but votes would not be invalidated.

Sen. JD Vance, the Republican vice presidential nominee, voted in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Election Day, touting his vote for Trump and Republican Ohio Senate candidate Bernie Moreno. 

"I hope people will get President Trump over the finish line, I hope people here in Ohio will get Bernie Moreno over the finish line," Vance said. "Look, I feel good."

Vance said "we do expect to win," saying that Trump's policies will "promote peace and prosperity for our citizens."

"But if you vote the wrong way, in my view, I'm still going to love you, I'm still going to treat you as a fellow citizen, and if I am lucky enough to be your vice president, I'm going to fight hard for your dreams and for your family over the next four years," Vance said. 

When asked about how it feels to cast his vote with his name on the ticket not far from where he grew up in Middletown, Ohio, Vance said "it's an amazing thing." 

"The fact that I'm standing here is very much a testament to the fact that we live in the greatest country in the history of the world," he added.

Election defenses are up in Arizona as workers process and verify a flood of mail-in ballots arriving ahead of Election Day. Law enforcement is hoping to avoid a repeat of 2020, when election workers were harassed and supporters of then-President Donald Trump, some of whom were armed, surrounded the vote counting facility in downtown Phoenix after polls closed.

The National Guard is on standby alert in Nevada, and at least six other states, including Arizona and North Carolina, have activated Guard troops.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, a key surrogate for Harris, told "CBS Mornings" that he's felt a "remarkable momentum" for the vice president in recent days, citing a visit to Midland, Michigan, where he said more than 400 people were "fired up for her and Democrats up and down the ticket."

"So the energy is there, but we know this is going to be close," Buttigieg said, adding that in some areas, the election could "come down to a couple votes per precinct."

Buttigieg argued that a Harris victory would allow the nation to "turn the page" on the Trump-era of politics, saying "a lot of us just don't want to feel like politics is punching us in the face every time we turn on the news."

"Kamala Harris has said that if you disagree with her, she wants you at the table," Buttigieg said. "That's important, because after this election, we're going to have to come together as a country."

Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, who was recently released from prison, told CBS News Tuesday morning that he will be at the Willard Hotel on Tuesday evening, returning to the site where he spent Jan. 5, 2021, the eve of the 2021 Capitol attack, working with allies to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

According to the book "Peril," Bannon spoke with Trump from the Willard Hotel that day as Bannon and Trump lawyers such as Rudy Giuliani pressured Republicans to block the certification of then president-elect Joe Biden's victory the following day.  

The hotel was also the site of a Bannon-led organizing effort in early January 2021, which they called a "war room," and served as an informal headquarters for the entire pressure campaign against Vice President Mike Pence and others.

Bannon has since confirmed in remarks on his broadcast that he was at the Willard and working against Biden in early January 2021.

"Unlike in 2020, we will secure Trump's victory this time," Bannon told CBS News on Tuesday morning. 

Bannon's vigorous reengagement with Trump World is a sudden, 11th-hour development in what could be a close election, and he is the "tip of the spear" of many Trump allies readying for a legal, political and constitutional showdown, should it come to that. 

House Republican conference chair Rep. Elise Stefanik, of New York, argued that the nation is ready to return to a Trump administration and its policies, telling "CBS Mornings" that voters agree the nation is "on the wrong track."

"It is time to make sure that we as a country return to the effective policies that we saw" under Trump, Stefanik said, citing a "booming" economy, secure border, and strong national security policies.

Stefanik said she had "zero concerns" about Trump's ability to serve four years. Trump would be the oldest president to enter office, at 78.

"I have campaigned on these long days with President Trump and the youngest of the team have to work hard to keep up with his pace," Stefanik said. "The American people know that they're going to vote for a fit president when they vote for President Trump. There is absolutely no question about that."

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, extended a policy prohibiting new political or issue advertisements on its platforms until after Election Day. The company says it stopped accepting new political ads on Oct. 29, though existing ads could continue to run.

"The rationale behind this restriction period remains the same as previous years – in the final days of an election, we recognize there may not be enough time to contest new claims made in ads," Meta said in a statement.

It's been 20 years: The last Republican presidential candidate to win the nationwide popular vote was George W. Bush in 2004. In 2000, he won the Electoral College and the presidency but he lost the popular vote to Al Gore.

Trump became the president in 2016 by winning more than 270 votes in the Electoral College, but lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton by more than 2.8 million votes. In 2020, Trump lost the Electoral College and also lost the popular vote to Mr. Biden by over 7 million votes.

Dixville Notch, the tiny New Hampshire town that votes at the stroke of midnight, split the vote this year, with three votes for Harris and three votes for Trump.

Dixville Notch has a tradition that dates back to 1960 of being the first in the nation to complete in-person voting. There are six registered voters in the unincorporated township — four Republicans and two independents, who also make up the entirety of the area's population.

After a rousing accordion version of the national anthem, the town's six voters began casting their ballots at the stroke of midnight, and the vote count was complete 15 minutes later.

Read more from CBS Boston. 

Vice President Harris' final campaign stop was a rally at the steps of the Art Museum in Philadelphia Monday night — the same steps made famous in the movie "Rocky."

A Harris campaign official told CBS News there were 30,000 people in the crowd.

Harris brought out star power, with Lady Gaga, The Roots, Ricky Martin, Freeway, Oprah Winfrey, Fat Joe and others taking the stage. 

In her speech, Harris urged supporters in attendance to have a plan to vote on Tuesday and to encourage loved ones to do the same. 

"We need everyone to vote in Pennsylvania," Harris said. "And you will decide the outcome of this election, Pennsylvania." 

Philadelphia was the site of Harris' first rally with her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, in August, at Temple's University Liacouras Center.

Both Harris and former President Donald Trump spent plenty of time in Pennsylvania during the campaign, since it's a key battleground state in the race for the White House. 

Read more from CBS Philadelphia.

Former President Donald Trump held his final rally before Election Day in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he also concluded his campaigns in 2016 and 2020.

He savored the moment, stopping every few steps as he made his way to the stage, soaking in the applause. A few in the crowd waited nearly 18 hours, at times in the rain, for a rally that finally began after midnight and ended after 2 a.m. ET.

"It's unbelievable," Trump said when he started talking after standing wordless at his lectern for an extended ovation. "Think of it. This is it. This is the last one that we'll have to do."

At one point, Trump asked the raucous crowd, "Are you better off now than you were four years ago?" The response was a resounding "no."

"November 5th, 2024 will be liberation day in America," Trump declared.

He spent a good deal of time addressing immigration, a key issue for his campaign along with the economy.

Harris is the first Black female presidential candidate on a major ticket, as well as the first Asian American candidate to become a major party nominee. 

Her candidacy marks just the fourth time in the last 60 years that an incumbent vice president is a general election nominee for president. Al Gore was the Democratic nominee in 2000, George H.W. Bush was the GOP nominee in 1988, Hubert Humphrey was the Democratic nominee in 1968. 

If she's elected, Harris would be the first incumbent vice president to win the White House since Bush in 1988. 

Mr. Biden's decision to drop out of the presidential race means that if Trump wins another term, the Republican nominee would become the oldest president ever to be sworn into office.

Mr. Biden was 78 at the time of his inauguration in 2021, but his birthday is in November. Trump, who would also be 78 years old on Inauguration Day, would be about five months older, since his birthday is in June.  

Read more here for the full list of the oldest presidents in U.S. history.

The 2024 presidential election will be the first since 1976 to not have a Bush, Biden or Clinton on the presidential ticket. 

George H.W. Bush was elected Ronald Reagan's vice president in 1980 and 1984 and won the presidency in 1988, but he lost reelection in 1992. Bill Clinton won both his presidential elections in 1992 and 1996.

Bush's son, George W. Bush, won both of his presidential contests in 2000 and 2004. Joe Biden was elected vice president under Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012 and won the presidency himself in 2020. Hillary Clinton lost her presidential bid in 2016.

Trump formally announced his 2024 presidential run shortly after the 2022 midterm elections, meaning that as of Election Day he has been a candidate in this election cycle for 721 days. 

There were only 107 days between Harris' entry into the 2024 presidential race, after Mr. Biden dropped out, and Election Day.

Trump is seeking to become the first president since Grover Cleveland to be elected to non-consecutive terms as president. Cleveland has the distinction of being both the 22nd and 24th president. He won his first term in 1884 but was defeated for reelection in 1888, although he won the popular vote over Benjamin Harrison. Cleveland won the White House again in 1892. 

As Americans get closer to Election Day 2024 and will choose between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, anyone who is registered to vote does not need re-register every year, unless there is a change of name, address or political affiliation.

Each state's voter re-registration or voter registration update deadline can be found on their respective Board of Elections website. 

Read a state-by-state breakdown of the rules.

— Patrick Maguire and Emily Hung

Millions of Americans have already voted early in the 2024 election, but millions more will turn out in person on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 5. Some of the earliest polling places open at 5 a.m. or 6 a.m. ET. The first states to close will be at 7 p.m. ET, while California and several other Western states close at 11 p.m. ET. Alaska is last to close, at 1 a.m. ET.

If you are in line before a site closes, you have the right to remain in line and vote. View a list of voter rights from the ACLU here. 

Read more here for details on poll opening and closing times in each state. 

If Trump carries every state he won in 2020 — for the sake of the hypothetical, he would also win the same electoral votes he did in 2020 from Nebraska and Maine (4 in Nebraska and 1 in Maine, where some electoral votes are allocated by congressional district) — that would put him at 235 electoral votes in 2024. 

Flipping Arizona, Nevada and Georgia would put Trump at 268, so he would be two short. That would mean he has to flip one of the Midwestern states — Michigan, Wisconsin or Pennsylvania.

Another route to getting Trump what he would need to regain the White House: If Trump is at the 235 scenario outlined above and manages to win back all of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin that would put him at 279, and he would not need to win Nevada, Arizona, Georgia.

And here's one more: Starting with the 235 electoral votes for Trump noted above, if Trump wins three states he lost by less than 1 point in 2020 (Wisconsin, Arizona and Georgia) he would have 272 electoral votes and be elected president.

Trump victories in North Carolina, Georgia and Pennsylvania could also prove crucial to becoming president once again. Taking those states, and maintaining all the states and electoral votes he won in 2020, would put him at exactly 270 electoral votes.

— Hunter Woodall and Olivia Rinaldi

The battle for control of the Senate is on, with a third of the chamber on the ballot in the 2024 cycle. Democrats are facing a difficult electoral map as they seek hold onto their narrow 51-49 seat majority. Although the outcome in many of the 34 races is a foregone conclusion, a handful remain competitive, and Republicans are eyeing a number opportunities to flip Democratic seats. From Ohio to Montana, Arizona to Nebraska, these races will decide which party controls the upper chamber next year.

Read more about 11 key Senate contests here. 

The last time control of the House flipped in a presidential election year was in 1952, when Republicans won the House and Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected to his first term as president. 

Republicans currently hold the House majority, a very slim one — there are 220 Republicans in the House and 212 Democrats, with three vacancies. There are elections for all 435 seats, and the Cook Political Report rates only around 20  of them as toss-ups. 

The candidate who gets to 270 electoral votes is the one who wins the presidency, and the fate of Harris and Trump is likely to hinge on the outcomes in the seven battleground states: Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada and North Carolina. 

Here are some of the ways Harris may reach 270 that seem most plausible, given past election performance:

Mr. Biden won six of the battleground states in 2020: Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. He won 306 electoral votes overall. Going into Election Day 2024, polls are close to even in these states.

If Harris wins Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, the "blue wall" Midwestern states Mr. Biden took in 2020, and earns 3 of Maine's 4 electoral votes, but she loses Arizona, Nevada and Georgia, that would not deliver Harris the White House. 

In this hypothetical, Trump would also hold onto all the states that he won in 2020 and four of Nebraska's five electoral votes, as he did four years ago.

That scenario would put Harris at 269 electoral votes — one shy of keeping the White House under Democrats' control. To get to 270, Harris would have to win a congressional district in Nebraska that includes the city of Omaha. The state awards some of its electoral votes by congressional district, and winning Nebraska's Omaha-based district that Mr. Biden captured in 2020 but Trump held in 2016, would make Harris president.

— Hunter Woodall and Olivia Rinaldi