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The 47th presidential election has begun in the United States. The main battle for the top post in the government will be between current Vice President Kamala Harris, the leader of the Democratic Party, and former President Donald Trump, the Republican Party candidate.
The first polling stations opened on the East Coast at 6:00 a.m. local time (2:00 p.m. Moscow time) and will close at 6:00 p.m. (2:00 a.m. Moscow time on November 6). By 6:00 p.m. Moscow time, voting had already begun in all seven swing states: Michigan, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Wisconsin, Georgia, Nevada, and North Carolina.
The final section of Alaska will close at 1 a.m. (9 a.m. Moscow time on Wednesday).
November 5 is the final day of popular voting, allowing all 160 million voters to cast ballots. Of those, more than 70 million have already cast early ballots. The votes then go to the state's electors.
According to opinion polls, Harris leads Trump by just over 1 percentage point. The Republican himself admitted in his speech the day before that he could lose the election, although he said that the advantage was obvious.
Meanwhile, the first results came in at America's first polling station that evening. Harris and Trump each received three votes in the Diskville Notch agreement. Polls opened and closed after midnight local time, following a tradition dating back to the 1960s.