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The presidential election between Republican candidate Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Kamala Harris will come to a head on Nov. 5 as final voters cast their ballots. That’s not the only thing that will be decided at the polls though, with abortion, marijuana, and local and state representative elections also set to be voted on down ballot [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] On election day, polling hours vary state by state—sometimes even county by county.

NEW YORK — The 2024 presidential contest speeds into its final weekend with Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump locked in a razor-thin contest. At this late stage in the campaign, every day matters. And while few voters might change their minds this late in a typical election, there is a sense that what happens in these final days could shift votes. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Harris and Trump are crisscrossing the country to rally voters in the states that matter most.

After serving in the U. S. Senate for four terms, people often ask me about how I think about this coming Presidential election. My answer: in a troubled world with lots of moving parts including multiple major wars and danger zones from the Middle East to Ukraine to Sudan to North Korea as well as nine nuclear weapon states, I will cast my vote primarily on national security concerns.

Voters are unhappy with the status quo, do not trust Harris, and think Trump is the more competent candidate.

New Yorkers are voting on ‘Prop 1,’ a referendum to amend the state constitution in sneaky ways.

Trump has routinely called Democratic voters "scum, stupid, Marxist, socialist American haters," yet Axios and others promote one comment by Joe Biden taken out of context. It's Bothsiderism on steroids as the election season draws to a close. CNN's Abby Phillip played a video compilation of Trump demonizing Democratic voters, the Harris campaign, and anyone not loyal to himself. "I want to play this, because I think it's very instructive, what you're talking about, Phillip said.