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    Vance se burla de Harris y la califica de ‘basura’ en uno de sus últimos mítines

    Durante su campaña en Atlanta, Vance dijo a sus partidarios: “en nuestro movimiento, queremos a todos los ciudadanos de este país”. Segundos después, llamó “basura” a la vicepresidenta Kamala Harris.El senador por Ohio JD Vance dijo en un mitin de campaña el lunes por la tarde “en dos días vamos a sacar la basura, y la basura se llama Kamala Harris”, momentos después de asegurar que Harris tenía “falta de respeto” e “incluso odio” hacia algunos estadounidenses.En una de sus últimas apariciones en campaña en Atlanta, Vance trató de establecer un contraste entre la campaña de Harris y la de Trump, instando a los estadounidenses a no descartar las relaciones familiares y las amistades por la política. Hizo esa petición tras referirse a las declaraciones del presidente Joe Biden, que denunció el lenguaje racista en el reciente mitin del expresidente Donald Trump en el Madison Square Garden, pero pareció insultar a los partidarios de Trump calificándolos de “basura”.Vance dijo a la multitud que “aquí en nuestro movimiento, amamos a todos los ciudadanos de este país”. Treinta y cinco segundos después, Vance describió a la vicepresidenta como basura. La multitud rugió en aprobación, con muchos dando a Vance una ovación de pie. Vance sonrió cuando el público empezó a corear su nombre.El domingo y el lunes, Vance había desplegado una versión similar de la frase, pero sin calificar directamente a Harris de “basura”. En Raleigh, Carolina del Norte, el domingo, Vance dijo que “ninguno de nuestros conciudadanos, sea cual sea su política, es basura por pensar que Kamala Harris ha hecho un mal trabajo. En solo dos días, vamos a sacar la basura de Washington, DC”.La campaña de Trump y sus partidarios han hecho suyas las confusas declaraciones de Biden denunciando al orador del Madison Square Garden. La semana pasada, en Wisconsin, Trump se sentó en un camión de la basura con la marca Trump y pronunció un discurso con un chaleco naranja de recolector de basura. Algunos simpatizantes han empezado a llevar bolsas de basura a los actos de Trump.Al principio, Vance restó importancia a la reacción contra los comentarios racistas en el Madison Square Garden, diciendo que “tenemos que dejar de ofendernos tanto por cada pequeña cosa en los Estados Unidos de América”. Sin embargo, Vance se apoderó rápidamente de los comentarios “basura” de Biden, y mencionarlos se convirtió en un elemento básico de sus mítines de campaña.En una aparición anterior en Raeford, Carolina del Norte, el mes pasado, Vance también dijo “creo que Kamala Harris está legítimamente loca”, momentos después de lamentar que había perdido amistades por motivos políticos desde que se convirtió en el candidato a la vicepresidencia.Chris Cameron cubre temas políticos para el Times, con enfoque en las noticias de última hora y en la campaña de 2024. Más de Chris CameronSimon J. Levien es un reportero de política del Times que cubre las elecciones de 2024 y forma parte de la generación 2024-25 de Times Fellowship, un programa para periodistas al comienzo de sus carreras. Más de Simon J. Levien More

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    Here’s When the Polls Open to Vote Across the U.S.

    Americans headed to the polls on Tuesday to cast their ballots in an extraordinarily close presidential election.While millions of Americans have already voted early, millions more will vote in person. Here’s when polling places open across the country (all times Eastern):6 a.m.ConnecticutIndiana (Polling places in the Central time zone open an hour later.)Kentucky (Polling places in the Central time zone open an hour later.)Maine (Municipalities with fewer than 500 residents can open later.)New Hampshire (It varies by municipality, but polls have to be open by 11 a.m.)New JerseyNew YorkVirginiaVermont (Polling places can open as early as 5 a.m., but times vary by municipality.)6:30 a.m.West VirginiaNorth CarolinaOhio7 a.m.DelawareWashington, D.C.Florida (Parts of the Panhandle located in the Central time zone open an hour later.)GeorgiaIllinoisKansas (Polling places located in the Mountain time zone may open an hour later.)LouisianaMarylandMassachusettsMichigan (except for parts of the state in the Central time zone, where polls open an hour later)MissouriPennsylvaniaRhode Island (except for the North Shoreham municipality, where polling stations open at 9 a.m.)South Carolina8 a.m.Alabama (Parts of the state located in the Eastern time zone may open an hour earlier.)ArizonaTennessee (Some municipalities, including those in the Central time zone, may open later.)IowaMinnesota (Towns with fewer than 500 people may approve later opening times.)MississippiNorth Dakota (Polls can open as late as 11 a.m.)OklahomaSouth Dakota (Polling places in the Mountain time zone open an hour later.)Texas (Polling places in the Mountain time zone open an hour later.)Wisconsin8:30 a.m.Arkansas9 a.m.ColoradoIdaho (Some polling places, including those in the Pacific time zone, open later.)Montana (Some smaller municipalities can open later.)Nebraska New MexicoOregon (Polling places in the Pacific time zone open an hour later.)UtahWyoming10 a.m.Washington (Times vary by county.)CaliforniaNevada11 a.m.Alaska (Some polling places open at noon.)NoonHawaii More

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    ¿La Corte Suprema podría decidir estas elecciones presidenciales?

    Los expertos señalan que es poco probable que el tribunal termine ejerciendo un papel importante en el resultado, pero es posible. Te contamos por qué.Es día de elecciones y la contienda entre la vicepresidenta Kamala Harris y el expresidente Donald Trump parece estar empatada, lo que lleva a algunos a temer que la elección se alargue y la Corte Suprema de EE. UU. pueda determinar el resultado.Un puñado de disputas relacionadas con las elecciones ya han llegado a la Corte Suprema. La semana pasada, el tribunal emitió decisiones que permitieron a Virginia eliminar a 1600 personas de su censo electoral, se negó a retirar a Robert F. Kennedy Jr. de la papeleta electoral en dos estados disputados y permitió a los votantes de Pensilvania cuyos votos por correo se habían considerado inválidos emitir votos provisionales en persona.La cuestión sigue siendo si las elecciones presidenciales serán tan reñidas que el tribunal, que tiene una mayoría conservadora de 6-3, se ocupará en los próximos días o semanas de un caso que decida quién ocupará la presidencia.Según los expertos en elecciones, es poco probable que la Corte Suprema acabe desempeñando un papel importante en el resultado, pero es posible. Esto es lo que hay que saber.¿Qué papel podría desempeñar la Corte Suprema?Por lo general, la Corte Suprema ha tratado de mantenerse al margen de las luchas políticas y electorales, y la mayoría de los litigios relacionados con las elecciones permanecerán en los tribunales inferiores. Pero una vez que un caso está en el sistema judicial, es posible que la Corte Suprema decida asumirlo.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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    Gazans Fear Neither Candidate in U.S. Election Will Help Them

    American politics have not been topmost in the minds of Gazans. “We only need one thing: for this war to come to an end,” one man said.The Biden administration’s support for Israel in the war in Gaza has been divisive for left-leaning voters in the United States, including many Arab Americans, and some say it has soured them on Vice President Kamala Harris’s candidacy.Many in Gaza share that anger over the United States’ willingness to keep shipping weapons to Israel to carry out its campaign against Hamas despite the death and devastation in Gaza. But in interviews across the territory, many said they were skeptical that either Ms. Harris or former President Donald J. Trump would do much to improve their situation.“I am fearful that both candidates are for the same thing, which is no end in sight for the war in Gaza,” said Abdul Kareem al-Kahlout, 35, a math teacher in Deir al Balah.The war began after the militant group Hamas led the Oct. 7 terror attack that Israeli authorities say killed about 1,200 people in Israel. Since then, the Israeli military’s bombardment and ground operations in Gaza have killed more than 43,000 people, according to local authorities, a figure that includes Hamas fighters. The war has pushed the remaining population to the brink of famine and left much of the territory in ruins.Many people interviewed in Gaza said they were more focused on keeping themselves and their loved ones alive after more than a year of war. They have had little access to electricity or the internet, or to adequate food and medicine, so they have not had much time to follow American politics.“I have no preference,” said Mohammed Owaida, 33, who is from Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. “We only need one thing: for this war to come to an end. We are exhausted. Whoever wins and can do that, I support.”We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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    Joe Rogan Endorses Trump, and Trump Calls Him ‘the Biggest There Is’

    Joe Rogan, the enormously popular podcast host who brought Donald J. Trump onto his show for a three-hour episode last month, endorsed the former president in a post on social media on Monday.Mr. Rogan, who also spoke at length with Senator JD Vance of Ohio, Mr. Trump’s running mate, and Elon Musk, a prominent Trump surrogate, on recent episodes of his podcast, said Mr. Musk made “what I think is the most compelling case for Trump you’ll hear, and I agree with him every step of the way.”“For the record, yes, that’s an endorsement of Trump,” Mr. Rogan, host of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” wrote on Monday evening.Minutes later, Mr. Trump promoted Mr. Rogan’s endorsement from the campaign trail in Pittsburgh, falsely suggesting that Mr. Rogan had never before endorsed a political candidate. Mr. Rogan endorsed Bernie Sanders in 2020.“He’s the biggest there is,” Mr. Trump said of Mr. Rogan, adding, “Somebody said the biggest beyond anybody in a long time.”Mr. Rogan’s conversations with Mr. Trump, Mr. Vance and Mr. Musk were overwhelmingly friendly, often full of praise for the former president. In his appearance, Mr. Trump courted Mr. Rogan’s audience, largely young and male, with talk of eliminating the federal income tax, mixed martial arts and speculation about life on Mars.Early in his interview with Mr. Vance, Mr. Rogan said American presidents “age radically” and “dramatically” once they take office.“Everyone but Trump,” Mr. Rogan quickly added. In his interview with Mr. Trump, he had noted that the former president’s meandering speaking style — which Mr. Trump calls “the weave” — appeared to be intensifying. “Your weave is getting wide,” Mr. Rogan had said. “You’re getting wide with this weave.”This year, Mr. Rogan had earned Mr. Trump’s ire by supporting Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who had been running for president as an independent and who at one point was poised to draw support from Mr. Trump. Mr. Rogan had said that Mr. Kennedy was “the only one that makes sense to me.” Facing criticism from Mr. Trump and his supporters, Mr. Rogan clarified that he was not endorsing Mr. Kennedy, who ultimately dropped out and backed Mr. Trump.“It will be interesting to see how loudly Joe Rogan gets BOOED the next time he enters the UFC Ring,” Mr. Trump wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social, in August. More

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    What Time Do the Polls Close? A State-by-State Guide

    The first polls will close at 6 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday, and the last at 1 a.m. Eastern on Wednesday. In between, there will be a steady stream of closings every 30 to 60 minutes, with voting ending in the key presidential swing states between 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. Eastern. Select your time zone to see poll closing times in your local area. Some polls closed All polls closed Polls closed earlier Look up poll closing times in your state: More

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    The Polls Are Close. The Results Might Not Be.

    These two things are true about the presidential race: The polls currently show Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald J. Trump effectively tied. And close polls do not necessarily mean there will be a close result.This may feel counterintuitive, but the fact is that we are just a very normal polling error away from either candidate landing a decisive victory, especially in the Electoral College.This is a point my colleague Nate Cohn has made regularly in his election race updates over the last few weeks. But it bears repeating, because a lopsided result when there is an expectation of only razor-thin margins could further fan distrust in the polls and in the electoral process itself.“You can have a close election in the popular vote and somebody could break 315 Electoral College votes, which will not look close,” said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion. “Or you could get a popular vote that is five points” apart, he added, “which is, by today’s standards, a landslide — a word no one has used this year.”Since 1998, election polls in presidential, House, Senate and governor’s races have diverged from the final vote tally by an average of six percentage points, according to an analysis from FiveThirtyEight. But in the 2022 midterm elections, that average error was 4.8 points, making it the most accurate polling cycle in the last quarter of a century. If polls were off this year, in either direction, by the same margin, the winning candidate would score a decisive victory.Based on where the polling averages stood on Monday, if the polls are underestimating Ms. Harris by 4.8 points in each of the seven swing states, she would win every one of them, and a total of 319 electoral votes, compared with only 219 for Mr. Trump. If those same polls underestimate Mr. Trump by the same margin, he would win all the battleground states, for a total of 312 electoral votes. More

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    The Stakes of the Election

    Presidential campaigns are often scripted spectacles. They can overshadow policy ideas. So editors of The Morning asked reporters at The Times — who dig through tax records, travel to the southern border and study the science of climate change — to explain what Donald Trump’s and Kamala Harris’s positions on several important issues might mean for the country.Their reporting revealed two drastically different trajectories for America.ImmigrationHarris embraced a bipartisan immigration bill that would have funded the border wall, empowered the president to restrict border crossings and modestly expanded legal immigration. She also supports a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.Trump promises a tougher crackdown on immigration than he carried out in his first term. He says he will mount the “largest deportation effort in American history,” using the military and law enforcement to remove millions of undocumented immigrants from the country.Read the full article.Presidential powerHarris hasn’t said anything to suggest she would expand presidential power, though she would likely use executive orders to push through some policies that fail to pass in Congress, as previous presidents have done.Trump, by contrast, wants to concentrate more power in the White House and advertises his authoritarian impulses. He has vowed to use the Justice Department to prosecute his adversaries; to replace tens of thousands of civil servants with loyalists; and to deploy American troops on domestic soil to enforce the law.Read the full article.AbortionHarris has made abortion rights a central part of her candidacy. She has promised to sign a bill re-establishing Roe’s nationwide protection for abortion, and says she supports ending the Senate filibuster to pass that bill.Trump privately expressed his support for a national abortion ban earlier this year, but he later walked back that position and said last month that he would veto a federal ban. He now says he would leave abortion laws to the states.Read the full article.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More