At 4:00 a.m. Bulgarian time Donald Trump leads Kamala Harris by 105 to 27 electoral votes. To win the elections in the USA, the votes of 270 electors are needed, BTA reported.
American television networks made their first predictions for the presidential race in 2024, after voting ended in six of the country's 50 states, DPA reported, cited by BTA.
CNN, NBC and CBS predict, based on early voting data, that Republican candidate Donald Trump will win Kentucky and Indiana, and Democratic candidate Kamala Harris will win Vermont.
The ex-president of the United States, Donald Trump, has probably won the support of the conservative state of West Virginia, France Press reported.
He won the state, which gives him four Electoral College votes, according to CNN and NBC.
The ex-president has secured the support of Florida, Missouri, Oklahoma, Alabama and Tennessee. Harris has won Maryland and Massachusetts, as well as in the capital Washington.
With the victory in West Virginia, Republicans also regain one seat in the Senate, currently controlled by the Democratic Party by a vote of 51 to 49. Republican candidate Jim Justice has won the runoff election, according to CBS and Fox News.
The race in the key state of Georgia, where polls have also closed, is too tight to make a reliable guess.
Georgia is one of seven states that will likely decide the outcome of the election between Trump and his opponent from the Democratic Party, Vice President Kamala Harris, recalls Reuters. President Joe Biden won the southern state in 2020, the first Democratic victory there since 1992.
Yesterday, a US judge rejected a request by Republicans to bar seven counties in the state of Georgia from accepting late ballots and reprimanded the party's lawyers for what he described as discrimination against political opponents, Reuters recalls.
On Sunday, the Republican National Committee filed suit against the seven counties in federal court in Savannah for allowing voters to submit mail-in ballots over the weekend and on Mondays. They said the early voting period was supposed to end Friday and asked the court to bar counties from accepting late ballots.
District Judge Stan Baker said all of the counties the Republicans filed their lawsuit against had voted Democratic in previous elections. He added that granting their request would have invalidated "votes only in the selected districts which the plaintiffs chose based solely on the citizens' previous political preferences" them, emphasized the judge appointed by ex-president Trump.
Baker stressed that Republicans have asked him to "tip the scales in this election by discriminating against citizens who are less likely to vote for their candidate.
Donald Trump refused to say how he voted on abortion in Florida and became irritable when asked, the Associated Press reported.
The former US president was asked twice after casting his ballot in Palm Beach, the state's voters must decide in a referendum whether to bar the state legislature from passing laws that penalize, prohibit, delay or restrict abortions before the fetus is born. become viable - which doctors say happens sometime after the 21st week.
If this measure is defeated, the state's restrictive abortion law will remain in place.
The first time he was asked, Trump avoided answering. Instead, he boasted that he had done a "great job taking the issue back to the states,", recalling the fact that during his tenure he appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court three conservative justices who in 2022 helped overturn the the historic court decision in the case "Roe v. Wade", guaranteeing the right to abortion in the United States.
When the question was repeated, Trump lashed out at the reporter, saying they "just need to stop talking about it".
Earlier, the former president had indicated that he would support the measure - but then changed his mind and said he would vote against it, AP recalls.
Voters in Florida and eight other states decide today whether their state constitutions should guarantee abortion rights.
The passage of certain amendments in Arizona, Missouri, Nebraska and South Dakota would likely lead to the repeal of bans or restrictions that currently block, to varying degrees, access to abortion for the more than 7 million women of childbearing age who live in those states .
13 states currently impose bans at all stages of pregnancy with some exceptions. Four more states ban abortions in most cases after about the sixth week of pregnancy, when some women do not yet know they are pregnant.
Despite the bans, the number of monthly abortions in the US has increased slightly due to the growing use of the abortion pill and organized efforts to help women travel to obtain abortions in states where it is permitted. However, advocates argue that the bans have reduced access to abortion, especially for lower-income state residents and minorities.
The bans are also part of a key argument in the presidential race. Vice President Kamala Harris called them "Trump's bans," noting the former president's role in overturning Roe v. Wade. At the same time, she presents herself as an outspoken and consistent advocate for reproductive health and rights, including the health of black mothers, notes the AP.