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PBS NewsHour, November 5, 2024 – 12:00 pm to 11:00 pm (ET)
PBS NewsHour, November 5, 2024 – 7:00 pm (ET)
PBS NewsHour, November 5, 2024 – 7:00 pm (ET)
The 2024 United States elections are scheduled to be held on Tuesday, November 5, 2024. During this presidential election year, the President and Vice President will be elected.
In addition, all 435 seats in the United States House of Representatives and 34 of the 100 seats in the United States Senate will be contested to determine the membership of the 119th United States Congress. Thirteen state and territorial governorships and numerous other state and local elections will also be contested.
Information on where, when, and how to vote in each state can be found in this post by selecting your state’s region then your state.
Go to the Voting in 2024 category to learn more about how to vote in your state and to what federal and state elections are happening in your state. On laptop and desktop computers can be viewed in a slide show format.
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There are 34 senate races on the ballot in 2024. Currently 23 seats are held by Democrats and 11 by Republicans.
This post has summaries of the most competitive senate races according to most polls as shown in the map.
Go here or select the menu in the header to view all the senate races in a slide show format.
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PBS NewsHour – November 5, 2024 (05:00)
In our news wrap Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu fired his defense minister Yoav Gallant amid a growing rift, Ukrainian troops have engaged with North Korean soldiers for the first time since they were deployed to fight for Russia and Boeing workers are returning to the job after their union voted to accept a new contract ending a 53-day strike.
All 435 House seats are on the ballot in 2024. Currently 213 seats are held by Democrats and 220 seats are held by Republicans.
This post has summaries of the most competitive house races according to most polls as shown in the map.
Go to the 2024 US House Races category to view all the featured competitive house races in a slide show format.
Member Note: If you have a suggestions or questions for our US onAir Curators, select the discussion/comment icon in the post. If you would like to comment on a specific race, go to that race post’s discussion section.
PBS NewsHour – November 5, 2024 (06:35)
So it’s clear that if Trump wins, it will be no time to give up, no time to take more than a short (okay, maybe medium-length) break for a few stiff drinks. We’ll have to fortify ourselves by recalling the wonderful admonition of the great John McCain: It’s always darkest before it turns pitch black. Then back into the fray!
But what if Kamala Harris wins? O happy day! But even then, it won’t really be time for a break. Doing so would be like landing successfully on D-Day and then deciding to take few days off. It doesn’t work that way.
As millions of young people head to the polls today, libbing out serves as both a coping mechanism and a critique. It’s a performative buy-in to a political party and system that many people under the age of 40 are deeply skeptical of.
If Kamala does win, the temporary solace of “libbing out” likely won’t last long. While we will have averted another Trump term, true change to our political system remains elusive.
So the AI boom of the last 12 years was made possible by three visionaries who pursued unorthodox ideas in the face of widespread criticism. One was Geoffrey Hinton, a University of Toronto computer scientist who spent decades promoting neural networks despite near-universal skepticism. The second was Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, who recognized early that GPUs could be useful for more than just graphics.
The third was Fei-Fei Li. She created an image dataset that seemed ludicrously large to most of her colleagues. But it turned out to be essential for demonstrating the potential of neural networks trained on GPUs.
Election Day voter resources.
Here are a few resources you can use to learn about the downballot races and ballot initiatives in your state, as well as how to find your polling place and check your voter registration status.
Vox, – November 6, 2024
Ultimately, the presidential race will be decided by seven key swing states where the margins between Democrats and Republicans are exceedingly close. The states — Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina, and Nevada — include some that voted for President Joe Biden in 2020, but that also voted for Trump in 2016. And as recently as this past weekend, polls were so tight in many of them that they remain a toss-up going into Election Day.
Now Cillizza is trying to define himself as something else. A creator. An independent journalist. An entrepreneur who built a business that isn’t subjected to the vicissitudes of a media conglomerate that views its employees as numbers on a spreadsheet.
Today’s Poll
Who Wins?
Kamala Harris
Donald Trump
November 4, 2024 Poll Results
Is the Des Moines Register poll showing Kamala Harris leading in Iowa an incorrect aberration or a predictor of how the race will end?
74.99% –Â Accurate predictor
25.01% –Â Incorrect aberration
1 big thing: What we’ve lived through
Tonight’s cheat sheet
The big finish
Campaign keepers
What the new president means for AI
Charted: Newspaper endorsements plummet
1 fun thing: Election night respite
– December 13, 2024
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