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The Georgia Secretary of State’s office said the state has hit 900,000 voters statewide on Election Day, Fox News has learned.

The office told Fox News earlier that it was on pace for 1.2 million voters on Tuesday alone.

Polls close at 7 p.m. ET, meaning 68% of the state’s voters have now voted. The early voting tally was 4 million ballots cast and 55% turnout.

Republicans in Georgia are “cautiously optimistic” about their chances of winning the key battleground, party Chairman Josh McKoon told Fox News Digital.

“I am cautiously optimistic. Rural turnout is steady,” McKoon said on Tuesday afternoon. “Urban turnout appears to be lower than 2020 or 2022 at the moment.”

Both the Trump and Harris campaigns have poured enormous time, energy and resources into Georgia, a state the former president lost by less than 12,000 votes in 2020.Rural turnout was unusually high during Georgia’s early voting period from Oct. 15 through Nov. 1, fueling GOP confidence that they could retake the state after Democrats made significant gains in the previous two elections.

Earlier, a judge in Cobb County, Georgia – part of the Atlanta suburbs – extended voting hours at two polling places after they delayed opening on Tuesday morning.

Georgia’s secretary of state promised the battleground’s elections would be “fair and fast.”

Voter turnout in Philadelphia has been “extremely high" on Election Day, local Democratic Party Chairman Bob Brady told Fox News.

“As of 3:30pm we are at 60% turnout with more than four hours left. In 2020 we hit 65% turnout in Philadelphia," said Brady, a former congressman. "We think we'll get 70% - hoping for 80% voter turnout."

“Voter turnout in Philadelphia is extremely high,” he added. “We are predicting very high turnout - much higher than 2020. The African American numbers are coming in high - a lot of women. The Puerto Rican vote is also extremely high. We hope to get to Obama's numbers.”

Vice President Kamala Harris arrived at the Democratic National Committee headquarters Tuesday afternoon to phone bank hours before the first polls close. 

"I just want to say hi and thank everybody for all you are doing," she told collected staff before manning the phones to contact potential voters. 

Reporters attempted to ask the vice president questions, but she responded, "Gotta talk with voters." 

Harris spoke to multiple people on the phone and urged them to follow through with their plans to vote on Tueday.

"I am well," she could be heard saying. "I just wanted to call you and check in and make sure you know where you can go vote today if you haven't already." 

"Thank you so very much. You know, it's so important that everybody participates. And I thank you because I'm sure you've got a lot of other things you could be doing," she said. 

Harris exited the room at 3:42 p.m.

Vice President Kamala Harris' plans for tonight, the evening of the 2024 presidential elections, include a return to her alma mater, Howard University in Washington, D.C.

Harris earned her bachelor's degree in political science and economics from the private, historically Black university.

Former President Donald Trump and Harris spent Monday night rallying in critical swing states for a final play at American voters.

Harris concluded her campaign stops in Scranton and Reading, both in Pennsylvania, while Trump made one last bid to the American people in North Carolina and Pennsylvania, before heading to Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Tonight, the president and first lady will watch election results in the White House Residence with long time aides and senior White House staff, according to a White House official. The president will receive regular updates on the state of races across the country.

Fox News' Patrick Ward contributed reporting.

From the mid-1940s to 1984, Wisconsin tended to favor Republicans. But Democrats won the seven elections from 1988 through 2012, though the 2000 and 2004 races were by razor-thin margins. Former President Donald Trump Trump broke that streak in 2016 when he won the state over Democrat Hillary Clinton by 0.7 percent. He cinched victory despite the fact that not a single one of the dozens of polls taken in the months leading up to the election favored him. Democrats took Wisconsin back in 2020 with President Joe Biden winning by 0.7 percent. 

Wisconsin’s importance in the election was underscored by Republicans choosing Milwaukee for their nominating convention in July. The Badger State was also the site of Vice President Kamala Harris’ first top-of-the-ticket rally. 

Democrats are seeking to repeat their “blue wall” of 2020 and win Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania - to counter any losses they may suffer in sunbelt states. 

A judge in Cobb County, Georgia has ordered two polling places in Marietta and Kell to stay open until 7:20 p.m. ET after these locations had delayed opening earlier on Tuesday morning.

Additionally, a Pennsylvania judge has ordered polling place hours in Laflin Borough to be extended until 9:30 p.m. after polls opened late and some voters could not cast their ballots earlier.

Local news station WNEP reported that the judge of elections was not present at the Laflin location when polls were supposed to open at 7:30 a.m. The first ballots were not cast until 8:30 a.m. Some voters said they had waited in line for nearly two hours before they were able to vote.

Both Georgia and Pennsylvania are key battleground states in the 2024 presidential election, viewed as must-win by former President Trump's and Vice President Kamala Harris' campaigns, respectively. 

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk will spend election night with former President Donald Trump in Florida, sources with knowledge confirmed to Fox News Digital. 

The New York Times first reported the news, citing two people familiar with Musk’s schedule, that Musk will be among a small group of people watching the election results with Trump as they come in. 

Trump later in the evening will host a larger audience at the Palm Beach County Convention Center. 

The former president has already cast his ballot Tuesday in Palm Beach, Fla., where his Mar-a-Lago residence is located. 

Musk, following the first assassination attempt against Trump in Butler, Pa., in July, wrote on X "I fully endorse President Trump and hope for his rapid recovery."

Musk has since campaigned for Trump heading into Election Day.

Vice President Harris used her remaining campaign time before Election Day to make a stop in Pennsylvania alongside Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., a member of the progressive "Squad."

Harris visited Old San Juan Café in Reading with Ocasio-Cortez and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro on Monday night. Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, D-Penn., and Reading Mayor Eddie Moran also joined.

Supporters chanted "Sí, se puede" and "Kamala" as the vice president’s motorcade pulled up to the café. Harris chatted with some diners inside and later ordered cassava, yellow rice and pork, saying, "I’m very hungry" as she noted that she has been too busy campaigning to find time to eat.

Diana de La Rosa, owner of the café, told the Reading Eagle that she was glad the vice president took the time to visit her business.

"[Harris] said she was very proud of me, that my restaurant is beautiful, and that she is very proud of women in business," de La Rosa told the outlet.

While in Reading, Harris also canvassed with supporters, knocking on doors. 

This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News Digital's Stephen Sorace.

A Black Lives Matter activist on the eve of Election Day slammed Vice President Kamala Harris and said that he plans to vote for former President Trump.

"Kamala Harris would use anything to her advantage. I definitely would not be supporting Kamala Harris. If she ever got anywhere close to power, it would be a disaster for this country," said co-founder of Black Lives Matter [BLM] Rhode Island Mark Fisher in an interview with The New York Post published on Monday.

Three years ago, Fisher led the BLM Rhode Island’s effort to demand Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse resign or sever ties with an all-White and exclusive Newport Beach club.

Fisher explained further to the New York Post that historically, the Democratic Party has been the party Black people overwhelmingly voted for, yet, never "got anything in return." He also cited "abysmal" poverty and crime and a "failing" education system in Black communities.

The "lifelong Democrat" voted for President Biden in 2020, a decision he "regrets."

This is an excerpt from an article written by Fox News' Joshua Q. Nelson.

Vice President Kamala Harris has won the 2024 U.S. presidential election straw poll in Guam, according to unofficial results.

Harris defeated Trump 49-46%, claiming 13,510 votes to Trump's 12,624. Guam does not have any Electoral College votes and these results are symbolic. However, even though Harris won the results show a 10-percentage point swing away from the Democrats compared to the results in 2020.

In the 2020 election, Biden won Guam with 55% of the vote compared to Trump's 42%. 

Though the straw poll has no impact on the election, the winner of every Guam straw poll between 1980 and 2012 went on to win the presidency. Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton won the poll in 2016, but Trump was elected president that year.

The unofficial results from Guam's election also indicate that Republicans will claim the majority in the territory's legislature, Pacific Daily News reported.

Republican Del. Jim Moylan will remain Guam's delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives. 

Turning Point USA founder and CEO Charlie Kirk said Republican turnout is "mixed" and "not where we want it to be" hours before the first polls will close on Election Day 2024.

The pro-Trump group is one of several organizations former President Trump's campaign has partnered with to run voter turnout operations.

"Turnout is mixed and not where we want it to be. We need more people to vote. We can't let turnout flatline," Kirk posted Tuesday on X.

"Text everyone you know. Make more noise. We need more," he added.

Turning Point has spent millions of dollars on a get-out-the-vote campaign in swing states including Arizona and Wisconsin, the Associated Press reported. The organization set a goal to raise $108 million for its "ballot chasing" operation in the 2024 election but fell short, according to NPR.

The group developed a voter mobilization app that grants access to detailed personal information of voters who can then be targeted by outreach efforts. The app has been criticized for lax security protocols to protect voters' information. 

The Associated Press contributed to this update.

Former President Trump paid a visit to his campaign headquarters and thanked staff in West Palm Beach, Fla., after casting his ballot in the 2024 election.

"There's never been a movement like this, and we're going to turn our country around," Trump told his staff. "We're going to not let people that murder people come into our country. We're not going to let drug dealers come into our country and terrorists come into our country. Little things like that. People are not going to stand them. And that's why we're doing well. But you know what? We still have a time to go. So let's make sure that let's make sure that we have this under control. And some of you are going to see tonight, I would imagine. I hope all of you. So I'll be seeing it tonight and it'll be great." 

Trump will host an election watch party at his Mar-a-Lago residence tonight. 

Sen. J.D. Vance, former President Donald Trump's 2024 running mate, referred to Vice President Kamala Harris as "trash" during a speech on the eve of Election Day.

"The citizens of this country are not garbage for wanting to be able to afford groceries and a nice place to live. But in two days we are gonna take out the trash in Washington, D.C., and the trash's name is Kamala Harris," Vance declared.

In a post on X, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., opined, "Not too sure that Republicans going from calling Puerto Ricans garbage to calling a woman garbage is the whiz-bang political chess move they think it is."

Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe faced criticism after cracking a joke in which he referred to Puerto Rico as "a floating island of garbage." He made the joke while speaking at Trump's rally at Madison Square Garden.

President Joe Biden later sparked controversy when he said, "The only garbage I see floatin' out there is his supporters."

This is an excerpt from an article written by Fox News' Alex Nitzberg.

Between 1972 and 1988, Michigan voted exclusively for Republican candidates in every presidential election. However, from 1992 until former President Donald Trump’s 2016 victory in the state, Michigan voted exclusively for Democratic presidential candidates, making it one of 18 states and Washington, D.C. – coined “the blue wall” – that voted Democrat in six consecutive presidential elections from 1992 through 2012. 

Later, in 2016, Trump narrowly flipped the state in favor of Republicans by beating out Hillary Clinton by a margin of .2%. The state returned to voting for a Democrat in 2020, when Joe Biden beat Trump by a margin of 2.8%. 

Margins of victory for either candidate have narrowed since the “blue wall” era as well. In 2012, the margin of victory for Barack Obama was almost 10%. Meanwhile, the combined margin of victory for both the 2016 and 2020 elections was 3%. 

Michigan is largely considered a “toss up” battleground state, with 15 electoral votes at stake for the winner.

FIRST ON FOX: Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., is firing a warning shot to agencies and departments within the federal government about a potential transition to a future Trump administration – telling the Democratic administration that it needs to follow federal requirements.

Hagerty has written to all federal agencies, in letters obtained by Fox News Digital, warning of applicable provisions in laws regarding appropriations that limit departments’ ability to transfer funds or change programs during the transition period.

"As we move into a presidential transition period, I write today to remind you of your statutory transfer-of-funds authority and change-of-program requirements under the Further Consolidated Appropriations and Extensions Act 2024…which will continue to apply with the same force during the transition," he wrote.

"Compliance with these requirements must be a priority for the outgoing administration, given the criminal and administrative consequences of failing to do so," he said.

He argues that the law limits moving funds, altering programs and prohibits employees from obligating federal dollars – with potential criminal sanctions or firing. 

This is an excerpt from an article written by Fox News' Adam Shaw.

At least two polling places temporarily closed in Fulton County, Georgia, on Tuesday after authorities received "non-credible" bomb threats.

Fulton County police said the voting locations at the Etris Community Center and Gullatt Elementary school in Union City closed for a short duration Tuesday morning in response to the threats. The two polling locations were closed for about 30 minutes each, local news station 11 Alive reported. 

"The Fulton County Department of Registration & Elections will seek a court order to allow these polling places to remain open for the same period as the temporary closure," police said. 

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said at a press conference the threats were "of Russian origin." 

"So they're up to mischief, it seems. And they don't want us to have a smooth, fair and accurate election," he said of Russia.

"And they think they can get us to fight among ourselves. They can count that as a victory. So that's as you talked a little bit about, the Russians. They're not our friends. Anyone that thinks they are hasn't been reading the newspapers." 

The FBI said it was "aware" of the threats and agreed that they "appear to originate from Russian email domains."

"None of the threats have been determined to be credible thus far," the FBI said Tuesday.

With the eyes of the nation focused this week on the outcome of Election Day 2024, what's clear in her new book is how Melania Trump, former first lady, protects her own mental and psychological health no matter the events she's navigating.

She's the author of the current New York Times No. 1 bestseller, "Melania." 

The personal memoir gives readers a rare look inside her life, starting with the moment she set foot on American soil as a 26-year-old and on through the assassination attempt on her husband, former President Donald J. Trump, this past summer in Butler, Pennsylvania. 

Whether she's enjoying personal success or dealing with political chaos, whether she's celebrating family triumphs or weathering times of national turbulence, she figured out long ago how to stay calm, even-keeled and focused on what matters most, she reveals.

"Life's circumstances shape you in many ways, often entirely beyond your control — your birth, parental influences and the world in which you grow up," she writes.

This is an excerpt pulled from an article written by Fox News' Maureen Mackey.

Nevada has tripled its population over the last 40 years, consequently doubling its electoral representation from three to six votes.

With that influx came a more liberal populace: while Republicans dominated the state from the late 1960s to the late 1980s, it became a swing state after that. Democrats won in every election from 1976 to 2020 – except in 2000 and in 2004, when the state went for George W. Bush.

Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump in 2016 48 to 46%, while in 2020, Joe Biden beat Trump by about 2.5%.

Barack Obama won the state by particularly large margins – 12.5 points against John McCain in 2008 and 6.7 points ahead of Mitt Romney in 2012.

In an effort to court Nevada’s many service industry voters centered in Las Vegas, Trump rolled out a “no tax on tips” campaign slogan - a promise to eliminate federal taxes on tipped wages. Harris followed suit and endorsed the same policy shortly thereafter.