Us 2020 white house race
Pompeo promises 'smooth transition to a second Trump administration'
'There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration,' US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday.
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The hip hop star and fashion designer saw his highest numbers in Tennessee, where some 10,000 people cast their ballots for West, according to 'The New York Times'.
Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin have all indicated a final picture could emerge Wednesday, Pennsylvania has said it could take up to 6 November, while in North Carolina mail ballots postmarked election day are accepted until 12 November.
Earlier, the US president said he felt good about his chances for victory as election day opened Tuesday, predicting that he would register big wins in key states such as Florida and Arizona.
More than 100 million people have already cast their ballots in early voting, putting the country on course for its highest turnout in a century.
'We're done with the chaos! We're done with the tweets, the anger, the hate, the failure, the irresponsibility,' said the Democratic presidential nominee on Monday.
US President Donald Trump is already threatening to take legal action in a bid to stop the postal ballots from being counted in key battleground states.
Besides voting for president, millions of American voters will also be choosing members of the country's 117th Congress.
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden made his first joint appearance of the campaign with his former boss Barack Obama on Saturday in Flint, Michigan as they scramble to boost turnout in a state Trump carried by a razor-thin margin in 2016.
Jack Dorsey of Twitter and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook - summoned alongside Sundar Pichai of Google parent Alphabet - said proposed reforms could lead to more harmful and abusive content online, and would limit rather than expand free expression.
The most heated early exchanges were over mutual accusations of graft.
Facebook has been increasing its efforts to avoid a repeat of events leading up to the 2016 US election, won by Donald Trump, when its network was used for attempts at voter manipulation, carried out from Russia.
As the election nears, it is the incumbent who appears to face steeper odds, with polls indicating a Democratic surge and a few Republican senators have openly expressed doubts about their party's leader.
The split-screen spectacle follows Trump's three-day campaign tour of battleground states once doctors gave him the medical all-clear less than two weeks after he announced he contracted the coronavirus.
Twitter suspended the identified profiles because they were deceiving users about their intention and their identity, and were therefore deemed to be manipulating public debate.
By law, the Republican-led Senate has to approve the nomination to the country's highest court, where conservatives currently occupy five of the nine seats.
But it is not yet clear to what degree contracting COVID-19 confers immunity, with early studies suggesting a few months while newer ones have indicated it could last longer.