Social media users claimed Donald Trump voted with a body duplicate of his wife, Melania, and the FBI said that phoney bomb threats targeting at least four of the seven swing states originated in Russia.
According to Sky’s partner network, NBC News, several of the most crucial battleground states are still too close to call because exit polls are released in various states at different times.
These are the pivotal moments of polling night thus far. Donald Trump’s team may be optimistic, with the Republicans maintaining a lead in certain crucial states, but a definite victor is still some distance off.
Throughout Tuesday, bomb threats were made at polling places in a number of the seven crucial states.
All of the security threats were deemed “non-credible” by the FBI, and they temporarily prevented voters in Fulton County and DeKalb County, Georgia, from casting ballots.
Arizona, Wisconsin, and Michigan also had hoaxes, although they did not affect voting.
Due to printer and computer problems, two North Carolina counties temporarily closed their voting places.
Ultimately, the official statewide polls closed on schedule, while some voters were permitted to continue casting their ballots after the deadline. Georgia and North Carolina both stated that they would have to extend their voting hours as a result.
Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, said that Russian IP addresses were the source of the fictitious bomb threats.
“It appears that they are up to no good. If they can persuade us to fight among ourselves, they can claim success because they don’t want us to have a smooth, fair, and accurate election,” he remarked.
“As President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly stressed, we respect the will of the American people,” a spokesman for the Russian embassy in Washington said, calling accusations of meddling “malicious slander.”
Other recent US elections, especially the 2016 contest in which Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton, have been accused of being influenced by Russia.
Conspiracy theories claimed that Melania Trump was not the person in the video that surfaced on social media showing her voting with Donald Trump in Florida.
Late on Tuesday afternoon, Mr. and Mrs. Trump cast their ballots at the Mandel Recreation Center in Palm Beach.
Online users, however, questioned Melania’s look and speculated that Mr. Trump had substituted a body double, calling it a “fake.”
A video of the former first lady was captioned with the words, “That’s not Melania,” in one X post that received millions of views. This is crazy.
To establish that it was Mrs Trump, Sky News examined the footage and contrasted it with images of her obtained by the Reuters news agency, which show her visiting the same precinct with her husband.
‘Fake Melania’ has been famous on the internet before. The former president was suspected of hiring a doppelganger to represent his wife at events because of Mrs Trump’s few appearances on the campaign trail this year, which contrasted sharply with those in 2016 and 2020.
Mrs Trump reportedly participated in private fundraisers, including one at Trump Tower in New York. She welcomed her husband and X founder Elon Musk on stage at his rally at Madison Square Gardens late last month.
Enough voters did not support a proposal to include abortion rights in the Florida constitution.
Women would have been permitted to end pregnancies up to 24 weeks if the idea had been approved. The legislation now only allows them for a maximum of six weeks before most women know they are pregnant.
It’s a win for Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, who has used state-funded television advertisements and threats of criminal prosecution against TV networks that broadcast pro-Amendment four advertisements throughout his campaign.
Although the amendment received the most votes, it eventually fell short of the 60% required to become state law.
Following the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, abortion was on the ballot in ten states.
NBC predicted that states that voted to defend reproductive rights included Colorado and New York, which are Democrat-safe states, in contrast to Florida.
The constitution of New York will now ensure that people cannot be denied their rights based on race, religion, and other protected qualities, including “pregnancy outcomes.”
Colorado’s present constitutional ban on publicly financed abortions will be abolished, and reproductive rights will be incorporated into the state constitution unless state authorities attempt to enact a local restriction.
Only 14% of voters said abortion was the most critical issue of the election overall, while 35% said democracy, according to an NBC exit survey.
Before polls closed in Philadelphia on Tuesday night, Donald Trump made further bogus allegations of election fraud, claiming that there was “talk of massive cheating in Philadelphia.”
There was no proof that the “law enforcement coming!” to the Pennsylvania city to investigate his allegations was real.
Twenty minutes later, he shared another post on his Truth Social media account, stating that police in Detroit, Michigan, were also looking into allegations of electoral fraud.
Larry Krasner, the state’s district attorney, stated that these accusations lacked “any factual basis.”
“We want facts immediately if Donald J. Trump has any to back up his outrageous claims. Now. He commented on X, “We’re not holding our breath.”
Historically, the winner of the White House is determined by seven battleground states, including Michigan and Pennsylvania.
In 2020, Mr. Trump filed nearly 60 lawsuits alleging voting fraud in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, and Washington, DC.
