Millions of Americans are heading to the polls today as a chaotic presidential campaign reaches its peak in a deeply divided United States, where voters in only a handful of battleground states will choose the country’s path forward.
Vice-President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump have presented starkly different visions for America’s future, but polling shows the two remain in a dead heat.
Many Canadians are keeping a close eye on the election.
A shared history and 8,891-kilometre border will not shield Canada from the election’s outcome as both candidates have proposed protectionist policies.
Trump’s proposed 10 per cent across-the-board tariff has turned some heads, as a Canadian Chamber of Commerce report suggests those tariffs would shrink the Canadian economy, resulting in around $30 billion per year in economic costs.
The U.S. is Canada’s largest trading partner and its next president will be in charge during the review of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico agreement in 2026.
The polls will close starting at 6pm Eastern Time in parts of Indiana and Kentucky, and ending at 11pm in California and Washington state (then an hour later in Alaska and Hawaii).
By 9pm, all of the battleground states will have finished voting – including Arizona and Nevada in the West.
Written by: M. LeBlanc