Former US President Donald Trump and US Vice President Kamala Harris.
Former US President Donald Trump and US Vice President Kamala Harris.Photo Illustration: Bloomberg/Bloomberg

Election Day 2024 Is Upon Us and What a Strange Trip It’s Been

In the wildest campaign in decades Democrats switched candidates, Trump was shot, and voters across America were left dizzy 

As the most turbulent presidential campaign in decades enters its final hours, Americans can be forgiven for wondering: What just happened?

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are separated by the narrowest of margins in polls – which show Tuesday’s election is a coin flip – and by a chasm in their future vision for the world’s premier economic and military power. US voters will either pick their first female, Black and Asian leader – or reappoint a chief executive seeking an unprecedented return to the White House he left in disgrace nearly four years ago.