US election LIVE updates: Joe Biden maintains lead over Donald Trump as record number of Americans head to the polls

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Summary

• Nearly 100 million Americans have already cast their ballots early, and now it falls to election day voters to finish the job
• Joe Biden enters election day with multiple paths to victory while President Donald Trump has a narrower but still feasible road to clinch 270 Electoral College votes
• Joe Biden will head to Philadelphia and his native Scranton on Tuesday before awaiting election results in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware
• Trump plans to visit his campaign headquarters in Virginia. He has invited hundreds of supporters to an election night party in the East Room of the White House
• It may be days before the election result is known, especially if legal challenges focused on postal ballots are accepted in the event of a tight race

Two tiny towns cast votes just after midnight

Two tiny New Hampshire towns that vote for president in the first minutes of election day, just after the stroke of midnight, have already cast their ballots, with one of them marking 60 years since the tradition began.

The results in Dixville Notch, near the Canadian border, were a sweep for Biden, who won the town's five votes.

In nearby Millsfield, Trump won 16 votes to Biden's five. Normally, there would be a big food spread and many people crammed into a small space to watch the voting in Dixville Notch, but the coronavirus pandemic shelved those plans.

"Sixty years – and unfortunately, we can't celebrate it," Tom Tillotson, the town moderator in Dixville Notch, said

With AP

Biden, Trump fight for every vote

Joe Biden will head to Philadelphia and his native Scranton on Tuesday as part of a closing get-out-to-vote effort before awaiting election results in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware.

His running mate, Senator Kamala Harris, will visit Detroit, a heavily black city in battleground Michigan.

President Donald Trump, after a morning appearance on his favoured network, Fox News Channel, planned to visit his campaign headquarters in Virginia. He has invited hundreds of supporters to an election night party in the East Room of the White House.

US President Donald Trump and Democrat nominee Joe Biden. Credit:AP

Now it falls to election day voters to finish the job, ending a campaign that was upended by the coronavirus pandemic and defined by tensions over who could best address it.

Biden enters election day with multiple paths to victory while Trump, playing catch-up in a number of battleground states, has a narrower but still feasible road to clinch 270 Electoral College votes.

The nation is braced for what is to come – and be warned, a result mayh not be known for several days to come. Stick with us as we take you through the day's developments.

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