In pictures: Tears and jubilation on US election day 2024
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Americans vote in the presidential race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.

Donald Trump declares victory in the US election as he addresses jubilant supporters in Florida.

Trump supporters cheer and clap at the election night rally in Palm Beach, Florida.

Harris supporters console each other at a Democratic event in Washington as projections suggested Trump was in the lead.

Trump and his wife Melania voted at the Mandel Recreation Center in Palm Beach, Florida.

Staying in Florida, dummy flamingos made a surprise appearance in West Palm Beach earlier on election day.

Harris was with her team at the party's headquarters in Washington early on election day.

Members of Alpha Kappa Alpha, the country's first black sorority founded at Howard University in 1908, at Harris's watch party.

Mike and Dolly Rump of Madison County sport their MAGA hats at the Trump watch party at the Palm Beach County Convention Center. Trump and his supporter Elon Musk were expected to attend.

The very first polls opened at midnight on Tuesday in the remote, unincorporated New Hampshire township of Dixville Notch.

The result was three for Harris and three for Trump.

Alaskans vote for president. Their polling stations will be the last to close.

People wait in line to vote at the Brooklyn Museum in New York.

New York has 28 electoral college votes up for grabs.

People cast their vote at Longley Elementary School in Maine.

Holyn Robinson, a student and first-time precinct commissioner, takes her oath along with fellow commissioners just before the opening of the polls, at the Hynes Charter School in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Voters line up outside a polling station at the Cincinnati Observatory in Ohio.

One Cincinnati voters brought her dog to take part in the process.

In Idaho, Vancie Tuner and her horse Clementine rallied the local community in the city of Driggs to get out and vote.

A cat named Sky observes voting at a polling place in Pittsburgh.

In Georgia, one of the key swing states, voting results were unveiled by an election worker at Fulton County Operations Hub and Elections Center.

Queues at a polling station at Farmersville Elementary School in Easton, Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania is seen as the key swing state, and has 19 electoral college votes.

Election workers process mail-in ballots in Philadelphia. Pennsylvania is one of seven states that forbid processing mail-in ballots before 07:00 on election day.

Gene Girdwood, ballot clerk, checked in voters in Bethlehem, New Hampshire. A presidential election day ballot can be long - two or three pages.

Voters line up in Phoenix, Arizona.