November 4, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — Voters were deciding between President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden on Tuesday, closing an epic campaign marked by rancor and fear that will influence how the nation confronts a surging pandemic and foundational questions of economic fairness and racial justice.

The first set of polls closed, beginning to draw to an end a campaign that was reshaped by the coronavirus and marked by contentiousness. Each candidate declared the other fundamentally unfit to lead a nation grappling with COVID-19, a virus that has killed more than 232,000 Americans, cost millions of jobs and rewritten the norms of everyday life.

The night began with predictable victories for each candidate, Trump taking Kentucky and West Virginia and Biden winning Virginia and Vermont. It was too early to call Georgia, the battleground state with the earliest poll close time.

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