The first results in the 2024 Presidential Election came in a little after midnight in the small New Hampshire town of Dixville Notch – and they weren’t what anyone was expecting. 

The town’s six residents honored its tradition of voting at the stroke of midnight. 

In 2020, it was a clean-sweep for Biden.

This year, however, the vote was split – three for Trump, and three for Harris. 

Dixville Notch has produced the first results of the first-in-the-nation primary since 1960 with its midnight vote on Election Day.

With such a tiny sample, the vote doesn’t typically indicate how the election will end up.

The voters, all Republicans, all cast their ballots for Nikki Haley in the GOP primary, giving her a clean sweep over former President Donald Trump and all the other candidates. 

It comes as a final key poll revealed that Harris entered Election Day with a 4-point lead over Trump after slashing the gender gap.

Harris, 60, has the support of 51 percent of likely voters, according to the latest PBS News/NPR/Marist poll. Trump has support from 47 per cent.

The survey found that Harris’ surge comes after Trump’s lead among male voters significantly declined in the final days leading up to the election.

Trump, 78, previously held a 57 per cent lead amongst male voters, but now only leads 51 per cent to Harris’ 47 per cent. However, the Democrat‘s lead among women shrunk from 18 to 11 points.

Analysts say the top line results of the Marist poll are nearly identical to those of the 2020 election, which reported Joe Biden leading Trump 51 to 47 per cent. 

The outcome of this year’s knife-edge election, which has become the closest race to White House in decades, is too close to call and could potentially come down to a few thousand votes in seven key swing states.

The survey found that Harris holds a 4-point lead over Trump nationally, which is just outside the poll’s 3.5-point margin of error.

Analysts say that most notable change in the last month of the campaign is the gender gap shrinking by half.

In October, Harris had the support of 41 per cent of men. That has now increased to 47 per cent. 

Trump’s support amongst male voters dropped from 57 to 51 per cent, but he still maintains a lead over Harris in this demographic.

The Vice President maintained her lead amongst women voters, but did see it drop from 58 to 55 per cent from October to November.

Trump, however, saw a rise in support amongst women with 44 per cent now saying they will back him, a 4-point increase from last month.

The gender split in the Marist poll is nearly identical to the split between Biden and Trump in 2020, analysts noted. 

Harris has also shrunken the lead that Trump has with white voters, the poll revealed. Trump led this demographic by 12 points in 2020, but now leads by 9.

However, compared to Biden in 2020, Harris has seen a slight decline in support from Black and Latino voters.

She has the support of 83 percent of Black likely voters and 61 percent of Latino likely voters, a drop of 8 and 2 points respectively from the share that support Biden four years ago.

Many Granite State voters will wake up Tuesday morning to the results of Dixville Notch’s election as other polling places begin opening as residents head to work. 

The voting took place in a new location, the living room of Tillotson House, with the Balsams Resort undergoing renovations. It made for a congenial setting, with an 11-month-old golden retriever named Maxine greeting media and voters.

Just 20 miles from the Canadian border, The Balsams opened its closely-watched polling place in the living room at the Tillotson House to a room full of journalists who documented the votes of the town’s handful of voters. 

Prior to the pandemic, the small New Hampshire town had double the residents it has now, with a dozen casting ballots back to 2010 and even more in years prior. 

Les Otten, the principal owner and developer of the Balsams Resort, spoke during the primary of how unique the event is.

‘It’s special. It really is,’ Otten said. ‘It’s what ought to happen in every community in the United States, where there is 100 percent participation, everybody votes.’ 

‘None of the six of us can complain about the outcome of the election, because we’ve participated.’ 

Dixville Notch caters to snowmobilers and Nordic skiers in the winter, and golfers and hikers in the summer.

For the primary, it had four registered Republicans and two undeclared voters.

Meanwhile Americans are bracing for civil unrest amid scary predictions of ‘blood’ during today’s knife’s-edge presidential election that appears to hinge on the results in just seven swing states, reviving painful memories of recent assassination bids and chaos after the 2020 vote.

Businesses in Washington, DC were on Monday boarding up their windows as security fencing went up around the White House, US Vice President Harris’s residence, and other key buildings in the capital.

Fights have broken out at polling stations and election workers have prepared for gun attacks, amid a flurry of threats to blow up political offices and other sensitive sites ahead of election day.

Washington state has activated some members of the National Guard to be on standby, while a Democratic congressman has warned ‘there may be blood’ resulting from clashes between angry voters.

Police and guardsmen are on standby for election chaos in Portland, Oregon, with its record of Antifa violence, and where Mayor Ted Wheeler warns of ‘uncertainty and tension’ during polling.

The 2024 race has already seen bloodshed, with the July 13 shooting at a Donald Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, which grazed the former president and left one attendee dead and two more wounded.

The contest has also been marred by damning rhetoric between the rival campaigns. A speaker at a Trump rally spoke recently of the ‘slaughter’ of Democrats, and Trump himself has spoken of ‘shooting at’ former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney.

Meanwhile, Harris has called Trump a ‘threat’ to democracy who must be defeated at the ballot box, while her boss the outgoing President Joe Biden has called the MAGA Republican’s supporters ‘garbage.’   

Meanwhile, the specter of January 6, 2021, when supporters of Trump stormed the US Capitol, seeking to overturn the former president’s election loss to Biden – has cast a long shadow over US politics.

This time round, Trump has repeatedly refused to state whether he will accept the election results, and is already alleging fraud and cheating in neck-and-neck swing states such as Pennsylvania, laying the groundwork for what many fear will be more unrest.

Trump supporter Bill Robinson, 65, of North Carolina, says some kind of violence now looks likely.

‘It’s a horrendous possibility, because it looks like there’s no other option than some kind of extreme unrest,’ Robinson told USA Today.

Tensions mounted on Monday as Trump and his rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, made their final bid to woo voters, hours before polling stations open on Tuesday in a close-call contest that hinges on a handful of electoral battlegrounds.

Hours before the polls opened, Joe Rogan endorsed Donald Trump in the election after sitting down with Elon Musk for a two-hour interview.

‘If it wasn’t for him (Musk) we’d be f***ed,’ Rogan wrote on X just hours before the polls open.

‘He makes what I think is the most compelling case for Trump you’ll hear, and I agree with him every step of the way.

‘For the record, yes, that’s an endorsement of Trump. Enjoy the podcast’.

It’s a drastic reversal from the podcaster’s 2020 support for Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., a self-proclaimed democratic socialist who helped develop the Green New Deal.

On Monday, Rogan sat with the Tesla billionaire in a wide-ranging conversation for two hours and 45 minutes. 

In the episode the Tesla chief details the case for Trump to Rogan who seems enraptured by Musk’s matter-of-fact explanations. 

‘If Trump doesn’t win, this is the last election,’ Musk said.  

‘I think you’re right,’ Rogan retorts immediately. ‘I think a lot of people are waking up and realizing that who have been lifelong Democrats.’ 

Meanwhile, talk show great Oprah Winfrey gave a dire warning about former President Trump winning today’s election at a star-studded rally in support of Vice President Harris late Monday night in Philadelphia. 

‘If we don’t show up tomorrow, it is entirely possible that we will not have the opportunity to ever cast a ballot again,’ Winfrey warned the crowd, who waited for hours to see a line-up that included Lady Gaga, Ricky Martin, Will.i.am, Fat Joe and the Roots. 

Winfrey told Democrats, ‘All the anxiety and the fear you’re feeling, you’re feeling that because you sense the danger.’ 

‘And you change that with your vote,’ she said. ‘You are voting for healing over hate.’