{"id":273960,"date":"2020-11-03T22:54:29","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T03:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=273960"},"modified":"2020-11-03T22:54:29","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T03:54:29","slug":"first-polls-close-in-us-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/11\/03\/first-polls-close-in-us-presidential-election\/","title":{"rendered":"First polls close in US presidential election"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_273681\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-273681\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/markus-winkler-7PSpOMxpsoE-unsplash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-273681\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/markus-winkler-7PSpOMxpsoE-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/markus-winkler-7PSpOMxpsoE-unsplash.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/markus-winkler-7PSpOMxpsoE-unsplash-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/markus-winkler-7PSpOMxpsoE-unsplash-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/markus-winkler-7PSpOMxpsoE-unsplash-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-273681\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Results are not expected to begin rolling in until later Tuesday. (File photo: Markus Winkler\/Unsplash)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WASHINGTON\u00a0\u2013 The first round of poll closures began Tuesday evening with parts of Indiana and Kentucky shuttering voting locations as the US prepares for results in this year&#8217;s race for the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Those parts of the two states that lie within the Eastern Time zone have closed, but those within the Central Time zone will remain open for an additional hour.<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump is widely expected to maintain his 2016 holds on both Indiana and Kentucky.<\/p>\n<p>Results are not expected to begin rolling in until later Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The next major round of closures will begin at 7 p.m. Eastern Time, including the remainder of Indiana and Kentucky, Georgia, South Carolina, Vermont, and Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>Eastern Time zone portions of Florida will also close then, along with parts of New Hampshire.<\/p>\n<p>The largest round of closures begins at 8 p.m. when more than 20 states and Washington, DC will close polling places, including the battleground states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, Texas, and the remainder of Florida.\u00a0<em><strong>(Anadolu)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\u00a0\u2013 The first round of poll closures began Tuesday evening with parts of Indiana and Kentucky shuttering voting locations as &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":273681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","mauthors-anadolu","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273961,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273960\/revisions\/273961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}