FREELAND, MI – U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson believes Michigan is “ground zero” in the battle for the presidency. “Michigan matters more than most, you know that,” Johnson said. “How Michigan goes, so goes the country.”

In the United States, the president is not elected by the popular vote but in a system known as the electoral college.

Donald Trump will face Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election after Joe Biden dropped out of the race in July.

While many of the questions seemed more like vituperative venting about the presidential candidates, others were constructive and interesting. They ranged from questions about the Electoral College to specific inquiries about why ballots in some counties look the way they do.

Bill Bratton, who has led the Boston, New York City and Los Angeles Police Departments, told the Herald he believes this election is “going to be unlike any we’ve certainly seen in modern times”

In the final sprint to Election Day, dollars and eyeballs are flocking to prediction markets that offer ever-changing odds of Trump or Harris winning the race.

Vice President Kamala Harris will start the day in Michigan and finish with an event in Georgia with the singer Usher. Former President Donald J. Trump will hold a rally outside Pittsburgh.

Four accounts on crypto-based prediction market Polymarket that placed large bets on former President Donald Trump winning the 2024 election, and have been the subject of much online speculation, are owned by non-Americans or a non-American,

Americans are voting every day, either early at a polling place or by mail. When CNN reports the number of early ballots returned or requested, the data is coming from a company called Catalist.

BOSTON - Ballot boxes were busy Saturday as Massachusetts residents took full advantage of in-person early voting. From Roxbury to Needham and all communities throughout the state, voters were anxious and excited to cast their ballots.