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US President Donald Trump held his last 2020 campaign rally well after midnight on Election Day in Michigan after a marathon day of campaigning in swing states on Monday. Challenger Joe Biden had wrapped a few hours earlier after barnstorming Pennsylvania, the critically important state to both parties, CBS reports.

Biden swept all five votes in the tiny New Hampshire town of Dixville Notch, which votes at the stroke of midnight on Election Day and is the first to report its results. Trump won in nearby Millsfield, which also casts its ballots at midnight, with the president taking 16 votes to Biden's 5.

In Texas, where early voter turnout surpassed the total voter turnout in 2016, a federal judge on Monday rejected a lawsuit filed by four Republicans seeking to prevent officials from counting nearly 127,000 votes cast at drive-thru polling locations in the Houston area. Hours after the judge's order was filed Monday, Harris County Clerk Chris Hollins announced that nine of the county's 10 drive-thru polling locations would be closed Tuesday. Hollins claimed the closures were enacted to protect ballots from being thrown out.

As of Monday, 97 million Americans nationwide have already voted, suggesting there will be record turnout at the polls this year.

More than 97 million Americans voted early as of Monday, November 2.

(America decides) Texas early voter turnout surpasses 2016