Donations to Kamala Harris’s election campaign are being redirected towards a vote recount effort. The fine-print on the website ActBlue, a nonprofit fundraising platform for Democrats, suggests funding is being put aside to challenge the veracity of the Nov 5 election in which Donald Trump defeated Ms Harris by a landslide.

Some places in Arizona voted to support the Republican presidential candidate at about the same rate as they did four years ago. Others saw major shifts to the left.

Half of voters identified democracy as the single most important motivating factor for their vote. That was higher than the share of voters who answered the same way about inflation, the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border, abortion policy or free speech, according to AP VoteCast, a survey of more than 120,000 voters nationwide.