to less than 6, but scientists say $186.00 of the countries, $240.00 lakes have dried up during the last 60 years and the rate of water loss is accelerating as climate change. worse since around the world. the hello on side of hired us and we'll continue all special coverage of the selection in a moment. but 1st here's a look at the days. news from elsewhere is ready. prime minister benjamin netanyahu has sykes, his defense minister, you'll have kalonde, has been publicly critical of nothing. y'all, whose management is the war on garza and cold for new will goals. the prime minister's office isn't now so far and minnesota is raul counts will be replacing him with the fema named over the past 3 months, corrected the period between me and the minister of defense, significant gaps in the management of the military campaign. and these gaps were

accompanied by statements and actions that contradicted the decisions of the government and the cabinet. the well yeah, i've gone, has responded to his dismissal on how much the fall is covering the latest developments on not from jordan's comp so on. and that's because he is ready to government, his band, ultra 0 phone reporting inside israel and the occupied territories in the form a easily the defense minister you go on to gave a 10 advised address to the nation talking about the points of this called after the tension between him and a prime minister benjamin netanyahu, he summarized between the 3 points. one of them has to do with that description of the how do you deem that to now who is opposed to that it got is for it. and about the 2nd point is about the, the need to side to deal with him us for the release of the hostages. again, he has always been accusing missing yahoo of starting box in order to continue the

war. at the 3rd point is about the need for a company has the if official investigation it to the, the incidents via the tax of october. second. again, he's saying that the boss has always been delayed by the cabinets of prime minister netanyahu. as a 61, people have been killed across the goal is a strip since tuesday morning is really a tax and bid law have forced many people to see areas in the know with no safe place to seek refuge. but come on, i had one hospital that has been hit for the consecutive day, even as medical stuff and patients of stuck. the israel has also launched, strikes targeting central, as well as southern areas of 11 on the latest attack was in the town of buzzer in mounts 11 on which killed 15 people. the lebanese national news agency says the bombing has destroyed 37 towns and move in 40000 houses in the south since

september. well, in spain, more rain has schools to further flood damage and once again disrupted road as well as as travel rescue teams in valencia were looking for people missing since flash floods with the region last week. at least 217 people have died as well. that set for me sort of high that i'll be back with more the days news later, but so now i'll be handling you back to our us election team here. and uh huh. the welcome back to i'll just hear a special coverage of the 2020 for us presidential election. i'm 40 bad people life my global headquarters here in doha with our special guest here for several hours of special coverage of the us presidential election. i can give you

a number on ours because i know it's going to be a long night. the voting that will decide who will be america's next president is continuing across the us. the 2 candidates come to harris and donald trump has or may not, can next want the race. whoever wins the presidency, it will be historic. the polls have begun closing in some parts of 2 states, indiana, and kentucky. though we won't be reporting any returns from either until the entire state closes in about an hour from now on. now, a new countdown begins as the world turns into one of the most consequential us elections in recent history. remember, the us is a big country with 50 states and the district of columbia o in full time. so that means that the voting results will come in sporadically. much of the focuses on 7 key states, our zona, georgia, michigan, nevada, north carolina, pennsylvania and wisconsin. these are the battleground states that are likely to determine the outcome of the election. while we have kimberly hawk,

it will be harris campaign added selection wash party in washington dc at howard university, which happens to be my own and my tell so. but 1st we go to alan fisher was following the trump campaign outside the palm beach convention center in florida. all. and so how is the trump campaign feeling about this election of the cool? well, they seem to be very confident about the way things are going. i was speaking the republican contact a couple of hours ago, and he said they are very pleased with the way things have turned out. donald trump, of course, when he went to board a few hours ago, said that he thought he'd run the best campaign of the 3 presidential runs, that he made a certainly the thing that they could win states that when even on the map for them, they're talking about new hampshire and the gym, which would expect it to go for the democrats on this, even the top that they could win somewhere like new mexico, colorado. so one of the pay students suggest that but they've been in tannel pool,

it gives them the idea that they are going to work with from donald trump just in the last step on his social media platform to its social. it's a lot to talk about massive tv fil a delta button. forestman coming now will slip to the police of fidelity and they say they have no idea what donald is talking about. at this point. certainly picks wood desk. the don't add them as lifting the work to come in to say the vote was right if he loses and some schools that we saw for the weekend work being done. but there seems to be a mood of all commit to the trump. let me just say there was a move over there are on the campus, and i'm sorry, we're having issues hearing you that there's some issues there with your audio. hopefully you can sort them out and we'll come back to you. but in the meantime, let's check in with kimberly hawk. it was in washington dc at howard university more precisely in washington dc. kimberly, what's the mood like there are they is optimistic and hopeful at how it does come

to how is was during our closing speech yesterday. the one of the heritage who campaign is joy. that is certainly what you're feeling here on the campus is howard university. the alma mater, the vice president, you can hear a goss inquire for, for me behind me, and it is certainly a joyful song that they are performing. and that is the feeling on the campus right now. but is what's the exuded in the final moments of the campaign? campbell harris was working the phone's in the final hours leading up to this watch party. she visited the democratic national committee, where she was talking to voters. she also did a number of interviews and she was talking to members of her campaign and that talking about how she really felt positive and the closing hours of election day. the momentum is something that is being felt after

a very successful rally on the eve of election day, where tens of thousands gathered in philadelphia. and this is really a product to what they believe has been a successful campaign. but also following is your point out. one of the shortest campaigns at $107.00 days. it is the shortest in modern us political history. certainly she see uh how to show a campaign. but the democrats and she ran to the ground gave me the final weeks of the campaign. talk to us about what we can expect from her tonight. she's not at howard yet. i understand when, what's, what's the timeline of events, you know, when, when are we expecting her to arrive that yeah. what we know is that there is going to be a bit of a program and then eventually campbell harris will be coming to watch part of it. i'm glad you mentioned that ground day because in terms of the ground, the democrats believe that that is going to be the vice president. secret boss has

a say here in the united states, when you have a competitive race, as we've seen all the way up to election day with pamela harris and her republican rival, donald trump. really that connect right to when the ballads are being counted, what they believe is going to be the defining difference for the vice president is this ground day, the fact that they had $350.00 offices cross about around states. 2500 volunteers working the phones, making signs, falling, voters, making sure that they go out to the pool. they believe that that is going to be the defining difference for the vice president, pushing them over the edge. and that momentum that they keep talking about is going to be recognized in the ballot box and is going to allow the print the cover letter is to be the 1st female president of the united states. all right, kimberly for the moment. thank you very much. kimberly how get live there in washington dc. now, as i mentioned earlier,

some holding stations in indiana and kentucky are now close though in other western parts of both states that remain open for another hour and voting is continuing across the rest of the us. let's check in with say once again at the data wall, for the timeline on when we can expect these photos and results this upcoming. okay, thank you very much fully. we're gonna fly this thing up to show our viewers what they can set their watches to you can screen grab this, you can take notes, pull closing time, very from state to state. and sometimes that's probably mentioned within a state, especially when it has more than one time zone, right. makes sense. so here's what we're expecting in just under, in our o, g m t 7 pm, eastern time polls will close. and the 7, the swing states with 60 electoral votes collectively the most closely watched state of those will be the swing state of georgia and no surprise there with 16 electro, about half an hour later voting games in north carolina and other swing states. and in ohio and in west virginia, together they add up to $37.00 electoral votes. so some big hit her state of

georgia, north carolina, closing that our, that harrison trump need to win or for their road. the 270 greatly narrows they don't one g m t, that's 8 pm, eastern time, brace yourself for 19 states. that's a big one, a 171 electoral votes there for all these states. it's a patchwork of traditionally red states in the south blue in the north, but all eyes, all eyes will be on this one, pennsylvania, the swing state with the biggest electoral prize, the selection 19 electoral votes. then 130 polls or clothing in just one hello, arkansas, and then comes a batch of 18 states totaling a 163 electoral votes at o 2 g m t and more crucially, 3 swing states. let's look at them. arizona, michigan. and where's wisconsin, wisconsin? is right here, arizona, michigan, wisconsin at 3 gmc, that's 10 pm on the east coast voting will end in nevada and 2 other western states, nevada, of course,

being one of our 7 swing states tonight. then we head to the west coast where the atm local time that's for gmc poles would be closing in california. so you've got the whole west coast here, california, oregon, washington. that's the largest number of electoral votes in the country right here . $54.00 and california together these 4 states account for $78.00 electoral votes . hawaii, we always forget hawaii where we kind of do. but hawaii is right here for electro. those that closes at 5 gmc and then the very last state to stop voting will be alaska. we're polls will close at 6, gmc less because right here. ok, let's focus on georgia. since polls are closing there, as we told you in the next hour, what will be watching in georgia as boat start to come in and where is georgia? first of all on the map, it's in the south is right here. it has 16 electro votes. it's been a republican stronghold for decades. in 2016 donald trump, one by nearly 5 points in georgia. where are we 2016. it wasn't close in 2020,

that changed dramatically. look at this 49.549. point 3. the boat difference. less than $12000.00 votes, it was super, super close for harris to hold onto georgia. she will need to start here. and so that's the fulton county, which is mostly the city of atlanta. she needs to win by huge margins in fulton county and, and some of the suburban counties around atlanta which have grown much more diverse . so we're talking about called and we're talking about wynette county 2 big suburban counties, north of atlanta that have shifted dramatically towards democrats in recent elections and brought political change to the state. harris also needs a strong showing of the other big cities in georgia. so we're talking cities like savannah, we're talking augusta stomachs that we're talking, columbus and trump. on the other hand, can count on the fact that many little parts of georgia remain deeply conservative when we're outside of the cities outside of the suburbs, especially here in the north, in the center. and instead of the south eastern part of the state, all of that is trump country. so important to note fully the 1st votes coming in

from georgia will be from the millions of people who are the voted by mail, right, or voted early in person right. by mail or early in person to different types of voting early, many people have voted before today before november, the 5th. and those results should be available by 8 pm eastern, which is one gmc, i'm looking at the clock that is an under 2 hours, right? but we should emphasize should because what, what happened last time in georgia? right. so for a long time to get those retail south georgia sales. thank you very much. well, let, let's check in on georgia and find out what's happening that john henry is joining us now. live from gwinnett county near atlanta in that spring state of georgia. so how's the voting going in georgia given the travels in 2020 and, and the regularity is that happened then of the way you write fully. there is reason to be concerned about georgia because 4 years ago,

as you mentioned, it took 16 days for them to tell you the balance. so they change the laws to make sure everything would be processed much more quickly. and that's some of what you're seeing right here. you can see them tabulating balance over here. and as you look at these black boxes here, the reason nobody is operating on those is it. those are the early voting boxes. they've already been completed. the memory cards have been taken out of the scanners and they've been sent up forward. so 4000000 people voted before election day. some of them voted through mainland validus. and that's what's going on in here. everything that happened before election day is being processed. it has been process already. what they're doing right now is they're processing those that have come in today. so georgia is actually doing a much better job this year, and that is by law. and as you said, imposed flows in less than an hour. and when that happens, an hour later, they have to have all of those 1000000 votes that have come in up to today. they

have to have those process and they have to, they have to publicly announce them. then they're going to wait for the other estimated 1000000 votes that have come in today. now if it is $5200000.00 as the secretary or state estimates, it will be that will be a new record, virginia for georgia, but there it hasn't gone all easily. there were a number of bomb threats that shut down pulling places in fulton county, which is where atlanta is. and here there was one in gwinnett county which is right next door. and it's not an accident that most of them seem to be in that big blue blob, the democratic area around to atlanta at work. most of the democratic votes in the state come from and the secretary of state says that that was russian interference that caused that to happen. but other than that, there haven't been any big irregularities. some of these for in places are going to have to extend their voting later on tonight because of those irregularities, but it doesn't look like that is going to throw off the election for more than

a couple of hours in here. as i say, most of the votes should be tallied an hour after pull this close. yeah, john, i wanted to ask you about the issues for voters in georgia because a 3rd of that state's population is african american, of course, which is one of the largest proportions of black residents in the us. and it's believe that it's this, this demographic that was instrumental in bite and slipping the states. i fought for the democrats in 2020, but they has been disillusionment among black voters. they what is the top issue of concern for voters interest? well jenny, we were at moorehouse college, one of the several historically black colleges and university here in atlanta. we talk to soon as you said, they were very unhappy. lot of them were going to vote 3rd party because they were unhappy about the war in gaza. they were unhappy about the lack of progressiveness

as a so much of the democratic party. they were not in general supporters of donald trump, but when it comes to the larger population of atlanta, that is where joe biden gets a lot of his votes. and i will say that 70 percent of the growth that has happened since 2016 has been in the atlanta area. that's where democrats get most of their roads. and while there has been some erosion in the african american vote for the democratic ticket, particularly among black men, it is still well over a majority. and among women, including black women, the democratic ticket is doing well. so what we're going to see tonight is whether they're doing well enough with that demographic and a state that has turned slightly more democratic over the years, but it's still right in the middle. all right, john, thank you very much, john henry, my force that in georgia near atlanta. now it's not just the presidential election that americans have voting and they're also voting in senate and house raises that will decide which party controls

a chamber of congress as go to christians. nobody who is live in washington dc. less thought what the house races 1st, how co saw the christian well fall in the fight for the leadership of the house of renting representatives is too close to call right now. all 435 seats are on the ballot right now. republicans hold the majority in the house of just 4 seats. so democrats, i've been fighting very hard to win those seats back, and they're focusing surprisingly on the states of new york and california places that you normally would not consider battleground states. but these are democratic strong holes, where republicans picked up 9 seats in the mid term elections in 2022. so democrats have been fighting very hard to win some of those seats back and re take the majority. and both parties have been spending a lot of money in those seats,

in those in those districts which are considered purple districts. one race has set a record for congress, $45000000.00 to try to for both parties, to try to win that c. these are areas outside of new york city. now of course, there are other races at play, but only about a couple dozen out of those $435.00 seats. so we will be watching in the swing states like pennsylvania, wisconsin, michigan, as well, where there are some close races there and they could signal how things are going for the presidential contenders, as well as the night goes on. yeah, but it is very much on a nice edge as to which party well, when control their right. and what about the senate? i mean done across currently control defended by raise us in margin. what are the chances that a wellness center it isn't looking good for democrats right now. they have a one c majority, but the senator from west virginia,

a long time senator joe mansion who has been part of the democratic caucus is retiring, and west virginia is a very read state. so that one has already pretty much been written off by the democrats is expected to go to a republican. and there are some other states where we have long time democratic senators serving, but the state has gone very red, very republican, states that support donald trump, like montana in ohio, where you have to return. the senator's being challenged by republican candidates in those are also very much at play and don't look great, especially montana where john tester is facing a military veteran and a wealthy entrepreneur are challenging him for that. see? so about 10 seats at play and

a lot of them are in these areas where democrats are facing strong challenges. interesting to know that these races are, are seeing unprecedented spending as well. 2 and a half $1000000000.00 have been spent on senate races that we know of so far. a 1000000000 on house races. this is unheard of. and congressional elections crossing . thank you very much. christian salumi live there in washington. dc. want us now speak to one of those congressional candidates, many nice fence very who's a us house democrat, representing new mexico's 1st congressional district and is seeking re election just joining us from albuquerque, new mexico. thank you so much for being with us. of just up all your thoughts space on the house race. what is that play and what is at stake as far as you can check? or yeah, well it's important to understand that not only is our democracy and our national election with respect to the presidency on the line, but control of our legislative branch. so we believe that we will take back the

houses, democrats, and we will make speaker jeffreys the 1st speaker of the house to serve our great nation who comes from african american heritage. and that it will be a huge waterside for a country because it not only means we can restore roe vs wade and voting rights and address the issues. there's so many americans care about right. but that we can partner with the white house when calmly harris becomes presidents. a health may occur agenda a reality, whether that's how it was in dealing with income inequality or helping working families. right. we're not quite there yet. uh, but indeed, so much of what any president can do in the white house depends on who's in congress and, and as i was saying with christian just earlier that across currently control the senate by very fin margin and, and the likelihood of a republican senate is very, very high right now. you know,

what do you see is your party's chances right now to say i live in, in the senate? well, we'll see what the next couple of hours were to springs. i. it's really important for folks to understand that the polls are still open. there was some of the polls, the clues on the east coast here in the united states, montana for example, which is a key stay as you just mentioned, is really going to be crucial for holding onto this fence. so if you live in montana and get out to both the folders so open, it's so crucial that you vote as well as texas because that's a pick up opportunity for calling all red who is running in that state. so we won't know until the polls close, but we feel confident we feel good. i think that there is a very strong chance that we not only when the white house we take back the house, but we hold this on it as well. all right, let's talk about the presidential race for a moment. melanie, it is a stock, is choice between 2 presidential candidates and a long time in the united states. i wanted to know when you talked to your

constituents in new mexico, which is a light blue state right now with, from travel to earlier this week. so he's clearly wanting to take that state. what are they most concerned about today as well? i think that most americans, every day, as you is kitchen table is to the, the costs of housing. that's the cost of groceries. but what is driving people to the polls and to vote is our democracy are fundamental rights and freedoms. our ability to make the decisions about our own body is about right future of this country. whether or not we'll have an autocrat, louise the united states, or whether we'll continue on the path of having strong leadership like we've had with president biden. and i think it's very clear that the american people are poised to reject donald trump and was autocratic message by mistake. and i knew the immigration is also on the minds of voters a great deal. and donald trump has said that integration is a national security crisis. in the united space is that the case talk to us about

the issue of integration among your constituents there and you know what they make of what the republicans are promising. as many as your service is inc. apologies, we've lost our connection with that. that'd be sense very the who is a congressman, us house democrat representing you, mexico's congressional district, one seeking re election. we were of course, talking to about the, the race for congress, for the house and senate as well. let's. uh well, let me bring you both in about that congress. so of course we talk a lot about the president you election outside of the united states, but a lot is also in the state in congress. where do you see things going with the house in san antonio waste for the both of state that the senate as you've already lined out, is a little bit of a harder road for us. but i'm very optimistic about the us house of representatives . so many of the seats that are of they're up for re election. again, it's

a small fraction of all of the seats because not all of them are really contested. but so many of them are seats that are in districts that bite in one and 2020. and the republicans didn't have the red wave here that they want it in 2022 in large part because so many young people in so many women should have to vote in the mid term election. if we have that kind of turn out this time across the country, we'll see a number of the seats flip, not just the ones in new york and the ones in california, but there are a lot of contested seats, some swing seats, and possibly some surprises. last year or less cycle, we nearly as the republicans nearly lost right wing. lauren bober, any bright red district she since moved over to a different district so that she has a better shot and keeping her seat. so the republicans really are trying to hold onto their very narrow majority and they're holding on by their fingernails. all right, james, which congressional races are you watching smoker? well, i think you,

when you're going to look at like some of the races in california, or if you're looking in new york, what's happened in those states is that these districts have been jerry mannered quite a bit to isolate and push out many of the republicans in a way that, you know, he thought that it wouldn't be faith rumble. they would get winds in those places, but they have it and, and they are and, and therefore what we're seeing is, uh, you know, republicans actually went in and holding some of those states. actually, i'm fairly optimistic about some of the house races. it is a much harder map to look at the senate map, i think is much, much, much more favorable. and i'd be willing to say like, i firmly believe that republicans as will, you know, ensure the majority incentive our shot. james talked about gerrymandering that and that's mostly a lot a lot of times us been talked about full blank folders, these gerrymandering issues. do you agree that republicans have been also experiencing that in some some districts?

well, i do have to try to help fornia as an independent district in commission. right. so neither the republicans nor the democrats or nor even the legislatures and control, and in new york, for example, those a lot of the seats have been traditionally dramatic for republicans. now you'll see new york that read, whose congressional delegation reflects proportionately their population. new york is a bright blue state, and yet it sent so many republicans that was the result of a jerry mender deal between senate republicans and, and the governor of for years and years that no longer exist. gerrymandering has been a, a tool that politicians have used to choose their voters current, but this selection, we have more districts where there is less gerrymandering, so that voters can truly choose their competition site. which race are you looking at more closely when it comes to the senate? but it's been a lot of talk about ted cruz in texas, that it could be at risk. do you think that could happen? so it is true that for the democrats to retain our majority,

we are looking at some upsets ted cruz narrow lee, one his re election last time around 6 years ago. and by if he was wet less than 4 points, this time calling all red is also running close behind. so for people who think that, oh my gosh, so it doesn't matter in texas. it certainly does the united states senate. there's a couple other upsets that are that are around there as well. but i think a lot of people are looking at for texas as an upset. maybe if john tester has often been underestimated and you often comes out on top of that's montana. she could keep his seat so both of those are upsets that democrats are looking forward to just i think we need to just remind our international audience about the importance of the us congress. we talk a lot about the president, but again, congress has a huge role in this democracy. just to remind off he was why these races are so important. so any spending bill you put in the budget or the president will often propose a budget, but actually any spending bill and if that's the funds or government or any of our

programs, has to originate in the us house of representatives. winning the house means winning the pro strings of the united states government. the senate confirms anyone that the president wants to a point to any major position. this includes the supreme court. this includes every single investor to countries around the world. if the united states senate that the, that determines that primarily, and of course, both of the house and the senate have to agree on most legislation. this last congress in house has been the least productive congress in the house. do you agree with that? yes, it starts with leadership, right? yeah, so it's the joe joe biden, and kamala harris have a leadership role and making sure legislation happens quite well. the how many, how let me, let me repeat what you've gone through. well know how many, how speaking they were quite a few hours. the 2 are quite as right. they are absolutely quite a few, but also it is the role of a leader right? to bring people together to get the impossible done. we solve that and the trump

administration even on issues where people were skeptical they said, oh donald trump, would never ever do criminal justice reform. that would be something brock obama would do. that would be something kamala harris or joe, up i my did not. what have we seen any action out of them? how we seem to be bi partisan wins of them in, in, in the criminal justice space. that's a space i work in the font. where's the 2nd step back, re fax that, do you want to respond to that? yes, we've never had a more chaotic house of representatives in my lifetime. and republicans have gone through one after another after another after another speaker. that's chaos. that's not leadership. nothing happens in the house of representatives unless you have a speaker in the house of representatives. and i know this as many months ago. but the chaos was akin to, for example, the chaos and a great britain with the numerous prime ministers that they had to go through. that is something that generally does not happen in america, and only happened under republican leadership in the us house of representatives. i

don't think that if americans are thinking about leadership, they're thinking about the 4 speakers that we had to go through and had to endure. and during that time, no legislation could be passed by not. all right, let's see what happens with sunrise dental and we're going to leave it there for now and head to washington, d. c, and j space. and his final is guess, james, a sign to follow a welcome back to our vantage point in washington overlooking the white house with a great time little guest to discuss things. again, we have joined training against the democratic political strategist who says the bottom administration, john ferry is republican strategists and part of the f. b advocacy, a strategic advocacy for representing corporations. and joining us now to is elizabeth, i'm a professor of american studies and political science at george washington university. elizabeth, you are joining us for the 1st time on the panel. the same name or tell me in these

very early stages. first pa. busy is just closed once, are you going to be looking out for to night in the early hours of this very long mattress and what we're going to be sitting through. you know, i think a lot of us are going to be looking at some of the early results from swing states . most clearly a lot of the swing states had to lead results from the 2020 election. they are trying to make up for it by having some of the results come out quicker. so i think people are going to be looking at george, looking at north carolina some of these earlier states. and they might give us some information from absentee ballots or other sources about how people are voting. we also know there are long lines. we have exit polls that show a lot of enthusiasm, a lot of women that are out in a lot of places more than men. so i think those are some things that might help to give us an early sense of what might be happening on the ground. okay, joy, you a democrat, john, you are a republican. i want you to choose what is joy? the number one issue in your view that is driving voters this time i think that it

is overall the economy, but it's also democracy. there's an underlying sense that donald trump is a threat. economy is not a good one. ppo policy uses. oh, i think it is. i don't care what other people say i think it is. i think the, the data presents that we'll discuss that in a moment. john, what would you say again, joyce? joyce, right? it's the economy, especially the high cost of getting by inflation. it's a high cost of groceries is just for a lot of people in the middle of the country. it's very expensive this to get through the week. a lot of people are barely barely making it so i think it's that is number one issue. okay, well i want to discuss the economy a little bit more and a little bit more depth in about it, but i think it's good charles now to catch up with some of my colleagues who were out there in those swing states. mike kind of joins us from philadelphia, the biggest city in the swing state of pennsylvania. mike, what is the plug to turn out that i'm can we tell anything from that?

well, we can't tell anything from it yet. the fact that has been reports throughout the state of a pretty substantial to announce in the course of the day. these are i witness reports in terms of the accused at the posting stations. and they have been reports that they have been substantial cues in a number of areas. this is, of course, incredibly important. but one must remember as well that pennsylvania is one of those states which is very high in maryland pallets. and in the 2020 to mid term elections, nearly a quarter of the total votes with mail in pallets. now this is also adds to an issue in terms of when the result is going to be due. because those maryland ballots take a little bit longer to account. now donald trump has already lashed out. that's what he calls criminal actions underway. in philadelphia, the capital habits has been asked to be rejected by the district attorney who says there's no basis whatsoever to these claims. there was a hiccup in cambria come county with some focusing machines broke down in the

course of the morning. they then had to tabulate boats by hand, the voting of homes that to be filled in by hand. except voting has been extended there for a couple of hours to ensure it says the county election board that everybody gets the opportunity to vote. but generally reports from across the us, that's really critical. states indicate that voting has been risk and that it has largely been free off any problems apart from us. i save camry, accommodate. thank you, mike. how may i was in philadelphia in pennsylvania, the swing state that has more electro college books, the most important one anyways. uh, joining us that. how did you catch joe joins us now live from upholding station in milwaukee in wisconsin. how do you know i see the same question? what's a turnout like there in milwaukee, which is the largest city in that state?

chains. it has been a record early voting. turn out here in milwaukee as well as across the state of wisconsin here in this pulling location. we're in a historic district, downtown milwaukee were above a very lively food market. and this is about as quite it's as it's been all day here as the final hours of voting wrap up. this is the experience in the voters they would come in here. if they needed to register today, they have that opportunity to at these 1st tables. then they go collect their ballots, which is specific to their registration, before they finally fill in the balance at these privacy screens at these behind me . and then they finally seat in those paper ballots to a ballot processing machine. and they are well over 500 balance process at this pulling station alone today. and i want to bring our guest who is overseeing all of us today. this is mr. new albert's. thank you so much for being here. you are the

chief inspector of this pulling location. that's correct. also the former executive director of the milwaukee election permission. so you run many have tell me how is today's voting going? particularly in comparison to what we saw in 2024. we're really pleased with the numbers so far, particularly at this site, we've had over 500 voters. we probably had about a 150 voters in the 1st. and then in the minutes of the day, long lines during those he peak voting hours. the other thing that we're really witnessing at this site that i'm hoping is city and state wide is a lot of young people voting. and so we've had literally dozens, probably hundreds of 1st time voters coming in. we have a nearby college. a lot of them are college students, were just really happy to see young people turning out and voting a lot. susie hasn't even applied for each 1st time voters, it's very meaningful to them. talk about just how much security and accuracy goes

into every element of what you're doing today and of also the tabulation that's going on across town. sure, well, there's a tremendous amount of cross track of our work and balancing that is required between the number of voters coming into the site, the number of ballots going into the voting machine. it's also important to note that it's a completely transparent process. we've had observers from the primary political parties, but also from the public here all day. we are familiar with what the operations of avoiding sites should look like. and they're here to observe and make sure that we are following those processes. it's been very smooth for us all day. so security is great. we haven't had any incidents that requires any on site security, but we've had security stop by and check in with us. i do want to ask you about some new that just bro, that annual walk you there may have been a,

an error or technical error. we're now they're recounting 31000 early votes and this is happening just blocks from where we are now. explain what happened there, and what is the process going now? well, unfortunately, because i'm here, i don't know the back story involved, but i believe there was an issue with steven on our voting machine here. there is a tamper resistant seal on the uh, file. opposite used for tabulating the election results. it sounds just for a fairly based on what i heard that that c o may not have been process or applied properly. and so what they decided to do, just as a, as a precaution, and as a public assurance was resubmit all those pallets on the cleared and sealed machines just to make sure that there would be no public question around the integrity of the processing of those ballots. fortunately, they're high speed,

tabulate hers. so that number 30000 may sound really significant, but they should be able to work through that in a relatively small amount of time. and i daily not delay the availability of the absentee ballot results in the election. all right, neil, thank you so much for the explanation. i know that's just breaking news now that we just learned about. but certainly it is something that, that all the election workers will be looking at closely. we did hear from the city spokes person who says that this recounting, really of those 31000 valid, may need a delay of several of one to several hours before we get those absentees tabulations. and that could be very meaningful here, james, because in 2020 no walk. he's votes came in after the rest of the state and they actually changed the direction from had been leading up until that point in 2020. once milwaukee reported it's resolved. and it, because it is the most populous county,

it takes the longest to count those absentee ballots and really change things. and of course, ultimately the state went to joe biden in 2020. so we could see a similar type of trend here, but we will find out in the hours to come. and of course, all eyes are watching this critical swing state with its 10 electoral votes that do provide one of the shortest path to victory for those candidates, came heidi joe castro, joining us that from milwaukee. and i think that is interesting. what's going on there in the slight voting problems. donald trump, just a few hours ago in florida speaking to reporters said, there's no reason why they couldn't have all the votes counted by midnight by the evening. that's how they do it in france. we'll discuss that in a minute, but i did say that we would get back to the economy and i do want to get back to the economy 1st with joy cheney john ferry and elizabeth and elizabeth. it's the economy, stupid. james carville, 1992 when he was advising bill clinton. is that still the case in this election?

it really is. we know that there has been higher rates of inflation, higher prices during til biden's term. since 2020, a lot of that is due to cobit and the repair variations of its aftermath. but we know that the economy is important. voters from different parties are responding to it in different ways. sometimes republicans, like if we want to go back to the way things were under trump, and that's how they are probably. yeah, you know, prioritizing it. but we also see a lot of democratic voters who are saying the way we want to deal with it is by support of state programs, programs that will give tax credits to people with children that will help 1st time home buyers that will help small businesses. so each party is responding to it in a different way. what i want to talk to both joy and john about your various candidates policies in a minute, but 1st joy on the issue of inflation come with the harris is trying to present himself as a change comes with it. but she's being the vice president for the last 4 years she

has. and i think what we've seen with inflation is things are trending better. we have a pandemic, a global pandemic of all of your, your viewers know. so there's no way that our economy wouldn't have been hurt and that happened under donald trump. he botched the american response. but do you think it was failed then in the message to me, i have not heard how it was coming out many times and say it's a global problem actually the us is doing much better than anywhere else. yeah, i haven't heard that much. to be honest. with you, i think that our messaging on the economy could be better. that's one area. i don't, i don't quite understand. and part of it might be that we understand that what is on paper is different from how americans are feeling. and so we're trying to be in, but there's the desire to be empathetic to what the average person is experiencing . so you don't want to sing tone deaf talking about numbers when they're still not feeling good, but the bad. and that's what we've been focused on tax credit. so we focus on lowering the costs of prescription drugs and having affordable health care and

whatnot. but i think you can do both. you have to message the overall economic situation and be honest about what that is and the fact that things are trending better. fact that we've had more jobs under democrats, the fact that we had, i mean, how many john, i'll tell you how many weeks we were waiting for an infrastructure week. under donald trump. we got an infrastructure bill right under joe biden. and comma layers . okay. um, we got a, we got a message that more you write about that, but if we do the messages, good john, i mean, the u. s. economy is doing quite well, isn't it? i'm in a couple of weeks ago, the economist, which is a global publication, had on its front cover, the headline, the envy of the world, about the us economy. when, well, if you, if you look at the exit polls, that's not how the american people feel. i remember very specific, not many of them read the economist. there's a little bit of a high brow. well, how about how it brought publication in it, but in terms of the, in terms, i mean, i get that they,

all the people are suffering and the prices have been very high. but inflation is come under control much better here than it has. and many other countries, particularly of the western country. so we don't, we don't live in other countries. we live here. and the exit polls say that the american people are not satisfied. or i remember very specifically working in the house republican leadership in the early ninety's. when bill clinton said, is the economy stupid, and george h w bush was st. trying to get the kind of me going and the economy seems to go in the right direction. but the voters have in their mind that they want to change their 92 and they want change. now the problem for commer harris is she hasn't actually broken specifically with job. i'm the rep becomes the change kind of, she's a continuity candidate. the other thing about this election is, went down, trump was present, he had a very good economy up until cobit but he's been able to ship all the co would blame on onto bush, which means that people have pills in the style just for the trump years. when it comes the economy, and so he has a track record, he had

a better track record and people want change and they want to change back to where trump has gone. i think that's where the voters are. and if you look at most of all these polls, the economy still is the number one issue, inflation does it have to the high cost of getting by? and if you live in the upper one percent, you're doing fine. but we've kind of church terms of messaging and become much more of a working class. part of elizabeth, in terms of the sentiment is clear. people are not happy with the state of the economy. people do not feel and certainly the prices are so much higher than they were 4 years ago wouldn't bite and took office. if you look at the historical precedent. i mean, have we ever had someone who's been elected with people feeling like that about the economy? is it a pretty bad omen? fulfilled for the, for that, for the harris campaign. there are many times when people are upset about the economy and that's when somebody else comes in and the, you know, people switch parties and the different party comes in. it's something that we're also seeing as inflation is happening around the globe. many incumbents are losing

power. what's interesting here is how it is still really close, because if you were just looking at the economy, you might predict that it would, you know, the us would switch from the democratic to republican leadership. but because it's so close, we can also see not only i think that people are, you know, concerned about trump, for other issues besides the economy. but also that there are other issues in play like gender and um, you know, kind of a or other things that people are concerned about. and we've talked about that and we've got the whole like to those of us. but joy in terms of the economy. what do you and john, just to summarize what your candid is going to do? so joy, yeah. is how is going to do? so harris is going to focus on kitchen table issues, how to make sure each american can get the american dream can achieve the american dream. that frankly has been promised to them a long time, but they haven't always felt that is our focus. we're building on the successes of the biden administration, the cleaning up from the trump administration,

and so many other years, pretty truck failures for the american people. that's what her focus. so she's focusing on kitchen table issues. how can we make every day things costs less? how can we make you feel more secure on housing? is the of the big the i was going to the housing, making sure you have a job, making sure you can, you can earn money when you have that job and can she do any of this? you know, hang on if you can she do any of this if the of the elections that we have taking place, that house in the senate, if she doesn't have what she needs and congress can she really do any of the things here is, is pull together a really bipartisan coalition supporting her. i know we've been staying donald trump is the republican he's, i'm sorry, not a traditional republican. most of both folks are in the house and say that they're going to be willing to work with a comma, la harris as president in the senate. it would, no matter what happens, there will be people who want to have result for the american people be okay. okay, i mean, i need to get joining. i want to know what is drunk going to do is you gotta do 4

things. first is going to make energy more affordable by really kind of drilled, maybe dro. uh 2nd, he's going to be good for the plan if it's new, but right now he is and that is going to the economy us about the academy. the 2nd thing he's going to do is, uh, is he's gonna refund the tax code or continue of the tax cuts to attract businesses united states. at the same time, he's going to raise tear of sun companies in china of some say that will put, put inflation up again. also some say that's the other, the other people don't say anonymous most as he is also going to cut spending, which is going to balance a lot of ways when government spending has ballooned under the, by the administer by the terrace administrative. and finally, i think what he's going to do is he's going to stop illegal immigration. and what that's going to do is increase wages for american workers and people here legally that is the increased wages for i'm sorry, way, way. yeah, that's not for your company in the way i was. you know, obviously we were we, we will, we will, we will continue this later. oh,

but we thank you very much, elizabeth john, enjoy and joy from him. sadly, but joy in terms of the tone here, james, i back to you probably i promise will come back to you and your panel in just a few minutes. the 1st state wide poles will start closing in a matter of minutes and the trump campaign is probably sitting tight and looking at the 2 swing states where polls are closing very soon as georgia and north carolina . and some polls is showing just a slight edge over highways and one other shows how is leading but slightly. so the race is well and truly a dead heat. so absolutely, a little while ago we told you about georgia. now i want to tell you about north carolina because going into election day, couple of harris, donald trump, have been neck and neck. in 7 swing states, north carolina is a critical battle ground for both states. here it is. 16 electoral votes that is one from 4 years ago by the way. so electrically speaking is become a little bit more important. it has been reliably read through its recent history.

as you can see, that's the voting pattern. but population shifts have turned it now into a swing state. it's the only one of this year swing states, but donald trump, one in 2020, he want it built by just over one percentage points. north carolina is not a must win for a couple of hours, not quite, but it wouldn't make for path to to 70 electro both. and the white house a lot easier for donald trump is the other way around. he could, he could conceivably get to $270.00 without north carolina, but it would be very, very hard. so he's definitely hoping to keep north carolina. now the other swing states like the other swing states, north carolina, is a story of a few large and heavily democratic cities. balanced against the hinterland, vast rule and republicans. so democratic voters and mainly concentrated in the state capital rally there also in the neighboring cities of greensborough, of high points and down here in and around charlotte. the state's largest city is also by the way, a small, but significant concentration of democratic voters right here. when the west of the

state asheville hurricane helene brought a lot of destruction to this entire part of north carolina the western part of the state. and pretty much everywhere else. read, read, read, read, read. by the way, there's a significant rural population in north carolina about one 3rd of voters more than any other swing state that will matter in the vote. and last thing, north carolina, it has a track record of counting votes relatively quickly. but we'll hurricane helene, have an impact on the speed of the counting. we'll find out in the coming hours so fully. we can set our watches tight between those close and important swing states . the 1st think swing for space of the evening for a swing states of the evening, georgia. and i'm looking at the clock 6 minute minute. yep. north carolina 36 minutes. right. well, let's find out what's happening in north carolina, serial and speak to phil laval, who is that a watch party in carry north carolina beyond pennsylvania fail north carolina is probably the most important state for donald trump. talk to us about the turnout fair and what the mood is, where you are to the you know,

turn out has pretty strong guy. but it seems different to some of the sites hes in some other sites. you see those massive lines here. we were at a public station when they opened at 6 at 8 o'clock a building this morning. i'm the only a few people that i know that's not because there's pros apathy fall from it. that's because north carolina is a state that is really embraced are the both things i got this before the pose opened this morning. 57 percent, that lives of people go to daddy, they mailed it will take you to a site early, so they get that balance done to get them with that guy. and then they could wait to see how this result guy, res hobbits. hold on a 3rd, if those are the voters actually came from areas that so. so i think that your high propensity of those uh, devices type of areas that are being hit by par retained health. and so these are people who have lost the homes. they've lost to that cause they've got so much going on in their lives. and yet they felt incredibly motivated to get all 75, a sort of people in north carolina lived in a roll of septic. they typically tend to lean towards the republican party so that

when i was like, well, how does a lead happened, where you got large general kind of greeting suncoast by the city of ashville, which was absolutely decimated. i gave you go to sided people, the book carolina who identifies as eva on jekyll christian, that is a huge balancing blog and especially with a portion being such a crucial issue that could really affect how the vote goes here. so some really interesting things to look out, that's why we were just saying, we're not gonna have to wait too much longer because clubhouse will close in just about half an hour as time a north carolina is one of those states where you can get a very good indication of how things are going pretty. all right, a briefly fill. what are republicans chances every one that state and every presidential election since 2012 and it's the only battleground state? the don't from wanting 20. 20. the. well have you listen to the republicans? i say that, but no worries, any donald trump is here. yes, good i. we were at one of his right. he said he said they had absolutely no concerns. he's never lost here before. he doesn't intend to scold. but if you look

at all around it, hey, is being here. he was here on wednesday. he was here today. he was here sunday. he was here monday. donald trump does not come to north carolina that much right before the election. if he's not concerned, how about harris has gone from saying that they all the on the adults here to try to hire body or wednesday? you say we can witness both sides projecting confidence. but it is ready. ready? types of holes happen pretty much and that can, that may get points either way, the treatment, but those post change either way. so it really could go either way. the people who support the democrats have got a real hope that they could certainly stay flu. but you know, we're not going to find out for another few hours, at least all right. fails. thank you very much. of course we will check in with you one. so pause pain and it was kind of nicole's and the 1st result stop to come in. we will continue our special coverage of the 2020 for us presidential election here on how to here in just a few minutes. we will also be taking a look at some of the days having use around the world with

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