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hello and thank you for joining me here. the first election day votes have been cast and counted in a small new hampshire village continuing their tradition of voting at midnight. in a few hours voters will go to the polls in this tight and you meant his election. vice president harris was crossing pennsylvania on monday ending the night with a star-studded rally in philadelphia where she told supporters momentum is on their side while stressing nothing has been decided in what she called the most consequential election of our lifetime. >> our campaign has tapped into the ambitions and aspirations and dreams of the american people. we are optimistic and we are excited about what we can do together and we know it

is time for a new generation of leadership in america. >> donald trump in his closing message in michigan where he spoke for more than two hours weaving using dark rhetoric focused on immigration while continuing to hurl insults against democrats including his political opponent. >> over the last four years, americans have suffered one catastrophic failure, betrayal and humiliation after another. harris has delivered soaring prices and true economic anguish at home, war and chaos abroad and a nation destroying invasion on the southern border, a invasion of some of the greatest criminals in the world pouring into our country

and we will not take that. >> the outcome of the race is anything but certain as you see there. the pool of polls before this election day shows no clear leader. joining me now is seen a political commentator and strategist and former assistant to president bush. the scenic of jupiter at new york times journalist and podcast host and mark preston. nice to see you dark and early as we like to say in this business as we look at where we stand here. these expected i would say but starkly different causing messages from trump and harris, scott i will start with you, i know you were talking to some sources earlier who said the real goal was they hoped the former president would stay on message tonight. they opened with the question of are you better off than you were four years ago and then there was a lot of weaving. over all, is it

a winning closing message? >> i do not know, this is trump, he speaks for two hours, some of it is going to be the campaign once and some of it will be what he wants to do, it is no different than we have seen him throughout this campaign through the last campaign, and the campaign before that, it is his style. he is not a politician, i do not know if any of it is rehearsed, that is the real contrast between trump and harris. with the weaving method you can get everything. with harris every hand movement, head nod, it is all rehearsed and carefully scripted and with trump none of it really is and to some people trump is more appealing because it feels authentic and to some people harris is more appealing because they want somebody who is basically a politician that does what you expect them to do. we will see what the algebra is on tuesday night. i do not know how to answer the question other than to say i

guess that was trump's last rally so we will not have this rallies to kick around anymore after this panel. >> it seemed like he was going to that himself at the tail end, walking himself through that it was the final one. looking at what we heard from vice president harris, it was a lot shorter, i think it was about 17 minutes versus two hours and yes very much on point. which she had said of course, this is the way i do things i want to get the message out. how effective is the message at this point in pennsylvania where she spent the entire day, the goal here now is to rally for both candidates, rally the base and get to the polls. >> that is right and i think for her the closing message which was full of hope and optimism focusing on voters dreams and aspirations is exactly the right one. that is what voters want. americans want a leader that will in her words, lift people up as opposed to trying to knock them

down. she did not mention trump's name because she did not have to. trump is making this stark contrast for her. as she is up there being positive, talking about unity, a new generation of leadership and then you have trump who sits up there for two hours, he looks a lot older, he looks tired, the only thing coming out of his mouth are insults, his messages are dark, dystopian, full of division and frankly the vice presidents message of we need to find a new way forward, turning the page on all of the darkness and division, that negativity, i think that is exactly what americans want to hear so i think what she needs to do in pennsylvania and all of the other brown states, this is exactly the right message. i also think it shows the

confident and cautious optimism of the campaign because eric as you know, if a campaign is confident in where they are in the race, they do not need to go negative. they can focus on the positivity their candidate, what the candidates will bring to american voters and we know when a campaign is more desperate and worried about how they might not even lock up their base, they have to go negative and do the red meat which is what we are seeing trump do. >> our latest cnn poll of polls, the final one for this campaign season, we are still neck and neck at this point but there was pulling out of npr that showed harris a 51% and trump at 47%. there have been and it is not the only one this week to show a shift, how much are you reading into the polling at the 11th hour? >> at this point i think it is dangerous, when you see the polls come in at the last minute and you see the sudden shift and you see them move in

mass, you have to wonder, are we seeing something here or are we just seeing a course correction among those who do the polls? i think the bottom line is we do not know what will happen. i think we learned a big lesson in 2016 for those of us old enough on the panel, we did not learn our lesson in 2000 because we had problems in 2016, i do think you will see -- the attention that the impartial observers are going to pay to the selection and to ensure there isn't any kind of early call on the selection, i think it will be critical. i do think the next 24 hours are really going to be critical for the country. we do not know what will happen in the election. there is a good chance we will not know who the president-elect will be within

the next three days. having said that, we may have it wrong and one of the candidates could perhaps walk away with it handily. i think we all just need to take a deep breath, take a step back and have the voters have their day and see how it plays out. >> as we step back and look at this as we will start to see the early results come in, the earliest polls close at 6 pm eastern time, where is your focus? where will you be watching throughout the day and frankly in the evening as we start to get a sense of where some of the voters have landed? >> one of the most interesting things for me is seeing where harris chose all day to spend her time and that was pennsylvania. that says to me pennsylvania is the state which may be the key to the selection for her. the blue wall states as we have been saying throughout the election, they

are the states that will matter for her, it is the quickest way for her to get to 270. so that is going to be where everybody is going to be focused on but of course the earliest states to bring in the vote in term of the swing states will be georgia and north carolina. they close at 7:00 or 7:30 pm. when you look at the suburbs, how many women came out, what were the numbers compared to 2020, did harris match biden or surpass him? we will have early clues as to where this is heading if there is momentum for trump or for vice president harris and that may not come from a place like pennsylvania or michigan, it may come from the early states which we will be looking at when the polls close. >> speaking of women, we have been talking so much over the last 100 days were so since it was these two candidates, about

this gender gap. more women than men are registered voters. women turn out in larger numbers as well. i was struck by this pulling out of iowa. we looked at not only women breaking for harris but the fact that it was older women. women over 65 and +35 for harris. >> this is one of the things i have been saying from the very beginning of the campaign. even when biden was our candidate, clearly we did not learn our lesson in 2022 even though in 2022 i also knew this was not going to be a red way for republicans because what pollsters have not learned to take into consideration, they have not learned how to ask this question, a question about reproductive rights. ever since the dobbs decision, the supreme court struck down roe v wade,

democrats have massively over performed in every single election that has happened since then. the reason they have over performed is because of this energy and mobilization amongst women. a lot of older women at that. the reason for that erika and i hear this with people going door to door and women i have been talking to across the battleground states, they say it is this, they say maria the economy is important to me but the economy is coming back, costs are coming down when it go into the lf box and i think about the possibility that my daughter or granddaughter are going to be growing up in a country where they have less rights than i did, that is not something that is at all acceptable to me and that is what we are seeing. that is what we saw in the iowa pool, i am not saying harris will take iowa but that trend is what we are seeing across

the country. you have republican women, moderate women who according to anecdotes are not telling their husbands that they are voting for harris and they are going for harris. young women, we are seeing droves of young women coming out to the polls to vote for harris because of the issue of reproductive rights. so everybody is right, do not know what will happen but those trends have been alive and well since 2022 and i do not think 2024 will be any different. >> mark i would imagine there will be a lot of post gaming once we have the results of the election. one of the points i imagine folks will drill down on is how republicans had a tough time finding their messaging and their footing on this issue. the former president had a tough time. >> it has always been a tough

issue for republicans. it is something republicans have struggled with because you have different factions that believe different things and how you handled this situation. what i am struck by is how trump throughout the campaign has embraced this issue on choice and acted as if he is the one giving people that choice. to make that decision which is not necessarily what is happening but still he is effectively, if you say it enough, people will start believing that so i do wonder, will that at all neuter the expected turnout we see from young women because of that issue? as we are talking now, i have to say this because this gives you a little bit of color for the viewers at this morning hour, right now i am texting with a trump campaign senior official at this hour right now. talking to him about what he thought was interesting

over the past couple of hours. he is basically saying the same thing off of the same song sheet as trump, talking about how trump has reached out to low propensity voters that he says has voted early. we do not know if they have. if these white male, 18-29-year-old guys decided to vote early and they never voted before, that will be a good sign for trump. however, if the early voting number, the high tick up we have seen from republicans, if it is from publicans that have voted traditionally on election day it will not help them so it will be interesting to see how's they try to suss it out themselves, both campaigns about where the votes are coming from but i will say the trump campaign as we talk about the harris campaign, as bullish as they are, the trump campaign is bullish as well which is why this will be a crazy roller coaster ride over the next 24-72 hours. >> buckle up my friends.

speaking of low propensity voters, the joe rogan endorsement which we will it into later this morning, it will be interesting to see how that plays out for trump as well. i know you are all sticking around for a little bit longer. much more ahead here. a new president of course will mean new changes for international diplomacy. just ahead what impact a harasser trump presidency can have on the rest of the world and how they are preparing.

the outcome of today's election has the potential to reshape the way the rest of the world sees and deals with the u.s. harrison trump both have different approaches to foreign policy. either one could improve or complicate relations with foreign leaders. on monday trump claimed he canceled the correct level conflicts which he often said in the past which he claims only happened because he was not in office. >> i will finish the war in ukraine which would have never started if i was president. i

will stop the chaos in the middle east and we would have had peace in the middle east, instead you have all of the that that is taking place, it is terrible and i will prevent world war iii because you are just around the corner from world war iii and this will be a war like no other. it will be a nuclear war. >> harris called for a end to the war between israel and hamas while pledging support both palestinians and israel. >> as president i will do everything in my power to end the war in gaza. to bring home the hostages and finished the suffering in gaza. ensure israel is secure and ensure the palestinian people can realize their right to dignity, freedom, security and self-determination. >> joining me now is thomas, director of the center on u.s. politics at university college in london. good to see you.

when we step back and look at where things are, the world and world leaders as we know for some time have been watching anxiously as the campaigning played out and now watching election day to see what will happen. they are careful what to say topically but privately what is the sense of what the difference would be between a trump and a harris presidency? >> thank you for having me erica. both trump and harris represent opposed visions for not only the future of the u.s. but also the world. with harris it very much will be continuity, status quo, pursuing the same policies of the biden demonstration and for trump it is a return to turbulence, chaos and mayhem on the international stage. trump has pursued this america first foreign policy which many described as a belligerent isolation alyssum. skeptical of

international institutions, skeptical of dealings with world leaders so i think throughout the west, many are hoping privately that harris will be elected but publicly they are staying quiet. >> in terms of the america first policy what we have also seen from the former president over the years is cozying up to strongmen and more authoritarian leaders. he talks often about vladimir and victor and when we look at it from that angle there is also a question of what that could open up in terms of u.s. relations and how that can change if in fact there is more alignment. with world powers who are not typically someone the u.s. would be aligning with. how much preparation is there in europe for that

possibility? >> i think you are right, somebody is cozying up to dictators and expressing favorability toward individuals like vladimir putin and kim jong un, i think actually it is more of a concern within the u.s. because trump has talked about purging the enemy from within, using the military or other apparatuses within the government to go after political adversaries. the fact that trump may try to mimic what some of the authoritarians do in their own country has to be whirring domestically inside the u.s. >> what about the election itself? for a long time the u.s. has been seen as a beacon of democracy and looks to uphold democracy around the world. the former president has been laying the groundwork to question the election for some time and there are real questions about how safe the election is, we are told it is

the most secure and even the early allegations, there is no proof there that there have been issues with the voting but that also has a impact globally. >> of course, you are right. the u.s. for a long time has been known as a beacon of democracy. the longest running continuous democracy in the world. i think people outside of the u.s. do not necessarily view it that way. that is absolutely concerning. at the same time i do have confidence in the strength of u.s. institutions, they did hold in 2020, i think they are likely to hold again in 2024 if trump challenges the election results. we have the bipartisan electoral reformat, we have other reforms of the state level that will make it difficult to challenge the election results. the fact that we cannot count on one of the two leaders of the major parties not to concede if he is

not victorious is extremely concerning and it does damage the u.s. reputation abroad for sure. >> good to have you thomas from london. thank you. you are watching cnn special election day in american coverage. closing arguments from harrison trump as the first ballots are already counted, that is just ahead.

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thank you for joining us for special coverage on election day. the polls are set to open in a few hours for millions of voters across the country. trump wrapping up his campaign with a rally in grand rapids, michigan monday night and he only wrapped it up in the last hour or so. he was joined on stage by his sons and daughter. harris is spending her day crisscrossing pennsylvania. her final rally monday night in philadelphia and it featured remarks from oprah winfrey as well as music performances from lady gaga and will i am. joining us now it's betsy klein. so a interesting

contrast from the two candidates in their final messages as they make their final push. >> certainly and it was a intentional shift from harrison the final hours of her campaign as she closes it out. she has not referenced trump by name and that is intentional sources say as she is looking to project optimism and a positive forward-looking tone casting herself as a change candidate and we will see with voters agree with that at the ballot box today. talking about the key issues, a portable care act, affordable housing. we also saw a message of unity from her in the closing rally in philadelphia. take a look. >> america is ready for a fresh start. ready for a new way forward, where we see our fellow americans not as a enemy

but as a neighbor. we are ready for a president who knows that the true measure of a leader is not based on who you beat down but based on who you lift up. >> now the harris campaign looking to tout its diverse coalition starting with the star-studded rally in philadelphia where we saw oprah winfrey and lady gaga but also in pennsylvania earlier in the day as she was campaigning with alexandria cortez, the progressive congresswoman and on the view on monday as liz cheney made a case for her, the former congresswoman. really on the other side, trump darkening his rhetoric, we saw him trying to sow doubt in the election outcome, casting blame on democrats for cheating on founded and they also said he should not have left the white house in 2020 and he began to

air grievances against political rivals like nancy pelosi. take a look. >> over the past 4 years, americans have suffered one catastrophic failure, betrayal and humiliation after another. harris has delivered soaring prices and true economic anguish at home, war and chaos abroad and a nation destroying invasion on the southern border, invasion of some of the greatest criminals in the world pouring into our country. we are not going to take that. >> trumps allies have implored him to stay on message in the closing days and he did offer this question from the reagan playbook, are you better off now than you were four years ago? >> we saw him get that in on monday night before going back to the weave. good to see you betsy. as at sea laid out some of his rhetoric there, for several days now the former

president has been on a tear using inflammatory language to insult familiar foes and targets but not just harris. he has been taking aim at migrants, democrats, the media and even the former first lady. >> we cannot let these animals come in from other countries, they come in and then they are protected by the radical left. they get a slap on the rest of the kill somebody. if you fight for a fair and free election daily throw the book at you. do you want to see me knock the out of people backstage? i am working my off with this stupid microphone. she came at me the other day, that is not nice of her to do and i think we will start having fun with michelle, to get somebody like me somebody has to shoot through the fake news and i do not mind that so much. >> harris in the meantime has

made a shift in the past few days to stop using trump's name referring to him instead is the other guy and doubling down with voters about what he sees as efforts to divide the country. >> this entire error of the other guy, what it has done with all of the talk about trying to have as point fingers at each other and divide each other, it makes people feel alone. it makes them feel like there is nobody standing with them. >> our panel of experts is back with us. nice to see all of you. we also brought in ron brownstein, it is your first showing on the panel so i will kick this off with you. as we look at the rhetoric, the tone and tenor of what we have seen, throughout the course of the campaign but really in the last

week, it does set up a clear and stark difference. both of them in many ways trying to play to their bases because the goal right now is to get everybody to the polls. there is a push from the harris camp to perhaps bring more people in. when it comes to trumps rhetoric and we know this from the campaign, they want him to stay more on message , as scott noted he is not known for that. how damaging could that be though? >> i think it has been very damaging. a canary in the coal mine all year for democrats has been the retrospective job approval for trump has been rising. many points in many polls, higher than it ever was when he was president and the reason for that is that voters were primarily judging him through the lens of what they do not like about biden. primarily inflation and immigration and all of the things trump did when he was president when people were living to that economy they say was better, that kept him from getting to 50% approval, all of those rings were fading in

people's minds. what they are remembering is that gas and groceries were cheaper. what trump has done over the last 8-9 days is in a distilled and unrelenting piledriver way, remind people of everything else that comes with electing him as president. island of garbage, i will protect women whether they like it or not, rfk junior will have control of public health and women's health and yes we may take fluoride out of the water and ban vaccines. liz cheney should face rifles. michelle obama needs to be targeted, people should be shooting to the press, he is reminding voters i think in a profound and ongoing way of everything that comes with electing him then the idea that gas and groceries as i said might be cheaper. there is a lot of discontent with the direction of the country and that keeps him in the game no matter what but the way this

campaign is finishing, i always felt for the final days of the campaign the question is, what is the question? republicans hope the question will be if you think you are better off four years ago but in many ways the question is are you willing to take the risk of putting him back in power again and that is not a effective way for him to be ending the campaign. >>, do you think the discussion of the past week and the rhetoric we have heard has impacted the race? >> i think it has impacted the race. this is clearly not the way the trump campaign wanted to finish this panel pushed to the end. it is what sticks in people's minds. there are undecided voters, how to persuade them and he has not

done a effective job of selling himself. he is almost 80, he looks tired. we use the word weave, it is often rambling frankly. there is a sense that is this the man you want leading the country but at the same time the reason it is so close is that people really do care about the economy, inflation, immigration, these have been the top pulling issues in the country for quite some time and we have not seen that in the u.s., and other countries we have seen voters punish incumbents because of the economy. so his strength cannot be underestimated and he very well may take this selection. it is a toss up. he is his own worst enemy, if he loses the election he has nobody but himself to blame. we've or not. to make the chances of that happening if he blames himself, are slim to none. that is not the way the former president operates. what has struck me in all of this, even as we talk about women a little bit ago, the fact that

trump has not brought in nikki haley. she wrote a op-ed in the wall street journal where she wrote those who liked his policies but not january 6 and cannot condone his excesses, she still believes those are the ones that will determine the election. is she right? even the people that cannot stand those things about him, a lot of it is baked and even the outrage, are those the deciders? the voters? >> she could be right, that makes up a huge chunk of the republican party. i am one of them. i was not pleased with trump after january 6 and there are two wings of the party, the mag a wing and the norm he old-school republican wing, we have been republicans or entire lives and we rode this roller coaster. i wrote a piece in the la times a few weeks ago, it has been a roller coaster. sometimes he does things that really you and accomplishes objectives no other republican can accomplish and sometimes things go off the rails and you

wince. what happened in this election is a lot of republicans are taking it all in, the good, the bad and the cringe worthy and asking themselves, do i want to do this again or do i want to have four more years of harris? a lot of republicans will wind up with trump because harris is giving them nothing. there is nothing in the harris pitch for even a moderate republican. there is nothing in the pitch for a conservative probe public and. for all the talk that she is closing on a positive message, if you days ago she was on the ellipse painting a negative and attack laden speech against trump, even at her rally last night oprah is telling everybody they will never get to vote again if they do not vote democrat, that is a complete lie and i cannot think of anything less joyful than trying to scare everybody about the idea that we may not have another election. so i think a

lot of republicans, even some who wound up departing on trump on a issue or moment will come back to him because the democrats did not give them anything. they think there is enough people in the country that he trump are willing to fear trump to put her in the white house. that was their entire pitch. they put all of their chips on that pitch and maybe they are right, we will find out but that is how it all came out to me. they think there is enough people that hate or fear trump to be victorious and you do not have to do much beyond that. i think there is more to being president then simply not being trump. >> i will say there is a sliver of republicans that are responding to her message that we need to turn the page and we need a new path forward and we need to put country before party. liz cheney is one of them, there is a slew of former republicans that worked for trump and i think this has been powerful, because erica, we're not talking about joe schmoe,

we are talking about four-star decorated generals, one of them who used to be his chief of staff, his closest advisor that knew him best and was with him during the decision making processes in so many important situations, he has come out to say this man is dangerous. americans please do not reelect him, do not give him four more years in the oval office. he is the one that called him a fascist. that's remember it was not harris, it was his former chief of staff john kelly. he has other former advisors, general millie saying the exact same thing. so it is not the majority by any means but in a election that is so close and you have important voices, respected voices telling americans just how

dangerous another four years in the oval office trump will be, republicans are responding to that. so i think we will see in the final numbers a slew of republicans who turned over and said this is too important of a decision for me to be partisan about this, i will put the interest of my country before my party and focus on somebody who actually wants to bring us together and put out their policies for working-class voters in the middle class voters and wants to actually solve the problems before the american people and bring people together and give republicans at the a seat at the table and i think it is resonating. >> thank you all. some of the biggest names in entertainment showing support for harris and trump hours before the polls open today. what role if any does the star power really play as voters prepare to cast their ballots? that is next.

a lot of americans may be dreaming about casting their vote later today but the first handful of votes have already been counted and tallied, that happened at midnight thanks to a quirky tradition in a small new hampshire town. gary is live there with the details. this is one of my favorite traditions. >> i agree. think about it this way, in your city or town where you live or any of our viewers live, if you invited everybody in your city or town to come into your living room to vote for president, would that be practical? probably not but here it is very practical because only six people live here and this is a living room, it is a house in this village but it becomes a voting precinct for 10 minutes every four years because they are the first in the nation to vote, it received authorization like a

couple of other towns to hold voting at midnight on election day but the other towns are not doing it anymore. they have done it since 1960, 17 straight elections now, six people here, the earliest votes on election day and the first results in the country and the results are on this board. first in the nation, harris with 3 and trump with 3. not surprising i guess because we know how close the race has been. very symbolic. 50-50. it all took place in this living room, it is literally a official voting precinct for 10 minutes. that is all it took. people cast paper ballots and they put in this box. this box has been used since 1980 during the reagan and carter election and they do it every four years for the primary in january and the general election today. we talked to the voters afterwards, three men and three women, we will show you a

couple of men had to say, one man is a republican that voted for trump and one man is undeclared and he voted for harris. take a listen. >> in the past i would vote for character and i did not want to vote for him but i felt he was the lesser of the two evils for my thinking. so i had to vote for trump. >> his character opposite of what i think a leader should be. harris compared to trump was certainly ranked higher in my estimation. that aside, trump has a number of policies that i drastically disagree with. >> ultimately about 80,000 people will vote in new

hampshire but as of now trump with 3 and harris with 3. it is a draw here in this little town. back to you erica. >> it really does tell us for the country is. it is a dead heat just like it is there. the harris team rolling out a stacked roster of musical heavyweights in the final campaign stops. ricky martin, katy perry, lady gaga, a few of the artists taking the stage for harris on election eve. trump's team also celebrating elite victory with a endorsement from joe rogan that came in monday night. it comes not long after his interview with trump on his podcast. how could all of this play out when the polls open a couple of hours from now? the music writer is with me right now from la. right to have you. there was a study earlier this year out of harvard, the center

for democratic governance and innovation that looked at the influence of celebrities, maybe not specific candidates but their ability to raise awareness and get people out, calling them powerful advocates for social and political causes. how powerful are they when it comes to the election? >> they are not powerful at all, let's separate musicians from celebrities, joe rogan has some impact but when you talk about taylor swift coming out or beyoncé or springsteen, it has no effect whatsoever. taylor swift got 400,000 people to click to a registration website, they then had to fill it out and they had to show up, how many of those people will show up and vote? it is minimal. we have not had that spirit here since 69, in the 60s and 70s music drove the culture, what a musician had to

say would be important. in today's online world where all celebrities especially people in television and movies have been revealed to be two dimensional, people think they know as much as celebrities, there is no effect whatsoever and in this world where they do not know what to talk about and everything has been played out and it is 50-50 they are just focusing on this to fill airtime. to make it is interesting one of the things that struck me when we look at this and the roster of people coming out, i thought it was interesting that the number of celebrities, musicians were not who were getting out of the backlash you would see often times in a election cycle saying i am speaking out not just in my role as singer or actor , i am a american, i vote, i am also a parent, i am a child, i care about these things, saying i am doing this because i care about the process and this country, less about listen to me because of what you know me for. i thought

it was a interesting shift. >> the ultimate question is whether it has any effect on the electorate, it does not move the needle in terms of the election. i am a firm believer that celebrities can use their power in order to speak about who they will vote for and other issues. the question becomes, does it move the needle? it does not. we live in a world , taylor swift, most people cannot name two songs from her latest album but the media loves the story. most people do not listen to musicians, bruce springsteen is democrat, he used to be governor of new jersey, he was a big springsteen fan and he is not voting democratic. >> i can say i can name all of the songs on the album but i cannot get tickets so if you can hook a girl up let me know. >> we will talk off-line. name

two. >> guilty as sin, fortnite, how about three? >> that is pretty good. i will give you credit. >> good to talk to you, thank you. that will do it for us this hour, thank you for joining me. our coverage of election day in america continues after a quick break.

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hello and a warm welcome . i am in new york. 9:00 a.m. in london. good to have you with us on this election day in america. in the hours ahead voters across u.s. will be heading to the polls to make their voices heard. keep in mind, nearly 80 million americans have already cast their ballots for the next president thanks to early voting in nearly every state. now the final votes will come today. at midnight the very first election day votes were cast and quickly counted in the tiny new hampshire township of dixville notch, the results a tie. three votes for kamala harris and three for donald trump. early ballots are being counted in maricopa county, arizona. one of the seven key battleground states that could sway the election. both candidates making the final pitches to voters in some of the other crucial states . and

their closing arguments could not be more different. harris held her last rally at the campaign in pennsylvania on monday night and spent the day crisscrossing the state. telling voters they have momentum but urge supported to finish how they started, with optimism, energy and joy saying they will make the difference at the election. republican opponent spent more than two hours on stage delivering his final pitch to voters at a michigan rally , his third state of the day. his focus immigration, the economy and once again, unfounded claims of election fraud. the final pre-election poll from npr, pbs news finds harris with a lead over trump , 51 to 47% among likely voters. as we incorporate that into the latest and final cnn poll for campaign 2024, harris at 49%, donald trump 47%. and an average of likely voters all of this to say, it is a dead heat. we are in the place . of the last five latest surveys two so an edge for harris, three

showing no clear winner and it is a tie race that is fueling the final push for both campaigns. >> we are optimistic and we are excited about what we can do together and we know it is time for a new generation of leadership in america. >> come all a, you are fired. with your vote in this election you can show them once and for all , that this nation does not belong to them. this nation belongs to you. >> you know the math, it is the blue wall and the blue wall must hold. >> this election is the ultimate group project. yes, it is. guess what? final notice, it is due tomorrow. >> i have been asking my supporters to not vote for me but to vote for president trump. because if they want to

see me in washington that is the only way i will get the washington. >> in two days we will take out the trash in washington, d.c., and the trash his name is kamala harris. >> joining me now is a senior political analyst, a political commentator, and a senior political commentator, and a special assistant to george w. bush. and a senior political analyst. nice to have everybody back. we look at these closing moments and the closing arguments where we stand right now. two very different messages in this moment. ron, game that out for us. when you have that split screen which is what we have seen throughout the campaign, what does it do on the final day? >> you know, out of everything that was said on the final day, jd vance calling the sitting vice president of the united states the first email vice president, really calling anybody in public , trash, just seems to me incredibly indicative of where this campaign is ending as we said in the last segment from island

of garbage to i will protect women whether they like it or not, to lining up liz cheney in front of rifles, trump spent the last week reminding voters of everything they do not like about him when he was president. and harris, i think, you know, very effectively trying to play off that, sometimes portraying him as a threat that sometimes by are doing this is exhausting and we do not need to keep doing this. i will point out, one fact . i spent much we are talking about the geographic and demographic faultlines between the parties and certainly, erica , we have been a lot of segments this year and talked about college versus non-college, young versus old, there is one simple rule of thumb, women are a majority of the vote in every swing state and nationally. women have cast more ballots than men in every election since 1980 and what that means is that to win the swing states and to win the national popular vote, trump has to win man by more than harris wins women. it

is a very simple equation for this election and vance in particular has made a whole series of comments since he got on the stage that make the challenge much more formidable, everywhere outside the south where there are a lot of very culturally conservative white women. that is a simple rule. if donald trump does not win man by more than harris wins women, he will have a long night in the swing states. >> as you point out there are more women who vote. more women registered to vote. >> that is right. >> when we look at the smart, ron has talked about how exhausting some of this has been, there is a lot that is baked in. yes, there is a ton of terrible language and it certainly is not what i like my kids to see and grow up doing and yet when you look at it , there is not a lot of shock factor left anymore. given that , how much does this rhetoric and this language change things

in these final days? >> you are right about is becoming really old to it all. we have been listening to this type of language now pretty consistently for the last eight years and what we have seen is the discourse or lack of discourse in politics is now kind of spread into civil society we see neighbors that do not get along because of politics and we have families that are broken up because of politics. that in itself, is pretty disturbing, but as ron talks about and he talks about so detailed and so well, is really have to dozen cut up the numbers and look at what is the subset of folks were looking for right now. ron is right about women and how donald trump really needs to see not only these rallies, people to show up at these rallies, right, the low propensity

voters, the younger men 18 to 29, 18 to 30, he needs them to go out and vote. the trump campaign says they have gone out to vote and we don't know if that is true we know early that numbers are up but we don't know if those are traditional voters at all. really what we will do is slices down to seven states and then you slice it down to probably two or three states and i think when we look at the state such as michigan and wisconsin, kamala harris spent five stops in wisconsin yesterday, three stops by tim walz are running mate in wisconsin. clearly, there is something in those two states they see where they could win or they may have little concern about losing. at the same time, look over trump is going. trunk decided to go to grand rapids to do his closing rally. that is the third time he has done that in the third campaign but it was not just him that went to michigan, we saw fans go there yesterday. do they see something? or they tried to do a head fake? kind of late to do a head fake but in politics, who knows.

>> is it ever too late in politics? as we look at this dimension that is, for the low propensity voters, young male voters, the fact that joe rogan on monday endorsed tunnel trump, -- donald trump, how much do you think that you make as far as a difference to voters? >> he did it so early in the election, right at the end and coming out the night before, better late than never. he has a huge audience and there is a reason donald trump did his podcast and a reason vance did it. there is a reason donald trump shows up at ufc fights, in my opinion. this election, this has become a war between college-educated women and noncollege educated men. yes, we have been talking about the gender gap but a lot you cannot underscore enough this college versus noncollege that we have in this election . ron and i have talked about this before and that is one of the things i am most fascinated to see how it turns out. ron is right on

the algebra if you win women by more, if she wins women by more than he wins men, she will win but there is a 75 and it is this working class versus college-educated divide and there is a reason that two thirds of the country things we are on the wrong track because a huge majority of the working class people in this country believe they have been beaten down by the current administration. and it just so happens that kamala harris is the vice president of the current administration. for trump, you go after people who believe they have been losers in the biden/harris economy, you go after younger men and the idea of getting new people into the electorate who do not usually vote and maybe have never voted, that is called changing the composition of the electorate and make the polls wrong. if he was able to do that. and we don't yet know whether that will come true. that is what makes election so exciting. obama did this, he change the composition of the electorate. he had access to voters that only he could talk to. i think the same is true of

trump the question is, did he actually convert them into actual voting people . >> we will find out by election night, you mean election week being citing? >> election night. i have an optimistic thought. >> speaking of, changing the electorate and bringing people over, in this npr harris poll when it comes to kamala harris, she had 8% of likely republican voters, why does that matter? up three points from october and actually twice the number of democrats breaking for trump. that says something. >> absolutely. this goes to what i was saying in the earlier segment which is part of the kamala harris campaign strategy is to appeal to independents , to disaffected moderate republicans, even disaffected conservative republicans like liz cheney who understand we are at a moment in time that is much more important than partisan politics. that it transcends party. it is about who we are

as a nation and who we want to be in terms of where do we want to raise our kids, how do we want to raise our kids? erica, i have been working with a lot of groups that are going door to door and one of the things i am hearing from them that they hear about is that they are talking to undecided voters, voters who voted for trump in 2016, voted for trump in 2020, but are taking a look and they are exhausted and they are saying look , this man is right now what i'm hearing from him is much worse than i have heard from him before. he has become an absolute bully and how can you raise my kids in a time when i'm trying to desperately teach them to not be this and they go out and vote for this. while i think that a lot of republicans and strategists and trump supporters are saying,

book, trump is trump and he is who he is and people know who he is, i think a lot of americans are looking at his rhetoric, are looking at his demeanor and they see somebody who is much worse, much darker , frankly, much more unhinged and there have been articles written about this about how his language has changed and that has become a lot more divisive and dystopian and americans can see that. even those who have been voting for him and supporting him before take a look at him and say, i cannot do this anymore. which is why at the kamala harris his message about , we don't have to do this anymore, we don't have to live like this anymore and we can turn the page, we can move forward , we can find a new path way forward together , that kind of message i think is appealing for those kind of voters.

>> just real quick. as scott said, you can ever discount trump's capacity to change the composition of the electorate because he has done it before but when you look at early voting there is no evidence of the wave he is counting on. women are more of the first-time voters, young voters, single voters and frequent voters and the gap between women and men in all of this categories in the early vote is as big as it was in 2020 and sometimes even bigger. maybe all of these joe rogan listeners will show up today but they have not yet shown up in bigger numbers than they did in 2020. so far. >> we will watch. thank you all. strike reproductive rights is a key concern for so many voters in this election. just ahead we will take a closer look at how that may be influencing voters . many women but not all and influencing the votes. turning the page. rescue in america. just some of the closing remarks on election eve. who said what? those details are ahead.

this very long, extremely expensive, incredibly drawnout race is really truly winding down. these are the final hours and the residential hopefuls have already delivered their closing arguments. we are watching the action from washington in the final push to voters to very different messages, we should say. how did it go? >> we made it. and certainly we have seen an intentional shift from vice president harris as she made the closing arguments in the last 24 hours and she really did not reference former president donald trump by name and that was intentional, sources say as she is looking to project some optimism and hope and cast herself as a change candidate. will see if voters agree with that tomorrow , today, excuse me. really her last day framed around unity. take a look. >> america is ready for a fresh

start. ready for a new way forward where we see our fellow american , not as an enemy, but as a neighbor. and we are ready for a president who knows that the true measure of a leader is not based on who you beat down , but based on who you lift up. >> we have seen a darkening of rhetoric from former president donald trump as he made his closing arguments and he has tried to start out on election integrity , he has baselessly claimed that democrats are cheating, he also said he should not have left the white house after he lost in 2020 and has been airing his grievances at his political rivals. take a look at what we had in the last final rally. >> over the past four years americans have suffered one catastrophic failure , betrayal, and humiliation after another. kamala has delivered

soaring prices. and true economic anguish at home, war and chaos abroad. and a nation destroying invasion on our southern border. invasion with some of the greatest criminals of the world that are pouring into our country and were not going to take that. >> after former president trump's allies and aids have implored him to stay on message in these final hours, but trump also asked a question straight out of the reagan playbook asking voters, are you better off now that you were four years ago? erica. >> think you. we are almost there. almost. abortion has been a real galvanizing issue for democrats in this race. ever since roe v. wade was overturned by the u.s. supreme court in june of 2022. both presidential candidates differ in their views on the issue. donald trump said he

opposes a national abortion ban and prefers to leave it to the states, kamala harris sports federal legislation to protect abortion access. >> ours is a fight for freedom . including the most fundamental freedom of a woman to make decisions about her own body and not have her government tell her what to do. and what congress passes a bill to restore reproductive freedom nationwide , as president of the united states, i will proudly sign it into law. proudly. proudly. >> reproductive rights are on the ballot in a number of states today across the country. voters in at least 10 states will determine the future of abortion access. claim joined by the sister professor of government , and good to have you with us. we saw the way the vice president

has leaned in, in a way that joe biden was either uncomfortable doing or unable to do, that has amounted to a significant shift in the way this is talked about this election cycle. >> i think this will be a very stressful election day for a lot of americans and one of the things i do is participate in polling and we found recently that only about 10% of americans thought that neither candidate was a threat to democracy but we found donald trump's negatives were a bit higher than vice president harris. she may be effectively delivering that message. we found that 79% of democrats strongly disagree that donald trump was a person of good moral character , for example and only 50% of republicans strongly disagreed with the idea that vice president harris was a person of good moral

character. those are both high numbers. and loss of republican democrats are worried about what happens if the other side winds, but former president trump's negatives are a bit higher. >> as you look at that, women always play important roles in elections, women are a larger slice of the electorate and they tend to turn out in larger numbers for elections that the factor has been so much of a focus on women this time around and we are hearing from so many women and not just young women. this poll out of iowa, women 65 and older, kamala harris is up 35 points with those women. that is significant. >> that is right. and receipt very large gender gap in terms of presidential vote choice. this is only correlated with partisanship. women tend to be democrats. for the republicans. a lot of what will happen

tomorrow will depend on the intensity of those opinions and whether it encourages people to turn out to vote in higher numbers , encourage women to turn out to vote in higher numbers than they have historically. >> is it your sense that the issue of abortion, reproductive rights , is this a bigger driver this time around for women? >> i think it has always been part of the picture. if you travel back in time to 2016, people talk about it and they talked about it in the 2020 election. midterms , i distinctly remember teaching class during the kavanaugh confirmation hearings and these kinds of issues come up a lot and have been intensely part of american politics for a long time. but there is a sense for everyone in the selection that it is really the war for all the marbles, right.

>> there is a different conversation happening in 2024. that is impossible to ignore. >> and it is possible that we are talking about control not only of the presidency but also the senate and also the house of representatives and with potential supreme court appointments coming up to control the senate and the presidency means control of the supreme court. there is a lot on the line. and that should bring the intensity up but it may be the case that this is actually slightly more motivating for democrats than for republicans. one of the questions we asked in our most recent survey was a question about, do you agree or disagree with the statement on abortion. and democrats, many women 60% of women agreed but in the strongly disagreeing category, which is republicans, only 31% of women and 32% amongst

republican men. the intensity of the feeling is greater on the democratic side even though there are republicans who feel very strongly about this issue. >> it will be fascinating. to see not only the outcome of the election but as we get more and more of the data in the days to come to see how all this plays out in terms of the splits. thank you. in this race that is still and neck, we know that there is a certain number that one candidate needs to win. what are the various paths to 270 votes? that is ahead.

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she is scheduled to do some radio interviews today before watching the election results from her alma mater . howard university. here is part of her closing argument to voters. >> we will build an economy where we bring down the cost of living. we will ban corporate price gouging on groceries. we will make housing and childcare for affordable. we will cut taxes for workers , for middle-class families and small businesses . we will lower healthcare costs including the cost of home care for seniors. because on the issue of healthcare , i absolutely believe access to health care should be a right , and not just a privilege of those who can afford it. >> the message from donald trump, starkly different, speaking into the wee hours of tuesday morning in grand

rapids, michigan. he launched a series of personal attacks against nancy pelosi and other democrats. >> she is a crooked person, a bad person. evil . and evil, sick, crazy -- no. it starts with a b but i will not say it. i want to say it. adam schiff , shifty. i call him pencil neck . he has the smallest neck i have ever seen. he has the biggest head. i don't know how the next can hold ahead, he is an unattractive guy both inside and out. she called up and conceded and spent seven years on saying, how she was a good sport. she is wonderful, a lovely person, crooked hillary. but you know what, she is smart and -- but she was not like ,

she lied a lot. nobody buys like this kamala . she is a very low iq person. >> pennsylvania is a key to victory for both candidates but as we explain, there is a way to do it . >> there is a reason she is spending her entire date in the commonwealth of pennsylvania. she has 226 and you have to get to 270 and that is 19. you get the 19 and you are underway and the blue wall states, michigan and wisconsin included have voted together since 1992. donald trump won in 2016 and that was a surprise that made him president , if the vice president can win the three blue wall states that is 270 as long as she gets nebraska

second congressional district. no path is easy but that is her easiest path to 270 others have been democratic states with the exception of 2016. that is where they start. can she get there without that? let's say donald trump repeated 2016. and he took all three blue wall states. can the vice president win ? she can but it will require a sweep of the sunbelt and require north carolina, georgia, arizona and nevada. there is the blue wall strategy and a sunbelt path and both candidates for the same path, trump would need more. he cannot just win with the blue wall, he would have to pick up something else the other scenario is a mix-and-match. that is when it would get interesting if michigan and wisconsin went blue and pennsylvania with red you are in a scramble to get to 270 through the sunbelt. that is unusual and does not normally happen but this is been an unusual year. >> it has been an unusual year. our political panel is back. as

that is being game out, a couple of the state we could see some early returns from georgia, north carolina, ron, what could the early returns tell us? >> they will give us some indications about rural versus urban and some demographic considerations but they are , they are southern states and what electorate is more conservative. it is interesting that so much has changed since harris replaced biden as the democratic nominee and she certainly is running better than he did , particularly among younger voters, latino voters and black voters but in many ways she is kind of ending up in the same place as he did, as he was. her clearest path, with a big gap is in sweeping the three states michigan, pennsylvania and wisconsin. i am the person who coined the phrase, blue wall in 2009 and originally referred to 18 states. now most people think about just those three states

which trump knocked out of the blue wall in 2016. and those are states where democrats can run better among white voters in most parts of the country and that is why erica, it is entirely possible that harris could win those three states and win the electoral college and even if she wins the popular vote by only about as much as clinton did in 2016, which was not enough to win those three states and the reason is that like biden in 2020, she does seem to be running better among white voters and her decline in the popular vote will primarily be among latino voters who are not that relevant , as relevant , in the states as they are elsewhere. you have this possibility, the assumption in both parties, democrats have to win the popular vote by a lot to get to 270 and that may be less true this year because of the way each coalition is evolving. >> there has been a focus on latino voters over the last week on the heels of the

comments at the trump rally last sunday night. but, to ron's point even in the most recent polling we are seeing a little bit of a drop compared to the numbers and 2020 for biden when it comes to support among black and latino voters in the latest npr pole. down eight points for likely black voters down from 2020. is it your sense that the events of the last week , have injected a little bit more optimism in either of those voting blocks? >> unequivocal, it has. i know this because as you know , i worked very closely with the latino community and a lot of groups that work with latinos and groups that work with black voters as well. specifically among the latino community i spoke to a pollster earlier today who is part of the consortium of pollsters who are doing exit polls and what he

told me is that the exit polls they are doing now which will continue until election day is over but they are doing quite a bit now because of the early vote, those are not really polls, they are talking to voters who are devoted. they have seen an increase in support for kamala harris of 10 points among latino voters, especially the puerto rican voters in pennsylvania and across the battleground states . ever since the madison square garden rally where donald trump had his supporters , specifically the comedian, call puerto rico an island of trash. that really pushed puerto rican voters as well as latino voters are also felt offended to say, you know what, this is absolutely unacceptable and we are going to mobilize and were going to energize our friends and family to vote against donald trump and to vote for kamala harris. you even had

latino voters who were donald trump supporters who flipped on him because they were so angry at how he and his allies were treating the latino community. i do believe that at the end of the day , went all the votes are counted , vice president harris is going to register at least the same amount, if not more, i believe it will be more , of support among the latino community that joe biden had in 2020. and i believe the same can be also for black voters for different reasons , but they are coming home and i have talked to pollsters who do polling in the black community and they say this whole myth that harris is pleading support from black voters is just that, it is a myth and i think at the end of the day they will come home as well. spot this race will be about turnout, as we know. part of that turnout is really a focus on getting this

out. how concerned are you about donald trump's efforts to undermine this election and to sow doubt about the election before it even happens? >> i am not concerned about anything yet because i have not seen any of the evidence we will have anything but a free and fair election and i believe we will we will see what happens after election night and everybody should act responsibly today and in the days ahead. we have a beautiful, magical system in this country and it is a diffused system and you have all these amazing volunteers, municipal staff, county clerks, secretaries of state. the way we do it protects it in the way we do it i think if she really good insurance against anything bad happening on a massive scale. i will choose to be optimistic about this election both on the front of we will all believe it is a free and fair election and maybe, just

maybe we will get results in a timely fashion. as we sit here at 4:41 a.m., i don't know if the any of the rest of you who we made angry at cnn, at 4:41 a.m. -- >> speak for yourself. this is a privilege. >> i have a glass half-full view of the same. i believe in the way we do it and i believe in the system and i will believe in it until someone proves me otherwise and they never have. >> as my grandmother told me , may she rest in peace, it is always happy hour somewhere. how much wiggle room -- >> a lot of caffeine. >> i wanted to ask about hidden trump voters but hidden harris of voters. how much we did you put on that idea that they could be out there, the hidden voting blocks that will show up tomorrow? or today. >> i am suspicious of this. i think , you know. there has

been a real appeal by the harris's campaign to do this kind of whisper network that was a really strong julia roberts narrated ad that tells women they can vote against their husband and you can actually say you're going to do one thing and secretly to another and it shows women nodding at each other across the ballot box. you know, we are not in the 1950s. i do think that , you know, if you live in a household where you may disagree with your spouse, i hope you can feel you can actually vote your conscience and not have to worry about it . there was this very funny meme going around that showed donald trump looking at melania trump's valid, when she was casting her vote . what you have to say went pretty viral because maybe the person who does not trust who is voting is donald trump and melania trump has been absent as had ivanka

trump. maybe the women in his family may vote differently. i'm not sure there is a huge hidden vote. what you see is women are coming out very strongly for harris and reproductive rights are an enormous issue because in this country since the fall of roe v. wade we have seen it affect women and , you know, that has become a central issue of this campaign and donald trump frankly has not done well with women, which is why one of his closing arguments was , you know, to try to appeal to women and pink signs with women for trump behind him but as you heard, he did not really stay on message, he went dark and we will have to see, is it the guys or gals? >> what a matchup. ron, i will give you the last word . we were talking earlier this morning about watching where the campaigns will be moving throughout the day especially in the few hours before the polls close. why is that so

important? what can you tell us? >> i think you see a lot from where they have been especially in the last few days . hillary clinton in 2016 famously did not go to michigan and wisconsin down the stretch. kamala harris is not going to be accused of neglecting the former blew all states, a full day in each michigan, pennsylvania and wisconsin. maybe the most notable thing about trump schedule is how many times he has gone to north carolina. democrats have been nervous that north carolina has been heartbreak hill for years and could get close but never over the top. he has been there a bunch this last week and obviously they see something that they don't like. you know, we are used to elections where most of the close states tip the same way in the end, there does seem to be a gap between the rust belt options for harris and the sunbelt options . we will see. there is one scenario this and is with her at 270 electoral college votes and him at 268 and if we think of how much trump , how

much pressure he put on the system in the electoral college vote that was ratified to 2033, i think everyone has to buckle up and reinforce the importance of accepting the election results without violence or intimidation , if we end up with something that is as close as a potentially could be , might open up a little more, but to 70 to 268 is not inconceivable and people i think have to be getting ready for that in power and institutions with influence , defending the idea of respecting election results because there is no guarantee that if trump loses he is going to. >> great to see all of you. don't worry, scott, you did not draw the short straw by being with us this morning. i promise you. >> we are special. >> it was fun. >> enjoy your election day my friends. we will talk soon. kamala harris and donald trump have spent months courting hispanic voters. so,

who could perhaps see the payoff? we will check in with one of the hosts of the latino vote podcast, next.

kamala harris working overtime to do her best to win the latino vote in pennsylvania. yesterday she and the congresswoman from new york met with voters in ready, pennsylvania. the latino vote to play a massive role in this election in a number of states. these numbers are from the final polls in arizona and nevada . for more on this i am joined by a democratic strategist. joining us from washington. as to see you dark and early. this morning. as we look at where things stand, heading into election day , you tell me, where does this race stand?

>> you have heard too many people say it is too close to call but leading into the latino vote, i think the latino voters because they are so different from state to state will probably determine who will be president and who will control the senate and what will go unreported is to will control congressional majorities in both houses because of where we live . he talked about the concentration of pennsylvania, 578,000 mainly puerto rican and dominican latinos but mexican-americans arizona and nevada will have a big impact in another underreported thing is there is a substantial amount of mexican-americans in milwaukee and over 150,000 latino voters in michigan. these voters are within the difference of what it was in the last election and that is why i think will be so critical. >> you make such an important point that i think sometimes gets forgotten in all of this. trying to throw every latino voter into one giant voting block is like throwing a women into one voting block, right.

it depends on the individual but it does depend on where you live, what your community is, what your background is and all of that comes into play in an important, nuanced way. >> it is the thing that consultants get wrong the most because latinos are not -- there are not that latinos in the hierarchy of the campaign world. were looking toward a will of wanted to white consultants trying out how do reach a latino puerto rican. in allentown, redding and will spirit of the places where you have seen candidates on the east side of pennsylvania are not even immigrants from the island of puerto rico, they are mainly on weekends and dominicans who have moved from new york and new jersey with their own unique culture. having cultural competency of understanding how to reach these voters are very poor. >> have you seen a change in

that ? the last thing you need is some white consultant tell you how to reach different demographic groups. have you seen a change in that 2024 among the campaigns? >> i have i think that is why you see the manager of the harris's campaign and i think you see more latinos come of age because our electorate is so much younger. the average age of a latino voter is 20. many times relate to compare the latino vote to the white or black vote , and the white or black vote, the average age is in his 40s. when you talk about a voter in its 40s, the matter the color of the skin or a voter in their 20s, they show up at different rates and you have to work harder to get someone in the 20s to show up and that is why you always see the latino turnout number lag behind black and white voters. >> wear your focus be as you watch returns come in? specter a couple of congressional districts . we are looking at pennsylvania but look at north carolina. north carolina will

be done early and georgia will be done really early in the night. and there is over 1 million latinos in georgia. in north carolina, it is the fastest growing latino state in the country. i will look at counties and pockets in those states where the latino vote is bigger than it is in other parts of the state to see what the performance is because we know that and lastly, the congressional district in eastern pennsylvania which is pennsylvania seven, currently held by a democrat , that will be something i am watching. she won the district by only two points in the last midterm election and if she is in trouble on election night with her districting almost 50% puerto rican and dominican, democrats will have a long night. >> thank you. and enjoy your election day. before i leave you this hour, i wanted to share this. sort of breaking election news with you. finally broken her silence on the u.s. election.

the baby hippo had to choose a fruit basket this morning. she chose the donald trump fruit basket. predicting a trump victory. it is important to note that the two fruit baskets , one labeled trump and one labeled harris, it turns out, the piece of dragon fruit in the trump basket was bigger, according to the zookeepers. there are some questions about whether this was rigged , whether the baskets were equal? unclear whether the vote will be redone but at this point , she says donald trump. we will let you know if she is right . in a couple days. thank you for joining me. as we kick off election day 2024 at cnn , stay with us throughout the day for continuing coverage of the presidential election and all the other key races and ballot measures. election day in america continues after this break.

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