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president trump and me as it went for me a couple years ago in the state of ohio. >> i think donald trump, i can feel it out there, folks are excited about voting. i just can't describe the difference in the vibe that is out there with folks and how hungry they are for something different. >> sandra: all right, so it is 2:00 eastern time here on the east coast. we are just hours away now from the first polls closing, and as of right now, millions of americans are making their voices heard at the ballot box. what an exciting buildup this is. hello and welcome everyone. sandra smith in new york. >> john: john roberts joining her in new york. >> sandra: nine. former president told reporters he is feeling very confident while -- harris recorded swing state interviews, america's at an inflection point. now it is all in the hands of voters. >> sandra: not just the presidency on the ballot, voters

decide the fate of congress, the house and the senate. we have reporters on the ground and swing states across the country, but we are going to begin with jeff flock. he is live from bethel park, p.a., for us. all right, jeff, kick things off for this hour. you are just outside of pittsburgh, right? >> that's correct, in the pittsburgh suburbs, and you talk about swing states, perhaps the greatest among these swing states is here in pennsylvania with its 19 electoral votes. how important is allegheny county, which is where we are right now? well, so important that both candidates were rallying here yesterday. president trump rallying with the rank-and-file steelworkers here in pittsburgh, and then vice president harris, as well, shattered steel plant, rallying with pop singer katy perry. we will see how that turns out. you know, i say allegheny county, it is important, why? well, it is a democrat county, but in 2016, when president trump took pennsylvania, he lost this county only by 16% to

hillary clinton. in 2020, four years later, he lost by 20 points to president biden, and he lost pennsylvania. where do we stand right now? well, take a look at the numbers. 950,000 registered voters in allegheny county. here is what we know so far. 257,000 mail-in ballots, of which 219,000 have been returned. we are told that they break down by 66% democrat and 11% g.o.p., but of course there have been a lot of crossovers, both ways, in the past few elections, and perhaps that will be the same. sandra, i hope it doesn't come down to just a few thousand votes because you've got military and overseas ballots that will be extended for a whole number week. we could be in pennsylvania for a while. it's okay, i live here. i don't know about the rest of us. >> sandra: jeff, always good. so it seems quiet there. you are at a polling place, right? are there lines? what are you seeing?

>> yeah. we came to one of the busiest polling places in allegheny county, and this morning there was a line around the block, but it has dissipated, and we suspect they'll come back strong, but you know come a lot of people now do mail-in ballots. we thought in the past that mosley democrats did mail-in ballots, but it may be that thef republicans out there, too so we will see how it goes. this is one of the states that does not begin to tabulate the mail-in ballots until today, and so it could be a while tonight, unlike georgia, we could be here. >> sandra: second most populous county in pennsylvania. it is a key one to watch, as we will be. jeff, thank you very much. all right, john? >> john: speaking of early voting, pennsylvania, only 26% of total voters from 2020 voted early. in wisconsin, the number is a little higher, 50%, the badger state, voters lining up to decide the states ten critical

electoral college votes. polls are open for about seven more hours, though the first polls close in about five hours and other places in the country. our senior correspondent mike tobin live in milwaukee with more. house business today, mike? >> we've seen a steady stream of voters in milwaukee, john. i got some social media accounts of mines around the corner but what we are seeing, we have our camera in milwaukee, another ison, a line that is manageable, if you want to vote in wisconsin, looks like you can get it done in a reasonable amount of time. looks there is a little of a midday crush but the lives aren't ours and ours, at least we have seen from our observation point. the polls have been open since 7:00 a.m. local, close at 8:00 local, 9:00 eastern. the prize is ten electoral votes. the last two elections in wisconsin have been decided by less than a percentage point, .7 in 2016, .6% in 2020. most early voting and day of should be totaled quickly after the polls close but wisconsin

law states that the mail-in ballots don't get unsealed until the other ballots are counted. so anticipate an unofficial vote that comes around pretty quickly after the polls close, and an official count could take all the way until 1:00, 2:00 a.m. there is no automatic recount in wisconsin, but if the margin is less than a percent, a campaign can demand a recount. the other race aside from the presidential race we are watching in wisconsin is a senate race, challenger eric hovde is giving the incumbent tammy baldwin a run for her money, started out trailing her, he has now moved well within the margin of error, in striking distance, so we will keep an eye on that one. john? >> john: mike tobin in milwaukee, thank you so much. >> sandra: okay, the moment you've been waiting for. larry kudlow is here, host of "kudlow" on fox business you have been here and doing your homework, certain parts of the country you are watching and issues you will be watching but give us, larry kudlow's top line

thoughts at 2:00 eastern time? >> you know, the pollsters uniform is a complete toss-up, complete even and so forth and so on. i wrote a piece yesterday, talked about it on the show, i think there is some things that pollsters are missing. these are not brand-new thoughts. a couple other people have suggested it. but look, republicans have had tremendous come back in the last four years for voter registration. alex castillo knows point, we checked the numbers very carefully, he is exactly right, give you some in pennsylvania in a minute. the other thing is in the early turnout voting, this year mr. trump said go on and vote early, 16 and 20 he said don't, wait until election day. so democratic turnout is down, republican turnout is way up. that is cutting -- >> sandra: you are optimistic? >> i am cautiously optimistic. i don't think my forecasting is better than anybody else's, but i think those are important

factors. another factor, i don't think the pollsters necessarily can count the expansion of mr. trump's working-class coalition. very important point. they are basing it on 2020 and 2016. so look, he's got blacks, hispanics, white, working-class people. he's got young people. he's got young blacks, young hispanics. i don't know that they can account for that because these are relatively new developments for trump. i mean, this is why he's been playing offense and kamala has been playing defense. you've got other things. you've got, look, how do you calculate elon musk in pennsylvania? i mean, the guy is the smartest guy on the planet, also a huge celebrity, become a political celebrity. how do you calculate that? how do you calc at robert f. kennedy jr. and tulsi gabbard? maybe they can calculate it, i don't think it will figure into those numbers.

>> john: how can the richest man in the world relate, look at him like tony stark. >> he doesn't have heirs, authentic like trump, sounds the same way, trump goes to the barbershop, right, trump goes to the south bronx, trump drives the garbage truck and goes to mcdonald's, why is that? he is authentic. >> john: let me ask about pennsylvania and voting being down particularly in pennsylvania, 2024 early vote, democrats 971,650, republicans 571725, compare that to 2020. democrats had 1,702,484. they are down 43%. republicans are down 8%. they have only voted 26% of the people who voted in 2020 have voted early in pennsylvania. there is a huge outstanding date of vote, and typically -- >> goes to the challenger. really goes to the challenger.

your numbers are correct. party registration. >> john: thank god for that. >> i like to check numbers, i am still in numbers guy. i admit i have biases, but i am still a numbers. 2020 democrats had 1.1 million early vote, that's your point. today it is only 400,000. party registration, okay. at the peak, democrats had 1.2 million advantage. that was during the obama years over republicans. that advantage in registration shrank to 686,000 in 2020. this year 24, their advantages only 281,000. that is a huge drop-off. now i want to multiply that throughout the country. this was alex castillo know's point, and we look at the same thing. party registration and all of these swing states has made enormous gains for the republican party, those are facts, not predictions by pollsters, those are on the

ground facts. here is another one. in pennsylvania, in the last four years, 203,000 democrats have switched to the republicans in party registration. let me repeat that, 203,000. on the other side, 97,000 republicans have switched to democrats, so that says, for example, not only is the turnout bigger, not only is the party registration bigger, but they are keeping it. they will keep the vote on election day. it's not switching around. >> sandra: all right, we are out of time, but before you go and we will see your coverage all night, by the way, but down was up big time right now and i'm sure you saw "the wall street journal" today talking about the trump trade, this is the anticipation of the markets that there will be a trump victory come all "the wall street journal" points out trump can be a lot of different things, up 400-point on election day, does that tell you what he really? >> the dow is up 400 points, do you know why? because it is up 400.

i worked hard on that answer. [laughter] >> john: what issues have influenced the votes of americans the most? >> sandra: breaking it out of judge jeanine pirro, cohost of "the five." she will join us as larry gets up and she takes a seat next.

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battleground states as they cast their ballots today. the economy and our border. edward lawrence live from the white house. edward, how big will the economy be in this election? >> sandra, this could be the issue, it rates number one in the polls. republicans want to see it that way. democrats would like to see abortion as the issue people vote on but when you look at these two candidates, former president trump wants to cut taxes on tips, cut taxes on social security, cut taxes on overtime. the former president also wants to extend the trump tax cuts. former president trump wants to lower the former rates and move to the united states. president trump sees it as the number two issue. listen. >> we want people to come into our country but they have to come in legally and we want strong borders and we want people to come in, we want to be totally inclusive but they have to come in, i think that is a big issue, to me that was the biggest issue. i may be wrong. a lot of people said inflation.

inflation is a disaster, but i think it is the second issue. i think the first is the border. >> vice president, harris less is specific about her economic plan, reduce taxes on tips as well as make tax cuts for americans making less than $400,000 a year however she wants the trump tax cuts to expire which raises taxes for just about every american, the vice president says she sees an opportunity economy but again not really specific about what that means or entails. sandra? >> sandra: yeah, never really got any specifics on that but we will see how it worked with voters. edward, thank you. >> i am the daughter of an immigrant, and i will say that probably the most under talked about aspect of this entire process is how we have devalued citizenship and the importance of that process in assimilating people into our culture and making them feel part of a process. if you come in illegally the way they have an under the shadows, as our government is doing it,

you never get what you saw, which are people who are genuinely love our country and have made great, the right way and with legality. >> john: migrant crime and the border issue another key issue. dig into this with judge jeanine pirro, coast of "the five." >> nice to see you in new york, john. >> john: we were at the al smith dinner. >> she is sorry she didn't go but let's move on. >> john: let's move on but stay with kamala harris, the latest she said on the border, speech on the ellipse, listen. >> when i am president, we will quickly remove those who arrive here unlawfully, prosecute the cartels, and give border patrol the support they so desperately need. >> john: people heard what she said, we will move to remove those who quickly arrived. what have you been doing for three and a half years?

>> it is this kind of comment that makes americans -- i hope americans are listening and know that she is lying now because during the 2019 when she ran for president she wanted to decriminalize the illegal crossings. she has never said anything that is inconsistent with that. she was border czar, whatever she wants to call it, and since that time 12 million peope have crossed the border, we know how many criminals have crossed, and in addition we've got millions of known and unknown got-aways across the board without stopping there because they have reasons to not be identified. so she can say that she's going to prosecute these cartels. she didn't do it. a real prosecutor would have gone down to that border with attorneys generals and with u.s. attorneys and say guys, putting together a task force, we are going to clean this border, as the vice president, she did nothing like that. and now she wants to sell you a bag of goods that make no sense.

and what this special is you just heard rachel talking about, all three of us, rachel, rosanna, and myself, we all did specials on immigration. i did sanctuary america, and rachel did the billion-dollar industry where these ngos are making a fortune, and rosanna did the underground economy. look, americans have been paying through the nose for illegals who are coming across the border. that's why it is consistently one of the top issues. it is something that is impacting education, health care, and the ability of people to buy homes, to get jobs. it's a nightmare. and kamala harris comes out a week before the election to say oh, i'm going to criminalize, i'm going to remove them -- no, you are not, you are going to bail them out. you are in favor of century city's, are the kind of person who doesn't want to prosecute to don't give me this nonsense. >> sandra: she was asked about this on the tarmac, a gaggle that happened in the wake of all of this.

>> john: the next day. >> sandra: the next day. she deflected and said this. >> what i intend to do on the issue of immigration, as i said last night and i have said continuously, we need to fix our broken immigration system and a number of ways. we need to strengthen the border and put more resources at the border. i also have done the work and in my policy going forward will strengthen what we need to do to deal with illegal entry between ports of entry. that is something that we need to tighten up. >> sandra: i also have done the work in my policy going forward. to your point, so many people here, the plan she is pitching to voters of what she will do in office, she is in office. >> we don't even have to go there. she says she is going to fix the broken border. how are you going to do that? how about you just enforce the law? how about you recognize that it is -- >> sandra: she blames republicans for it, right? >> she is going to strengthen border patrol. the reason she wants to do that is so they can process more and get them into the country

quicker. and when she talks about this law, this immigration, bipartisan, that was a bunch of hogwash. 7500 people come in a day, but you don't know how many based on all the entrances, the ports of entry, and then she simply wants to make it easier for them to enact a path to citizenship. as a judge, i actualize newly naturalized citizens, they love this country, they swore allegiance, they know the history, they will fight for this country. this is the america being a sucker and endangering american lives. >> john: i got nationalized a week after 9/11. i remember that. just before we go, put up this graphic, the number of people who came across the border illegally in the biden-harris and administration versus the trump administration. there you go, the statistics don't lie. judge, great to see you. >> great to see you, too. >> sandra: thank you, judge. i think i'm going to come join you guys. >> today? >> sandra: fox news voter analysis on "the five."

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♪ ♪ >> sandra: love all of these live shots all over the country. north carolina. millions of people, millions of americans are heading to the polls or are there right now, including former president donald trump and he cast a ballot in florida a short time ago alongside former first lady melania before taking questions from the press. bill melugin is live in west palm beach and has more on that. bill, how is the former president feeling about this

race? >> sandra, talked to the former president just a short time ago. he said he is feeling consciously optimistic about tonight. we are outside of his watch party headquarters right now waiting for those to open up, but just a short time ago we had a gaggle with the press and i ask if you win tonight, how are you going to reach out to kamala harris supporters question or take a listen. >> you have talked a lot about unity. if you wins are going to be tens of millions of her supporters were going to be upset. what would your plan be to reach out, bring them in questioning. >> it will be just that, we want to bring everybody in. we want to be very inclusive, and we will be very inclusive. we have a great country, but we have a country that's in trouble. it's in big trouble in many ways. and we have to straighten it o out. >> and then shortly after that, take a look at this, trump visited his campaign headquarters out here in palm beach. he stopped by to thank staff and supporters, said he hopes they have a result tonight, and then

earlier this morning, take a look, his running mate j.d. vance, he voted in ohio this morning. he has been crisscrossing the country and battleground states. he says he is feeling confident. take a listen. >> we do expect to win but who wins half the country, as you said, is going to be at least partially disappointed. i think my attitude is the best way to heal the rift in the country is to try to govern the country as well as we can, create as much prosperity as we can for the american people, and remind our fellow americans that we are all fundamentally on the same team where we voted. >> and sandra, when trump talked to the press he repeated the brought up the big endorsement he got last night from podcast or joe rogan. he's got 18 million youtube subscribers. trump -- excuse me -- trump thinks that is going to have a big impact with voters today. we will send it back to you. >> sandra: bill melugin in west palm beach, florida. bill, thank you. john? >> john: vice president harris wrapping up her campaign with a message of unity in pennsylvania but her final stop in the keystone state could be a sign of concern that she has not

secured the support of her base. mark meredith live in washington, d.c. what do we see from harris campaign in terms of strategy as this raised draws to a close? >> john, good afternoon to you. today the vice president is keeping a very low profile, different from what we saw in florida, no press conferences. she is speaking to a few radio hosts in battleground states but the vice president is also counting on what they have been doing the last couple of weeks, crisscrossing battleground states try to get out the vote. we have seen the phone banking operation, the doorknocking, and while speaking to a north kelowna radio host today she said she believes voters at the end of the day or simply tired of donald trump. >> frankly i think people are exhausted, with the spirit and the approach about trying to divide people and have them turn and point fingers at each other. i think people are done with that. they want a fresh start. >> also want to tell you, we just get into the election watch party here in downtown d.c. at

howard university. security is certainly much stronger than you would see on a normal day, even for some of the other presidential events. the rally is much more like the conventions, putting finishing touches on the stage, bulletproof glass around, crowd not allowed to come in yet but they are inspecting a few thousand people here tonight. john? spewing mark meredith with the latest in washington, d.c. thank you. sandra? >> sandra: touch board and fox news contributor deroy murdock. deroy, a pro at this, so good last time, what are you watching tonight? one thing he wanted to highlight was texas, which is fun, obviously a pretty reliable state but something you are watching as we head to the results tonight, including travis county. why? >> the question is will we have a big turnout in this country, basically where austin is. we have college kids turn out, young, high-tech people show up. if they show up in big numbers, probably bodes well for kamala harris. if they stay home maybe not so much. that will probably have a big

impact on the senate race. >> sandra: so biden ran up the vote in 2020. he won by 45 points then. 2016 hillary clinton won by 38. obviously this was a sign he was doing well in 2020. >> correct. obviously if you run a big numbers among democrats you can afford to lose elsewhere in rural counties we will see how strong -- >> sandra: take us to georgia, we are all going to watch this together tonight as polls are closing. what is something you are focusing in on? obviously this is seen as a key state to win for the trump campaign as they try to pull off victory in georgia, north carolina, and pennsylvania to take them to 270. what are we watching? >> a lot of bull looking at suburban cobb county, well educated atlanta suburban voters, turn out for kamala harris, i believe biden won that by 14%, so if you have a big turn out, that could bode well for kamala. people stay at home, maybe not so much. >> sandra: all of these numbers, just digging through

with karl rove and what he is going to be watching tonight, douglas county just to the south of cobb, fulton county to the north, obviously deep blue fulton, where joe biden nearly got 47 points back in 2020. but you look at 2016, this is another one of those where he was able to run up the score, so some of those deep blue counties, you are looking at just how much comes in early on. what else -- >> this is a victory of hundred 12,000 votes for biden, so very close in atlanta. >> sandra: deroy is watching every thing, into night. what else are you watching? >> michigan, macomb county, blue-collar suburb, if you will, trump won that by 12% in 2016, only won 8% of that -- won by 28% in 2020. >> sandra: i keep highlight when we bring it up at the state level just how close things were. this was 2016, 11,000 votes made the difference. you have to remind people as we watch this tonight just how

close it has been there. 154,000 votes made the difference, or 2.8% in 2020. >> overall, it's incredible how tight this race is, realclearpolitics average, trump 40.6 nationwide, harris 48.7, 0.1% so it is that close all around the country and the swing states, trump is doing better come up by 0.8% in the swing states but it is incredible close, hitchcock in suspense at the moment. >> sandra: macomb, trump won by eight points, so tonight you will be watching what they're? >> to see if it is going to be around that level, go even higher. one of my big questions with the early vote, which went well for republicans, does that prove they will have an early vote well for the republicans? at a good turnout, as welcome on election day. a lot of republicans only vote on election day, which is what i do, this morning, big turnout of traditional republicans who don't like early voting like election day voting. that can prove very well for trump and other republicans.

>> sandra: that is the third most populous county in the entire state. part of that blue wall that the democrats are hoping to pull off victory in. deroy, you've got your sticker, your american flag tie. it is election day. thank you so much, deroy. john? >> john: voters across the country casting their ballots on this election day. a live look at one point site in pennsylvania. eiko whatley, the republican national committee chair, joins us to discuss his thoughts on where republicans stand, what he sees and what he likes.

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challenger dan she he. bozeman, montana. how busy has it been at the polls today? >> hi sandra. we are at the gallatin county fairgrounds, steady, not over womanly busy, to be expected because most montanans voted before today, but we are in gallatin county because this is one of the key counties in a race that could very well be the determining factor of which party takes the keys to the senate. yesterday gallatin county courthouse and we saw in downtown boz bozeman, long linef people either registering to vote, vote early, in person, and a lot of younger people, which makes sense because this is home to montana state university, a county and, democrat jon tester won with 59% of the vote in 2018. but a lot of people have moved here since then and surveys show that about two out of every three new residents are republicans, so it will be tough for tester to do well again. if he does, good night for him. republican made a big push to

early vote this time, state officials say as of last night e ballots have been turned in, 79% of the number mailed out, roughly two-thirds of all registered voters in the state received an absentee ballot. republicans are confident challenger tim sheehy will knock off tester and return the senate to the g.o.p. but we are expecting a very long night tonight. they just passed a state law a couple years ago that election workers have to be here through the night until the results are known, so we are expecting results probably the wee hours of the morning. sandra? >> sandra: put on a cook pot of coffee. dan springer in bozeman for us, thank you. >> john: michael whatley, republic national committee chair, his thoughts before the fifirst polls close. about four and a half hours away from that, michael, and a look at the early national vote because there is some interesting data in here, 83,030,297 total votes so far this year. and take a look at this because

this is what i find really interesting. in georgia, this is 61% of the vote total from 2020. in north carolina, it is 81% of the vote total from 2020 but here in pennsylvania where early voting has been way down for the democrats, it is only 26% of the 2020 vote total, which was nearly 7 million votes. michael, there's a lot of day-of votes in the keystone state, and day-of voting typically breaks for republicans. how are you feeling today? >> we feel pretty bullish. what we saw during the early vote and absentee vote period over the last several weeks was a great turnout for republicans. president trump had pushed very aggressively this year to get republicans to early vote and absentee vote, and they did. we were very, very happy to see, in those numbers, when we went and looked at them, that for every vote that was from an election day voter in 2020,

there were two that were first-time voters or had not voted in 2020, so we've got a lot of same-day voters that are still going to vote on election day. we have a great ramp and we feel very optimistic going into today. >> john: donald trump slightly ahead in the realclearpolitics average in the keystone state. this is really interesting to look at here because the democrats, it's been pointed out, are down 42% in the early vote in pennsylvania, and the particular county here, it is very important, is philadelphia county. there are estimates that because of the depressed early vote for democrats, that kamala harris is going to need to pull 700,000 votes in philadelphia to pull out a win. let's take a look at the historic vote here. hillary clinton got 506t thousand votes in philadelphia in 2016. in 2020, joe biden got 603,000, so she is going to need another 100,000 votes here in philadelphia to hit that 700,000 margin.

are those votes there, michael? >> they are certainly there, the question is whether she is going to be able to turn them out, and so far throughout the course of this election, we have seen that she has not really been able to put together the grassroots drive to be able to turn out those kind of voters. at the same time, we are very excited because our grassroots effort has truly focused on turning out low propensity voters and turning out voters that are from groups that republicans traditionally have not hit, such as blacks and hispanics and asian americans. so we are seeing very size seismic moves from those groups across the country, which is why we saw during the last two weeks, republicans have an outright lead coming into today in states like arizona, nevada, north carolina, georgia, and the democrats lead is traditionally much bigger in states like michigan, wisconsin, and pennsylvania. >> john: months ago, you and i talked about whether republicans

could get out the early vote, looks like that has been very successful. so successful, in fact, obama's campaign manager jim messina said this on sunday, listen here. >> the early vote numbers are a little scary and you and i have been texting back and forth, republicans didn't do what they did last time. last time trump said don't early vote and so they didn't. republicans do have an advantage in early vote numbers, when the early vote come in, it's going to look a little different than 2020, and that's scary. >> john: so when have you ever heard a democrat say that? which brings me to my next point, michael. what are you going to be watching for as the polls close in the results start to come in? >> what we really want to see is whether or not there's going to be a late, last-minute surge in turnout from the big cities. places like philadelphia, detroit, milwaukee, and atlanta. and absent that, i think republicans are going to have a very good night. we have seen very solid turnout

in rural areas all across the country, throughout the course of the day, and again we have a brutally substantial lead in most of these states already coming out of the early vote and absentee vote period. >> john: you take a look at north carolina, this is such an important state, for the very first time in history, i think anywhere, republicans outpaced democrats with the early vote. we will see what happens in north carolina tonight. we will be watching closely. michael, thank you for being with us. appreciate it. >> great to be with on with you sir. >> john: sandra question rick. >> sandra: when will we know who our next president is? would be today, tomorrow? we will tell you which key state could keep us waiting next.

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congressman ruben gallego for the seat vacated by independent senator kyrsten sinema, but her team is seeing a reason to remain positive. >> feeling good, great turnout, the early voting turnout has been at historic levels. today we are seeing great turnout from republicans and actually a depressed turnout for democrats, so i don't know what that means but we shall see. >> after trump's narrow loss here in 2020, republicans really upped their voter registration game and has made sniffing and inroads compared to democrats, arizona g.o.p. counting on newly registered voters to turn out for them today. both trump and harris campaign's have focused on latino and independent voters in the final week, democrats counting on a strong turnout by female voters to bring them across the line. we have been talking about this a lot, maricopa county twice as long as past years, slowing things down a bit. that includes the count for tonight, sandra, so folks will

have to be patient as the numbers come in. back to you. >> sandra: absolute. alicia acuna, thank you. okay, it is election day. 53 minutes past the hour. we are getting close. we'll be right back.

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economy,. >> the border, because we want to stay safe. >> the abortion ban could be extended to roughly 24 weeks. and recreational marijuana could be legalized. both propositions will take a 60% vote to win. back to you. >> steve harrigan with the latest for us from a rainy sunshine state. steve, thank you so much. they should call florida the partly cloudy state, because there are more partly cloudy days there than apparently anywhere else in the country. >> the palm trees are looking healthy. more looks around the country, as we do have live cameras up. this one is scottsdale, arizona. lines, john. so this is a key state we'll be watching tonight obviously. >> i think you call that the sunshine state, because the sun always shines there. the we've been seeing long lines, short lines, folks lining up to cast their ballots.

election day is always so exciting. reno, nevada, they're in washoe county. >> a changing demographic there over the years. karl rove is watching it on election night to see turnout. nevada could be a path to victory for either one of them. we'll see. >> one is is up in the polls one day, the other up the next day. that's a toss-up. a big senate race there too. the channel that you watch football on, shannon bream and i, our team, will be covering there. if you want to watch your local fox affiliate, we'll smile at you. >> i'll be on the analysis board on the fox news channel, running over to your studio. it's going to be a rocking night. thanks for joining us. i'm sandra smith. >> i hi, martha. >> good afternoon. i'm martha maccallum. this is th