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our country. >> brit: democracy 24 election night starts now. ♪ ♪ >> bret: it is 6:00 p.m. on the east coast and election night is in full swing. welcome to our special coverage of fox news democracy 24. i'm bret baier. >> martha: i'm martha mccallum. tonight is the night americans across the country are voting. our first major poll closings are now just moments away. image number, of course, is 270. that's how many electoral votes are needed to clinch the u.s. presidency. race is centered on seven battleground states. and in them are 93 votes that are toss-up. they are up for grabs. and they are more than enough to put either candidate over the

top, and that will start to play out just minutes from now. >> bret: georgia is the first battleground to close its polls. the secretary of state there expects to have results tonight. the biggest prize of the night is arguably pennsylvania. polls close there at 8:00, but, a technical glitch in one county is prompting officials there to extend voting hours. in fact, officials have extended voting hours at precincts in several battleground states at this hour. more on that in a moment. >> martha: really, one of the early stories here is the early vote numbers, and they are absolutely astounding. more than 84 million americans cast their votes early. many of them were in the swing states that will decide the race for the white house. >> bret: it's obviously not just the presidency we are watching. there's a lot at stake in the house and the senate. >> bret: first, on the senate side of the congress, there are 51 democrats, including 4 independents aligned with them,

and 49 republicans. the g.o.p. needs a net gain of two seats to take the outright majority. if former president trump wins his race, republicans would need just one pickup to flip the u.s. senate because the vice president can cast the tiebreaking vote. >> martha: all right, let's go over to the house side of the capitol where republicans hold a razor thin majority 220 seats. democrats have 212. three vacant seats are likely to remain in party hands, with every seat up for grabs tonight, democrats only need a net gain of 4 to take control of the house of representatives. >> bret: special team fox coverage. our reporters are standing by in the battle grounds and really all across the country. first, let's go senior national correspondent aishah hasnie. she is at the trump campaign headquarters in west palm beach, florida. good evening, aishah. >> aishah: bret and martha, good evening to you. here at the big party, a watch party, not a lot of people here just yet.

things are getting underway. they haven't put the food out just yet. i'm told though there is a very impressive coffee bar here which might be an indication that we might be up late tonight. we'll see how that goes. the former president is actually at home in mar-a-lago. he is going to be watching the results from there. he is surrounded by family and close associates, including, we just learned, elon musk is with him in mar-a-lago tonight. earlier today when the former president went to go vote here in west palm beach, he told the press that he was feeling very confident and that he had no regrets about the way that he ran this campaign. and he got a little introspective for a moment. sort of taking it all in, right? this final third presidential run. and he said that he was feeling a little bit sad but fulfilled by it all. now the campaign, as you mentioned, is very, very happy about those early vote turnout numbers. this was all part of the plan. they wanted to hit that early on. they wanted that to be the game changer all along. they are looking at states like arizona, nevada, and north carolina where those early vote

turnouts are exceptionally high. registering new republicans instead of cannibalizing those republicans are hoping will come out in full force today. trump says that he has not prepared a speech for tonight. that he is going to wing it. and he does not even want to talk about his transition team yet. possibly because there's a little bit of superstition about that. but he is definitely being a little careful about what might happen tonight, hoping that we will have results by tonight. we'll see. bret, martha? >> bret: we will see. aishah hasnie live in west palm beach. thanks. >> martha: now let's go to our senior white house correspondent jacqui heinrich at harris campaign headquarters at howard university this evening in washington. hi, jacqui. >> jacqui: hey, martha. you can hear the mic checks behind me. people are starting to trickle. in make no mistake, nobody here is really feeling very comfortable tonight. the campaign maintains that they have multiple paths to 270, but the campaign manager jen o'malley dillon said that the

margins are very close. she has never seen them closer. this could be an historically close election. there has been a massive effort to get out the vote, get people to the polls and get them to stay in line because they saw that high republican participation in early voting and that really spooked them it skewed the results that typically show democrats leading in the early vote in previous cycles with more republicans voting on election day. there is a lot of concern about pennsylvania. i was speaking to one person close with the vice president who said that it makes it difficult for either candidate to get to 270 if you lose pennsylvania. but, for harris, it puts extra pressure on states like michigan, north carolina, georgia, and nevada. and that might be why we are getting our first glimpse of hard data from campaign officials that focus on turnout in those states, including young voters and puerto rican voters in philadelphia. they say a positive sign there tonight. guys. >> martha: jacqui, thank you. >> bret: all right. throughout the night we will have this ticker on the bottom

of your screen. it will have the votes that are coming in. right now we have new hampshire and indiana, some votes early votes coming in throughout the night. you'll see different races flip, including the presidential race. on the side of the screen sometimes we'll have the fox news voter analysis poll numbers and we are going to dig in to those. >> martha: yeah, so obviously at this point these are little trickles coming in. we are starting to get them and they will be live on the bottom of your screen. we are also getting new information from our fox news voter analysis surveys. let's go to sandra smith who is going to explain all of this to us and also which issues they are tracking and what voters are saying as they have been voting. >> sandra: we have been looking forward to this data. we have been collecting this. this is different than exit polls, bret and martha. this is really going to give our viewers inside look at not only who voters in all 50 states voted for but why. we preached out online, on land lines, on cell phones. we did this, this was done for fox. the norc at the university of chicago surveyed 120 voters all

over the country leading up to and on election day and you will not see this anywhere else. and we have some new technology that will feature this data that we are just getting a first look at right now. so let's dig in to some of our key findings so far. this could be the story of big change, what we are seeing as far as this analysis is concerned so far people are looking for big change in this election. those that responded, 26% says they are looking for total upheaval, 56% say they are looking for substantial change. so, you are talking about 8 in 10 voters that want big change. so keep watching that. that could be a big data point to follow throughout the evening. why do they want that big change? so many say they don't like the direction this country's going in. look at this number. those that believe that we're moving in the wrong directions in this country, 70%. of voters. why is that key? that is 10 points higher than it was in 2020. so keep that in mind. i mentioned some of our new technology. this is our heat map.

it gives us a sense of where that sentiment is felt by voters all over the country. you see the darker red areas in the northwest. some of these redder areas throughout the sun belt. keep that in mind as we move through this evening. i want to finish up with this bret and martha. we know we have been watching the economy. but one question to voters is, who best do you see to handle the economy that so many are not happy with how it's going? those that say harris? 41%. those that say trump, 49%. so why he still has the edge, bret and martha, we have been seeing, leading up to election day, harris narrowing the gap there so, that is really good information as we head into the night. and, by the way, as we move into the night and polls start closing, we will be able to break down these answers by who they voted for. we will have that for you throughout the night. >> bret: sandra, it's really interesting. it's massive, it's 120,000 voters who have answered these -- this poll that's rolling for a number of days

through this afternoon. so, really gives you a sense beyond exit polls. >> sandra: we'll be back with more. and, again, everybody keeps asking how is it different than the exit polls? this was supposed to be and is a better reflection of how we vote today, right? we keep talking about all this early voting. the exit polls would reach out to the voters as they were casting their ballots on election day. we know that is not how so many americans vote today right, bret and martha? so this should better reflect voter sentiment all over the country. >> bret: all right. >> martha: sandra, thank you. >> bret: bill hemmer at the big board. the first of the night. innovative technology you have this time. >> bill: a little bit of stuff. i will stand on my head, too. we are getting ready for the marathon. good evening everybody at home. some of the vote is now coming in now in places like indiana, that are in the eastern time zone. not a ton. you see the counties start to fill in. should not be much of a question here. trump won easily there in

indiana, so, too, in kentucky. a little bit coming in right now. this is kenton county, by the way. kenton county is right across the river from cincinnati. 76% of the voted coming in now. what we will be able to do throughout the night is find out how trump did this year versus how he did in 2020 and how he did back in 2016. so we're going to have a lot of data points throughout the night to see how that goes. but, really, it is all about this down here. you see that? we're going to be tracking this throughout the evening. this is the magic number. let's go ahead and look at the path to 270. we'll go ahead and show what we have done here. okay? we have taken nebraska's second district and given that to harris as of now, barring any surprises, harris starts out the night at 226 and trump starts at 219. it's the race to 270. based on some of the early vote and some of the polling we have done so far. we will take georgia the peach state, a state trump narrowly lost four years ago and go ahead

and give that to the red team. also in the american southeast, we are going to take north carolina, again, 16 electoral votes that will go also to trump tonight, which gives him 32 in the southeast and takes into 251. a lot of history throughout the night. let you know how the folks vote in the upper midwest. at the moment, michigan 15 electoral votes, we're going to go ahead and give that to harris. and also wisconsin, its neighbor at 10 electoral votes which will give her 25 more in her pile and takes her also 251 to 251. now we have got three more on the board. late tonight we're going to be in the american southwest, and we will see how fast arizona counts, okay? so arizona, based on some of the polling we have seen in the early vote out there, we will go ahead and give the 11 electoral votes to trump. again, this is not official. we are playing this out based on the way we see it prior to the vote today. also in the southwest we see nevada. it's been a real toss-up and democrats have dominated out

there in nevada but the 6 electoral votes right now we will go ahead and give that to trump for this time at this point in the evening. and that leaves really a state that has gotten more attention and more focus than anywhere else in the country. there is a reason for that 19 electoral votes, trump won it in 2016, he lost it in 2020. but just by a hair both times. if harris is able to win the 19 electoral votes that, would be enough right on the number at 270. maybe the folks in pennsylvania aren't seeing it tonight. if that's the case perhaps later tonight into tomorrow maybe late wednesday or thursday, who knows depending on how they count, maybe pennsylvania is a flipper this time and they respond to the message about energy and fracking on behalf of donald trump and, if that's the case, under this scenario, he would go back to the oval office at 287. but at this point in the night, we know nothing. we just know that all these seven states are anybody's gain.

this does not account for the possibility that there could be surprises, iowa, new hampshire, virginia, new mexico. that's why they play the games. and that's why they vote. let's go ahead and clear this and give it back to bret and martha. next time i will stand on my head. >> bret: it's not that we don't know anything. we know some things. but i love that there is more to come. >> bill: a few things we will unveil slowly and see how they work out throughout the course of the night. you folks can gauge it, okay? can you judge it like "dancing with the stars" 1 through 10, score it as you like. >> martha: thank you very much. bring in our panel, brit hume, dana perino, harold ford jr., kellyanne conway, and karl rove. what a great group we have to go through this evening and as bill was saying, brit, we are just getting started. those are all sort of just possible scenarios that we are looking at. how are you feeling tonight and what are you looking forward to?

>> brit: i'm feeling about the way i felt three hours ago like we don't know anything. we do have this enormous poll which is telling us as was described why people are voting and so on. the bottom line or top line on this poll is it's saying the same thing that every other poll we have seen for -- aggregate basically is too close to call, toss-up, coin toss, all of rest of it, so here we are, we start off the evening having taken the biggest poll and maybe the biggest poll in history, 115,000, 120,000 people in the sample and right where we have been. too close to call coin toss. >> bret: dana, 30,000 feet we are finally here. there is a lot to talk about. are the right kind of voters showing up for each party in the key places, philadelphia, milwaukee, a lot of antidotal stuff. as far as hard numbers, we will have to wait until the raw vote total comes. in biggest indication may be georgia at 7:00. >> mar

>> dana: we live in a time, thank you technology graduateification for a lot of the things. you want dinner right now, order it up on your phone and delivered four minutes later. we are not going to get that kind of service tonight. it's going to take a little while. i'm glad we are all together. and this is a way americans can say okay, what are we looking for in the change that we are asking for? what do the 70% of people who say the country is going in the wrong direction, how are they going to vote? and, also, you have two different campaign styles, trump, ruthless, fierce, energetic, talking to everybody, doing everything he possibly can it may work. her campaign was very cautious, truncated, short, almost a quiet campaigner. and it may work. and the other thing i'm looking at tonight is this is a very different election for all of us how we are getting our information. a lot of different ways to find it. a lot of ways here at the fox news channel and all of our properties. that is going to play a role in this results tonight.

>> martha: harold, when dana said that about all the different ways people get their information. i'm thinking about the podcasts, how many hours these candidates have spent talking to people that i think a lot of americans had never heard of before these candidates started speaking with them. we have a little bit of, you know, information from this fox news voter analysis that we are pulling over. what is standing out to you tonight, harold. >> harold: first off good to be with everybody. if you have friends and family in line to vote. please vote. we want everybody to vote. three, georgia and north carolina, what i'm going to be most focused on over the next hour or two, early numbers there all of the demographics we are looking at older, younger voters, the gender gap, male and female. how many black voters might be voting for donald trump versus for kamala harris. i think it will give us some telltale as to how the rest of the night could go. then in michigan, that's the first of blut wall states we are likely to get something from. i have a lot of notes here and i'm ready. [laughter] >> bret: kellyanne, the fox news voter analysis is a poll, a

massive poll, burr when we get raw vote totals that, is going to kind of verify or check where we are in those numbers and those answers? >> kelly: no doubt. what i love about the fox news voter analysis is we are not obsessed with the horse race numbers because the voters will have the final say on that tonight. you are asking questions of americans that americans are asking each other and themselves when they go in that ballot box. that's what i appreciate katie. 60% economy, inflation, border security. 70% saying we are off on the wrong track. very few are saying they are not worried at all about gas and grocery prices. they feel like they are not getting ahead. we have known that last data point for years. what is unique about this survey people are projecting forward they don't think it's going to improve much. so, look, voters ask themselves a very simple question: do i like the way things are going? should i stay with the course? maybe go for four more, in this case with kamala, or do i want a change? she tried to be the change agent

distancing herself from biden. one big thing i'm watching tonight, folks, is she going to do as well as biden did in erie, in north hampton county and bucks county? right now she is behind him in jewish americans, behind in hispanics. behind in key counties of seven swing states. she has to at least put the biden-harris coalition back together to make it tonight. >> martha: karl, when we were sitting there or i guess we were over there in 2020, biden was ahead at this point. you know, just in terms of the polling, not in terms of raw data yet. but she is not. i mean, everything has been completely neck and neck. so she is not in the situation he was in. >> not at all. first of all, a little whiteboard. >> bret: are you competing with hemmer? >> karl: he is high tech, i'm low tech. it could yield if it breaks the right way, a big electoral college victory for one side or the other. because if they sweep five or six of the battleground states, it's going to give them a big

chunk and make it easier for them to govern. second thing is we watch tonight three different battles, there is going to be a battle over the issues like kellyanne talked about and the economy and the border. we are also going to see a battle over characteristics. if it was a battle about the issues only, this race would necessarily be over. and we're also talking about change. how people interpret what change is going to have a big impact on this tonight. then finally we will have the impact of third parties. watch it tonight. this could be 2016 all over again. where a third party candidate, jill stein got more votes in wisconsin, michigan and pennsylvania than hillary clinton lost by or 2020 where joe jergenson the libertarian candidate got more in north carolina, georgia. the godfather of the whiteboard, our man tim russert, it's going to be pennsylvania, pennsylvania, pennsylvania tonight. >> bret: two boards, lots of

sharpies. going to be a long night. robert f. kennedy jr. is on the ballot in wisconsin if that comes down to the wire we may be talking about that later on. >> what a ride that has been. he tried to get on the ballot and tried to get off the ballot and then he supported president trump and he could potentially be a spoiler in michigan and wisconsin. we don't know that yet, but we're going to wait and see and we're going to be watching that for sure. so we are waiting for our first round of poll closings, that includes key battleground states harold just mentioned georgia is one of the first ones we will be watching. we have reporters literally everywhere as our special coverage continues. ♪ ♪ the next president of the united states is... lord, we trust in you. we give to you everything.

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conservatives, another one charged with targeting a democratic organization. the fbi also says false bomb threats in georgia, originated with the russian email address the bureau also warning about fake videos on social media. one telling voters to cast ballots remotely because of a supposed high terrorist threat. another claimed that there is voter fraud at prisons all not true says the bureau tonight. and former president trump on truth social claims there is quote. a lot of talk about massive cheating in philadelphia. law enforcement coming. but philadelphia district attorney larry krasner responds

to that saying, quote: the only talk about massive cheating has come from one of the candidates donald j. trump. there is no factual basis whatsoever within law enforcement to support this wild allegation. if donald j. trump has any facts to support his wide allegations, we want them now. right now. we are not holding our breath. and a republican -- the republican city commissioner there also says that claim by the former president is not true. he calls it disinformation. and disinformation does continue to pop up on social media. one pennsylvania viewer alerted us to a facebook post that appeared to show a ballot that already had a small mark in the box for harris. the viewer feared his trump vote would not be counted. we traced that alleged ballot to kentucky where where the secretary of state's office told us the ballot is an apparent fake. so the lesson from all of this, they say, be careful of what you read on social media. bret? >> bret: okay, eric, thank you. >> martha: so meanwhile the election has already ignited a flurry of legal challenges.

let's bring in shannon bream and kerri urbahn, two of the best to tell us how they are seeing all of this. what really stands out at this point? we have heard a lot of these sort of smaller matters. what should would he be paying attention to? >> the supreme court, the last thing they want to do is get pulled into. this justice department going about their cases heard cases this morning that have nothing to do with the election. they are ready for emergency calls that come into them. they operate 24/7 around the clock. while they hope this doesn't come to their door they have had to deal with a couple things out of pennsylvania and virginia. they are ready if that happens this time around. >> bret: kerri, some of it is about ballots that come in later. whether they will stay open. these are all judicial decisions, eventually. kerr kerr i would say the focus in the dnc access to mail-in ballots and the amount of mail-in ballots available. the rnc is focused on the governing of those mail-in ballots and make sure the administration and such is going smoothly. i will say though there is a marked difference this time

around than there was in 2020 ang and other groups have broughton serious cases. the administration of elections leading up to the election is very important bret secretaries of state have done a good job. we haven't seen a ton of incidents. >> martha: any this four years that didn't go right from 2020. all the litigation and messes that came from that still litigation some of those involved in 2020. what they wanted to do in many states they stream lined it. they stream lined the court process. kerri and i have been going through all day today. many filed in pennsylvania. quickly, responsibly done well and seen judges act on them quickly today which helps everyone. >> bret: thank you all. >> martha: we hope that continues. >> bret: the first polls are about to close in a half dozen states. early results just minutes away as our special coverage continues on fox.

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it's comeback season. ♪ >> martha: countdown clock there. we are closing in on 7:00 p.m. eastern and that is when we will get our first poll closings in half a dozen states. we will have to wait another hour to get the first glimpse of the blue wall. the trio of states that could hold a key to 270. pennsylvania is among them. they will be the first to close at 8:00 p.m. eastern and team fox coverage is in wisconsin. grady trimble is in michigan. but, first, let's go alexandria hoff, who we find in morseville, pennsylvania. hi, alexandria. >> hi, good to be with you. we are here in bucks county that is the premier county to watch in pennsylvania. densely populated. 650,000 people. president biden won it by 4 points in 2020. but now this year for the first time in 15 years, registered republicans outnumbered democrats. now, looking statewide, the

commonwealth of pennsylvania. former president trump he woken the state narrowly in 2016. then lost it narrowly in 2020. so, for vice president harris, her success here in the state, potentially will depend on the colored counties, the suburbs, philadelphia, chester, here in bucks county that pushed president biden over the edge in 2020 so it's make or break. polls close at 8:00 p.m. that is not necessarily the case everywhere. in luzerne county there is one polling location in laflin. that is going to get extended until 9:30 p.m. some issues this morning are also why cambria countyna. sex tended to 10:00 p.m. tonight. those ballots cast by after 8:00 p.m. will be provisional. again, 2020, the count here is slow. took four days. but there were 2.6 million mail-in ballots: have been. >> alexandria, thanks. >> grady trimble is in michigan just outside of detroit. good evening, greg.

>> greg: good evening, bret. michigan's top election official says turnout on election day has been off the charts. some of the top issues driving voters to the polls in michigan include the big ones like the economy, the border, and abortion. but there are also two niche issues more specific to michigan. those are the electric vehicle mandate and the middle east. the trump campaign has been trying to win over auto workers who disagree with their union's endorsement of vice president harris. the campaign has also been courting arab americans, many of them unhappy with the biden-harris administration's handling of the wars in gaza and lebanon. former president trump became the first major party candidate to visit dearborn, michigan last week. that city is home to the largest arab american population in the country. and we talked to voters, arab american voters who say that resonated with them. so, as we look for results to come in tonight here in the wolverine state, those two issues could be critical, not only in the race for the white

house, but also as republicans try to flip the senate seat vacated by senator debbie stabenow. bret? >> bret: all right, grady, thank you. >> martha: mike tobin is in milwaukee, wisconsin. hi, mike. >> mike: and there has been a problem, martha with the vote here in milwaukee, wisconsin, according to jeff fleming a spokesman election commission. there were 13 dab buoy labor relation machines at central air republican observer noticed that the machines had been sealed and not properly locked. some of the machines. the city officials said they didn't doubt that the integrity of the vote but out of an abundance of caution decided to rerun some 31,000 ballots. 31,000 out of 106,000 ballots. we did anticipate that we would get final numbers out of milwaukee around 1:00 to 2:00 a.m. it looks like that will be delayed. the ballots we are talking about are the mail-in ballots, the drop box ballots and the in person early votes. we expect we will get the numbers now. just a little bit later than

2:00 a.m. the city couldn't really speculate how much later it would be. we did get a statement out of the republican national committee out of this. and it says that this is unacceptable. example of incompetent election administration in key swing state. and that statement is coming from michael whatley and lara trump the co-chairs of the rnc. guys? >> martha: mike, thank you. >> bret: also keeping a close eye on new hampshire tonight. it is the site of a tightly contested governor's race between democrat joyce craig and republican kelly ayotte. molly line is tracking that for us tonight. >> good evening, the granite state's uber tight race is the best shot the governor take a governor seat after the current governor decided not to seek a fifth term. kelly ayotte faces off against the former mayor of manchester, the city's largest city, democrat joyce craig, abortion has been at the forefront of this race. craig attacking ayotte's record as a senator. voting for a national ban after

20 weeks. in response ayotte has vowed to adhere to state law which limits abortions after 24 weeks. the most expensive governor's race in state history has afforded plenty of negative ads, including ayotte's targeting craig wants mayoral leadership. highlighting homelessness and crime in manchester. craig pushing back saying opioid overdoses and violent crime are down. slamming ayotte's approach in a recent debate. >> i think it's really sad that someone for governor is actually attacking community, attacking manchester. you know, as governor, we should be lifting up every community in our state. >> ayotte perhaps the most scathing insults at craig her approach to governing would model that the of deep blue massachusetts. >> mark my words, if joyce craig gets to the corner office, we can kiss our new hampshire advantage goodbye. >> and when it comes to casting and counts to the vote, new hampshire is old school. voters fill out paper ballots. the majority of communities do

use counting machines. but 122 towns still hand count their ballots. back to you. >> bret: all right, mollie, back to you. >> molly: the clock is ticking down to first poll closings, they include indiana, virginia, and one of the big ones, georgia. all part of our special coverage, fox news democracy 24. ♪

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♪ ♪ >> martha: counting down the first major poll closings and it is not just the race race for the white house, house races, senate races, hanging notice the balance tonight. senior congressional correspondent chad pergram live on capitol hill to set us up for that hi, chad. >> chad: martha, good evening. nearly every source has described control of the house the same way to me: tight as a tick. democrats need a net gain of four seats to win the house and award the speaker's gavel to hakeem jeffries. now, here are the bat signals which could indicate the direction of the house. two seats are in play in virginia. a freshman republican jen keegans loses in virginia two or if it's tight, that's a good sign for the democrats. another bellwether is virginia

7. democrat eugene vindman faces republican derrick anderson that could tell us a lot about house control. now, another if becomeout defeats davis that's a good sign for republicans. now, control of the senate. the g.o.p. needs a net game of two seats. the beyers moreno appears to be running behind president trump in the buckeye state. fox is told that mr. trump must carry ohio by about 10 points in order for moreno to win and brown has only you been in democratic years, 2006, 2012, and 2018. >> wild card is this year. martha? >> martha: chad, thanks. >> bret: one of the races that could swing control of the u.s. senate playing out in montana, correspondent dan springer is in

bozeman tonight. good evening, dan. >> yeah, good evening tonight. i want to go on the record saying i'm jealous of all my colleagues in nice warm watch parties. i'm in bozeman snowing sideways. i don't think it will have impact on voter turnout today because most people in montana voted prior to today. g.o.p. watch party in the hotel behind me. it's expected to be a good night for republicans here. president trump is expected to win by a landslide. the big question, of course, is what happens in the tim sheehy jon tester race. most valuable. democratic senator in the country this year. as he has in past years. he always seems to manage to slip away and win his elections. and he could do it again this time. republicans are confident that tim sheehy a newcomer to politic also end up winning this seat and taking the senate for the republicans. bret? >> bret: dan springer in montana, dan, thanks. >> martha: joining us now here

on set, former house speaker kevin mccarthy. speaker, good to have you with us. i know you are watching house races closely. i know you probably know them better than anyone. tell us what you we should be watching for and whether there is an opening for your parties to take over. >> can we hold it and extend it. a lot has to do with the presidential race. a lot of our candidates are under performing trump. the next two states you are going to watch is ohio and north carolina. and that will be a big play not only just for the house but for the senate. moreno has been closing stronger. we have two congressional seats there that could be a pickup. if we pick up four to five seats from democrats, we will keep the house. you look at north carolina, north carolina won. look out. it will tell you two different things. if we win that seat, the republicans are going to have a big night. but it also tells you the percentage of the black vote, which could give a problem to the democrats if it stays where it is right now 36% that, could be good for president trump and also good for republicans. >> bret: so as you look at the

maps there are these canaries in the coal mine in different races. how much does the presidential race and the coat tails there affect those races. >> i think it affects whether the house is able to keep republican is a lot on president trump. if we keep the house, president trump has brought us over. because, before a lot of our candidates over performed trump. they are all under performing. i was talking to one member in california that trump had lost his district by 13. trump was tied today in his district. trump is performing. >> bret: california? >> better than he has before. look to california and new york is where we won our majorities. that's where a lot of money is being spent. we have always picked up seats in those states the last two cycles. we have got to pick up some more and hold them. >> martha: so when you look at the presidential race in light of all of that because so much will depend on it, it has been toss-up all across the board. these polls have been tied for weeks. what's your take? >> my take looking at early is suburban areas. i don't want to see a bleed of president trump's vote.

>> bret: from 2020. >> from 2020 to 2024. rural areas i want them to turn out bigger. republicans have really improved with president trump on early vote. instead of being down a million votes in pennsylvania. we're only down 400,000. you look at north carolina, arizona, we're actually ahead. that's like going into a football game in the fourth quarter and you are leading. can you keep the lead? that's where we are at right now. >> bret: it's exciting, america is voting in great numbers. you have been a candidate so many times on these nights, what is the candidate? nerve-racking, exciting? what is the deal? these hours are the most nerve-racking everybody is calling you asking what is going on. you have no idea. you want to know what is happening. you put all this effort for a year and a half all your effort can be your family and all you want are the returns. and you come to a state like california, you still got to wait a month. >> bret: we hope not. mr. speaker, thank you very much. >> martha: great to see you. >> bret: take a look at another battleground, arizona, the sun belt state is also home to a high stakes senate race out

there. alicia acuna is live in scottsdale. alicia? >> alicia: hi, bret, we are in the peek hours of voting here in maricopa county, polls close in a little more than two hours. we want to give you vantage point from fox news drone team. and, bret, you mentioned that senate race here. actually earlier today g.o.p. senate candidate kerri lake stopped by this location to thank voters and encourage them to stay in line. she is in a pitched battle to fill that seat being vacated by independent kyrsten sinema against ruben gallego. he has managed to outpace lake in both money and also the polls; however, lake tells me that she feels like she has the momentum. that's in part because the g.o.p. here has managed to sign up so many people in terms of voter registration since 2020. they have far outpaced the democrats. both harris and trump have been targeting independents and la teen knows while they have been here. harris is hoping women really

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>> bret: welcome back. the first polls are about to close in a half dozen states. the white house is awaiting those early returns as well. this in a race that was obviously turned upside down just a few months ago. it's hard to believe back to that debate june 27th when president biden ended his bid for re-election soon after that. senior white house correspondent peter doocy has more live from the north lawn. good evening, peter. >> peter: good evening, bret and martha. the biggest democratic party party of the decade is here in washington, d.c. tonight and president biden will not be there. at howard headquarters. and rather at howard for harris headquarters. if you are keeping score at home president biden is the one who got harris elected the first time and raised millions of dollars for the re-election effort and tonight officials tell us he is going to be watching the returns on the tv in residence are long time aides. he will be getting regular updates.

we did see them wheeling some big screens into the first floor a little while ago. haters for president with would still be biden for president if he didn't decide for new voices, fresh voices and yes, younger voices and for that he is going to have a quiet night in this house that she has spent a billion dollars trying to move into. bret? maury. >> martha: what a sequence of events this has been peter between the disastrous debate and dropping out in the middle of july for this president. give me a sense of what the security is like around there. >> peter: there are a lot more local police but not like something where they have called in the national guard. and there is extra fencing up tonight but there has been for the last couple weeks also worth pointing out they have been building the inaugural viewing stand right outside that is why during the commercials president biden can look out and see for the next president, back to you.

>> bret: that is something. peter doocy live on the north lawn. brit, we should just take a moment and think about all that has transpired from that debate. from two assassination attempts on one of the candidates, the former president from a new candidate campaigning in about 100 days and here we are essentially tied. >> brit: gist us the acceleration of the news cycle so very recent and so extraordinary and sort of passed into the and disappeared. i mean, biden -- seems like biden has been gone forever. she has been the candidate forever. the assassination attempts which we thought would leave such a big mark on president trump's standing, former president trump's standing has vanished from sight. it's not even talked about. >> bret: why is that? >> brit: part of it, as i say, the news cycle we move on very quickly from one thing no matter how major to another. the only thing stay in the news things like the wars in ukraine and in the middle east. but, even today we had a major development in the middle east

with the firing of the israeli defense minister and that will pass without notice tonight. remarkable. >> martha: it is stunning. biden dropped out. it knocked the assassination attempts off of the news lists the. >> brit: we >> bret: we are going to speak with our panel we are getting raw vote total. seconds away fromnine states, i, virginia, kentucky, indiana, plus, critical battle grounds. >> we are going to do a great job for north carolina. >> georgia, this election right here is a fight for the future. >> with 97 electoral votes on the line, we have the results as they come in. the moment is here. america is watching. ♪ >> martha: and it is 7:00 on the east coast. and polls have just i