angst. >> reporter: nearly 70% of american voters are anxious about the presidential race. polling shows an erosion of belief in our nation's institutions. cbs news's anthony salvanto. >> democrats and republicans tell us they feel that democracy is under threat. so all of that at the very least put high stakes into this election. >> reporter: the stakes are high, and so is campaign spending. nearly $16 billion, a record. >> the stress is that i hope that it's going to be a fair election. >> reporter: to lower stress experts including self-help author john gordon say exercise and limit time on social media. >> use it to get information and not validation. don't tie your identity or your own mental health to what you're watching. >> reporter: another tip, avoid talking politics. make your voice heard at the ballot box instead. >> if you don't vote, you shouldn't really have much of a say. so this is your opportunity to get out and cast what you believe in and what you stand for.

>> reporter: a good reminder that one person and one vote can shape this land that was made for you and me. elise preston, cbs news, los angeles. well, one thing likely to relieve some of that stress of this election season, the end of all these political ads. cbs's david pogue reports. >> donald trump has always loved this country. >> we choose freedom. ♪ freedom ♪ >> reporter: for a few of us it's a trickle. >> a flood of illegals. >> reporter: for most of us a flood. but in pennsylvania it's a tsunami of political commercials. >> e-mails, texts, phone calls. it's in my news feed. it's in social media. in the last two days i counted. i had 30 spam e-mails in there all about the election. it's unbelievable. >> reporter: jack leviss is an

independent voter in bucks county, pennsylvania, which makes him one of the most desirable voters on the planet. >> ad after ad after ad. >> okay. i will first apologize to all of the residents of battleground states because i feel their pain. i actually enjoy watching political ads. >> reporter: of course she does. because erica franklin fowler is the co-director of the wesleyan media project, which tracks campaign advertising. she also co-authored "political advertising in the united states." do political ads actually convince anybody? >> political advertising does not have the sort of massive influence that sometimes citizens think that it does. political advertising really only matters at the margin. that doesn't mean the margin doesn't matter, right? the margin in this competitive election cycle is going to be the difference between making it into the white house and not. >> and what about negative versus positive? >> there's no doubt that

negativity is more memorable. it is more emotion-provoking. >> now kamala wants higher taxes on top of -- >> reporter: we may hate those attack ads -- >> for trump it's all about getting unchecked power. >> reporter: but fowler says the positive ones don't say much. >> citizens hate negativity, but negative ads tend to be more policy-based, more issue-focused. and those details actually are very important for citizens who don't otherwise pay a lot of attention to politics. >> reporter: it used to be that we all saw the same ads. >> 10, 9, 8, 7 -- >> reporter: in 1964 lyndon johnson's daisy commercial -- >> zero. >> reporter: -- implied that his ar opponent would launch a nuclear war. >> the stakes are too high for you to stay home. >> bush and dukakis. >> reporter: and in 1988 the infamous willie horton ad. >> one was willie horton -- >> reporter: made george h.w. bush's opponent look dangerously soft on crime. >> weekend prison passes. dukakis on crime.

>> reporter: but these days -- >> i think the memes might be the things that stick with us. >> reporter: you and i won't see the same messages. it's not just three tv channels anymore. >> you see the social platforms, whether it be instagram. you see snapchat. you see tiktok. people's driveways and signs. everything has become a media linglingingling channel in a way. ling issue >> reporter: tiffany rolf is the you chief creative officer at the ad agency rga. she says that targeting ads at individual voters by location or demographic details has become an incredibly precise science. >> the way they can target is i think just mind-blowing. some of these are one to one ads. coconut tree became a big meme across all platforms. >> reporter: she showed me how many of the ads on tiktok and instagram are made not by the is candidates but by their supporters. >> people like taylor swift who decide to also become -- >> childless cat lady.

>> childless cat lady herself. and decided to get behind kamala. and kamala will then repost that and reshare it. you have people now that have access to creative tools that can put an ai version of trump on a lion. >> reporter: both candidates are now using all their fans as ad agencies. >> yeah. that's our competition out there too, right? >> people make their own videos. people do memes. people make their own ads. that's a good thing. that's more participation. what's a problem is when some very wealthy individual or interest puts tens of millions of dollars into these ads that are sometimes manipulative and we don't know they're doing it. >> reporter: the spending on political ads this year has broken all records. about $16 billion. and michael waldman's concern is not knowing where all that money is coming from. he's the president and ceo of the non-partisan brennan center for justice. >> so this is now a wild west of front groups and hidden spenders

reaching people on their phones, targeted very directly to somebody's likes and dislikes. >> reporter: in 2010 the supreme court handed down the citizens united decision. >> you're watching the first wave of an oncoming flood of campaign ads. >> reporter: that case and subsequent cases removed all limits on what corporations and billionaires can spend on political campaigns. >> it struck down a century of campaign finance law. now politicians know who's giving. the donors know who's giving. the only people who don't know who's giving is the taxpayers. >> you're in the beating heart of this thing. how depressed should we be? >> there's legislation that came very close to enactment in the last congress that would say you have to disclose who gave the money and the voter needs to know that. that would make a big difference. >> wow. and it's not out of the realm of possibility that it could happen. >> voters really care about this.

democrats, independents, republicans really care about it. when people get mad enough, when people get organized enough, throughout history our country has acted to improve our political system, and it can happen again. >> so if you love this country -- >> reporter: the fragmented messages, the ad targeting and the secret funding may all be new. but if you ask ad executive tiffany rolf, some things will never change. >> at the end of the day it's not just the policies or product features, it really is is this person for me, do i like this person, do i believe them. and i think no matter what that will not change. >> just tell the truth, give it to me as it is. what happened -- >> reporter: as for pennsylvania voter jack leviss, i had one more question for him when we spoke this past week. >> jack, the question is have you voted? >> i'm mailing it today. >> that was david pogue tion reporting. and a reminder, cbs news will be your election night home, with real-time results, analysis and

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cbs's ash-har quraishi has more. >> like that gut punch. >> reporter: maryland mom morgan burney is heartbroken after discovering that the taylor swift tickets she'd surprised her daughter with had vanished from her ticketmaster account weeks before the big night. >> the tickets are gone. gone. i can cry a little right now. thinking about it. yeah. it was devastating. >> i woke up and my tickets had been successfully transferred. >> reporter: her experience echoed again and again on social media in recent weeks. >> our tickets were stolen this morning. >> and i was like is there a chance that i'm going to be waiting till the day before the concert? and they told me yes. >> reporter: a wave of online ticket thefts targeting fans nationwide. >> they feel like the company has failed them. what do you say to them? >> i would say that they are constantly striving to look at what's going on and improve the experience. the number one tip i could give to fans to protect themselves is to make sure that they have a secure, unique password that they are not using on other platforms. >> how long does it take to

restore tickets for fans who've reported them missing? >> right now we're averaging about 48 hours from the point of the fan reaching out to us to us actually restoring the tickets for them. it's a very small percent, less than a tenth of 1%, but obviously for that one fan who's going through that it's a really stressful situation. >> welcome to the eras tour! >> reporter: with thefts targeting swift fans especially hard, ticketmaster is limiting ticket transfers to 72 hours before eras tour concerts and requiring two-factor authentication for some transactions. >> i'm a huge swiftie. >> reporter: karen perry paid more than $4,000 on stubhub for two seats to see the eras tour in new orleans. weeks before the concert she got an e-mail from ticketmaster saying the tickets she bought had been stolen from someone else and the company was taking them back. >> what went through your head when you read that e-mail? be >> my heart dropped. my stomach stank. i was at work and i instantly started crying. >> reporter: laura dooley of

stubhub says the company found out about its customer thefts not from ticketmaster but media reports. >> i think if there was a world where, for example, we would see ticketmaster be more collaborative or more transparent about the problems they're having and how they're attempting to solve those problems, we could be a partner in that effort. >> reporter: after she unknowingly got stolen tickets, stubhub helped karen perry buy new seats, and she saw taylor swift last weekend. >> we just had the best night of our entire lives. hands down. it was better than my wedding. it was so good. >> reporter: so what can you do to protect yourself? well, check early and often that your tickets are still in your account and haven't been transferred. buy from sellers who ffer

well, this election day may well go down in history. so you might want to take a picture. and these days more people are keeping their cell phones in

their pockets and preserving the moment with a relic of the past that's now making a big comeback in the digital age. itay hod reports. >> reporter: it's a developing trend. >> so cute. >> reporter: where old school charm meets today's selfie culture. photo booths, those once ubiquitous machines, are making a comeback. >> there's something about the sounds that just make it part of a bigger experience. >> reporter: kayla kaine is a 26-year-old content creator. she says these vintage photo booths are becoming popular among those looking for an authentic unfiltered moment. >> you have one try and then you're done. you can't be kim kardashian taking 500 selfies. >> reporter: walk into photo works, a photography shop in san francisco, on a weekday morning and you might think you stumbled into a trendy after-hours club. store owner david handler says

ever since he brought in the booth his store has been flooded with gen z-ers. >> these people just keep like swarming in here all day, all the time, just because of this. >> they're basically like happiness machines. >> reporter: doug ellington is the co-founder of photomatica, a san francisco-based company that owns and operates more than 200 of these booths across the country. he says interest spiked only recently. >> my boyfriend bought an original photo booth from the '70s. >> reporter: after a swell of viral tiktoks made them cool again. >> i didn't expect it would take off like this with lines at a photo booth. that's kind of a business owner's dream. >> reporter: the secret to taking a good portrait, he says, is being a little goofy. >> all right. let's do the chin. back to back. another hmm. and last we'll do the mouth open. ah! >> oh my god. >> reporter: as for kayla, she couldn't wait to expose her followers to this catchy new trend. >> look at that. >> reporter: going from vintage

to viral. and proving these old photo booths are no flash in the pan. itay hod, cbs news, san francisco. >> love those old photo booths. so great to see. and that's today's "cbs news roundup." for some of you the news continues. for others tune in later for "cbs mornings" and follow us online anytime at cbsnews.com. and a reminder, our election coverage begins at 4:00 p.m. eastern on our streaming service and 7:00 p.m. eastern right here on your cbs station. reporting from the cbs broadcast center in new york city, i'm shanelle kaul. ♪

hello and thanks so much for staying up with us. i'm shanelle kaul in new york. and here are the top storie on this election day edition of "cbs news roundup." final day of campaigning. kamala harris and donald trump make appeals from battleground states. we take a closer look at those battleground states that could swing the election one way or the other. and election security is a top priority with at least nine states now activating national guard troops. the presidential candidates finished their campaigns in battleground states on monday, delivering final messages to voters. those seven states are crucial for winning the electoral college, and most of their races are still effectively tied. cbs's cristian benavides has the latest on this from atlanta. >> reporter: vice president kamala harris and former president donald trump hit the

same two pennsylvania cities monday night in a final push to get their supporters to the polls. >> tomorrow is election day. and the momentum is on our side. >> if we win pennsylvania, we win the whole ball of wax. >> reporter: of the seven battleground states the keystone state is the biggest prize, with 19 electoral votes. >> we need everyone in pennsylvania to vote because you are going to make the difference in this election. in pennsylvania all day, pushing a message of unity and never mentioning trump by name. in the city of reading she visited a puerto rican restaurant and even knocked on doors, telling a surprised family she was there to earn their votes. she's outperforming trump by 13 points when it comes to women, many of whom have been motivated by the overturning of roe vs. wade. >> i don't even sleep. you know? >> reporter: trump hit three states monday, including north carolina. a state he won twice and can't

afford to lose. he kept up his personal attacks and unveiled a new proposed tariff against mexico. >> if they don't stop this onslaught of criminls and drugs coming into our country, i'm going to immediately impose a 25% tariff on everything they send in to the united states of america. >> reporter: trump's running mate j.d. vance stopped here in atlanta monday. cbs news battleground tracker shows a narrow lead for the trump campaign in georgia, and the state could play an outsized role in the election once again.late monday georgia's supreme court ruled 3,000 voters in cobb county who didn't get their absentee ballots on time will not get extra days to cast a ballot. cristian benavides, cbs news, atlanta. let's sharpen our focus now on the seven battleground states that could sway the presidential election. we have a team of correspondents covering the key issues in these

crucial states. >> reporter: i'm skyler henry in raleigh, north carolina where the state board of elections says it shattered early voting records. it's a razor thin race here between trump and harris as nearly 4.5 million voters have already cast their ballots. north carolina is the only one out of the seven battleground states that trump won four years ago. and despite carrying it the last two cycles he's rallied here four times since saturday. after speaking with dozens of voters the issues that kept coming up, the economy, immigration and reproductive rights. one registered republican we spoke to said because of the former president's rhetoric on those issues she's choosing vice president harris. >> this year i did a lot of democrats vs. republican and i actually voted for a lot of women. >> reporter: i'm lilia luciano in las vegas where the campaigns are courting the critical latino vote which make up nearly 20% of the state's electorate. >> we are a large latino population. >> reporter: nevada's catherine cortez masto, the only latino

senator, says they move the needle. >> nevada latinos are powerful when they come out and vote. they're a third of our population. >> hola. >> reporter: it's why the state's culinary union is knocking on 900,000 doors for harris. >> are you seeing voters' minds change after you talk to them? >> absolutely. >> reporter: but after a dia de los muertos tacofest in the battleground state still hurting from the pandemic with some of the highest unemployment rates and fastest rising rents in the nation we heard from first-time voters driven by trump's businessman appeal. >> latinos should be supporting trump because he knows what he's doing. he does love latinos. i know everybody calls him a racist and all this stuff. he's not racist. >> reporter: i'm jericka dunk. h in detroit. this is where harris needs a strong turnout in wayne county if she's going to win the state of michigan. some key voting blocs to watch, uaw workers, black men and arab

americans. anger over the administration's handling of the war in gaza has hollowed support for many of the state's arab american voters for the democratic party. harris also needs to do just as well as biden did in 2020 if not better with black men. former president trump has made some inroads with both groups. however, the uaw recently released internal polling data suggesting its members in battleground states are planning to support harris over trump. >> listen to what he says. >> all right. thanks to our correspondents across the country for that. officials in just about every state have now been working to ensure this election is the most secure ever. but it's not just the ballots they're concerned about. it's the polling places themselves. cbs's kris van cleave explains. >> reporter: election defenses are up in arizona as workers here process and verify a flood of mail-in ballots arriving ahead of tuesday. >> we want trump! >> reporter: law enforcement is

hoping to avoid a repeat of 2020 where election workers were harassed and trump supporters, some armed, surrounded the vote counting facility in downtown phoenix after polls closed. >> there's a difference between first amendment freedom of speech and committing a crime, and in maricopa county it will be zero tolerance on anything related to criminal activity. >> reporter: while more than half of registered arizona voters have already cast their ballots, rita temez says she's going to the polls in person. >> you know what happens. some of these ballot boxes are being burned. what if that would have been my vote? >> reporter: the national guard is on standby in nevada and at least six other states including arizona and north carolina have activated guard troops. in washington, d.c. businesses have begun boarding up and extra security fencing is being added outside the white house and the vice president's home. online, white supremacist group the proud boys have warned they are locked, loaded and ready for treasonous voter fraud. the fbi's election security command center is now working 24/7 to handle all kinds of

potential problems. >> threats to election workers, foreign malign influence, cyber threats and acts of domestic violence. >> reporter: here in phoenix expect hundreds of police and sheriff's deputies to be protecting the polls and vote-counting facilities like this one. it already has fencing up and a deputy on patrol here. the sheriff says they'll also use drones if & if needed he'll send the s.w.a.t. team. kris van cleave, cbs news, phoenix. and we hope you join us for live election coverage tuesday streaming on cbs news 24/7 at 4:00 p.m. and at 7:00 p.m. right here on cbs. when "cbs news roundup" continues, we'll head to the battleground state of pennsylvania and meet the women who could swing the election. our kids spend hours a day glued to their screens. but social media is addictive by design. hooking our kids on content full of lies, extremism, hate, drugs and violence. youtube, tiktok, facebook and instagram

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this is "cbs news roundup." i'm shanelle kaul in new york. election day 2024. voters will cast their ballots for the 47th president of the united states. they'll also fill all 435 seats in the house of representatives and elect 34 u.s. senators. there are ballot initiatives regarding abortion rights and marijuana. and thousands of down ballot contests from governors to local judgeships. but of course the big prize is the white house. polls now show vice president kamala harris and former president donald trump tied both nationally and in seven battleground states. one of them is pennsylvania, where the women's vote could swing the contest. cbs's weijia jiang has more. >> reporter: she's a self-proclaimed lifelong conservative. >> friends don't let friends vote democrat. >> uh-huh. >> you have come a long way. >> reporter: but the group stephanie sharp co-founded, women for us.

>> what happens in vegas stays in vegas is the message. yeah. >> reporter: is urging fellow republican women to vote for vice president kamala harris, turned off by former trump's rhetoric toward women. >> i want to protect the women of our country. whether the women like it or not, i'm going to protect them. >> reporter: and his role in reversing roe v. wade. >> we'll send donald trump packing and have compromise on issues that are important to all of us. >> reporter: in pennsylvania they are targeting voters in the philadelphia suburbs that helped president biden win the state four years ago. >> i heard you talking about a clandestine sisterhood. what does that mean? >> there are again hundreds of thousands of republican women out there who are ready to vote outside their party. but they don't want to talk about it. >> reporter: across the battleground states post-it notes like these popping up in women's bathroom stalls are aimed at the so-called silent harris supporter. >> did you make the right choice? >> sure did, honey. >> reporter: so are campaign ads like this one, narrated by julia

roberts. >> remember, what happens in the booth stays in the booth. >> reporter: these trump supporters are skeptical of polling that shows harris has a big lead among women. >> i don't know one woman who isn't going to go in there and vote for donald j. trump. >> reporter: for them it's about policy, not personality. >> we're not going home with him. we're not sitting and eating at the dining room table with him every night. but he -- actions speak louder than words. and his actions are more aligned with my faith, with my family, and the values that we hold dear. >> that was our weijia jiang reporting. our election day coverage begins at 4:00 p.m. on our streaming service and 7:00 p.m. eastern right here on cbs. stay with us. "cbs news roundup" will be right back.

one of the major concerns of voters this election day is immigration. the number of migrants crossing the southern border is now at its lowest point in years. but that has not stopped the controversy over u.s. border policy and how it affects local communities. over the past two years new york city, for instance, has taken in more than 200,000 asylum seekers. the vast majority are families with young children. lilia luciano reports on a program there to give kids a

little bit of joy. >> reporter: every other saturday these indoor fields in brooklyn host a soccer clinic that stretches the globe. >> most of them are from south american countries like venezuela, but every week we're getting more and more kids from afghanistan, which is really cool. and they all work together. >> reporter: 16-year-old talia landsberg learned the language of soccer when she was 4. >> soccer's such a universal sport that you don't really need to talk the same language to play. >> reporter: she joined a global community of 3.5 billion fans who feel happy and at home in a soccer, or better yet, football field. no matter where they were born. >> every two weeks he knows that it's time to play soccer and he's happy. feliz. >> muy feliz.

[ speaking in a global language ] >> de peru. >> reporter: i just asked where are you from, and she goes, we're from peru. he goes, no, from the united states. what does the program give them? "distraction." a distraction talia came up with when she learned of the harsh living conditions in the crowded migrant shelters of new york city. >> there's not much room for fun things that a kid should experience like arts and sports. >> reporter: she had been volunteering for artists, athletes and activists, a non-profit that stepped in when governors from border and other states started busing migrants into the city. >> so unfortunately, there are so many policies that are being put in place to make this process difficult for them. they face a lot of bullying. the kids face bullying. >> reporter: founder palo malu says his organization has been responding to crises since 2017 in response to hurricane maria in puerto rico.

>> roberto clemente comes to bat. >> reporter: inspired by the vision of an athlete. >> single by clemente. >> reporter: a baseball hero who made the ultimate sacrifice while delivering humanitarian aid. >> kind of like what roberto clemente's dream was when he sent aid to nicaragua. he wanted to make sure that it got to the people. and so that's where the idea stemmed from. >> reporter: in 1972 at the height of his success pittsburgh pirates right fielder roberto clemente died in a plane crash off the coast of his native town of carolina, puerto rico. on new year's eve. flying aid to the victims of a devastating earthquake in nicaragua. >> uh-oh. >> reporter: power's story of his organization took me by surprise. i knew the story well. >> i'm getting chills because that trip was organized between roberto clemente and my grandmother, bela gonzalo demodesty and my grandfather

hector modesti. they were supposed to be on that plane with him and last minute they didn't get in that plane. it's amazing to see the cyclical nature of aid. >> i mean, and because of that our organization is artists, athletes, activists. that's what i see roberto clemente as. that's what i see a lot of our heroes as. selfless. seeing that there's a need, no matter where the people are from. just help human beings. and that's exactly what we're doing. >> reporter: and the clinics aren't just taking the kids away from the journey behind and the uncertainty ahead. the field also opens a space for parents to find hope in their kids' biggest dreams. [ speaking in a global language ] >> reporter: tell me what the clinic has been like for you. >> i feel like i'm playing a real game. real game. >> reporter: lilia luciano in (♪♪) “the darkness of bipolar depression made me feel like life was moving on without me.

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people have lost contact with humanity. >> we were an anxious nation when george washington took the first oath of office on this site. federal hall. lower manhattan. 1789. our fledgling nation was riddled with debt. our constitution weak. 235 years later and our first presidential election since covid, civil unrest and social upheaval. we are even more anxious now. >> we won't go back! >> reporter: a poll by the american psychological association revealed that 69% feel significant stress about this election. 72% fear the outcome will lead to violence. and more than half fear it will spell the end of our democracy. we don't have a cure for our national angst, but we do know one thing still works in our nervy, teeth-gnashing times. fair play. that means accepting defeat when

defeat is clear, even when that clarity is wrapped in microscopically small margins. >> i'm fired up and i need your help. >> reporter: last year democrat kimberly pope adams ran for a seat in the virginia house of delegates. >> the needs and concerns of the community are my needs and concerns as well. >> reporter: you wouldn't have heard much about her race in a district south of richmond that attracted nearly $6 million in spending. >> i campaigned for 18 months for a position that's only two years. but it was worth it for me. >> reporter: on election night adams trailed by 78 votes. >> we were still hopeful because we knew that the process was not complete and that there was still an opportunity to shrink the margin. >> reporter: under state law adams had the right to a recount. she never denounced her opponent, alleged fraud or screamed that the election had been stolen. the recount added 25 votes to adams' total. still not enough. >> i actually fell short by only 53 votes.

>> reporter: adams lost, fair and square. >> it was heartbreaking. but it wasn't emotional because i didn't believe it. it wasn't emotional because i didn't trust it. it was only emotional because it wasn't what i hoped for. >> what's the importance of accepting a close defeat? >> before any of the rhetoric and before any of the picking of sides, remember who you are. remember who your neighbors are. and at the end of the day know that we played by the rules and win or lose that is the outcome. >> that is also the burden of loving democracy and our constitutional republic. it commands us to love the experiment more than our own ambitions. to accept defeat when we have lost. to carry on for america,

it's tuesday, november 5th, 2024. this is "cbs news mornings." it's election day, after rallying late into the