and the decisions become final. candidates and voters alike are now patiently waiting for the votes to be tallied up. while some iowans continue to cast their ballots -- the presidential nominees are also taking to the polls today -- as they hope to get some very good news later tonight. here's republican presidential hopeful donald trump and his wife melania arriving at their precinct in manhattan earlier today to vote. other family members also oi results come in from the hilton hotel in manhattan tonight. about an hour north of new york city, democratic party nominee hillary clinton and her husband -- former president bill clinton -- also submitting their votes this morning. the clintons are also staying in new york as the results roll in throughout the night -- hosting a rally at a convention center on manhattan. it's a nice night to be outside if you haven't made it to your polling

kiel joins us live in downtown waterloo with your election night forecast. from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team. see the screen information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team: the weather for november normal through the middle of next week. also, it has been dry with no storms in iowa or the the month...clear sailing. the weather for november 2016 is not typical. it has been warm and remains warmer than normal through the middle of next week. also, it has been dry a stormy and windy month. at least through the first half of typical. it has been warm and remains warmer than next week. also, it has been dry with no storms in iowa or the midwest. typically november is a stormy and windy month. at least through the first half of as people go to the polls here in iowa and across the country -- we're as people go to the polls here in iowa and across the country

bringing you team seven coverage from around our state tonight. we'll hear from eight correspondents -- from the state capital to the mississi and results parties here in eastern iowa. a pivotal race playing out in the polls tonight -- a spot in the united states house of representatives. iowa's first congressional district is deciding between incumbent republican congressman rod blum and a democratic challenger in monica vernon. here's a map of the first congressional district -- which covers many of the state's northernmost counties and

kwwl's brad hanson joins us live now from the hotel where rod blum will be holding his watch party tonight. brad? this has been a long time coming, and blum telling us today that it's come as a relief. sat down to cast his ballot at the swiss valley nature preserve here in dubuque county. blum says that was the culmination of what's been a hard and long two years since he took democratic opponent monica vernon--blum says they're cautiously optimistic. "but you never know, as we've seen in this cycle with the that's why we were still on the

day, and we're sprinting across the finish line. so we're taking nothing for granted." blum telling us this morning as well that this is the craziest election cycle he's seen in his we expect a lot more people to show up as the night goes on this party should officially kick off evening. thank you brad -- blum is an alum of the university of dubuque and loras college. monica vernon -- entering the night as blum's challenger in the first congressional district. vernon served for several years on the cedar rapids city council-- now--she is pushing for

kwwl's kristin rogers joins us live in cedar rapids--kristin? i'm at monica vernon's campaign office where people have been working this election day-- and plan to really until the last minute. many volunteers--headin g to door knock-- take a look-- that includes monica vernon herself going door to door this afternoon in cedar rapids. urging voters--to get to the polls. she had all three of her dauge and beautiful weather--she says they work as a team. "it's really fun because of course i started with them you know they've been with me all the questions as well we are working as a team." the family planned to go to 1200 doors today. after the polls close tonight at 9-- monica vernon will have a watch party-- as she awaits the results--

latest from her campaign. live in cedar rapids--kristin rogers--news 7 kwwl. two more big congressional races happening tonight --as incumbent dave lobesack is facing republican challenger doctor chris peters in iowa's second district and steve steve king looks to retain his faces democrat kim weaver. another race pitting two iowans hoping to represent the state in washington -- has republican incumbent chuck grassley facing off against democrat patty judge for a kwwl's macleod hageman is live in des moines as iowa's longest-serving senator eyes another term in washington. we're keeping a close eye on the senate race tonight. organizers of the republican watch

expecting a big win for incumbent senator chuck grassley -- and a win for rod blum. according to the most recent polls -- senator grassley is not republican communications "senator grassley is someone who goes to washington, d.c., and every weekend he comes home find someone who goes to washington and represents his constituents better and works harder for the people here every single day." right now -- people r on the finishing touches for tonight's watch party. people tell me -- they're reporting live from des moines -- macleod hageman -- news seven kwwl. thanks mac. senator grassley - very popular in the state... hasn't gotten less than 65 percent of the vote since the mid- eighties.

national level during this election -- but there's several democrats vying for wins here in eastern iowa the evening at the party's gathering in black hawk county. quiet here now but this place will be packed with black are talking about is the state senate seat between incumbent jeff danielson and bonnie sanler- both busy campaigning with just a few more hours to go danielson was handing out flyers and speaking with college students at uni- a key in his campaign. he's and vote. his opponent bonnie cedar falls. both candidates pretty good hard work pays off... bonnie: i've knocked on close to 21,000 doors vocontd: if bonnie the uaw all night covering the black hawk county sanler wins the senate could flip tonight. definitely a major race tonight. i'll be here at the uaw all night covering the black hawk county

coming in. in waterloo, lauren moss news 7 kwwl as election night rolls on throughout the evening -- remember that you can go online for up-to- the-second results. visit kww d -- both here in iowa and throughout the country. polls are still open tonight -- following a busy early voting season and 11 hours of polling throughout the area today. kwwl's jessica hartman reports i am here warren memorial golf course in waterloo --- where we are seeing an quickly -- allowing nearly 600 voters to cast their vote so far today. many voters telling me

a soap opera and we don't --- a smaller turn out as of this afternoon --- good shepard church reporting around 200 voters and payne memorial church reporting just over 300. now the majority of those voters telling me they were supporting hillary clinton. in waterloo . . .jessica hartman new 7 kwwl if you still need to find your polling place -- check out our website k-w-w-w dot com coming up on kwwl -- examining the possible balance of power after tonight's results.

deadly ambush last week. and... here's a live look at the storm track 7 live doppler radar.... chief meteorologist mark schnackenberg will have more on tonight's weather "this is kwwl news at six. with ron steele, amanda goodman, storm track seven chief meteorologist mark schnackenberg and sports with rick coleman. we've got you covered." "now your storm track 7

now for your forecast forecast. from the kwwl stormtrack stormtrack 7 weather team: the weather for november 2016 is not typical. it has been next week. also, it has been dry with no storms in iowa or the midwest. typically november is a stormy and windy month. at

weather for november 2016 is not typical. it has been warm and remains warmer than normal through the middle of next week. also, it has been dry with no storms in iowa or the midwest. typically november is least through the first half of the month...clear sailing. the weather for november 2016 is not typical. it has been warm and remains warmer than normal through the middle of next week. also, it has been dry with no storms in iowa or the

a stormy and windy month. at least through the first half of the month...clear sailing. the weather for november 2016 is not typical. it has been warm and remains warmer than normal through the middle of next week. also, it has been dry midwest. typically november is a stormy and windy month. at least through the first half of the month...clear sailing. the weather for november 2016 is not typical. it has been warm and remains warmer than

races-that could ultimately shape our state's legislative agenda. kwwl's elizabeth amanieh join elizabeth. right now democrats control the senate and republicans control the house which means for the past six years these two parties have been forced to compromise on many pieces of legislation. but whether our state government continues to operate under this split party control depends on the outcomes of key legislative races tonight. at stake-is control of the iowa senate where democrts have a two seat majority. if republicans take those seats

both houses and the governor's office for the first time since the 1996 election. elizabeth amanieh, news seven, kwwl. we'll be feeding those results out as soon as they come in to our newsroom. keep your eyes on kwwl dot com for breaking election news. coming up... the second funeral for a fallen iowa officer in as many days -- as 24-year-old urbandale officer justin martin is remembered. stabbing death begins. more news

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election night. governor branstad is hoping history will repeat itself

live from cedar falls -- where republicans will be getting together tonight. we're live at the pipac center where the black hawk county gop will have its party tonight. they believe they'll have a lot to celebrate. governor branstad is hopeful republicans will flip enough seats to take over control of the state senate. ey governor branstad --who's also a republican -- was in office in the late 1990s when they controlled all three. he's been campaigning hard this fall for lawmakers and they could have the senate in their

democrats will have to lose their seats. statewide, republicans have been eyeing several races, including a few in black hawk county. we're going to be watching the senate their opponents bonnie sadler out of both tonight. reporting live in cedar falls, jerry gallagher news 7 kwwl. trump had a seven-point lead the last des moines register poll. only one republican has won the state of iowa since ronald reagan did in 1984. continuing coverage now -- police from around the country once again gathering to remember one of the police officers gunned down in an ambush. today -- many remembering urbandale police officer justin martin.

he was shot and killed in his squad car early on the morning of november 2nd. des moines police sergeant tony beminio was also ambushed and killed. today -- about a thousand officers joined friends and family members of martin for a service in rockwell city -- which is martin's hometown. a murder trial for a man accused of stabbing his girlfriend over one-hundred times begins today in eastern iowa. 27-year-old eddie hicks -- of dubuque -- is on trial for first-degree murder in the death of a 21-year-old woman. the charges stem back to june of 20- 15. hicks is accused of stabbing his girlfriend 115 times at her dubuque home. the trial is taking place in the iowa district court of dubuque county. still on the way tonight -- we'll lay out our coverage of election night for the rest of the evening as we take a look over an american flag in the area with the kwwl drone. many questions will be answered by the end of the night here and

to go online for the latest news and details on tonight's statewide and presidential elections. visit us at kwwl dot com.

k-w-w-l news at six. plenty more election coverage is on the way tonight -- wheel of fortune is up next, but n-b-c news' election night special will follow -- starting at seven. we'll have updates every half-hour beginning at seven-25 with the latest on the races here in iowa. also be sure to tune in for a special election night edition of the kwwl news at ten. have a good evening and go special election night edition of the kwwl news at ten. have a good evening and go

from sony pictures studios, it's america's game. wheel... of... fortune! ladies and gentlemen, here are the stars of our show -- pat sajak and vanna white! thank you, jim. this is vanna, and i'm pat... thank you. appreciate that. see you later. hello! good to see you all. get ready. you got the idea. "on the map" is the category for our first "toss up" puzzle of the night. it's worth $1,000. off we go. ?? [ bell chimes ] cari. buffalo colorado.

[ bell chimes ] beth? durango colorado? yeah, there you go. whoo! just dropped my buzzer. [ laughs ] [ laughs ] this is beth abramowitz, right? yes. is from san diego. a third grade teacher down there, huh? yes. i'm a third grade teacher at alvin dunn elementary school. go, dragons. there you go. and a spin instructor. yes. you're just teaching everybody. yes, i teach indoor cycling, lots of loud music, fun, endorphins, and it's a great side job after being with kids all day. i love a good endorphin. [ laughter ] musical theater is in your background? yes. i lived in new york city for a while pursuing a dream of musical theater, and, um, just couldn't escape the sunshine, so made it back to southern california to be with my amazing boyfriend, tim. there you go, and you already have $1,000 tonight. thank you so much. congratulations. cari pittleman. yes. ...is from arlington, virginia. you're a teacher as well, huh? i am. i'm a fourth grade teacher, and i absolutely love it. yeah? and what do you like to do when you're not hard at work in the classroom? well, i like to dig in the dirt. i have a humble garden with... oh... humble garden with herbs and -- there's a reason to be digging. you're not -- yeah. [ laughs ] yes, not just for fun.

yeah? oh, good. well, i'm glad you're here and i hope you win some money tonight. thanks, pat. goes for you, too, shane. shane triano, right? yes. is from staten island, new york. talk about your family first. well, i have my wonderful wife, dinah, here with me, and i have a son, alex, and a daughter, noelle, and a grandson, nathan. yeah, and now you were an engineer for a good while. i was an engineer for 25 years, then i decided to turn to becoming a math teacher. wow. and i teach 6th grade math now at anning s. prall academy on staten island. that's an interesting switch in careers, and it looks like you're enjoying your work, which is great. mm-hmm. anyway, glad to have you all here, and ask you now to get ready for another "toss up." this one is worth $2,000. it will also decide who will start our first round. it's "things." ?? [ bell chimes ] cari. vowels & consonants. yeah, that's it. alive, alive-oh.

and we're gonna start the first round by asking you to spin. the category is "phrase." go ahead. t. there are some t's. how many? vanna will show you. one, two, three... that's it. i'll buy a vowel -- an o. yes, five o's. whoo! well, that'll put a halt to it for now, anyway. sorry. shane. n. three n's. i'd like to buy an a. i think we can do that as well.

i'd also like to buy a u. and we have a couple of u's for you. oh, shane, i don't know. are you gonna make it? yeah. an f, please. yes, one f. i'd like to buy the i. two i's. and i'll buy the e. two e's. yeah. bought all the vowels. they're gone. an m, please. three m's. i'd like to solve. uh, okay, go ahead. don't make a mountain out of a molehill. yeah, that's it. yeah, whoo! congratulations. thank you. made that look easy. good job. by the way, i know people are very sensitive about language these days. we mean no disrespect to moles at all. [ laughter ]

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t. and he gets a t. i'd like to buy an e, please. do we have some e's up there, vanna? yeah, looks that way. i'd like to buy an a, please. and one a. i'd like to buy an i, please.

n. two n's. i'd like to buy the o, please. there are two o's. anything else? and the u. there you go. bought 'em all. a v. no, afraid not. beth. come on, get out of there. ohh. boy, you gotta stop that. [ laughs ] cari, your turn. whoo! b. yes, one b. [ horn honks ] r. two r's. pick up the car. it's a ford fiesta tonight.

s. one s. m. uh-huh, one m. you're getting there. x. there is an x. you have $4,000. you gonna keep going? sure. [ laughs ] well, it's not -- i wasn't twisting your arm or anything. i'll bet you're glad you did now. spree, worth $6,000. i'd like to solve, please. yeah. all right. bruno mars expedition. yeah! hey! nice going, kiddo. thank you. congratulations. wow. uh... yeah. is shopping okay with you? you like doing that? i love to shop. well, jim thornton will tell you more about this. congratulations, cari. now, this is fun.

apparel, home, and lifestyle products. start shopping and saving today. visit choxi.com... uh, $4,500 that round plus -- she's up to $12,500. whoo! and has another round to try to pick up that 1/2 car. we'll see after this. come on back. that was good. yeah. thank you. thank you, yeah. [ cheers and applause ] z24zzz z12fz

hey, "what are you doing?" -- that's the category for this next round. and it's a "prize puzzle." go ahead, beth. there, that's more like it. $900. g. yes, one g. i'd like to buy a vowel. mm-hmm. i. two i's. [ vehicles pass ] i don't know what to say about this, but let's start with a letter, and we'll go from there. n. there are 2 n's. that's $2,000. so if you decide to hop on the express, you'll just start calling letters.

it's a bankrupt. what are you gonna do? toot, toot! i'm going on the train. [ laughs ] i like the way you toot. all right, what letter you wanna start with? r. one r. you have $1,000 for that. now what? s. there's one s. t. two t's. there are vowels. you can call more consonants. e. four e's. she buys a vowel. [ exhales deeply ] okay. ?? m. no m. oh. sorry. good job. okay, cari, your turn. okay. h. no h. oh.

l. one l. i'd like to buy a vowel. okay. an a. uh-huh. one a. oh, boy. the "lose a turn" got you, and that means, beth, it's your turn. okay. [ horn honks ] okay. d. ar." you've got one. two of our players do. last round to find the other half. and you have $500 if you wanna buy anything. i'd like to buy a vowel -- a u. yes, three u's. you have 250 bucks. i'd like to buy the o. okay, and that'll wipe out the cash, but you get some more information. and now you wanna spin, try to get some money? i'm ready to solve this puzzle. okay. feeling quite adventurous! that's it.

a prize! i'm so excited. [ laughs ] oh, my gosh. wow, that's all right. i believe that might have been a record for lift here. that was very good. uh, we're sending you on a central american vacation, and here's jimmy to tell you about it. beth, get ready for the time of your life. explore the history and culture of guatemala and honduras on your fully escorted tour courtesy of caravan.com. ancient mayan pyramids, and archaeological sites with expert guides. relax by scenic mountain lakes and breathe in this vibrant culture. visit caravan.com... she's very happy. $6,000 that round. you're up to $7,000. we have some very nice totals going on here, so we don't know who's going to the bonus round, but we'll know before too long. come back, see what happens.

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[ bell chimes ] shane. wooly bully? no. ?? [ bell chimes ] beth. study buddy. yeah. whoo! [ applause ] i like wooly bully better, frankly. that's just me. but beth gets the dough. she's up to $10,000, and the category for this round is "person,"

like to buy the a. there is an a, yeah, the one. i'd like to buy the i. there is no i to buy. beth, your turn. okay. whew. l. yeah, two l's. can i buy the u? no u. cari. n. there is no n. shane. m. one m. i'd like to solve. okay.

yeah, that's it. nice going. $1,050. you're up over $5,000. you're doing very well. we have time to play another round, oddly enough. and, vanna, if you'll gesture as only you can, i will tell you that the category for this one... [ bell dings ] ...is "food & drink." that sound means time's running out. i'll give the wheel a final spin. ask you to give me a letter. if it's in the puzzle, three seconds to solve it. we'll add $1,000. every consonant will be worth $1,550, and, cari, we'll start with you. let's have a letter. two t's. ?? [ buzzer ] shane. n. one n. [ buzzer ] beth. s.

[ buzzer ] cari. r. mm-hmm, one r. $4,650. [ buzzer ] shane. l. one l. "food & drink." [ buzzer ] beth. two c's. chocolate croissant. chocolate ice -- choc-- [ buzzer ] cari. h. one h. chocolate frosting. yeah, that's it! [ laughs ] well, it was chocolate something. hey! yeah. congratulations. thank you. another $6,200.

stay right here. thanks. i like that number there. that's very good. $10,000. good job, beth. thank you so much, pat. nice having you here. bye-bye. thank you. shane, you did very well, too. $5,150. thanks for being here. we really appreciate it. thank you. oh, hi! you ready? hi. i think so. i didn't mean to -- didn't mean to alarm you there. we're gonna go to the bonus round. okay. and she's gonna try to add to her $18,700. and i think she will. think positive. i'm thinking positive. me, too. we'll be right back. members get 10 bucks off of layaway purchases of 50 bucks or more... get ahead with no money down layaway at kmart. put $50 or more on layaway, we'll take $10 off your bill. all finished. umm... you wouldn't want your painter to quit part way. i think you missed a spot. so when it comes to pain relievers, why put up with just part of a day?

?? grandkids! noooooo! freaky fast thank you, sweetie who wants a cookie? so you have $18,700. yes. and a big smile. who can blame you? who's out in the audience? i have my aunt, kay, and my boyfriend tristan. all right. they're all smiling, too. ready to spin it? sure. do it. [ humming ] a fine spin. good. where will it land? the old g. get that for me.

right on this first mark. perfect. and then i want you to solve this puzzle. all right. category is "thing." ooh, that's a long "thing." okay. r, s, t, l, n, e. do we have a category called "long thing"? all right. three more consonants. one more vowel. a d. that's one. a g. two. a c. and a vowel. an a. well... [ sighs ] i don't know. oh, no. well, there's an a, and i think that may be it. hmm. well, it's a "thing." you have 10 seconds to do your best. good luck. philanthropy? [ scoffs ] yeah. [ laughs ] yes! aah! [ laughs ] yes! aah! [ laughing ] she's calling all those goofy letters,

this show will never work. and she won $33,000. aah! [ laughs ] cari, don't spend this all in one place... [ laughs ] [ cheers and applause ] [ laughing ] well, good for her, no matter how she did it... [ laughing ] it's "wheel" time all the time at wheeloffortune.com. os, and play our "toss up" challenge game. it's all right here. you know, we don't gamble on the games because it's against the rules, and we can't go to the hall of fame, but i would lose all of my money if i did. i never understand this. did you think she was gonna... i did not. she's calling a g, and... i know. and then she says "philanthropy." you never know! that's the -- she won $51,000. that's wonderful. she has lots to be thankful for in this thanksgiving week.

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we are back on this decision night in america. it is 8:00 in the east. one of the biggest moments of the night as polls have just closed in a slew of states. 16 in all and district of columbia. let's take you through where things stand right now. florida, we have been watching that raw vote come in. right now too close to call in florida. pennsylvania. another big one. battleground state. too early to call. pennsylvania too early to call. new hampshire. too early to call. now we have hey bunch of states here in which there are projected winners starting with alabama. we project that donald trump wins alabama. in connecticut, hillary clinton,

delaware, will also go to hillary clinton. district of columbia to hillary clinton. illinois, her home state goes to hillary clinton. as well as the state of maryland. and massachusetts also in the clinton column. mississippi, we projected donald trump wins in mississippi. new jersey, to clinton. oklahoma the projected winner donald trump. rhode island, hillary clinton. and tennessee, donald trump. let's look at the count right now in the race to 270. at this hour, based on the projections, clinton stands with 75, trump with 66. 66 in the race to 270. now, a couple others we want to mention right now. we are watching -- maine. too early -- actually. looking at missouri up there. but too early. maine is too early. but, clinton is leading there in mississippi. no, sorry, that was missouri.

missouri was too early. we got trump is leading there. the colors begin to fill in. the race to 270. savannah guthrie. watch big senate races. >> yeah, promise you a cliffhanger. the democrats are trying to wrest control. they have a pick up. one seat into their corner. they need four if hillary clinton wins. tammy duckworth congress woman senator from mark kirk, widely believed to be the most vulnerable in come come -- incumbent. tammy duckworth. wounded warrior. mark kirk one of thepub -- republicans to distance himself, after trump questioned impartiality of a judge that had mexican heritage. one of first. as we have seen in so many senate races. tammy duckworth, the democrat in

trump as much as possible. a deep blue state. the president's home state. so not a big shocker. but, if you are keeping score at home, we hope you are, the democrats have netted one. >> lot's bring in now -- our panel. james carville remains with us. we welcome in friend, hugh hewitt, host of the "hugh hewitt" show on salem radio network. >> i am happy senator rob portman is hard nosed politics, james did when he first within a state race in pennsylvania. educate the the country about the opioid epidemic, takes more lives than cash crashes do. love the fact that he has gone back. good signs out of indiana for todd young. that would mean two new war veterans in the senate. senator-elect duckworth and senator-elect todd young both

combat veterans. >> good you brought that up. lost vietnam vets. gap with little military. >> jason kantur. >> tom cotton. >> dan sullivan. >> dan sullivan. now starting to see the new generation, tom. >> the fact is this generation -- very impressed with. because they have come back and they say we want to be involved in public life. they're doing it not just by running for office. but they have got all kinds of foundations going on. they're running off to south america, africa, got any projects going there. because they're missio military. they came back. they wanted to use the skill that they were trained with there. and my own hope is that we can expand that for young people, the same kind of military training that they get, you can do in public service and other ways as well. and give them something to shoot for. the millenials are going to be the fastest growing, most educate the. most entrepreneurial generation we have ever had in this country. and we don't want them on outside looking in. we got to get them into the system in some way.

actually. interru interrupt. kellyann conway. great to see you. >> hi, lester. >> tell me what it is like. you have done everything you can do. now you like the rest of the country are waiting. what is it like? what are you seeing in the numbers so far? >> high energy here. i just was with mr. trump on my way down here. he is watching the returns. and we have a whole digital and data war room, not atypical. we are getting many different inputs from all across the country. trying to piece together our 270. we feel really very competitive with a political veteran who many advantages and a ton more money than we do. and i just think that the movement that donald trump has built has been able to grow the party in a very different way, be more pro worker, little less elitist. frankly a part that really represents change and not the status quo, we haven't always been able to claim that mantel. >> you said florida is a must win. put up the florida numbers.

but clinton with a 49-48 lead. what are you seeing in the number does it worry you? is there a path without florida? >> we have seen the same thing with our internal polling in florida, lester, we never had donald trump or hillary clinton at 50% in any of the polls. that's happening. not because the other party candidates were growing their electoral vote. they weren't. their vote share was actually shrinking in the case of a jill stei states. it is really just how divided the country and the states are. florida is always a very tight, even in, in the year 2000, all came done to florida. when you look back, george w. bush had been the nominee for a couple year. cleared the field for him. he had the entire republican infrastructure behind him. all the elected officials. his brother was the governor of the state. he within by 527 votes. went all the way to the supreme court. let's remind ourselves how tight of a contest florida always is.

panhandle, closes they vote a whole extra hour because they're an hour behind time zone wise. that we will be able to catch up with her. hillary clinton thanked a big early vote in florida. but we saw that, mitt romney was losing early vote in florida by 167,000 votes or so. we cut that number almost in half to about 88,000. >> do you envy her ground game? >> i don't envy much about her. sophisticated ground game. running for president for eight years sense she lost last time. one could argue she should have put us away a long time ago. you have the ground game, all the money, all the king's horses, all the king's men, all the current sitting president who is incredibly popular and first lady incredibly popular, a former president who is popular just happens to be your husband, lots of celebrities.

-- reluctance, to go there with hillary clinton, who says if i am one of 70% of americans who want change, take in a different direction, how can i vote for hillary clinton? are has been a great reluctance. >> we have a call in the senate race. marco rubio, projected winner in florida. what do you take from that? >> i think that's terrific. a great senator. and, florida is looky to have him. he would work very well with president donald trump. so, i'm glad he got back in and i am very happy that floridians put him over the top. >> kellyann. this is chuck. interesting to seat performance between donald trump and marco rubio in florida. basically overperforming you by three points. a good 150,000 votes more than donald trump. was rubio a help to you? is this a case where -- you're right now if you win this, rubio

or how do you read it? >> well a great ticket to have trump rubio on the same ticket. ill tells people that they're two people who want to improve upon obamacare, they're two people who want to defeat radical terrorism, create economic growth, more jobs. and they're very similar in many ways. certainly policywise. we would hope, perhaps he can help us. i do, i back to an earlier point though, chuck, too. there are senate races, particularly governor races to night where we are running ahead of the candidates in the states. hasn't been a lot of talk about that. talk about the reverse many time. in the four states that have governor races in the last polls we were ahead of republican gubernatorial candidates. we look to think we are helping some of those. >> kellyann. great to have you on. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> katie tur at trump headquarters in new york. katie, what do you have? >> hey there, lester. spoke with a gop source in ohio, high level source tells me they believe it is going to go down to the wire in ohio.

news. they believe that donald trump didn't come in with such a deficit the way romney did in early voting. they believe that he could potentially make good numbers up in two counties. west ohio and -- the clinton team on the other hand, is also feeling quite good about the state. a state that donald trump visited 26 times. a state that he was leading with many, many of the polls to say that they started to feel very confident in. but now the clinton campaign is saying that they are feeling pretty confident as they're optimistic. they're saying that no one wins in ohio. without putting in the work. without a ground game. i spoke to my gop source. asked them. what sort of ground game did donald trump have in addition to the rnc. the trump campaign heavily relying on the rnc ground game effort. the source said, i have no idea. again a race that is very, very, very close. and that gop source believes it could go, so late into the night, that potentially they

tonight. maybe well into tomorrow as well. lester. >> all right. right now we have it down as too close to call. katie tur. thank you very much. talk about it if you can. republicans coming home you. were one that a few weeks ago you were calling for donald trump to leave the race. what transpired? >> well he didn't. i wanted him to withdraw. i think mike pence would have won easily tonight. he didn't. i voted for him. he is running. amazed to see donald trump electoral college map that go down in history. never thought he had a prayer of getting nomination. never thought we would be talking about this tonight. he changed the issue set in the race. but he is running behind the senators. i want to go back to that. significant where there are portman is a lot ahead of him in ohio. rubio is called. put florida away. and, and todd young is probably doing better in indiana. mike pence. if dr. joe heck gets the same bump over donald trump in nevada that rubio got over donald

heck in nevada. >> going to say interestingly enough. rob portman thought at the beginning that trump would help him. down in that corner of ohio. appalachia, comes together with west virginia and kentucky. and in the end, then, portman was helping pull trump. >> consider this, guys. there may be a presidential, somebody who ran for the presidential nomination who will be giving the victory speech tonight. marco rubio. >> interesting. maybe the only one who >> the senate, getting back into the race as well. may have saved the senate for the republicans. >> little marco as he was called by the man who is at the top of the ticket. and, so it is sweet revenge for him. >> president obama went to florida. shamed marco rubio by name. how do you call some one in the primary, a con artist, and say you are supporting him. the direct quote from the president, come of on, man. marco rubio prevails.

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wake up with really deep concerns about the candidate. take a look. people who voted for hillary clinton. 20% of them voted for her, because they didn't like donald trump. that's twice what we saw back in 2012. same goes and even more extreme for, donald trump voters. nearly 30% of them voted for donald trump because they didn't like hillary clinton. that's three times what we saw in 2012. so, call this the nose holder's vote if you but holding their nose and doing it. talk about a couple key swing states. talking about all night. the first one, florida. here's the breakdown so far, remember these are the early exit polls. of hispanic voters. see they're breaking more for hillary clinton. she is outperforming where barack obama was back in 2012. donald trump underperforming where mitt romney was. last take a peek at ohio. specifically union voters. what we are seeing from the early exits.

be resonating. we see that here. back in 2012, more union households voted for the democrat, but, donald trump has reversed that trend in ohio. he actually is appealing to more union voters about half of them. he is outperforming hillary clinton by 6% points there. interesting stuff given donald trump's message throughout much of the campaign was aimed at working class voters. lester. >> going to get right on to the campaign headquarters, nbc kristen welker, hillary clinton headquarters here at the javits senator. >> secretary clinton fighting to make history tonight. watching returns with her family at a hotel in new york. top campaign officials telling me they're feeling confident heading into tonight. feeling good about a robust ground game they have built up. one official telling me they have knocked on 2 million doors today alone. they also feel good about the way that secretary clinton ended this race. one official saying, she ended

was hoping to. arguing that she will be a unifying force if she elected. and talking about why she will be the most qualified president despite all the divisive rhetoric and e-mail controversy which dogged her until the end. the states that they're watching closely. michigan reliably blue state. donald trump making a serious play. north carolina of course florida. she is preparing two speeches tonight but hoping she will deliver a victory speech. lester. >> kristen. pe headquarters at the hilton down the block. what are you seeing there, peter? >> lester, good evening. i spoke to a top source close to donald trump. feeling good. touting epic numbers. turnout specifically in white republican counties in states like michigan and new hampshire right now. this source close to donald trump is now predicting victories in states like ohio, iowa, north carolina, new hampshire, and the second district of maine. gives you a sense of the real confidence they have right now. they also look at the lower than

turnout in michigan and north carolina they think will have a benefit. the bottom line this source says right now is i am going to be realistic. you have got to be lucky. this race is certainly going to be a lot closer than most americans may have thought. lester. >> peter, thank you. chuck, over to the map here. >> look, the turnout, the fact is everybody has higher turnout. i want to give you an example of how trump territory is turning out in much bigger numbers. i want to tell you the story here in florida. of up here. mitt romney won the county by eight points. you see here the total vote over there. going to show you here. total vote here, you can see. you know, about 87,000 total on this. now, let me take you to 2016. map here. trump is winning by a whopping 29 points. there is more vote. that is good news. that is a big deal. let me take you.

overall. and getting 30% more of 10,000 new voters. take you to miami-dade. 80% in. they're still 20% of the vote. add this up, you have, basically a million votes right now. in miami-dade. they didn't top 800, didn't top 900,000 during barack obama. she is winning by 30 points. barack obama won it by 24. point is good news for both of them. their bases are up. she is voters. he is winning big among a smaller group. >> obsession with florida on election night continues. >> we need to get to a break. take a quick break. lot more coverage. race to 270 electoral votes under way. our decision night in america coverage continues here on nbc. see me. see me. don't stare at me.

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we have got poll closings in another 7:30 or so. as we look at the map there on, on arkansas. will be the next poll closing. look at the map there. i want to talk briefly if i can, savannah, chuck, about every four years we are confronted with the way we elect presidents, this electoral college. the 270 number. florida put it in our face. and we always visit the idea. why do we do it that way?

odd. for a lot of people watching the election and shows like ours. they're hearing about national polls. that's not how we elect a president in this country. as we learn distinctly in 2000. win the popular vote but not win the electoral college. so basically, our founders set it up. that each state has a certain amount of electoral votes. it's based on population. you have got to reach that magic number of 270. >> why you may not have seen candidates come to your state? >> it is. there is a bug in the electors, you can win in a tie. way too easy to win in a tie. ridiculous to create a constitutional crisis under that. >> lester don't get chuck started on the electoral college. >> used to be a big defender of it. i will tell you this. go explain it to somebody overseas. and when you no longer, the great american democracy, you can't tell them it is one person, one vote. it is like, well, it is, let me. you are just like by the time you are explaining what have i done. it is very difficult.

somebody overseas, maybe you need a new one. >> the playing field we have, right, james? >> look. it may not be the system we want. but the system we got. that's what we are going to have tonight. going to go through with it. >> that's huh we roll as we say. stay with us. polls about to close in the state of arkansas. bill clinton served as governor before winning the white house himself. we'll have that and more on decision night in america coverage right here on nbc. thanks for joing us for election night and we're all waiting on the biggest race of the night... who will be the next president

clinton...or republican donald trump you're taking a live look at the hillary clinton headquarters in new york city people waiting patiently for those results tonight and many people waiting at republican nominee donald trump's headquarters in new york city we'll have the results of the presidential election in just a few hours we're covering a lot of different talked about being the fight for the first congressional district republican rob blum and democrat monica vernon going head to head tonight they're battling for.... iowa's first congressional district, including cities like dubuque, cedar rapids, and waterloo.... vernon spending time going door to door today--fighting for every last vote. trying to encourage voters to go to the polls vernon saying she's feeling good--in the final hours before polls

helping out his own cause early this afternoon, casting his vote in dubuque county. blum also incredibly busy in the past couple of weeks trying to get any votes he can you're taking a look at some blank results right now. in just a few hours results will start pouring in and filling these up senate and house races a big concern for many right now democrats control the senate and republicans control the house in iowa but whether this continues depends on the outcome of legislative races tonight. at stake-is control of the iowa senate where democrts have a two - the gop will be in charge of both

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we are back with more coverage. we have a call to make. this is control o representatives. nbc news projects that republicans will retain control of the house of representatives. now quickly take you outside. where we have got a call from the state of arkansas. and as we move up the building, nbc news projects that donald trump will win in the state of arkansas. of course the state that hillary clinton was for many, many years the first lady. we're back with our panel right now. and, chuck, you are going over --

>> he is -- you can tell. >> that's right. >> she worked in florida before she worked for president bush. back in, back in the day when we were both young bucks. we were just both sitting here, what's out in florida. 91% in. i think trump is leading by 60,000 votes. and -- we're both noting, like why is the clinton campaign feeling good, and trump not feeling good. what is out. gainesville h you have a lot half of the broward vote hasn't come in. half of palm beach. and 15% of miami-dade. and as we showed you, she is winning miami-dade by numbers that are landslide like for miami-dade. >> why do we care so much about florida? because for trump it is a, close to a must win as there is. it's not that he can't put together 270 votes without florida. becomes exceedingly difficult. >> for me it is deja vu.

i can't go there. >> talking about. >> you have seen the movie. >> florida, florida, florida. at one point. bill dalien one ear, karl rove in the other ear on the phone saying what is going on. if you don't know. how do i know? >> back to 2000. >> florida, florida, florida. the late tim russert, miss on nights like this. >> could be. >> the bigger story is both, both bases came out. you know, the fact is everything came out. it just may be she has a bigger base. ohio too close to call. florida, too close to call. pennsylvania too early to call. so those are big ones hanging out there right now. we want to go to andrea mitchell. hillary clinton headquarters here in new york. are they -- are they feeding into any of this. watching these numbers, the way we are? >> you can imagine how much they're watching it. boiler room, war room, looking over at peninsula hotel. few blocks from here. both clintons have now weighed in on the speech that they hope

two versions as we said. one is a victory speech. and the so speech writers were in, in the hotel. with both bill and hillary imagine having both editing your speech. now the speech writers are going back to work making some changes. so we have all been edited by editors and producers. pretty high powered team of bill and hillary clinton editing. the thing to report is that my democratic sources, this is not campaign sources, these are democratic party source in michigan telling me, t michigan. because the democratic areas of detroit and flint are not showing the kind of vote that they had wanted to see. obviously early. but raining. they're a little worried about this michigan could be tight. as you know. both hillary clinton and donald trump were there yesterday. it would be far more important for donald trump's path, his, he really wants to flip a blue state. not critical for clinton. but of, still like to win michigan. they lost it as you know, in a

there against clinton and for trump. lester. >> andrea. thank you. joining us from clinton headquarters, former michigan governor, jennifer granholm. great to have you on. >> great to be on. >> watched you on msnbc, earlier today, you couldn't wipe the smile off your face. >> i know, it is democracy. >> earlier now, you are starting to see raw vote totals, watching florida, how is your level and campaign level of confidence right no because as chuck was saying, there are still huge sectors of electorate that have not come in. a lot of that, are our people, whether it is broward county, or, you know in michigan. as you know in many of these states. that we count on. a lot of the urban areas come in later than the rural areas. so we are feeling really good still. >> all right. now, we talked about florida being a must win.

but without it he may, made you defend pennsylvania. look where the clinton campaign ended yesterday. how do you feel about pennsylvania? >> good about pennsylvania. in fact, we think -- between pennsylvania and virginia, and north carolina. again, it is still early. you have got to see the rest come in. we are feeling really good about the ground game we have mustered. what we are hearing on t anecdotally, and in the numbers. we know what is out there the everybody just take, on my side, take a deep breath. it is going to be okay. and by the way, can we not all just celebrate that it is record turnout in democracy. people really love this country and care about it. >> come on something has to be making you nervous right now, what is it? >> michigan always makes me nervous. because that's my, that's my state. and i am concerned about the numbers in detroit and flint. but i do know that a lot of that

large, for exam pull, arab-american community that is in michigan and deerborn. president clinton visited. there is huge turnout in that community. if there is a diminution in votes in detroit, we have made up for it, i think with the votes in the arab-american community, the latino community, and frankly we had banked, 50,000 of the absentee votes. so we still, i mean, still close. closer than anybody wants it to be. bu i michigan anyway. still makes me nervous though. >> governor, always good to talk to you. >> until it is in. >> thank you for joining us. savannah, senate call here. >> state of indiana, deep red. republican hold for the senate. we have congressman young todd young going to the senate, evan bayh, former senator from indiana, vying to got his seat back. what an interesting story. because, this is -- a case where it is really not expected to be

be. because of the strength of evan bayh's connection to the state of indiana. lot of democrats were excited. hey, maybe make this competitive. >> -- an outsider? >> too much of an insider. way too much insider. somebody who lost his indiana roots. somebody who barely had an address in indiana. >> couldn't remember the correct address. got a court avenue confused. >> deep indiana roots. it wasn't enough. so we see that indiana hold. that's a red state. stays that way. senate map. we have one democratic pickup on the record i believe. so far. but one of the races we were closely watching, it had potential to be competitive. >> interesting thing about, young/bayh, got whipsawed by his prior job. working for the u.s. chamber of commerce. came out against him. been away a while. assumed he would go back. >> he is a democrat from another era. >> okay. a centrist democrat that just didn't fit this democratic

trump is unpopular, maybe i can sneak back into the senate." >> never forget when he left the senate he, he penned this op-ed. you and i were covering the white house then if i don't love congress. i think there are better ways to serve. here in 2016. trying to get back in. no dice. >> no dice. >> mentioned karl rove. this is don rumsfeld's known/unknown. republicans hearing from all over the country. fearing cheered by the senate seat andco ballot races. >> hallie jackson and exit polling and what women voters are saying. hallie something we continue to focus on in the race. >> lester, started talking, a year and three month as go. the first primary debate for republicans. the first question to donald trump about his comments about women. here on election night. take a look. 51% of voters across the country are bothered a lot by donald trump's treatment of women.

we dive into how this breaks out. of those voters who say they were bothered a lot, look at how it breaks down. eight in ten say they voted for hillary clinton over donald trump. not particularly surprising when you look at the fact that they say they're bothered by women. certainly notable that hillary clinton made her closing argument, part of it on trump's treatment of women. and for these voter, lester that is something that has resonated. >> i want to continue on what you are talking about. kate snow joins us from king of talking with women voters. kate. >> hi, lester. we are in the collar counties outside of philadelphia. the suburban county. outside of philly. and these counties since 1976, have really predicted the way the state of pennsylvania will, will go. so that's why we are here. we got a lot of trump supporters here. behind me. wanted to talk to a few women over here. all hillary clinton supporters. if i can barge in for a second.

until recently. today you voted for hillary clinton. >> definitely. >> why? >> because she is -- knowledge bum. the most qualified canned date running for office. and i agree with a lot of things she stands for. >> we were talking about the exit polling. a lot of it is showing that women, many women were turned off by donald trump. is that part of what, what motivated your vote? >> definitely. i think that the derogatory things he said, and to the media, have been like repulsive. and also, are important to me. sheila and vicky, wearing white and lace, what's that about? >> callout to the suffragettes who called for the original women's votes. such an historic day having a female candidate for a major party. we wanted to kind of recognize that. >> if she wins tonight, you told me you are in your 30s. you are millenials. what does that mean for you if hillary clinton pulling this off? >> it is just such an important

wins and so happy. because of what i value. and, she really -- you know, epitomizes that and can speak well on that. just an incredible candidate. >> thank you guys so much for sharing a little bit. appreciate it. you know, lester the thing is, as i said, these counties really can be important in the way that pennsylvania goes. we're checking in with all the offices here in terms of the four counties. turn out does seem to be pretty high according to both the democrats that i talked to and the republicans that i have talked to. talking long lines. i just talked county, chair of the democratic party who thinks they're going to be counting votes here for a long time. after the official poll closing. polls closed here at 8:00. they think there are people in line, lester. they may be at it until late, late tonight. >> yeah, suspect so. kate snow. thanks again. pennsylvania. too early to call. we'll take a quick break. check in with more of our correspondents. fan out across key battleground states. what they're seeing and hearing

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>> as we come back to our election center from a break. watching mauing marco rubio, ma comments to the crowd with his family. we'll monitor that. chuck todd has moved over to the map here.

things stand as we await states. >> a little bit. we need to remind people here, virginia, we moved too close to call. now, the numbers have been creeping up. still a lot of northern virginia vote still to go. as you know, loudon, as loudon goes, so goes things. that's the good news for clinton. but as we told you, and i want to make sure see if i get campbell county here just right. get this just right. this was a question whether he ul the numbers are big for trump in trump territory too. those two. nicole you were sharing with me. steve shales who ran florida for obama in '08 and '12. everybody's vote totals have been shattered in the state of florida. record turnout in florida in the red county and in the blue counties. now we'll see how this balances out. explains why, we are seeing, some of the battleground states. virginia was something that a lot of people felt, she is doing

country. >> all waiting with badd breath for when polls close in michigan. clinton folks were rushed in to defend what they felt was a sizable lead. kevin tibbles, a trump watch party in grand rapids. how are they feeling tonight? >> listening to you, lester, talking about how michigan all of a sudden seems to come into play here. people here in which is where grand rapids is, you are right that hillary clinton campaign had to come in here yesterday. but of course, being a gop rally here this evening, they were all out after midnight last night. because donald trump made one of his final stops here. grand rapids all of a sudden is on the map with regards to this election campaign, lester. they were also listening to the fact that, in the democratic areas, in and around detroit

which there are very strong republican pockets, like the one i am speaking to you from, they're saying the lines were down the street when they got there this morning. they are very sort of encouraged by what they -- say, they saw on the streets here in michigan today, lester. >> all right, stay in the middle east -- middle east? the midwest. kevin, thank you very much. kelly o'donnell. paul ryan's headquarters in jamesville, midwest. hey, kelly. >> good evening, lester. this is unusual. house speaker, paul ryan is in the room here. he is over my left shoulder milling about with some of the guest whose have come to his headquarters tonight. for paul ryan, really a three-level night. his own house race which he expects to win easily, kind of a position for the future of the party. will he be and continue to be the highest ranking republican in elected office. of course, if donald trump were to win that would put him in the second spot.

congressional majority? it is expected the house will hold its majority. what will happen on the senate side. and how will congress have a partnership with the new president whomever that is. but it is a bit unusual. i guess it is a since of how paul ryan expects his own personal night as a candidate to go. he is here in the room. greeting supporters. hugs directly behind me. talking with folks who have been a part of his life here in jamesville. i am told he will speak fairly earlyhi reflect on his own race. not wait for the whole night to resolve itself. he'll have plenty to say about all that in the next few days. lester. >> paul ryan. and what his future is like. no matter how the thing shakes out tonight. >> nobody gramled more publicly or painfully with their endorsement of donald trump than speaker ryan. people who were long-time, paul ryan, staffers and advisers and sort of, had, had come into and

advisers hoped he would take a stand against a nominee many establishment republicans thought stood for everything that paul ryan had worked for. paul ryan is one of the architects of modern conservative policymaking. he is an expert on the intricacies of budget making and conservative solutions for education and poverty. whatever you think of the idea, he is one of the chief architects for the conservative was a set back to the never trump wing of the gop, which at that point had unrealistic expectations. he has the job of being the top wrangler and the gop caucus was pro trump. reality he is dealing with whether trump wins or loses. a lot of rumors, just rumors, sort of an undercurrent, additional anxiety for all of us hand wringing establishment

terms -- >> another thing. especially the other thing about speaker ryan is that he has not given up his own presidential aspirations. that had to be a conflict in his mind. play the part of leader of the house republicans, try to keep that intact. same time, keep his eye on the far horizon. if trump does go down, then he is obviously going to be the front-runner. if trump wins tonight, would we still believe there is a possibility that he could do that. then, paul h not just with the people who are in the house with him. but with the new president of the united states. as well. >> don't you think he has trouble no matter who wins tonight. >> no win proposition. >> it is. if trump loses there will be a lot of people who look hard at paul ryan and other establishment republicans, saying where were you if you had been more enthusiastic for our nominee maybe we would be having a different result tonight. >> paul ryan maybe has the worst job in washington. >> the worst night for him. this tightness.

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>> 7:30, more polls closing. arizona. new mexico. more on the latino vote.

jolene kent out on democracy plaza. a pretty sizable crowd now, watching our coverage, watching these numbers come in. jolene. >> lester, that's right. out here on democracy plaza, where situation here is very electric. i want to take you through the crowd here. show you some of the voters. we have a lot of clinton voters over here. we have trump supporters behind us. what we find is about, 50% of this country, 60% of this country believe that this country will be divided when we wake up toow oh, oh no. we have got a voter from arkansas as well. lester, what we want to till you is, yeah, right here. okay. so here in democracy plaza. a lot of action. a lot of voters from all over the country here. and we'll send it back to you in studio. >> jolene. thank you. if you are in the neighborhood come on down. democracy plaza. big tv's there.

we mentioned this coming hour -- arizona, new mexico. still watching florida. >> want to show you really quick. florida. less than 100%. 100,000 votes. georgia don't have a lot of vote in. north carolina, you can see here, clinton narrowly ahead. still a lot in. and virginia too close to call. wow. the backbone states of the battleground are all too close. >> help you didn't make a dinner reservation. going to be here a while. >> we are going to be here. >> polls about to close, minutes from now. a lot of news to got to. don't want to miss a moment. get good evening and happy elec night -- i'm ron steele. and i'm amanda goodman. thank you for joining us. we're continuing to follow a big congressional district house

kwwl's brad hanson at the best western, where incumbent rod blum's supporters are starting to gather ahead of the polls closing. brad? well things still pretty quiet here in dubuque, but we'll give you a better look at the room here. staffers telling me they're feeling very good about where things are tonight for congressman rod blum's reelection chances. of course we're still waiting for should be here sometime around nine, about the time the polls are closing. but we did catch up with blum earlier today, and he told us he's relieved that this campaign cycle is over, and had a lot of fun actually going through and marking each candidate--includin g donald trump for president. now both blum and the few people here very optimistic things will go well for blum tonight. and of course we'll keep you updated all night long. kwwl. thank you brad. monica vernon is going up

kwwl's kristin rogers is live in cedar rapids with the latest from her campaign -- kristin? i'm standing outside of csps hall in the newbo area-- where monica vernon is expected polls close. right now we are not being allowed inside-- but they expect people to arrive around 9-o clock. earlier today we caught up with monica vernon going door to door--making every last effort to get voters to the polls. she tells me she is feeling good about her odds tonight--- she received multiple hugs from people who opened their doors excited to see her standing there-- vernon--who was accompanied by all

really making every last effort they can--to win this election. live in cedar rapids--kristin rogers--news 7 kwwl. thank you krisitin -- we're tracking many more races locally tonight. tonight. you can follow up-to-the-minute election news online -- at kwwl dot com. we're back with another update on the air in 30 minutes.

we are back now from our election center here at 30 rock in r new york city. it's or9:00 in the east, 6:00 i the west. polls have just closed in 14 more states. take a deep breath as we take you thr nbc news projects hillary clintonct will win in her home state of new york. and now we have a slew of trump calls starting with texas. trump is thes. projected winner. in kansas, trump wins. louisiana, trump is the projected winner. nebraska, donald trump. we project that north dakota will go to donald trump as well as south dakota and wyoming, all those in the trump camp.

race to 270. here's where they stand. donald trump at 137 electoral votes. 104, based nton with on those b projections. some other places we're watching, michigan, we've talked about how close things are, too close to call right now. arizona, another important state where clinton has made some ground up, too early to call. colorado, too early. minnesota, right now we have it listed as too close. moving over to new mexico right now, too early but clinton leads in new mexico. andco finally, wisconsin, wheree visited in the last half hour, it's too early to call. take a look again now at florida. florida is too close to call. look at the. numbers there. very, very close. a differenceos of roughly 140,0 votes. >> we will not call this before tonight. >> you think florida will keep us from -- >> we will not call this

ridiculously tight that it's sort of emblematic of the battleground states right now. >> 2700 votes. >> 2700 votes there in ohio. still a lot of vote out there but 37% reporting. iin feel that that 2700 tells y, virginia, which we'll be here a while, north carolina -- >> let's look at north carolina. all right. 3700-vote difference right there in north carolina. >> and that'sor with 3 milli >> the bottom line is, turnout has been shattered on both basis. we've been telling you this. blue counties, red counties. >> and there's the red and blue states as they stand right now based on the projections. joining our panel is eugene robinson, political analyst with "the washington post." what do you want to say about all ofy this? >> ?gee, what can you say? we're going to be up for a

last several weeks, the last several months that the polls have been relatively stable in all of this. > the polls were relatively stable thatel showed hillary clinton with a lead but a slim lead and things could break either way and what we're seeing tonight is what we've been talking about all year, how divided the country is, how acrimonious may not be the right word but it's close. this election was -- trump hast won so far. >> to the extent to which it was a base election and now we see both bases totally mobilized. >> we use that word split but you're talking about people seeing throughe an entirely different set of lens. i mean, we covered the political conventions and we heard two just incredibly different visions of this country. >> you know, i had a really interesting observationll comin

know, it's funny, we never are in the same place even when we're in the same state, meaning the clinton people and he goes, i've never been in a race where there's one voter they are fighting over. >> exactly. >> it was not that. they were fighting between voters whoht were thinking abou voting and not voting. that's what we're seeing here, is sort of a balance by extreme. >> but that's the difference between where d the traditional battleground was. i mean, everything you learned in politics is, okay, in the primaries youoi base but in the middle it's the swing voters and we're all trying to persuade the same people and this didn't just start with thisus year but it's really about turning out your base, getting the most number of people who support you to these polls. and just to do polls 101, yes, we've seen remarkable consistency in the poll and, chuck, back me up here, one thing polls o need to do is mak ane educated guess about who wil actually show up and that's the x factor tonight.

we've said this all along -- it's a country that's not deeply in love with d either one of the candidates so they were moving back and forth a lot, especially in the last week or so, we saw hillary clinton way out in the polls and then comey makes his original announcement, he goes down, and then he makes the announcement on sunday and she seems to be making a comeback in the last 48 hours and then as we're seeing tonight, something that looks to be very tight as we go deeper into the hours and a lot of people thought that we would have to. so i manifestation of the country saying it's got to be one or the other, i'mo not sure it's goin to make a big difference to me. they are theirme core groups. donald trump has his passionate supporters. so doess she. the bulk of the country is still angry and the big issue for most americans is change, shake it up, how are we going to change this country to get itng workin again and neither one of them has been able to deliver on that in a persuasive way.

now. kerry sanders is and things are tight there, kerry. >> reporter: they are really hanging on to the edge here. we're here at the darren soto election headquarters and he turns out to be the first puerto rican-american elected, a lot of latins have states. for those looking at the different hispanic groups who may have influence today, remember, puerto ricans are born with a u.s. b pass board, they comehe to the united states, if they decide to live here, they can register to revote. it turns out that there's been a swell of a hispanic votes in th state. it's too close, as you know, to call whether this is going to be a donald trump victory or a hillary clinton victory but the folks that i spoke to here just a short time ago said that they are going to be crying.

of happiness if hillary clinton wins in this state or they'll be crying tears of sadness if donald trump i wins. that's just a snapshot in one room in florida but a lot of people hanging on the edge right now. as chuck todd said, it's going to be ang long night before we know which way florida's going. >> i'm looking at the map right now and 92% is in. chuck is at that map right now. where are the remaining votes going to come esfrom? >> i'm looking here. righw, people, you're very happy about broward county. there still appears right now this isow only early vote that essentially was dumped in. we expect about another 400,000 out of there. if she wins that by 40 points the way she's winning its here,i don't know if that quite makes up the gap. there is some miami-dade vote. not a lot.t. this has already shattered records here. there's still another 10% of the vote out. there's already moret. total vo

before. let me take you to hillsborough. this hasgh tightened up. it's clinton plus six. obamasi won it by a point. so this is something here to keep an eye on. soon look, there's a chunk of ve down here in south florida. but there's still a lot of trump country. we're sitting here and it's so -- you can't sit here and say for sure, look, it's about 135,000 difference right i think she can get 100 out of it out of south florida. can she find another 36,000 somewhere else? we'llwh see. let me take you, by the way, to virginia. this is going to look very familiar to folks because we essentially have 68%. if you followed the virginia governor's race or obama/romney, she's closing the gap as the vote a totals come in. this is the big one. fairfax county, very little

it's going to be a big clinton county. this iss likely enough to put hr over the top but i can tell you this, we've been here before, brokaw brought up jim webb to me. it took until fairfax county until jim webb won the race and fairfax was counted until mcauliffe won. the pointwo is, until we see northern virginia vote, that is why this thing -- and i tell you, virginia loo back smack in the battleground and those bigtl leads were essentially a myth. >> andrea mitchell is at hillary clinton'sil headquarters here i new york where the crowd is certainly taking this in. there's been a lot of confidence at the clinton camp but there's got to be fingernail biting right now. >> reporter: you're right. terryt. mcauliffe is the govern for virginia.

running mate. they actually took money out of virginia, advertising. they were that solid,ad they thought, in virginia. this is going to be as close as it looks like it's going to be, that's not good news for them. broward county is their big hope. i was just talking to a top clinton official here who said we are s still waiting on browa, there's more votebr to come in t florida is obviously that close. north carolina, they did get a break in that the county board hours when there wasg some votig problems there. that's part of the research triangle where they knew they had a t solid vote to come in. still hoping on north carolina. michigan is making then nervous, not getting the vote out of flint. this thing is getting so close. you justlo showed the numbers i ohio as well. all of the information at your fingertips, you reported nebraska, the projection for

checked. that's four out of five congressional districts. warren buffett mades. a promiseo hillary clinton when he endorsed her. he said, i am going to deliver omaha because nebraska is like maine where two congressional districts are counted separately. he said he's going to go door to door today in omaha turning out the vote. i wante to know what happened with omaha. is it going clinton or too close to c call? >> andrea, as you were speaking, we were running the mb is it a double-digit difference here? 71. 7171 difference.er and that's 12% in. 16 electoral votes at stake in michigan. the trump folks forcing the clinton folks to try to defend michigan and it's going to provide a certain amount of drama. katy tur, before i go to you, i want to bring in ohio. the word is. ohio is going to b crazy close and that's what it appears to be right now.

katy has been covering the trump campaign from the very start and joins us now. what's the feeling inw. the roo? >> reporter: well, the feeling in the roomhe is obviously very exciting, as you can see behind me. the feeling atd trump headquarters and trump tower is very upbeat. they believe the longer this night t draws out, the better i is for them. you were talking about a few states that they've been paying close attention to. virginia, interestingly, for it to be close is quite interesting because the trumpes three weeks ago and if you can hear me y better with the stick mike, pulled out their efforts from virginia three weeks ago. if it's close there, they are certainly going to feel good about that. ohio they put a lot of focus on. the gop believes it's going to be down to the wire in ohio. potentially they say they won't be able to call until tomorrow. but also michigan. that's the state that the trump campaign is really looking to after they get to their core four. that's's florida, north carolin ohio and iowa.

it's a state that they've been to 13 times since the convention. three times in this last weekend alone. it's where donald trump essentially ended his campaign.n he took the stage there at 12:30 this morning to a packed room of thousands of people that were stille streaming in as donald trump arrived. he left a little bit after 1:00. they believe that his job's message is going to cut across all demographics in michigan. they believe, chalso, that the african-american vote is not go clinton in the same way that it turned out for barack obama. and they are saying to me that they have seen record turnout in a couple ofn towns in gop counties. they are pointing to that as a very good sign. they also are believing that there is flat turnout in flint, michigan. so the camp -- the trump camp is feeling quite upbeat now. they are n cautiously optimisti but feel that they have a chance to pull this off.

chris jansing is in cleveland watching that very tight race. chris? >> reporter: yeah. and both sides are very nervous, i can tell you this right now, and both feeling like they have an opportunity here. if you're going to watch what's going on,t' you've got to look where i'm standing, which is in cleveland. i spent the day at a polling place p there. it was very telling. there was a burst around lunchtime but in the morning when you would expect a lot of people, later in the day when you'd expect a lot of people as folks go h f the director of the elections board e here in cuyahoga county said i still think we'll get up around 67% but the reports that were coming in weren't that there were't lines, weren't tha there was any big last-minute rush and i will tell you, one thing to look o at from the exi polls is the economy. very important to people here in the rustbelt and who is better at handling it. donald trump beating hillary clinton in the exitng polls by

story as i was speaking with folks in this largely african-american voting place. iac said, are most of your fries andds family voting? and more than half in this unscientific survey said to me they knew people who weren't voting and i thought it might be about the tenor of the race. they saidra it wasn't that at a. they felt as african-americans that theca resurgence in the economy had not impacted them, that they were not being serve by washington. so watch this vote coming in in cuyahoga county and that reaction in an unexpected place. >> chrisex jansing, thanks. when we come back, we'll talk with senator rand paul who nbcho projects has been re-elecd in kentucky.

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welcome back, decision night in america. look at the map. those are the battleground states. if i had to title this, there's a reason they call this the battleground states. >> they sure are. michigan, less than a thousand votes. virginia, basically we're looking at 3 percentage points and climbing. florida, less than a percentage point. ohio, now watch, let me take you to new hampshire. this o0 point. a difference there. let me take you down to north carolina. look at this one. we got about 20,000 votes out of more than 3 million cast. i'll take you back to florida one more time, as you can see, where, again, still waiting mostly for broward county. as soon as that gets in, we're going to feel comfortable going one way or another but it will take a long time. colorado, i want to show you

only 32% in. she's winning but not by big numbers. a lot of people thought colorado like virginia was somehow going to end up being out of the battleground. >> savannah, either side can feel -- it's suspended animation. >> i think there's real jitters setting in at the clinton headquarters and hope on the trump side. if you look at colorado and virginia, these are battlegrounds and yet these are two states that i t stopped really spending money in feeling like these were in the bag and when you look at polls recently from these states, they showed clinton with a healthy lead and look where we are right now. i mean, of course everything -- the caveats are there. we're waiting for some northern virginia counties that would be expected to go for clinton big and that may make all of the difference but i think what's incredible here is just how tight all of these races are. >> we're going to take a break and check in on all of the races

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looking at democracy plaza here in new york city. there you see right now where things stand on the race to 270. donald trump with 137. hallie jackson in the newsroom with what else we're learning about the mood of the electorates and more exit

middle of our election center talking with our political unit and specifically talking with our pollsters. you look ready for me here. bill is one of our folks. bill, when we talk about this being a nail biter, what are you seeing in these places where it's too close to call? how much of a nail biter is it? >> it certainly is in a number of states and the reason is simple. we've seen some of the largest division and rural america. donald trump is winning white college men in a margin we haven't seen since ronald reagan and hillary clinton is winning african-americans and latinos. there's two different americas and we're watching them fight each other to a draw in a few of these states in ways that, again, reflects enormous division, much bigger than we've normally seen. >> fred, turn around here in your chair. you're seeing the same data that

are we in for a night that's going to go past 3:00 a.m.? >> what i'm noticing in my study is an even bigger gender gap, that trump is doing better with male voters that romney did four years ago and mrs. clinton is doing slightly better with women voters than obama did four years ago which is making for a very tight election. >> freddie, bill, thank you. we'll chat more about these key swing states of michigan and florida. this is the engine room of our election center. the notebooks are out, the binders are out as these guys dig through the data. lester? >> hallie, thanks very much. one of the things we've not talked about a lot in this campaign is the historic nature of hillary clinton's campaign. she's not made a big deal about it but as we see her perform with women voters, how does it play? >> you know, it's very interesting because in 2008, one of the things that the campaign concluded was that she didn't

barack obama had with his candidacy as the first african-american. i think they dabbled in making it a possible appeal to voters but it never really caught on that way. if she were elected tonight, of course it would make history but i just don't see that as a point of emphasis in the campaign as much as you might think it would be. >> we're going to take a we'll be back more with nbc election control in a few minutes. good evening and happy night -- i'm ron steele. and i'm amanda goodman. thank you for joining us. one of the biggest races of the night... the battle between senator

grassley has never gotten less than 65 percent of the vote when he's run for office in the u-s senate and last time he was on the steele report grassley said this is one of the toughest races he's ever faced live now with more about grassley's aim for the win is kwwl's macleod hageman. he's live in des moines. mac an exciting night here t republican watch party in des moines -- kicking off at seven o-clock tonight. people really starting to pile in as you can see right here over my shoulder incumbent senator chuck grassley expected to make a big win over patty judge. meantime -- congressmuan rod

moines keeping a close eye on the house race. with donald trump expected to win iowa's six electoral votes -- republicans will likely be celebrating into the wee hours of the morning right here at the mariott -- as they keep a close eye on some of those down ballot races. during this election process -- we've shared stories of anger an emotion -- but that's not the themselves -- and all-in-all -- having fun -- watching the -- macleod hageman -- news seven kwwl. alright mac thank you patty judge, grassley's competitor, voting today here's a picture of that moment from earlier you're taking a look at some of those blank results right now. in just a little bit...results will start pouring in and filling these up we'll be live with and another reminder....the

you still have a half hour left to get out and cast your vote with half hour left to get out and cast your vote election day is coming to a close. just a few more minutes before the polls close. i am here at the walnut ridge location in waterloo where they have seen about 600 voters through out the day--- which is on tract with other west side polling locations. but it is starting to way and you can see there is just one voter here right now. overall for black hawk county -- voter numbers are similar to those during the last presidential election. in waterloo --- jessica hartman news 7 kwwl. thanks jessica.

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we are back now from our election center in new york. this is a very tight race between hillary clinton and donald trump. many states right now are too close to call, as i think we you a suspected. it's going to be a l states and show you where things stand. as we look at the national popular vote, trump at 50% and florida continues to be too close to call. 141,000-vote difference there. michigan, it has emerged as an important state. 28,000-vote difference. that's too close to call. ohio, too close to call. you see the difference there. that could go way, way into the night or early morning. north carolina, too close to

let's look at georgia. hillary clinton drawing close there down the stretch. that is too close to call. you see the difference on the screen there. new hampshire, new hampshire right now is too close to call. 1700-vote difference. 22% of the votes in. and pennsylvania, this is where hillary clinton wound up her campaign with that big rally with the obamas last night, 156,000-vote difference and the guy that's watching ma minutia of all of this is chuck todd. >> we have 94% in for florida. most of the vote left is in miami and broward. there's more vote in broward left than dade. she's winning this 67-31. the bottom line is this. how much vote is left and what percentage does she win it by?

okay, and i'm just going to do it this way, if there's 400,000 votes left and she wins it 70-30, she'll net -- she'll net 140,000 votes. that's assuming all that. now, let me go back to where florida is. oops. sorry about that. show you the total vote here in florida. it's about 140,000. my point is this. i don't know if there's enough vote left for clinton to win on. we are looking at a florida -- i don't think it's going to be closer than 537 votes, nicolle, but it is going to be less than a percentage point at this point. we just don't know. >> and then it gets down to what was your strategy without florida. each of them had one going into this, she going into this had more roots. >> right. no, him with florida and it's a straight shot, it's -- he can do michigan. he doesn't need both michigan

north carolina sitting out there too close to call, new hampshire too close to call. i can tell you this, if you're the clinton campaign, because of the way the rest of the map looks, you don't want to see florida go red yet. >> and nicolle, if you're the trump campaign right now, you're starting to feel signs of life? >> well, you're saying, i told you so in that this was a lot closer than any of us -- i'll put myself in this category myself alone than i thought and that the polls reflecte i think that the polls showed hillary clinton with an 85% chance of winning. this doesn't feel like that kind of night. and trump supporters -- and i know this because i have several of my family is divided generationally between trump supporters and clinton supporters, they felt there could be a brexit effect. we don't have enough information to know if that's the case but if she wins, she won't win it running away and if he wins, he

>> we knew we weren't going to have a call this early in the night. it was going to be close but -- >> the clinton camp thought they did. i have to say, the clinton campaign for the last 72 hours has been projecting a lot of confidence. >> but here's why. the trump campaign didn't have the same turnout operation as the clinton campaign and we saw some of the demographic roots and i think what everybody underestimated was the trump -- the rural vote coming in as high as it did. and you know what, i think we have to start to say our weights correct and we didn't realize that he was going to bust through the caps, essentially, of what -- turnout caps in those ruby red counties and even in -- >> you know, from the beginning, donald trump has been running from the ground up, not from the top down. he tapped in to all of those people feeling disenfranchised. i was looking at iowa the other day. it used to be a very progressive

hughes and dick clark. now it's a very conservative evangelical state because they are uncomfortable with the shifts. they moved to the right and donald trump came along and tapped into all of that by going down at the bottom level and working his way up. the fact is that he is ni including the last 48 hours, however this turns out tonight it's going to be so much closer than anybody could have realized going in. >> we ought to bring up what's going on with dow futures right now. >> yeah. >> all of the stock markets around the world are in a crater. >> margin calls. >> yes. >> i've had a note from somebody saying they are beginning to sell off because it went the other way in the last 24 hours, by the way. >> when everybody thought she was going to win.

electoral maps, call 270 to win and as far as i can tell, it's crashed right now. i think everyone is -- they are starting to -- >> how does this work? there's no florida. what's the map? >> talk to the master here. he can walk you through it. let's go to rehema ellis. >> reporter: absolutely, lester. we're at a watch party for patrick mccrory is dallas woodhouse. this is a toss-upstate. how are you feeling? you've got butterflies in your stomach? >> i feel more nervous than a fish at a fish fry. no question about that. however, we are in a great position at this point in the evening. urban areas tend to come in sooner and mr. trump looks like he's well on his way to win. the governor just went up.

go back down. i will tell you a couple of things. we were up as republicans 100,000 votes, over 212,000. the democrats were down 22,000. >> reporter: that's early voting but now you've got the voting today. >> right. but republicans win election day. democrats win early voting. and they did win early voting. >> reporter: and that's what you did in 2012 and in 2008, barack obama took this you think that trump is going to take it? >> doi believe that we're going to win. trump, burr and mccrory tonight. close races. >> reporter: they are cautiously optimistic here. >> thanks very much. let's go to miami right now with a family who is nervously watching these results in florida where things are extraordinarily tight. >> reporter: lester, i'm here

local watch party in miami. many of the people you see behind me are undocumented. some are voters and, as you can imagine, the mood here grew incredibly tense as these results started to tighten like many latinos across the country for many of the voters here, their main motivation was what they call the trump effect or the trump factor, mainly, the republican candidate's stance on immigration that crystallized the issues for so many latinos and a seen record turnout by latinos in several battleground states here in florida, a 75% increase in early voting by latinos compared to 2012. but just the fact that donald trump appears to be leading in the polls now just brought back the issue of immigration to a gathering like this one you see behind me. it is not the only issue latinos care about but it is a very

hands. they even held a prayer not too long ago as they anxiously await these results and fear their families could be split up if donald trump in fact wins the presidency. >> mariana, thanks. i think it's time to revisit -- it's time to revisit the -- >> the what if map? >> yeah, the route to 270. and florida was such a big part of it. >> let's, for now -- and we're just going to do it. we're not projecting anything. we trump's leading there. he's leading in georgia. he's leading in north carolina. he's leading in ohio. he's sitting at 248. let's assume arizona he sits at 259 there. he's not leading in new hampshire. we do have this nebraska situation. i don't know why we haven't -- >> it's split. >> it's split but he's already got those, that we're aware of. >> that is sitting out there. >> nevada is sitting out there.

this assumed michigan. you just flipped michigan here. now, let's give her new hampshire for now. there is some work there. and then you look -- >> she's over the top. >> he would be over the top with michigan at this point. she needs one of these states. let's put back north carolina. that would do it. but as you can see here, now michigan -- take michigan and it's a different situation. this is what we're staring at. it doesn't take long, by the way, and interesting things on twitter. it doesn't take long to get you to 269. i could do it right here by simply moving colorado and then you would have -- i don't know why we have three extras. i think nebraska has gotten messed up here on our map so we will neutralize them. but this should be red. the point is, this is precarious. this map is suddenly 50/50. >> you're doing exactly --

sweeps those two and ohio and we're looking at michigan too close to call and suddenly we could be sitting on michigan, colorado. i mean, it's going to be a long night. if you're a junkie, it's going to be a fun night. we're dividing up this map in ways we haven't seen. 269, 269 is in play. this feels a lot like 2000 brokaw. >> are you okay, tom? >> yeah. i brought my old script w i can just go back to that. >> i may need to borrow it. we're going to take a quick break. we're continuing to monitor those states that are too close to call. you will want to stay with us. our decision night in america continues here on nbc. [tv debate chatter]

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that's democracy plaza outside our studios here in new york on what is a dramatic night that has even more drama on top of it. the popular vote, trump ahead, 49-47%. but folks, this is a night about the battleground states. we knew it would be but it's far florida right now, too close to call. 139,000-vote difference. clinton was forced to defend down the stretch, a 50,000 vote difference, too close to call. ohio, perennial battleground state, too close to call. you see the difference there. north carolina right now at 84,000-vote difference. too close to call. same story in georgia, a state that clinton was hoping to turn

too close. new hampshire, look at new hampshire right there. 1300, 1400 votes separate the two of them. and pennsylvania, also too close to call. the state that hillary clinton made her big finish last night. a lot of drama here on this night and in the race to 270, here's where things stand. based on the projections we've made so far, 137 in the trump column, 104 to hillary clinton. and there's the map right now a lot of gray still unfinished which will tell the story when they are filled in but right now they are not and the biggest one hanging out there, literally, is florida. >> i hate to say, this looks good for trump. >> in florida? >> in florida. i think with what's left -- it depends on how much is left and nicolle remembers this mythical box, it switches. but as the broward vote has

vote is in and she has not narrowed that gap. there's not a lot left. one precinct in miami can be -- can have 100,000 votes in it. so that happens in those big counties so you don't know for sure but i don't think -- she needs, as i said -- she's still behind 140,000 votes. she needs to hope there's -- i keep saying, 400,000 votes remaining and wins them 70-30 or if there's that much votes left. >> what about the too close to call states? >> we have a way to go here. north carolina, there's too much vote out to say. i take the republican party spokesperson dallas woodhouse's word for it that you'd rather be trump than clinton but if you go to virginia, it's narrowed to like 11,000 and this one is now

likely to end up getting what she needs here. we're still waiting for fairfax and northern virginia. she'll likely win virginia but by the smallest of margins and we have to wait to see if these folks turned out. but virginia is trending her way, narrowly, okay, but we -- it may be michigan. >> michigan. >> michigan is going to be the linchpin. if he wins florida and nor to be sitting here waiting on michigan. >> and nobody was talking about michigan five days ago. >> let's go to hallie jackson now. hallie? >> reporter: i'm joined by filmmaker michael moore who has spent months diving into the mind of the trump voter. you're a hillary clinton supporter but you have predicted what we are seeing with donald trump, particularly in michigan, for months. >> well, back in the summer i

states, michigan, ohio, pennsylvania, that the working class that has been so abused and attacked and their livelihood taken from them over these last couple decades. they are at the point where they are so angry and full of so much despair that i could see they would use the ballot box as an anger management exercise. >> you call it a middle finger to the eli or two from now how regretful they are going to be because he's not only going to blow up the system, he has no idea how to rebuild it. >> so when we talk about a state like michigan which came on late in the game as a really important battleground, when we're seeing what we're seeing there tonight which is this state that is incredibly close and essentially a turning point for donald trump, you're a guy who knows michigan pretty well. are you surprised by that? >> not at all. this has been my fear.

michigan, ohio, pennsylvania. these are the people i grew up with. i know what's going on here. they are being manipulated by a con artist. that's what donald trump is. he has not told them the truth. he's not going to bring your jobs back and he is really -- he's the -- he's a dying dinosaur. his way of doing things and that old -- that's the old america. we're into the future right now. >> michael moore, thank you very much, former bernie sanders supporter, a supporter. lester, back to you on the other side of our election center. >> hallie, thanks. up next, a live report on the ground in which is perhaps the most surprising battleground in the whole election. plus, four more states are closing, including nevada.

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as we break, this is a picture ivanka trump tweeted out showing mike pence and family and staffers watching returns here like the rest of us, trying to figure out where this is all leading. let's go to katy tur at trump headquarters. katy? >> reporter: quite confident in where they stand at this moment. they still believe this is going to be a tight race but it's looking even better than it ever has, frankly.

now. two of donald trump sources are telling us, florida operatives are telling us that it's a nail-biter but that they will win it. they are holding their breath and waiting on more results from broward county. a source in virginia tells us to watch out for virginia beach. they believe they could see quite a bit of turnout in that area. after they go from florida, north carolina, ohio and iowa, then they are going to go on and keep their focus on michigan. if they can turn michigan, they are going to feel very about this race. they have said for quite a while now that they believe michigan is a state that is particularly susceptible to donald trump's message, his job's message. they believe it's one that cuts across demographics, one that won't matter what race you are. you'll want to vote for jobs rather than vote along party lines and they believe they are going to be able to do that. >> let's go to andrea mitchell

nervous as every other democrat around. look, this place is so down, they are playing videos and also coverage. now there's a cheer that's gone up because they see some movement in virginia. virginia is critical, as you know. they were waiting to see what was happening in fairfax county and in richmond. but the fact is that the results in michigan and ohio and in florida are really the mood here. that's the first cheer i've heard here basically all night, anything other than an east coast state like rhode island or connecticut performa. the fact is, they are going to have to look back at what they didn't do. they had a 2-1 spending advantage on air, on television. a 5-1 advantage, pulled money

do about what is happening here tonight if this thing does go against them. >> andrea, in that crowd, we heard them applause a minute ago. let's put up virginia. >> first time that she took the lead and that's what they were looking at. >> move forward there. >> there it is. she took the narrow lead and i can just tell you, my own history of doing this, we know where this is headed but, wow, it's close. >> she had to work for it. >> that's right. >> we're quickly approaching 10 p.m. out west. our electric coverage continues here on a dramatic night on nbc. >> good evening, on this election night, thank you for tuning in to election coverage.

>> and i'm ron steele, thanks very much for joining us. the polls closed in iowa in a couple of minutes and result will be available very, very soon. candidates getting ready to celebrate as they get the results. historic seeing the national numbers roll in and i thin happening around the country. >> amanda: take a look at the numbers for donald trump, leading in new york city for electorate votes, a bit taken back by the numbers right now. >> ron: and candidates on both sides getting ready to

you are out there at the buy back center, what is the mood out there? >> excitement, not only for iowa but all the way to the national level. i will step back and show you that the room is filling up here. the candidates feel they have done the work necessary to turn iowa red tonight and they are very anxious to see what happens when the polls close in just couple of minutes. i also asked donald trump about the candidates, some are thrilled, the other saying what are you going to do when he is like the lesser of two evils. jerry gallagher, news dat -- >> thank you, jerry. >> amanda: democrats coming

national and local wins tonight. speaking with a state senator awaiting word on his race. >> i am here with jeff danielson and how are you feeling tonight? >> well, good but i have to note that we won't know anything until the absentee v counted so too early to tell. >> so there is a chance the senate race could come in tonight and where does that put local democrats? >> well, i think that it will always be close and not a lot of margin in the legislature so i have always talked about making sure we are talking and solving problems together on behalf of iowaans and will continue to do

control of the legislature. >> thank you so much and i will be covering the county democrats all night long. stick with kwwl as the results come in. >> all right, lauren, thanks so much. jeff dan yellson is facing bonnie sadler in district 30. >> stay with kwwl for the latest results here on the air and also on kwwl.com and our faceb we're back for another update in about 30 minutes.

welcome back, everyone. it's 10:00 p.m. in the east and 7:00 p.m. in the west. . the polls have closed in four re let's take you through what we have. as you look at the vote total, looking at the state of iowa, it's too close to call. nevada, too close to call. utah, too early. keep in mind, that's a three-way race with mcmullin in the race there in utah. montana, nbc news projects donald trump will win in montana. . and we can look where we stand now at the race for 270.

made so far, trump with 140 and clinton with 104. we're also watching where things are close, the state of pennsylvania as we take a look right there at the map. but if we can move out, i want to show you what is happening in pennsylvania because we want to go to our correspondent there, kate snow, who is with both trump and clinton voters. . kate? >> reporter: lester, yeah, we are right outside of philadelphia, montgomery county, which we said earlier is an a pennsylvania. and it's interesting, we're in a bar, obviously. we've got a lot of trump fans here. i was talking to lisa before. you were telling me that you didn't want to put a sign out in front of your house because you're a business owner. but now, how are you feeling right now? >> i'm so excited. i am just beyond excited because now you can say this is the guy i wanted, this is a guy who spoke his mind and who is going to fight for us. >> reporter: why did you vote for him? you've been working for him as a

going to take our country back. . there are different things as a business owner you want to just -- taxes, obamacare, there are all of these -- >> reporter: you said to me earlier you felt like he says the things that other people don't say out loud? >> no. they said he said this about women, he said that. what has he said that i don't hear other women saying about men? you know, women talk about men all the time and have said worse than he's ever said. >> reporter: let me pivot over here. how are you feeling? you're watching the tvs in here. the sound isn't up. how are you feeling? >> a little nervous. i'm surprised about florida being so close. i don't want it to go back to a bush/gore thing where they have to recount the votes but i think

florida. >> everybody is nodding. nobody wants a recount. myself, included. i was in tallahassee for a long time. tell me why you think this county might go for hillary clinton. . >> i'm actually from illinois but -- >> reporter: okay. you're from philly. we've got a mixed crowd in the bar. why did you vote for her? >> i did not vote because i'm not american. >> reporter: thank you so much, appreci it's very loud in here, there's a deejay playing behind me so folks can't really hear all of our coverage. we've got it all on the screen. people are glued to the screens. we're hearing the lines were so long in some places, people are still voting. even though polls closed technically at 8:00, two hours ago,

>> kate, thanks. another projection coming in, i'm told it's new mexico. nbc news projects that hillary clinton will win the five electoral votes in the state of new mexico. hallie jackson is digging into some of the numbers in this very, very tight race in the exit polls. >> lester, we're looking at three battleground states. let's start with michigan. we want to focus on what's driving this close race in these states. and in michigan, at this moment, exit polls are showing it appears to be white voters with a college degree. look at this column here, the republican candidate. the republican candidate in 2012 got 55% of the vote. donald trump is doing better, up six points. he is overperforming the republican from 2012, mitt romney. look at the democratic candidate, of course hillary clinton. in 2012, barack obama, the democrat, got 44%

percentage points from that position, from where they were in 2012. so that is really what we're looking at and what we're sort of diving into when it comes to michigan. i want to pull up pennsylvania. we're taking a look at the age gap. voters in pennsylvania under the age of 30, the so-called millennials, they're breaking out for hillary clinton by 55-39%. it's the reverse of that when you look at voters over 65, going more for donald vote, she's got 48% of the vote. another key battleground state, the race breakout in florida. let's pull it up here. those voters in florida who have a favorable opinion of donald trump, most white voters in florida do have a favorable opinion. one in four hispanic voters roughly have a favorable opinion. only one in ten black voters feel that same way. and this demographic here, the african-american vote, the hispanic vote, that is going to be crucial to what we see in florida when it

trump campaign who said, hey, we are not getting crushed with the hispanic vote, a good sign for them. >> hallie jackson, thanks. now back to our panel. mike murphy served as senior strategist for john mccain's first campaign for president in 2000, mike, nice to have you. for those who thought this was going to be an early evening, you say? >> yeah. anything but. i thought florida, a state i worked a lot, and most of the both sides thought it would be an early defeat for trump and that would set the tone. instead, florida will be hard. >> we have another call in the state of missouri. nbc news projects missouri will go to donald trump, donald trump a win. and let's look at where things stand right now. there is a missouri call. let me show where we stand in the race to 270. there it is right now. trump with 150, clinton 109.

i'm sorry, go ahead. >> what's interesting about florida is the pattern is unlike anything i've seen in florida politics before. you get a more urban republican area, jacksonville, trump is doing horribly. he's doing under romney in the bigger counties. but in tampa he's off the charts, breaking the meters in numbers that we haven't seen before. i believe it will tighten, there is more of her vote out than be able to make it. >> so far he hasn't won anything that we didn't anticipate. chuck, you've been crunching the numbers on florida. >> it's not enough. maybe there's some extra vote that we don't know about. i stress that, that happens. i remember vividly in 2000, the 50,000-vote error that was discovered late. so don't forget those things happen here. but you look, and there's trickles that

only one county that's out that's more favorable to trump. polk has a little bit. volusia, which is daytona, a 50/50 county. that's not enough for her to gain ground. it's palm beach, miami, and broward. is there enough vote out there left in those bottom three counties for her to close this gap? but i have to tell you, the gap grew again. she got it down to 111,000. and then it's back up to i don't see the path forward for her in florida. listen to this, last time a democrat won the white house without the state of florida was bill clinton, 1992. so maybe she's got that karma going for her, i don't know. the last time you lost florida and ohio and won the white house? >> we're looking at a situation that it's michigan. at the end of the day, we're staring at michigan. i go through this,

out, we'll see. she has to do that. we're looking at michigan being the big decider here. >> nobody was talking about michigan until about five days ago. >> except michael moore, i'll give him that, he's been screaming about that, to his credit. >> to his credit. it's his home state, we all like to talk about our home states, we look at chuck with florida. trump saw something going on in michigan, they sent him there, people were saying, what? then the clinton team added a stop, president n there. >> somebody who's done a lot of governor campaigns, michigan has rural counties that are more democratic in many places compared to sun belt and southern states. >> they have been. >> they have been. will trump turn that over and will detroit vote with flint or will it be under enough that trump's overage in some of these places will make it? trump was doing well at the beginning but a lot of michigan is still out.

underestimated by those of us in the so-called establishment. the people who have been looking at this, the depth of the anger, the depth of the people saying i want to change, i don't care if i have to pull a pin on a grenade and roll it across the country, whatever it takes, we want change and we want big change. >> the other thing we did, and i have to say this, the biggest critique on the establishment, and i throw the media in here as well as the two political parties, we have overlooked rural america a bit too much. and i think in hi talking about the changing demographics of america and the changing face of america. that's all true. but we've forgotten about rural america. and rural america is basically saying, hello, they are screaming at us to say, stop overlooking us, you know, we're not ready to have just 21st century fly by us. >> some of this has been hiding in plain sight. donald trump came in with a message that was very distinct and very different from republican orthodoxy,

have always run as free traders and they love free trade agreements. and if his message is resonating, this is where it was going to resonate. if it was going to make a difference, this is exactly where. in some ways, ultimately it's not surprising that now we're focused like a laser on this section of the country. >> and building a bit of a new coalition with that economic populism. but will it have long enough legs? we'll see. >> we still have hours to go here. by the way, if you have a restaurant that delivers brea now. >> joining us now is conservative political commentator and host glenn beck, founder of the blaze, thanks for joining us. >> thank you very much. >> give us your take, things are a lot tighter than many had imagined tonight. >> a lot tighter than i imagined as well. i think what chuck

i think chuck said the heartland. i don't think we've listened to each other at all. i know i've been at fault in this. in the last couple of years, i've recall tried to analyze myself and analyze what i've done and what i do. and we don't listen to each other. and we don't trust each other. and, you know, the media, that includes me, that unfortunately, tom, includes you, i can't believe it would, b americans trust any of our voices. and that is because they view us as speaking down to them, pontifica pontificating, telling them and not listening to them, declaring who they are. it's difficult for me to consider myself a conservative or to consider myself a republican tonight if

republican is, then i'm not part of that. i don't want anything to do with that. but i understand why people are feeling this way. when you have, what is it, 60% of the people who voted for donald trump don't like that they're voting for adopt, and 54% who are voting for hillary clinton aren't happy about voting for hillary clinton. >> so at the end of this, are you going to have a lot of orphan yourself who don't feel like they have a place? >> i think the majority feel that way, even those people who voted for either one of these, they're not happy with it. and so i think on both sides, the parties have to realize now, boy, we need to start reflecting the piece people and listening to the people, because the people are entering a time, as we see tonight, beyond reason. they're not listening.

much fear or so much anger, you know, the mind's mechanism is just to shut down reason. they're not listening to reason. and we have got to find our way to each other. my goal in the next year is to meet with the people i think i disagree with the most and not try to talk them into anything, not try to have an argument with them, i just want to listen. i want to be able to say, is this what you believe, and why you believe it? and when they say then we could even begin to have a conversation. but at least for me, that's a year away before i can have a conversation. we have to start listening to people. if we don't, we're in trouble. >> glenn beck, thanks for spending some time from dallas. the close race is still up for grabs. we're awaiting more poll closings. stay with us. things remain razor thin right now. more coverage of decision night in

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welcome back. a view of the rink, democracy plaza. the map slowly filling in. we're waiting for a lot of states, too close to call. a nail-biter of a night. the race to 270, those are the numbers there. we want to show you a tweet hillary clinton put out a little after 5:00 this afternoon. i'll try and read it from here. "this team has so much to be proud of. whatever happens tonight, thank you for

before any of the polls closed. that again from hillary clinton. we're also watching the dow futures right now reacting to this night. the dow futures down 625 points right now as investors continue to watch what's happening here. this race a lot closer at this point in the night than many people had anticipated. it's going to keep us all up here quite late tonight. a lot of states too close to call. let's go to kristen headquarters. >> reporter: lester, good evening. top clinton campaign officials and surrogates say they're not panicking. they still insist there is a path to win even if they don't hold florida or ohio, not that they are conceding those states. the path for them, the states that they are focused on right now, include michigan, colorado, virginia, and pennsylvania. lester, we've spent so much time talking about pennsylvania. that is her firewall. that's where she held

by the obamas and of course her husband, that big unity rally. i can tell you that i've been talking to democrats who were invited here to what they were hoping would be a watch party and victory party and they are candidly acknowledging that they have begun to get nervous, that this is a very close race. they were anticipating that but obviously it's turning into a much closer race than they had hoped for. the mood here, when this night initially got under ebullient. the crowd was cheering, now it has become much quieter, those moments of cheering have become fewer and farther between. again, they still think they have a path and they are very focused on the state of michigan and pennsylvania at this hour, lester. >> all right, right now we see trump leading in the electoral race with 150 to clinton's 109. this could be, this will be, a very long night. we'll be here with you every step of the way,

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as we come down on the ice and right now it's 168, trump. clinton, 109. you've been watching florida. you don't think it's going well for clinton there. >> i don't. and i think north carolina is trending trump here. look, first of all, ohio, a little historical nugget. last time somebody didn't win the white house while winning ohio was in 1960, richard nixon. ohio, you have to win ohio to win the white house. florida is trending his way. north carolina is trending his way. i go back, this is -- i mean, luke russert has already tweeted it, god love him. michigan, michigan, michigan. itting here talking about michigan. >> ohio, i agree, i was just going to say, ohio is one where the polls seem to have gotten it right, the polls consistently showed a tight race with trump up a little bit.

potentially north carolina, now we're looking at the rust belt, virginia close for comfort for clinton. >> the clinton campaign bragged about these firewalls. okay. let's see if you have one. we're about to find out. >> does pennsylvania remain a firewall? >> pennsylvania is the one state so far performing as they expected, not underperforming. all eyes are on michigan. although both new hampshire and nevada, those go ways that you're not sure, and then we into the funky 269-269 business, i'm not saying that yet. there's still macomb county and wayne county. she's winning in oakland by about ten points. it's killing it in macomb by about 20, the old democrat home. wayne is detroit. detroit has been a shrinking city, one of the few cities in

last decade. >> she's going to lead excellent wayne county. he'll do well in western wayne county, which are working class suburbs. and genesee, flint. she'll need to perform there. the rural stuff is going pretty well for him. and oakland is not that big. it should be -- >> not big enough. >> are there any signs, we talked about the silent trump vote, the ones that didn't show up on the radar in the polls? >> i wouldn't call it silent. i think we underestimated the turnout in rural areas. the polling underestimated it. is it a silent trump vote or it was more, it was there, it didn't activate during the primaries in these giant numbers, so i think too many of our pros, i would love to talk to our pollsters about it, these folks maxed out in rural america. >> it vindicates what donald trump was saying about his rallies, look all these people, i got 20,000 people in this tiny section of north carolina or michigan

guy, governor cass itch, who has gone to war against donald trump during this entire election season, and rob portman who ran away from him, a popular senator, trump comes into the state and wins it. i mean, that tells you something that is extraordinary that is going on. conventional politics ain't in play anymore, folks. >> in his places, they're on steroids. it is huge amounts of numbers. >> we've got to take a quick break. we'll be back with latest one in the trump portfolio, as we've watched that race to 270 on our ice good evening and happy election night -- i'm ron steele. and i'm amanda goodman. thank you for joining us.

senator chuck grassley has won re-election we have a live feed now of his acceptance speech grassley is ready to take the stand now listen in good evening and happy election

now last and most important is these people that are up here with me -- my family. [ cheering ] >> many of them are here with barbara and me. they all couldn't be here and this never would have been possible without them, their support but more important, their understanding what it is to do public service. i am proud of each of them and

in their own right, and that is in large part due to this lady right here, barbara grassley. [ cheers and applause ] >> 62 years we have been married. she's often been mom and dad through this time. i hope you understand that. and pat has pointed out how she is the the family and me as a senator and as a candidate but she's also been over iowa a lot the last month. but don't forget, she does that every two years even when i am

you very much. [applause] >> grassley: my family knows what this means more than anyone. they have witnessed public service all their lives. they saw me work three jobs, they saw me race to congress, saw me launch a senate campaig and here we are still working for the people of iowa for those 36 years and more to come. earlier tonight, i gathered with the family here and we talked about some of these things in the past years. i am honored to have earned the trust it of iowaans for another six years and they join me in thanking iowaans for that.

every county, every year, here at home and casting more than 7500 votes without missing a vote, 23 years in a row working for you. [applause] >> this is be a effort to make sure that the principles of representative government are carried those of us elected are one-half of that process. you, our constituents, are the other half and we have a responsibility to make sure we communicate and have dialogue and you have a responsibility to come forward as well. thank you for doing that. this -- so it is about giving iowaans a voice, especially at

history. this election is about securing life -- >> amand and as we come back from a break, we have a new projection. nbc news projects that hillary clinton will win in the state of virginia. 13 electoral votes. here is how it's shaking out right now. clinton over trump. let's see how things stand on the electoral map. trump, 168, clinton 122, as our map begins to fill in. some states in gray on the map will create upset stomachs in both campaigns. >> these guys are the

journal" poll. bill, obviously the battlegrounds, much tighter than any of the polling showed. not just ours, all of the polling. is this the result of a hidden trump vote, or us underestimating what rural america would do in turning out? >> well, i think it's a little bit of both. it's not a shy vote. it's that donald trump has built a unique coalition, winning white non-college by the mid-30s, higher and those people are turning out. and it's aggregating. when you're winning the rural part by 30, 35 points, it's offsetting softer turnout in some of the core urban areas. that combination is pushing these states. look, the other thing you want to remember is that minnesota, michigan, these are states that still radiant a very high percentage of the white vote, very different than other parts of the country.

volatility. one of the interesting findings from the exit polls is the people who decided in the last couple of days went for trump by five points, not a huge margin, but in a race like this where small margins make a big difference in some of these battleground states. plus the fact that clinton didn't perform as well with white college age voters as some of the pre-election polls suggested. add all these things up, it tilts some of these battleground states to the trump colu fascinating nugget in the exit poll. among voters who didn't like both candidates, who is winning? >> trump is winning 2-1. that's 18% of the people who voted who didn't like either candidate. >> that's one in five. >> that's 3, 3 1/2 times higher than the things we normally see. you have folks, one out of five, who don't like either candidate, and they voted for the guy who represents the bigger change. >> not only that, bill, in the exit

president obama a positive approval rating. and his designated successor is in a 50/50 fight for the presidency. >> unbelievable. all right, lester, i'm coming back to the boards, buddy. >> come on back. i want to go out to andrea mitchell at hillary clinton's headquarters in new york. andrea, we've discussed over the last week or two this notion of overconfidence. the clinton folks said they were guarding against it. but clearly there's got to be a lot of room right now. >> there was a big cheer that went up with the virginia call, that was a very big deal. interesting that barbara comstock, a well-known fairfax county congresswoman, republican, won her seat, even though hillary clinton is projected to be the winner in virginia. the crowd is being fired up by governor andrew cuomo, speaking outside this room. other than that, there have been few speakers that have gotten their attention, it's been a pretty quiet night

michigan, and i was talking to former governor jennifer granholm who still things it's possible, she acknowledges the african-american vote was not what they expected, they're still looking for more latino votes. they're waiting to see what happens in michigan, as you've all been pointing out, that's their hope that they've got a path. i don't buy the argument about overconfidence. just traveling with hillary clinton and watching how hard they worked and the money they've spent, and the field of voluns that they were determined not to leave anything on the table up until her final homecoming at 3:30, 3:45 this morning. so i just think that the e-mail controversy and other ingredients that made her less popular, less trustworthy, you just cited those polls with john yang and bill

that last-minute comey letter, we don't know this, anecdotally, that last-minute letter was a momentum-killer. nbc news projects the state of colorado, hillary clinton will win in the state of colorado, nine electoral votes. let me quickly get nicole in here. that's one. that's got to -- >> here's what's happened. they're all important for her now, and for him. with all due respect to our pollsters and everyone else's pollsters, the assumption as of noon today was that she was three points, five points ahead. this is not the map that reflects a three-point race. the republicans in michigan are like republicans in a lot of the other states, he certainly had a big message in certain

in the trump orbit knew he had a shot at. >> trump at 168, hillary clinton at 131, in the race to 270. chuck is at the map continuing to work these paths to 270. >> i'm going to put them here. nebraska, we had a little glitch, it's all in the system, trust me on there. let's put arizona, let's give her pennsylvania. if it holds, talked one of our pollsters, an expert on pennsylvania, he thinks she wins there. 259 to 252. let's see what happens in nevada. i'm not as confident about nevada anymore considering what we've seen there. but you can easily start messing around. michigan would put him completely over the top without needing a nevada and without needing new hampshire. that's the potential path he now has. this assumes that iowa goes his way too, we

that iowa is going to go there too. so look, i come back here, michigan, she's now going to need michigan and new hampshire or a nevada. certainly there. but essentially, nicole is right, each state is now important to both of them. this is no longer, oh, you know, she's got all these paths to 270. no, she doesn't. her path to 270 is pennsylvania, michigan, and either nevada or new hampshire. and she has to win three of those four. and two of those three can't be nevada and new hampshire. >> savannah, give me your take on that. >> as chuck just said, this is firewall time. and you look at some of these states and you see that there's a hillary clinton headquarters and they're cheering for virginia and they're cheering for colorado. these are two states that they were so confident about, they stopped spending money on them back in august. it's just a complete sea change. i think people are going to say, how did this happen, how did polls miss it so much? and i think we're going to find out that

rural vote, the white noncollege educated voter, turning out in a much bigger number, and perhaps we're going to be looking at the african-american vote being depressed in certain areas and that's going to be the difference. >> i hate to bring up a name that -- this race changed when director comey made that initial thing. that's when republicans galvanized. you noted, nicole, that's when trump became a good candidate for the first time in weeks. but coming home is the other story here. not only have we seen in the excerpts blowing through the roof the trump voter, but as -- >> establishment republicans. >> -- as bill noted, your college-educated white voter, she's doing well. but she's not doing as well as expected. >> it doesn't cancel out what he got. this was always out of reach for him when he was fighting for his own party, that's why

with republicans. but the closing weeks of this campaign have had republicans, even paul ryan, singing off the same song sheet. >> and don't forget health care. >> huge story. >> when those premiums went up, their research said go after it, because he hammered, hammered, hammered health care. >> with an assist from bill clinton, who said something derogatory about obamacare, which gave them fuel, gave them period was that he had ammunition and he used it. he had been a very inefficient candidate until that moment. when the comey letter hit, he became a very efficient, very disciplined, almost a traditional kind of candidate. this is what it yielded. >> kevin tibbles is in michigan right now. kevin, what's the mood where you are and what are people talking about? >> reporter: well, lester, i think it's one of amazement and perhaps a little bit of surprise thrown in.

the final donald trump rallies here. at any point, did you ever think that michigan, it might actually come down to michigan? >> never. never thought it would happen. >> reporter: what about you? michigan did not seem to be in play. this was supposed to be a democrat state. >> we were ready to be in play. we were excited for something new and different. and donald trump is that person. >> reporter: what does donald trump represent to you that is different? >> he tells it is. he isn't politically correct, which is sometimes good and sometimes not, but you know where he's coming from. >> reporter: i have to ask him, as a woman, why did you vote for him? >> because he tells it like it is. i have a lot of friends who tell it like it is and you can trust them. you have to sort through some of the weeds. but when you get to the gist of it, you know he's speaking strong words, and that he's going to live up to those words. >> reporter: this was

up until about 45 minutes ago, lester, that's when the results started to come in. i think people here got excited when they saw what was going on in ohio. which of course i believe is still too close to call. and then it started coming in here. people started talking about the number of people that voted in the detroit area, which seemed to be low. and then here, which has been a republican sort of island in this state of michigan. but after this evening, i mean, who knows? who knows what's going to happen here, lester? >> all right, kevin tibbles, thanks very much. i know in the crush of that room and the noise, you may have missed it, but ohio has been called as a donald trump state. donald trump wins ohio. let's drill down on ohio, because it may be -- hallie jackson, it may tell us what else is going on in the midwest. >> here is what we're seeing in ohio, which could be reflected in michigan, another upper midwest states. it wasn't immigration,

up giving trump the win, according to our exit polls. it was the economy. 54% of ohio voters said that was the most important issue to them. the voters who said that the economy was the most important issues, and ohio voters overall, more of them thought that donald trump would better handle the economy. his message on trade seemed to resonate. this is something that we heard from trump in the closing months of his campaign, in the last few weeks, as he made trip after trip to ohio, pressing this message. the other thing driving his victory in projected winner there. take a look at this next board here. it's what we've been talking about all night. white voters without a college degree. look at the margin for the republican candidate. in 2012 it was 56%. donald trump outperformed mitt romney this year. look what happened with the democratic candidate in 2012. barack obama got 42%. hillary clinton underperformed him by five points. that is something we're going to look to

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it's 10:45 in the east. more poll closings, california, hawaii, idaho, oregon, and washington. we'll have the characterizations at the top of the hour. kristen walker joins us from the clinton campaign headquarters. >> reporter: i just heard from one top official who says they still have a path to 270 and they say they

why? because they have won colorado and virginia. but the path includes holding wisconsin and michigan. they would then have to win pennsylvania and either win nevada or new hampshire. so those are the states that they are watching at this hour. now, they point out that in terms of wisconsin, madison is still out, obviously a heavy college area, they're going to get younger voters, they think they can clinch that area. michigan, detroit is out. african-american voters, of course president obama has been there trying to energize his base and that part of the obama coalition. i can tell you there are jitters here among top clinton supporters who are gathered at the javits center. some of them acknowledging to me they're quite concerned about the fact that this race is a whole lot closer than they were anticipating. but again, at this hour the clinton campaign stressing that they still have a path to 270. they think they can get there.

sending chuck with his pad up to the map here. >> the path is one state right now. yes, we may -- we'll worry about nevada and new hampshire when we get there. >> and wisconsin, she noted. >> and wisconsin, no doubt. let's get to know michigan a little bit here. look, more than 50% of the vote is still out. ultimately let's take a look at what wayne county is going to do. right now clinton is winning it by almost 30 points. let's go back to 2012, just to get an idea of the total vot you'll see out of it. so we have 220,000 votes in there so far. you go to wayne in 2012, president obama won it by almost 50 points. he got nearly, oh, 370,000 net out of there. so my point is, that's what you're going to be wanting to watch tonight, number one, is going to be how much -- oh, there we go -- how much does she get out of here. still very little of detroit in.

much as obama got out of there, but she needs to net 275, 300,000 votes just out of wayne county. we have a ways to go. that's just a simple way of watching michigan right now. >> while we have you on the map, can you show us where florida is. >> we haven't checked in on florida in a little bit. >> sorry to put you on the spot. >> that's okay. i could have navigated it simplier. look, the vote keeps she hasn't narrowed the gap that well of it's not not there. unless there's magic ballot boxes somewhere that we don't know about, i can tell you the remaining vote is basically here in palm beach, broward, miami, and one precinct in monroe that's left. by the way, i was talking to a florida expert of mine about how has trump done this. and it's essentially these tampa ex-urban

market. he just blew through every single vote total estimate that democrats had and frankly even republicans. just blew through. look, she did her job in hillsboro. normally, how hillsboro goes, it was the most important swing county in the country over the last 16 years. but this is not enough. she's going to win hillsborough and lose the state. that doesn't happen very often but that's the story of what happen i >> everybody was talking about how trump didn't have much of a get out the vote operation. >> he didn't need it. >> apparently not. he relied heavily on the republican party, and there was grousing about some states but there not being sufficient get out the vote operations. he got out the vote. we'll take a break.

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we're seeing so far. that's wall street making its bet, hedging its bets at this point about what is likely to happen. if you look at these, they think that trump is going to be the president. >> as florida seems to be slipping away from clinton and the path certainly for trump becoming a lot easier. >> i don't speak fluent cnbc, but i mean, wall street, we all know, hates uncertainty. i think most financial experts will tell you wall street had not priced in a trump win. expectation that hillary clinton would win. so i think what we're seeing here is wall street reacting to the uncertainty, what would it mean, because this is not something that the markets had really considered as a true possibility. >> although -- >> but it went the other day until comey. >> it did, they briefly priced it in and priced it out. >> it's interesting, the polls didn't really identify a comey effect, even though you kind of felt it.

we still will never know, okay? the point is, was it a natural closing we were all witnessing? or did comey sort of galvanize the republican base to say, oh, yeah, that's why i don't like her. i had somebody text me and just say, perhaps democrats -- and this was a democrat saying this -- perhaps democrats underestimated the dislike for hillary clinton out there. the assumption was trump's dislike would trump hers. but that's not what's happening. likely to vote trump than clinton. i think they thought in the dislike-both-of-them game, she would win. >> people had them even on the untruthfulness question. >> we have to be careful, we don't have the final results yet. we have to work our way through them. >> tom, even if she wins now, this is a different -- this is an impactful agreement. >> no, i agree with that. even if she wins now,

is what i think. there will be an automatic challenge, given the way donald trump operates. i really think it's going to come to that. whatever the results are. >> what's interesting is that when we polled, it's remarkably consistent. trump had high negatives, slightly higher than hillary clinton's, but both extremely negative opinions from the public. however, it seems like voters were willing to say, as long d going to stick with him. >> we have a lot more ahead. so we invite you to stay with us. decision night in america continues right here on nbc. good evenin steele. >> ron: and good evening

steele, thanks for joining us. >> and i'm amanda goodman, thanks for joining us. the election, there are a lot of surprising wins. take a look at the donald trump headquarters in new york city. the new york times is giving donald trump an 89% chance of winning the presidency. he won the big swing state of ohio. he won north carolina as well. he needed those two states. >> he leads in mian big one there. here is a look coming up here momentarily of the hillary clinton headquarters also in new york city tonight. the clinton headquarters. waiting to see what -- we have no idea when she might be speaking. obviously it it will be quite sometime before she comes to the stage tonight. some very interesting and surprising developments in this

big shockers coming up already. michigan too close to call, the popular vote 54%, donald trump even leading in the popular vote with over 39 million votes going his way tonight. >> >> amanda: and some early pundits thought he would win the popular vote but lose the electorate vote but there are the numbers right there. >> ron: the road to 270 going to be a tough up with for both candidates. hillary clinton with the iowa lead, not two many votes counted there yes, only 23%. the register poll had trump with a 7% lead they thought heading

early. as we mentioned earlier, charles grassley has won a 7th term over his latest challenger, secretary general patty judge. >> amanda: she has the 10% advantage here, still very early to call. >> ron: here district where dave lobe sack is being challenged by republican chris peters. an early lead, about 20% of the results coming into our district. >> and steve king as you can see, 57% for district 4. florida still close to call. we are waiting for nbc news to project that winner. >> that would be another

way with florida, waiting for nbc to make that projection as well but very close and trump had the lead there, surprising to a lot of people. very, very close. >> amanda: and we'll wait till abc calls it as we want to be very sure, giving you the latest from the donald trump headquarters in new york city and you can see a sea of there going by his favorite phrase, make america great again. >> all the local results are

>> ron: ask good evening, everyone, welcome to our coverageh election for 2016 and what a night it is shaping up to be, i'm ron steele. >> and i'm amanda goodman. let's get right to it with regards to the campaign. the ap associated press is declaring donald trump won the state of florida, north carolina, won the state of ohio, three must-win battleground states. now here is a live look. this is a shocker, ron, because