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Washington Journal starts now. Number 5th, 2024.
Campaigning is now over and the polls are opening across the country as millions cast their ballots if they haven't already.
Yesterday, the candidates made their final pitches to voters.
We'll show you portions of those this morning and take your calls about the election.
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Welcome to today's Washington Journal.
We're glad you're with us.
Here are the headlines from the major national papers.
The Wall Street Journal says, tight race hits finish line.
The New York Times, worry and hope on last day of voting.
The Washington Times Trump era to mark new beginning or end.
And the Washington Post, a historic race down to the wire.
Well, Vice President Harris was making her final pitch yesterday.
Here's what she said about the economy and reproductive rights.
Together, we will build an economy where we bring down the cost of living.
We will ban corporate price gouging on groceries.
We will make housing and child care more affordable.
We will cut taxes for workers, for middle-class families and small businesses.
We will lower health care costs, including the cost of home care for seniors.
Because on the issue of health care, I absolutely believe access to health care should be a right and not just a privilege of those who can afford it.
And to anyone out there watching this while we're here who still is trying to get rid of the Affordable Care Act and take us back to the days when insurance companies could deny people with pre-existing conditions, well, Billy, you know what I'm about to say?
We are not going back.
We are not going back.
We're not going back.
And we are not going back because ours is a fight for the future.
And ours is a fight for freedom, including the most fundamental freedom of a woman to make decisions about her own body and not have her government tell her what to do.
And when Congress passes a bill to restore reproductive freedom nationwide as president of the United States, I will proudly sign it into law.
And former President Trump also made his final pitch last night talking about foreign policy and immigration and other things.
Here he is.
We will rebuild our cities, including our capital in Washington, D.C., which is in terrible shape with graffitis on the beautiful, incredible marble columns and painting the lions and burning the American flag.
What they did a month ago was terrible.
But we're going to make our cities safe and clean and beautiful again.
We'll work with Democrat governors and mayors.
We'll probably have to, and that's okay.
We will teach our children to love our country, to honor our history, and to always respect our great American flag.
We will get critical race theory and transgender insanity the hell out of our schools.
And we will keep men out of women's sports.
I will defend religious liberty.
I will restore free speech.
And I will defend the right to keep and bear arms, our Second Amendment.
And after years of building up foreign nations, defending foreign borders, and protecting foreign lands, we will finally be going to build up our borders, build up our country, and build up and protect our citizens.
It's time.
It's called America First.
We're going to put America first.
We put America last.
They put America last.
We put America first.
And it doesn't mean we're into isolation.
We're not.
We're going to help the world, but we have to straighten ourselves out or we won't be able to help anything.
And we will stop illegal immigration once and for all.
We will not be invaded.
We will not be occupied.
We will not be overrun.
We will not be conquered.
We will be a free and proud nation once again, and that will take place rapidly.
Everyone will prosper.
Every family will thrive.
And every day will be filled with the opportunity and hope.
And maybe above all, the American dream will be back.
It's going to come back.
We're bringing it back for your children.
And we're bringing it back for yourselves.
And tonight we will have all-night coverage of election results.
So be sure to join us starting at 7 p.m. Eastern Time live all night bringing you the results of the presidential election.
We'll get your reaction by phone to the evening's outcomes as the ballots are counted and each state is called in favor of either Vice President Harris or former President Trump.
We'll also follow all the state races that will decide the balance of power in Congress.
Again, that is live coverage starting at 7 p.m.
So you'll want to watch that tonight.
You can also follow that on our app, C-SPANNOW, or online at c-span.org.
And we'll go straight to your calls now to Paul in Lynchburg, Virginia, a Trump supporter.
Hello.
Good morning to you.
Morning, Paul.
Hey, good morning.
Can you hear me okay?
Yes, go ahead.
So, you know, I've been voting for many years.
I'm 60 years old.
And what I've been hearing through this campaign, and I've heard a lot from both sides, but only from the Republican side and Donald Trump have I heard what he's wanting to do.
And I know a lot of things are going to end up having to get past your Congress with both of them.
But I haven't heard Camalia Harris say a single thing about what she's going to do to change.
She says that she's going to go in with a to-do list, but that's what she said I had a do-to list to do for the last four years, and it hasn't gotten us in a good position.
So I feel that you have to weigh out what's better on both sides.
Each both sides have an agenda.
And I feel that Donald Trump has more force than Okama Harris is going to offer us.
I feel like we're going to get four more years of Joe Biden through her.
And have you already voted there in Virginia, Paul?
I was the second person in line this morning.
All right.
Wow.
So you voted this morning because polls only opened at seven.
Yes, ma'am.
It's seven o'clock here in Lynchburg.
All right.
Here's Charlie in Minnesota.
You're still undecided, Charlie?
Yes, and no.
See, I'm not saying I'm undecided.
You know what's really bad in this state of Minnesota is that it's so Democratic that there are so many people that are undecided what to do because they feel that, well, you know, if I vote Republican, my vote isn't going to count.
So the electoral vote kind of is something that probably needs to be looked at or redone or something because there are so many people up north, West Central, you name it, all around the Twin Cities.
And all these people are Trump fans.
You get down in the cities and we're talking to Noka County, we're talking Carver, we're talking, you know, Hennepin County.
And they've got so many people there that are voting Democrat because they want a free right.
They want to be in the unions.
They think the unions are going to save them, give them their job.
And then you've got the free voters that are getting free money.
So, Charlie, you have voted then?
Have you already voted?
Are you planning on voting today?
No, we're not going to be able to vote for another hour or two, but I'm definitely going to vote.
But I'm going to say this: this electoral vote are not the way to go in the state of Minnesota.
They can have it in other states, but it seems like everyone's vote don't count here because of the way it's set up.
So I am going to vote.
And you know what?
I just pray that we can get our America back.
Paul in Long Island, Harris supporter.
Good morning, Paul.
Hi, good morning.
How are you?
Thank you for taking the call.
C-SPAN is the best.
I'm Republican 46 years.
I hope you'll let me finish.
I'll talk fast.
I was with the Sheriff's Department, been to 48 out of 50 states, and I had a meeting with Trump.
So I've known him since 2006.
So I advise people to read Project 2025.
Now, when I needed assistance, Democrats, including Kamala, helped me.
No Republicans did.
I've been Republican 46 years.
But anyway, if Trump gets in rights and female rights and freedom will be gone, regular people pay more.
Only the rich will benefit.
And the problem with people who back Trump, they don't really know Trump.
I've known Trump since March 2006, had meetings with him, had meetings with Ivanca.
He told me he had hatred towards women and minorities, told racist show and his jokes, used slang words against women and Hispanics and blacks.
And he conned me out of $24,000 of my pension.
So he fabricates and cons is basic followers.
He told me, so only to get his votes in recognition.
Republicans legalized a child abuser with an arrest warrant and perjury, which was my ex-wife, which Democrats were going to help me deport.
And also, Republicans gave $5,000 to a drunk that almost killed a policeman, my father.
He was near death.
Now, regarding that border bill, it was a good border bill, but because he made deals with the Border Patrol, of course, they're going with Trump.
Now, I can't believe people believe in a habitual criminal felon who's a constant liar.
Now, I'm voting for Kamala and Democrats because they will get things done.
Is Trump just spouting lies and BS?
So just to get elected, not go to prison, as he has no plans.
Democrats helped me and helped my near 90-year-old mother.
If people have any decency and empathy and knowledge, they will also vote today for Kamala and Democrats.
And I appreciate you taking my call.
Thank you.
And in Ono, West Virginia, Harris supporter.
Middleton?
Good morning.
Morning.
Well, I should say good morning.
Just morning.
I'm going to be just a little bit off-subject, but it's still part of this election.
You all are doing a double standard.
Here, you all allow Trump to say all of these things about shooting this and that.
But as far as a caller calls it and missing something similar, you all cut them off.
Why don't you cut Trump off and not listen to what he says?
And here's Rick in Chicago, Trump supporter.
Good morning, Rick.
Hi, how are you today?
Good.
I actually voted last week, and I dropped my partner off to be a poll watcher this morning at 6 a.m.
Okay.
So, you know, relative to the issues, I'm just going to be so glad that they're off the air because the nonsense has been a little bit too long going.
And the Trump supporters say that Kamala does not have any points of view are not listening.
I'll keep it short and I'll leave it at that.
All right.
And earlier on this program, we had the Associated Press, David Scott, from the AP about how they call votes and how they declare winners and what goes into the decision-making.
Here's a portion of that.
What we're looking to do is just answer one question.
Can the trailing candidates catch the leader?
And at the point at which we've determined based on our look at the vote count and our analysis of the vote count, our analysis of our election survey, AP VoteCast, when we're interviewing more than 100,000 voters as they cast their ballots, our analysis of the advance vote, registration statistics, basically all of the data that's available to us with the vote count being at the heart of it, when we've determined that data makes it very clear that the trailing candidates can't catch the leader, that's when we're able to declare a winner.
How do you sort through all that data?
That is a lot of data to sort through in a timely manner to make a call.
Yeah, so at the Associated Press, we'll be declaring winners in about 4,800 elections this November.
And that assumes none of those go to a runoff, which of course some of them will in Georgia and Louisiana and the other states where there are runoffs.
And so it is a tremendous amount of data.
And we do it with a tremendous team.
It's a big team.
So our decision team at AP, 60 people, several of whom are full-time focused on elections.
So they're always working on this all of the time.
But under that is the team that's generating that data.
And so we'll have totality across the Associated Press, about 5,000 people on the night of the general election who are working to collect the vote, count the vote, quality check it, analyze it, publish it, and then ultimately declare winners.
Why and how is it that the Associated Press can call a race right after polls close in that state?
Well, it's very rare that we would do that.
It's only in a small number of states where that's possible.
And it's because we can look at the data from past elections.
We can understand the electoral history of a state.
We can look at registration statistics.
We can look at the advanced vote statistics.
And then we can look at results from our survey.
And if all of those things line up to show that once again, a candidate will have a commanding win in a state, we're able to declare a winner as soon as polls close.
But it's only in a small number of places where that's possible.
When do you think you will hold off on calling a race?
Or what would be the circumstances?
When we're not certain.
And that's our standard.
We aim for our standard is 100% accuracy.
So if we are not certain that there is without a shadow of a doubt that the trailing candidates can't catch the leader, then we hold off.
And if we think it's possible that the race could flip, that those trailing candidates have a path to victory, as small as it might be, as long as that path to victory exists, we can't say who's won yet.
How many people make the final decision?
Well, for the race for the president, it's a big team.
So we start with a race caller who's looking at the race in a state very closely, very focused on a single state.
They then work with an analyst who's looking at several states.
If they both agree, then the decision goes up to a decision editor who reviews all of their work, and then all three of them need to agree that the race is ready to be called.
And then when we get into a battleground state or a state that we think is going to be particularly close or a state that might ultimately lead a candidate to reach 270 electoral votes, then myself, our Washington Bureau chief, and our executive editor, we all come into that conversation as well.
But in reality, it's not nearly as linear as that.
We're a big team.
We're all together on election night.
We're all looking at the data and all of us have to agree that a race is ready to be called before we can declare a winner.
We're taking your calls this morning on the election this election morning.
Elizabeth is undecided in Randallstown, Maryland.
Good morning.
Good morning.
I have been undecided and really I didn't want to vote for anyone in the Biden administration because of Biden's position on Gaza.
Biden has been supplying munitions to Israel to kill and Israel has been killing all the poor people in Palestine and starving them to death.
So I wasn't going to vote for Kamala Harris or anyone in the Biden administration because of position on Gaza.
But I have decided to vote for Kamal Harris.
I did vote for her and Tim Waltz because she'll be the first third world, the first black woman president.
We need a woman president.
She'll be the second black person to be a president, and she will be great.
I think that we have to beat Trump.
We cannot have Trump in office again.
It was terrible when he was a president, and we can't have Trump in office again.
And I did vote for Kamala Harris and Waltz.
So that's what I want to say.
I have decided.
That's what I voted for.
Thank you.
Bye.
Carl in Northeast Pennsylvania, Harris supporter.
Good morning.
Carl, are you there?
Good morning.
Hey.
I'm a main corps veteran.
I'm 90 years old, and I don't see how any veteran could vote for that man when he calls them suckers and losers.
He wouldn't go to the cemetery because he said that's all his buried gear is suckers and losers.
The way he swears on TV.
I mean, no way.
Veterans wake up and vote this man down.
Thank you.
And Lisa, South Carolina, undecided?
Yes, I'm undecided, but I've decided this morning, and I'm getting ready to go out.
My vote is going to be for Harrison Walsh.
And the reason why I decided that is because they're planning in their views, they just sound so important for America today.
And we need that right now.
And I wanted to say this to everyone.
Again, good morning to everyone.
Please, just let's just come on one accord.
Again, I voted for Harrison Walsh, and I'm on the ticket for Harrison Walsh.
I've known, I've met Donald Trump in 1984.
He was a deceitful person then, and he's just worse now.
So with that being said, my vote, and I'm going out this morning, getting ready right now, Harrison Walsh on the ticket.
God bless America.
All right.
Let's go to Dan, Maryland, Harris supporter.
Good morning.
Good morning.
Can you hear me?
Yep.
Go ahead, Dan.
Yeah, I'm going to, Harrison definitely wals.
And the biggest reason why is that I remember the four years of Donald Trump.
And I'll call it being overexposed to a daily rhetoric.
And it gets old and it gets tired.
And I'm like this: if he did so much in four years, and then what he's saying now is that everything he did in the past four years when he was president was undone by the Harris Biden administration.
But then, and I know that's not true.
So it goes back to they haven't done any, he didn't do anything four years, but be in the news cycle every, every day.
And I think America is tired of it.
And the last thing I want to say is that America needs to get back to education and as far as civic status goes, because a lot of Americans don't understand how government works.
All right.
And here's Kyle in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, Trump supporter.
Good morning.
All right.
Thank you so much.
Yeah, Mimi, yesterday you lied.
And your producers lied about the fluoride.
And I to you on I did.
All I did was read articles.
If you have an issue with the article, then contact that newspaper.
Is there anything else you'd like to say, Kyle, about the election?
Court case, read the court case.
I did.
I absolutely read the court case once we found it.
We read the court case.
It was based on a study that doubled the amount of fluoride that's in the water, and that that was found to be detrimental.
Argue with me because Robert in Connecticut, undecided.
Go ahead, Robert.
Good morning.
You know, listen to that guy.
I can't believe the ignorance.
You're right.
You read it the way it was.
But moving on.
I'm not voting for either candidate.
And it's based on this.
A poll was done about, and 70% of the American people did not want.
Are you still with me, Mimi?
Yes, yes.
We're listening.
Go ahead, Robert.
Okay, so my point was 70% of the people didn't want either candidate.
And that's what's upsetting to me.
The Democrats and Republicans should have put in different candidates.
Thank you for listening.
And Marianne in Philadelphia, Harris supporter.
Hi, Marianne.
Hi.
Good morning, Mimi.
I voted through Nail Inn, and I'm so glad I sent my vote in for Harris because my boyfriend's in line now in the city of Philadelphia.
It's a long block.
He is way down.
Sent me a picture of the people behind him.
This has never happened.
I have lived here for 60, since 1969.
Never happened.
So these are Harris supporters, and I'm so happy.
I have a goosebumps.
Go, Harris, and go, Walt.
Thank you.
Bye-bye.
Tina, Terre Haute, Indiana, Trump supporter.
Good morning, Tina.
Good morning.
Yes, I'm just going to say I work for Trump.
I think that he has done a good job the last time he was there.
And everybody else is just talking a bunch of junk.
And there really isn't anybody else but Trump to take over the presidency.
Are you voting today, Tina, or have you voted early?
I've already voted early.
And here is Rosa in Brunswick, Georgia, a Harris supporter.
Good morning.
I did early voting.
I voted for Kamala Harris and my grandbaby.
They're on their way to vote.
So go, Kamala.
And here's Governor Tim Walz was in one of his last stops in La Crosse, Wisconsin, talking to voters about his view of the end of the campaign.
And these elections are won in the last 24 hours.
All the work we've done, all the phone calls, all the money we've raised, all the ads that you're tired of seeing, all the placards, all of those things, all of the things that are out there.
And you're getting the people are feeling like it's these things coming to an end.
But the purpose of all of that is, is to get folks to have that sticker on them that says, I vote.
And folks have to be motivated on where they go.
So I would talk to the guys and have you talk to others that are out there why this is such a big deal.
And I would ask you in this moment to think of the women in your life that you love, daughters, wives, moms, aunts, uncles, sisters, whoever it is.
Think about those women.
Think about them.
Those people, those women, this election is truly about their lives are at stake.
We're seeing it across the country.
Maternal mortality rates in states like Texas have shot through the roof.
A story comes out every single day because of Donald Trump's abortion ban that put 20 states under this ban.
Our daughters now, those people you're thinking of, those loved ones that are in your minds right now, they have fewer rights than their mothers and grandmothers had.
They are more at risk than they've ever been.
But here's the good news.
When we get that Senate, we get that House, we elect Kamala Harris, they will send over the restoration of Roe, making reproductive rights enshrined into law, and President Harris will sign it.
Back to your calls to Lois in Pasadena, Maryland, Trump supporter.
Hi, Lois.
Good morning.
Thank you for taking my call.
And I am voting for Trump.
I'm voting today.
Just the one thing I wanted to say is, you know, the technology that we have, there's millions of people that play the lottery.
You can find out who's the winner of a ticket in a town in a store before midnight, but it takes days to get results for an election.
It's just a whole system's broken.
But anyway, I'm voting for Trump.
All right.
And by the way, C-SPAN does have a way for you to track the results as they start to come in later tonight.
We've got a website set up.
It's c-span.org slash results.
And you can take a look here.
It's going to have the results here.
Of course, everything is zeroed out because there are no results yet.
You've got the map, and you've got several of the key states to watch down below.
You'll be able to see that directly.
But if you go to the map, you can click on any state that you'd like to get more information on.
So for instance, this is Pennsylvania.
Within that, you can see different counties.
So for instance, this is Lehigh County near Allentown, Pennsylvania.
You'll be able to see the number of votes that have been reported, the percent of precincts that have reported, and the percentage of votes that are counted.
So you'll be able to track how far along we are in getting the results.
So that's our website.
It's c-span.org slash results.
It also tells you per state, whatever state you click on, what time the polls will close.
So for instance, in Pennsylvania's case, it's at 8 p.m.
You can, this is a drop-down menu here that can go, you can go straight to any state that you'd like to see, and you'll be able to see that as they come in.
Also on that same page, if you scroll down to the bottom, it's some historical speeches.
So past election night, either concession or victory speeches, you can watch those as you're waiting for the results to come in tonight.
Of course, we do have live coverage of the results starting at 7 p.m. Eastern, so be sure to be watching us here on C-SPAN.
Amelia, West Bridgewater, Massachusetts, Harris Supporter.
You're next.
Hi.
I hope I don't get cut off.
I just have a couple points.
I just wanted to say that the only thing Trump has done is give the billionaires the top billionaires tax breaks.
And he's installed things for Putin, such as trying to get rid of NATO.
I'm so sorry.
I'm just a little nervous.
His own joint chiefs of staff is not supporting him.
His ex-vice president is not supporting him.
His current vice president called him America's Hitler.
Don't know why he's supporting him.
And then I just also wanted to say that he says he's going to instill tariffs, which is just going to hurt the American people.
I wonder if the tariffs are going to be put on his Bible, which is made in China.
And one more point, just Trump himself says that the coronavirus came from China, was sent over by China, and he called himself a wartime president.
That coronavirus killed millions of people worldwide and a million Americans.
So the people around the world are not afraid of him.
They sent over a virus according to him, which killed a million Americans.
Thank you.
And here is Matthew in Newmarket, Maryland, Trump supporter.
Hi, Matthew.
Hi, good morning.
Thank you for taking my call and thank you for C-SPAN.
Appreciate the platform.
I got a lot to say in a short time to say it.
So I would just say I voted for Trump.
I think that first and foremost, in regards to the abortion rights, I think a lot of folks got it wrong.
I think that he said that he's looking to give the rights back to the states.
And so to me, that's a bipartisan decision and a decision down the middle to be able to give the Democratic states the rights to be able to do what they want, Republican states to do what they write to do what they want.
And so I think that's the fair decision.
And in that sense, you get more rights than you did under Roe v. Wade.
So, in a sense, for the Democratic states.
You know, my concern, ladies and gentlemen, is that we are on the brink of World War III, in my opinion.
We have Korean troops landing in Russia.
We've got Israel and Iran exchanging bombs.
We've got, you know, we are on the brink here.
And I don't know about you guys, but I don't want to send my son and daughter to war for some, you know, for the rich elites.
I think Kamala Harris is a threat to democracy in a sense that she wasn't even elected by her own party.
She was just put in place.
So nobody even voted for her to be in there.
So that to me is cause for concern.
I think we have a very strong team with the Trump team.
We've got RFK Jr., we've got Chelsea Gabber.
We've got Elon Musk, one of the greatest minds in this country, that's working to help this nation stay free.
We need to concentrate on maintaining this Constitution.
And I think Trump's the best way to get there.
So I pray for you all.
God bless you.
And Matthew, are you for the Senate race?
Are you going with Hogan in Maryland?
No, that was a toss-up for me.
That really was a toss-up for me.
I wanted to go Hogan, but I ended up leaning another way.
You know, for also Brooks, or when you say lean another way?
You know, I think I went Neil Parrott.
You know, but yeah, I'm still, I'm not sure if I regret that decision or not.
All right.
Here's Barry in Silverthorne, Colorado.
Undecided?
Yeah.
I just wanted to let everybody know that a really, really effective way to improve every election until the end of humanity is to put heart rate variability biofeedback devices in public places.
Remember how they used to have those blood pressure readers in grocery stores?
You would stick your arm in and it would give you a little readout of your blood pressure.
Well, these heart rate variability devices, they tell you whether you're in fight or flight or rest and digest.
And that's parasympathetic and sympathetic.
And every human around the planet needs to know the difference between like.
So, Barry, about the election, can you relate this back to the election or?
Yeah, well, if you have it's all about the parasympathetic and the sympathetic.
If you have a 3D image in your mind of what it looks like in your body, then you're going to have to.
Have you voted, Barry, or have you're calling on the undecided line?
So what are you doing about today's election?
I just wanted to call in and not have to mention which person I might be voting for.
You should always have an option for that for people.
You don't have to tell us, but have you decided?
Have you voted?
What's your situation?
Yeah, I have decided.
And, you know, there's candidates around the world running on platforms, and they're trying to get people all ginned up, you know, all angry and upset.
And they get people to keep watching the news every day.
They get people to keep watching the same channels and the same.
All right, Barry, I'm going to move on to Michael in Waterbury, Connecticut, Harris Supporter.
Good morning.
Good morning.
Go ahead, Michael.
Yeah, I'm just calling to, but you know, I am, I voted for Harrison Waltz.
The reason I did that was because I'm just tired, tired of Trump going on and on now for eight years.
I've just had enough of him.
I look at what Harrison Waltz are offering.
I'm pleased at what they're offering.
It's a calm.
There's a sense of normality to their campaign that just pushed me in that direction.
And the more that I thought about it, the happier I am at the way I went.
All right, Michael.
And here is Mark in Pennsylvania, Trump supporter.
Hi, Mark.
Hi, you doing.
Good morning.
And I enjoy watching C-SPAN, and thank you for this format.
Now, I'm about 20 minutes south of Scranton, Pennsylvania, which they all call the home of Biden.
But I am 100% for Trump.
You know, gas prices, prices at the grocery store, home heating fuel, water, electric, everything that we had before under Trump was very manageable, and the prices were so much lower.
And since Biden came into office and Harris, everything has gone up in Pennsylvania anywhere from 24 to 48 percent.
And also, here's a lot of things I think a lot of viewers don't realize.
Harris has been in office for almost four years.
Why has everything gotten so expensive?
And now all of a sudden, in the last couple of months, she's going to lower everything for everyone.
It just doesn't make any sense.
People forget she's already been in office.
So all the candidates have come through our area.
They've all spoken.
Trump sells out the local arena, which houses 11,000 to 12,000 people.
And that's who I'm voting for in about an hour.
And so I was going to ask you, you're going to vote today.
What are you hearing about the lines in Pennsylvania at the polls?
The lines are definitely very long.
I mean, they're busy.
There's numerous places around the Wilkes-Berry area, which is just south of Scram.
And some of my friends have already voted, and they told me, hold off a little bit till the people who are going to work get done voting.
And they said, because the lines are long right now, I think there's going to be a great outpour because in northeastern Pennsylvania, like I said, Trump was here three times.
Biden was here twice.
Harris was just here on Monday.
She came and spoke in Wilkesbury.
But every time Trump comes, he only goes to one place, which is the arena.
It's a hockey arena up here, and it holds 10,000 to 13,000 people.
And there are still people outside trying to get in.
So I think in this area, it was a very big Democratic area in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
But the latest polls have shown that it's switched to be more of a Republican, more Republican voters in Luzerne County than previous.
All right, Mark.
And here is Paul in Folsom, Louisiana, Undecided.
Good morning.
Yes.
I guess I'm a different type of person.
I try not to judge people.
And I've seen some ads and stuff.
And, you know, I know one thing, God is in control.
And if Harris wins, there's a reason.
If Trump wins, there's a reason.
And, you know, he reigns and he rules.
After just watching Jim Waltz on your program talking about killing babies, I got to tell you, you know, I'm not undecided anymore.
I'm so sick of a party that is so obsessed with killing babies.
I agree with the rights of a woman, rape, incest, or the life of the mother.
But just to kill them at any time is just because somebody doesn't want it is sick.
If you believe God is our creator and he created everything, he knit you in your mother's womb, then you're killing God's creation.
And where do you think you're going to go?
And Paul, have the polls opened in Louisiana yet or not yet?
Yes, they have.
Yes, they have.
And are you planning?
Yes.
I voted yesterday, but I was undecided up to yesterday.
Got it.
And here is Senator JD Vance speaking in Flint, Michigan yesterday, last day of campaigning, to get out the voters for former President Trump.
So my request is very simple.
I want every single person in this beautiful room, every single one of you, I want you to get out there and vote ten times.
Now, we got the media is going to say the headline is, JD Vance comes to Wisconsin and encourages mass voter fraud.
No.
No.
Here is the legal way, the legal way to vote 10 times, and that's what I want you to do is to get yourself to the polls tomorrow and get nine of your friends and family to come along with you.
That's how you vote ten times, and that's what we've got to do.
Because think about the stakes of this election, my friends.
Think about what's really going on here.
This is not about red team versus blue team, Republicans versus Democrats.
We got a lot of Democrats and a lot of Independents who are going to vote for Donald J. Trump tomorrow, a lot who already have.
And of course, we're proud to have them.
This is not even just about beating Kamala Harris.
As fun as it's going to be to beat Kamala Harris tomorrow.
And trust me, I'm going to enjoy it more than anybody in this room.
Here's the thing.
Our fellow citizens are struggling.
Their lives could be so much better, so much healthier, so much wealthier and more prosperous, but only if we fix the leadership in Washington, D.C.
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William Quincy, Maryland, Massachusetts, Trump supporter.
Good morning.
Massachusetts.
Good morning.
No, thank you for taking my call.
I just wish one thing.
Whoever wins this election, we don't have any aggravation assets.
You know, we don't have to challenge this and challenge that.
And we hate you.
I hate you.
I'm a disabled Vietnam veteran.
And what I'm trying to say is, this is my country.
And whoever wins wins.
I'm not going to go get into a fight with somebody that voted for one person here.
I'm a Trump supporter, but I just wish at the end of it that I could sit back and the whole process was done well.
That's it.
Do you feel confident that the process is being done well or no?
Well, it has to be.
If I don't believe it, then how can I go to Vietnam?
I have to believe that.
I'm sitting on my coach.
I'm disabled.
I have to believe it.
Don't I?
All right.
And Dave in Longwood, Florida.
Harris, good morning.
Hey, top of the day to you.
Thank you so much for taking my call.
Great joke by Vance there a moment ago.
Five-star delivery.
Wow, loved it.
I'll be brief.
I'll be on my way to the ballot box in a moment.
You change our country.
This is going to be the third election, presidential election cycle I voted on.
I have been cursed somehow with three straight cycles of the iceberg being teased to hit the Titanic.
It hit once.
I'm going to be damned if it hits again.
I am not fully with either side this year, but I would rather have four years of truth, transparency, and freedom than lies, corruption, and tyranny.
Why does any realistic person want a president who says there'll be a dictator for any amount of time, degrades women, calling them trash and 40% of the B-word, and even though no doctor will check them to verify this, has clear signs of Alzheimer's and dementia?
I mean, look at last night.
He could, he just, oh man, the weave, God, it's right in my brain.
I mean, you know, sure, Harris's policy on Israel doesn't look good right now.
As a Jew myself, personally, I'm anti-Hamas and anti-Israeli government.
I am for the freeing of hostages and people who were dragged into a one-sided war that they did not want to fight.
Honestly, let the GOP lose this one.
Let them come back in four years and let him come back with a better way to run the country.
Blue across the line.
Thank you.
May God bless us all.
Have a good day.
Here's Sonia, a Trump supporter in Rushford, Minnesota.
Hi, Sonia.
Hello.
I am so happy that this day has finally came, and I will be voting for Trump, but I have been an independent back and forth for a lot of years of my life.
And the reason I'm voting for Trump is that Walls was our governor of Minnesota, and he promised us so many things the last four years and has not followed through with it.
He promised us a $750 thing on our tax rebate that we had $18 billion.
And then he went up to $1,000, and then he went up to $1,250.
And in the end, we got $249 out of that $18 billion.
So I can't go with this kind of stuff with this kind of government.
You can't keep promising people stuff and not returning it.
He promised my granddaughter, if she worked all the way through COVID, that he would give him $800 or $100 or $1,000.
She ended up with $450.
This is ridiculous.
I mean, if you're going to say it, then do it.
That's the only thing I can say about all this stuff.
And Sonia, are you voting in person today?
Yes, I'm voting in person today.
I haven't won yet.
The polls don't open here until 7 o'clock.
And it's 6-something now.
But I'll wait a little bit to give the people a chance that go to work early and let them do it.
And I only live a half a block from where I'm going to vote.
So I've raised five kids, and I don't go along with abortion stuff.
I just, I'm a family of 13 from 13.
We were poor.
We grew up in the recession and the war years.
And you just can't, you can't get everything free in our country.
My mother and dad taught us that free, nothing is free in the United States of America.
Somebody is paying for it, and in the end, it's going to be you.
And I have lived with that for 84 years.
So I know exactly what's going on in our country.
I watch all the news channels.
I can make up my own mind.
And Sonia, you're going to be watching C-SPAN tonight, right, for the results?
Yes, I will be.
I certainly will be.
I can't.
And here's John in Arlington, Virginia.
John, you're still undecided?
Oh, yeah, I'll tell you.
We had about the worst choices we could get.
Harris couldn't answer the question on abortion.
She said, I back row.
And they said, what about the restrictions?
I back row.
She couldn't acknowledge that there are two lives involved.
And that just says it all for me.
And I really think the Democrats are heading towards World War III.
It's a piece of time.
It's sort of like Europe in 1914 in a way.
And I just have a problem.
As for Trump, that 87 minutes when he didn't do anything about what was going on in the Capitol, he left the vice president hanging out.
He left Pelosi hanging out.
He didn't do a thing.
And that to me is pure negligence.
And whatever else happened on the 6th, that part bothered me a lot.
He could have easily gotten up and said something, forcefully, tell those guys to get out of the Capitol.
He didn't.
I don't like the freebies they're handing out.
I don't think either of them have any idea of what the national debt is, the way they're talking.
I don't like it.
So, John, you don't like either one.
What are you going to do today?
I'm either not going to vote at the top of the ticket, I'm going to vote, or I'll vote for the Greens or something.
You know, in 2016, those of us that didn't like Trump had an alternative, reasonable choice.
I'm not talking about Clinton, obviously, to vote.
But, you know, it's— So who did you vote for in 2016?
McMullen.
Oh, okay.
They got 50,000 votes in Virginia.
I mean, there's just a lot of people that had problems with Trump.
And like I said, no way I was going to vote for Clinton.
And quite frankly, Harris went through.
What the Democrats did was totally legal.
The parties can do what they want to.
But it really avoided any kind of Democratic sense of choosing a candidate.
And they knew Biden had problems.
And they just didn't want anybody else to know about it until it was obvious on that debate.
So like I said, it's a bad choice this year.
And hopefully it will improve in the next.
Well, I'll tell you what I really hope.
If somebody wins, I hope they win decisively.
That'll be the best thing for the country.
All right, John.
And I think I lost my calls.
So both the candidates actually last night took some time to thank their supporters.
We'll show you first Vice President Harris, and then you'll see former President Trump.
So, America, we started this campaign 107 days ago.
And from the beginning, ours has not been a fight against something.
It has been a fight for something.
A fight for a future with freedom, with opportunity, and with dignity for all Americans.
Our campaign has brought together people from all corners of this nation and from all walks of life, united by our love for our country and our faith in a brighter, stronger, and more hopeful future that we will build together.
And tonight, then we finish as we started with optimism, with energy, with joy.
Knowing, knowing that we, the people, have the power to shape our future and that we can confront any challenge we face when we do it together.
Generations of Americans before us led the fight for freedom.
And now, the baton is in our hands.
And to everyone who continues to pour so much of yourselves into this campaign as an extension of your love for our country, I thank you for your time, your effort, and the heart you are putting into this.
And together, I know that together we are also intentional about in this process building community and building coalitions.
As we stand on the brink of rescuing our country, I want to take a moment to thank the millions of hardworking men and women who are the heart and soul of this, the greatest movement of all time.
Because it's you much more so than me, frankly.
You're incredible people.
You built this country, and you're going to save this country, but you're incredible people.
You're really incredible people.
And as I said in the very beginning, this isn't my campaign.
This is your campaign.
This is a great campaign that's now nine years, and we've been fighting side by side every step of the way.
We've been together.
That's why it's not even hard.
People say to me, like very successful people, how do you stand up and talk in front of these people?
And it's sort of easy because the love.
It's love in these rooms.
I just left Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, fly up here, and the love was the same.
It's such love, and it's not hard to do.
It's much harder to do when you have people screaming at you.
But there's love in this room.
I think there's love in the whole country.
I think it's a much bigger movement than we even understand.
I think we're going to end up getting numbers that are far greater than we would expect.
But you've given your time, your money, and your whole heart for this cause.
And your support means more than anything you can even understand.
It's amazing.
I love you all.
You're very special.
This is my last, my last rally.
Can you believe that the rallies, these big, beautiful rallies, there's never been anything like it.
And there never will be anything like it.
And it just happened.
It caught on.
And I think it caught on because our country's in trouble.
And, you know, I happen to be a messenger that was able to tell you what you do because most people understand it.
And back to the phones now to David in Vancouver, Washington, Undecided.
Hello, good morning.
Thank you for taking my call.
I've been Democrat for so long since I arrived to this beautiful country of ours in 1980.
We have two bad choices, and I cannot, in good conscience, vote for Camelo because there is 40,000 innocent lives being taken.
While she is hoping to have ceasefire, she's supplying the other side with bombs to kill innocent kids.
And the other side, you got a guy who's not a role model for my grandkids and my kids.
I cannot, in good conscience, vote for him.
And I hope someday we all have peace instead of declaring wars, spending our taxpayers on useless things.
We should keep our money in this country and make it beautiful and prosper.
I don't know how these congressmen and senators run their household.
When you make 6,000, you don't spend 10.
And that's what they're doing.
I don't like it.
We have bad choices, and I'm not going to vote this time.
Thank you.
All right, David.
Let's talk to Terry next in Farmersville, Texas, Trump supporter.
Yeah, I'm going for Trump.
He had a secure border.
There wasn't no wars going on anywhere in the countries.
And Harris, she mentions about lowering prices and for housing costs and groceries.
Well, she's had three and a half years to do that, Ryan, and she done it.
And these people that are voting for Harris just to put a first woman in office, that shows ignorance right there on their port.
They ain't even looking at any of the issues.
Anyways, that's what I've got to say.
Have you voted, Terry, or are you voting this morning?
Already voted.
I voted early.
And there needs to be more Christians that get out there and start putting it out on the line and not standing on the sideline and not voting.
Let's go to Georgia for a Harris supporter.
Janet, you're next.
Yes.
Hi.
I just want to say that the caller, the lady, I just want to say this before I forget it.
The lady that is not voting for Harris because Walls did not fulfill his promises.
And then she said that her daughter, you know, didn't get the money that she was promised and she didn't get the money that she was promised.
But she did say that nothing is free in America.
But I just want to say that, you know, I wish people were more knowledgeable of how government functions.
The vice president role, the previous man just called in and said, Harris has gotten us in all of these wars and she has done this and she had done this.
I know she was the vice president, but the vice president doesn't have that power to make the big decisions.
Okay, so just like Tim Walz, Tim Walz, before Donald Trump selected him as his running mate, Tim Walz called Donna Trump a fascist.
You're talking about JD Vance.
I mean, I'm sorry.
JD Vance called Donald Trump a fascist.
He also said that Donald Trump was not fit to be president.
That's his running mate now.
Okay, and he really meant that at the time because he told the truth.
But, you know, vice president, their voice, they don't have the power to make the decision.
And everything boils down to where you getting your information, where are you getting your news from.
And Fox News would never show Donald Trump when he was in the rally doing an assimilation of oral sex.
They would never show that to their viewers.
They would never show or their viewers would never hear some of the stuff that Donald Trump has done in his rallies.
So it all depends, you know, our news, how, where we listen to, get our news from, it shapes our mindset.
And so, you know, people need to know, and don't forget about the Congress.
The Congress, you know, the presidents, they can get out there and campaign and they tell you what they stand for.
Looks like we've lost Janet.
Here's Bertha in Ashbury Park, New Jersey, undecided.
Yes, I am.
The lady that just called, yes, I did my research before for Harris, and she was not a good senator.
She had a chance to run for president, and her own state did not vote for her.
Trump, I'm sorry, but I just can't vote for him after what happened with going to Washington.
Like the other young man said, he could have stopped it.
He did not stop that protest, you know, when he didn't want to give up his position as president.
I'm going for Jill Stein because I don't like Harris with the continuing not to call out genocide when she sees this right in her face.
And she seems like a puppet more so than anything.
And I did not, and the fact that the Democrat Party selected her, I did not vote for her.
None of us did.
And I thought that that turned me off from being a Democrat.
I've been a Democrat for years, for as long as I've been living and, you know, was able to vote.
And I cannot vote for another Democrat after this.