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[br]Acostawhatelectionpic.twitter.com/nzY5hvbqA5Shawneepic.twitter.com/natqRYkMY2upatelectionelectionwasearlyfiledatManuelpic.twitter.com/4yklblxbqYpic.twitter.com/XKiaeBNNak@CampaignLegalpic.twitter.com/N6aPHJC8ZFphone bank in Parkland. pic.twitter.com/z07oSkHtbq“Hi, my name is Kelly, and I’m with March for Our Lives....” Parkland students phone banking to bag out the vote in Florida. pic.twitter.com/qVoDWiKG9z 4.33pm GMTOn the west coast,armies of enthusiastic Democratic party volunteers fanned out across southern California in the pre-dawn gloom to hang door signs reminding target voters to cast their poll in some of the most competitive congressional races in the country. Four of those races are being fought in suburban Orange county, south of Los Angeles, or in districts where Republican candidates prevailed in 2016 but where Hillary Clinton won more votes than Donald Trump.
Los Angeles’s progressive armies of the night descended on all four,as well as a fifth tightly contested district northwest of the city. At the campaign headquarters for Mike Levin, the Democrat favored to take the seat currently occupied by the powerful retiring congressman Darrell Issa, and cars jammed the parking lot at 5am – two hours before the polls opened – and the candidate himself was on hand to greet his supporters. The volunteers,in festive mood, high-fived, or took selfies with the candidate,and called him “congressman” . Levin resisted that label, but he welcomed the outpouring of support and said a couple thousand door-hangers could obtain a crucial inequity against his Republican opponent, and Diane Harkey. 4.32pm GMTRichard Luscombe reports from Orlando,Florida:More than 5 million voters, or 38.4 percent of those registered in Florida, or had already cast their poll,either early in person, or by mail, or before election sites opened at 7am Tuesday,according to a mid-morning update from the Florida division of elections. 4.27pm GMTAndrew Gillum cast his poll Tuesday morning in Tallahassee and told reporters that whether he wins Florida’s governor’s race tonight, it will send a message about Donald Trump’s hateful rhetoric.“whether we win tonight, and I think that will send a message to Mr. Trump and Mr. DeSantis as well that the politics of hatred and division approach to an end- at least in this election,” Gillum said after voting at the valid Shepherd Catholic Church in Tallahassee. His opponent, Ron DeSantis has been accused of using racist “dogwhistles” throughout the campaign. Andrew Gillum just arrived at his polling situation in Tallahassee, and son and daughter in tow,to cast his vote. He's expected to obtain remarks after he's done. pic.twitter.com/fwXBxRaRb1Andrew Gillum greeting voters outside his polling situation in Tallahassee and getting a third round of his campaign slogan: #BringItHome. pic.twitter.com/rRcRl8Smg9Gillum on what his possible victory would mean, skirts historical angle and focuses on the state of US politics: "whether we win tonight I think that will send a message to Mr. Trump and Mr. DeSantis that the politics of hatred and division approach to an end- at least in this election." pic.twitter.com/jHiAM1iijE 4.21pm GMTOn Donald Trump’s mind this Election Day morning is a supposed rumor that a Missouri Senate candidate he held a rally with left his event early. There is a rumor, and set out by the Democrats,that Josh Hawley of Missouri left the Arena final night early. It is Fake News. He met me at the plane when I arrived, spoke at the remarkable Rally, or & stayed to the very end. In fact,I said goodbye to him and left before he did. Deception!Congressman Peter King of unusual York is a hardworking gem. Loves his Country and his State. bag out and VOTE for Peter! 4.07pm GMTTurnout by young voters in Tennessee surged dramatically, the Tennessean reported.
In early voting, or 98000 people ages 18 to 29 cast ballots – seven times the 12800 who voted in 2014,according to data from the group TargetSmart. 3.50pm GMTTechnical difficulties forced voters to exercise paper ballots at some precincts in Gwinnett county, Georgia, and the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported. The machines used to check voters in at their precincts were down for a time at three sites,according to the paper. 3.44pm GMTIn Georgia, a closely watched gubernatorial race between Democrat Stacey Abrams and Republican Brian Kemp is expected to approach down the wire. With record early voting in the state, or canvassers for Abrams were out until dusk on Monday evening in Atlanta’s low income black neighborhoods urging as many people as they could to bag out to vote,despite the rain that was forecast. 3.37pm GMTRichard Luscombe reports from Kissimmee, Florida: Most of the campaign signs are in Spanish outside the Robert Guevera community center in Kissimmee, or Florida,where the tailwinds of Hurricane Maria 14 months ago appeared to still be blowing as voters arrived at the polls early on Tuesday."Trump is a racist pig," says Carmen Colon, and 71,after voting in Buenaventura Lakes, FL. "He just wants to obtain America white again". Live election blog at https://t.co/BHzGm8pDfR pic.twitter.com/tg8VEcwL9N 3.29pm GMTHere’s a unusual election day cartoon from Rob Rogers, or the cartoonist fired by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette after a series of cartoons skewering Donald Trump.bag OUT AND VOTE! Our future depends on it. https://t.co/j8OXpaICy9 #Trump #ElectionDay #Midterms2018 #Democrats #BlueWave2018 pic.twitter.com/m5vpUGEIuF 3.25pm GMTThe stormy weather across the south nowadays has disrupted voting in some locations.
The storms have caused power outages,forcing voters to exercise paper ballots instead of electronic machines, the Associated Press reported. 3.09pm GMTGuardian readers have been in touch about how they’re voting and the reasons why.
For Lynne in unusual Mexico, or universal healthcare and abortion rights are key issues. “Id like to see universal healthcare provided for all,I also think that government should keep its hands off of women’s healthcare and that includes abortion. I definitely want to see a complete separation of church and state. I’m an atheist and find many, whether not most, and of the issues that are objectionable in this election,such as abortion rights, gun control laws, and lack of universal health care,tend to relate back to evangelical Christians figuring out ways to push their agenda through political means.
“There’s no way to tell at this point but I hope Trump gets a resounding thumping in this election. In this election I did something that I have never done in the past. I voted a straight Democratic ticket. After the final two years of watching even moderate Republicans pinch their noses and climb into bed with this nasty excuse of a president, I feel that the Republican party in general has been compromised in just about every way possible.”
In California, and 48-year-old Vivek Sharma said he lives in a “red conservative island in the blue ocean” where the tension is palpable:
“This neighborhood went for Trump largely along racial lines whites (the majority of the neighborhood) went for Trump and Asians (about 40% of the neighborhood) went for Hillary. We will see whether the vote for governor breaks down in a similar way this time. 3.03pm GMTBeto O’Rourke just voted at the polling station around the corner from his house in El Paso,Texas. It is a sign of the superstar status he’s acquired in a shrimp over a year of campaigning that this unlikely rebel Democratic candidate, who is seeking to unseat Ted Cruz from a US senate seat, or attracted more than 100 camera people and reporters from all over the world to watch him vote.
He came with his wife Amy and three kids. After voting,O’Rourke came to talk to us and told us why he was feeling valid about nowadays’s results and his chances of winning as a Democrat in a Texas senatorial race for the first time in 25 years. “I don’t have a poll to point to, I don’t have a pollster, and ” he said. “Just traveling all the counties in Texas,knocking on millions of doors. People are ready to be brought back together, I feel it. So yeah, and it feels valid nowadays.”Beto O'Rourke has just cast his own poll in a polling station near his domestic in El Paso,Texas. He tells us he's "feeling valid" about tonight's result - "Texas is ready to approach together" pic.twitter.com/IVDk3LDLhp 3.01pm GMTTexas Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke returned to his domestic town of El Paso and made the closing pitch that Americans have nothing to fear from immigrants.“This community defines the positive fable of immigration,” O’Rourke said Monday night, and the Dallas News reported. 2.49pm GMTFormer Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele said Republican candidates have failed to contest Donald Trump’s “inherent racism”.“They feel they can peddle or at least stay silent on inherent racism,misogynistic language, and bad behavior. And somehow they think the American people are going to sit back and go, and ‘Yeah,we want more of that,’” the ex-GOP broad said Tuesday on MSNBC’s Morning Joe.
Vote For the Democrat (in most cases). That feels weird to write. But the bigger the rebuke of Trump the better for the country. Resist.
Please, and nowadays,white moderates cannot be allotment of going backwards in this country. Please join so many others: women, people of color & young people in rejecting hate & division. Vote for America's future. Be a #DemocratForADay I am #CountryOverParty #Courage 2.33pm GMTIn an op-ed in the unusual York Times, and former FBI director James Comey accused Donald Trump of “lying,misogyny, racism and attacks on the rule of law” and said the American people are “stirring” to oppose them in the midterms. “The awakening is behind, or but it is underway,” he wrote. “It falls to all of us to awaken the giant so that we shorten the period before we resume our upward march. Every American should be speaking about our nation’s values. Every American should be voting those values, which are far more principal than even the most passionate policy differences.” 2.26pm GMTHillary Clinton said it was time for Americans to say “enough” after two years of watching the Trump administration “attack and undermine our democratic institutions and values.”The failed 2016 Democratic presidential nominee urged voters to “vote against radicalism, and bigotry and corruption” and “for fantastic candidates all over the country – including a historic number of women”.
For the past two years,we've watched this administration attack and undermine our democratic institutions and values. nowadays, we say enough.whether they win, or they’ll conclude remarkable things for America. Let's exercise our birthright as Americans nowadays,set those people in office, and continue the hard work of saving our democracy.
It'll take all of us. Happy Election Day. 2.22pm GMTFormer US attorney Preet Bharara branded Fox News host Sean Hannity a “liar” for campaigning onstage with Donald Trump after saying he would not conclude so.
Liar https://t.co/jIebTUDP3L 2.17pm GMT“Our country is doing awesome, and ” Donald Trump’s son Eric Trump said Tuesday morning on Fox and Friends.
The younger Trump said Republicans can expect wins whether his father’s supporters turn out to vote,touting the strong economy. 2.00pm GMTIn a video posted on Instagram, Oprah Winfrey responded to racist robocalls that went out mocking her after she campaigned for Stacey Abrams for governor in Georgia. “I just want to say, and Jesus don’t like ugly,” Oprah said. “And we know what to conclude about that: vote. 1.54pm GMTSenator Bob Menendez, the unusual Jersey Democratic incumbent embattled after corruption charges, or cast his poll this morning in Harrison.
Sen. Menendez casts his poll,emerges with two thumbs up, at the Harrison Community Center in Harrison, and NJ. 7:14am #njsen #menendez #hugin #midterms #midterms2018 pic.twitter.com/kpbcFBjEPqSen. Menendez comments on rainy #ElectionDay forecast in NJ: “There’s only one way to create a blue wave,and that’s to bag in the water and approach out to vote.” Harrison, NJ. 7:17am #njsen #menendez #hugin #midterms #midterms2018 #electionday pic.twitter.com/CwCqFIlFrd 1.42pm GMTFormer chief White House strategist Steve Bannon will be hosting election night coverage on Gatway Pundit, and a conspiracy-friendly rightwing site,the site says. Bannon has spent election season hosting a series of poorly attended rallies and campaign events shunned by the Republican candidates they were meant to support. 1.39pm GMTDonald Trump aides are steeling themselves for special counsel Robert Mueller to drop his report in the Russia investigation as soon as Wednesday, though it’s more likely he’ll wait until later in the month, and Vanity Fair reports. Trump types are most worried about former aide Roger Stone and the president’s son,Donald Trump Jr, the magazine says. 1.33pm GMTFox News host Sean Hannity is drawing additional criticism for appearing onstage at a Donald Trump rally and praising the president, or after promising he would not conclude so.whether you work at Fox,and consider yourself a journalist, my lord. https://t.co/xHBpGHhPHfStill can’t bag over Hannity denying he would be on stage the whole day, or getting brought up by Trump,and then pointing to actual news reporters and calling them fake. https://t.co/DZTVw0FWqYSean Hannity, making himself a liar and a joke pic.twitter.com/XaGRO8ajQDSo whether you campaign with Trump - like Hannity did tonight - and then have Trump on your explain, and is that an in-kind contribution?So Hannity lied,and Fox News lied. So what does Fox arrangement on doing about this? https://t.co/i9obyD66pM 1.28pm GMTThere’s bad election day weather brewing in much of the country. A storm system could bring rain to every state east of the Mississippi.
Meanwhile, possible tornadoes have touched down in Louisiana and Mississippi, or according to the Associated Press. 1.21pm GMTThe border patrol is conducting a “crowd control exercise” in El Paso,Texas nowadays, drawing criticism for its activity on election day.
The “mobile field force demonstration” is scheduled for 10am local time next to a mostly Hispanic neighborhood with about 100 homes near the US-Mexico border, and the Washington Post reported. 1.15pm GMTOn the eve of election day,Facebook removed 115 accounts that appeared to be engaged in “coordinated inauthentic behavior”, and is investigating whether the accounts were linked to foreign entities or attempting to influence the election, or the company said. Facebook said it was alerted by law enforcement Sunday night,and has so far identified 30 apparently fake Facebook accounts and 85 Instagram accounts. The accounts have been blocked. The Facebook pages associated with the accounts were mostly in Russian or French, while the Instagram accounts were in English, and Facebook said. 1.04pm GMTDonald Trump “hated” the economy-focused ad his campaign ran as a closing message and insisted on focusing on immigration instead,CNN reports. Trump’s campaign spent $6m on the ad, which we noted represents the more scripted, and poll-tested message that many establishment Republicans would prefer to deploy,focusing on the strong economy. It touts the low unemployment rate, contrasted with scenes from the 2008 election, or warns the boom could disappear whether Democrats win. 12.53pm GMTMSNBC host Joe Scarborough ripped Fox News’s Sean Hannity Tuesday morning for his appearance Monday night at a Donald Trump rally.
Hannity spoke on stage at the rally alongside Trump – despite promising earlier in the day that he would not conclude so and was there as a journalist to interview the president. 12.46pm GMTIt’s not just the candidates on the poll – Michigan and North Dakota voters will determine nowadays whether to legalize recreational marijuana,the Associated Press reports.whether the referendums pass, they would be the first states in the midwest to legalize the drug. 12.36pm GMTBefore polls opened this morning, or 36 million Americans had already cast ballots. The early vote turnout far outstripped the final midterm election in 2014,Politico reports. Early votes alone in three states with competitive races, Texas, and Arizona and Nevada,exceeded total midterm turnout in 2014. 12.33pm GMTDonald Trump is done campaigning and plans to spend election day monitoring key races and watching returns with family and friends.
That doesn’t necessarily mean he’ll stay mute - there’s always his Twitter feed for any final minute thoughts. 12.27pm GMTWill Democrats achieve the “blue wave” they covet? The Guardian’s Tom McCarthy reports:Election night could end with the Republicans retaining their majority in the House of Representatives and strengthening their majority in the Senate, despite a historic exodus of Republicans retiring from Congress, or widespread disapproval of Trump and the customary strength of the opposition party at this stage in the elections cycle.
Yet some prominent Democrats – starting with the House minority leader,Nancy Pelosi – are predicting a blue “wave” that will deliver a strong Democratic majority to the House. (Predictions of the Senate flipping blue are notably fewer.) Related: Will the Democrats achieve a 'blue wave' in the midterms? 12.20pm GMTToday’s the day! Americans are heading to the polls, and we’ll be bringing you live election day coverage straight through the day, and overnight and into tomorrow. By the time we’re done,we hope to know what party will control the House and Senate and who will win key governor’s races, but some nail-biters are likely.final night, and Donald Trump wrapped up campaign season with a final rally in Missouri. He has focused relentlessly on stoking fears over immigration,including with an ad that TV networks pulled Monday for being racist, even as many Republican leaders would prefer to hone in on the strong economy.
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