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🗓️ 4 November 2024

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Polls in the final hours before Election Day show it’s going to be one of the closest in decades, as both presidential candidates cram their schedules to persuade undecided voters. Meanwhile, the race for the Senate is heating up, as Republican hopefuls campaign to be Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell’s successor. Texas prosecutors say they’ve uncovered a scheme that’s led to hundreds of uncertified teachers in the state. A province in Pakistan wants to work with India to tackle air pollution. Plus, we’ll tell you the word of the summer, that’s now Collins Dictionary’s word of the year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Follow every moment of this election across CNN.
0:03.0	Get articles, election tools, and interactive road to 270 map and subscriber-only articles on CNN.com for less than $1 a week.
0:11.3	Subscribe now at CNN.com slash subscription.
0:16.7	From CNN, I'm Charlie Drever with the five Things You Need to Know for Monday, November 4th.
0:22.6	It's a whirlwind election day eve for both presidential candidates.
0:27.6	Both Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump have jam-packed schedules in key battleground states.
0:35.6	And as CNN's Harry Enten explains, every vote counts in this extraordinarily
0:40.2	close race. If you put the polls to the electoral map, Kamala Harris carries Great Lake
0:45.3	Battleground states despite losing all of the Sunbelt battleground states, you get to 270 electoral
0:51.0	votes. And if you look it up, historically speaking, and I basically took the poll leader's electoral votes
0:56.0	based upon the polls at the end of each campaign.
1:00.0	Right now, 270 in 2024.
1:02.0	That is the tightness that the polls have ever been
1:05.0	projected on the electoral map even tighter than 2000
1:08.0	when Al Gore was projected to get 281 electoral votes since
1:11.7	1972.
1:13.6	While most of the focus is on the race to the White House, potential successes to
1:19.6	Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell are criss-crossing around the country.
1:24.6	They're making their case to be the party's leader in the upper chamber,
1:28.3	especially as Republicans could win back the Senate.
1:31.3	McConnell, the longest serving party leader in Senate history, has not said who he supports to take his place.
1:38.3	The top two candidates, Senators John Cornyn and John Thune are closely politically aligned to the GOP leader,
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