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Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. I'm Naila Boodoo, and we've made it to Election Day. Unless you've been under a rock, you should know it's Tuesday, November 3rd. And here's how we're going to make you smarter, not just this

morning, but for the next 24 hours. Starting this afternoon, we'll be here with you every few hours

for special mini episodes of the podcast, answering the urgent questions about this election.

It's going to be a long night, but we will be there with you, so make sure you subscribe to our podcast so you don't miss out.

We get things started this morning with why voting is a sacred right, plus how the election could all come down to Pennsylvania.

But first, Joe Biden's election plan is today's one big thing.

Yesterday we talked about Jonathan Swan's scoop that President Trump might declare a preemptive victory even well before all the ballots are counted.

Axios's Margaret Talib and Mike Allen are just a few of the people in the newsroom who are preparing for other scenarios, and they're

here with us now. First of, the two of you teamed up for a story that's about what lessons

Joe Biden has learned from the disastrous election night back in 2000. To remind everyone,

George Bush declared victory early, Al Gore conceded, and then he took back his concession.

Biden obviously does not want a repeat of that. So how is that affecting his plans for tonight? No, Nail, you're exactly right.

I think from Joe Biden, if it starts to look like mathematically, he's the president-elect,

I think that you will see him being assertive. I think that you will see him starting to talk to

the nation as the president-elect. Now, he's not going to jump the gun. This is only after it's clear.

But I think that you will hear the Biden campaign say, we are beginning our transition and start

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