Election Day In America: First Statewide Polls Close 7PM In GA, IN, KY, SC, VA, VT

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🗓️ 6 November 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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All across the United States, from Arizona to Pennsylvania, Michigan to Georgia, and battlegrounds in between, the final hours are underway in one of the closest and most consequential presidential races ever. The American people will decide whether to elevate Kamala Harris to the top job or return to former President Donald Trump. We are getting closer to the first major round of poll closings and the CNN’s first chance to make projections. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It is election night in America.
0:16.0	These are live pictures from a polling place near Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
0:20.0	One of the seven battleground states expected
0:22.9	to ultimately decide who becomes the 47th president of these United States. I'm Jake Tapper
0:29.0	in the CNN Election Center. The very first presidential votes of 2024 are about to be posted.
0:35.3	The American people deciding whether to elevate
0:38.2	Vice President Kamala Harris to the top job
0:40.7	or return former President Donald Trump to the White House.
0:44.3	We're getting closer to the first major round
0:46.7	of poll closings and our first chance to make projections.
0:49.6	That will be about an hour from now.
0:51.3	60, 60, 60 of the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency will be
0:56.4	on the line at 7 p.m. Eastern. That's when all voting ends in Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, South
1:03.4	Carolina, Vermont, and Virginia. Some polling places in the eastern time zone in Indiana, Kentucky
1:09.5	are actually closing right now.
1:11.3	And we expect early results from those two states at any moment.
1:14.9	Georgia is the first crucial battleground state on our radar this evening.
1:18.6	The state was pivotal in the Democrats' 2020 presidential victory.
1:22.0	And Georgia's 16 electoral votes could be decisive in this election as well. Our correspondents are tracking Election Day voting in all the top swing states and will be on
1:31.6	the scene as the first vote counts are reported.
1:34.4	Our correspondents are working their sources inside the Harris and Trump campaigns.
1:38.6	Let's check in with Abby Phillip, who is at Harris headquarters at Howard University here
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