Election Day in America
The Excerpt
USA TODAY
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🗓️ 5 November 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Election Day has arrived. How are the candidates spending their final hours on the campaign trail?
USA TODAY White House Correspondent Joey Garrison discusses some of the things that could swing today's outcome.
Whatever happens, Donald Trump will leave behind a changed Republican Party.
USA TODAY National Music Writer Melissa Ruggieri looks at the musical legacy of Quincy Jones.
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| 0:00.0 | Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to USA Today's The Excerpt, ad-free right now. |
| 0:05.6 | Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app. |
| 0:12.3 | Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson. And today is Tuesday, Election Day, November 5th, 2024. |
| 0:18.6 | This is the excerpt. |
| 0:24.5 | Today, how the candidates are spending Election Day, |
| 0:30.6 | plus what could ultimately decide today's outcome. And we look back at the musical legacy of Quincy Jones. |
| 0:40.0 | After months of deciphering polls and breaking down the candidates' messages on the campaign trail, election day is finally here. |
| 0:46.8 | Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris closed her campaign with an election eve rally at the Philadelphia Museum of Art after a day of stops across the major battleground state of Pennsylvania. |
| 0:51.0 | She called an American sense of patriotism, imploring them to fight for ideals at the |
| 0:55.3 | final rally of her fast-track presidential campaign. Republican nominee Donald Trump held rallies |
| 1:01.1 | in pivotal battleground states starting in North Carolina before heading to Pennsylvania |
| 1:05.4 | himself for two campaign stops and wrapping up the day in Michigan. At his last rally, Trump |
| 1:10.7 | doubled down on election fraud |
| 1:12.4 | claims, saying without evidence that Democrats would try to cheat in the 2024 election. Meanwhile, |
| 1:19.1 | Georgia Supreme Court yesterday canceled any late-arriving absentee ballots that a lower court judge |
| 1:24.5 | had ordered be provided to 3,000 Cobb County voters who never received them. |
| 1:29.8 | The ACLU and Southern Poverty Law Center filed a lawsuit after the county in a 24 battleground state |
| 1:35.7 | announced it would be mailing thousands of absentee ballots late. |
| 1:39.8 | Today, Kamala Harris is in Washington, D.C., and plans to mark at least part of election night at Howard University, her alma mater. |
| 1:47.3 | Donald Trump is expected to be at Mara Lago and will host a watch party at a convention center in West Palm Beach, Florida. |
| 1:54.3 | You can follow along on USA Today.com throughout the day, and be sure to tune in to the excerpt tomorrow morning for a full recap. |
| 2:05.1 | So what could swing the election? I caught up with USA Today, White House correspondent Joey Garrison |
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