You are looking at New York City in just a few hours.

Polls will close in the main election of the night.

Right now, voters are racing to try to get their ballots in these final hours.

There have been long lines in New York City and across the country. Welcome to CNN's election night,

2025. I'm Aaron Burnett here in New York. And I'm Dick Tapper here in Washington, D.C., where President Trump is about to receive the first major electoral report card of his second term.

The spotlight squarely on the New York City mayor's race where Democratic Socialist and

State Assemblyman Zoran Mamdani is squaring off against former Democratic New York Governor Andrew Cuomo,

who is running as an independent also on the ballot.

Longshot Republican Curtis Sliwa.

Two governor's races are front and center

tonight, one in Virginia, one in New Jersey. In Virginia, former Democratic Congresswoman and CIA

case officer Abigail Spanberger is running against the state's sitting lieutenant governor and former

Marine Republican Winsome Earl Sears. In New Jersey, Democratic Congresswoman

and forming former Navy helicopter pilot, Mikey Sherrill, is going head to head with Republican

former State Assemblyman Jack Chidorelli in what could very well be the night's closest race.

Out in California, the stakes are high for Democrats and for Governor Gavin Newsom,

with control of the U.S. House of Representatives possibly hanging in the balance.

Californians will decide whether to accept newly drawn congressional district maps.

Newsom is a likely 2028 Democratic presidential candidate and is trying to help Democrats counter

Republican mid-decade redistricting efforts across the country. We're just moments away from

our first exit polls of the night, results that will give us our first peak at the country's

political temperature, nine months into Donald Trump's second term. CNN's David Chalien will dig

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