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The Daily Signal Podcast

It’s Election Day, Police Prep DC for Violence, NYT Tech Staffers on Strike | Oct. 30

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🗓️ 5 November 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: It’s election night, and Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump neck and neck in the polls.  Police board up DC ahead of potential violence in the aftermath of the election.  New York Times tech staffers went on strike this week and remain on strike on this Election Day Tuesday.  Several left-wing district attorneys could soon find themselves out of a job. Elon Musk warns that if Kamala Harris wins the presidential election, she might shut down X. Relevant Links Listen to other podcasts from The Daily Signal: https://www.dailysignal.com/podcasts/ Get daily conservative news you can trust from our Morning Bell newsletter: DailySignal.com/morningbellsubscription   Listen to more Heritage podcasts: https://www.heritage.org/podcasts Sign up for The Agenda newsletter — the lowdown on top issues conservatives need to know about each week: https://www.heritage.org/agenda

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0:00.0

Americans are casting their votes in the closest presidential election in modern history.

0:06.0

I'm Elizabeth Mitchell, and this is the Trump are neck in neck in the polls.

0:27.3

Polls indicate Trump and Harris are nearly tied in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

0:35.4

Within each swing state, several counties are also too close to call

0:38.9

and they could be the deciding factors in who wins each state. Control of the House of Representatives

0:44.6

in the Senate also hangs in the balance this election, with close races in several states

0:49.6

expected to determine whether Congress will flip for the next two years and if one party might enjoy

0:55.4

control of both chambers.

0:57.6

The Daily Signals political editor Bradley Devlin is here to discuss.

1:01.0

Thanks for joining us.

1:01.9

Thanks for having me.

1:02.8

What are you seeing happening in the swing states tonight?

1:05.5

Who the heck knows?

1:06.7

I think that we'll see a lot of unanswered questions come Wednesday morning.

1:11.3

I don't think that this election is over any time tonight.

1:16.8

So maybe the best thing for your mental health and your physical health is to go to bed

1:21.1

at a reasonable hour and wake up and see just how the votes have come in.

1:25.3

Because there's some outstanding questions in places like Michigan, for example, with new voting laws there, how exactly are they going to count the ballots?

1:32.8

Is it going to be a mix of Election Day and mail-in ballots coming in?

1:35.7

Is it going to be more mail-in and then Election Day and then flip back to mail-in?

1:39.3

And of course, all this varies state by state.

1:41.4

So while some states we might have cleared the mail-in ballots

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