MTP NOW Nov. 8 — Candidates make final pitch; Voters are voting; Ballot measures add urgency

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🗓️ 8 November 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Candidates on both sides of the aisle are bracing for a range of possible scenarios that could play out on election night and in the days ahead. A strain of election denialism is rising to the surface as gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake (R-Ariz.) embraces election skepticism after casting her ballot. Pennsylvania voters were sent back home at dozens of polling locations after printers ran out of paper. Mark Murray, Symone Sanders-Townsend and Rich Lowry join the Meet the Press NOW roundtable to discuss how the White House could utilize immigration as a bargaining issue if Republicans take back the House. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0	The music that I fall asleep to at night.
0:09.7	It's my lullaby.
0:10.6	Welcome to a special election day edition of Meet the Press now.
0:14.0	Chuck Kada at NBC News's election headquarters here in New York City.
0:18.2	Voters are voting.
0:19.5	Bowls are open.
0:20.6	In all 50 states, you're looking live at a polling place in Cleveland, Ohio.
0:25.7	Turnout in these midterms is expected to be through the roof, at least in some places.
0:29.9	But not every place, I can tell you, are Democrats going to show up in Florida and California,
0:34.7	where those statewide races kind of faded a bit?
0:39.2	As voters cast their ballots,
0:44.2	we are also less than an hour away from our first look at the NBC News exit poll. And we're less than two hours away from the first polls closing in the state of Indiana. And as candidates
0:48.8	and official party leaders, and all U.S. election workers are bracing for a long night, week, month ahead.
0:56.6	All day, we've seen candidates in some of the key states casting their own ballots today
0:59.9	at their local polling places with some of them using it.
1:03.0	One last chance to pitch themselves to voters, and we're keeping our eye out for any voting issues.
1:09.1	And right now we're tracking brewing disputes over ballots and
1:11.3	reports of tabulation issues in Pennsylvania and Arizona. And we're going to be obviously
1:16.3	monitoring those two states and those issues throughout the night. In this midterm environment,
1:21.2	there are a lot of unusual things we're watching that could impact turnout. But there are also
1:26.0	some usual ones, like weather.
1:29.0	It's snowing in parts of Nevada.
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