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That will determine the winner tomorrow. >> reporter: it is, erin. we got the final early voting totals for north carolina and this state has set a record. 3.1 million early and absentee votes cast out of 6.9 million registered voters puts the state at about 45% before election day, and now the candidates and their campaigns are working to turn out millions more. >> mr. trump needs your help. its almost not enough just to go vote. >> reporter: in the final hours before the polls open in the batt...

Election already in the key city orlando there. randi, what are you seeing there? >> were not seeing very long lines. at this particular precinct, more than 60% of the voters have already voted in early voting or absentee. but we did find one voter, kendrick graham, whos with us. you just voted. you like to vote on election day. >> i do. im born and raised in new jersey. lived in new york. there was no early voting. so to me todays the day you vote. i thought if i have to stand in line, i have t...

Where a lot of people are just exhausted. >> kerry sanders doesnt just cover florida politics, he has lived there for decades. good to see you, my friend. always appreciate your insight. gabe gutierrez is south of where we just saw kerry in miami. hialeah to be exact. latino vote expected to be a major, if not the biggest factor there and if not the entire sunshine state. what are you seeing there, gabe? >> reporter: good morning, craig. so far today, we havent been seeing huge lines here and th...

Thanks, chris. we have it turn now to gabe gutierrez in hialeah, florida. the big story there is the latino vote. give us an update. >> reporter: hi, there. good morning. yes, certainly, the latino vote throughout the state of florida, not just watching the presidential race, but also the senate race. the re-election campaign of marco rubio who is leading in the polls against patrick murphy. were here in hialeah, a longtime cuban american stronghold. not many lines now, but we have seen a steady...

Role in that. >> i think youre right may prove to be decisive for clinton in a key state of florida for example. through saturday, 565,000 hispanics completed early in person voting. 100% increase over 2012. hispanics and african-americans are turning out in large numbers and many are voting for the fir. froms according to florida political scientist daniel smith. one in five blacks and one in three hispanics didnt vote in 2012 in miami-dade and have cast their ballots so, here we have is that h...

To get her voters out to the polls. friday she had beyonce and jay z she was sharing the stage with in cleveland. yesterday it was royalty of cleveland. she had lebron james, who was encouraging people to get out and vote. did it help? again, there were record numbers of people showing up in person but it doesnt mean they were all voting democrat. tomorrows going to be another incredibly important day for the entire nation and especially ohio with its 18 electoral votes. >> im just intrigued by ...

Entire race. we -- >> more people have voted in florida, already early voting and absentee in all of 2012. >> thats correct. i think you see hillary clinton focusing on states that havent early voted, pennsylvania, michigan. you want to help your get out the vote effort. politics has become -- its a game of love, of course, because you want to like the person youre voting for. but it is also a game of science at this point. data analytics, both sides, the republican national committee has upped ...

Higher than the entire 2012 election there. boris sanchez is in miami, randi kaye is in orlando. randi, lets begin with you. what is it like? >> reporter: were here at the orange county elections office, wolf. they are very busy. we call this the democracy factory. they are counting the absentee ballots that have come if. they expect to count 17,000 today. theyve already counted about 147,000. once they sort all of those, they come back to the machine where they pull the ballots in the machine a...

Its awesome. >> we love all the attention. we really do. here is what i would say. what happens not been covered is that michigan has early absentee voting. in that early absentee vote, democrats have banked 50,000 absentee votes, meaning theyre over what the republicans have. in fact, the number of absentee votes that we are seeing right now is well over what it was in 2012 for democrats. so, were feeling good about that bank. and we also know that election day will be key. i would say one othe...

>> the good news is if youre a trump supporter you should be optimistic because theres a lot more paths to get past 270. lets make sure the red states stay red. we see republicans stay home. if you talk utah, arizona. >> we have utah leaning the way. ill give you arizona for the purpose of this conversation. >> georgia. >> which we have leaning your way. >> nebraska and maine. >> we have already awarded you the maine congressional district. we can add in the nebraska congressional district. >> a...