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>> the way the country is going right now is not good for business. just the energy alone is one good example. and we have serious situations with china and the soviet union. you know, that could end up to be something people dont want. >> reporter: so polls here in new hampshire have to stay open until 7:00, and can stay open no later than 8:00 p.m. and talking about that being bellwether, and this could be a bellwether also. maggie hassan in 2016 only one by about 1,000 votes, and expected to ...

Bellwether of what we are expecting in the country, and maggie hassan won by 8,000, so it could be a close night. that does it for me. thank you for the privilege of your time. i will see you tonight on msnbc and on telemundo. yasmin vossoughian picks up with more news right now. everybody, good morning to you. i am yasmin vossoughian coming to you from msnbc headquarters in new york city. its election day in america. we have made it, everybody, after the tidal wave of ads and seesawing poll...

If we look back two years ago within these borders, democrats carried all three of these competitive seats. democrats need to hold all three of these really if they want to have a good night. one of those seats is here. this is virginias second congressional district. and elaine luria who was on the january 6 committee, shes in a tight race. this is a seat that joe biden won by but only about a point and a half. so this is sort of a knifes edge seat. if youre look for a bellwether here, 1.8% for...

Offices. the good news is law enforcement sources are telling us they are not aware of any specific plots but say the heightened threat extends well past election day as votes are counted. weve also heard nothing significant about another major election threat, which is foreign interference. the fbi set up an election security command post at its washington headquarters where it has a foreign influence task force. it also has separate command centers in its 56 field offices where agents are read...

>> what else you got to say? its trump. hes a wild card. >> wasnt voting for vance either way. >> i think that can go either way. theres a lot of support for certain people, but i didnt listen. >> so former president trump seen as a wild card by some out there. this state is a wild card traditionally, a bellwether, but it has been trending more republican. well see if that reverses course tonight. >> thank you. well be talking to you tonight on msnbc. you heard jesse talk about former president ...

Cheri beasley. take a listen to a conversation i had with one unaffiliated voter here. >> for us, you know, we want a good, healthy community. we dont like candidates that do a lot of talking and not a lot of doing, so we liked the specific things that candidates were saying instead of just, you know, i am going to do all these wonderful things. how are you going to do them? thats how we went through most of our choices. >> reporter: she said her top issue was reproductive rights for women, and ...

Bellwether and looking at turnout. so many people voted early. remember, a lot of them had made up their mind in august and september. the economy was still really rough across the country at that point but we had just come over roe v. wade in july. the overturning. so how much does that early vote change the vote of election day? the other thing i look at is money spent. holy cow, were talking about 8.5 billion both parties. it is -- you dig into these races. they are about equal but there is a...

Things break in virginia, and over the next several days, there was one democratic race in california after another. win by about 14 votes. ive never seen anything like it before. democrats won by the bearest of margins, and all of these california races. are we going to be looking closely at virginia and california 40 years later to determine whos going to have control of the house? >> yeah, i think virginias going to be the best bellwether early on election night because weve got elaine luria ...

Of that led eventually to a civil war. but barack obama wasnt afraid to look to our past with clear eyes, and say, look how far weve come. we need to keep moving toward that more perfect union. that is who we are as a people. and he gave hope. and his vision of america ears past, while glorious, was clear eyed, and i believe it competes quite well with the lie that donald trump and so many trumpists are trying to push. >> and yet a lot of people actually believe the lie as fact. which is just so...

Powerful left-wing swing that has taken place in latin america where almost every election thats taken place, the governments have moved left. does he have the opportunity here to demonstrate that you dont have to go from kind of crazy right-wing populism to crazy left-wing populism, that there is a way for a left of center government to run the economy, or will people, without ot -- other countries in latin america view lula as an important role mod snell >> lulas administration is going to be ...