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Would even want to be seen with. you would have thought with this being a changed election that hillary clinton would have wanted to forge her own path. but president obamas approval, he and michelle obama, not necessarily in that order, have become her most powerful surrogates. >> what do you think, dave? >> thats right. president obama and the first lady are the best retail candidates. it helps clinton to have them and other surrogates on their side that trump does not. >> moving off the obama...

3:30 in the morning on the tarmac, in white plains, after the big event, final event, midnight event in north carolina. not much sleep for hillary clinton at this point but she was out trying to get that picture out public of her going to the polls, encouraging her voters to go to the polls. now, when hillary clinton did talk very briefly for the cameras, she was careful, and trying not to assume anything. while her husband, bill clinton, talked just a bit, he sounded very much like hes quite ac...

President obama here in this county. they voted for obama in 08 as well as 2012. will they flip to republican? of course, this state of michigan has not turned red since 1988. wou could it be different this time? kept in one of the polls places, kept far back. a little lull. of course, its the middle of the afternoon. we did see lines ranging about 45 minutes long this morning. the poll workers here tell me thats about average for a presidential election, but we do expect things to pick back up ...

Just in. new to us at cnn reports of some technical issues at the voting booths, the polling places, in both utah and north carolina. victor blackwell is in recall north carolina. stephanie elam, we begin with you in say tlt lake city. reports of voting machine problems. what exactly does that mean and how many are affected? >> reporter: right. this is coming from utah election officials saying that this is a problem in washington county which is in the southwest corner of the state. saying what...

Party under an actual glass ceiling at the convention center there. one she is certainly hoping to shatter, and donald trump and his supporters gather at nearby manhattan midtown hotel. and coving hillary clinton since the beginning, in new york, we know donald trump hoping its a party in a location. did i see trump, his wife and ivanka and her kiddos? >> reporter: yep. at least one 6 ivankas children was there. a little bit of a family affair while voting today. expecting new york to go blue. d...

People still coming in. seeing long lines. see what happens throughout the rest of the state as the day wears on, brooke. >> he should would like to break through. chris frates on the new hampshire beat. chris frates, thank you. coming up from these more traditionally blue states, this blue wall, to the red state defense. looking at the mitt romney red states that trump needs to hang on to tonight. also ahead, hearing about some voting machine snafus involving counties in two key states. what ...

We are at election headquarters where a lot of votes have already been counted and we here in the vote-counting room. the ballots that have been taken out of the envelope, since its a mail-in election, theyve been brought here to the election county official site and theyve been put in these boxes. each box holds about 1400 ballots, were told. then they are sent through this machine. the vote counting is happening as we speak. you can see the machine working very quickly. the bottom shelf is one...

Both have deem didnts. talk about hillary clinton, this is not hillary country at all. lets not forget in 2008 she lost the caucuses, and this time around only beat bernie by slight margin. when you talk about donald trump, this is ted cruz country. its an uphill battle for him as well. brooke, vie to say that ive talked to some ted cruz supporters. they say they are going to vote for trump and what helped him? that ted cruz actually leading up to the election was actually campaigning with donal...

Calls out precincts, calls out percentage points and numbers of votes because it has been that close there and matters so, so much in this election. >> yeah. and one of the states that obama could not win in 2012. >> yes. >> but that looks very, very accessible for hillary clinton this time. i mean, the story of all of these states is, you know, demographics, destiny in this election. you have some very discreet groups, college educated whites, working-class whites, and hispanics and non-whites ...

Be tallied with a hit of a button at 7:00 p.m. local time tonight. brooke, as i toss it back, keep in mind, two-thirds of colorado registered voters have already returned their ballot prior to this election day. >> ana cabrera, thank you so much. just a couple more minutes with my panel before i hand my seat over to erin burnett and her team. before we let everyone go, id love to go around, biggest take away from this election. let me add, we know the obamas, im reminded by this big beautiful ho...