Products at foreign print. Com imprint for certain welcome to all of you watching this here in the United States, canada, and around the world. Im kimberly, who were this is cnn newsroom. Russians are heading to the polls for the last day of voting in the countrys president ial election. Meanwhile, were standing by for possible demonstrations outside Polling Stations. This is a sour plus now if i dont get elected, its gotta be a bloodbath for the whole thats going to be the least of it. Its going to be a bloodbath for the conscience the former President Ratcheting up his rhetoric on the Campaign Trail. This is a new poll shows bidens message that trump is a threat to democracy, isnt resonating with one key group and haiti is in chaos as Gang Violence wreaks havoc on the Island Nation how the State Department is coordinating Evacuation Flights for us citizens trapped there live from atlanta this is cnn newsroom with Kim Brunhuber russia says more than 60 of its voters have already cast their ballots in a president ial election. Thats in its third and final day. Now the outcome is expected to be a Landslide Victory for president vladimir putin. He faces no real challenge. Juror, partly because many Opposition Leaders are dead, jailed, exiled, or banned from running. But some average russians are still fighting back. Prosecutors have open 15 cases against people who reportedly stayed small acts of protest at Polling Stations. But as russians vote the Defense Ministry says three dozen ukrainian drones were launched against the country overnight. Moscow says two people are dead, and this refinery in southwestern russia caught fire. Meanwhile, were waiting for more possible pushback against the kremlin at Polling Stations. We yulia navalnaya, naval yana, the widow of Opposition Leader alexey navalny, urged voters to show up in droves at noon, which is the current time in moscow. She asked them to do anything they want with their ballots, except vote for putin. Shes hoping the optics would send a message of defiance to the kremlin i want to go down to london where Clare Sebastian is standing by. Clear. These acts of defiance, i guess were slated to start now, so it may be too soon to know what exactly is happening, but take us through what weve seen so far and how its sort of challenging the narrative that putin wants to create. Hey yeah, kim is now as you say, noon in moscow, but the navalny team has been running a live stream and monitoring events in the eastern regions of russia where theyve already past noon. And so far what weve seen. I dont think you could classify necessarily actual demonstrations. People simply lining up outside polling booths, which in a sense is what you didnt have asked them to do and obviously we dont know for sure what everyone put on their ballots, but we are of course, monitoring the situation and moscow more significant so far there have been these acts of defiance that weve seen at Polling Stations. Some 29 Polling Stations have been affected around 200 or so ballot boxes destroyed. Weve seen incidents and people pouring green dye into a ballot boxes. Other cases of alleged austin were fires have resided in Polling Stations. This does reflect i think although it is a relatively small number, of course, in a country of 140 Million People that undercurrent of frustration striation, of dissatisfaction with the putin regime that we saw in the lead up to this election with support for an antiwar candidate, it was withdrawn from the ballot to and the outpouring that we saw in the attendance and Alexey Navalnys funeral, just a few weeks ago. So we are seeing elements of this. You have to remember that in russia, the climate of repression has been increasing even in recent months. Weve seen an uptick since the start of the war. There are serious legal consequences for protests. Most protests are illegal without pre agreement from the authorities and certainly they dont have that here. So this is the situation that were dealing with. But of course we are monitoring what will be happening at Polling Stations now that were in the moscow times zone, when it comes to that noon call to action. All right. Well, well keep monitoring that as you say, million time ukraines reaction to what theyre calling the pseudo elections. What are they saying . Ukraine is urging residents of the regions of its country that are occupied by russia not to take part in these elections, calling them and eagles saying that anyone seem to be helping will be seen as collaborating and good faith consequences. The real fear is that this is what weve seen russia do when it occupies territory. We have, we have a template for that with crimea, where holding elections, getting people to take russian passports, bringing in russian institutions that turns what should be a temporary occupation, certainly in the eyes of ukraine, into something more permanent and irreversible and allows russia to consolidate his power in those regions. So ukraine trying to get the message to his people not to be part of this and of course, we are also seeing in the lead up to these elections, a, an increase of russian, of ukrainian are alleged ukrainian attacks inside russian soil. Weve seen, as you say, some three dozen drones. Russia says that ukraine fired at it overnight. Theres been another attack in an oil refinery. Weve seen a spate of attacks on Oil Refineries in recent weeks as ukraine try to bring the war home, both to the military element of this, we know that russia makes most of its money, of course, from its oil and gas, but also to civilian life as well. Im getting the message to the russian people that this war is not something that they are insulated from as they you to vote in these elections kim, i appreciate that, Clare Sebastian. Thank you so much former us President Donald Trump is on the Campaign Trail after securing the republican partys president ial nomination, he was in ohio on saturday days before the states primary on tuesday. You once again repeated his promise to free those charged with crimes related to the january 6, 2021 attacks on the us capitol, even referring to them this hostages. Listen to us june you see this spirit from the hostages and thats what they are as hostages. Theyd been treated terribly and very unfairly. And, you know that and Everybody Knows that and were going to be working on that suit as the first day we get into office, were going to save our country. Were going to work with the people to treat those unbelievable patriots. And they were unbelievable patriot from also repeated false claims that a President Biden is behind his legal problems. And once again, praised hungarys authoritarian Prime Minister viktor orban, but he didnt discuss his former Vice President mike pence, who said on friday that he cannot, in good conscience, endorse his former boss. Now at that ohio rally, trump also made a shocking comment about the possible consequences if he loses in november. Cnns Alayna Treene has details well, former President Donald Trump gave his first formal speech here in ohio or after he secured enough delegates earlier in the week to effectively declare him the republican president ial nominee. But look, Donald Trumps visit to ohio was not necessarily to boot whos his own candice desi both donald trump and his team believed that he will do very well in this state in november. Instead, he was here to boost his endorsed candidate for the ohio senate primary. And thats businessman bernie moreno. Moreno is locked in a messy, contested threeway primary and donald trump really came to the state the hopes of giving him that last minute a boost and more support ahead of that race on tuesday. But even though donald trump was here to talk about the ohio senate, primary, much of his speech focused on the general election. He attacked joe biden and blamed him for what he argued were the many charges that he is facing and heal its also offered a new line that ive yet to hear yet on the Campaign Trail, and that is essentially that he argued if you were to not win reelection in november, that there would be a bloodbath in this country take a listen to how he put it. Were gonna put a 100 tariff on every single car that comes across the line. And your dr. To be able to sell those guys. If i get elected now, if i dont get elected, its going to be a bloodbath for the whole thats gonna be the least of it. Its going to be a bloodbath for the country thatll be the least of it. Now those comments came as donald trump, once again, argue that he wanted to free those imprisoned for their role on january 6, he referred to those convicted as hostages and favorable term that weve heard him use time and again on the Campaign Trail, he argued that it was a day one priority for him if he were to reclaim the white house in november Alayna Treene, cnn, van ohio the Trump Campaign later sought to clarify his comments, saying he was specifically talking about an economic bloodbath for the Auto Industry and auto workers when he said there would be a bloodbath if he loses a President Bidens campaign was already slamming trumps comment in a statement, bidens Campaign Spokesperson said, trump quote, wants another january 6, what the American People are going to give him another electoral defeat. This november, because they continue to reject his extremism, his affection for violence, in his thirst for revenge your mom present biden is coping African American voters and important democratic voting base. He recently spoke to the black Information Network in that interview will be coming out in the coming hours. Now a comes as a recent New York TimesSienna College poll found that 66 of black voters are leaning towards biden compared to 23 for trump. Thats nearly 20 decrease for biden from 2020, and a near doubling for trump. Recent Reuters Ipsos poll found that 37 of black voters say they are voting to stop trump versus 65 of white voters. All right, one row is clifford albright, cofounder and executive director of black votes matter. Thank you so much for being here with us. So listen, you can argue with individual polls, but its hard to question the trend and that seems to suggest wasnt buying is bleeding support from the African American community now its more noticeable with black men particularly, but it is overall as well. What do you think is behind it yeah. Good morning. Thanks for having me. I think, you know, as you said, different calls, they Different Things you know, theres other calls that are selling including 1 coordinate without so recently, did that says percentage of those black hole is looking support. Trump is closer to 11 or 12 . When we talk about the trends though, the reality is that at about this point in the Election Cycle in 2020, joe bidens Approval Ratings are favorable ratings in the black community at that time, were close its around 76 . And so hes really at about where he was and in 2020, look, that said, obviously youve got a lot of stories and some anecdotes about black men in particular that are leaning towards trump. But i just got to say, it just doesnt match what were seeing in the community when were outdoing doing our work thats what were what were seeing are here. And its not matching the way that black men or black voters in general have been voting in recent Election Cycles. Look good georgia or kentucky, or even ohio and the abortion referendum yeah. Some of the arguments that have been made are that it might not necessarily be that they they have a lot of passion for biden, and they might not come out, but then, but then were seeing Something Else and thats a significant number of people who said in recent polls that they would actually vote for trump 13 , 17 around those numbers depending on the pole, which is obviously a lot higher than the 8 he got in 2020. So that means that since then, black voters have looked at trump, listened to his message and says, yeah, you know, hes hes the man for me despite the many statements hes made that have been widely described as racist against black people. Yeah. I mean, again, it just doesnt match what were seeing and hearing. I think that theres a difference between, you know, as you say, that people saying at this 0. 8 months out, oh, yeah, im thinking about only two trump, right . Or or even saying that in a poll, and the way that we actually vote, it is not all that unlikely or unfamiliar that there are people that have stated their thinking about holding for trump. But we just dont come out and do that. We heard the same thing in georgia with the 22 senate race where everybody thought that black men were going to swarm over to vote for Herschel Walker because he is such a popular football here probably be georgia. And it just didnt happen. You, i think its interesting in recent polls does specter of trump is not enough to get black voters to vote for biden clearly not enough worth saving democracy is not enough when we feel like weve never had democracy. But if you look at the same what you see is that black voters are more likely to say that they support President Biden because of his policies as opposed to the specter of trump. Yeah. Im curious about that because that remains a cornerstone of President Bidens messaging. Is that trump . Paul . Opposes this threat to democracy and he, you know, he hammers that again and again. So polls have showed that, especially with African American voters, that doesnt seem to resonate. You seem to suggest its because black people think that democracy was flawed. Anyway, is that yeah. I mean that the threat of trump, i mean two things. One, because of our experience with this democracy has been, and it has always been flawed. So thats part of it. The other part is that people like bonus, particular saying, weve been through that, weve heard that before. We noted use that and all that, but a lot of stuff that he tried to do those last term was stopped. Im not saying that the second term would be the same way by any means, but thats what a lot of black folks feel like. But what we are more concerned about, the president s policies. And so, so far the messaging is largely been about trump and his threats to democracy. But i think that if you look at some of the more recent materials, especially after the State Of The Union where President Biden and his campaign are starting to focus more on those policies, focus more on the onlys Infrastructure Projects that republicans have tried to take credit for and now im doing the same thing that trump de, which is basically putting his face and name on some of those projects. I think some of the policies are now about to get more messaging. And as you see that happening, then youll start to see some of the, some of the favorite and someone holding starring and shift but that process is only just now getting started. All right. So what im taking from this so far is that poles are kind of an illusion. They dont match whats happening on the ground, but were seeing from the actual votes from year to year, we have seen a drift from the democratic party, not just with africanamericans, latino voters as well. A could it be that this represents a more general trend that its not actually present biden, that the racial minorities in america are just slowly voting more and more like other racial groups yeah. There was a research that was put out the past week or so they said that theres this realignments i can place that nonwhite voters voting increasingly republican over the past 2030 years. The reality is, i think you just hit on it, right . As you look at the quote, unquote nonwhite voters of color clare whats happened more so than, than black voters shifting is that the composition of the nonwhite electorate has changed, where you have more latino voters are some apis and American Voters, but the composition of what that electorate looks like has shifted, and latino voters are are less likely to vote heavily democratic, as, lets those as a bit so much that black voters have been shifting has been that theres been a shift in the composition of landmines. But as you said, latino voters in asian American Voters have always voted at a lower percentage. That black voters for democratic party, not at 90 , but maybe its like 70 5 or 70 and so that shift is changing the total numbers. But if you look at it over the past 30 years, the blindfold is reall