At 8 50 a. M. , North Carolina. A look at iowa. And at 9 30 a. M. , texas. Host good morning. This is washington journal on election day. Cspans coverage of the election starts tonight on cspan, you can also view that on our website, or listen along on our free radio app. Our three hours will be devoted to your calls on election day. Tell us if you plan to vote on today or if person you have already voted. For those of supporting joe biden, 2027488000. If you support President Trump, 2027488001. Undecided are an voter or voting for someone else altogether, 2027488002. Text us if you wish at 2027488003. You can also post on twitter or reach us on facebook. The Associated Press reporting out of New Hampshire this morning, results already coming in. This took place as of midnight, communitiesiny making their vote for joe biden, votes. The towns five to the south it was President Donald Trump winning 16 to bidens five. Those are very early results. Will have a better assessment tonight, so watching cspans coverage starting at 9 00 p. M. For those returns and assessments as they come in. Hereit comes to polling, is a look averages across key states. When it comes to nationwide following, an advantage for joe biden versus President Trump. Tight races in arizona, florida and georgia. In michigan, mr. Biden getting the advantage. The former Vice President with 16 electoral votes, currently standing at 16. 9 for joe biden, 14 for President Trump. The president gaining an advantage in North Carolina. Mr. Biden gaining an advantage in wisconsin and pennsylvania. Polls will be something that are watched throughout the day, especially on this election day. One thing you can watch his Closing Arguments made by both men last night and early this morning. Here is President Trump finishing up in michigan with his Closing Argument. [video clip] if they gain power, they will collapse our economy and to send our nation into a steep depression. That is what will happen. This is the only man i have ever seen run for office on the fact he wants to give you the largest tax increase in the history of our country. No, that is his thing. The good news, he has no idea what he is saying. He goes out. Here is his line. Ladies and gentlemen, we are going to give you the biggest tax increase and the history of our country. It will be 4 trillion they will increase taxes by 4 trillion. Thats his campaign. They will put the money in the green new deal. Which is conceived and plus, thisby aoc is their deal. I dont think they ever took an environmental class. Did they go to college . I dont think they ever took a course on the environment, but biden wants to raise your taxes 4 trillion, massively increase regulation. Regulations may have been more important than even the big tax cuts that you got, the biggest ever. We got the biggest tax cuts ever and you know it. You fill it in a very good place. You know where. It is, in the wallet you felt in your wallet. They want to close down your factories, send your jobs overseas, destroy the suburbs. Women of the suburbs, please. Ok . Regulation that would have destroyed your homes, to put it mildly. It would have destroyed your american dream. Host the full speech is available, the president in michigan, you can go to our website cspan. Org to check it out for yourself. Also, that is the place to go for Election Night coverage. Wee are starting at 9 00 p. M. With returns and other information. You can see that at cspan. Org and are free radio app as well. The, the Vice President , former Vice President joe biden making a final pitch when it comes to his appeal to voters. This and pennsylvania. [video clip] let me tell you something folks, tomorrow is the beginning of a new day. To arow, we can put in and presidency that has left hardworking americans out in the cold. Toorrow, we can put an end be president that has divided the nation and failed to fight hate. To arow, we can put an end presidency that has failed to protect this nation. Toies and gentlemen, close 100 million have already voted. We have to finish the vote tomorrow. My message is simple, the power to change this country is in your hands. And in your hands. [cheers] i do not care how hard donald trump tries, there is nothing that is going to stop the people of this nation from voting, period. And when america votes, america will be heard. Ard, theicas he message should be loud and clear it is time for donald trump to pack his bags and go home. Host both the president and former Vice President making final appeals. This report this morning saying that the president will be calling into a fox news morning show, and joe biden will go to pennsylvania for one more round of campaigning. Both of them plan to watch returns at the white house, joe biden and Kamala Harris will be in delaware. And harris will also be in michigan this afternoon. We will start off with carl on the line that supports President Trump. He is in california. You are first up. Caller yes, i support President Trump. I appreciate the way that you showed the latenight rallies, those are fun to watch. I think he is doing a great job. His economy,hat his plans with the military, his education plans are great. And i think that also i thoug ht he was amazing, the way he can talk and you go to all these rallies. He could talk about the economy. Then he will stop and get sidetracked, and then go off on biden and other things, and he will talk for minutes, then go right back to where he left off on the economy. I find that amazing. Host is there a specific reason you are voting for him . Caller i am a republican and i loved him from the beginning, the first day i sent my donation to scott walker. Then i heard President Trump speak, trump at the time, and i changed. He was coming down the escalator. I like him. I think you will do a great job. And for the black americans and hispanics, which we have a law in california. Host ok, lets hear from duke in maine, you supportive joe biden. Caller hello. Good morning. Yes, i support joe biden. Out ofme to get satan the white house. I have told so many people, that is satan reincarnated. He has ruined this country. He has run his mouth about how things got shut down because of this coronavirus, may be we would not be shut down as much as we are going to have to be now had he stepped up to the bat and done what he should have done. Maybe we would be on the road to recovery, and may be a good recovery. Host have you voted for joe biden, or wire you voting for joe biden . President ial, he has compassion and a heart. Donald trump does not have the decency of a gnat. And we need to change and have a decent person who cares about our country into the person who and to the people who live here. Host john and the people who live here. Host john in new mexico. Go ahead. Caller thank you for taking my call. Thank you to cspan and brian lamb for this great institution, especially now when we need it most. Speaking on the subject, i live with the gentleman from maine had to say. He is right on point. As far as a critique on donald trump, just take a look around. That should be critique enough. Through only his financial crimes, that would be enough, but its actually crimes against humanity that he will have to answer for. What he has done at the border, the kidnapping of children essentially, putting them in forprofit prisons that kicked back to his campaign. Ort you are undecided supporting another candidate . Caller i am supporting another candidate. Admiral mcraven in 2024. Host how about 2020 . Caller i voted already. I voted for joe biden because i have a brain in my head. Host the line is for undecided or you are supporting another candidate altogether, so that is the line we dedicated to that. Here is a supporter of President Trump. Melissa, go ahead. Caller four years ago i called , told you there was no way i would ever vote for donald trump. But i am going out this morning to vote for trump. Has done soim he much for america, for so many different people in america. He has done more in four years for the people in our cities, the africanamerican people within the democrats have done in 30 years. I and very thankful for him. And i want to say the reason i changed my mind, the first thing that caused me to start listening to donald trump was the medias bias. When i started watching msnbc and how terribly slanted they are, could not believe half of what they told me. So i had to go back and relisten. I thought, he did not call mexicans racists. He did not do those things. Host why vote today versus early . Caller i love election day. I have always been independent. I have always voted conservative. Im prolife. 40 of africanamerican babies are aborted and it is wrong. Anyway host that was melissa talking about her supporter President Trump. Mail incomes to the ballots, and report this morning saying it was judge sullivan in washington, d. C. Who said that the Postal Service must reaffirm extraordinary measures to expedite delivery and it must use express mail on monday, tuesday and after election day to expedite ballots. Unless there is a Faster Service option. It underscores the heightened security of the usps, given the expansion of vote by mail, which could play a role in pennsylvania and North Carolina. Decision inhts the texas, where a judge turned aside a challenge to throw out more than 100,000 drivethru ballots in paris, county, a democratic stronghold that includes houston. When it comes to the wall street journal, its talking about what is known in election terms as Election Night mirage, saying Election Officials are cautioning americans to be patient and not read too much into early results, as we handle an unprecedented flood of mailin ballots. This year, surveys have shown democrats are more likely to vote early, and republicans are more likely to vote in person on election day. That has led to projections among analysts, that in some states where they are reported first, early results may show a lead for the republican candidates, only for that to give way to democrats as more mailin ballots are counted. Theres a lot going on today and into tonight. We invite you again to tune into cspans coverage starting at 9 00 p. M. , when it comes to the results coming in. You can see that on the main channel, our website and listen to a donor our free cspan radio app. Sean in delaware, a supportive joe biden. Caller good morning supporter of joe biden. Caller good morning. I am supporting joe biden on the fact of donald trump not being president ial. And am not going forth and trying to lock that down. The russian incident. All the lies he tells. I cannot do it anymore, and i am a diehard republican. I just retired from the military. This will be the first year i switch over. Host you voted for President Trump and 2016 . Will compel you then to vote for him . What compel you then to vote for him . Caller because he was not a politician and i knew by the words he said he was going to try to face change the face of the nation, but he has done so many negative things that it is an embarrassment. I am afraid to leave the country because i am an american. I thought for this country and i just feel as though the officials that surround him, and the republicans, are being complicit in his actions, because they couldve stopped it. Host you saw the former Vice President walking in as part of that that will take place throughout the day. A busy day for both campaigns, especially as you heard the reporting that the Biting Campaign is still sending out Kamala Harris, joe biden, all making stops on this final day of the election. Those are the pictures you will see as we go throughout the morning. Karen, a supporter President Trump. Caller good morning. How are you . Host fine, thank you. Caller i am excited, election days finally here. My husband and i are getting ready to go volunteer shortly. I want to point out a couple things. One, a vote for President Trump is a vote for the middle class and lowerclass, he wants us all to be able to make money and have a great living. And all the things he has done for us. He is not a politician, he is a problem solver, that is why he has gotten so many things done. The other thing i want to point out is you will notice that biden supporters will call and bash donald trump, they have nothing positive to say about joe biden. So maybe think about that. Host why vote today and not early vote . Caller i think that this country takes voting for granted. When afghanistan voted for the first time, they walked miles under threat of death. We cannot even drive our own cars and vote down the road. So i thought, this is the way it is designed to work. You go to the polls and you vote. Host arnold is a supporter of joe biden. You are next. Caller good morning, thank you. I wasnt going to use this maine but the caller from that compared donald trump to s atan have you ever heard, the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he does not exist. Do you know what that is from . Host i do not. Theer it is a quote from movie, the usual suspects. I changed it around slightly. I have been using it on facebook for the last four years. Host how does that apply to your supportive joe biden . Caller i support joe biden because he is a man of intelligence, integrity and thought. About has he cares other things, other than the rich and wealthy. Maman. S not serve he is a billionaire. That is what billionaires do. They hoard much more money than they need. Back toh, i will not go my quote. Host a supporter of President Trump. Hello. Caller good morning, america. Uh, i am a policy voter. And that is the reason i decided to vote for trump. Im against raising taxes. The way to solve the problems in this country is by controlling spending, not by raising taxes. That is why i decided to vote for trump. Rhe most famous words eve spoken by anyone has to be john f. Kennedy, ask what you can do for your country. This country has been running under the guys of the catholic country, but in my might is a socialist country. Spend total on gdp and defense. Flawed system. Medicare has been host would you say the Trump Administration has done a better job with spending issues than previous administrations, and how so . Caller they are not doing a good job, but he has worked on the front of the trade war with china, with trade. I still feel like the Trump Administration has missed out. But i am so much against biden for raising taxes. It will not solve problems, it will dig us deeper in a bigger hole. This country spends 25 of gdp i am talking about the 25 , where itpend should be 60 . 16 . The Health Care System is bringing us down. Host that was a supporter of President Trump. On spending issues, you may see this in your own place where you live. In washington, we are seeing this. Plywood is going up on the lead up today, in matters of security, concerns about security. An article talking about retailers that are concerned about what could happen, saying they have already sustained a billion and insurance losses this year from damage and theft. The Insurance Institute saying protests this year were the costliest in u. S. History. Contractors say they have been fielding roundtheclock calls from Business Owners worried about protests. All requests are the same come aboard up everything before election day. Who spoke onnager the condition of anonymity, going on to say if we go downtown, everything is boarded up, regardless if it is a luxury store or not. It has never been like this before. Not only are businesses being boarded up, the white house as well. Extra security measures on the lead up to election day. Here is some of the fencing that has gone up. You can see it in matters of preparation for the event. The New York Times highlights the role of the National Guard. States areting, already on alert. On monday, the governor of massachusetts ordered the National Guard to be on standby in case of turmoil following the election. In oregon, a state of emergency for portland, citing concerns for potential violence. The Oregon State Police and county sheriff will take over management of Public Safety in the city. Governor brown has directed the National Guard to be on standby. Those are some events taking place in the lead up to election day. You have probably seen this where you live. Here is what some of the sites in washington, d. C. Are. Now to another state that will be closely watched today, florida. Findsn from tampa, who himself as an undecided voter. Go ahead. Caller i appreciate your show, because you really let america speak. I think that is what this is all about. I have tried to remove myself from watching two personalities who really do not seem to act very civil in themselves with namecalling, anger, blaming, picking on each others families and it is disgusting to me. I look at this and go, i am not voting for a man. Lets look at the second person behind the bill, theres a harris and mike pence. Says, iinside that have a plan. I do not know what the plan is. But i see attempts to control more power, rather than people. I see people being elected that are getting in, then doing what they want to for the sake of their party. I would like to see america ri