Could challenge results. Plus, well talk to voters about their hopes for the next four years. First, heres todays eye opener. Its your world in 90 seconds. I dont care how hard donald trump tries. Theres nothing nothing thats going to stop the people of this nation from voting. Polls officially open election day 2020 is finally upon us. Look at this guy. You cant even see the end of it. This is not the crowd of a second place finisher. You agree with that . The power is in your hands, pennsylvania. Both campaigns agree for legal reasons, pennsylvanias vote is going to take awhile to be tabulated. Lets take 6,000 of these. Well but them over here. Lets take 6,000 of these. Its going to be cheating. Top experts tell the Trump Administration that the country is entering the most concerning and most deadly phase of the pandemic. A vote for biden is a vote for lockdowns. Theres a manhunt for several suspects involved in a terror attack in vienna, austria. 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Making it easy to bundle insurance. Well, i have to say, i dont even drink and that looked pretty good to me. Many americans taking advantage of early voting, early drinking also feels good. Welcome to cbs this morning. Its election day. Were not spending it in studio 57. Its a big, big day so were in a big, big space. Were coming to you from the cbs news election headquarters near times square. Very cool. Very excited to be here. Its going to be a long day and were ready and excited to bring this to you. The waiting is finally over on this election day. Can you believe its here . Now its up to you, you the people to make your voices heard. Joe biden and President Trump have made their closing arguments. Biden was in pennsylvania where hell return today. The president was in grand rapids, michigan, in the same place he closed out his 2016 campaign. Hell be watching the returns at the white house. 400 people have been invited to that viewing party. Weve seen unprecedented early turnout for this election. Its estimated nearly 100 million americans have already voted. This morning, many are already lined up for what could be the highest election turnout in u. S. History. Weve got correspondents throughout the country following every aspect of this momentous day. Well start with ben tracy at the white house. Ben, good morning. Good morning. So theres now nonscalable fencing surrounding the entire white house complex. And they expect that to stay up through the rest of the week. Obviously, what happens today will determine who lives in this house for the next four years, and the two candidates battled it out in the battlegrounds until the final moments of the campaign. I want to do it just like last time. But lets give me a little more margin than that if you dont mind. Four more years reporter joined by his running mate and his family, President Trump held his last rally of the campaign in the same place he ended his run for the white house back in 2016. Grand rapids, michigan. I kept saying we have to finish off here. We have to do it. Its just we can be a little bit superstitious, right . Reporter on monday the president made five stops in four different and important swing states. I am asking you tomorrow to go out and vote for your alltime favorite president. Reporter mr. Trump claims hes confident, but hes also threatening legal action before any Election Results have even been announced. Can he really win . Are we serious about this . No reporter in pennsylvania, he railed against the supreme courts decision allowing pennsylvanias law on mailin ballots to stand. The law allows ballots to be counted that arrive up to three days after the election as long as theyre postmarked by election day. They made a very dangerous situation, and i mean dangerous, physically dangerous, and they made it a very, very bad they did a very bad thing for the state. They did a very bad thing for this nation. Reporter a tweet later released by the president with a similar message was quickly flagged for misleading information about the election. And theres a battle over the votes already cast. In texas, a federal court of appeals blocked a republicanled effort to invalidate nearly 127,000 drivethrough ballots in heavily democratic harris county. The county clerk decided to close 9 of 10 drivethrough voting sites to avoid further risk. The president seems to be linking any delay in the results to fraud, which could then result in violence, but it is important to note that its not unusual to not have an official winner on Election Night. Many may project a winner but its up to states to continue counting their ballots and eventually certify a winner in every state. Ben, thank you. The winning candidate needs 270 electoral votes. Former Vice President joe biden appears to have the advantage. This is what the map looks like right now according to our cbs news Battleground Tracker poll. 279 likely or leaning states. But also note that there are 96 tossup states and President Trump still has a math he could still break through here. Ed okeefe has been following it all for us with lastminute updates. What is the Biden Campaign doing today to shore up support . Sending him back to pennsylvania. The biden team is out in the critical battleground states you mentioned where they think they still have a chance of finding more votes to win. Biden will be back in the keystone state closing out his campaign against President Trump. The vast majority of americans are done with the chaos, the corruption, the failure. Reporter pennsylvania is where biden launched his president ial campaign 18 months ago. His aides called the state the cornerstone of their path to 270 electoral votes. We can get this done in pennsylvania if pennsylvanians vote. Reporter in order to win the keystone staircts biden needs to turn out White Working Class voters, suburban voters, those around philadelphia and pittsburgh, and he needs to perform better in rural republican areas than Hillary Clinton did four years ago. The campaign is Holding Nothing back recruiting lastminute musical star power for their pennsylvania push monday night. Now is your chance to vote against donald trump. A man who believes his fame gives him the right to grab one of your daughters or sisters or mothers or wives by any part of their bodies. Reporter Biden Campaigned with lady gaga in pittsburgh while john legend campaigned alongside Kamala Harris in philadelphia. Your vote is your voice. And your voice is your power. Reporter but its not just pennsylvania the Biden Campaign is focused on. Right here in georgia, you have got an even bigger power to deliver the change that we need. Reporter on monday, former president barack obama also made stops in georgia and florida. If biden wins either state, the president s pathway to victory becomes much more difficult. The president s declared hes basically planned to announce victory no matter what the numbers are. You know what . If we beat him soundly, he wont be able to do it. Reporter so joe biden is in pennsylvania. Running mate Kamala Harris is headed to detroit. Dr. Biden is headed to florida and North Carolina. Kamala harris husband is going to ohio. Thats essentially where they see the ball game ending up today. Guys, our late colleague called election day the feast day for floim. I think thats a good way of describing it. Every holiday this year has been a little different. This election day will be very different as well. Well see how it goes. One last time we were counting on it. Today is election day. Hold it up higher. They took down the banner. Just in case anybody woke up and forgot. I checked. 1,463 days to election day 2022. I remember when you first started that. I think it was day 58. The countdown seems so far away. To know that were here today. I feel it, too. I hope we can put that away. I do, too. See you tonight. We will be here. Many experts say that the president may need to carry pennsylvania to secure a second term. He won by less than 1 percentage point there in 2016. Now the latest cbs news Battleground Tracker poll shows President Trump trailing former Vice President biden by seven points in pennsylvania, but there is still a feeling that this race may be tightening in the remaining hours. Thats like right now. Jericka duncan is at a polling place in philadelphia county. Jericka, good morning to you. What do you see . Good morning. A number of people, as you can see behind me, waiting for their chance to cast their ballot. First person we spoke to in this line that entered about 15 minutes ago said they got here at 5 45 this morning. This is an area, no doubt in pennsylvania, where both campaigns are hoping to increase the africanamerican turnout. In 2016, that turnout was about seven points lower than expected for Hillary Clinton. The Trump Campaign has been running ads across the country trying to garner black male support, pointing to things like the president s criminal Justice Reform efforts. I spoke to pastor allen wahler who leads a philadelphias large east one of his largest baptist churches. He believes it was necessary to publicly support a candidate. And that support that could influence his nearly 12,000 members. Theres absolutely nothing wrong with me standing here and telling you what im hoping for, and that is that joe biden will win this and that we will clean up our government. Paster Wallers Church is actually going to be a polling place for the first time. And that was due to covid. Anthony . Jericka, thank you. Florida is also a crucial state to watch tonight for President Trump. It is central to his path to victory. The swing state is a tossup. The latest cbs news Battleground Tracker poll shows former Vice President biden leading within the margin of error. Manuel bojorquez is outside a polling place in miami. When could we expect results from florida . Well, they could come by tonight, of course, because here in florida, not only do we have the voters showing up today, but the state started processing and counting ballots more than three weeks ago. So hopefully by tonight well have a pretty clear idea of who will win this critical state. Now lets talk some numbers. Nearly 64 of registered voters here cast their ballots before today shattering inperson and mailin ballot voting records. You may recall in 2016, President Trump won floridas 29 electoral votes by just one percentage point. The black and latino votes could be crucial in winning this state. Bidens support among black voters is higher than Hillary Clintons was in 2016, and he leads among latino voters. Latinos make up just over 17 of registered voters in florida. The largest among battleground states. But President Trump has strong support among cuban americans and in 2016, he won white voters with College Degrees by double di digits. Cbs polling last month showed biden is neck and neck with the president among that demographic. Gayle . Manuel, thank you. Cbs news political analyst Reince Priebus who was President Trumps former chief of staff joins us with a former Senior Adviser to president barack obama, valerie jarrett. Good morning to you both. All right, guys. Here we are. The day is finally here. It was a late night for both the candidates. This is a question for both of you. Which states are you watching for, and is there one state in particular that youll say we got this . Valerie, can you start us off, please. Well, sure, florida i think is going to be essential if Vice President biden wins florida. I think its going to be really tough for President Trump to bring it home. But i think there are lots of states in play, gayle. The fact that president obama went to georgia, that texas is in play. It shows Vice President biden has broadened the map and reached out broadly across america. Today is the day that all of you who havent voted have an opportunity to go out there and make sure your voices are heard. And then we have to give time to count the ballots. I think thats important. We have an open and Fair Election which means counting it all the way to the end. They dont call him battleground states for nothing. Reince, your turn. I agree with valerie on florida. Florida is going to count them up pretty quickly. Well know florida. Well know a lot about the country when you look at certain counties in florida and who lives in those counties and how the candidates did. Florida number one coming out of the gate for President Trump. On the east coast and eastern time zone, too, early vote count type state is North Carolina. North carolina is going to tell us a lot. I think if trump puts North Carolina in its bucket and then goes to ohio, its going to be another state is going to count them up pretty quickly. Ohio. If trump hits florida, North Carolina, ohio, my guess is that hes going to also do enough in georgia and arizona to hold. And then what you are looking at for donald trump is he needs to win one of the three midwest states, the big ones. Wisconsin, michigan or pennsylvania. I do think its coming down to pennsylvania. Theres a reason why both candidates are camped out there. The president continues to stoke uncertainty about this election raising skepticism about the counting of ballots, threatening to send in lawyers right away. Why is he taking this approach . Well, i think youre going to find out i think the president s verbal about it, but i think both candidates are already, by the way, both campaigns have lawyers right now in pennsylvania. Theyve been there for days. Reviewing an enormous amount of absentee ballots. Reviewing postmarks, signatures. There are lawyers from the rnc and dnc, if this comes down to mailin ballots, they are going to review them. Its what every campaign does for 20 years. Before i was chairman of the rnc, i was general counsel of the rnc. I headed up election day operations, which was mostly lawyers. Thats what campaigns do, tony. Valerie, if President Trump attempted to declare victory early, as has been rumored he might do, what would the Biden Campaigns response be . Well, first of all, i dont think he should. We ought to be able to wait until every vote is counted. The American People are showing up at the polls. And why would President Trump want to preempt their opportunity to weigh in and make sure that their vote does count. So i think the Biden Campaign has lawyers, as well, just as reince said, ready to go into court if necessary to protect the right of every americans vote to count. Lets take a look at the early turnout so far. Over 90 Million People have cast their votes early. The thinking amongst pollsters is that favor s joe biden. President trump says not so fast. He says theres a red wave coming because my people will vote on election day. Do you believe early turnout favors biden over President Trump . Well, first of all, your premise to the question, all the leadup. Thats 100 true. Theres three buckets of voting that we talk about in politics. One is absentee ballot voting. The other is early vote. Thats when you go to a poll before the election day in person. So thats the second bucket. The third bucket is election day voting. In bucket one and two, the democrats have historically done better than republicans. They like voting early. And they did so again this time in record amounts. A lot of republicans came out and voted early, which closed the gap between the two parties. President trump is going to do better on election day in almost every battleground state in america. Its just, i dont think valerie would even disagree with that. So the question is going to be, what does what do those three buckets look like at the end of the day . The Trump Campaign thinks theyve got enough out there today to put into the third bucket to win the election. All right. Reince and valerie, thank you. Looking forward to spending the night with both of you tonight. Bring your pajamas and a pillow. Thank you, gayle. Im very excited ab