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election day. we will be back -- >> everything -- what, willie? >> all of this is wrong. >> tomorrow morning we will have it right. a special show before a live studio audience and we will break down the results and the races that will likely still hang in the balance. we will also have some very special guests. that's at 6:00 a.m. eastern time right here on msnbc. josé diaz-balart picks up the coverage right now. good morning. 10:00 a.m. eastern, 7:00 a.m. pacific. i am josé diaz-balart from new york. today election day. polls are open in most of the country with polling places ...

The county treasurer Sarah Benatar went to Washington, D.C., recently.

Been trending republican for a really long time. it's been slowly slipping toward the republican party. and it is a 70-plus percent hispanic county. of the people who are hispanic in that county, the vast majority of cuban american. that's a very conservative population. that county remained democratic in the '08 and 2012 elections because of one thing, barack obama. barack obama actually managed to eat into the margins. >> and hillary clinton. >> it's been moving in that direction. and with obama not on the ballot, you know, i have been talking with people who have been looking at african ame...

Themes that a democracy needs to continue to survive is people participating in it and doing it freely, and those voices count and are counted. thank you. it's always great to see you. thank you for being with us this morning. >> thank you, josé. wonderful to be with you. stay with msnbc all day for complete coverage. tonight our special live coverage and analysis begins at 6:00 p.m. eastern. a late surge is putting a blue senate seat in jeopardy, and the sleeper race that could flip the balance of power, coming up. and then the most important county race today, miami-dade, florida. the b...

Racism is a public health crisis in Buncombe County. County health and government officials testified to that fact in a pair of resolutions passed this summer promising action to address glaring health inequities as the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted those differences across the country. Six and eight months after those resolutions were signed, on the tail end of a spike in COVID-19 cases and during a once-in-a-generation vaccination effort, those on the front lines say it's a promising start, but there's still plenty to do. "We're looking at systemic change across all county government," sai...