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The 2020 polling, i think the baseline expectation is that like the last time there will be a handleful of swing states with rather narrow martian that will determine the next president. in 2016 you will recall there were fewer than 80,000 votes across michigan, pennsylvania and wisconsin that made donald trump president despite him losing the popular vote. the margins are even smaller in all kinds of elections you see month after month. here in new york, the insurgent candidate for district attorney tiffany caban lost. obstacles put in front of voters really do matter. they can make or break ...

Go, as america votes, we wanted to flag you to something you need to watch furt on election day and that's information. as "the new york times" points out, rumors, hoaxes and scare tactics routinely pop up on election day. do not buy into any of it. for example, in 2016 fringe websites and twitter accounts spread this bogus headline about polling workers wearing defeat trump shirts in nevada. that never happened. polling workers are banned from doing that. another hoax claims i.c.e. agents arresting voters at the polls. it was a lie to deter latino voters. on the right, you could see the real ...

Jeff, the record on recounts, it doesn't make that much of a difference. i was looking back at the green party in 2004, i think it was, in ohio and insisted on a recount, raised more than $100,000 to do it, george bush got 300 less votes and still won the state. >> that's almost entirely the rule. 300, 500 votes at the absolute outside. if you look at donald trump's margins in these states, they're narrow by political standards, but they are not within the range of a recount, barring some sort of systemic failure. and there's no evidence. >> and by and large, in ohio, i was looking in particul...

Analyst and journalist, carl bernstein, and cnn political commentator and ceo of impact strategies, angela ry. jeff, the record on recounts, it doesn't make that much of a difference. i was looking back at the green party in 2004, i think it was, in ohio and insisted on a recount, raised more than $100,000 to do it, george bush got 300 less votes and still won the state. >> that's almost entirely the rule. 300, 500 votes at the absolute outside. if you look at donald trump's margins in these states, they're narrow by political standards, but they are not within the range of a recount, barring ...

That. it was also interesting. she also took issue with the trump campaign. the lawyer was asking for the names of polling workers who worked at those sites to potentially make them public. she said there is no way i'm going to do that. have you seen how twitter trolls, in effect, handle people like that. keeping that information private so that they weren't unleashed with twitter traffic or other criticism from folks who thought they might not have been doing their jobs right. >> even though, jim, polls are still open, we are getting some information in. what are you learning? >> reporter: th...