Jon Schweppe - Election Day

ELECTION DAY

We throw the word 'historic' around a lot during elections, but this one really is without precedent.  If Kamala Harris wins, she'll enter the White House as not just the first female US president, but the first black woman and Asian American president too.  And for Donald Trump, he could be the first president since the 19th century to win having lost a re-election bid, and the first of a major party with a criminal conviction.  Plus let's consider what it took for us to get to this point - assassination attempts on Trump and President Joe Biden forced out the race.  Major pollster drops final battleground poll numbers.  Harris hold slim leads in four of the seven main battleground states.  The final New York Times/Siena College Battleground poll of the 2024 race shows a razor-tight election in the battleground states just days before the election.  Former President Trump leads Vice President Kamala Harris in Arizona, while Harris enjoys a lead in Georgia, North Carolina, Nevada and Wisconsin. Michigan and Pennsylvania are tied between the two candidates, according to the poll.  In Arizona, the only state where Trump has a lead, the former president is up four points on Harris, 49-45.  Meanwhile, Harris has a one-point lead in Georgia (48-47),two points in North Carolina (48-46), three points in Nevada (49-46) and two points in Wisconsin (49-47).  For Trump, early voting shows Republicans are voting in greater numbers than Democrats. The former president's getting a historic number of young male voters who are traditionally Democrat. Jon is Director of Policy and Government Affairs for American Principles Project and GOP strategist