WATCH: Paint The Polls Black: Alphonso David And Ebony McMorris Discuss Battleground States & Election Protection

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Whether you’re voting early or voting on election day, your vote is your power to shape a future we desire.  Watch as Alphonso David and Ebony McMorris break down voters registration and the battleground state polling totals.

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00:00We are 15 days until the election for national, state, and local races.

00:07In the battleground states, the polls show, with a margin of error, that former President

00:12Trump is leading in Arizona, 49% to 46%.

00:18He's also leading in North Carolina, 50% to 47%.

00:24Vice President Harris is leading in Georgia, at 51% to 47%, in Michigan, at 49% to 47%

00:35in Pennsylvania, 49% to 47% in Wisconsin, 50% to 47%.

00:44Both former President Trump and Vice President Harris are tied at 48% each in the state of

00:51Nevada.

00:52Now, we know that 13 million people have already cast their votes through various methods of

00:58early voting.

01:00As we discussed in a prior town hall, almost every state allows some form of early voting.

01:07There are only three that do not.

01:09We encourage you to check the website again at vote.org and confirm the process for voting

01:15early in your state.

01:18Voting early, checking your voter registration, and being diligent around this election specifically

01:25is so critically important, given how close this race is.

01:28You just heard the numbers.

01:30We know that some people and some institutions are trying to discount and reduce the power

01:36of your vote, which is why today's town hall is about election protection.

01:42Election protection is about ensuring our constitutional right to vote is protected,

01:47is about making sure that you know all about the resources that exist to help you, and

01:52it's also about making sure that regardless of where you live in this country, regardless

01:57of who you support, on a national, state, or local level, your vote counts, and we want

02:03to make sure that it is counted in this election.

02:06Ebony, as we were talking about earlier, I saw an Associated Press article that highlighted

02:16so many challenges this year alone.

02:20They are counting more than 63,000 voters were challenged in the state of Georgia alone.

02:29That highlights how important this issue is.

02:31You know, one thing I will say, since we've been doing these town halls, and as educated

02:37as we are in talking about encouraging everybody, we did a town hall talking about what is your

02:43plan to vote.

02:45I think the conversation was on taking your chats and talking to your family about it.

02:51I'm not playing Alfonso.

02:52After that, I literally got on a chat with some of the young people in our family.

02:58First question was, are all y'all registered to vote?

03:02Some of the people who were not, I was surprised.

03:04I was like, wait a minute.

03:06We talk all the time.

03:07Why are you not registered to vote on a college campus, talking politics, but not activated?

03:13So I said, no, we're doing this.

03:15And we were trying to have a family plan to all vote together on the 5th.

03:19I was like, scrap that.

03:20I need everybody to early vote.

03:21I need all y'all to early vote because I don't want any hiccups.

03:25Because honestly, Alfonso, there are going to be a lot of people, if you don't check

03:29your registration, they're kicking people off left and right, and some states way more

03:35than others.

03:36I don't want anyone who really cares about their legacy and their future to go to the

03:42polls on November 5th and find out you cannot vote.

03:47Exactly right.

03:49And it is so important that we have this conversation in our community to make sure that people

03:55are aware.

03:56We don't want you to be surprised.

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