US Election Day: Donald Trump casts his vote in Florida

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00:00It's the day of truth for Harris and Trump.

00:03It's been years in the making.

00:05Can you tell us what exactly they're doing today?

00:09We just saw Trump, but how are they spending the day

00:11and what are their plans for the evening

00:13as the results start coming in?

00:18Yeah, well, I was listening to that press conference

00:20with Donald Trump at the end of his voting

00:22before we came on air.

00:23And I'll give you a bit of a rundown of what he said there.

00:26Earlier in the day, he called this the most important day

00:29in American history.

00:30He has told his supporters to stay in line,

00:34regardless of when they get to the polling place.

00:36He told them to stay in line and vote.

00:38He said that the Republican lines

00:39have been longer than ever before.

00:41I must say, I don't know how he knows that

00:43because you don't exactly have Democratic lines

00:45and Republican lines at polling stations.

00:47Everybody's just all together.

00:49But he has said that he has seen some data

00:51that says that he's doing very well.

00:53Of course, he has said these kind of things

00:56in the past as well.

00:57He also said that Democrats could leave the line, though.

01:00So Donald Trump perhaps trying to get his voters

01:03to stay a bit longer than the opposition.

01:05But he was also asked some questions, importantly,

01:07about whether he was going to declare victory

01:09on election night.

01:11And he said that it depended what would happen.

01:13Of course, widely, a lot of analysts believe

01:15that he will declare victory on election night,

01:18regardless of whatever happens.

01:19He also, interestingly, I thought, mentioned Pennsylvania.

01:22Now, we know that there is going to be a bit of a delay

01:25in the results in Pennsylvania.

01:27And he kind of alluded to this, saying that he's been told

01:31and he's heard that it's going to take a couple of days.

01:33So is he laying the groundwork there

01:35for potentially something to be announced later this evening?

01:39It's also a different sort of rhetoric that we heard

01:41from him in the last election about the delayed vote count,

01:44at least this time around.

01:46For example, he is conceding that there could be a delay

01:49in that counting, which is an interesting development,

01:52but that we've not really heard from him before.

01:54So something to take note of there.

01:56He was also asked whether he wins or loses,

01:59that this would be the last time he would be campaigning.

02:03And he said, yes, it was.

02:04So he's echoing what he's said before in the past.

02:07So Donald Trump now then going back to Mar-a-Lago,

02:11where he'll be spending most of the day

02:12down there in Florida.

02:14He said that he may head over to the convention center

02:17that they've booked out in Mar-a-Lago

02:19to talk to his 3,000 or 4,000 supporters,

02:21he said, that have been gathered there

02:23at that convention center,

02:25where the rest of the press is also convening as well.

02:28And Kamala Harris' team is still continuing

02:31to try to get out the vote this morning.

02:33Governor Walz, for example, her vice presidential nominee

02:36is holding a rally in Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia,

02:40to try to get, sorry, in Allentown

02:41to try to get that vote out as well.

02:43So the work continues for the Democratic side,

02:47and Kamala Harris will be here in DC later on this evening

02:50for her election night party,

02:52which will be taking place at Howard University,

02:55which is where we'll be later on this evening.

02:57And that, of course, being her alma mater,

02:59the university that she attended and got her degree from.

03:02So a real kind of full circle moment

03:04for Kamala Harris this evening here in DC.

03:08Now, Fraser, integrity of the vote, safety of voting,

03:13these are not normally huge concerns for Americans,

03:16but this is not a normal election cycle.

03:19Have we been hearing of any issues

03:21at polling stations so far?

03:26Yeah, we've heard a couple of things

03:27coming out of Fulton County in Georgia.

03:29Of course, that name will probably ring a bell to you.

03:32That is where Donald Trump has been facing

03:33one of his legal battles in Fulton County

03:36for the way he conducted himself

03:38during the last presidential election campaign.

03:41Well, we have heard that there have been, quote,

03:44five non-credible bomb threats

03:46at two polling stations in Fulton County,

03:50which caused two polling stations

03:51to be evacuated for around 30 minutes each.

03:55We've also heard of a couple of issues

03:57at a couple of polling stations in Illinois,

04:00in the Chicago area,

04:02but that was a technical issue, we are told.

04:05But the government is keeping an eye

04:08not just on the domestic threat and domestic issues,

04:12but also the international threats as well.

04:15We got a statement late last night from the FBI,

04:18the ODNI, the Office for the Director

04:20of National Intelligence,

04:22and also from the CISA.

04:26We can bring this up on screen for you now.

04:27I'll read a bit of it for you.

04:28It says,

04:29influence actors linked to Russia,

04:31in particular, are manufacturing videos

04:33and creating fake articles

04:35to undermine the legitimacy of the election

04:37and instill fear in voters regarding the election process

04:40and suggest Americans are using violence

04:42against each other to political preferences.

04:45It then finishes,

04:46we anticipate Russian actors will release

04:47additional manufactured content

04:49with those themes through election day

04:51and in the days and weeks after polls close.

04:53While the FBI has said today

04:55that they are tracking another fake news clip,

04:58which was telling people to stay home

05:00and not go to the polling stations

05:02for fear of political violence.

05:04But so far, that violence has not manifested itself

05:08and we'll be keeping an eye on that as it continues.

05:11I'm getting updated from the FBI

05:14and those other two intelligence agencies

05:16throughout the day.

05:17So just a very clear message

05:18to any Americans who may be watching,

05:20it is safe to vote,

05:22go out and use your constitutional right to vote.

05:26Fraser Jackson in Washington,

05:28thank you so much.

05:29And we'll be checking in with you a lot

05:31over the next day.

05:32See you soon.

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