Trump yet to arrive at Palm Beach watch party

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From Palm Beach, Florida, Jade Macmillan has the latest on where Trump's election night watch party is taking place. The President is still said to be at Mar-a-Lago after casting his ballot with his wife this morning.

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00:00Jay McMillan is at Palm Beach in Florida.

00:04Jade, what's happening where you are?

00:09Well this is where the Trump campaign is holding its election night watch party.

00:14We have seen Donald Trump supporters coming into this venue, many of them addressed in

00:18those signature Make America Great Again caps.

00:22Donald Trump's running mate, JD Vance, is also said to be inside.

00:26The former president himself, as far as we know, is still some way away from here at

00:32his Mar-a-Lago residence.

00:34He was out at a polling place near his home earlier today.

00:38He cast his ballot in person alongside his wife Melania.

00:42He was certainly projecting confidence at that stage of the day.

00:47It's something that's been echoed by one of his senior advisors here in West Palm Beach,

00:52Corey Lewandowski.

00:53He has said that the former president is feeling great about his prospects, that he believes

00:58momentum is on his side.

01:00But Donald Trump, for now, really sticking to social media.

01:04He has urged Republicans who are in states where the polls haven't yet closed, people

01:10who are still lined up at some of these very long lines at polling centres, to stay the course.

01:18Now Jade, there had been a lot of concern about what would happen if Donald Trump were

01:21to lose.

01:22What's the latest?

01:23Yeah, well it was on election night four years ago that he prematurely claimed victory.

01:31He has ever since then continued to falsely assert that that election was stolen from

01:36him and we'd really seen him in the final days of this campaign starting to ramp up

01:42rhetoric around cheating.

01:45He has argued that, you know, perhaps the only way that he could be beaten is if the

01:49other side cheated.

01:50And he has on social media today made an allegation that there was cheating in Philadelphia.

01:56That is the largest city in Pennsylvania, which as we've been hearing all day really

02:02could be the most important swing state.

02:04Now local and state officials there have said that those claims are unfounded.

02:09Donald Trump hasn't provided any further detail.

02:12And federal officials have also said that they are not seeing any evidence of fraud.

02:17It could be a sign of things to come, depending on how these results start to shape up.

02:22We'll see what more we might hear from Donald Trump as things progress.

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