Sam Levine

Reporting from Allentown, Pennsylvania:

Almost every voter I spoke to today said the economy was their biggest issue.

Tiana Peters, a 39-year-old underwriter from Allentown, is a Democrat but voted for it Donald Trump. She also voted for Democrats in lower offices.

“Nothing really good has happened in the last four years,” she said. “Giving away free money to people who can’t afford houses doesn’t work financially, you know.”

“I’ve wanted to buy a house for years and… I haven’t been able to. For four-bedroom homes in the Lehigh Valley, it’s about half a million dollars. For a family earning middle class income, this is simply not feasible.”

Sharonda Casey, 47, came to the polls with her son Jamel, 30, and her mother Barbara, 72 – three generations of her family. She said she voted for it Kamala Harris. She cited the support Harris has promised to first-time homebuyers as one of the reasons she voted for Harris.

“I had a granddaughter. I won’t have any more children unless it’s baby Jesus – but I wanted to vote for their future and their right to go to the doctor and get treatment.”

Elon Musk will spend election night with Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, The New York Times reports, citing multiple sources.

The tech billionaire will be part of a “small group” of people who will monitor the election results with Trump as they come in, the newspaper writes.

Musk spent at least $119 million on a Super Pac supporting Trump, and the two spoke several times a week, it is said.

Voters waiting in line to cast their ballots at the North Las Vegas City Hall voting center Tuesday morning exemplified why Clark County, Nevada, is such a leader in the election.

About half of all Nevada voters live in this region, a key swing state where elections have been won and lost by exceptionally narrow margins.

In a diverse city with a large proportion of bipartisan voters, locals went to the polls with wildly different visions of the future.

Jimmy McDill, 49, who dressed for the occasion in a sharp lavender suit, said he was looking forward to voting for it Kamala Harris — in large part because he believes it will help protect Medicare.

McDill, who is disabled, said he worries about it Donald Trump would cut medical benefits for low-income and disabled Americans like him. McDill, a registered nonpartisan, said he has voted in every election since he was 18 and has supported candidates from both major political parties. However, he can’t remember the last time he supported a Republican for president.

“Was Hillary Clinton a Republican?” he said, laughing. “No, no, she wasn’t. So I just can’t remember the last Republican.”

Just ahead of him in line, Patricia Bradley, 64, also planned to vote for Harris. Abortion was her top priority and she looked forward to voting for Harris and the Democratic Senator Jacky Rosen, Both have made reproductive rights a central focus of their campaigns.

She also planned to vote for Question 6, a ballot initiative to enshrine abortion access in the Nevada Constitution. “I’m kind of nervous,” she said. “But we have to do our part today.”

Meanwhile, Idania Oliva, 45, who came to vote with her mother and mother-in-law, said she was looking forward to voting for Trump. “He’s for moral values,” she said. She is a staunch opponent of abortion and trusts Trump to restrict access and secure the U.S. southern border.

“Trump is for God,” she said. “And God is number one.”

A man was arrested by US Capitol Police officers at the Capitol Visitors Center in Washington DC, police said.

The man “smelled of fuel” and had “a flashlight” and “a flare gun” with him when he was stopped by officers during a check in the center, police said.

Officials have canceled public tours of the Capitol for the rest of the day.

Sam Levine

Reporting from Allentown, Pennsylvania:

Eric Pitre Acevedo is Puerto Rican and was upset by a comedian’s racist joke Donald Trump‘s rally at Madison Square Garden late last month.

Acevedo still voted for Trump.

“I feel a little weird voting for him, but I still think he’ll be a good president,” he said as he stood outside a polling station in Allentown.

“He believes in family,” he added, expressing concern about how Kamala Harris has dealt with transgender issues.

Lauren Gambino

The Harris-Walz campaign says the vice president has called into more car radio stations in key battleground states and scheduled interviews during the noon hour to encourage Americans to vote.

Harris called into Wisconsin (101.7 The Truth in Milwaukee), Nevada (KCEP with Lady AK in Las Vegas) and Radio Campesina Network (based in Phoenix, Arizona, but also in Nevada, among others).

The campaign says it will make additional radio calls throughout the day.

Kamala Harris’ Vice President, Tim Walz, spoke to reporters before boarding a plane from Pennsylvania to Washington, D.C., saying he felt “good about it.”

Walz said he had not spoken to Harris in the past 24 hours, but praised her comments at the final campaign rally last night in Philadelphia.

Asked if he believes that Donald Trump Walz said he expects Trump will “probably” concede the election if he loses.

He also promised to “shake hands and work for the winner” if Harris loses.

Advisers are calling on Trump to declare victory early on election night

Hugo Lowell

Donald Trump Some advisers have told him to declare his victory on election night if he has enough of a lead Kamala Harris in key battleground states like Pennsylvania, people close to him say, but whether he will heed that advice remains unclear.

The consensus view is that Trump has nothing to lose by claiming he won, if he has a lead of several hundred thousand votes in Pennsylvania, or if his internal pollsters think a victory is plausible, even if the results are incomplete Tuesday night be confirmed.

But also Trump’s most controversial allies – including the former White House strategist Steven Bannon One of the people who spoke to him last week said he suggested that he hold off as the race got closer to bedtime so he wouldn’t look stupid.

In the final days of the election campaign, Trump and his campaign have shown confidence. This has created expectations among his supporters that he will win and laid the groundwork for baseless claims that the election will be stolen if he loses and Harris takes the White House. A premature declaration of victory would also likely contribute to this phenomenon.

Lauren Gambino

Kamala Harris spends the day at the Naval Observatory, the vice president’s residence in Washington.

The public is not expected to see the Democratic nominee until tonight when she delivers a speech at Howard University, her alma mater, in Washington DC.

After sprinting through Pennsylvania, Harris arrived at her residence in the early hours of Tuesday morning, hours before polls opened.

She spent part of her day making eleventh-hour calls to “Get Out The Vote” radio stations for Americans who were on their way to work and hadn’t yet cast a ballot. More radio interviews were scheduled for lunchtime and the drive home from work before the polls closed.

Her campaign has so far called radio stations in three battleground states – Pennsylvania, Georgia and North Carolina. More are expected throughout the day.

When asked what her first order of business would be if she wins the election, Harris cited cutting costs – the most important election issue this election cycle.

“Reduce people’s cost of living,” she said in an interview NewsRadio KDKAand cited several of her economic proposals on housing, health care and the child tax credit. She also noted that “the problems with our broken immigration system must be fixed,” an issue that has plagued presidents of both parties for decades.