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Aired November 08, 2016 - 15:00   ET

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ERIN BURNETT, CNN ANCHOR: Good afternoon, and welcome to our viewers across the United States, around the world. I'm Erin Burnett.

It's Election Day in America. The first polls close -- let me just tell you what we're looking at here -- Indiana and Kentucky just three hours from now. We are live at polling places across this nation. We are going to be bringing you updates throughout the hour.

You can see the lines, Americans turning out to do what is our great privilege, which is vote. In some areas, turnout described as heavy and robust. In Wisconsin, in Milwaukee County, an election official there calls turnout there pretty strong, obviously not enough to read into there record or not.

In terms of early voting irregularities, which is something many people were talking about, here's what we know so far. In North Carolina, Durham County officials tell CNN they have requested voting be extended by 90 minutes because there was a glitch in their electronic voter check-in system. They had to go to paper. It took longer. They need 90 more minutes.

We are going to have more on that story later in the hour as we go through any irregularities across the country. Whatever the outcome, though, the winner of this election will make history. You will either have the first woman president or Donald Trump will break many records himself, first Washington outsider who has never held elected office to be the president if he wins.

Our reporters are fanned out across the nation.

And we begin with Jeff Zeleny at the Clinton headquarters in New York City.

Jeff, as you said, in the room where you are, there's a glass ceiling, as you have pointed out, something that if she wins tonight will surely play a very large role in her comments.

JEFF ZELENY, CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: No doubt about that, Erin.

She is of course preparing that speech. But I'm told that she's also preparing another speech, very common for presidential candidates to have speeches on both sides, but I can tell you they are confident and spending much more time on a winning speech, but they don't think that this election is won yet by any means.

And, Erin, I can tell you, at this moment, just talking to aides within the last hour, this is where her team is looking right now. They believe that Florida looks pretty good for them. They feel confident about Florida. They are keeping their eye closely on Michigan and North Carolina. They do believe those two states will be among the closest of all.

Michigan is so interesting, Erin. As you know, it's voted Democratic in the last six presidential campaigns, but suddenly at the end of the race became ground zero. Donald Trump held a rally there in Grand Rapids shortly before midnight the last night, and she was in Grand Rapids earlier in the day.

So Michigan will be a place to keep an eye on tonight. The Clinton war room is focusing on Michigan right now, but they also believe they have so many paths to 270. So when she comes here to the Javits Center on the West Side of Manhattan, her supporters already actually are standing in line here.

When I was coming in, there were at least 100 or more supporters lined up down a couple blocks away. This place will be filled with people. But the important work is still going on out in those battleground states. They are still trying to get out the vote. Confident, but I would say not arrogant at this point is how I would describe their mood inside the war rooms here at the Javits Center -- Erin.

BURNETT: Jeff, thank you.

Now let's go to Jim Acosta. He's also in New York. That is where Trump election headquarters are.

Jim, we were just talking about Trump. What do you do in these final hours when there really is nothing to do? You have done any last phone interviews you're going to do. You are sitting around. What is he doing right now?

JIM ACOSTA, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Yes.

Well, Erin, he did do some interviews earlier today on some radio stations. And it might be a preview of coming attractions. He was indicating in those radio interviews that if they smell trouble or what they perceive to be election trouble, this may not end tonight, in the view of the Trump campaign and in the view of Donald Trump.

So that's something that we obviously have to keep our eye on, keeping in mind what he said at that last presidential debate in Las Vegas, where he said, well, I will keep you in suspense and let you know if I will concede if I lose this election.

So that's something that I think the whole nation will be watching.

Erin, I can tell you that Donald Trump, as we have been showing our viewers all day, he did vote earlier this morning. He did get some boos as he walked into that polling place. And there was that shot which elicited a lot of interesting hot takes on social media of Donald Trump looking at his wife, Melania, as she was voting, but not much else.

He's got a private party this afternoon with staffers and close friends and so forth. And then tonight he will be at the Hilton in Midtown Manhattan to watch these results come in. And then we will hear from him later on this evening.

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Jeff mentioned the state of Michigan. I agree...

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ACOSTA: Maybe this truck driver also agrees the state of Michigan is very much in play at this point.

They focused a lot of energy, time, and attention at the very end of this race. Donald Trump, as Jeff said, was there at midnight rallying supporters. Internally, they feel like that Michigan is one of their strongest states that they may potentially flip later on tonight, and then if that happens, hold on to your hats, because if Donald Trump can win Florida -- this is the theory inside the Trump campaign -- if he can win North Carolina, if he can win Ohio, and then pick off Michigan, this night becomes a lot more interesting and a lot more suspenseful than I think people were suspecting.

But, Erin, one last thing I do want to point out is that in the state of Nevada, Trump campaign officials have filed a legal challenge. They are upset over some election officials who allowed some early voting to go past their closing time. Some people who were standing in line were allowed to go past the closing line, closing time.

They're filing a legal challenge on that. That's not unusual, but what's interesting about that, Erin, is that the Trump campaign is very worried about the Latino vote in Nevada. They are concerned that that may swing a state they desperately need into Hillary Clinton's column tonight -- Erin.

BURNETT: All right, thank you very much.

And, of course, it's really about the road to 270, as you hear on both sides mapping it out moment by moment here obsessively in these final moments, final couple hours until the polls start closing.

David Chalian is at the magic wall.

David, what are the core states you are looking at, especially as you take into account what we have seen today, early sense of turnout, for example, in some of these crucial battlegrounds?

DAVID CHALIAN, CNN POLITICAL DIRECTOR: Well, Erin, let's listen to what both Jim and Jeff just told you about the map.

Remember, here's our battleground map, five remaining battleground states, Hillary Clinton only two away from 270 electoral votes. Let's say the Clinton campaign is feeling fantastic about Nevada. Let's give her that for a moment. You heard Jeff Zeleny say they're feeling really good about Florida.

I just want to show you how important that Michigan area is that Jim was just talking about. Let's give Donald Trump Arizona. Let's give him North Carolina and let's give him the remaining battleground up here in New Hampshire.

If Hillary Clinton wins Florida and Nevada, those battleground states, she's at 303. He is still a good 36 electoral votes away. He would need not only Michigan at that point. He would need Pennsylvania. That would get him to 270.

So, just digging into Michigan may not be enough if Hillary Clinton is putting some of those battleground states on the board. I think do you should look very closely tonight at Florida. That's Virginia there. Hang on. Florida, North Carolina, and Michigan, I think those states will tell the story tonight, Erin.

BURNETT: All right, thank you very much.

And what counties? Before you go, what counties? Obviously, we talked about states. But there counties perhaps in even other states that might really give you a sense. Are there any for you that stand out, David?

CHALIAN: Yes. I'm looking at three counties, Erin.

And this is the 2012 map here, OK? This is the Obama/Romney race. Let's start early in the evening in Virginia. And I'm going to go to Fairfax County. It's a county that Barack Obama won by 21 points, so obviously it's not a battleground county, but it's one of those suburban counties that used to be Republican that Democrats have been digging into, those close-in suburbs.

Margins matter. This is where we're going to see if Donald Trump is starting to overperform Mitt Romney or John McCain in a significant way. If this gap shrinks, start looking at the suburbs in other key states as well.

Another county I'm going to take a look at is in the battleground state of Florida out -- the Tampa area in Hillsborough County. Again, Barack Obama won by seven points. It has been trending Democratic of late. This is a place to look early on. The polls close here at 8:00 Eastern in the state of Florida.

Look early on at Hillsborough County around Tampa, a key district. And look to see if Donald Trump is overperforming Mitt Romney, or is Hillary Clinton extending the Democratic edge there? And then finally, Erin, in the state of Indiana, this one is more for fun than anything else.

Vigo County, it's only gotten it wrong twice since 1888. You see how close it was here in 2012, 49/49. This seems to be a bellwether county. They pick winners. Look at the results in Vigo County, Indiana, near Terre Haute.

BURNETT: All right, thank you. And joining me now, Mark Preston, the executive editor for politics

here, Maeve Reston, political reporter Manu Raju, our senior political reporter David Gergen, CNN political analyst Bakari Sellers, Hillary Clinton supporter, Scottie Nell Hughes, supporting Donald Trump, Maria Cardona, supporting Hillary Clinton, and Paris Dennard, supporting Donald Trump.

OK, interesting, David, we're talking about counties, and you just heard David talk about Fairfax County in Virginia. Prince William, Virginia, another one John King heard raised. It's these crucial suburbs that have been trending Democratic.

And in the case of Prince William, he's saying not because of your college-educated white suburban voters, because of, in that case, a quickly growing Latino segment of that suburb.

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DAVID GERGEN, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST: Well, I think, in the end of the day, looking at Prince William and looking at what is going on in Nevada, the big story, the sleeper story of the day may be the Latino vote.

I don't think anybody foresaw that we would have the outpouring of Latinos in the early voting that we have seen.

MARIA CARDONA, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: I did.

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CARDONA: I did.

GERGEN: Maria has been pushing on this theme for a long time.

CARDONA: Yes.

GERGEN: But very few saw -- foresaw anything like the numbers who have voted in Florida in the early voting.

And if Latinos drive Florida into her camp, into Hillary camp, it is going to be so crucial. They're very important in Nevada. They're important in Colorado. They're important in Arizona.

But, listen, I just think it's going to change our politics if the Latino vote -- it's always been lower than black vote, other groups. If it comes up like this, I think one of the things it's going to do, it's going to put real pressure on the Congress to finally pass an immigration bill.

The Republicans will have to pass an immigration bill if they any hope of becoming the majority.

BURNETT: Is it a one-time wonder, though, Maria, they would turning out because they dislike Donald Trump, as opposed to this is a real seismic shift in this country?

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CARDONA: No, and let me tell you why.

First of all, it's the one demographic that is growing gangbusters; 800,000 Latinos, Erin, turn 18 every year. And that is going to be the case for the next 10, 20, 50 years, for the foreseeable future.

And so these are trends Republicans really aren't -- they're not changing their politics to match that, which is why they will are going to be in big trouble if they don't go back and do exactly what David said.

Latino Decisions, which is one of the premier pollsters who actually know how to poll Latinos, did an election eve poll last night. And what they demonstrated is something that to me demonstrates just how the immigration issue and the rhetoric that Donald Trump and the Republicans have been using against Latinos is really focused on their mobilization.

The immigration issue came out on top of jobs and the economy for the first time in a very long time in terms of the number-one issue that Latinos are going to the polls to register their concern and intensity a.

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MAEVE RESTON, CNN NATIONAL POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: And it's not just in some of these swing states. That's what is going to be so fascinating.

Even in California, you have seen huge, massive increases in Latino registration, which could affect other races all the way down to like the mayor's race of L.A. And I think that there is -- I mean, I do think that there is kind of a one-time effect here in some ways with Donald Trump, because so many of the voters that we have been talking to in battleground states, Latino voters around the country are so angry at what he's said over and over again.

And they just could not wait to get out there and vote against him and were making that sure members of their family were registered. So there is a clear effect in terms of him galvanizing the Latino vote this year.

BURNETT: Mark?

MARK PRESTON, CNN POLITICAL EDITOR: We're talking in broad sweeps about how important they are, but let me just give you some raw numbers of where we stand right now based upon early vote.

Now, only a few states actually have to require to give you the ethnicity of early votes. In Florida alone, we are looking at 428,000 more Latinos voted early in 2016 than they did in 2008. That's significant. And, by the way, that's not just the Cuban vote we talk about in Miami. That's the Puerto Rican vote in the middle of the state.

BURNETT: South American.

PRESTON: That cuts across Dominican and what have you.

In Colorado, where we do not actually have ethnicity data, I will just throw out these numbers right now. The Republican Party has a 7,000 early-vote advantage over Democrats. Right? If you go back to 2012, their advantage was about 30,000.

Now, pause. If you look at Colorado right now, 20 percent of the population right now in Colorado is Hispanic. They tend to be Democratic voters. You have to link those two together and say that the Democrats were effectively -- were able to get out the Hispanic vote.

And if you look up at North Carolina, where we have seen a decrease in the African-American vote by 33,000 people, right, for whatever reasons, you've seen an increase by about 30,000 new Hispanics voting. So, we're seeing a void being filled.

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BURNETT: Paris, you also have in other counties here totally different demographic, but crucial for Donald Trump.

He says he has got to win Pennsylvania. To do so, he has to do really well in places like Bucks County, OK, blue-collar, a Philadelphia suburb. Can he do it there? Is that going to be an early county that you will be watching those results to see what kinds of margins he could run up? Because that would then be a bellwether for, let's say, Michigan.

PARIS DENNARD, NATIONAL DIVERSITY COALITION: Absolutely.

Listen, I think the point you made, Maria, about the immigration taking the lead out of jobs and the economy for the first time, I think it's an important one, but I don't know if that is necessarily going to translate to the rest of the country, especially in places like Pennsylvania, where jobs and the economy are going to play a role.

So if Mr. Trump can do very well in counties like that, I think that will be a direct translator to states like Pennsylvania, obviously, but Michigan, Nevada, where jobs and the economy are number one on the minds of the American people.

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We can't let anything off the board as it relates to this election, because it's so critical. And the major thing is, we keep coming up with all these scenarios and these theories, but at the e of the day, toss everything out, because I think there's a lot of African- Americans -- you talk about the black and brown -- there's a lot of them voting for Mr. Trump, but they're not saying it. So I think that we want to be careful how we look at this polling data, now these external things, because there are a lot of people who are going to vote for Mr. Trump that look just like me and that look just like Bakari, may have Bakari's registration, but they're voting for Donald Trump.

CARDONA: I don't know about that.

BAKARI SELLERS, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: That's hopeful.

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DENNARD: This is a hopeful election.

SELLERS: No, but the fact of the matter is, a little bit to Paris' point, in places tonight that we have to watch, you have to look at Philadelphia, you have to look at Detroit, you have to look at Columbus and Cleveland, where you have these large bastion of African- American voters.

If you want to look at a particular county, I think Broward County in Florida is going to be very important, and the reason being is because Hillary Clinton's plan tonight -- and it has been in Florida for a long period of time -- is to run up the vote before you get to the 8:00 moment where the Panhandle comes in.

Along the Panhandle, Mitt Romney beat Barack Obama by 150,000 votes. It wasn't enough. If Hillary Clinton is able to run up a margin of between 300,000 and 400,000 votes in places like Broward County and others going into the Panhandle, then you can even give him 250,0000.

BURNETT: And he won't be able to make it up.

SELLERS: He won't be able to make it up.

MANU RAJU, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: And, Erin, not just the Hispanic vote so critical, but what about the college-educated white vote?

BURNETT: Yes.

RAJU: That is going to be absolutely critical in determining whether or not Republicans can win, not just keep control of Congress, Donald Trump winning, but there are some polls in recent days suggesting Hillary Clinton is doing better with a group that has traditionally voted Republican.

So, if Clinton does well with this group, particularly in the suburbs of Philadelphia and in areas of Florida, that could be hugely problematic for the Republicans.

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BURNETT: Well, if she does well with all of the groups we're talking about, Scottie, you're looking at a landslide of the night in her favor. (CROSSTALK)

SCOTTIE NELL HUGHES, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: The reason why we're talking about Michigan and Pennsylvania is because, yes, the Republicans might not have addressed the Hispanic community.

The Democrats have forgotten about basically the working-class, and that's why Pennsylvania and Michigan are all of a sudden in play. Pennsylvania, it's actually Allegheny County, is that we need to be looking at Western Pennsylvania, urban/suburban mix.

Trump might not win it, but we want to make sure that the turnout is low, which is what it's looking at right now. That will show right there. And that's going to be a direct reflections of what's going on in Michigan right now, where you had the fourth largest Obamacare insurance premium, hence why Michigan became in play for the Donald Trump campaign.

BURNETT: All right, all, stay with me.

Next, Donald Trump has said the system is rigged. He's given some pretty specific examples of things he says are happening at polling places. So we will go to the ground, check the facts, what is happening at this moment across the country.

And then Trump's daughter-in-law opening up about the impact the race has had on her family. She will be my guest right here coming up.

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BURNETT: Breaking news.

Just moments ago, a Nevada judge ruling against the Trump campaign in a dispute against over early voting. Lawyers went to court today for the campaign. They claimed that polling places in large minority areas were kept open, in their words, two hours beyond the designated closing time.

Jim Sciutto is out front.

And, Jim, what was the campaign looking for? And obviously the judge making a definitive answer here. What was the reasoning?

JIM SCIUTTO, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT: Well, this looked like the campaign laying the groundwork for possible legal challenges after the election.

What They said is that these polling stations were kept open because the lines were so long. Now, that follows state law. If you're already in line when polling stations close, at many states in the union, they keep those stations open to give you a chance to cast your ballot here.

But this state judge took this case from the Trump campaign, dismissed it very quickly. Have a listen to how she answered some of the questions.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm going to deny this as a writ of prohibition, remanding it. I think there's been a failure to exhaust administrative remedies, because the secretary of state is the one who will tell us if, in fact, she needs this information for her inquiry.

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SCIUTTO: It's interesting. The Trump campaign there was also trying to get the names of poll workers made public.

And the judge denied that as well, saying, why would I unleash Twitter trolls on those people eventually? So really the Trump campaign at least in this case losing all their challenges there, knocked down by that Nevada state judge.

BURNETT: Jim, just a short time ago, Donald Trump was interviewed on FOX. He was asked whether the election will be over or not after tonight. And he answered that question in part with this concern.

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DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: There are reports that when people vote for Republicans, the entire ticket switches over to Democrat. You have seen that. It's happening at various places today.

It's been reported. In other words, the machines, you put down a Republican, and it registers as a Democrat. And they have had a lot of complaints about that today. We have to be careful. We have to see what it is.

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BURNETT: Jim, as you have been covering all the irregularities, any of them today, have you seen any evidence of that?

SCIUTTO: Short answer, Erin, is no. And we have got a big team here at CNN watching from districts around the country.

And for the kind of fraud Donald Trump is talking about there, machines that suddenly switch your vote to a different party, we're not seeing that. We're not seeing other cases of fraud that he's alleged before, for instance, dead people voting or people voting two times or people voting under names other than their own name.

What we are seeing are other things, sort equipment failure cases. In North Carolina, old electronic equipment didn't work there, so they had to revert to paper rolls to check the I.D.s of voters as they come in there.

In Van Nuys, California, there was one district where the polls opened before they had their voting machines in there. And there was another case in Broward County, Florida, where two of the clerks were actually fired because they were arguing over elderly voters who were coming in with their health aids.

One of the clerks apparently arguing that those health aids are telling the elderly people how to vote. But really those kinds of things very isolated, distributed around the country, no evidence of the kind of fraud that Donald Trump was alleging there.

BURNETT: All right, Jim Sciutto, thank you very much.

My panel is with me, along with Kevin Madden.

Mark Preston, let me just start with you.

Really, with all the focus on this today, right, and Trump telling people go to their polling stations and watch for any irregularities, thus far, we have not seen, just these very few sporadic reports.

PRESTON: Right.

Yes, and things that if, in fact, they did happen, are not going to change the election. If you're going to do voting fraud, right, you are not going to do it on a piecemeal basis one voter at a time. That's not going to flip an election.

You are going to try to get into the systems and you're going to try to turn a lot of votes. Or you're going to try to have some kind of system where you're actually going to steal massive quantities of votes.

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And we're not seeing that. We haven't seen that. Donald Trump was irresponsible to go out and say that several weeks ago. And, look, our voting system is done by the people, they're done by volunteers, they're done by local officials. And the fact of matter is, there are going to be some errors and we just have to live with that.

BURNETT: Right, because, Manu, one of the things we have heard, we talk about North Carolina. In one location, they have to keep the polls open 90 minutes later because you have actual people checking people in, as opposed to the electronic voting machines.

So, if anything, our system is so sclerotic and human-based that it would be impossible for large-scale voter fraud.

RAJU: And it's state by state. Each state has its own rules. So it's hard to say there's some sort of massive conspiracy happening right now.

But I think what we have heard from Donald Trump for several weeks is laying the groundwork for something to blame in case things don't turn out the way that he anticipates tonight.

What you're not hearing a lot is from other Republican officials, people within his party echoing those same concerns that this process is rigged, that there are problems -- widespread problems in the electoral process. But what we are seeing is what are common, some irregularities here

and there, nothing on the widespread basis that Trump was warning about.

BURNETT: And, Kevin, as we have pointed out, in a lot of these battleground states, you're talking about Republican secretaries of state who are responsible for overseeing the very people that, if anything Trump, would think he could rely on. And they have at this point seen no evidence of anything.

KEVIN MADDEN, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: Right.

And I think what people have to remember too is that ballot integrity programs by both campaigns are pretty routine in elections, particularly national elections. And, you know, I think legal actions are also pretty routine. But they're based on individual events that happen here or there where they feel like the integrity of the process needs to be upheld.

But I think why there's a hyper-sensitivity to in this space continuum that we're in right now is because of the pre-election rhetoric that we heard from Donald Trump that questioned the integrity of not each state, but the system itself. That's why I think so many of these secretaries of states who are Republicans and Democrats have been so vigilant in assuring the public that they have maintained the integrity of the system.

BURNETT: Which is why it should be of great relief to everyone, regardless of who you want to win, that there have been almost no reports of any issues today.

SELLERS: It's of great relief, but if you're a Clinton supporter like myself, and probably Maria, we know definitely Maria and a few others, if you want to bring the country together after tonight's race, then one of the things that Hillary Clinton has to do -- and I don't mean to heap on any more expectations -- is she has to win this race and she has to win this race going away.

That's the only way you can put away any of Donald Trump's concerns.

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CARDONA: You mean by a large margin.

BURNETT: That's right. Yes.

SELLERS: That they are a figment of his imagination.

DENNARD: I do appreciate...

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HUGHES: Well, here's the thing about this. I don't think the Trump campaign went into this thinking they were going to win.

Judge Gloria Sturman ended this case when they filed it. I think it was...

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BURNETT: In Nevada, you're talking about.

HUGHES: In Nevada, because it was in Clark County, very much a Democrat county. It's not one that I think they thought they were going to win. It was more I think putting them on guard from down on the road.

BURNETT: Why did they do it?

HUGHES: You're right. It's not one of those case. But I think it was putting on guard, saying, yes, we are watching, we are going to challenge.

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BURNETT: Challenge every one you can.

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HUGHES: There's nothing wrong. They have the right to do that.

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SELLERS: But just to be clear, if that's the logic behind the campaign, then that just shows you that there is some irresponsibility going on, especially with the legal team.

HUGHES: That's not irresponsible.

SELLERS: Because the fact of the matter is that, in this country, if you are in line -- and that is something that every viewer needs to understand -- if you are in line when the polls close, then you have every single right to vote. So if the polls have to stay open until 10:00, and you're in line -- thank you -- and that's not illegal.

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CARDONA: But you know what else it underscores?

BURNETT: All right, quickly.

CARDONA: Who are the majority of the voters in Clark County that were in that line? They were Hispanics.

So, for the Trump campaign to do this now is yet another indication of how much they have wanted to just disrespect the Hispanic community.

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HUGHES: They could have been anybody there.

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BURNETT: We're going to be speaking to Julian Castro about these issues in just a moment.

But, as we have said, people are line. And you should know that. If you're in line, you get to vote, whatever the time, if you're already in line before the close.

Just hours from now, when the first polls do officially close, Pennsylvania is going to be one of the first states to watch.

That's where Miguel Marquez is. He's been there throughout the day at a voting center.

And, Miguel, obviously, Pennsylvania has not gone Republican since 1988. Donald Trump, though, thinks he can change that. He really needs to change that for his path to 270.

MIGUEL MARQUEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: He absolutely needs to change this.

If he wins Pennsylvania, it opens up so many doors for him to get to 270. This place will be music to his ears. This is Washington County, a county that Romney won, has more registered Democrats than Republicans, but Romney won it.

I want to show you the line. It has been heavy all day long. And in the true techno-geek way, we actually have a drone that can show you just how long this line is.

This is what we're seeing right in front of the door. It has been about an hour-long for most people to get through here. But this -- as you watch that drone rise over and we walk toward the end of the line, it's about an hour to the end of this block here.

But now it's