The raucous rallies, battleground state blitzes and stirring stump speeches have all led up to this: It’s Election Day in America.
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Feeling anxious about this election? You’re not alone.
Herald reporter Meghan Ottolini spoke with voters at the polls today about the high stakes of the 2020 presidential election:
Poll workers wearing masks, face shields and gloves greeted U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren as she cast her ballot in Cambridge Tuesday morning. “I felt completely safe. Everyone had masks, shields. They’re not touching things,” Warren said afterward. “It has all been set up to minimize the possibility of transferring anything.”
The one-time presidential hopeful urged voters to be “patient” while waiting for unofficial results that could stretch beyond election night.
“There are two parts to democracy. The first is every American citizen gets a chance to vote. That’s what today is about,” Warren said. “Then second: Every ballot that’s cast gets counted. And sometimes in democracy that takes a little time.”
Warren also accused Trump of “trying to seize power” after his comments that he wants all votes to be counted on election night, which is not how the process works even in a normal election. Trump said Tuesday at the Republican National Committee offices in Virginia that “we should be entitled to know who won on Nov. 3.”
“Donald Trump knows that the only way he’s going to win is if he can keep American citizens from voting or keep ballots that they cast from being counted,” Warren said. “That’s not democracy. That’s a man who’s just trying to seize power.”
Trump at RNC headquarters
President Trump predicted there will be “tremendous results” after the final ballots are cast on Election Day and reiterated his desire to see a winner declared Tuesday night as he thanked staffers at the Republican National Committee offices in Virginia.
“I think we’re going to have a great night,” Trump said. “And much more importantly, we’re going to have a great four years.”
Trump said “we should be entitled to know who won on Nov. 3,” even though ballots are tallied well past election night even in a normal year and the president himself wasn’t declared the victor in 2016 until the early hours of Wednesday.
Coming off an intense schedule that placed him in multiple battleground states a day in the election’s home stretch, the president was a bit raspy as he addressed the room.
“After doing that many rallies, the voice gets a little choppy,” Trump quipped as he spoke of the “love at those rallies.”
Less than six hours before the first polls close, Trump said he’s “not thinking” about a concession speech or acceptance speech just yet.
But in a glimpse into his mindset on Election Day, he added, “Winning is easy. Losing is never easy, not for me.”
Melania Trump casts her vote
The White House press pool feed, a D.C. staple most newsrooms follow, reports First Lady Melania Trump entered the Morton and Barbara Mandel Recreation Center in Palm Beach to vote this morning at 10 a.m.
The pool reporter added: “She left, flanked by the Palm Beach supervisor of elections, Wendy Sartory Link. She said she was feeling ‘great.’ Asked why she did not vote with her husband last week, she said, ‘It’s Election Day, so I wanted to come here to vote today for the election.'”
She wore a beige sleeveless dress, the New York Times pool reporter added, no mask.
Voters turn out in force on brisk Election Day in Boston
Voters in Boston on Tuesday morning bundled up and masked up in the cold and windy weather as they headed to the polls in what could be a record-setting turnout in a highly-contentious race.
Ulrike Bankman, a Jamaica Plain resident originally from Germany dressed up for the occasion. She said she wore pink to represent women against Trump, pearls in honor of the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg and black for Black Lives Matter.
Bankman said she voted for Biden because Trump “does not know anything about government, he never had a government position. Business people do not know how to run a country.”
Lou Murray of West Roxbury, a national advisor for the Trump campaign in 2016, stood outside Holy Name with a large Trump/Pence sign.
“Donald Trump is the first president, first politician, in my lifetime to fulfill his promises. He’s done more in 47 months than sleepy Joe Biden was done in 47 years,” said Murray.
Other voters, such as Jamaica Plain resident Brian Brady, kept their presidential opinions to themselves, but expressed support for other ballot questions.
“I’m a supporter of ranked choice (voting)…You think voting is pretty common and standard but then there’s different approaches to it.”
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