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'Brutal': CNN anchors uncover another worrisome exit poll for Harris

CNN anchors called a new exit poll on Tuesday night "brutal" for Vice President Kamala Harris.

David Chalian revealed exit poll results for Arizona, Michigan and Wisconsin, where voters were asked their opinion of President Joe Biden. In Arizona, 57 percent of voters said they disapproved of Biden. In Michigan, that number was 55 percent.

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'Major reversal': Another exit poll could prove ominous for Kamala Harris

Another exit poll showed a "major reversal" among a key constituency — and could prove ominous for Vice President Kamala Harris.

Latino men are breaking for former President Donald Trump over Harris 54 percent to 44 percent, according to an NBC News exit poll. The outlet called it a "major reversal" from four years ago, when Latino men supported Joe Biden by a whopping 59 percent to 36 percent.

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'Wild!' CNN anchors baffled as exit polls show major flip in critical battleground state

A CNN panel of anchors expressed shock as the results of another exit poll showed a major flip in the crucial battleground state of Georgia.

David Chalian shared the results Tuesday night of a poll of independent voters that he called "the story of these exit polls in Georgia."

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First states called as results start to roll in

The first projections in Tuesday's election, calling Kentucky for Republican DonaldTrump and Vermont for Democrat Kamala Harris.

Multiple media outlets agreed that Harris carried Vermont, earning her three electoral votes, and Kentucky for Trump, giving him eight electoral votes.

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'Very good sign': CNN reports Harris camp delighted by swing state request

Vice President Kamala Harris received promising news from a major swing state's largest city where more ballots have been demanded to keep up with voter turnout, CNN reported on Election Day.

Correspondent Abby Phillip reported from Harris' campaign headquarters Tuesday that her team has its eyes locked on Philadelphia where Democratic regions are seeing voters flock to the polls.

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'Pretty amazing': CNN anchor floored by latest exit poll finding

A CNN anchor called the latest exit poll "pretty amazing" after it reported about 80% of voters knew who they were going to vote before September.

David Chalian shared the results of CNN's latest exit polls Tuesday night, finding that very few voters made their decision recently. Just six percent said they had decided in the last few days or last week, and 13% said they had decided in either October or September.

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'It would be a miracle': CNN's Chris Wallace reacts to first exit polls

CNN anchor Chris Wallace said Vice President Kamala Harris will have pulled off a "miracle" on Election Day if she wins given the first exit polls released by the network that showed high numbers of dissatisfied — and angry — voters.

CNN Political Director David Chalian shared the results noting it included all voters — both early and Election Day — and said it's a "pretty dour mood" in terms of how people feel about the way things are going in the United States. Just 7 percent said they were enthusiastic and 19 percent said they were satisfied. A whopping 43 percent said they were dissatisfied and another 29% said they felt angry.

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'Broken craft of polling': MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace says predictions are showing big holes

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace and former Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill (MO) agreed that something very different is happening in 2024 that didn't happen when Hillary Clinton ran for president in 2016.

The new Iowa poll released over the weekend suggested that Vice President Kamala Harris is not taking votes away from Donald Trump. Rather, it showed that Harris motivated voters who were sitting on the sidelines and changing the turnout. This picture of the electorate was similar to one Trump used in 2016, but it wasn't captured in polls that year either, as Pew Research explained.

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'Striking': Poll finds Republicans sticking fingers in ears over major Trump scandal

Former President Donald Trump's denials that he praised Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler's generals were apparently not necessary, as new data suggests many Republican voters would vote for him anyway.

Washington Post analyst Philip Bump revealed on Election Day disturbing responses to a poll questioning how they'd respond to a candidate who said what Trump's former chief of staff Kelly reports the former president has: that Hitler had done "some good things."

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'Rambling, raging, stubborn': Conservative columnist concedes a Trump loss wouldn't be bad

A conservative columnist acknowledged in a National Review piece Tuesday that having Kamala Harris lead the country wouldn't be all that bad.

Donald Trump has tried to gin up fear about a horrific future under a Kamala Harris presidency, a CNN columnist wrote Monday. He slung conflicting ideologies like "communist, socialist and fascist" when talking about her. However, National Review columnist Jim Geraghty took a different stance — and said Trump can't be taken seriously when taking the Oath of Office.

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'Authoritarianism at bay': Analyst says Harris caught Trump napping on key campaign issue

Former President Donald Trump was supposed to be driving into Election Day with an advantage among voters on the economy — but Vice President Kamala caught him sleeping at the wheel, according to a new analysis.

A New Republic editorial released Tuesday combats the notion that Harris fell short on economic messaging as she called out Trump's abortion policies and increasingly authoritarian promises.

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'Why are we putting the onus on her?' MSNBC host slammed for saying Harris must play nice

A frustrated Democratic pollster slammed MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell on Election Day when she tried to argue Vice President Kamala Harris was obligated to play nice with Republicans.

Democratic strategist Cornell Belcher accused Mitchell of subjecting Harris to an unfair double standard during a heated exchange on the cable news site Tuesday.

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'Civil war kicks off': Far right gears up for post-election violence — no matter who wins

Far-right extremists are preparing for widespread violence and possible civil war — regardless of who actually wins on Election Day, the Guardian reported Tuesday.

"Who wins or loses is less important than the effect," the Guardian reported. "With already two assassination attempts on Donald Trump and both mainstream parties more at rhetorical war than ever before, they see signs of hope the US government is beginning to lose control of the country."

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