Polls open an hour from now. Im Jerry Gallagher and im ally crutcher a cold front tracking through the area this morning is squeezing out a few showers but will quickly clear out. Temperatures are in the 50s with the clouds but have dropped into the 40s with the clear skies behind. East and will stay mainly 1015 mph for the rest oe now. Northwest winds will stay decision 2016 todays the day millions of americans cast their votes. Were keeping an eye on results nationally and here in iowa, one key race were watching is iowas first Congressional District. Firstterm republican congressman rod blum faces democratic challenger Monica Vernon. Us live in the telegraph herald newsroom with more on both candidates. Good morning shirley. Good morning ally and jerry. Political experts say this one will be a close race. Freshman congressman rod blum background. His opponent is Monica Vernon, former cedar rapids councilwoman. When it comes to the issues. Blum is wants to reform the culture of and w
Were watching several of those states very, very closely. Wisconsin and michigan. Theyve declared florida has gone to trump. And pennsylvania and New Hampshire. It does come down to wisconsin, New Hampshire and pennsylvania could be deciding the race. Ap has called it for Chuck Grassley. The 7th term for oiings defeating patty judge. Whats interesting. This is the closest if it holds like this. This is the closest hes had since his first run in 1980 when he had 53 of the vote then. Other than the race hes had since 60 . And lets take a look at congressional races and this is Monica Vernon the democratic challenger is ahead in this race. Iowa second congressional district. 23 of the presignatures have reported. And in the Third District now with 48 of the votes in almost half. The ahead just ahead of jim mauer the democrat. Turning to the Fourth District steve king with 57 of the vote. 43 for democratic challenger the yes, sir are aahead. We mentioned that Chuck Grassley had won the sen
He didnt have a chance no florida, ohio or North Carolina. And in michigan, the pennsylvania race too close to call where Hillary Clinton was supposed to have won there by a wide margin so a pretty interesting and shocking result so far. A look at new york city, not a lot going on there right now. A big crowd on hand as you saw at the trump headquarters earlier. Kaines home state obviously, got one in her victory column there. Amanda take a look at the popular vote numbers. This is with 55 reporting and again, this is the popular vote. The road to 270 is what really matters here tonight so that is the situation. Donald trumps way, 24 of the iowa totals coming in and Hillary Clinton, about five points in our amanda and low reporting, were at 24 in iowa. Here is a look at the map. Donald trump in red and the blue are the states that clinton has won. You may remember back in president obama won the outer edges, the east coast, west coast, and the entire section up the middle was red. Ron
Successful president for all americans not outcome we worked so hard for. Sorry we did not win election. super janesville, wi 1 03 1 07 the house speak paul ryan who never campaigned for trump is now singing his praises. Pulled off was an enormous feat. As trump tries to heal the country protests erupted in several cities. People took to the streets in portland, oregon. That is not my president. The country, now its his challenge to lead a very divided also the block of voters president obama turned out in 2012 did not mobilize for Hillary Clinton. That led to victory for the president elect. Edward lawrence nbc markets now. As trump took the lead last night investors became uneasy. Dow futures were down four percent at one point. However Financial Markets steadied somewhat by the time trump made his speech overnight. Well take another look in about 30 minutes with your farm markets included as well. A large group gathered outside the white house as election returns came in. Dozens out
Now we are turning to demographics. It was a fascinating recent survey that found the most common age for white americans was 55 and the most common age for hispanics is eight. You can see from that any step shut the way things are trending. I want to welcome to the stage karlyn bowman, senior fellow and Research Coordinator at the American Enterprise institute. And roy to share. Thank you so much, both of you for being here. So demographics, weve been talking about soviet politics this election to thats the underlying current, right . Lets start with the big picture. In your view, karlyn bowman, how is the electric they should going to differ from the electorate of four years ago for eight years ago or 20 years ago in terms of its makeup . Thank you to the atlantic for inviting us. Ruy, built at brookings. I met aei. We are working on this for about the last 10 years together under big report on states the changes available on all of our websites if youd like to look at the work weve