Election day 2016, the historic end to a long campaign. Hillary clintons corruption is on a scale we have never seen before. Who will voters elect as the next president of the United States. He thinks belittling women makes him a bigger man. He has shown us who he is, let us on tuesday show him who we are. When we win on november 8th, and elect a Republican Congress, we will be able to immediately repeal and replace obamacare. I will be a president for democrats, republicans and independentents. For those who vote for me and for those who vote against me. What wells will we learn from the voters . Good evening, it is 8 00 p. M. Eastern, 5 00 on the west coast and welcome to special pbs newshour coverage of Election Night 2016. Im judy woodruff. And im hari sreenivasan. We look forward to her return as soon as possible. Sreenivasan polls just closed in alabama, connecticut, washington d. C. , florida, illinois, maine, maryland, massachusetts, mississippi and mo. Woodruff polls have also just closed in New Hampshire, new jersey, oklahoma, pennsylvania, rode island and the state of tennessee. We do have at least one projected winner. Thats this washington d. C. With a three electoral votes. Hillary clinton no surprise at all. A very very blue district of columbia. We also have a projected winner in delaware, Hillary Clinton the winner in that blue state. Maryland with a 10 electoral votes Hillary Clinton projected the winner there. Massachusetts, projected, Hillary Clinton projected the winner with 11 electoral votes expil thillinois the state clins vote 20 electoral votes she is also projected to be the winner there. Sreenivasan within the last hour or so we learned donald trump is the projected issue in West Virginia with five electoral votes and indiana with 11 electoral votes, kentucky with eight ask we can report donald trump is the projected winner in South Carolina with 89 electoral votes. Electoral 9 electoral votes. We have some ruts on the senate side. For those Crucial Senate seats that will determine the balance of power there. The democrats hoping to take control. The republicans doing everything they can to prevent that from happening. Sreenivasan there are a few house races were keeping an eye on but at this hour it looks like republicans been poised to keep their majority. Were also watching a number of governor races plus a handful of ballot initiatives. In New Hampshire, weve got a few other tapes that are probably going to cue u queue ur in the program. Considering where we are right now just the number of states we have, mark shields, anything out of the ordinary. No. The blue wall is holding. Delaware i think is the eighth best state for been barack obama, al gores best state. So were talking about states that were expected to vote democratic and have not disappointed Hillary Clinton tonight. In kentucky is a classic example of the democrats on coal and to be. All those good issues that have gone right to the heart of kentuckys existence. Woodruff also the first wave of states where the polls closed at 7 00, 7 30 seemed to favor the republicans just because of where they are, what they are. These were seeing, were now seeing states where the democrats have had. Should be doing better thats exactly right. Were really going to wait on the big states weve been talking about for so long, North Carolina, florida and ohio. Virginia closed a little while ago, about an hour ago. I would expect to see we get those results in sometimes soon. Those are going to be really the big states that were waiting for that are going to tell us really the direction that this election is going in. The ones that weve announced so far, nothing out of the ordinary. Woodruff Stuart Stevens is something who was sitting with the Mitt Romney Campaign four years ago. What is the Campaign Thinking at this point of the night when the predictable state results are coming in. You have more information than everybody else. The president ial candidates and the romney campaigns and the Bush Campaigns you have model counties you will be looking at for your numbers. Usually you would have someone at those courthouses so they can get the numbers ahead of what was being put on the networks. Actually now with twitter, you see where twitter can sometimes can do better than your own people. You have your modeling and youll have certain votes, targets that you have to get in each of these areas and youll know pretty quickly if youre hitting them or not. Woodruff not that youing nor these states reliably in your column anyways, you look at those numbers. Particularly closest where you ran campaigns. Look at connecticut, donald trump wins at connecticut. It will be very interesting to see those numbers there. They probably saw something and made you think they wanted to go there. If he does better there, that would be indicative. Woodruff heres another state we can call, this is a state that again no surprise. Donald trump projected winner in mississippi with its six electoral votes. Were still waiting on, i guess we do have two other calls to make, oklahoma the sooner state and tennessee, the volunteer state. Donald trump declared or projected to be the winner there. As we said a few minutes ago, Hillary Clinton projected to take delaware and rhode island. So we are beginning to get a picture from these early states that as amy just said the ones were all waiting for sitting here talking about, weve been talking about for weeks, theyre not in yet. Sreenivasan car nell belcher is the time when you were on the i dont know campaign is this on the Obama Campaign is this a good investment where you put your resources. Yes. To that point the clinton people like what theyre seeing and parts of pennsylvania right now another one of the blue states that trump has to take. Hes got to take a blue state, right, another blue state out there. Theres talk now and this will be amazing that the turnout in philadelphia may exceed 208 which is a record. So they have over 70 turnout. Another thing the campaigns do they put rallies in places for protest. Woodruff not just a coincident. Hillary clinton was there with jon bon jovi. David brooks, what are you looking this hou at this early e night. What strikes me is the gender gap. Gender gap in some places is just gigantic. In virginia for example, among women who are 53 of the electoral, clintons winning by 19 points. Among men trump is only winning by five. Thats just a big number and its hearted to see how he possibly wins virginia if these numbers are accurate. North carolina is a little different so shes winning among women by 14 and hes winning by men by 12 and north care looks to be a closer state. Woodruff what were referring to are these exit polls, these interviews with voters that are done throughout the day as people leave their polling places. Amy walter its probably time for a quick refresher course how those things get put together and turned into a projection. Its always dangerous to take the first waves, these are polls that they get from going to specific precincts and they interview voters and then over the course of the night they actually put the data in, the real raw votes and that readjusts the number that youre seeing. Now what the exit polls are supposed to do is give you sort of a guide map where it looks like this is going. Some things could certainly change over the course of the night but it gives you a sense of the vote is really moving in a dramatic direction or not. So in many of these states youre seeing nothing that really sticks out particularly as except for as david pointed out in virginia where the gender gap is pretty substantial. And draw gillespie do any of these strikes you. This is lower than the normal gap, about 8 to 10 Percentage Points. Thats striking because because of the Hollywood Tape and Donald Trumps treatment of women, that there would be more animo amongst female voters for donald trump and they would take that out in the polls. Im not seeing that. The other thing thats jumping out to me are Hillary Clinton totals among African Americans. Theyre not looking at turnout, theyre looking at what voters are saying. We were expecting that she would get obama numbers of the African American voters. Shes getting relative normal African American vote percentages relative to other Democratic Candidates. Shes in the high 80s and low 90s. That is unusual. Well see whether or not that holds over time. It doesnt look like shes getting in many cases 95 of the African American vote. Woodruff one state or a number of states. We have ohio, virginia, indiana here, where theres a large enough African American population. Shes getting 90 of the black volt and not upwards. Also the gender gap there which was present in 2012 as well. Woodruff mark slealdz, democrats shields democrats have counted heavily on the African American vote. They have. And as was pointed out earlier, it was the cataclysm of 1964 that led the democrats to become the party of African American voters. And that and the Voting Rights act ove of 1964. Just in defense of exit polls. The reason why people like me chairish thecherish them is youo winner bias. You ask people who you voted foe last time. People say ordinarily theyll say i voted for the winnernt though they might not have. What you have is people who actually voted. You dont have a sample. Weve got actual people just coming out fresh in their mind and they tell you and it is a great, if it is a representative sample, it is great great data to have. All right. We have some senate races to call at 11 minutes after 8 00 on the east coast in the state of florida, marco rubio has won reelection to another term. This is somebody who said he wasnt going to run. He ran for president but came back and changed his mind and said i am going to run again. And hes defeated the challenger democrat patrick murphy. In illinois the democrat tammy, the projected winner that is a pick up for the democrats. She took the state away from mark who was running for reelection. Thats something we can talk about in a few minutes. Mark experienced a stroke and was out of work for a year while he recoup rated and came back to run and hes now been defeated. In connecticut, richard blumenthal, the democrat is the projected winner. That mans hes won for a second term and in maryland democrat Chris Van Hollen the projected winner thats filling the seats of one of the women in the United States senate barbara mick mull key the charge es female senator in the u. S. Senate. We move on to oklahoma where we have another republican winner, James Langford the projected winner winning another term defeating the democrat. So hari. Sreenivasan were going to head up to new york city where clinton and trump have their Election Night headquarters. Were at the Trump Campaign event in midtown. John yang is with the Clinton Campaign at the jaft javitz. Whats the mood now. Were in the Political Capital of the world in a moment. Within a few blocks this is midtown manhattan on the west side. A few blocks from me is trump tower where donald trump is. We expect he will be coming over here sometime tonight. A few blocks in the other direction, john is with the Hillary Clinton gathering. Right now its fairly subdued here. There are a lot of people Milling Around behind me. This is a relatively small venue actually the smallest venue i think ive ever seen for this kind of gathering. Its subdued at the moment partly because of the size, partly because its early but probably mostly perhaps for the reason youve all just been talking about is that so far whats been happening are the expected results. Weve heard some applause at some of the early results at places like kentucky. Obviously theres some pause because were just getting something behind me. Theres some pause at some of the states that have not been called early on like georgia, like virginia, like pennsylvania. People here that im talking to, continue to feel very confident thats what theyre saying. The places they havent called like virginia, pennsylvania, they have said from the beginning and they said to me even a little earlier today from the Trump Campaign, very challenging places. But they are hopeful sreenivasan sreenivasan is it Trump Supporters from new york or do you see people from around the country that showed up perhaps part of the organization throughout the campaign. Well as i said, this is such a small place that this is a little unusual in that sense. This is an invited group of people. Its kind of an interesting change from the rallies around the country. I just came here from raleigh, North Carolina and a rally in souix city iowa. Of course donald trump had been going around gathering many thousands of people. The ones i was in was slightly smothered than that. This is a small venue, mostly invited guests. People from around the country, people from the campaign, people who have been involved. Woodruff its interesting, jeff, they decided to call it a celebration. And as you said sort of deliberately chose a smaller venue rather than what you would normally see on an Election Night. We think back to grant park in chicago in 2008 with barack obama. This is not grant park its not even where john is over at the Javitz Center not that far away. Donald trump wanted a small venue. This is a very large new york hotel, a very large ball room. And anybody thats been to a conference of any size knows they can make the room any size they want. This was deliberatelyion to the size it is. Im surrounded by hundreds of fellow journalists in the media, camera crews over where. You can see behind me several hundreds, hundreds, not thousands of Trump Supporters here behind me. Woodruff Jeffrey Brown holding down the fort at the trump party in new york city. Well be coming back to you throughout the night. As jeff just mentioned, john yang is not too far away over the clinton headquarters. John, tell us about whats happening there. Judy it sounds like its a little more lively here. They are keeping up the energy, theyre pumping in music, theyre showing the network, a big cheer went up when one of the networks called illinois for Hillary Clinton. Theyre also showing Hillary ClintonCampaign Commercials on a big screen here. Sort of the greatest hits of the campaign. Thats also certainly keeping the energy level up here. They are also cheering as they see raw totals come in. They are keeping a very close eye on here is florida. The Clinton CampaignOfficials Say they really dont see how donald trump could get to 270 without florida. And florida is a place they feel very good about from their field reports today and also last week they were bally hoeing the fact even before the election they had the turnout of latinos in early voting with already 30 higher than latino early voting in all of 2012. They like what they see coming out of North Carolina. It sounds like a much different mood here at the Javitz Center. A big crowd, a lot of people here, a lot of staff come over from Campaign Headquarters across the river in brooklyn. Campaign volunteers ive seen here who have seen in other states as weve traveled around. They seem to be anticipating a good outcome tonight. Judy, hari. Woodruff throughout this campaign, donald trump has spoken a lot about the large crowds he has drawn in different parts of the country and the tens of thousands. Hillary clinton doesnt seem, has drawn crowds that big. She did have 30,000 the other night. But in general, do the clinton people say because they havent tried or they are defensive about it. What do they say. It wasnt until the closing days you saw that. Even in the last week the crowds were not terribly large or enthusiastic. They were putting their emphasis into building a ground operation, getting the voters out, doing things so they could identify their voters and then track them to the polls. Even today there was a rebound, having waived the volunteers, are going out in key states, knocking on doors to see if their vote was recorded yet. They were doing that as late as 5 00 in some key states. So that has been their emphasis really to try to build that ground operation to get the vote out. Woodruff all right, john yang at the clinton celebration location in new york city, in manhattan. We can hear the clinton crowd cheering behind you. We goods they are looking at some results on some of the Television Screens around the room. Sreenivasan well come back to you often john. Thank you very much. We want to collec