fraser in washington. americans are voting and the world is watching. in what may well be record numbers, democrats and republicans are going to the polls today to deliver their verdict on donald trump. some love him, some hate him. they started voting 8 hours ago on the east coast of the us. and here is a look at how things will evolve through the night as each state closes its polls we will be here to take you through the results from east to west. key states like florida and virginia will come in early and then we ll have to wait for the critical races in the midwest before we finally get the tally from california. right now we do not know the results. but what we do know is that today s election will have a huge impact on donald trump, america and the rest of the world. here s the bbc‘s nick bryant. this is the day when the american people get their say, when their voices, notjust the president s, finally get to be heard. and despite the ugly weather, the lines at thi
r there in the mayo nashua. [applause] i would like to welcome never went to nashua city hall, and welcome mayor bloomberg to our great city. [applause] introduceabout to einblatt, a very interesting man. ourit went to remind out-of-town visitors that out in front of city hall, to the left as you come in the front door, and that hasjfk, been there for 50 years or so, maybe more. his first campaign stop when he was running for president right out here in front of city hall. [applause] fact, ian interesting think, for mayor bloomberg. [laughter] feinblatt, isjohn a very interesting guy, is the everytown for gun which is the largest gun violence prevention organization in the united states. [applause] he is a senior advisor to mayor bloomberg, and in addition to his role at everytown, he has led efforts on immigration reform, it infrastructure investment and marriage equality. so we want to thank you for all that good work. during the 12 years of the bloomberg administration in
newsmakers this week is the founder of emily s list, which strives to elect pro-choice, democratic women to office. it is the fourth biggest spending super pac. she is a former state legislator in maine, 10 years in the legislature there. elected first at 25, the youngest main house mentor house minority leader. thank you for being with us. emily: i am thrilled to be here. susan: let me introduce the reporters asking question. amy is a reporter for the washington post. for the wallrted street journal. get started with questions, i want to tell the audience a little bit about the statistics going into this year s election. in the primaries, 235 women have won major party nominations. 22 women have major senate nominations. 16 are vying for governor slots. a big year for women, and we will learn more about what that means. any, you are up first. amy: i wonder if you could start out with talking about what we are going to see in the next four weeks, the final stretch of the mi
cain, the executive director of emily s list since which 1884 the fourth biggest super pac. let me tell you a little more about emily cain. she is a former state legislator. first elected at the age of 25. she was two-time democratic candidate for the u.s. house. thank you very much for being with us. emily: i m thrilled to be here. the twot me introduce reporters that will be here. thank you for joining us this week. before we get started with questions, i wanted to tell our audience about some of the statistics going into this month s election. in the primaries, 200 35 women have won house nominations. major party nominations. senaten have won major slots. this is a big year for women and we will learn more about what that means in the last couple of weeks before the election. hello. great to be hair with you. i wonder if you could start out by talking about what we will see in the next four weeks in the final stretch of the midterms. where are the hottest races? wher
we are so pleased to welcome today s headliner, president of the political action committee emily s list which is a group that aims to elect more pro-choice, democratic female candidates to national, state and local office. would like to remind you today that if you are tweeting, we are press club d.c., and the hashtag for today s event is npc live. i d like to introduce our head table guests now, so please hold your applause until all of them have been introduced. so i m going to start here from my left, we have frank mazano, policy resolution group and a member of the headliners team. we have art swift with, a professor at american university. we have tamara hinton, the senior vice president at story partners and a member of the national press club headliners team. we have eleanor clift, a reporter and writer at the daily beast. we have emily cain, executive director of emily s list. we have laurie russo, president at stanton communication [audio difficulty] we have