Latest / Early Edition with Ryan Bridge / Nick Harper: FSN Correspondent on the potential claims of voter fraud in the US Election

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Nick Harper: FSN Correspondent on the potential claims of voter fraud in the US Election · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: We are heading to the United States to Washington, DC.
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  Speaker 1: Nick Harper is and if it's in correspondent with US
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  Speaker 1: Live this morning. As America goes to the polls, We've
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  Speaker 1: had the Ohio Senator and running Trumps running mate Jady
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  Speaker 1: Vance vote already in Ohio, and Nick is with US Live. Nick,
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Good morning, Ryan. Tell me what we're exactly
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  Speaker 1: are the candidates at the moment and when are we
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  Speaker 1: expecting them to vote?
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  Speaker 2: Well, they're all spread out around the country, essentially voting
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  Speaker 2: where they are stationed. So we've had JD. Van's voting
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  Speaker 2: in Ohio. Donald Trump is due up in Florida at
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  Speaker 2: any time soon. Kamala Harris is here in Washington, d C.
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  Speaker 2: Where she's going to remain for the day, and Tim
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  Speaker 2: Woltz is over in Minnesota. So scattered across the country
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  Speaker 2: coming together later on. But we have had more than
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  Speaker 2: eighty two million Americans vote early ahead of election day.
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  Speaker 2: That's about a third of all eligible voters. And now
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  Speaker 2: we are hearing long lines at multiple polling stations right
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  Speaker 2: across the country.
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  Speaker 1: Why DC whire's Harrison d C.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there are some options where she could potentially go
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  Speaker 2: California as her home state, but here really has been
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  Speaker 2: her home for the last three and a half four
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  Speaker 2: years as vice president. But it really is looking ahead
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  Speaker 2: to this evening where she has decided to hold her
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  Speaker 2: election night event, choosing Howard University to alma matera where
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  Speaker 2: she went. It's the historically at black university here in
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  Speaker 2: the heart of Washington, DC, and of course that racial
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  Speaker 2: element has been central to her campaign. She is hoping
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  Speaker 2: that she has people of color rallying behind her, as
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  Speaker 2: they often do behind Democrats, but she is hoping that
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  Speaker 2: that will happen this evening at a time when she
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  Speaker 2: is hoping that she could become not just the first
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  Speaker 2: female president, but the first black female president of the
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  Speaker 2: United States.
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  Speaker 1: If things get a bit topsy turvy, if things aren't
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  Speaker 1: going well for Trump tonight, what are the contingency plans?
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  Speaker 1: And is that part of the reason that she's in
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  Speaker 1: DC because she wants to be seen to be in
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  Speaker 1: control of that particular location.
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  Speaker 2: Well, potentially, yes, I mean there is some thinking that
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump will decide to call a win for him
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  Speaker 2: early no matter what is happening, even if the polls
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  Speaker 2: are not suggesting, or even if there are not enough
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  Speaker 2: votes in to suggest that he is won. There is
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  Speaker 2: that concern that he may go ahead with that, and
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  Speaker 2: that would obviously so confusion, misinformation and prompt lawsuits if
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  Speaker 2: he were to actually go ahead and lose, and he
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  Speaker 2: could therefore suggest, as he did back in twenty twenty,
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  Speaker 2: that the vote was rigged against him. So Kamala Harris
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  Speaker 2: I guess is trying to distance herself from that. We've
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  Speaker 2: already heard accusations of vote rigging in the last couple
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  Speaker 2: of days from Donald Trump, and she has tried to
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  Speaker 2: push back against that. The hope is that things will
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  Speaker 2: run smoothly, but there is a real potential, but it
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  Speaker 2: could take several days for all of this to come
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  Speaker 2: out in the wash and for us to actually find
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  Speaker 2: out who is the eventual winner of the election.
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  Speaker 1: There's also, of course, the race for the House and
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  Speaker 1: for the Senate.
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  Speaker 2: Any picks there, well, it is going to be incredibly tight,
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  Speaker 2: and again that is something that we may not know
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  Speaker 2: for some time. The House in particular, just because of
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  Speaker 2: the closeness of some of those races across the country,
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  Speaker 2: there is some thinking that it might not be known
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  Speaker 2: who has control of the House until after we find
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  Speaker 2: out who has become the president. I mean it is
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  Speaker 2: being spoken about as the closest race in recent history,
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  Speaker 2: not just for the president, but also for control of
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  Speaker 2: the two chambers of Congress.
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  Speaker 1: Nick, thanks very much for your time this morning, Nick Habot,
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  Speaker 1: if it's in correspondent in Washington, DC. For more from
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