Long lines of people are queuing to cast their vote outside the precinct housed at a Loyal Order of the Moose Lodge, in Wilmington, North Carolina, which opened at 6:30 a.m. ET on the dot. When it opened, 30 to 40 people were in line, and the crowd has grown since, CNN’s team on the ground reported.
Elsewhere, at the Gwinnett County Voter Registrations & Elections office in Lawrenceville, Georgia, a line of people waited to hand deliver absentee ballots early on Tuesday morning This is also the area where poll watchers check in to get their credentials.
Former presidential candidate and Donald Trump supporter Vivek Ramaswamy said Trump’s campaign has attracted greater attention from groups who have historically voted Democrat, including the Black vote, Hispanics and Gen Z.
Ramaswamy said that Gen Z are motivated by wanting to stay out of foreign conflicts and avoid “World War 3,” grow the economy and bring down housing costs which he said were the issues that mattered most to young Americans.
Some context: The economy is booming under Biden’s administration and currently a historically high percentage of people have jobs. Gross domestic product grew at a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 2.8% last quarter, the Bureau of Economic Analysis reported Wednesday, and paychecks are growing at a 3.9% adjusted rate, according to the Department of Labor. That’s still a faster clip than inflation, which means the amount of money Americans have to spend is growing.
When asked if Trump should concede if he loses the election, Ramaswamy said whoever wins the election should win the election and whoever loses should concede, before claiming the 2020 election was undermined by Kamala Harris and the Democrats.
