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Polling stations have opened across several states in the United States as the midterm elections get underway. ABC News White House Correspondent Karen Travers has details on how President Trump is spending Election Day, while ABC's Rachell Scott says cost of living is top-of-mind for voters.
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00:00President Trump will spend Election Day at the White House behind closed doors with no public events on his schedule.
00:05Tonight, he hosts a reception in the East Room to watch election results come in.
00:09After holding 28 rallies across the country over the final month before Election Day,
00:13President Trump used the reflecting pool on the National Mall to make his final sales pitch to voters.
00:18He acknowledged the party in power in the White House historically faces losses in midterm elections, but said of this
00:24year...
00:24We gave this a very strong shot.
00:28Karen Travers, ABC News, New York.
00:31Latest royalties Ipsos poll shows that 50% of Americans say that the cost of living is the most important
00:37factor in how they're going to vote this election.
00:40And we know so many Americans out there have already voted.
00:43More than 58 million Americans have cast their ballots so far for Republicans to keep control of the Senate.
00:49What they're going to have to do? Defend their home turf tonight.
00:52They're going to want to keep all of these red states.
00:54They're also going to try to go on offense in that critical state there in Michigan.
00:57But, of course, President Trump is entering this election with record low approval ratings.
01:02When we go back in history, it has been years, in some case decades, since many of these states have
01:07sent a Democrat to the Senate.
01:09In Ohio, since 2018.
01:11In Iowa, 2008.
01:12Texas, 1988.
01:14Kansas, it's been nearly a century.
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