George Floyd's Brother Rallies Voters In New York On Election Day
The murmurs spread quickly among the poll workers late Tuesday morning at a Brooklyn neighborhood station: George Floyd's brother was present.
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The murmurs spread quickly among the poll workers late Tuesday morning at a Brooklyn neighborhood station: George Floyd's brother was present.
It was relatively quiet at the polling places across the metro Tuesday. There were some lines when the polls opened, but voters said they cleared relatively quickly.
There were no lines at polling places in Burnsville on Tuesday.
Voters in Minnesota are deciding whether to make President Donald Trump the first Republican to carry the state since Richard Nixon in 1972 — or to hold to their usual line and back former Democratic Vice President Joe Biden.
At Phyllis Wheatley Community Center and around other polling sites in North Minneapolis, the longest lines were seen on Tuesday morning, before the polls opened. Once people were allowed inside, lines moved fast.
A polling location in St. Paul was temporarily locked down following a nearby shooting Tuesday afternoon.
With 26,790 votes tallied, Biden was leading the kids' choice vote for president, with about 54% of the vote to Donald Trump's 33.7%.
Tuesday is Election Day, and polls in Minnesota open at 7 a.m.
President Donald Trump looked for a repeat win Tuesday in battleground Wisconsin, while Joe Biden hoped that voters would return to supporting Democrats for president as they had for a generation before Trump's narrow victory four years ago.
Voters in Minnesota are deciding whether to make President Donald Trump the first Republican to carry the state since Richard Nixon in 1972 — or to hold to their usual line and back former Democratic Vice President Joe Biden.
Whether you voted by mail or in person this year, all ballots end up the same place. So what happens once they're sent into the machine?
President Donald Trump is holding five rallies in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan. Joe Biden has three rallies in Ohio and Pennsylvania.
To date, more than 2 million absentee ballots have been requested in Minnesota. Of those, 1.7 million have already been returned, leaving more than 338,000 still outstanding.
Minneapolis is among 44 jurisdictions in 18 states across the country where the Department of Justice will be monitoring voting rights on Election Day.
