A Michigan father broke down in tears when he told a CNN reporter that he voted for Kamala Harris for president.
Jason Faasse was interviewed by the network as he left his polling station in Grand Rapids on Tuesday.
“I have three daughters, four sons in total, and women’s rights are very important to them,” said an emotional Faasse, facilities and events coordinator at Calvin University.
‘Sorry, I’m getting a little emotional about that. “I didn’t think I was going to do that,” she added while crying.
‘But just their bodies, their choice, that kind of mentality. “I want them to grow up in a world that’s welcoming to everyone, so yeah, that’s why I’m casting my vote today.”
Jason Faasse was interviewed by CNN as he left his polling station in Grand Rapids on Tuesday. The father cried when sharing that he voted for Kamala Harris.
Michigan is one of seven swing states that experts say will likely decide the 2024 presidential election.
Vice President Harris was in Michigan on Sunday, making four stops across the battleground state, including Michigan State University.
Meanwhile, Trump was in Grand Rapids wrapping up his campaign during the early hours of Tuesday.
The close race is one of the closest in history and will likely be decided by a couple thousand votes in swing states.
Tuesday’s election day has gone largely smoothly across the country, with only scattered reports of delays due to extreme weather conditions, ballot printing errors and technical problems.
Vice President Harris was in Michigan on Sunday, making four stops across the battleground state. She is seen in East Lansing.
Meanwhile, Trump was in Grand Rapids wrapping up his campaign during the early hours of Tuesday.
In Pennsylvania, early reports that Republican poll watchers were not allowed into some voting sites were soon resolved.
Additionally, a state judge ordered polls to remain open for two more hours in Cambria County, which voted 68 percent for former President Donald Trump in 2020.
The county requested the extension after a software malfunction affected ballot scanning machines, although county officials confirmed that no one was turned away from the polls and said all ballots would be counted.
A technical malfunction in Champaign County, Illinois, and problems with electronic poll books in Louisville, Kentucky, also delayed voting, but those problems were soon fixed and voting was back up and running. In Arizona’s Maricopa County, a polling place suffered a slight delay when a worker forgot to bring a key.
Tuesday’s election day went largely smoothly across the country. Voters are seen in Detroit, Michigan.
As of Tuesday, the Associated Press’s tracking of early voting nationwide showed that more than 82 million votes had already been cast, just over half the total number of votes in the presidential election four years earlier. .
This is due in part to Republican voters, who cast early votes at a higher rate than in recent previous elections after a campaign by Trump and the Republican National Committee to counter Democrats’ long-standing advantage in early voting.