On Tuesday, November 5, people went to the polls to vote for the next president of the United States. On the ballot: former president Donald Trump and vice president Kamala Harris. The stakes were high, with the New York Times reporting that "the polls show one of the closest presidential elections in the history of American politics."
In the early hours of Wednesday morning, Donald Trump was declared the winner. But leading up to that moment, Marie Claire spoke with voters from every state, as well as Washington, D.C.—a news anchor stationed at Trump headquarters in Florida, a writer throwing an election watch party in Montana, a middle school teacher in Minnesota, a poll watcher in Pennsylvania, and so many others—to report on what they were experiencing on the historic day. Here is what they told us.
