By Meg Wagner, Melissa Macaya, Veronica Rocha, Melissa Mahtani and Amanda Wills, CNN
Polls are closing in some states tonight. Here's where polls are closing at 7:30 p.m. ET:
Remember: North Carolina’s election results will be delayed by at least 45 minutes after the board of elections extended voting at some locations that were having problems this morning.
Follow along here and see CNN's Election Center for full coverage.
From CNN's Eric Bradner
Suburbs are at the center of the 2020 presidential race, with Joe Biden's path to 270 electoral votes dependent on turning in a stronger performance there than Hillary Clinton did in 2016.
The suburban shift toward Democrats is the biggest change to the political landscape during Donald Trump's presidency. In 2017, the northern Virginia suburbs handed Democrats a big win in a closely watched governor's race. Then, in 2018, suburban congressional districts were at the center of a Democratic wave that handed the party control of the US House of Representatives for the first time in eight years.
Trump's 2016 win was rooted in big margins of victory in working-class suburbs. He has sought to galvanize those voters again by warning that violence that has accompanied protests against racial injustice would spread to the suburbs. However, Biden's stronger performance in polls among well-educated voters and with White women, in particular, have positioned him to build on Democratic gains in recent years.
From CNN's Jeff Zeleny
Joe Biden is not Hillary Clinton.
That is a central thought in the minds of Biden aides as they have been studying data throughout the day – they are seeing far more Democrats (and presumably Biden supporters) turning out in rural areas.
They don’t see blow outs they did four years ago. There’s no doubt that President Trump will carry the rural swaths of so many battleground states, but they believe Biden will hold his own far more than Clinton did.
The entire campaign, comparisons have been drawn to 2016 — but one Biden adviser said this map could be more like 2012, the last time Biden was on a ballot as the vice president, with Barack Obama at the top of the ticket.
From CNN's Kelly Mena
With an hour to go until polls close, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf cautioned voters to “remain calm.”
He released a video message calling for patience as every vote is set to be counted in the crucial battleground state.
“Across the state, dedicated county workers are ready to tirelessly make sure everyone’s vote counts,” Wolf said.
“But counting that tremendous number of ballots will take more time than we are used to. We may not know the results today, but I encourage all of us to take a deep breath and be patient. What is most important is that we have accurate results, even if that takes a little longer,” he added.
Polls in the Keystone State are set to close at 8 p.m. ET.
From CNN's Eric Bradner
Georgia is a must-win state for President Donald Trump, and -- with a relatively quick vote count expected there —it could offer an early window into how Election Night will unfold.
Like Florida and North Carolina, it's a state Joe Biden has invested heavily in, and a place where his campaign is bullish. But unlike those states, it has not voted for Democrats in recent presidential elections.
Georgia has long been a Republican stronghold, with the GOP currently controlling every statewide office and the state legislature. Democrats haven't won a major statewide race in the last two decades, but have had a series of close calls —a 2017 special election for a House seat; the 2018 governor's race — in Georgia during Trump's presidency.
This year in Georgia, the stakes are especially high: Two Senate seats are up for grabs in “jungle primaries,” which go to one-on-one runoffs if no candidate finishes above 50% of the vote. Jon Ossoff is challenging Republican Sen. David Perdue, while Rev. Raphael Warnock is the leading Democratic candidate against Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler, GOP Rep. Doug Collins and other contenders in a special election that’s almost certain to head to a runoff.
Biden chose Georgia to deliver what his campaign billed as its closing argument with a speech last Tuesday. His running mate, California Sen. Kamala Harris, campaigned there Sunday. And Biden dispatched former President Barack Obama to Atlanta on Monday. Trump, meanwhile, campaigned in Georgia on Sunday night, underscoring his campaign's recognition of its competitiveness.
From CNN's Dan Merica
If Donald Trump has any chance of winning the presidency, he can’t stand to lose his home state of Florida.
The President carried the state in 2016 by just over 1 percentage point, but recent polls have found a narrow race in the state, with a series of surveys showing the race between Trump and Joe Biden within the margin of error. Both candidates have blanked the state of late, with both Trump and Biden headlining events in the state on the Thursday before the election.
Florida is a remarkably diverse state with a series of key areas. Trump and his campaign have hopes of cutting into Biden’s expected margin in Miami-Dade and Broward County with a stronger than expected showing with Latinos, particularly Cubans, in South Florida.
The area around Tampa is also central to a Trump win: The President unexpectedly carried Pinellas County in 2016, a swing that signified it would be a tough night for Democrats. And then there was Duval County, which includes all of Jacksonville, a population center Trump won in 2016, but swung back to Democrats two years later when the party’s gubernatorial candidate carried the county.
Turnout will be key for Biden in Florida. A surge of rural voters propelled Trump to victory in 2016, an outpouring that was strengthened by a lack of turnout among Black and Latino voters four years ago. Democrats saw warning signs in early vote numbers from areas with large Black and Latino populations, so the ability for the party to get both key demographics out on Tuesday could prove critical.
CNN's John King explains:
On-air analysis from Van Jones/Written by CNN's Josiah Ryan
As exit polls trickled in early on Election Night, viewers who support either candidate should be prepared for both ups and downs, CNN political commentator Van Jones warned
"We are on a little bit of a roller coaster here, a little bit of a seesaw," said Jones, acknowledging some of the early exit polls had worried him, while he'd found other data points encouraging.
"You might get seasick tonight looking at these things exit things," he added. "The issues cut one way ... there's something happening out there that we don't know yet, we're gonna wait to see."
Former Republican Sen. Rick Santorum, a CNN senior political commentator, expressed the same sentiment moments later, suggesting he had already experienced multiple emotions.
"I'm gonna agree with Van that I was feeling much more confident with these early exits," he said.
CNN's Anderson Cooper, who was moderating the exchange, then predicted in jest that both commentators might be "basket cases" by the end of the night.
President Trump will win Indiana, CNN projects.
There are 11 electoral votes at stake in Indiana. It takes 270 electoral votes to win the 2020 presidential election.
Who won in 2016: President Trump carried the state and won the general election.
Polls are closing in some states voting tonight. Here's where polls are closing at 7 p.m. ET:
Follow along here and CNN's Election Center for full coverage.