Election day 2020 live updates as voters decide between President Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

Nursing home residents and workers weigh Covid-19 in their vote for president
The pandemics deadly impact on the countrys nursing homes is shaping the way that many long-term care residents, their family members and elder care workers are approaching this election.
In Chicago, nursing home workers represented by the Service Employees International Union, which endorsed Joe Biden, vowed to vote early as a tribute to co-workers who have died from the pandemic. 
“Im voting for the loved ones, like my co-worker Camelia, and all those who didnt survive this most hellish year,” said one nursing home aide, faulting President Trump for his response to the pandemic, according to a statement released by SEIU Healthcare.
On the campaign trail, Trump has touted his administrations efforts to send personal protective equipment and rapid testing to the countrys long-term care facilities and criticized some governors for failing to do enough to protect highly vulnerable residents. 
In addition to facing the threat of the coronavirus, many nursing home residents are also struggling with isolation, as visitor restrictions have limited their access to family members. 
“The impact on nursing home residents has been just so traumatic,” said Lori Smetanka, executive director of the National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care, an advocacy group. “Whoever wins the election really needs to focus on the need for a concerted national effort to protect residents and to make sure they have the supplies the PPE and the testing that they need.”
Biden seeks support from older voters who backed Trump in 2016
On Election Day, analysts are paying close attention to voters who are 65 and older voters who favored President Trump by 7 points in 2016, according to exit polls, but who have been more inclined to support Joe Biden this year. 
In the final national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, conducted last week, Biden held a 58 percent to 35 percent lead over Trump among senior voters. 
Trump was already losing ground with older Americans before the coronavirus, but the pandemic has become a central issue for these voters this year, said John Hishta, senior vice president of campaigns for the AARP.
“The pandemic and Covid have served as a backdrop for all of this,” Hishta said. “What if I get sick how does that affect my finances? What if my kids get sick? What if I cant see my kids?”
Both Trump and Biden have made it a priority to target senior citizens in the final stretch of the campaign, especially in critical swing states like Pennsylvania and Florida. An NBC News/Marist College survey released Monday showed Biden with a narrow 5-point lead over Trump within the polls margin of error with a similar advantage among voters ages 65 and older. 
Neither side is taking them for granted, like they did in years past, Hishta said. 
On election eve, this country is just unbelievably stressed out
The election is coinciding with a sharp rise in Covid-19 cases and cooling weather, which will make it harder for people to see family and friends, and after months of racial reckoning that Paul and other psychologists call a “triple pandemic” of stress the virus, the election and racial reckoning especially for people of color.
Dr. Stephen Stein, the past president of the D.C. Psychological Association and a practicing psychologist, said he’s been getting calls from people he hasn’t worked with in 20 years.
“All three of these things are melding together and producing a synergistic sense of dread and isolation,” he said.
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