Election Day 2025 live updates as voters weigh in on key state and local races

Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares, a Republican running for reelection, suggested in the final hours of voting that voters consider backing him in the AG race and a Democrat in the gubernatorial race.

Miyares posted a video Tuesday morning in which he spoke with a voter named Dave who supports Democrat Abigail Spanberger for governor but voted for Miyares for attorney general.

In the caption, Miyares wrote, "Dave's splitting his ticket — you can too." 

In other cases, Miyares has encouraged people to vote for the entire GOP ticket — including Republican gubernatorial candidate Winsome Earle-Sears.

But Miyares has been courting split-ticket voters following the recent controversies surrounding his Democratic rival for attorney general, Jay Jones, who sent violent and inflammatory texts in 2022. 

Miyares was running several points ahead of Earle-Sears in pre-election polls.

President Trump has endorsed candidates in most — but not all — of Tuesday's biggest races.

• The president has enthusiastically endorsed New Jersey's GOP candidate for governor, Jack Ciattarelli. He held a telephone rally for Ciattarelli on the eve of the election: "This is the biggest election — the entire country is watching New Jersey," he said.
• Mr. Trump also gave Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares, who is running for reelection, his "complete and total endorsement," boosting Miyares and Republican lieutenant governor candidate John Reid in a tele-rally Monday.
• Notably, the president hasn't endorsed Virginia GOP gubernatorial candidate Winsome Earle-Sears by name, though he has encouraged Virginians to vote for the entire Republican ticket and attacked Democratic candidate Abigail Spanberger.
• The president has repeatedly encouraged people to vote for New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat who is running third-party against Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani — likely an unwelcome endorsement for Cuomo, who has long sparred with Mr. Trump. "I'm not a fan of Cuomo one way or the other, but if it's gonna be between a bad Democrat and a communist, I'm gonna pick the bad Democrat all the time, to be honest with you," the president told "60 Minutes." (Mamdani describes himself as a democratic socialist, not a communist.)
• Mr. Trump called California's redistricting plan a "GIANT SCAM." He has supported redistricting efforts in several Republican-leaning states.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, declined to say who he voted for in the New York City mayoral race. 

"I voted, and I look forward to working with the next mayor to help New York City," he said.

Schumer has not endorsed the Democratic nominee, Zohran Mamdani. Mamdani, a democratic socialist, defeated Andrew Cuomo, the former Democratic governor of New York, in the primary. Cuomo then ran as an independent, and won the support of some Democrats who have been critical of Mamdani — and even President Trump. 

The president said Monday in a Truth Social post, "Whether you personally like Andrew Cuomo or not, you really have no choice. You must vote for him and hope he does a fantastic job," the president said in a Truth Social post. 

Mr. Trump also said if Zohran Mamdani wins Tuesday, "it is highly unlikely that I will be contributing Federal Funds, other than the very minimum as required, to my beloved first home, because of the fact that, as a Communist, this once great City has ZERO chance of success or even survival!" 

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, a New York Democrat, endorsed Mamdani just a day before early voting began in late October, but has not appeared enthusiastic about his campaign. 

Proposition 50 would allow California Democrats to temporarily change the boundaries of U.S. House districts and make them more favorable to Democrats. It's an initiative intended to respond to President Trump's push for Republican-controlled states, like Texas, to change their congressional maps and give the GOP a better shot at holding on to its narrow House majority in next year's midterm elections.

California has 52 congressional districts, 43 represented by Democrats and nine by Republicans. The five GOP-led districts targeted under Proposition 50 are District 1, represented by Rep. Doug LaMalfa; District 3, represented by Rep. Kevin Kiley; District 22, represented by Rep. David Valadao; District 41, represented by Rep. Ken Calvert; and District 48, represented by Rep. Darrell Issa.

People walk outside a polling place still decorated for Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos) festivities on Nov. 4, 2025 in Los Angeles. Mario Tama / Getty Images

Gov. Gavin Newsom, who pushed Prop 50 through California's Assembly, rallied supporters of the measure in San Francisco on Monday night.

"We're going to get out there and win and send a powerful message not only to the people of the state of California, but the people all over the United States of America," Newsom said. 

A recent CBS News poll found that among voters who plan to support Proposition 50, one reason they're doing so is to oppose the Trump administration — which they also feel generally treats California worse than other states — and oppose national Republicans. 

Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears is running against former Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger in the race, and in either case, the winner will make history in the commonwealth as its first female governor. If Earle-Sears wins, she'll become the first female Black governor. 

Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Winsome Earle-Sears, left, and Democratic candidate Abigail Spanberger, right. AP

There's no incumbent in this race — there never is, since Virginia governors may not run for consecutive terms under state law. 

Virginia's gubernatorial election is often seen as a potential referendum on the incumbent president. The president's party often loses the Virginia governor's race, which always falls in the year following a presidential election. 

Spanberger has made it clear she's running against Mr. Trump's policies during the campaign, saying, "It is because of the trade wars and the retaliatory tariff policies and the attack on Virginia, our economy and our people, that we recognize the possibility of November 4."

The Trump administration's broadsides against the federal workforce hit Virginia hard, since the state has hundreds of thousands of civilian federal employees and contractors. Besides the reduction-in-force cuts by the administration, federal workers are taking an economic hit in the government shutdown that's now stretching into its second month.

Earle-Sears has focused on immigration and transgender issues, and in their October debate, she pressed Spanberger on whether she'd keep transgender youth out of girls' high school sports and bathrooms. 

During the campaign, Earle-Sears has campaigned alongside Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, but she was not endorsed by President Trump. Mr. Trump appeared in a telerally on Monday night for the Republican ticket, attacking Spanberger and encouraging people to vote for Republicans, but he didn't mention Earle-Sears by name.

New Jersey voters are deciding between former GOP New Jersey state Rep. Jack Ciattarelli and Democratic Rep. Mikie Sherrill in the race for governor today.

Sherrill, who flipped a Republican congressional seat in 2018, is running as a moderate and trying to tie Ciattarelli to President Trump. Ciattarelli counters that Sherrill is blaming Mr. Trump for everything.

New Jersey Republican candidate Jack Ciattarelli and Democratic candidate Mikie Sherrill. CBS News New York

Both candidates are appealing to voters' concerns about the high cost of living: Ciattarelli is touting a "Make New Jersey Affordable Again" pitch, while Sherrill features an "Affordability Agenda" on her campaign website. 

In September, CBS News reported that a branch of the National Archives released a mostly unredacted version of Sherrill's military records to an ally of Ciattarelli in error. 

Republicans allied with Ciattarelli have been examining Sherrill's record in the Navy, looking for information about a Naval Academy cheating scandal that implicated over 100 midshipmen. Sherrill was not accused of wrongdoing but did not walk in her graduation, which she said was because she "didn't turn in some of my classmates." Sherrill had an unblemished career in the Navy and, as a midshipman, received a Navy Achievement Medal in 1991 for saving the life of a classmate.

The mayoral race between Democrat Zohran Mamdani, independent Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa had record-breaking early voting turnout before polls opened at 6 a.m. Tuesday across the five boroughs. 

NYC mayoral candidates Zohran Mamdani (L), Andrew Cuomo (C) and Curtis Sliwa (R) spend the final days on the campaign trail.  (L) Adam Gray/Bloomberg via Getty Images, (C) TIMOTHY A.CLARY/AFP via Getty Images, (R) Stephanie Keith/Getty Images

By noon, the City Board of Elections had reported 1,195,062 voter check-ins — including 735,317 during early voting. Brooklyn has the highest voter turnout so far, followed by Manhattan, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island. Polls stay open until 9 p.m. ET.

In addition to the mayor's race, New Yorkers are also voting for several other local offices and six ballot proposals. 

Several polling sites in New Jersey received threats this morning, but two senior homeland security officials and a federal law enforcement source said there are currently no credible threats to polling sites nationwide, including in New Jersey. Those threats were determined to be a hoax.

New Jersey Lt. Gov. Tahesha Way said in a statement that the bomb threats resulted in the closure of several polling sites. After law enforcement determined the threats were not credible, some were reopened. State Attorney General Matthew Platkin said other polling sites remained closed and voters were being directed to cast their ballots at nearby locations instead.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency promised Tuesday to "steadfastly operate within its statutory mission to protect the nation's critical infrastructure from cyber and physical threats," even amid the shutdown, which CISA director of public affairs Marci McCarthy blamed on Democrats.

Voters headed to the polls today in several states, with races that are being closely watched in New York City, New Jersey and Virginia. New York City is choosing a new mayor, while New Jersey and Virginia voters are electing a governor. In California, redistricting is on the ballot as Proposition 50. Each of these races could be viewed early bellwethers for next year's midterm elections.

Here are the poll closing times for those races:

7 p.m. ET: Polls close in Virginia

8 p.m. ET: Polls close in New Jersey

9 p.m. ET: Polls close in New York

11 p.m. ET (8 p.m. PT): Polls close in California

If you're in line when polls close, you'll be allowed to vote.