Detroit breaks opening-day early voting record

Well, just eight days until the midterm elections and the city of Detroit breaking a new record for the first day of early voting. Fox 2's Amy Lang joins us live from Detroit's West Side with more on a really impressive voter turnout. And that is really interesting to see a huge audience coming out to vote. Yeah, it's really great, Ruth, obviously, to see people out and exercising their vote and their right and their civic duty. And on Saturday, you know, they had this big block party here at the Northwest Activity Center and throughout the city they had a really you know robust early voting presence they had about 2,300 people and so that was great it's more than in 2024 and one of the things that we found out here today that's been really fun is the number of first-time voters and I want to let you hear from a few of them what did you just do I just voted For the first time? Yeah. I just encourage them to make a difference, make history. I realize how important it is to vote, to make a difference. And pretty much today they made their voice be heard, and I'm so excited for them. She really got me into wanting to vote, so it's kind of nice. I like it. I enjoyed it. It was my first time. First time voting? Yeah. What did you think? I was a little scared. Just a little bit. But it was like, it's like my civic duty to do, so I got to do it. What's your message to other young people? My message to other young people, come out here and vote. Come out here and vote. It's important. It's important. That's my message. So these first-time voters really seem to enjoy themselves. Now, the girls said there were a lot of questions, so that was a little long on the ballot. But, you know, great to see them out here. And the reception everybody gets is so enthusiastic. Like, every time there's a new first-time voter, everyone starts cheering. So we talked to the city clerk, Janice Winfrey. She's so thrilled to see this happening. And, you know, she's encouraging everyone to make a plan, get out, vote early, make it happen. We're doubling our record in 2024. So, so far, every day has been double what we got then. And so this is going to be a very, very exciting next few days as it relates to early voting in the city of Detroit. We're open from 9 to 5 early voting. But if you find yourself in line at 5 o'clock, it's okay. It's all right. We're going to take that. You're going to process your ballot just like you're at the precinct on Election Day. So this early voting center is now closed. 5 o'clock, they closed the doors, but obviously everybody still in there is finishing up their ballot and some of the first-time voters who got a very enthusiastic applause today, Caitlin and Reggie, first time, what'd you think? I think it's important everyone tells us to get our voice heard, get into that habit early so I just think it's important and just my responsibility to do. Yeah, that's wonderful and Reggie, what did you think when they realized you were first-time voters and everyone started cheering? I was really excited because I didn't think they were going to cheer for us like that, honestly. But I was really, like, also just happy to be here, you know, happy to, you know, put my word out. Happy to be part of it. And, you know, you can't complain, right, if you don't vote. Exactly. Even if you're young, you still got to get out there. Especially, I think, if you're young, you know. So congratulations, guys. You have your stickers. You're putting your stickers on. All right. Get your stickers adhered. Fantastic. So that's live from the Northwest Activity Center with some lovely first-time voters, Caitlin and Reggie. Big applause for them. Back to you.