The final hour of the Election Day morning broadcast features high-level legal analysis, downstate political reporting, and breaking international foreign policy news. Former Missouri Attorney General and former FBI co-deputy director Andrew Bailey joins the program to stress the urgency of passing Amendment 3 and defeating Amendment 6, highlighting how federal violent crime grants and interagency enforcement have driven reductions in violent crime across St. Louis. Political analyst Ryan Wiggins reports live from a Metro East polling station in Madison County, Illinois, examining heavy downstate campaign spending, a local advisory ballot referendum supporting mandatory voter ID laws, and key Senate predictions in Texas and Michigan alongside his new horror novel, The Swine Things. The broadcast closes analyzing breaking morning audio of Donald Trump announcing the impending sunset of $4 billion in annual U.S. aid to Israel, overnight U.S. retaliatory strikes in the Strait of Hormuz, steady turnout reports across Wentzville and Jennings, and final preparations for the station's live Election Night results special.
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