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Add Donald Trump as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Donald Trump news, video, and analysis from ABC News.After racking up thousands of miles on Air Force One, flying all over the country for an unprecedented number of raucous campaign rallies, President Trump is having a quiet Election Day at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
With the future of his presidency and control of Congress at stake, the president was lying low on Tuesday. He would be “making phone calls, monitoring Congressional, Senate and Gubernatorial races across the country and meeting with his political team for real-time updates,” press secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters in the early hours of Election Day after the president arrived back at the White House shortly before 2 a.m.
"Later this evening the President and First Lady have invited family and friends to join them in the residence as they watch election returns,” Sanders said.
Trump's blitz of 44 "Make America Great Again" rallies took him to 23 states since the primaries began, and culminated in three events that stretched late into the night. The final stretch played out like a rock and roll reunion tour, as the president’s advisers. including Sanders and Kellyanne Conway and his favorite Fox News pundits including Sean Hannity and Judge Jeanine Pirro stumped for the president’s agenda – and Republicans – on stage to a cheering crowd at his final rally Monday evening in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
"I had no idea you were going to invite me up here," Hannity said after being called on stage. "And the one thing that has made and defined your presidency more than anything else: Promises made, promises kept."
In a statement Tuesday, Fox News called the appearance of network talent at the president's political rally "an unfortunate distraction." During the rally, Hannity pointed to news reporters there to cover the event calling them "fake news."
“Fox News does not condone any talent participating in campaign events,” the news network said in a statement. “We have an extraordinary team of journalists helming our coverage tonight and we are extremely proud of their work. This was an unfortunate distraction and has been addressed.”