Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dave Mattingly.
This is Election Day across the U.S.
When the polls open later this morning,
voters in Virginia and New Jersey will be choosing a new governor.
In New York City,
voters will be deciding whether their next mayor will be Democrat Zohran Mamdami,
former governor Andrew Cuomo,
who's running as an independent, or Republican Curtis Sliwa, who sums up the election this way.
This will be a race where the billionaires, the influences,
the insiders will not pick the next mayor of the city of New York.
The people are going to pick the next mayor.
In Michigan, voters in Detroit will be choosing a new mayor for the first time in a dozen years.
As Quinn Kleinfelter with member station WDET reports,
the winner of the Mayoral Race will make history in the Motor City.
City Council President Mary Sheffield took office shortly before Detroit exited bankruptcy in 2014.
Now Sheffield could blaze a trail as the first woman to ever serve as the city's mayor.
Most Detroiters believe that it is time for a woman,
a woman that is capable and experienced and ready they want to lead.
Her opponent, the Reverend Solomon Kinlock Jr.,
also stands on the edge of history as potentially the first clergyman to ever lead Detroit's government.