Voter in Key State Tells CNN He Voted for Kamala Harris Because His Girlfriend Threatened To Dump Him

A young voter in North Carolina told CNN’s Brianna Keilar he wasn’t going to vote, but his girlfriend threatened to dump him if he didn’t vote for Vice President Kamala Harris. Part of his story turned out to be a joke.

Going into Election Day, the dominant storylines are the bombshell Des Moines Register poll showing Vice President Kamala Harris ahead of Trump in Iowa, and the dizzying sprint of swing state rallies that spit out viral moments at breakneck speed.

Once polls began to close, cable news networks settled in with the familiar mix of panel chatter, exit polls, magic walls, and live shots at polling places.

During Tuesday night’s live CNN election coverage, Brian Flores told Keilar he was joking about his girlfriend’s threat, but that she did persuade him to vote for Harris instead of staying home. His story was a hit with the CNN studio:

BRIANNA KEILAR: I’m joined now by a voter, Brian Flores. You just voted.

BRIAN FLORES: I did.

BRIANNA KEILAR: And who did you vote for?

BRIAN FLORES: For Harris.

BRIANNA KEILAR: And tell me about how you came to this decision.

BRIAN FLORES: So I wasn’t going to vote at all until my girlfriend was blowing up my phone telling me to go vote. And if I didn’t, she was going to break up with me. So now I’m here.

BRIANNA KEILAR: Was she seriously going to break up with you?

BRIAN FLORES: No, I made that up. She didn’t say that. But. But it’s funny to say that.

BRIANNA KEILAR: So she asked you. She asked you to vote for Harris.

BRIAN FLORES: She did.

BRIANNA KEILAR: And so you voted for Biden in 2020. But what were you going to do this time?

BRIAN FLORES: I wasn’t going to vote at all.

BRIANNA KEILAR: You were just going to stay home.

BRIAN FLORES: I was gonna stay home, eating chips or something. I don’t know.

BRIANNA KEILAR: And so you came just before the polls closed. But here’s the thing. How long did it. Most people have been saying it’s taking him 5 or 10 minutes. Tell us how long it took you to vote.

BRIAN FLORES: So I got off of work at 4:30. Drove here about 30 minutes. I think I walked in, like, at 5:05 ish. And I was waiting for about two hours. I just walked out–

BRIANNA KEILAR: Two hours to fix your address, right?

BRIAN FLORES: Two hours.

BRIANNA KEILAR: Brian Flores, thank you so much. Erin, back to you.

ERIN BURNETT: Well, that’s devotion! That’s devotion. Two hours to fix the address and stay there. I mean. All right. You know, John, but that those are the stories the Harris campaign wants, more stories like that.

JOHN KING: That’s a vote today that was not going to be there yesterday or the day before, which in a competitive race, it starts with one. And that’s how you build.

Watch above via CNN’s live election coverage.