Photos of Americans voting on midterm Election Day

President Donald Trump says “everything’s going good” as midterm elections that will serve as a referendum on his second term come to a close. Polling sites opened along the East Coast on Tuesday with few disruptions. Americans angry over high prices and an unpopular war with Iran are deciding whether to drastically shift power in Washington. Democrats are cautiously optimistic about their prospects, betting discontent over Trump’s failure to deliver on his promise to tackle rising costs will depress Republican turnout. Trump declared in a Fox News Channel interview that "inflation is solved” — even though his Commerce Department says consumer prices rose 3.6% in September from a year earlier.

The first polling sites have opened across much of the East Coast on Election Day in the U.S. midterm elections. Voting was mostly smooth, even as flooding in Florida and parts of the Southwest were leading to some changes to polling locations. In New York's Westchester County, where some voters are casting ballots in a competitive U.S. House race, an issue with voting machines accepting paper ballots was requiring ballots to be diverted to emergency bags for later counting, but voting was ongoing. The final day of voting arrives against a backdrop of uncertainty after a year in which President Donald Trump has tried to interfere in how states run their elections. Trump also has sown doubt in the integrity of the election, as he has in the past.