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planning autumn an empire forges its alliance with germany and the central powers as the war gives birth to three nationalist movements the world determine the future world war one through our eyes on al-jazeera. i know that you're a car with all special extended coverage of the results of the us elections this hour we expect to see a number of results coming in. voting ends in the latest eastern states in the race to decide who will control the u.s.
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congress. state every seat in the house of representatives one of the senate and possibly donald trump's political legacy. i'm going to get a lecture in orlando florida where we're following the race is one for the senate the other for the governorship of this state and we don't want eight of those counts or both races are still too close to call. it's three hours g.m.t. that's ten pm on the u.s. east coast seven pm in california voting is still continuing in the western u.s. bobs we are getting the results of from the east and the starting to come in quickly the policies seem to be neck and neck in many races suspension is still high voter turnout has been much higher than normal for
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a midterm election early numbers are indicating it could be the highest in a generation president donald trump isn't on the bottles but the midterms are traditionally seen as a referendum on the incumbent in the white house and this year is no different. so you got voting wrapping up in several u.s. states polls have just closed in iowa montana nevada and utah we're watching senate races in nevada and montana that are expected to be close close that's going to remind us what we'll be watching over the coming hours all four hundred and thirty five seats in the house of representatives are up for grabs remember the magic number is two hundred eighteen that's how many each party needs for control the democrats we can see currently have eighty five the republicans just inching ahead with one hundred but of course the night of vote counting is still young let's take
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a look now at the senate where we've got thirty five seats up for grabs that's of course a third of the house in this race who got the democrats they are sitting at thirty eight the republicans at forty six now remember the republicans only need fifty to have control of the senate because vice president mike pence he has a casting vote the democrats looking for fifty one seats trailing right there but again there's still a long way to go we are starting to get some reaction to the night's results from both sides of the political divide in just a short time ago we heard from dancy pelosi she's the democratic leader in the house and is in line to be the next speaker if her party wins back the majority they need a net gain of twenty three seats to do that but pelosi struck a confident tone after her party flipped two republican held house seats in florida
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and virginia. when democrats win and we will win tonight. we will have a congress that is that is open transparent and accountable to the american people we will strive for bipartisanship seeking common ground as you are responsible to do but when we can't find that common ground standing our ground. and the white house press secretary in the polls are also striking a confident tone on how the night was going for the republicans got a long night to go a lot of races left and at the end of the day the president's going to work with whoever comes into office we have a lot of things on our agenda and we look forward to getting them all done and anybody that was into supporting a blue wave tonight it's not going to get it maybe you get a ripple but i certainly don't think that there's only way or behind them look i think so far most of the races where the president is gone and those candidates are doing extremely well you also have to look at the fact joe manchin is one of the
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few democrat the only democrat to come out and vote for brett kavanaugh i think that's a moment that's probably helped him in some cases people that are embracing the president embracing his policies are doing well. ok so we've got correspondents tracking those results closely across the country we've got john hendren live in indiana the home state of vice president mike pence also is live in florida where there are two close races for governor and senator chris and salumi live for us in malls pennsylvania states with several key house races as well as get some latest results the indiana republican candidates mike braun has won the. well so i'm going to get some more thoughts that i got from a west of a genuine joe manchin the winning fifty percent saying republican
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cons at. forty five percent so republicans taking a senate house that in west virginia ok let's go to the to john hendren he's in indianapolis in indiana and it was a hotly contested race full the senate in indiana a disappointment for the incumbent joe connelly the democrats a lot of people disappointed that behind you it has had courses was. it right that clapping you hear behind me that's not for joe donnelly this is the democratic party i couldn't see the evening in there celebrating other candidates who have done better than joe donnelly did he was the sitting senator here for six years they called him the accidental senator because here in indiana it is rare for a democrat to be elected statewide office i am a democrat i really hope that this year of all years with donald trump's popularity significantly was. i have a house
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a republican state and i really hope to keep joe donnelly in office but in the end he conceded well before the votes were all counted because of the distance it was just seemed far i make was all across the midwest there are many races still to be clearly still entirely possible that the democrats could achieve their goals of winning the house but what we've seen in some key recent years is that in fact that the wave has not yet materialized in kentucky amy mcgrath was a very attractive candidate the former f.a.a. chief in moline filing. and she was running again i had your car. that was in a district that trying to be won by fifteen percentage points in twenty sixteen and she really gave me a raise so some she lack of popularity has closed the gap somewhat but in. in the end she was unable to make it up she lost and in north dakota we have heightened high camp who had voted in favor and i'm sorry it voted against the president's
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supreme court nominee after she did that i hope polls drop by something like ten percent and she is not looking very good tonight she was about fifteen points behind just days ago and polls and then there's another senate race here in news or another claire mccaskill is running she has been a survivor she might yet survive but in the senate the democrats so far tonight have been disappointed they've got a lot of ground to make up in the house i but as you heard nancy pelosi say they think that that they can do it on this was a place in the midwestern state the place that trump spent a lot of time campaigning isn't showing now that that paid off. well time came here i why i'm saying he backed micron just yesterday that might have made the difference he really has a way of getting out of new voters and you're right i mean trump strategy in twenty
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six team was to be on the offensive even though he won the reliably republican states and then from democratic states states like ohio wisconsin michigan states that usually republicans don't win so the effort that he's put into the midwest seems to have paid off and he seems to have broadened his coalition of to include one more old voters in the midwest two decades ago democratic voters and now seem solidly in the republican fold up. ok john many thanks indeed for joining us. so we knew another. result was just come in the senate house senate seat in tennessee and there we can see marsha blackburn she's won by fifty six percent beating phil bredesen forty two percent tennessee going to. republicans in that state ok let's go over now to gallagher
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he's live in florida and we look to florida don't we have a sort of a bellwether state it generally gives an idea as to what's happening in the rest of the country it's certainly been a very hotly contested race for the senate and the house at looking at the moment. getting through this is i mean i've been covering politics in florida for close to fifteen years and i'm used to nail biting races or these two races are watching now and i've been watching all day i so incredibly close there's already talk of potential recount looking at this senate race between bill nelson the incumbent democrat and the current governor of florida rick scott there are literally a few thousand votes separating those two candidates with about ninety eight percent of the precincts reporting so that is a real nail biter for both republican and democratic party supporters and then we look at the other race the governor's race between andrew gilligan the progressive african-american democrat the america tallahassee and rhonda scientist
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a republican who's really molded in solving the image of donald trump and they can live with about ninety nine percent of precincts reporting there are just a few thousand votes between those two candidates as well in both cases the republicans are inching ahead at their democratic rival so potentially and i say this with a great deal of hesitancy we're looking at potentially this state having a republican governor in the shape of roger scientists and a republican senator in. shape rick scott but i can lose a few percentage points a few precincts that have been reported that could make all the difference because those two races are simply so close i mean a recount i don't know if the people of florida can take that once again remember this is the state where we had the hanging chads back in the year two thousand but in other news one of the amendments on the ballot was to restore voting rights to convicted felons in the state which are about one and a half million and florida voters of an overwhelmingly back not amendment meaning
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that invicta felons in this state will now automatically get the voting rights act so from a civil rights point of view that is a huge victory whatever happens in these are the two races that we're watching so closely and one of the other races in your area. is there's georgia state abrams also. hoping to make history as that state's first black governor actually saying live pictures of him. coming in to us he's giving a speech to ask you how he was fairing but perhaps we can just have a quick listen in to see what he's saying so that we might exercise our right to vote the spirit of naggers in this room. i think about our luis so. well this is not not speaking just at the moment yet and the white house he fairing in that race that has become the first black kansas in.
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the last polling results i've seen and i've been focused pretty much on florida looks like today and see abrams is not doing so well but the real issue there is about voter suppression her opponent is also the second to general george earthy and has according to his opponent suppress the votes of over fifty thousand people of which eighty percent are sent to be minorities so again that issue of voter suppression really coming to the forefront of course stacy abrams if she did win would become the first female african-american governor of this state to georgia but from the results i last saw it looks like she was trailing her opponent by a long shot but to be sure that an issue of voter suppression in georgia and in the south in general which i've covered that story many many times is something that isn't going to go away we just had felons rights restored here in florida but at the same time in georgie the accusations that a man running for that state's governor is actually in his current role actively suppress the votes of more than fifty thousand people many of whom are minority so
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that issue is not going to go away in the state of georgia that race is still being watched very closely and so on lots of issues rising up there between these two states between georgia and florida but i think again it's important to note this because for years i've been covering this story about how felons convicted felons in the state do not have the right to vote now one point five million of them actually do have the right to vote that was overwhelmingly voted by floridians by about sixty percent so that is a clear victory the civil rights activists absolutely and i mean of course that wasn't stacy abrams talking because he is a woman and thank you very much for joining us from florida let's go now to kristen state machines and mas pennsylvania now a number of saints in that. we democrats all hoping to take from the republicans house and look at it we got that we was thanks representatives and
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celebrations are already underway here in the seventy's just like just north of pittsburgh in pennsylvania where democrat on it was thank you jack thanks and i just thank you to a three time republican incumbent was heath rothfuss and you can see he's on the stage behind me here and i started out by talking with a message of coming together this after that terrible shooting just over a week ago here at a synagogue thank you so much how do you know and he is not the only democrat expected to win here in pennsylvania mary kay scanlon in the fifth district and another democrat winning in the city was
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thank you was we were still there was a group that was unconstitutional thank you women voters wasn't that number was here it was also was no signs that that was trending in this state that didn't go to gaza which was sixty was how democrats were ok christine i think what is leave it there for the moment because it was getting pretty boisterous and this is going to be a problem we're going to have throughout the night so the crowd celebrates and the headquarters but we certainly will be coming back to you thanks very much for the moment. ok justin sage mitchell is assistant investments in northwestern university here in castle where she teaches american government politics slightly more sedate
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here in the studio but you can still feel the energy of the night in the united states it is shaping up to be a very exciting race indeed however there have been some early disappointments for the democrats have been that there was some talk of maybe them not getting the senate with the loss of these seats in indiana yes. i think that we're seeing a tale of three elections right now the governors are going to do one thing the senate is going to do another thing in the house is going to do a third. i mean when we look at the governor races for example very very close races that are still going on as we mentioned in florida right both too close to call the governor and the senate race there as well as the governor race in georgia but then we see other really positive governor races starting to come in that will be firsts exciting firsts for both democrats and republicans who are on talk about women maine is seemingly poised to to elect their first female governor
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a democratic candidate janet mills and likewise in south dakota it's close but if they elect their first female governor that will be the republican christie you know him so we're going to be seen some interesting things there we also have colorado jared polis looks very strong there as the democratic candidate for governor and he would be the first openly gay. openly gay governor of the u.s. so these are some exciting time ok talking about women it is going to depend to some live pictures that coming to us from wisconsin that we can see tammy baldwin speaking said let's just listen to what she's going to say their ideas you have shown how we make government work for them. this is a hard fought race i have a tremendous amount of respect for anyone motivated to run for office based on their personal experience and mayor ran for office advocating
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a better education for her daughter and i want to thank her for her sixteen years of service in our state legislature. thanks to madd i also give thanks to my mother she passed away last year during this journey just as i was getting started and through her struggles she became strong and so did i and the strength and passion that she passed on to me have been with me every step of the way in sharing the story of my own family's battle with addiction and mental illness i wanted to give hope to other families who face the same challenges by letting them know you're not alone. and we make can make progress together.
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in wisconsin we understand that america will only be made stronger when our political debate becomes more about issues and less about knocking each other down. and. we truly must start working together to lift each other up. i have been so inspired by your engagement in our democracy and your grassroots activism to make a difference there you've been listening to the victory speech of tommy baldwin she's just been voted for republicans to the work for the democrats yes absolutely . as the new senator for with honestly more speech that very emotional and really well the interesting thing about her is that she is the first openly gay member of senate yes yes i mean that's another
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first we're talking about first for women to talk about people coming into politics and votes elected office of first time this is another big focus yes it's great news for the for wisconsin democrats that tammy baldwin has won her re-election here because that might be helpful for the governor race which is currently still in the process of being counted too close to call we have the incumbent scott walker who is a republican. facing a challenger tony evers who is the head of the public school system and that is an interesting race because in wisconsin that puts education at the forefront of this of this of the statewide governor race and we will see what happens there yes this thing when i was doing a little bit of reading about tony evans that he's considered to be very quiet and steady is not perhaps the leader that most people would consider him but all they underestimating him. well i've also heard him being described as at last an adult
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in the room right ok so there they may be the leader that the precise leader that people are looking for but you know all jokes aside wisconsin has had some issues with their public education system and it is not that scott walker has been totally anti education but his policies have really been all over the map and people are looking for a much steadier hand a much clearer policy related to their public education system what scott walker has been clearer on however are voter suppression issues in terms of regulations of various things voter id laws polling places ways of getting i.d.'s these are unfortunately issues that wisconsin voters are dealing with right now we saw record numbers of people coming out and saying that's a record numbers coming out in today's voting as well as the highest numbers in a generation when we're talking about these numbers and it's very difficult as it
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is every district is so different but is it going to tend to favor the democrats all the republicans or is that just a open ended question oh i love that you asked this question and. it act i really do think that what we're seeing is an activation of the base on both sides the early voting did not clearly favor one or the other rather it showed an increased interest in this midterm election among all americans which honestly i think is a very positive thing so what we're seeing here is that maybe people are becoming more politicized realizing the stakes at hand carrying about their democracy coming out and voting and and so that's ultimately a very positive thing and that's and that's why i'm in favor of more bipartisan or nonpartisan initiatives such as what recently happened in pennsylvania we're seeing connor lam celebrating a victory in pennsylvania well that's a new district that district had been just decided that it was gerrymandered which
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means drawn in an unfair way it had been favoring the republicans and so the state supreme court of pennsylvania had thrown out their entire map and all of the pennsylvania house districts are now redrawn districts that are meant to be fairer for the communities that they're representative of and and that's the kind of thing that maybe we'll see more of over the next few years as hopefully people begin to realize that we should not be taking votes voting rights away from our fellow citizens rather making sure that votes count votes matter voices are heard and not taking them for granted voter apathy is well and truly i. think we will see that it's very much will come back to the coming hours so what does make these particular polls so important well donald trump republican policy is bracing for a likely loss of seats in the house of representatives arrivals the democrats need to gain twenty three seats to take control of that chamber of congress and if this
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happens it could allow the democrats to launch several committee investigations of the trump administration possibly even impeachment proceedings now as for the senate. well several democrats are fighting to keep their seats in states that trump won in two thousand and sixteen so the republicans believe that they can retain control of this chamber now thirty six of the fifty us states electing governors as well and ten of those are considered toss ups so are keeping a close eye on those races republicans control twenty nine governorships the democrats currently have twenty one so midterm elections are traditionally seen as a referendum on the incumbent president and this year is no different perhaps no more so than this year our white house correspondent can be held joins us live so of course trump is not on the ticket but is extremely divisive presidency is key in this vote isn't it. it's certainly key and it certainly has been
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a referendum about this president one that he said as much many times in fact the president decided not to talk about the successes he's had with the economy the low unemployment rate the rise in wages instead he decided to focus on immigration something that has been a focal point from the very first days that he announced a travel ban when he became president right until the closing arguments before this vote even as he was advised by some of his white house aides to talk about the economy and even republicans saying we need you to talk about the economy the president went a different direction and his rhetoric and his tone has certainly been divison there's no question about that and the president even expressing some regret in the final hours before the polling began as he spoke to a conservative outlet saying that he perhaps at times could have taken a softer tone but what is clear according to sarah sanders as she spoke on the lawn
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of the white house in the last hour is that well there is an acknowledgement that there have been losses in the house of representatives what the white house is making in terms of its argument now is that the president essentially is saving the republican hold in the senate in fact where the president went to campaign on behalf of senate candidate as they have seen the victories they say they see this as not only an embracing of the president but also of his policies. is true generally speaking as he being a good thing or a bad thing for republican candidates as they get down into the grassroots. well it's really interesting when you look at one of the final ads that was put out by this white house one that we should note the president did not like it was an ad targeting sort of the college educated female voter one that has been declining in terms of demographic of support for donald trump in that ad it did boast about the
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economy things that ordinary americans care about but the president never appeared in this ad that i think gives you your answer right there are many republicans trying to distance themselves in specially where there were competitive races they tried to distance themselves from the president in the hope they could stand alone on the economy but the president made that impossible whether it was with his rhetoric whether it was with his rallies whether it was with some of his particularly uncomfortable tweets even in the final days of campaigning there's no question depended on the race in the area but in those tough races in many cases it was in the house of representatives a challenge having the president advocating on behalf of republicans ok committee for the moment thanks very much it was going to be quite a long couple of very nice couple of hours as we're getting all these results starting to come in and we should very soon get a clear picture isn't we about the state of the senate and indeed the house of representatives let's go now though to all social media produce and the haunting
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and this is clearly a top trend in the us isn't it. well the internet is the new campaign battleground we're seeing tens of millions of tweets with hashtags like i voted mid-term twenty eighteen and just simply hash tag vote people all over the world are talking about this alleged election especially young people people been posting on instagram twitter and facebook sharing pictures of themselves with their famed i voted stickers as usual celebrities are also using their influence to support candidates but no one has had an impact quite like singer taylor swift last month she declared her support for a democrat running for senate in tennessee it was the first time she has endorsed a candidate. good morning america as taylor it was swift as one hundred and twelve million followers on instagram and has asked all of them to come out and vote just to put that into perspective the white house only has four million followers and according to a polling site called target smart there's been a seven hundred sixty seven percent increase in young voters compared to two
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thousand and fourteen many are calling that the swift effect so what it is today would tuesday like what was it that everyone is supposed to today. oh yeah go vote today and again once you voted take a picture of it tag me in your photo hashtag just voted and i'll be looking for you help you voting you guys like taylor we've also been asking you to send us your election thoughts here's what some of you had to say my release of voting is that i would like to change the. of this country in the only ways i can i can do that to hurt a lot of people walking around with i voted stickers on sorry for me i got some circumstantial evidence but it seems like a lot of people have been going out and getting their votes intervene people seem to be proudly wearing those stickers today. social media has been pivotal in this
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election and twitter and facebook know it twitter blocked over ten thousand accounts that were being used to discourage voting facebook says it's blocked thirty accounts and eighty five on instagram that's hardly anything no compared to the millions of accounts to lead it for spreading misinformation and the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election we also want to hear from you if you voted send us a video telling us what issues were most important to you you can set it to me on twitter directly my name there is that lee harvey a.j. eve will continue to monitor the conversation online but for now back to you. thanks very much well of course we've still got plenty more ahead on the u.s. elections as these results keep coming in the not diplomatic and so we're going to be explaining the implications of all of these results on the foreign policy.
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however still me few hours still to go and we've already seen one front go off the atlantic show the next from this is the one to watch this is the one they had to win a dog that's running through fairly quickly so daylight hours should see everything fine the east coast with all the action other long way north cross the border a lot of tired and cultish weather or through georgia northern florida and back towards the south because the texas this area i think will stay active from the point of view of rain for thunderstorms but the rest of the us at least for days looking fairly quiet not going to last that way to the tempting county manas three minus two ish snow shows up in the when it colorado by this time and that's quite telling because this area which i can show you as a sort of blue who kip new year is going to be dominant and even move a little bit further south over the next few days a cold spell to most states to the south coast temps never much of
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