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arizona, those caused some disruption, but they turned out to be there was nothing to them. the secretary of state here said that he had information linking those incidents to russian operatives. no comment on that from the justice department yet as far as we are, we know. but it's a big contrast to 2020. when after news came out that the donald trump was losing arizona. this whole. busy area behind me was full of an angry mob of trump. supporters. right now, things are about as quiet as they could be sick. all right, that's a picture in arizona rob reynolds reporting from that. thanks rob. i just don't pause. i thought hundreds, mt your what you out 0. we're bringing you extended coverage of the 2024 years presidential election on the clock from all global headquarters. here in the hall. many old polls across the united states have closed lies on the 7 by from ground states public and kind of donald trump is projected to win north carolina,
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which is a major blow to democratic candidate to come to hers. georgia and pennsylvania. still too close to cool, but once results come in they will determine the outcome of this election. let's head to florida island fisher following the trump campaign outside the west palm beach convention center in, in florida. and it was not connected in north carolina, but the donald trump is managed to when it does say, a great mood and celebration. he spent a lot of time in north carolina and the last days of the campaign. in fact, fort events of his last name were healthy and it seems to have paid off and there was a huge cheat among his supporters. when the result was a note in the house leadership for the republican party and making the way to model lago from new york from georgia from louisiana as well it's, it's clear that donald trump is going to appear at some point this evening in front of his supporters and claim victory is certainly shipping that way. i'd certainly
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be trump campaign. believe that the, the way for some of the hardest to claim at pennsylvania is just too narrow and with pennsylvania, she's not going to win the white haze. so they've been pretty giddy here for quite some time. they thought that george was going to go their way. it looks as if it probably is rad. reference barger, that the secretary of state, the, of his said that he don't know something though hasn't been somebody to believe that also got a huge to you here. it just seems that the trump campaign thing that, that they've done enough and that donald trump is going to be back in the white house, come january next year. so what's, what's the next step, as far as the drum company is concerned so that they will be there and, and when they make a statement, it would come from the convention says where you are now. that's right. i, i mean the trump campaign seems to think that the donald trump won this because he stuck to issues that a. yeah, he, he been a great
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a couple of how to see he taught ill love of jo bite and then democrats in general . but he talked about how people were struggling with their salary heats. he talked about how installation had right, come in and can families. he talked about how there was stability around the world and he could fix it there. whether or not you believe that certainly his voters that and that is why the key mode in force for donald trump. there was told that he may have lost a lot of the latino vote because of comments made at madison square. got me an event in new york just over a week ago that appears not to have happened inside speaking to one republican they said, remember, 2 years ago in the mid terms, everyone talked about a possible red wave that the republicans were going to switch to power in washington, and that didn't happen said, well this is the red wave, it just arrived to you 2 years too late. and that's why, you know that the house leadership are heading here. it looks as if republicans are going to be in charge of the house. looks as well as if they might,
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well just take control of the send it to this is a queen suite for, for donald trump, an absolute vindication of him a few hours ago saying he thought this was the best campaign that he'd run of the 3 and vindication of his decision to battle for the nomination. one more time, rather than hand it to someone like one desantis, the governor of florida. a and all right, thanks for that. tell him for sure that in florida. uh, let's head to michigan to tape one way to raise a boat is standing by for us and to raise a couple of harris. i desperately need some good news from somewhere. what's happening while you are the last suddenly i'm here at the savannah by the american community here in the city of detroit. born in michigan, one of the largest concentration of the matter of americans in the united states. people have been watching the selection very closely because of the 1st for many of
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the people that have spoken to many have relative and 11 on in guys. and they've been struggling to decide to grow the democratic party. people used to vote for the democratic party right here. that's something that's changed in the past. you're mostly because of the ongoing moral garza, i'm living on the board. are telling us that many of them voted for donald trump and others with the green party candidate deals started so suddenly, you know, the bi election. this election salisbury's person are for many of the people that we've been talking to were still waiting for the results. only 40 percent off of the votes have been counted so far. so no, trump is the meetings and the selection. let's not forget that back in 2020 took all most the day to declare don't bite in the winter in the state. there were some issues with the fat man in ballard at the time that the ladies account thing over time zone. i promised that that they weren't irregularities, that triggered some protests in downtown detroit,
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not far away from where we are. we went through some of those folding stations and there's we, i think we security right there. windows have been let prove monique, to prevent any type of violence or, or incidents from happening. again, in fact, the state has taken measures to guarantee and to speed up the counseling program to prevent for out what happened back in 2020 from happening again. so certainly this is a razor been election is, is a very tight convection. it's a whole number. i say there's lots of people who voted for donald trump. lots of people who voted for cabinet highways. but of course, phone lines are in this community, the arab american community that even though that you voted for a year for the democratic party, they have changed their vote. and this would have a huge impact on who wins this faith back to you. right, so thank you to raise the by that in michigan. let's said i would sincerely, is there a we've been trying to have the last couple of hours or so and it's, it's changed radically from nothing being that clear to bear. it's
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a direction to travel. apparently now, yeah, it's not the same mood i would imagine indic various campaign headquarters as it was an hour ago. everything is still possible, right. but right now donald trump probably has a smile on his face. couple of harris, not so much. let's see why. let's see what we can put in the wall for you. first of all, hawaii has now been called and the vice president is projected to carry the state of hawaii, and it's for electoral votes. so that's for more in the blue column. this was expected not a surprise. hawaii, alaska, the 1st the last 2 states to be called we kind of knew where they were going. alaska hasn't been called a while. you have. so for more, for complet, harris, michigan, where are we there? this is a swing state with about half of the boat now reporting donald trump is ahead. $52.00 to $47.00. again, these numbers are gonna change. we don't know. first of all, we don't know who's going to win the state. we're not calling. it hasn't been called were not there, but donald trump is a head right now in michigan with 15 electoral votes. this is part of the blue wall . so it matters because complet harris wants to hold the blue wall bite and took it
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back from trump in 2020. she wants to keep it in 2024 for the moment. that is not happening in michigan, but it's still early days. the night is still young in michigan specifically now georgia, we're going down to the south. 16 electoral votes this time. 93 percent of the votes counted or reported. rather, donald trump is the head. 5148 to and the margin of i was going to say victory, but we can't say that we are not calling the state yet where we are the boat difference. it started at $150.00. now it's been $140.00 and now it's at $118.00. look, we have to be very careful for all the states, of course, but specifically when it comes to georgia, anybody who was watching this closely 4 years ago will remember the georgia throughout the night. there was a point, it looked like it was going to donald trump and then later biden caught up. okay, so this is where we are right now with 93 percent of the vote reported in georgia. but, but, but remember that the top election official in georgia did say about an hour ago
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now that as far as he was concerned, the race was over and it was for trump, we're not pulling it. but we're putting that, adding that as context. pennsylvania 19 electoral votes. 84 percent of the vote reported. this is the most important battle ground state the most important. so take a moment. the vice president needs this to win the white house. there are very, very few pops to victory for her. if she does not win pennsylvania and right now with a significant 8 out of 10 votes counted, she's behind. okay, she's behind and it's not even that close a $171000.00 votes. this is not good news. this is not good news for the democrats . on the other hand, it is good news for donald trump and team trump. they're going to be very happy at this. okay. let's see what more we can bring you. arizona 11 electro. both we are now in the western part of the united states, only half the boat has been reported, so we can draw any definitive conclusions from this. however, donald trump right now is it had 504950494 donald trump. this could still change,
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it depends where the votes are coming from. the vote difference, $99000.00 votes. so arizona was the 2nd closest or the closest. it was one of the closest wing states, one of the closest states period. and it was one in 2020, and it was won by joe biden, 0.2 or 0.3 percent of the state. that's all it took for biden to put it in the blue call. and but right now, trump is a head, 9000 votes with house half the vote reporting this could go either way. ok, this could go either way. this isn't even giving us a direction of travel other than the fact that right now it is super duper close new hampshire should go to the democrats normally goes to the democrats right now with almost 80 percent of the vote reporting. complet harris is a head 52 percent to donald trump's 47. so that's where we are with new hampshire. we've been telling you since the beginning of the evening, but the democrats get about a 3rd of electoral college votes, typically from the northeastern corner of the united states. so that is your new
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hampshire, is your massachusetts, your connecticut's erode islands, etc. that's what they've been doing. so that is not being called, but that is where we are. i'm just being told, i wanna make sure that i got this right. i'm just being told, we're also watching. remember, the other races is not just the presidential race. congress congress matters. the us senate has now been called for the republicans. okay. it's mostly read. that means the republicans will control the upper house of the us congress. now of course, whoever becomes president at the end of this evening, or however long it takes to call the entire election, they will want to know who they have in congress. what's the majority in the house? what's the majority in the senate? because this is how you pass the laws. this is how you govern the country, right? so the us senate has been called for the republicans. that is extremely good news for the party as a whole. not just for donald trump, we still don't know if he's going to be president. it is very good news for the
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republicans. that's the bottom line. so make that's, that's where we are. look, only one of the battle ground states has been counted. right. that's north carolina . donald trump, of course he carried it last time. he kept it this time. he's going to be happy about that. he also has to be very happy about where he is in georgia and look, he has got to look where the he has got the like, maybe love where the numbers are in the blue wall right now. i can certainly look into it for him. 0, thanks very much. talk to you later. thank you. all right, let's talk now to rick posting, who is economist at the american prospect, and is a historian focused on the conservative movement, jones now from chicago. as i missed the posting, they talked about the women's right, didn't they? they thought of winning over the undecided, but there has been no comma wave definitively, no comma wave. what's happened? do you think? yeah, that seems to be so there was a lot of confidence in democratic circles, a lot of confidence that she would be out performing the polls, which, you know, are built on these kind of rickety foundations of models that are kind of really
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hard to consider. entirely reliable, so people kind of let themselves believe that certain sort of subjective indicators were having in their favor and the state by state and county by county she seems to be in almost every placed under performing. well, joe biden did in 2020. so the idea that democrats had that a lot of women who were supporting republicans kind of, i'm almost under kind of familial pressure, would break, you know, over issues like abortion. and, you know, frankly trumps sexism and boris best. and it seems that the uptick in women voting for harris is being matched. blow for blow by younger male voters who find trumps boyishness. attractive. okay, and are coming now. good numbers for him. now you will be all through a series on the history of americans, political and cultural divisions,
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i think in some form for him series as you are very well placed to discuss the current state of affairs. what's your sense? yeah. about that 2nd trump presidency. should it come about it's a very dire prospect of the republican party has become increasingly authoritarian to year by year, increasingly on loose from the norms of democracy in fair play and truth itself. i mean, let's not forget that, you know, trump is running on a series of other fiction. so, you know, the idea that emigrants are bringing a crime weight in the united states. the idea that the american economy is terrible under democrats. in fact, it's pretty much, according to the latest issue, the economist, the m v of the world. you know, the idea that, you know, children are going to school and having their genders change without parents permission. so the fact that you know, a series of entirely mendacious representations about included and i'm use, you know, almost in the fastest mode is able to bring the concepts to
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a draw says very frightening things about the political culture. right? we was going to say that because this, despite what you say, you know, the majority of the voting public seem to, at this point seemed to agree with donald trump. yes, i absolutely agree with you. i think that's a very important to confront. there was an enormous amount of rhetoric, amman, uh, you know, lots of media publications. some of them, you know, not ideological some of the left of center. so you're guessing that since trump's speaking, you know, as becoming so distant here, but that, that he almost seemed to be, you know, cognitively impaired at times that his message, it just kind of been boiled down to this crystalline us versus them violet rhetoric about who to hate that somehow he was slipping right? that he somehow was losing his grip to his campaign was chaos. but i think we need to consider that. that is the feature of trumps appeal, not the bugs that people are choosing that sort of ugliness. choosing that sort of
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hatred, and that this is the direction that united states, you know, seems to be, had it. and of, for anyone who cares about the values of the in, you know, liberals, national order of a quality under of the law of the big city and human rights should be extremely concerned for the next 4 years for trump managed to pull it out. and of course, we just say that since it is so close and he will claim victory no matter what, whatever happens in the per site, precise totals. these will not be accepted if they like, okay? because that's where it's going to come to whatever happens. what does this tell us? what we see and up until this point, what does it tell us about the state of american politics and the direction of travel of it? cuz you know, we might be on the verge of the return of the most popular style president in us history. the so, yes, the most reactionary president american history and the most racist president in american history. so really returns us to some ugly times in our past,
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like the 1850, you know, or the 1960 is in the south when, you know, basically you have the whole region are run by fear and terrorism. and uh, you know, people of goodwill and decency and you know, believing in liberty and equality have an x essential task on their hands. they're going to have to ask themselves, was a very difficult question. what they will choose to do to comply with the new regime should have come and what they will have to do to resist questions that are not familiar to americans. that are more familiar to citizens of developing countries that are fighting to become democracies. good to get your perspective, mr. posting and appreciate that. that's great. posting economist at the american perspective. thank you. thanks a at, let's head to washington dc. now it can be how good standing by there in north carolina, kimberly has been cold for donald trump. how big of blue is that for the harris campaign? here's low neck, and this is
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a state that the harris campaign invested heavily in capital. a harris was there multiple times, even in just the last week she had scheduled a number of campaign stops. and this is really something that she invested heavily in and not only was she there physically, but she also went there to really target a number of demographics women, and also minority voters. but in that state, we now have seen that donald trump did better than you did in 2020, picking up not only in the area of voters of color, but also with a north carolina. so this is a huge disappointment for the harris campaign. the fact that she really sends out a message that the reproductive freedoms were on the line. and also that donald
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trump was a threat to minorities. and yet this has not worked out in her favor. but the company would have been hyping as the hosting for this comment of wave, which has not to materialize. so imagine at the mood that must be pretty dumpy. not only is it blake, but people are now starting to leave this watch party. it was really an electrifying feeling when this. 8 started and people were excited. there was a joyful feeling that is not a feeling now. in fact, i would say then at least a 3rd of the people have now left. it is late in the evening. a lot of people have to go to work in the morning or 10 school, but what this is, is now a feeling that people are looking for a bright spot in carmel. here is this pathway to the white house. and if there is a recognition that her pathway has now narrowed,
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what come over here as needs is to really rely now what's known as the blue wall. that is the wall of states that have pretty selectively and reliably voted for democrats in the past. and this means that typically it is pennsylvania, it is wisconsin, it is michigan right now these are leaning and donald trump's favor. now of course they haven't been called yet and may not be called for some time. but again, this is a narrowing path for cala harris. the campaign is watch it carefully. the people on the route here wants to get it carefully, knowing that things are getting critical for her and becoming increasingly worried . all right, that's uh can we, how could the pretty like he was part of the in washington d. c. thanks very much. can please speak to you later. let's bring it i guess we will be here. one of the say can be here, but it's really like you this morning now here into ours. i what is it? 8 o'clock going 8 o'clock. yeah, no good. yeah. not going to the 5th or, and
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a shot. and james, so i'll shed very few directions of travel to victory for the democrats. now it's still feasible, but how are you feeling the main direction to drive all the main path to victory is pennsylvania, wisconsin and michigan. that has been the case the entire time. we loved to pick up all 7 states and we competed in all 7 states. but the main plan for harris are the 3 states i have not yet been called. let's sit back and just think about what this is. this is an election for over 100000000 people have cast their votes, voters choose their leaders, they've done their job. now, state and local officials all across the country have to do their job of tabulating each and every one of these votes. and that's the key here, every vote counts. and there's so many of us that haven't yet been tabulated. so i don't want to have a big, strong emotion even though i feel a little anxiety. right. but i don't want to have a feel i have
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a big strong emotion about this when the early vote in pennsylvania, which is the only have the vote that hasn't been entirely tabulated. and we know that those are a lot of our votes. we know that michigan, we know that wisconsin, a lot of those votes haven't been tabulated. so i'm not going to make grand gestures about what has been lost and what has been one because voters are still waiting to have their votes counted. it's still quite a big got to the cross, isn't it very common harris. i'm just looking at it here. it's a to in pennsylvania, which is this critical piece that you're talking about. 86 percent of votes counted, and that was $49.00. is it about 1.9, maybe 2 percent away? i remember how i felt in 2020, when we saw this similar sort of red wave ended up being a red mirage. i'm not saying that i'm jumping up and down for joy, but i knew this isn't ever going to be a wave election, and we said this all night long. so what i'm going to do is i'm gonna wait for the primary strategy that come with harrison to invested in to make sure that those votes are counted. yeah, i said 2 percent is actually 2.7 percent. but james,
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what about you? it could be a way of election right now, a jump is, you know, leading and all. busy the blue wall states and now all of the swing states and he's got a commanding lead in georgia which looks like it's kind of get, he's going to get the not there are 2.7 percent in pennsylvania is pretty strong. and this, in spite of the, the, the, the, the rhetoric, right, like he's the greatest threat to democracy. he is a, you know, a fashion. so, i mean, there are pretty strong rhetoric and book how many people either voted for him or bode it against the biden harris, you know, the performance over the last several years. and so i think what democrats are going to have to do is trump were to win. right? because if the wind is going to be a diverse coalition of voters, this like the idea of like, oh, he's racist. well,
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look at the diversity of the voters that are flocking to him. it's sort of hard to say, you know, to, to, to, to square some of these things. um, i think democrats are gonna have to look as they have we gone too far as a party. who is like, are we, are we so out of touch then this horrible person that we describe can still beat us like that. and the thing is, when you take this into account, that he would be the only the 2nd president in history to win another white house to him after losing at the 1st attempt to re election and will have done so after being the 1st full month president to be convicted of a crime and yet potentially is on the verge of becoming the next president. it will have to come to votes and see. all right, so from your point of view, james a is, is this all about just simply about the economy, how the democrats going wrong in their approach to how they took on this election? you know, they made a big deal of the women's right. they talked when,
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when they gave the on the side the but ultimately have a just being beaten about the amount of money and people's pocket. yeah. they, the economy is the overriding factor, but it's not the only factor because we have a diverse electorate in many people when you're seeing but margins like this in a state. you know what my priority is, isn't necessarily your priority. the economy does it. everyone pretty much the same, but if you're passionate, we saw those uh those, those constituents out in um, in dearborn. right. and they gave a passionate plea of like, i don't like what's going on. and also i don't like what's going on and why that. and i don't like the lack of leadership that we've seen from the white house. i mean, that is a deciding factor for a lot of people. the border issue is a deciding factor for a lot of people. so i don't want to oversimplify it because it, this is mark that you're playing by the margins here in many raw states. okay, well, i agree yet. so let's see what happens guys with the meantime. thanks very much
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indeed at georgia was looking good last time we checked in for the republican party . let's head to john henry and jones now from gwinnett county near atlanta in the swing state of georgia. as john, what's the latest now? well over the night the trump lead has gone from 11 present to. ready a little over 2 percent, but it is still significantly well ahead. brad reference burger. the secretary of state estimated the 5200000 people had voted currently about 5100000. yes, i guess it's currently 5100000 have voted there is only about 800000 bows, maybe fewer left. so it is not looking good for comma le harris. at this point, the race has not been called at so far, but it is very close to being so record and turn out state wide here in georgia
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record. turn out here in gwinnett county where there are fewer than a 1000 votes to be counted. but this race is still well ahead for the republicans, little over 2 percent. although that margin has been significantly caught. it does not look promising for criminal harris. at this point, donald trump appears on the verge of winning george john any other way? we might get the conclusion that i expect you, that it should be very shortly there. there aren't that many votes left to be counted, but the state has had some significant problems. i should point out over the course of the day, more than 30 bomb threats called in the secretary of state says that is because of russian interference in this election. it should be as short matter of time just depends on how quickly they count the votes and when it becomes statistically impossible for kind of layers to overcome the lead of donald trump here. and i
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think the reason that race hasn't been called is that that margin is kept shrinking over the course of the night. and because joe biden won by such a narrow margin 4 years ago. all those of us who are calling this razor being very cautious not to do so until it is very, very clear. last time it took 16 days and 3 counts for that to be decided exactly how many votes were cast in this state. it ended up being a margin of fewer than $12000.00 votes, but it is looking like significantly more than that over a $100000.00 divides these 2 candidates. it seems like it's gonna only be a short matter of hours here at this point. all right, john, thanks so that's 100 the in georgia. all mine has maintained some old number crunching or was it while we're gathering more numbers, but we don't have more states to call unless there's a surprise in the next few seconds, which they're absolutely could be. but what we wanted to do, joining us is joining you at this hour. nick is just
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a recap where we are right now. and of course things continue to evolve, especially in the battleground states, which are going to result decide the result of the election. so wisconsin, 10 electoral votes were in the democrats so called lu will i say, so called because right now is not looking great for democrats, wisconsin. the vote difference between trump and harris in favor of donald trump is just over a $100000.00 votes. okay, wisconsin was a very close race as were many of the states last time around. donald trump right now is ahead. this is with 81 percent of the vote reporting. so that is not nothing at this stage. we can't draw conclusions. i'm not telling you he's gonna, when i'm telling you he's the head with most of the votes counted. that's where we are right now. let's see what else we have. the pennsylvania of the biggest select . so state 19 electoral votes, kimberly harris needs it very little chance he gets the white house without it. that is generally the case. by the way, whoever wins, pennsylvania tends to win the white house more often than not both difference. 874000 votes with a again, 86 percent of the vote counted. so if you remember an hour ago, 2 hours ago,
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3 hours ago when that number was lower and when we had 20 percent of the vote counted or 30 percent, i would always tell you big cab yet we cannot draw conclusions. right now. it's a bit of a gray area, not a conclusion. if we had a conclusion, we'd call the state, we're not calling the state, but we're telling you. trump is ahead. with the vast majority, almost 9 out of 10 of the votes counted again. that is not nothing, that is how we are putting it at this hour. georgia. 16 electrical votes with more than 9 out of 10 of the votes counted. remember the states top election official, so john was explaining the story of georgia, right. so what i would point out at this stage is that georgia is 16. electro votes that last time it was one by just 12000 votes by joe biden. ok, tiny, tiny, tiny margin of victory by by and who just. busy from the republicans and the question last time, and for the last 4 years was the democratic when in georgia, was that a harbinger of things to come? is that state really purple?
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is there really a path to victory for the democrats going forward on a consistent basis? or was it an outlier? you look at this number is looking more and more like an outlier, not calling the state yet, but it's looking more like an outlier. another word of context, donald trump 4 years ago said this state was stolen from him. okay. he is currently on trial in the state of georgia for allegedly trying to change the outcome of the election. they're facing racketeering charges so. so calling the state is obviously very sensitive. no mistakes allowed. that is where we stand at the moment in georgia looking very good for donald trump there at the moment state of the race. where are we 230 for couple of harris is 210. okay. what does this tell us? let's just do some real quick back of the envelope math. if he does get georgia, that $230.00 plus 16 becomes $246.00. how many does he need to 7246 to 270. okay. the difference is $24.00 electoral votes, $24.00. it's pretty easy with the 5 battle ground states that are left nevada,
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arizona, wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania. it's pretty easy to find 24 votes. why do i say that is because you have 17 right here in the west, and you have 4444 in the blue. oh, okay. so he needs, he would need to find 24 votes. if he does indeed get georgia. and there are quite a few avenues for him to get there. on the other hand, the avenues have narrowed for the vice president to get from 210 to 270 so that nick is where we stand at 532 gmc. all right, and it's interesting with pennsylvania or isn't it because it's pick the winter in each the last 4 elections and kind of allow ca picks the wind and that's the bumper stickler right? it's critical right sir. thank you. thank you. a going to take you to some live pictures coming into us now of uh, west palm beach, the convention center the uh, in florida. now this is the, uh where the campaign is basically itself mar,
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logo is where donald trump is being. and he's heading towards the convention center . can i? i'm not sure that i can see him at this point in time. we haven't seen him yet, but that's the way he will be. and we understand he's on his way to. and so we will cross to that when we see donald trump arrive in the meantime, let's head to washington dc. james by just james pay. he's a standing by for us at james on to you. yes, thanks very much, nick. let's discuss everything that you've told us in the last few minutes with a panel of guess. here again, we're looking at white house in washington, dc in our special rooftop studio. we have jo cheney democratic political strategist who said to be a bomb administration, john ferry, republican strategist, and part of the f. b advocacy, a strategic i book i could see it's getting late from presenting cobra is, is do we have christine? so letting me, i'll just share a correspondent kristen's, been looking at the congressional races and important news. the important using the
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senate. yeah, absolutely. republicans have taken control of the majority of the senate uh, slipping 3 seats so far, west virginia, ohio, and nebraska nebraska, wasn't really surprising. the women there actually defeated an independent who refused and endorsement from democrats because it's such a red state, made it close, but she held on to that c, ohio is the big flip here. this is the one that really hurt the democrats long time. 3 term incumbent was defeated their sharon brown by a republican bernie marino. he is a conservative business man. it was a really expensive race. they spent $467000000.00 democrats held onto the delaware in maryland and in the process elected to african american women
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both 1st for both of those states. so that's an accomplishment for them. but they haven't flipped any seats. they've lost seats, and so this is disappointing for democrats, but not unexpected. pennsylvania. another one we're watching doesn't look good for democrats there either, but too soon to call. and of course, as we've been saying, that could be a bell, whether for how the states going to go. so democrats have to be concerned about that. okay, want to discuss, we'll talk about the pros, pencil rise to join joan in a moment. but let's just talk about what kristen's just told us. good news for your side, john? yeah, it is a nice to expect that eric. have these going to wait in wisconsin? i think mike rogers is a decent shadow in a in michigan. now i still think the carrier likes got a shot in arizona. i think that's pretty close right now. but when it basically does it's, it's important, but not nearly as important as the house doesn't stay as republican. if the house goes to the democrats, then trump's agenda gets meyer down there and it gets very difficult to get things done. so, democrats still have
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a chance to mark things that they want to have the presenting that from. when's the republicans will win the senate? but if they don't want, the house is not as big a victory as they would like. yeah, joy, i mean, he's assuming the drums going away, we'll get, we'll get to the presidential race in a, in a, in a moment. and i know you are a full, my senate chief of staff is a christian gillibrand. so you have a good night. she doesn't have a good night, but you have lost control of the subject we have. so i'll come to the possible pause for a couple of hours still to become president. however narrow that may now be coming . but if she wants to become president already, she's handicapped, isn't she seriously handicap? she is. although she comes from the senate and the senate is one willing to often to work with folks. so i do think that will be some possibility there. there wasn't a lot of surprise that the democrats would lose the senate. shared ground certainly was this, you know, disappointment, i don't know if surprises, which are explain it, but it does to the people who don't follow the details of the system somehow. how
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have not having control the senate. how does that make it difficult for our presentations? if come over here is wins, she will have to go through the senate in order to confirm any of her cabinet members, any judges. so that already handicaps her a bit. it means that her appointees are going to have to be a little more, you know, moderate perhaps. and she was looking for her judges may not be the judges that she would have wanted. so of course, i mean it's the president. so it gets to choose and it still has significant power here. that said it's a significant limitation is how we get a democratic house, which can still happen. and we have a republican senate, again, is more divided. government makes it difficult to have, you know, the, the urgent vision for the country that she would like. okay, back to you guys in a moment. but 1st we're going to go to las vegas. don't hold on. is that nevada, that important swing state? he is a trump policy, so tell me those trump support is that around huge on what is the mood now given
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some of the developments we've had in the last couple of hours, the victory started to serve. i think everyone's very t, it's a little bit safer, quite calm. there was a bit of view for the start, especially when this be in las vegas all through the center now. so it was say, well the thing firms residing in the us, some of the odds with to take it back towards the donald trump favor. 3 nothing definitely a good mood hit i to meet the 1st time and come in in nevada. this site is historically quite slower. just for example in 2028 circuits silva side as i pull the associated press the coolant one way or another. i told so the secretary of state of nevada a little bit earlier in the day and he said that they were going to try and get started tonight. and then they said it up, that price is made it more efficient, but we're not seeing it too many sides of that yet. so people are still waiting for
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it. so i oh, but happily what's your fault? so he's having a couple of drinks and enjoying the fact that things seems to be going quite well. the republican party. so all right, you have been talking about that a bit now the big issue really has in the economy. the recovery have from the fund that makes is the most sluggish in, in the other areas of the country, even in las vegas, where you think would just be rolling in storage and money. i've seen a high unemployment right in the state as a whole. the top one of the highest unemployment rates in the country, spring capital, the rising cost of living space to help people struggle is ready for the people that live to donald trump. when he was on the plane hit the road, i was surprised. he said that is going to be normal federal tax on tips. and i
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think it really resonated with some of the people, especially in las vegas, the code for the workforce here, working the hospitality sectors. they've really dependent on those trends. come of ours came and said, decided to do the same thing. so raised the minimum salaries. donald trump is seeing is having an age in terms of the economy with parts. is that a trusted in some of the people? it's a high level, lucy thought phase, out of that just in the early part of things, there was a bit of clues that were more registered republicans going out to the democrats and thought how that happened before. that was a bit of a switch. democrats were already worried at that point in the same way we're going to get to be in here. and if we don't wake our ideas up more or less, so at the moment now it's time to be on the safe. i think we just wait until those parts come in. the thank you very much, john. we're now going to swing from one of the swing states from nevada to another,
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arizona reynolds is that roll? can you give us the latest of what's going on there as well? still very tight, but donald trump is increasing his lead over campbell of harrison's now head by 13000 votes. with about $42.00 little over 42 percent of all votes counted. those represents the votes that were cast earlier um. voting by mail or dropping off, pallets in, in ballot boxes. uh, but still to be counted here in maricopa county, which is uh, the phoenix metropolitan area and in other counties are the boats which were cast today in person by voters. you know, in the privacy of their, their own voting booth with their own consciences and political inclinations. so there's still a long way to go here. i wouldn't call this lead by for president trump
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insurmountable by any stretch of the imagination with so many votes still to be counted, were called if this is a state where the margin of victory for joe biden, 4 years ago, was just over 10000 pounds. so there's going to be a couple more days, i think before we get a really clear indication of exactly who's nailed this down there. well we use invested quite a lot of time and a lot of miles recently traveling all over arrazola. not did conversations that with voters suggest the result would be this close. i apologize for miss identifying you, james. uh yes i did. we have been going all over the state from uh the
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uh, tribal areas. and the navajo nation in the far north of arizona where it is solidly democratic where a woman to. ready me, she said, i don't understand why donald trump isn't in jail if was the ordinary folks like us . we've already be in prison with the uh and, and having had the chief thrown away to the wealthy suburbs of the phoenix metropolitan area like scottsdale. we're another, we're a voter told me that he admired donald trump for his honesty. and a woman said that he, she wanted to vote for donald trump because he was a successful businessman and thought that the country could be run like a business. and even down in the very far south, smack up against the mexican border where people of latino descent were complaining about the high prices of everything. and also complaining about
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the number of, of the migrants are crossing the border. all those issues that were favorable to donald trump. so i guess in retrospect it does seem looking back on that this is a very, very evenly divided state. some of the other stand out issues were abortion. a lot of women, young women and old women, older women, excuse me, passionate about this issue. and the issue is on the ballot here with an initiative that would enshrine the right to an abortion in the state constitution. but another issue very important, of course, is immigration, but again, i think it was the economy that trumped all of that. no pun intended. and it seems that that is really what was on voters minds as they finally cast their ballots. reynolds in arizona,
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thank you very much. back to i guess, joy cheney and joe, and fairy and steve cabins. how so that was it was the bottom line is popped up again as it always does psych you a, let's just look back at the presidential race. the big, the big prize of the night and all the slate in many ways, joy, your side haven't got things the way they want. what is the pause for coma harris and how narrow is each now? so the packets and narrowed, but it's still the same as we always thought it would be. and we're probably where we thought we would be at this point, how we would be differently, but thought we would possible we have to win some combination of wisconsin, michigan, and pennsylvania right. would also help to also have nevada. i mean, so we need to have those days. there's no other way around it. um and if we don't get it, we won't. i will say that the thing is disappointing. and i think what you have so, so long faces with democrats, if we wanted it to be a more of a blow out. and,
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you know, notwithstanding my colleagues here, john, i'm very concerned with we are very close to the country. but the views of the people are not close. and so i'm concerned about the health of a nation where there is just such diametric views on our pathway forward. no matter who wins tonight. that is something we're going to have to continue to grapple with steve, looking at the swings, looking at the trends of what we've seen. i mean, joy is still confident veterans based, narrow pulse, all you as confident as a i really liked joe joy, but i sort of think they're like illusions in the desert. uh, you know, they're phantoms and i think at this point it's looking highly unlikely that the common one here says pathway forward. and again, the story of the evening is that donald trump, who really didn't spend a lot of time chasing centrist voters. he didn't articulate a plan, a big tent plan, as, as george just said,
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that was included. he kind of was himself out there, ron real and, you know, ran bunches. and that attracted a lot of folks square as com wires to find it saying, hey, i want to have people in my tent. they don't agree with me. she had the more inclusive picture that didn't work for americans right now. this at this moment. and, and so when we kind of look at the states and all the grievances that people may have had that they were upset about what donald trump my, my do, they didn't come together and they didn't really matter in any of the races. they thought they would matter. i mean, i have to tell you, i talked to person after person after person who saw a comma la waive coming. and it fizzle very quickly. the pointed. yeah, yeah, john, do you see any pos so if you have any, what re still? no. i think that function when i don't disagree with your steve in a sense that i think that comes blustery. i think he says a lot of things that are kinda goofy and crazy or whatever. but he has policies are
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actually aimed at working class folders and a lot of democratic borders, which is why you do the tax on tips. no, no tax for no tax on overtime. the idea that we're protecting jobs ever went to cap . are you used to be the guy that we we need fruits fair x ray, not free trade? or these are things that democrats used to talk about all the time that he was going after that coalition, and he really invert of the colors. the fact that he has so many ask american voters and so many hispanic words. mostly ma'am. yes. but the other ones who have been really facing trouble in this economy and histories only right after. so yeah, is a lot of rhetoric, a lot of rhetoric that you know is down from. but the policies themselves are aimed at trying to get bring america together. and helping them with the economy. i agree, and i co sign on that john is right. he's right on that, but i want, i want you to hear me on that. no, but it know you is your joe and i want to say i want you to hear me 50 percent of america. maybe it's not 50 point one right beside me. it's 49.9,
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whatever or 8 we don't believe we believe the donald trump's a bad person, john, we believe he's a racist and a racist and a massage and this i just want you to understand that the best not like pub, that's not like some of the policy issues you're talking about. so as a nation, we've got to figure out or is it uh, i remember we had the exact same view, the eclipse, the exact same as you thought he was a us. we started way we thought it with us and we thought he's a rapist, we thought he right, we raped them in turn in, in, in the oval office. we thought he was actually a horrible human being. and then the you're saying the if you have a conviction of that, that was, that was the cool case. yeah. it wasn't so well there. could you tell us what we are right now because i just want you to understand we got 50 percent. we are close in, in people, right, and policies, but folks who feel like one side of bad people and i know that there's
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a lot of lying about why don't really feel that way, but they do, john? well okay, that's fine. but yeah, people feel on the other side, the same thing and they, they buy it. i took that with you guys, will still discuss this again in a moment. we have to sell that and back to making the 10 things that change based with his team in washington dc i. we're going to go to washington sandwich and dealing with company how could correspond at because it can be understanding we've been hearing from the democratic national committee. what, what's be said a yeah, that's right. we just heard moments ago as that we will not be hearing from vice president cobble harris. what we were told is that she will not be coming to howard university this evening. she will instead be coming in the next 24 hours. we havent been given a precise time. instead what the campaign is saying is that they're still state to be called. there are still vote to be counted and there are still voices to be
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heard. in other words, they want to let this process unfold, and that's going to take some time. and as a result, the vice president wants to let that unfold. and so they are going to wait for that to play out. and so she will be back at howard university, her alma mater, as she will not only address her community in terms of howard university and that community, but also she will address the nation. so there were many disappointed faces. i can tell you, it has been a very long night. people have been standing out in the cold, anxious and excited to hear from the vice president. and they are now going home. i'm not hearing from her, but a hopeful that they will be hearing from her tomorrow and that they will be hearing from the future president of the united states. but i can tell you they are feeling
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less optimistic than they were earlier on in the evening. given the project projections for uh, the former president donald trump. uh they are certainly feeling less confident than they were a few hours ago. there is a lot of, uh, uh, shifting mood you could say in the last couple of actually just hang on there one because the certainly not, not go to that. let's talk a little bit of, um, uh, the co chair for the harris campaign speaking. as you say, just a few moments ago, let's have a quick listen and, and i'll come back to you that we will continue overnight to fight to make sure that every vote is counted. that every voice has spoken. so you won't hear from the vice president tonight, but you will hear from her tomorrow. she will be back here tomorrow to address not only the h u family, not only to the dresser, supporters for to address the nation. so thank you. we believe in you
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may, god bless you, make a t u and go h u and go harris. i said that's from the democratic member committees that can be how do you read? how do you disseminate that? i'd still like to be counted clearly, but still voices to be heard what, what might be it meant by that as well. what he means is that uh, you know, essentially voice has to be heard is that uh, every vote needs to be counted. and so this is a process that sometimes, you know, these, these states are called before all of those bought boats have been counted. and harris campaign is saying, look, we want every vote to be counted. we don't want the states to be called until every vote is counted. so they want this process to play out, and that is what they are going to have a and allow for that to happen. but next,
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there's another ported like to make because you and i have been working for algebra for a long time. you remember 2016? i was covering that hillary clinton campaign and it's feeling a lot like 2016 for me all over again. it's stage to view all over again. i remember being at the javits center, and this is exactly how it felt when we were at the javits center. and we were waiting for hillary clinton to come and it was a party, and that party started to wind down and there was still no hillary clinton and the eventually the party ended. and it was called for donald trump. and leon panetta came out and said, hillary clinton would not be appearing that night. and we didn't hear from the secretary of state in the former 1st lady until the next day. and people were crying and it was a very, very leak moment for her campaign. and well, there are no tiers right now on the howard university campus. there is certainly
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a very somber tone and it's, it's very reminiscent of that moment. okay. and it's certainly bringing me back to that night right now to, to sort of feel the excitement and then to watch it sort of wayne as the hours pass through it. or i can't believe it's the work of the miracle. and i still heels and not lighter again, feels a little like 2016. we get the message of thanks a lot of the time being as can be how could there at washington dc. let's cross over to syrup at who can give us a clear as to whether or not we're heading to the site. collision is a 2016. this is going to be a quick one for me, nick, i want to bring you some clarity on georgia on what is going on in georgia. we heard from our correspondence right, that there are georgians who feel that they have george and the bag in that those boats. 16 electoral votes have gone, are going will go to the former president. donald trump. this is about the difference right now. a $127000.00 boat difference. this is with 94 percent of the vote reported. we have not called georgia. okay. can be very clear. there is still a path to victory will be it's a narrow one. there is still a path to victory in georgia for the vice president couple of harris because why?
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because she is doing better in, in person. i beg your pardon in early voting. okay. 2 types of early voting in person early and mainland ballots. okay. those are people that's about half the state, half the boat is in georgia who voted before today before november. 5th. couple of harris is doing better within that group of voters, which is as i just said, half the voters in the states. so there is a pass for her to be able to actually raise donald trump's lead. it's a narrow one, it's a narrow one for sure, but that path exists and until that past exist, the state cannot be called. so for now, mic that is where we are. donald trump is the head with 9 out of 10 votes, reported, but he hasn't won it yet. okay, the racing run yet. okay, thanks a lot. so let's get on to how does your customer joins us now from pulling station in wisconsin. wisconsin, of course, is that another key, a swing states? let's see what's happening there to bring it up to date if you were
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yeah, absolutely. we've actually left the polling station and now we're at a watch party posted by the milwaukee republican party and they are feeling like they're having a great night. we've heard beach here the rabbit. every time another state has been paused more in trump. here was boston, the numbers of the beach renting for him as well. there is more than 80 percent of the votes have been counted as far as the lead is now about 4 percentage point, which has been actually increasing over time. alot hair is now we're still waiting for some boats to come in from the city of milwaukee and there are enough boats there. they were to really overwhelmingly perform well. there's a picnic of a difference, but at this point that is not working lightly, but i want to train our guest here. this is nolan jacket and you're conservative activist base here in wisconsin. how do you feel about how things are going tonight?
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i feel pretty optimistic so far in wisconsin. i mean, this is my 1st presidential election will ever be bored again. i come from washington county, so i'm kind of in a more conservative wal tony area. i know so many people might age 40 in their 1st presidential election that have turned out for trauma as well. what, what makes you so and susie, what made you so do you asked to vote for a truck economy for foreign policy? i don't want to go for a more is across the seas for lobby, as for special interest in dc. president trump was the 1st president and so many years didn't have any new wars. prices were lower under him, houses were more affordable under him. the american dream is achievable under him, and he prove that it is 4 years in office with the border. we have millions and millions of illegal immigrants pouring into our country and to be able to democrats want to give them benefits in this country. they want to give them checks that we give them free rights of this part. try the on the jump in. we need to get some
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more hearings from 0. a big. all right, let's look into a wall. let's see what we have as votes, keep it, keep coming in. some of the decisions aren't changing and some states are being called. alright, you saw this coming to new, georgia and it's 16. the lever electoral votes have now been close to the former president. donald trump is projected to be the winner of georgia. that means we also called north carolina for donald trump, north carolina, plus georgia. not only is that $32.00 electoral votes for that is also all of the south, right? the 2 battleground states and the south. so he wins it with 51 to 48. that is with 94 percent of the vote. reporting 51 percent for donald trump. 48 for complet harris. this was decided by less than one percentage point. 2 last election and the election to time before that as well. this time actually there's a much bigger margin and it's in favor of donald trump. so georgia, i beg your pardon, in 2016, it was not decided by one percentage point that was 2020, georgia. the boat difference, this time, a $127000.00 votes. you see the take that is 16. electro votes for donald trump. so
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right now somebody is telling or has told over the last hour or so. donald trump, that he is doing very, very well at this point in the evening, carrying the south. meaning that the south right now is true to form, right? it is back to being a red part of the map. why are we looking at this? this is the battle ground grid. this is what we told you the beginning of the evening. all of this is going to go read. this is very likely to go read to have been no surprises here. it's still read, right? that means there will be no surprises. the blue we told you this would go blue. it's all still blue, so no surprises there. but what has happened to of the 7th swing states that we told you would decide the outcome of the election have been called? and those 2 have gone read and they have gone for donald trump. so that is where we stand right now, and we're headed back over to you next. right now there's no other way to frame it . team trump is feeling very good about where they are. okay. it doesn't mean they have one. we don't know the okay.
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