so the, it's going to be a cost list, ration policy starts november 9th, on dw, the, this is dw news a lot from valid polls of open drive across the united states as election day dawns with americans choosing between cumberland, harris and donald trump. tens of millions of americans costing the ballots in georgia, pennsylvania and other battleground states that to decide if trump this return to the white house or the harris is elevates, it's to the old, along the

way. well, go saves. i guess we will. great. i love you. also on the program spends 5 minutes of federal census commits 10600000000 years to help the survivors of the flash plots that have killed more than 200 people in the area. but then the i'm good, how about is welcome to the program. americans have to gun voting for a new president's folding stations of opens and the number of states including the boats, as we'll choose between the democratic candidate, the car and vice president. comment of harris or form of president donald trump.

the republican candidates in what is full cost to be $1.00 of the tightest presidential elections ever. or any of these rival candidates made the final pictures to support us into swing states, pennsylvania, and michigan. we know it is time for a new generation of leadership in america, vice president campbell and here is making her last speech to voters in philadelphia in the crucial swing state of pennsylvania. the stars including oprah winfrey and lady gaga, came out to support the democratic nominee. the parents, underscoring the state of the selection down there to come down to this one more

day. just one more day in the most consequential election of our lifetime. and the momentum is on our side. the former us president and republican nominee donald's from delivering his closing speech in michigan, another battle ground state. where he rode tomorrow, we can fix every single problem. our country faces the beautiful that is new. i joined on stage by his children. trump told his supporters, the election is in their hands. yes, we are old enough to deal with what we have at the stroke of midnight election day began with voting in a tiny township in new hampshire. the result,

3 votes for harris and 3, for trump. polls suggest a knife edge race with the was neck and neck and zabel brown states. the tide contests could mean america will face a longer wait for the final result. the w. a special correspondent, a very him is in washington dc, as he told me earlier, what the mood is like in the us capital. on the election day. the. com and it does a feel the driving around the streets of washington, d. c. a safe. there's certainly no signs that there is anticipation for the big day around. we seen many stores the barricade their friends downtown in anticipation of a possible violence or, or riots later today, or perhaps it down the line. but there are no signs of that at this time. we're

seeing americans around the country had to the pools to caspar violet and what will be a 1st for whoever wins the white house is a vice president come on hers when she'll be the 1st woman. she'll be the 1st woman of color. and if donald trump returns to the white house, he'll be the 1st convicted felon to be president of the united states. what can you tell us about the voter turnout sofa? well, it is difficult to be able to say just how many people will cast their ballots by the end of this elections pools have not opened in all the states yet. but according to the associated press to over 82000000 americans have trust their ballots. in early a voting mailing ballots and such, and that's a little bit more than half of all the votes across in the previous election of 4 years ago. and certainly there have been huge attempts by both campaigns to try

to get out the boat as much as possible as this will probably come down to a razor thin margins in swing states, unless there's a big surprise that we're about to find out in the next couple of days for hard. both couple of harris and donald trump have held the last rallies. uh, what was the impression that certainly it's no coincidence that both have chosen the state of pennsylvania for their last a riley's, i've heard people say almost feel sometimes like this entire election is being played out in pennsylvania. it's one of these, a battle ground swing states that we have a been talking about. and joe biden wanted back from donald trump with a very thin margin in 2020, and from one the state in 2016 also with a very thin

a margin. in terms of the riley's themselves, we saw kind of of her stick the stage with a whole host of celebrities, including oprah winfrey, who brought 1st time voters to the stage. the unsafe was also at one of the vice president's rallies. and we've heard donald trump sort of a poke fun and beyond say, seeing that people would come to the riley is expecting certain songs and that then they wouldn't be played. and that would be no joy. but certainly not a coincidence that both candidates have chosen. pennsylvania, as one of the last stops in this campaign, which has now effectively come to an end b, w. special correspondent abraham their revolt due from washington. thank you and both a harris. as trump campaigns, i've dropped vast amounts of time and money into a handful of swing states, but actually ignoring the rest of the country of the us that actual system, the winter of the race for the wise white house doesn't need to win the popular

thoughts. the w i n s, has more of the us selection is supposed to represent the will of the people, but does it the us has an electoral college system, which means of a candidate wins the vote and a handful of states where the races are tight called swing states, they can win the white house without winning the popular vote nationwide. it's happened only 5 times in american history, but 2 of those times were in the last 25 years. and polls indicate it could happen again, this november the, here's how the system works for presidential candidate to when they have to get the most electoral votes. those are votes cast by state electors who represent the winner of the popular vote in each state. the number of electoral votes each state has is based on its population size and any candidates who wins the vote in the state by even the smallest majority gets all the states electoral votes with exceptions and 2 small states, main in nebraska. that system has led to situations like in the 2000 election when

a republican george w bush won the state of florida by 537 votes, handing him the white house, even though his opponent won over half a 1000000 more popular votes in 2016, it happened again. republican donald trump won the election with a wide margin of electoral votes, even though his democratic opponent, hillary clinton, received 2800000 more popular votes. overall. the electoral college has tended to favor republicans for out of the 5. so called minority presidents and us history, where republicans, there's never been a democratic minority president, may fully execute the office of president. one argument in favor of the electoral college is that the us as a federalist system, meaning states are meant to have a voice and national politics, regardless of how many people lived there. the sometimes seems no one likes it. that doesn't mean that it's easy to challenge because it is a voice for the stats. it's often felt that without the voice for the steps,

presidential elections would be for a different time. much time would be spec, campaigning only handle our system. but critics say the electoral college has become outdated and point out that the us is the only presidential democracy in the world are candidate can get a majority of votes and still lose. there have been a few attempts to reform or overturn the electoral college. none of them so far successful, but of 2024 gives to us yet another minority president, especially one is divisive. as donald trump approval ratings for the current system are likely to hit an all time low. li are trying to dig a little deeper into all the subjects with laurens douglas. caesar, professor flores, i'm a college and has written several books about donald trump. i asked him if the us elections truly represent the will of the people have no they, they don't. i mean, in as much as what we just heard in the description of electoral college to the

extent that someone who actually loses the popular vote can be elevated to the most powerful position in government. not just in this country, but arguably in the world. uh suggests that the system is not functioning as an expression of the will of the people. now, if that's the case, what do you make of the argument that the electoral college system is needed to give states a say in federal politics? well, 1st of all, when we elect the president, is that states that are looking the president of to should be the american people who are electing the president? so it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to have a federal rated process for electing the president of united states. i mean the present, after all, is a national figure, not a figure who represents the interest as specific states. so i don't think that logic, particularly parts has been very well. and, you know, consider the following. imagine that you are creating an electoral system,

which let's say, gave voters in a small state such as wyoming for votes, and gave voters in a large states such as california one vote. i think everyone would agree that that system is manifestly un democratic and unfair. and yet that in effect is exactly what the electoral college does. it gives certain people in certain states a wait here, vote in determining the outcome of who will be the president then citizens in other states. now looking at history and we've heard about that in the report, the system has benefit of republican president. can you help us understand why that is? well, in particular, let's focus in recent history. so we already know that in this century alone, we have george w bush and donald trump being elected despite having lost the national popular vote . and because we have this kind of odd winter take all the system in which

arguably smaller states and swing states have this disproportionate ability to determine the outcome of the election. those same states simply have, you know, just as a demographic reality, they tend to be wider, more world and more conservative and, and as, as, as a consequence. um, it just favors republicans at this particular moment in our history. now let's move on to a different subjects. us republicans have repeatedly raised the issue of votes of fraud, european election observers on the us to monitor the vote. do you think they'll find any evidence of fraud? it was very easy to make the allegation of fraud. as we've seen, it's much harder to provide actual empirical evidence of it. i mean, we saw last in 2020, the way in which trump insisted that only as

a result of fraud was. he cheated out of electoral victory. i mean, shockingly enough, he's continued to make the same allocations for the last 4 years and actually has turned willingness of other republican lawmakers to agree to his lie as something of a witness test of their fidelity to republican politics. but actually, if you look historically, and particularly if you look at the last, you know, more recent elections election fraud is a vanishingly tiny problem in american elections. and if we look specifically at 2020 an election, which after all was conducted in the back of pandemic, there's a lot of pressure on the electro system. the system performed extremely well with a lot of integrity in clear fairness. and so, you know, while we see russia and other foreign agitators spreading lies, which find amplification in the words of donald trump election fraud

really is not a problem that has like electric in this country. now the title of a book you wrote in 2020 is, will he go? where you rightly predicts is, trump would work to overturn the election results. if you lose this again, we go this time. cuz again, i mean he's got the incumbent. so in the he doesn't necessarily have the same levers of power to uh, to operate and trying to overturn the electoral defeat. but i'm pretty confident that they'll probably fall much of the same play. brooke play books that he's followed the last time around. i would not be surprised at all if he declares victory tonight or early tomorrow morning, i think it was a to a m. uh last time. and the last election that she preemptively declared victory,

and i certainly expect him to launch assuming again that he loses a to launch all sorts of, of litigation for the purposes of challenging the boat in the states that cost him his electric victory. and it's also possible that he could, whether directly or indirectly inspire his is loyalists to engage in certain acts of civil unrest. do you expect any civil on race tomorrow? you know, it's not necessarily even tomorrow. it could be, you know, we don't know exactly when we will get the full results of the selection. it wasn't until 4 days after the election in 2020, that we actually had it declared winter and the fight in is cleared winter. so of course i hope that there isn't any address, but certainly trump has prime, choose

a supporters to engage in the acts of potential violence. i mean, he has continued to issue the message that only an active shootings in 10 to practice victory and, and he's also sent out the message that this country is lost if he doesn't win. so you put those 2 messages together and that could be interpreted in some of his among his, his supporters as a license to engage in a violent um rejection of the electronic results. well as douglas that also and professor of lloyd as close to massachusetts. thank you. very much for sharing your expertise with us. thank you for having me and to some of your other stories making headlines today. the funerals has been held in gaza for victims of the latest. is there any s tribes listed in the media

center? at least 30 people died on monday and tuesday, including women and children. is really military cited was targeting a minutes in weapons storage facility, hundreds of died and as well as increased attacks and old and gaza in recent weeks . nigerian president, bowler to know who has ordered the release of all mine is detained during protests against the rising cost of living and oldest, at least $76.00 people, including 13 minus, were charged with treason and inciting a military crew. after they took ponton anti government protests, spencer 2 people were killed during those post h. okay. and on the indonesian island of florida size erupted again. the day after lost in ashland lava, across nearby tops mondays of option destroyed buildings and buried residence on the debris. uh, these 9 people have died and thousands of been taken to safety pollution in

the indian capital daily. it has hit the severe levels which are 18 times above the maximum recommended by the world's health organization. am on it as rank daily as the world's 2nd most for the city of the whole. in congress, stop, doctors and pollution clinics. i've seen served patients with breathing difficult spans prime minister pedro sanchez has announced a relief package with 10600000000 years to help the survivors of the flash floods that have killed more than 200 people there in valencia. the that has been a growing outpouring of solidarity to help those affected by the disaster. thousands of volunteer to help cleaning up off to the devastation and provide the effect of people with food, water, and other essentials of the country deems believe there are still more bodies to be found like in this flooded underground parking lot. many do mean missing after

devastating floods its beams, eastern philadelphia region. people here said to go to the efforts i've been speaking be slow. since i see on mondays there has english an uncertainty and said they don't know what to do, which number to call or where to go to make inquiries indeed. but uh, so we turn to our own contact and find missing. people get the name of the devastation is widespread. homes have been destroyed and people here have be left without shelter or b, 6 applies. this and other stands in the town of a di are offering, fee, food. i don't know if i block i, you know, the street here was piled full of cars. navy, nobody came low when you go, can see that all the neighbors and mistreat organize to do the clean up the movie.

and if it looks this clean, now it is because we did it for the system. we also set a table and started making coffee for those who came to clean. now mr. i see him look. i fair housings of people are willing to help relieve this mix. shift coat center is providing medical assistance and stuff like that. uh morning obviously, but the task for so for them to use has been sent to groups of doctors and nurses knocking door to door, asking about people's health. separate health points have been said throughout the town and all of it, every improvised, the but of the everything, but at least hello. this is particularly selecting here in living memory. last week in a method of minutes, slash flood script will be almost everything in the font. warning from the government game to lead from many to the act are in many here feed that the government is still not doing enough to have no that's good. more on us from the w

correspondence down for the show. so was just in the valencia and joins us now from seville. if, if the government says it is your knocking 10000000000 yours to help the victims of the for the do we know how that will be spent? yes, the spanish prime minister, essentially, it has already given some details about what will happen with this money. first of all, a lot of it will be for private businesses and households that have been very seriously affected in the disaster area. not the government is also planning a series of techs, relieves and emergency expenses page by local governments will be fully compensated. and last but not least, that would be concrete payments for, for, and it's uh for the fixing houses and so on. so a series of measures and the government says it actually resembles in many parts of

the metro has taken after the cobra ton damage. now. so we can, we've seen the king of spain visiting the area a being attacked with moderate ad. who are people holding responsible for this dissolves, that there is an incredible amount of gusts twats that political leads in general, the spanish law. so i actually quite clear regarding the responsibilities the civil protection ends and emergency responds the responsibilities of the regional governments. but the usual political blame game in spain has already started. the conservative regional government said that the central government in madrid did not provide additional assistance in time. and what is true is that the central government, so the socialist government and margaret could have also declared a nation wide state of emergency that would have basically just and powered the

regional government and would have centralized all emergency efforts. but this would have been a big step, of course, a huge step in the 1st hour as of the disaster. so nobody is really taking over political responsibility for the catastrophe. and an incredible amount of anger among the people. now is the, the worst of what's the full cost now? but a 3rd to say that is still james had a weather forecast say there will be heavy, rain falls in the coming days, especially in the east of the country. sun regions remain uh the, the, the alert system remains activated, especially in, in the area around across the alona end to the northeast of the country in general, route many flights uh, has been cancelled in the past 24 hours. and also the streets has to be blocked. vw

correspondent young philip saw 714 from seville in spain. thank you very much. i or before we go, scientists all testing a material they say could someday be used to build houses on malls. and you may actually have heard of it. it's called good. believe it or not. the 1st, as a wooden specialist has been launched into space from florida. it was developed by team of japanese research. say, well it is more durable in space, doesn't space. there's no loss of no oxygen loss or united free to the small satellite is built out of well no king. that's a kind of maple tree, native to japan was selected after 10 months of test on the international

parts. as you're watching dw, see as a reminder of all the top stories election day has dawned in the united states following stations have opened and a number of states including new your final opinion. polls showed the race between rival presidential candidates that was published in the trunk, but the democrats comma harris is still nic and and spain's prime minister pedro sunchase has committed more than 10600000000 euros to help the survivors off the flash flush kills more than $200.00 people in the area around. well that's that's it. front of me and then he was seen as an ox. luckily filled there. we'll have to do is update for you at

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