♪ ♪ >> we saw a historic shift with black voters, hispanic voters, asian american voters, donald trump took every opportunity to talk to these voters about the issues that they care about. >> we are going to have to sit down as a democratic party and look hard at why that didn't compel more folks to come out and vote for a democratic candidates, both in the senate and in our presidential candidate, vice president harris. >> i think it was a referendum on the current administration,

in part. people were just not happy with this administration, and the democratic nominee. >> i'm going to be very blunt, as democrats we have to do some soul-searching. we are getting the message from a lot of people that we are not hearing them, and i hope we take the time to do the soul-searching we have to do. >> sandra: reaction pouring in from both sides after a president shall come back not seen in over a century. former president donald trump is once again the president-elect donald trump. hello and welcome everyone. i'm sandra smith. i can't believe we just flew through that our in somewhat of a haze from lack of sleep, but what a big day and a big night. >> john: i feel it is a carryover from earlier this morning when we are on the air as the results came in. i'm john roberts and this is "america reports." breaking in the last 20 minutes, our white house team reports vice president harris has now called donald trump to concede the race and graduate him. we are told she discussed a peaceful transfer of power and being president for all americans, she is excited to give her for remarks for clock

eastern at her alma mater howard university in washington, d.c. >> sandra: outside of her residence in washington, still some states outstanding at this hour but president-elect trump has surpassed the 270 needed to clinch the white house, and he has done it with a sweep of the blue wall. >> john: in the last hour, the fox news decision desk called trump -- called michigan for trump and 15 electoral votes to his tally. pennsylvania flipped red, 19 electoral votes. >> sandra: it was wisconsin that pushed trump over the threshold late last night. some news there on the senate race, as well. that breaking just now. okay, here we go. fox team coverage. get ready for it. mike tobin is live out of milwaukee for us. first, let's get to national correspondent bryan llenas is in philly. hey, bryan. >> hey, sandra. while the harris campaign and democrats are really counting on a historic turn out here in philadelphia, to win, but they

never received that kind of turn out, despite the fact that last night i spoke to the philadelphia democratic party chairman bob brady about four hours before the polls closed, and he told me it was looking like extremely high voter turnout. it was not. in fact, it was less than in 2020 and if you look at the numbers, both president biden and former secretary hillary clinton each received more votes in philadelphia than vice president harris. harris received 529,000 votes in philly. biden got 74,000 more votes than that in 2020. clinton got 54,000 more votes than harris in philly in 2016. meantime, trump had his best performance ever in philadelphia, getting 20% of the vote here. that's 4,000 more votes than he got in 2020. i just got off the phone with the philadelphia democratic party chairman bob brady, who really criticized the harris campaign. he said that harris should not have been replaced -- excuse me,

he said that president biden should not have been replaced by harris. he also said that the harris campaign never really organized with them on the ground here in philadelphia, and he said that the campaign never showed philly democrats kind of respect that he thought they needed. in fact, brady said he never even had a conversation ever with vice president harris. and then he added that he believes that pennsylvania's governor josh shapiro should have been the vice presidential pick, and not governor tim walz, which is something we are hearing from members of the dnc, as well. listen. >> a lot of people are saying tonight it should have been josh shapiro. friendly people have been saying that for months. josh shapiro is a consummate oratorical he is able to galvanize folks, he is also most importantly extremely popular in the critical battleground state pennsylvania and saw in the final weeks of the campaign the harris campaign was running ads with his voice as a voice over.

>> without a surge of democratic votes in philadelphia, trump not only flipped pennsylvania, he won 3.4 million votes here, that's the highest total vote count ever by a republican candidate in the commonwealth. meantime the senate race here in pennsylvania is too close to call but the republican challenger dave mccormick is leading slightly by a few hundred votes or the income, democrat senator bob casey. sandra? >> sandra: bryan llenas, thank you. >> john: president trump's path to victory in wisconsin appears to have been aided by near historic voter turn out, this is incumbent democrat tammy baldwin declares victory in the senate race. senior correspondent mike tobin is live in milwaukee. mike, what drove voters to the polls? >> well, a lot of the hot button issues that you would think about, abortion drove them, but there are pocketbook -- abortion drove them here in deep blue wall walkie but there pocketbook seemed to drive them across the state. the cost of items seem to be important. the develop it in wisconsin, the senate race being called, we

were watching that all night long, the split between the republican challenger eric hovde and the incumbent tammy baldwin is about 29,000 votes, or .89% -- wait 86%. that is about the same split, the margin of victory, with donald trump in wisconsin, just shy of 30,000 votes. that's a wider margin than joe biden took wisconsin in 2024, and frank they wider margin than president trump toon 2016. we talked with voters here in wisconsin about what mattered to them as they left the polls. any one particular issue that is driving you? >> um, no, just lowering the cost of household items and maybe immigration. >> i just take it is important to vote and exercise your right. >> women's rights is a big issue for me. i've got a daughter, young 7-month-old daughter, and i want her to grow up in a country that values women and treats them right. >> i think that it's really cool

to get to be able to vote however i want and for other people to be able to vote however they want, so i just think the whole democratic process is really interesting and i'm really happy to participate. >> and there was a delay with the absentee votes coming out of milwaukee, as there was a problem with the machines. a republican observer noticed the seals were in place on the machines but the locks had not been engaged. that meant 31,000 votes had to be recounted last night and those absentee votes were delivered in the wee small hours of the morning. if you followed our reporting last week, you would note there was one county in all of the battleground states that has picked the president this century, but reporting today that door county for the first time this century was wrong. door county picked kamala harris, and obviously you know the outcome of that race. john? >> john: yeah, first time in a while they've gotten it wrong in door county. mike tobin, thank you. >> sandra: okay, for more -- sorry, present elect donald trump's historic comeback, let's bring in

larry kudlow, host on fox business. >> thank you for having me, appreciate it. >> something we talked about briefly yesterday, i wrote about it -- >> john: ever talk about anything briefly? [laughter] >> relatively. the pollsters got it wrong. most of them, not all of them. mark penn got pretty close to this. probably so did tony fabrizio, trump's guy. trump has assembled, bolstered, and expanded this populist coalition of working folks and middle americans. blacks, whites, men, women, union, latinos, blacks, young people, you go down the list of the numbers, you all have seen the numbers, how much he improved from 2020. people, they didn't understand it. people wanted the country to change direction.

they don't want big government socialism. they didn't want inflation and an affordability crisis. they didn't want an open border. >> sandra: they didn't want to be told how to vote. >> they hated the woke stuff that was going on in all the transgenderism stuff, they just didn't want it. but this coalition grew. the question was, okay, he might have had a base, he is talking to his base. well, he was talking to his base, but he was expanding the base. that was the whole point of trump at mcdonald's, trump at the al smith dinner -- by the way, catholics voted for him in enormous numbers. latinos voted in enormous numbers. >> john: republicans have talked so much about building a bigger tent but it never happened until trump. >> such a wonderful point. trump build a bigger tent. >> john: here is what our voter analysis found out about how much the tent has expanded, trump up two points and women, three points in men, six points not college-educated voters, six points in hispanic voters, seven points black voters, ten points in young voters, so he

represents a growing, a broader and broader coalition. listen to what jen o'malley dillon said in a memo to campaign staff. she said, i'll leave you with this, losing is unfathomably painful. it's hard. this will take a long time to process. but the work of protecting america from the impact of a trump presidency starts now. >> see, nobody believed that. all of this stuff about the threat to democracy, fascism and hitler is him and racism, none of that -- the westernization, the lawfare, throwing him in jail, that didn't work and democrats didn't understand that it didn't work while it was not working. they kept on doing it, you are exactly right. to the bitter end, kamala harris was still yelling at him, calling him names. people want issues. you know, the wonderful thing, the magic of american democracy, in my view, voters are smart.

they have a lot of common sense. they see something they didn't like. the polls showed three-quarter of the country said we are moving in the wrong direction during the biden-harris years. here is trump assembling this incredible populist coalition and building on it and expanding on it and putting salt on french fries in mcdonald's, sitting in a garbage truck, going to the al smith dinner, going to the barbershops, for heavens sakes, rallies in the bronx, into madison square garden, bringing in elon musk, for example, bringing in robert kennedy and tulsi gabbard and joe rogan, all of these things he did, he was expanding the base, and so that was the issue that the pollsters missed, and then when you look at the numbers last night and you go, whoa, this is a landslide. you know what? if the republicans had some more money they would have taken five other states. this is very much like reagan in 1980. right to the bitter end,

pollsters were saying jimmy carter was going to win. i was involved in that campaign and i worked for reagan later on. reagan won in a landslide, and they had 12 additional public and senators, so this wasn't quite the same thing, but it was very similar. trump has changed the republican party for at least a generation, if not more. he is saying to the union worker, he is saying to the latino, small business person, he is saying to the young person, i am going to deliver you normalcy. i'm going to deliver you prosperity. i'm going to deliver you opportunity. and i'm going to deliver to you peace through strength. >> sandra: he ran that youth vote right up. >> youth vote unbelievable. >> sandra: after yesterday i don't dare ask you about the stock market rally. >> up right off the top. unbelievable. stocks are booming. the dollar is booming. gold is falling. it's a tremendous vote of confidence. will deliver -- listen, he will

get you better growth without inflation. one thing he's going to do, besides cut taxes and deregulate, get ready for this, with elon musk -- >> john: this one has to be brief because we have to go. >> with elon musk you are going to see significant budget slimming down programs that are unnecessary, obligated but not spent, they are going to take the money back. people say trump doesn't want to cut spending. you will see deficit reduction. you will see debt reduction. and you will see growth -- >> sandra: the market seems -- >> john: sure do. >> stock sending a message. >> john: anyone who can catch a rocket ship -- >> a rocket ship and catch a rocket ship and kill the swap, how about that? >> john: how long can the union leadership ignore -- >> the rank and file. >> sandra: great to see you. >> thanks to both of you. i appreciate it very much. >> john: president-elect trump

picking up the peach state on the road to the white house. how he turned reliably red georgia back into republican territory. >> sandra: what happens to trump legal troubles now that he's heading back to the oval office? we will ask kerri urbahn. she will be with us next.

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♪ ♪ >> john: look at new york city were democratic governor kathy hochul was speaking but now new york attorney letitia james is speaking here about how her office is going to respond to a trump presidency. let's listen in for a moment. >> and with other democratic ags across this country to make sure that we would be ready to respond to any attempt to roll back our rights. so here we are. we've studied their platforms. we've identified certain

possibilities, fact patterns. we've created contingency plans. so no matter what the next administration throws at us, we are ready. we are ready to respond to their attacks. we are ready to respond to any attempts to cut or eliminate any funding to the great state of new york, as the governor outlined. so despite what has happened on the national stage, we will continue to stand tall in the face of injustice, revenge, or retribution. we will continue to protect and our most vulnerable and marginalized amongst us because it is my sworn duty and responsibility to lead that fight, working with the governor of this great state, kathy hochul. this is not the time to be

fearful, new york. but faithful. and steadfast. knowing that i as the attorney general, along with my entire team, we are guardians of the law. and we are prepared, my friends, to fight back. thank you. [applause] >> john: all right, so that is attorney general letitia james from the state of new york. there is governor kathy hochul who spoke just a little while ago, saying that they are prepared for a trump presidency. let's bring in our fox news legal editor kerri urbahn. i'm still trying to make head or tail of that. she's saying, well, we could be facing something. we don't know what it is. but whatever it is, we'll be ready. >> yeah, that was maybe the most distasteful scene and ever seen a government official give after someone won the american presidency, and i think it reflects exactly how letitia james has been this entire time. she has done everything in her power to destroy donald trump.

she failed. do you know how i know she failed? because donald trump won decisively last night. this lawfare campaign that we have seen waged against trump by attorneys general emma by federal and state prosecutors, buy, doing so and twisting the laws, we know this is not just a right wing talking point, the use the law against donald trump in ways they never against anyone else in their state and this country, and the american people spoke loud and clear last night and said we are done with this, and yet for the attorney general of the state of new york to go on and give that speech just now is disgraceful. >> sandra: and we are going to cut some of it that we missed at the top there. meanwhile, want to ask about special counsel jack smith evaluating how to wind down to federal cases against president-elect donald trump and where you see this going next. >> yeah, those cases going away and they are winding down because there's a doj policy tht says you can't invite a sitting president and you can't pursue prosecuting a president, and then you have the state cases. now that theory that doj policy

has actually never been tested t in the spirit of it, you wouldn't hope and he would think that states would do the same. we are still watching the judge merchan case, the stormy daniels business records case. there is a hearing on that on tuesday, where judge merchan's next tuesday, he is going to decide whether or not immunity applies to that case per the spring court decision. and of course there is still a sentencing date on the books the week of thanksgiving. >> john: bill barr, for the good of the country, op-ed, not just -- to drop all of the cases against present electronic. >> that's absolutely right, it is part of this lawfare campaign that we have been watching, for eight years now, for eight years, this is what has been happening, former attorney general discussing this throughout the morning and this afternoon and look, i think what is going to happen next week, for instance, in this hearing of the business records is even if

judge merchan rejects the immunity argument and i would argue put a quick speaking it is a way for him to get out if he wants, he can get out of the case, but if he doesn't is trump's lawyers are going to appeal that in the hopes of delaying the sentencing, but i would just say this, it would be wrong in the spirit, i think, fairness and justice, to keep that over president trump's head while he is in office. they may say oh, look here is a sentencing, we're just going to execute on it for, you know, the next four years, and if they were to do that, i would just, they should think long and hard about that because again the reason donald trump swept is because of these kinds of legal actions that have been taken against him for the last, i would say -- >> sandra: to that point, your former boss, former attorney general bill barr, makes the case that these need to go away now because the american people elected this next president, knowing these allegations. he said the american people have rendered their verdict on trump

and decisively chosen him to lead the country for the next four years. they did that with full knowledge of the claims against him by prosecutors around the country, and i think ag garland and state prosecutors should respect the people's decision and dismiss the cases against president trump right now, which makes the moment we all just live through even more remarkable. letitia james, this is a few more seconds of what she said, we missed it at the very top, listen. >> we did not expect this re result. but we are prepared to respond to this result. and my office has been preparing for several months because we've been here before. we've faced this challenge before. and we've used the rule of law to fight back. and we are prepared to fight back once again. because as the attorney general of this great state, it is my job to protect and defend the rights of new yorkers and the rule of law.

and i will not shrink from that responsibility. [applause] >> sandra: kerri? >> when she said, used the rule of law, she misspoke. she meant to say "when i abused the law" against trump. you know who else who seems to think she abused the law against donald trump? the appellate court in the state of new york. i watched those oral arguments. they were all incredibly skeptical of this civil fraud case that she brought against trump, where they valued mar-a-lago between $18,000,000.20 billion, brought a half a billion dollar judgment against him and use a statute in a play that has never been used against anyone in the state of new york i think, i think the court has been holding thatr the election so we have to wait and see on that one. >> john: she said at the top we did not expect this result, what did they expect? every time they threw the book at trump it made him stronger

and it just galvanized his supporters to say this is unfair what they are doing. and yet they seem to be singing out of the same hymnal. there is no self-reflection going on. >> none. >> john: the democrats are not sitting back and saying we really screwed this up, through this whole thing away, what did we do wrong? they are saying -- it's like a doctor who goes into take out your appendix and instead of taking out your appendix, cut off your big toe, got to go back and try again, do the same thing, hopefully find an appendix in there somewhere. they are not getting it. >> it's utter arrogance. and eric and splines people. arrogance, pride goes before a fall, doesn't see it, remarkable to the rest of us but again it is because of people like attorney general letitia james and the actions she's taken that donald trump won in the way that he did last night. >> sandra: wow. >> john: einstein had some thing to say about that process. >> sandra: kerri, thank you. all right, all eyes and vice president harris as we

await her reaction to these election results. what will she say when she takes the stage for clock? that is expected at howard university. >> john: see if she echoes what letitia james just said. president-elect donald trump sweeping ba battle state george after narrowly losing it. "fox & friends" cohost lawrence jones on deck to react coming up next. ♪ open. ♪ ♪ over 600,000 usps employees working in sync to ensure everything sent on its holiday ride ends with a moment of joy. ♪ the united states postal service. hi, i'm damian clark. i'm here to help you understand how to get the

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♪ ♪ >> john: president-elect trump has won all five battleground states in which the races have been called so far, including flipping georgia back into his column after narrowly losing it a few years ago. danamarie mcnicholl in atlanta, with more on the race. what was different this time around compared to 2020? >> well, john, a couple can tripping factors, first of all, voter turnout was very high in

rural areas where he dominated, and then many in georgia showed up to vote specifically black men, so let's take a look at some of the fox news voter analysis shows, trump not only double his support with black men this electn with 24% compared to 11% in 2020, but just men in general, more than half of the male registered voters in georgia voted for trump. this was a tight race, as expected. the two candidates were separated by just over 117,000 votes. trump took the lead by 2.4 points, and last night we saw the state called just after midnight, so it was pretty quickly results. another factor to trump's victory in georgia came from suburban women. the chief pollster of the truffle go group told me that the murder of laken riley really hit a close to home for so many women, playing a pivotal

role. after losing by such a slim margin of .2%, about 11,000 votes, although when we go back to the 2016 election trump won the state by five points. we also saw trump come into the youth boat so john, spending time on those popular podcasts seemed to work out for him. >> john: all right, danamarie mcnicholl, thank you so much. now to sandra. >> sandra: i am super pumped because lawrence jones is here, cohost of "fox & friends." i keep talking about all of the barbershop stuff you did with trump, you were telling the story of the election outcome we saw last night. you have been telling it on the ground, you have been listening to those voters. >> to be fair, every journalist, every person in the media had the opportunity to talk to these voters. they had been screaming very loud, did they listen? >> sandra: places like georgia, looking at the black vote, where her margins were

shrinking, right? biden had this number much higher than she did. we are starting to see that state-by-state early in the night. donald trump ran this number up. >> he got almost double the black support that he got from the last time he ran for president. the voters rejected identity politics and said that the economy, the personal circumstances, matter more. it didn't matter if the candidate was biracial, black, and asian, it was about the issues, and she never talked with the voters, black voters, about the specifics. >> sandra: great point. >> black males leave when they can't afford to pay for their grocery store bills, you can make the same case. >> sandra: hispanic voters. we heard them on your show. they want legal immigration in this country. >> we were also told after the big rally at madison square garden that there was this late break when it came to latino hispanic voters. they were supposed to be going for harris. we looked at the counties and

this overall -- >> sandra: this number shrank from 2020 and he ran this number up. >> they may have gotten some media markets to change their votes, in reality, it was a big win for the former president. >> sandra: the youth vote. >> my generation. >> sandra: voters under 30. they go for harris. i'm going to get this up here. the margin here was eight percentage points, that she won the youth vote over donald trump. just to give you some perspective, four years ago, they favored biden by 25 percentage votes. look how much she ran that number down, okay? the youth boat turned out for donald trump. >> this is my generation, i'm 31, right outside of this. voters are never going to come to you, you have to come to voters and when you have the former president, go on all of these podcasts, to talk to that group, it is about the margins here. should be very high when it comes to the democrats.

46% with the former president. >> sandra: let's finish up while you are here. looking at the top issues because the first thing you and i looked at, they were underestimating just how much people wanted her to address their concerns about the eco economy. economy and jobs. immigration was still up there, abortion was up there but look how far down it was. >> democracy, such a nice media term, they wanted to focus on one day instead of peoples lived experience on a day-to-day basis. this issue of immigration was totally underestimated. once my governor greg abbott started shipping illegal migrants to century city's the problem was brought to big cities' doorstep and it changed this issue, as you can see right now, the majority of americans right now to mass deportation, economy and immigration deftly the top issues. >> sandra: just incredible,

lawrence. you look at some of the key data points we were looking at through the night and it really tells you people were looking, those who don't like the direction of the country, we asked how much change you want to see in the way the u.s. is run? 20% total of people, 56% substantial change, that's 82% of the population that we surveyed, they said they want big change. >> i was watching when you were giving this voter analysis, other newsrooms getting that same data, and they were aghast by what was happening. can you believe that 70% of the country were concerned -- >> sandra: hello! >> saying this for months now. the pollsters refused to listen to the american public. the candidate, i'm not going to say candidates because donald trump responded to the voters, stayed on message when it comes to the issues that mattered to them. they wanted to talk about saving democracy and the voters sent a mandate not just when it comes to the electoral college but the

popular vote, as well. that's a big story. >> sandra: i can't say it enough, you've been telling stories on the ground on "fox & friends," awesome stuff threat the election cycle. >> keep doing it. >> sandra: john? >> john: barbershop series was incredible. democrats pointing fingers after vice president harrises campaign fell short. fell short. harris surrogate lindy li tells he r side of the story coming p next. duce the risk of kidney failure with farxiga. because there are places you'd like to be. farxiga can cause serious side effects, including ketoacidosis that may be fatal, dehydration, urinary tract, or genital yeast infections, and low blood sugar. a rare, life-threatening bacterial infection in the skin of the perineum could occur. stop taking farxiga and call your doctor right away if you have symptoms of this infection, an allergic reaction, or ketoacidosis. ♪ farxiga ♪

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♪ ♪ >> john: moments ago, president biden called president-elect trump to congratulate him on his election victory last night, early this morning, and invite him to the white house for a transition meeting, which means that the transition this time around will be wholly different than it was during the obama administration.

vice president harris will speak to the nation at 4:00 eastern her first public remarks about the election, our white house team reports that she has called president-elect donald trump to concede and congratulate him. democrats across the country are trying to figure out what went wrong, and they are doing something or pointing as they do it. let's bring harris-walz campaign surrogate lindy li. so we are hearing from demo democrats, attorney general of the state of new york letitia james among them, saying we didn't expect this to happen. why not? >> john, thank you so much for having me. obviously this was not the outcome that we had anticipated. we had expected to at least cling onto one or two of the blue wall states. unfortunately, it was a full sweep. we were hoping for michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania, nebraska 2nd congressional district. so needless to say it was basically if anyone has seen "game of thrones" it was a red wedding, it was a bloodbath, so everyone is in a state of shock.

the gender gap that we were pining for did not materialize to the extent come in a meaningful extent, and obviously youth and latinos and african americans, a lot of them went over to trump, so there's going to be a lot of soul-searching the next couple of days. i hope that we can do an honest assessment and not criticize the people who have ideas and solutions about how we can move forward because we do not acknowledge the rightward turn of america, we are going keep losing. >> john: you did say in an interview last night that you thought the tim walz was part of the problem. >> i do. i'm biased. i'm from pennsylvania, i'm a huge fan of my own governor. he is tremendously a popular across the state, not just in the liberal bastions of the delta and pittsburgh -- >> john: was that a big mistake? >> i think it is one of several factors. i think there were several factors that led to this result, but i think definitely it contributed to this. and even if shapiro was only able to bring up the margin by 1%, in a campaign of margins, it could have potentially made a huge difference. and perhaps it would've allayed

fears of voters and other blue wall states because shapiro is famous for being a moderate. he would've counterbalanced the ticket. and be assured the american people kamala harris is not that san francisco radical that trump accuses her of being. >> john: a lot of people believe she was so afraid of losing the muslim and arab american vote in dearborn, michigan, that she lost it anyway. a lot of people .2 this, lindy, as the kiss of death for her campaign, listen here. >> if anything, would you have done something differently than president biden? during the past four years? >> there is not a thing that comes to mind, and i have been a part of most of the decisions that have had impact. >> john: when she said that, the sound of hair being pulled out by her campaign staff was palpable. was that a huge mistake -- >> obviously not just her campaign staff. that was a statement heard around the world because

americans are dying for a difference, dying for a change from the biden administration, and she needed to go out there and make the case that she wasn't going to be biden 2.0, she was going to be harris. unfortunately she blurred the lines between the two. that was her opportunity to sam going to take drastic measures to bring down inflation, i'm going to make sure the border is secure, that was her oppor opportunity, and unfortunate, a" host on barr, they are a friendly crowd, they wanted to give her an opportunity to explain but unfortunately she didn't take that but she did walk back her statement, i would appoint air pelican to the cabinet. probably realized she should have articulated more forceful and compelling answer because right now -- >> john: just before we let you go, what does this victory mean for president trump? because he went through the crucible to get to where he is today. >> i just want to say, as a proud and grateful american, i wish president trump the best. i hope him, i wish him every success because i want our

country to succeed. and that's just, you know, you can expect democrats to accept the outcome of the election. there is not going to be an insurrection. there is going to be a peaceful transfer of power and kamala harris and joe biden are going to be there, so congratulations to president trump, and all of us have to do everything we can to move our country forward. >> john: lindy li, great to catch up with you. thank you so much. we will see you again soon. >> thank you so much. >> sandra: all right, a shift in montana after the states three term senator jon tester loses his seat to republican tim sheehy. the deal. poised to take their majority in the new congress.ee ♪n ♪ athletes, and world leaders. but i've always felt most comfortable up here, with the folks that made me who i am. i'm right at home, out here on the land. and i'm in my lane on the shoulder of the interstate. because this is where i come from. i've been showing up here for nearly 200 years.

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>> a big senate flip in montana. john tester is unseated by sheehy. dan springer is live in bozeman, montana where it is still cold. hi, dan. >> still cold, still beautiful here. sandra, in the end, this proved to be too much of an uphill climb for john tester in this deep red state of montana. they're still counting ballots in the race, but the race was

calderly this morning for republican tim sheehy. he benefitted by being on the same ticket of president-elect donald trump that endorsed him early, campaigned with him in august. a big rally there. he won his race by 21 points here. sheehy had to overcome record spending against him and withering character attacks. last night he took the high road. >> just like i did in the military, i took an oath to serve all americans and i'll take an oath to serve all montanians. i will work to work for your support. we have the safest country. to save it, we have to come together and figure out how to heal this country. >> john tester spent 18 years in the senate. now there's not a single democrat serving in the senate in the five northern plains states. there were six when he was first elected in 2006. the republicans had the majority in the senate and could grow bigger now with pennsylvania

still out there. sandra? >> sandra: thanks, dan. >> john: races in nevada still too close to call including jackie rosen and the republican challenger, same brown. jeff paul is in the city of lost wages for us. jeff, let's talk about where the presidential race stands. trump has a lead that they're still counting. >> yeah, john. here in nevada, trump is ahead of kamala harris by five points. but it's the senate race that is closer. here's how things stand with sam brown and senator jackie rosen. brown is ahead of rosen by more than 6,000 votes. both candidates really stressing that when it is this close, it is critical to make sure that every single vote gets counted. >> we are battle tested and democracy takes time. i am confident, confident

because of all of you, because of all the work you done, because of all the heart you put into it that we will win when all the votes are counted. >> we must double our effort to get in touch with every person who has cast their ballot on time, but it was not yet counted and make sure that those ballots are cured. because something thousand vote lead right now doesn't count for anything if we don't have a lead in the end of the counting period. am i right? >> we still have many more ballots coming in and could be several days until we know the results of the closer races. john? >> john: we'll see if donald trump continues to run the table in the swing states with the result out of nevada. we have to wait and see. jeff paul for us. thank you. >> sandra: vice president harris set to speak shortly. our coverage will continue after the break. inside an abandoned chicken coop. where our founder

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>> sandra: sometimes you reach that point and you just don't know what else you're going to say or -- >> john: what else could possibly happen? >> sandra: what a day, what a night. >> john: it was a day, a night, a morning and now an afternoon. now the world has changed in the last 24 hours. you know, it's like everything old is new again. back to the future. >> sandra: so fun to have you here in new york. >> john: good to be here. i've been here since friday so -- >> sandra: am i invited to visit you in d.c.? >> john: absolutely. i'll have a train pick you up. >> sandra: the amtrak. our coverage will continue. 4:00, kamala harris will be speaking. >> john: we're starting in a couple seconds with brett and martha. thanks for joining us. i'm sandra smith. >> john: i'm john roberts