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burning out of control. >> what we now know. plus, donald trump's historic victory. >> we're going to make our country better than it ever has been. >> what gave the former now future president his convincing win? >> look what happened. is this crazy? and what went wrong for harris? >> while i concede this election, i do not concede the fight that fueled this campaign, becoming only the second president in history to win nonconsecutive reelection. >> this is going to be supercharged. trumpism. he may have the house. he's got the senate. he's got the supreme court. >> what voters hope he can accomplish. accomplish. >> nightline will be right back. ha ha. haha! uhh, hank! switch to mucinex nightshift to relieve your cold & flu symptoms. uh oh! both help you get to sleep. mucinex is uniquely formulated to leave your system faster,

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>> thanks for joining us tonight. more than 10,000 acres of southern california consumed by the mountain fire. the area's high winds creating a red flag blaze so aggressive there is no accurate number of damaged and destroyed structures because conditions are too unsafe for inspection teams to assess. abc's melissa adan joins us now. >> juju. we're here in ventura county. this is where the mountain fire is moving. so rapid, incredibly fast. it is taking over homes. we see those flames and those embers coming over because the speed of these winds are just so powerful. but

right now, there are reports of several homes that have been burned, destroyed that we're seeing. but the count right now is just the fire response, making sure that they can save all that they can of property, and having these mandatory evacuations underway across ventura county. tonight, multiple homes in flames in southern california. a wildfire emergency fueled by howling santa ana winds. >> right now, there's absolutely no containment on this. it is burning out of control in ventura county. >> the mountain fire burning nearly 9000 acres in just 4.5 hours. >> i texted my husband about 855, and i said, i smell smoke, and it smells. it seems close. and i went outside and i saw the black smoke coming. so we just started getting our animals. and within 30 minutes it was already coming over the hill. >> we're going to have numerous fatalities in here. if we don't have companies engaged. do what you need to do to save lives. >> sheriff's deputies racing door to door rescuing trapped elderly residents in wheelchairs. just south of

there, the broad fire in malibu, starting in dry brush, quickly jumping to homes. >> probably close to 50 mile an hour gusts, and it makes it nearly impossible to save a home once it starts on fire. and conditions like these. >> authorities shutting the pacific coast highway in both directions as fire crews assaulted the fire from the ground. choppers dropping water right on top of them. the fire burning all the way to the pacific ocean. this home completely destroyed. >> our thanks to melissa. we turn now to donald trump's decisive election victory over vice president kamala harris. it was a race like no other, with trump surviving two assassination attempts and harris jumping onto the ballot with just over 100 days left in the race. but how did the former president clinch the win? reporter donald trump clinching an historic victory. >> we're going to make our country better than it ever has been. >> reporter the president elect, now set to return to the white

house as the first former president to return to power after losing an election in mor than 130 years. he's also the first convicted felon to be elected to the nation's top office. >> i mean, it's an astonishment what donald trump has done, right? it's unlike anything in our political history. >> this afternoon, his opponent, vice president kamala harris, officially conceding the race. while i concede this election, i do not concede the fight that fueled this campaign. harris telling her supporters not to despair, but rather to fight on for their ideals. the important thing is don't ever give up. don't ever give up. don't ever stop trying to make the world a better place. you have power. you have power. >> democrats in the party are going to do a lot of soul searching. they're going to be a lot of questions about whether harris focused too much on donald trump and not enough on the issues, especially whether

she did enough to differentiate herself from president biden, especially with the issue of the economy top of mind for so many voters. >> i'm excited to see what he does this time around. >> last night, trump promised to bring people together to help our country heal. >> we have a country that needs help, and it needs help very badly. >> i am skeptical that a trump administration would usher in any sort of unification. i think the fact that president elect trump won the popular vote actually emboldens him to pursue the most extreme parts of his agenda. >> he won't accomplish nothing. he just for the rich. >> i hope there's not retaliation for the democrats who voted against him. >> we'll give them the benefit of the doubt. we'll even make ourselves available to see how we can work together. >> douglas king is a michigan voter who we first talked to over the weekend. >> i look forward to trump bringing back the united states economy. i look forward to a

secure border, and i look forward to peace in the middle east. >> a member of the united auto workers union, he told us that trump had more support than people realized under trump was the most secure i felt in the auto industry. >> i was always afraid of losing my job. through clinton, through obama, and through biden. >> the economy ranked as voters number one policy issue. nearly half of those polled saying they are worse off compared to four years ago. >> we know that trump really leaned into the issue of the economy as he went on the campaign trail. he would often begin his rallies by saying, do you believe that you are better off than you were four years ago? and that became a really powerful message. >> the real driver was people's deep unhappiness with the economy. no matter what the statistics said. i think it wasn't just this present day economy, but the sense that the american future is, is, is being taken from them that that all american dream economic that they had. i think people feel it's slipping away from them and

they're angry about it. >> nightline's oshin singh spent some time with young first time voters in pennsylvania. >> what are some of the issues that have stood out to you? >> i pay attention a lot to the economy. >> isaac gourley and caleb root, both 18, are high school seniors and say trump's message resonated with them. >> seems like every time i get on social media, you get tons of political ads. >> i think it's important to like fact check it, though, because there's a lot of lies on there too. >> in deep blue new york city overnight, austin also talked to trump supporters. >> we need a republican in the white house to make america great again. >> we run things like a busines. that's what america needs. >> i like that he's going to secure the border. i've been to the border multiple times. >> i don't think harris was going to do anything to secure our border. >> while most young americans voted for harris. white men particularly flocked to trump. >> it's so interesting. young men going to trump. i think for a couple of reasons. first, economic opportunity. and i think also the way trump performs masculinity and talks

about it, i think a lot of young men see that as a more traditional way of being a man that they feel is disfavored by the democrats, and they're suspicious of that. >> as democrats study the gaps in voter demographics, they are also weighing how their message failed to resonate, some pointing to this crucial moment where the vice president failed to differentiate herself from president biden. 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 in terms of and i've been a part of, of, of most of the decisions that have had impact. >> the harris loss is especially frustrating for some, considering that issues like paid family leave and abortion and other typically progressive causes did well. abortion measures passed in eight of the ten states where it was on the ballot, like missouri, where voters overturned a nearly total ban. florida did not pass its

ballot measure because even though the majority of voters, 57%, supported restoring abortion services up to viability, the state requires a supermajority of 60%. >> the harris campaign really put a bet, a big bet, that abortion was going to drive the election, as it had in other places, but this was a national election for the presidency of the united states. and i think they overloaded perhaps emphasis on on abortion. >> republicans are also celebrating the shifting balance of power in congress. the gop taking control of the senate. >> certainly a happy day for the gop. >> while the ultimate majority in the house is still in the ai, with several races too close to call, republicans appear to be leading democrats, which could give trump a clear road to enact his new agenda. >> this is going to be supercharged trumpism. >> it doesn't feel like any guardrails for donald trump. it definitely feels like a mandate based on the vote. and one of the things that's fascinating to

remember here, it's not so much the electoral college victory, which obviously got donald trump, the white house for a second term. it's the popular vote. >> trump has reportedly promised to put billionaire megadonor and tesla ceo elon musk in charge of government efficiency. musk has said he could cut at least $2 trillion from the federal budget. last friday, during a virtual town hall on x, formerly twitter, he admitted it would be painful. >> we have to reduce spending to live within our means and yeah, that that necessarily involves some some temporary hardship, but it will ensure long term prosperity. >> today we also heard from robert f kennedy jr, an outspoken anti-vaccine advocate who talked to npr about the new trump administration's health goals. >> of course, we're not going to take vaccines away from anybody. >> kennedy called himself a senior health advisor, and trump has said he would give kennedy a major role in public health in his new administration. today, rfk said the new administration

plans to recommend against using fluoride in public water, despite its known dental health benefits. a major move medical organizations oppose. >> he has a very controversial past and a lot of controversial positions. it might make it easier for team trump if they really want him in the administration to avoid scrutiny. avoid a senate confirmation. give him a post that does not need that before trump gets to inauguration in january, he still has legal battles that must be addressed. >> his sentencing is supposed to be later this month on those 34 felony convictions for falsifying business records. but when it comes to the department of justice investigations into his alleged mishandling of classified documents and his alleged role in the january 6th insurrection, sources tell abc news the doj is now in talks to end those investigations. >> he will not be held to account under the criminal law for anything he did leading up to january 6th, trying to overturn the election or inciting that riot. winners get to determine the way history is

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political director for hillary clinton's campaign, amanda renteria and l.a. times columnist l.z. granderson. welcome to you all. ryan, let me begin with you. a sweeping victory for donald trump. and i know you spoke with him recently. what do you think we can expect from a second trump term? and what advisers do you think he'll surround himself with? >> well, that's a good question. as far as the advisers, i mean, clearly he has a lot of respect for siouxsie wiles and chris la vida. he brought them up on stage last night, and it was reminiscent of 2016 when he brought me up. so i mean, he doesn't do that unless he really respects t work that you've done. so i would suspect that they're going to be very important folks moving forward. but what to expect? i mean, i would expect that he's going to try to do the things that he talked about. i mean, you're going to see the border getting clamped down. you're going to see the 2025 tax cuts issue get addressed right away. energy

drilling. and this issue with criminal illegal immigrants that are here and what we're going to do about that. so i think that you should take trump at his word. he was very bold about what he wanted to do. and he won across the board. >> amanda, you know, one of the strategies was to double down on the male vote. latino men had a huge swing. what explains that and what? zoom out for me, if you will. what, if anything, went wrong for the harris campaign? >> so i think one key message that we're finding is economics matter, right? when you have a community who's felt unseen, invisible, and there's a trust with government, what ends up happening is you trust what you see in front of you. and that really was grocery prices. and so when you hear someone's going to help reduce grocery prices, even if i'd say they haven't shared a plan, you begin to believe that because you can walk into the grocery store and see it and you distrust democratic institutions, politicians in general. and i

think that message is actually what rang true. i'll also just say latinos have always had economy as the number one issue year after year, and they felt like trump was going to actually address that. >> and identity politics were not part of it. harris underperformed, as you know, in large urban areas and of course, trump saw dramatic gains among both latino men, blue collar men and young men. what's your take on all of that? >> white women supported donald trump. you know, i know it's sexy to look, to see what's different, to see if that was the difference maker. but the reality is, is that the majority of white women have consistently voted for white men. and when compared with a black woman, that was the choice presented to most of americans, of white women. and i don't mean that to be racist. i mean that in reflection of the data points that we've seen since the 1920s, that's where the majority of white voters, white women vote tends to go. and so i don't think it's a policy conversation. we need to be

having. i don't necessarily think it's an identity conversation. we need to be having. it's more of a historical conversation. we need to be having consistently. women have not supported female candidates for president. interesting. >> now, ryan, let me turn back to the economy, which is what amanda brought up. it's the economy. stupid is the meme. it's the truism and polling show that 45% of voters said they were worse off. how did the trump campaign capitalize on that? >> well, i mean, the problem is, is that when you, you know, look, 75% of the country said that we're on the wrong track. okay. harris had she could not extrapolate herself from the biden administration, the current state of the economy, as was said earlier, the price of gas and groceries. but i think it's something else. and i disagree with liz. it's a cultural it was also a cultural rejection of the progressive movement in this country. he got 50% of the hispanic vote in arizona and in nevada. i mean, come on, this is a mandate

across the board, across races and gender, period. >> fascinating. l.z. you want to respond to that? >> absolutely. i never said it wasn't a mandate. i'm speaking towards the motivation for the mandate. so i think we're talking about the same thing. i'm just talking about the root cause of it, and you're talking about the byproduct of it. i don't think that talking about identity politics is inherently un-american or uncomfortable. i think judging each other and ranking each other is the uncomfortable part. >> well, i appreciate this muscular conversation. reince priebus, amanda renteria, lz granderson, thank you all for joining us and giving us your psoriasis held me back... joining us and giving us your insights. we'll be severe plaque now with skyrizi, i'm all in with clearer skin. ♪ things are getting clearer ♪ (♪) ♪ i feel free ♪ (♪) ♪ to bare my skin, yeah that's all me. ♪ ♪ nothing is everything ♪

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