hello, everyone. thanks for joining us for special edition of america decides. i'm lana zak. >> america has chosen the next president of the united states. >> cbs news has confirmed former president donald trump will once again live at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. >> this is a movement like nobody has ever seen before and, frankly, this was, i believe, the greatest political movement of all time.

there has never been anything like this in the country and maybe beyond. >> former president donald trump surpassed the needed 270 electoral college votes this morning to secure the victory. he will now become the first president since grover cleveland to be exact -- to be elected to nonexecutive terms. >> he will also become the oldest president sworn into office when he takes that in january. the former presidents elevated last night at his mar-a-lago estate along with family, friends, and allies. >> the race was not as close as many predicted. trump beat harris handily in several key battleground states. he also won the popular vote. that is something he failed to do in the last two elections. trump will also have help on capitol hill with republicans, flipping control of the senate. the house remains a tossup. >> we have team coverage following what is next. we will begin with cbs news

campaign reporter olivia rinaldi. you have been following the trump campaign for us. we are hearing trump aids here that this transition team is moving quickly. what are the next moves for the president-elect's team? >> we are hearing that the trump transition team is likely to make quick work of these next few steps transitioning from the biden administration to the trump administration. i am told that they are starting to have meetings that will be occurring over the next days and weeks as we head into the next trump presidency. here in palm beach is where the campaign is headquartered. these are the top donors and people who are close to him have been traveling with him over the past few days but also, his two sons and his running mate, senator j. d. vance will all be part of this transition, talking to different personnel, talking about different policy for the next trump administration but we also know that rfk jr. and tulsi gabbard were additional

names that were added to that list back in august. that is a little bit of a party that they believe they are creating of what they called the make america healthy movement, a nod to rfk jr. trump last night was talking about the team that has surrounded him and that includes his pro-campaign managers. take a listen to what he had to say here about his team and how he's feeling about the season going forward. >> this is a great job. there is no job like this. this is the most important job in the world. just as i did in my first term, we had a great first term. i will governed by a simple motto. promises made, promises kept. we will keep our promises. >> i am told that members of the trump camp are all up and down the list from the junior staffers to the senior

staffers. they are talking about what is next for them now that they have this decisive win that was declared. a lot of steps to be taken, a lot of things to be done. >> he talked last night about this historic realignment of america and american politics under what will be another four years of the trump administration. what exactly did he mean by that? can you walk our voters through what the next four years might end up looking like? >> it is a little bit of a tuple thing. historic realignment, we look at some of the people that go toward the former president. we have latino men, suburban women voting for trump, arab- americans in michigan. that is a little bit of the historic realignment to there but also, his policies will be the starkest departure from the biden administration. he is talking about strictly

mass deportations for migrants that create crimes and then later moving on to different migrants who are here in the country illegally. also talking about excessive drilling. that is what the historic realignment is, what it could look like. >> olivia rinaldi, thank you. we are waiting to hear from vice president harris since the race was called this morning. dwindling crowd of what was supposed to be a harris/walz celebration washington learned they would not be hearing from their candidate at all as results were coming in. >> we will continue overnight to fight to make sure that every vote is counted, that every voice has spoken. you won't hear from the vice president tonight but you will hear from her tomorrow. >> let's bring in cbs news reporter aaron navarro from

washington. when exactly are we expecting vice president harris to speak today and are there early indications of what her remarks might end up sounding like? >> according to the vice president's official schedule, we will see her speak at 4:00 p.m. this schedule at howard unversity behind me. we know that the second gentleman doug emhoff will be with her. we know tim walz is in d.c. but we don't know if he will join her as well. in terms of what she will say, we are waiting to see. these will be her first public remarks since the election was called. the campaign itself, which seems like a touchy day for them, has been quiet but we expect her to acknowledge the results and we also expect her to call former president trump sometime this afternoon to officially concede. >> you say quite quiet in the

harris campaign but i am wondering, if you have been talking to your sources and if they are telling you anything about whether they thought this election -- are they surprised today? it was decided faster than everyone predict did in the harris/walz campaign and those battleground states were really tough for the democrats. >> the posture of the campaign going into tuesday is that it would be close. they expect it to take a couple of days. even as the election results started trickling in, they had hotels here in d.c. for multiple nights, expecting to have a space here at howard, to potentially declare victory. in part, democrats i have been talking to say that the economy, immigration, they are grappling with the party

overall. they are talking to working- class voters of any race and of any gender. >> this is eerily similar to 2016 when the democrats thought they were going to win, did not, and then we saw hillary clinton not giving a concession speech the night of the election. why do you think the campaign this time around decided to not have harris deliver any kind of speech last night? she did not even take the stage, was not seen on campus. >> around midnight, when the crowd was still here, that is when you started to see north carolina and georgia trending toward trump, the posture of the campaign going in was that we think the battleground states could split. we see some sections of the states vote for us and some boat for trump. they were not expecting all of it to shift toward trump but as the senior advisor, the only person to speak on stage here

said, he expected and said that there are more results left to be counted in big democratic cities, in detroit and atlanta and milwaukee. it ended up being not as much turnout as they expected. >> thank you. for more on the election results, i want to bring in our reporter panel now. we have a politics reporter and a national political correspondent. let's start with you, shall be. the polls are showing that this will be close. you just heard from aaron about what the harris campaign thought about them but really, people were bracing for the potential of days without the answer. do we end up here with these results coming in so quickly and tentatively? >> i talked to donald trump's campaign aides over the past few weeks and most of them believed that it was probably going to be an extremely tight race. there were some people who

thought, if everything goes right for them, there could be this blowout scenario that we ended up having but this was not the primary opinion within donald trump's campaign. when i spoke to aids last night, they argued that one of the fatal flaws of kamala harris' campaign was that she focused too much on what they described as intangible issues like democracy, like the january 6 the riot at the u.s. capitol when so many americans were more focused on tangible issues like the economy, like the cost of gas or the cost of groceries. >> in 2020, biden won six of the battleground states but that was also an election where we saw a surge of mail-in voting due to the global pandemic. was 2020 an outlier that the democrats can no longer rely on when it comes to what comes next in 2028? >> i think no question. we have to remember what the 2020 election year was, why it

was not just the fact that we were living through a global pandemic. it was also the george floyd year where a lot of folks were up in arms with how black men and certainly latino men were treated with interactions with police. that created this groundswell of, what is this new administration going to do if they weren't able to beat donald trump? this was much more a straight up issue about what issues will you put forward that are going to make my lives better. i think in closing, the harris campaign thought that they had a high note, certainly that last campaign event that they had in philadelphia, felt like she landed and stuck the landing. democrats are waking up now and realizing that they ran a pretty flawless race, it just turned out they did not have the right message to connect with where american voters

were. the race that they intended to run, they just found out that the american people, a lot of them were not with them. >> woken up shocked and surprised. on strategy now, we saw the trump campaign implement the push toward new media such as podcast appearances on shows like joe rogan. what type of influence do you think this particular component had on the race and what potentially ended up winning these voters over in a way that neither campaign thought it would? >> i talked to donald trump's campaign about this a few weeks before the presidential election last night and the big thing that they thought was beneficial in bypassing the mainstream media and going to these independent podcasters was, it allowed for a longer forum for donald trump to be asked questions in a manner that they felt was less adversarial and, it humanized

him. that second part is particularly true because you had him sitting on joe rogan for three hours, talking about ufos and everything under the sun and it was reaching an immense amount of voters, a lot of whom were male, a lot of whom were pro-propensity voters and they were able to use the media strategy and get some of these folks out to vote for him that may not have voted for him if he had stuck to the traditional old-school media strategy. >> i want to follow-up with you on the point you are making right now about the voters he was courting in the trump campaign being male. what role do you think gender played in the election results? >> i think it was a little bit less than what we anticipated. certainly there was a gender divide. it was not as stark as we

thought because the big thinking is, kamala harris' big base is going to come from younger women who are more reliable voters and what happened was, donald trump's left and that is more a referendum on maybe her messaging not working for people overall, more so than it might be, a huge swath of male voters turning out for donald trump and dominating. >> some more about the issues rather than the demographics? we saw a surge in support from latino and hispanic voters for the former president. let's look ahead a little bit. the democrats lost the presidency and the senate and they may fail to win back the house. where do they go from here? >> the reckoning is already happening. a lot of democrats that i have spoken to via text are having a

moment right now, to say the least. they are casting a lot of the blame on voters voting against their interest but when pushed back about the message, some people say we are fighting through a time when white supremacy is leading all but that can't explain why large numbers of latino men and large numbers of black men broke for the republican party. i really think that going forward, democrats will have to reevaluate how they her messaging to working-class voters that it has come up in the closing weeks. the folks who are doing the messaging for the majority of black and latinos within the party, or the most part, they come from the denied. we don't have a lot of folks who are working within the democratic

party who come for the working class who speak to the real hardships and fears and anxieties that a lot of these voters are feeling. donald trump is able to break some of these folks away from the democratic party. moving forward, they will look at how they message and who their messengers are. >> what do you project a trump white house will end up looking like and how might it differ from his first term in office back in 2016? >> democrats are fearing that there will be no guard rail. he left the white house once. does look like he will lay the foundation of, certainly leaning heavily into immigration and making sure that there is no amnesty for a lot of folks coming over but i really think he's going to lean into these more pocketbook

issues, lean into manufacturing, bring back some of these blue-collar jobs in some of these areas. head did not have a good track record in his first term but if he wants to keep the base and keep his face happy, he is going to have to lean into the economic issues to make sure that income and issues are growing in order to continue this new growth for the republican party when it comes to black and latino and other voters of color. >> we will dig more into those economic issues later today. >> a lot of work to do on both sides of the campaign. thank you. abortion access was also on the ballot on election day. measures to protect reproductive rights fared in

it was one of the most visited states of the entire 2024 campaign but the blue wall still came crumbling down for vp harris and trump picked up a massive win in pennsylvania. the keystone states 19 electoral votes made it the biggest prize of the battleground states. harris spent her last full day of campaigning there so what in the world happened? >> nikki battiste joins us from pittsburgh. she has answers to those questions. harris and trump spent so much time there in pennsylvania. they made dozens of appearances in the months leading up to the election. this was a state that biden won in 2020. what we know about how trump was able to win it this go around? >> it really comes down

primarily to rural voters and this is a state i know well. i grew up here and i want to try to break it down. we hear a lot about pittsburgh and philadelphia. it is a six-hour drive between us two cities. this is a huge state with a lot of rural pockets and those are the voters that came out and voted for donald trump. if you look at the map of pennsylvania, it is a lot of red and a little bit of blue. i talked to a lot of those voters yesterday. i grew up in a tiny town in rural pennsylvania in the middle of the state that voted 79% for donald trump. there is one thing on their minds, the economy. there are some who have working- class jobs who live paycheck to paycheck and are weighing whether they can buy eggs or milk. that is a reality for a lot of pennsylvanians. they want to hold onto their jobs and they want change. they want donald trump. that is what happens.

there is also a population of white americans who have some wealth and they feel like donald trump will protect what they do have. that is a lot of what we saw here. we also, like much of the country, kamala harris was surprised by the number of women who voted for donald trump. i spoke with a voter who flipped her registration to republican. take a look at what she told me. >> i was a democrat my whole life until trump. >> you switched? >> i switched. >> why? >> i love everything he has to say and he is for us. the american people -- he doesn't need their money. he doesn't need to be a politician. he knows were all the bodies are buried and they don't like it. they don't like it. it is the truth. >> that is what we heard from women, rural voters coming out, voting for trump and like the rest of the country, women surprising the turnout in

voting for him. >> thank you. one of the many successes for the trump campaign came in your home state, the battleground of georgia. in 2020, he lost the state by fewer than 10,000 votes but four years on, the state flipped back to red securing votes for the gop. >> joining us from atlanta is dave malkoff. break it down for us. how did the night unfold in georgia? both campaigns really wanted to pick it up. the democrats thought there might be a chance that trump did end up winning that state and, by a lot. >> that is exactly right. good to be with you. what we have learned by staying with the secretary of state all night in a secure area where

they were tabulating the ballots was they have completely overhauled the election systems here in the state of georgia. they are just starting to flip that system. last night was the test of that then the test worked like this. they got a record number of votes both early voting and day of votes and they tabulated those in a record amount of time. by 10:00 p.m. or so, we knew how this would break and the secretary of state came out and said, this is an insurmountable lead. we were looking at no one county that was still outstanding, gwinnett county, that still had 300,000 votes. that was a county that broke her biden in 2020. they were thinking that there would be a bunch of votes are

harris from gwinnett county but that just did not make it. that put them within the 2000 a voter range but they did not make it over the top. georgia, last night, and then going on to win any, many of the swing states. what happened here is a microcosm about what happened around the country. >> i want to dig deeper into that. you mentioned in gwinnett county. i am wondering why harris failed to mobilize voters in the same way that biden did. is there talk there in georgia that biden's win was a democratic fluke in 2020? >> well, we were talking to a lot of voters this morning and they were saying that biden is a very different candidate than harris. 2020 is a very different year than 2024. we were in the pandemic then. we are in a very different

situation now. comparing the two is very apples and oranges. we have talked to lots of voters here on what is called the belt line in the middle of atlanta. it is a place where a lot of people come to bike, to ride to scooters, to walk their dogs and go to restaurants. a very diverse population. we have talked to so many people including one person who was working on his american citizenship. he has british and canadian citizenship but immigration was a big issue this year. >> we are canadian but we live and work here. definitely woke up super bummed and very confused. i did not think it would be a landslide. it doesn't match up with what i saw in the polls. it might not work against my bubble. >> of all the questions that we ask voters today after the

election, the biggest answer that we god is, i don't want to talk about that. not right now, not this morning. >> thank you. >> republicans are back in control of the u.s. senate. next, we hear from mitch mcconnell. >> and, take a look at what this means for the balance of power on the hill. this is a special edition of "america decides."

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the united states. trump declared victory early this morning in west palm beach florida alongside his family and running mate j. d. vance. during his speech, he said he would fight the americans with every breath in his body. >> at 78 years old, trump will be the oldest president to ever assume office. he will have help in congress as cbs news projects republicans were able to flip the senate in their favor. trump secured crucial battleground states like pennsylvania, wisconsin, and georgia. take a look here, to get him over the 270 electoral vote threshold. this morning, he outlined his vision for america under his next term. >> this will truly be the golden age of america. >> this is a magnificent victory for the american people that will allow us to make america great again. >> and, his ability to control that agenda and get things

passed is very much going to be dependent on which parties will control the two chambers of congress and for that, the house of representatives, we still do not know the results. as of now, neither republicans nor democrats have secured a majority in the lower chamber. however, we can project that republicans have gained control of the senate after flipping several key seats. >> for more on this, hunterwood all joins us here in studio 57. hunter, has significant is this senate clip for the republicans and on top of that, what do you think the agenda will be before they take off this? >> the number you see here, 52 seats projected, that is a nice majority for republicans and there are still more races and play. we have talked about these battleground states. pennsylvania, michigan. these are all democratic seats. republicans flipped those. it is a nice, healthy majority. we can't forget that donald trump had a two piece senate when he took over.

it was not a very meta -- mic trump it was a gop that walks and talks and someone that will likely appreciate early 2025. >> that is a really good point. there is one person who has not been in lockstep with him and that is doherty leader mitch mcconnell. he addressed the congressional results earlier. i want to play for our viewers what he had to say. >> i think one of the most gratifying results of the senate becoming republican, the filibuster will stand. there won't be any new states admitted that give a partisan advantage to the other side and we will quit beating up the supreme court every time we don't like a decision that they make. i think this shifting to a republican the senate majority helps control the guard rails,

keeps people who want to change the rules in order to achieve something they think is worth while as not successful. >> there is a lot to unpack there, hunter, not the least of which that mitch mcconnell said he would step down from his leadership position after the election. who might we see him replaced by and what will that make for trump's agenda? >> this is one of the most interesting races in washington. you have the republican senator john corning. they have been in gop leadership in other roles. they are well known, well liked by republicans and you also have florida senator rick scott, someone who challenged mitch mcconnell a few years back. this is a gop that really does work with trump, seems to like trump so you are likely to see that approach. we have the leader of what the

frozen party. >> at the same time, we are waiting the results for several house races at this time. it is not as easy or discernible last night. you been on the clock for quite a while now. i understand it could be a pretty long while before we look -- before we know what that will look like. >> it just -- even going to the map last night, i had my legal notepad out. it was interesting because democrats would win a seat in new york and then lose a seat like michigan. democrats were playing more defense last night than they anticipated. republicans are having some success. there have been redrawn seats in north carolina. republicans, democrats, it is easy to see a path for both of them. it will come back to the california seats. those can take a while to

decide. >> we talked a little bit about how the senate is looking a certain way. it is more favorable for trump presidency. do you believe the same thing applies for the house as well? it is a more gop trump centric house as it stands right now? >> there is a very trump focused gop in the house. i did analysis in the election. over 100 republicans who objected, they are running for re-election to the house, another term. that just tells you how much of trump's allies are in the chamber and that is the bare minimum. >> it is an interesting point that you raised earlier. in the last go of the trump presidency, there were republicans that did not support his agenda. in this case, we are looking at a very different makeup of those members of congress. if the house is red, does that make a major difference for trump's ability, or if it is a blue house, will that be enough to put some guardrails on a

full trump agenda being enacted? >> that is a fascinating thing. democrats had held on there, it would be a major way to change what trump would have done. >> we did hear mitch mcconnell talk about how the filibuster will stand. there is still some level of democratic input into the process. >> that is a great point. the senate is bipartisan. you need the 10 votes from the party to do that but it is fascinating because the house, democrats don't win this, this is a unified control for republicans in washington. trump has laid out an agenda that he clearly thinks he can execute this time because he will stop his administration with allies, not people that he feels like have turned on him in the past. that could make for mope focused trump presidency. >> this is going to look a lot different from his first term. thank you.

abortion access was on the ballot in 10 states this election with the voters deciding whether to enshrine reproductive rights into their state's constitution. seven states approved some kind of abortion rights amendment including arizona, colorado, maryland and montana. voters in nevada approved an amendment but it will need to pass again in 2026 48 to take effect. missouri voters cleared the path to undo its restrictive ban. you can see all those who voted in favor in yellow on your screen. those in red, those are where the abortion measures failed. in florida, nebraska, south dakota, they all became the first states since roe v. wade was overturned where abortion- rights proponents propelled -- prevailed on a ballot measure. in florida, the majority of voters approved but it fell short to pass a constitutional amendment in that state. >> on the ballot in four

states, legalizing the recreational use and sale of marijuana with the majority of the votes in now, voters in the dakotas and florida rejected their state marijuana measures. nearly 53% of voters say no to measure 5 in north dakota. more than 56% voting against measure 29 in south dakota. florida needs at least 60% of voters to say yes to amendment 3 and vote for it sit at 56%. nebraska, legalization did pass at the ballot box but legal changes are expected in the state. donald trump is facing a slew of legal issues. we are going to explore what is next for those cases amid his election night win. >> after the break, we dig into have another trump administration could impact the american economy. we will be right back.

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record high amid news of another trump presidency. the economy was top of mind for voters in the selection. trump ran on the promise of tax cuts and imposing new tariffs which could end up raising prices for american consumers. >> i want to bring in cbs news business analyst jill schlesinger for more now. give us a breakdown of some of the tariffs trump is proposing and the impact it could end up having on our u.s. economy. >> they had been talking about across-the-board tariffs on every country and obviously china has always been a focus. a lot of the trump tariffs that were put on china were extended by the biden administration but to be clear, the tariff picture really complicates the story of economic growth. if you look back in time, even just to the trump's first admin, tariffs slow down economic growth and caused

races to rise. it will be tricky. if these tariffs do come to fruition, they could increase the cost of some of the goods that we import from overseas and you might say, great. i will just buy the u.s. made competitor but in a lot of categories, there is not a u.s. made competitor. we learned that with dishwashers last time around. generally speaking, tariffs are said to increase prices which could implicate the federal reserve's issue around trying to bring down the inflation rate. we will have to wait and see the details. >> i want to ask you more about what we could see from the fed but as you are giving our answer, and reviewers were seeing the new york stock exchange and a lot of green. i want to start with not because we know the stock market loves it when there is certainty. the fact that we have a

decision today meant that they would be a boost but talk to us about how investors view a trump presidency in particular and how the fed is going to take all of this in and how it might affect their decision on interest rates tomorrow. >> the first thing to remember is from the trump administration part one, now we have version 2.0. we know what the pathway is. the pathway is, lower taxes and also, an easier regulatory regime. i know there is something that a lot of people may have missed in that those tax cuts that came in 2017, the end of the first year, president trump's first administration, they were two components. there were corporate taxes and the individual tax rates that were all changed and taxes did go down across the board, those were set to sunset at the end of next year, meaning we were supposed to go back to the 2017

-- with the re-election of president trump, what we now know is that those tax cuts are going to be enshrined for another four years and i think that is part of the rally today. the other aspect of a less invasive regulatory regime can mean very good news for companies like banks. big banks have been complaining that the fed and the enforcement of the s.e.c. has been very hard on banks. the lightened touch of regulators does build a pathway for some companies that benefit from that type of regime. altogether, as you said, it is a burst of energy, a 3% increase. it is good news for investors. i will point out, on the other side for diversified investors, your bond positions are getting

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welcome back to a special edition of "america decides." the country today processing the news of a second trump presidency. on that, i want to bring in cbs news election expert and political contributor, david becker.

is this fair to call it a blowout in favor of trump and how did he garner so much support in what was supposed to be much closer election? >> yeah. clearly in the 21st century, our elections have been pretty close. the 2020 election was the largest margin of any presidential election in this century where barack obama was not on the ballot. it is likely, at the end of the day, 2024 will be a slightly larger victory than that. it was a very impressive political performance by president trump and the republicans. i think it was even more impressive public service success by the election officials all over the country that were facing years and years of disinformation, threats, harassment and still performed so admirably ", trying to call in bomb threats and other issues to try to disrupt our system. the system worked very, very well. we had near record high turnout, just a shade under what we saw in 2020, nearly

about 158 million, 159 million voters who cast ballots in the selection once all the ballots are counted throughout the united states. >> david, the selection was decided very, very quickly compared to previous years. i was shocked when georgia had 50%, 60% of their votes tabulated two or three hours after the polls closed. there was no evidence of any malicious activity that had a material impact on election security. what does this say about the state of the electorate and security of our election? >> our elections right now are secure, transparent and as verifiable as they have ever been. i think chen easterly is quite right. this is likely the most secure ever. the 2020 election was previously the most secure ever. we run very secure elections in this country. we have almost no paper ballots, 95% of all voters vote on paper ballots that can be

recanted and audited. our voter lists are as accurate as they have ever been. our infrastructure is secure as it has ever been and we have seen this information around that since 2020 but 2024 proved that our system works. sometimes the voters choose different candidates. if your candidate loses, that does not mean the system doesn't work, it just means the voters preferred a different candidate. >> thank you. reaction has been pouring in from around the world with u.s. allies congratulating the 47th president. british prime minister congratulated trump on his election victory, calling it, quote, historic, and said he looks forward to the years ahead. >> french president emmanuel macron also congratulating the president-elect on his return to the white house, saying he is ready to work with him again. >> canadian prime minister justin trudeau called the french between his country and the u.s. the envy of the world

while congratulating trump. >> our holly williams is following global reaction to the u.s. election for us from israel. holly, thank you for being here with us. what reaction have you been seeing coming in? >> many leaders have sent fairly standard messages of congratulation to president trump. here in israel, prime minister benjamin netanyahu is enthusiastic, calling trump's history's greatest come back and saying, quote, this is a huge victory. his office closed tonight discussing israel's security. it is not surprising given apparent strains in the relationship between netanyahu and the biden administration over the war in gaza. meanwhile, in russia, a presidential spokesman said he was not aware of any plan by vladimir putin to congratulate

trump and described relations at a historic low that presumably is a reference to american support of ukraine following russia's invasion. as for what this means for ukraine, we don't know for sure but trump has claimed he would end the war in ukraine quickly. for that reason, many people in ukraine and europe say that once trump is in office, he would cut off his supply and even pressure the ukrainians to support a surrender to moscow. i was in ukraine and there was a lot of anxiety on that front. >> thank you. >> our election continues next on this special edition of "america decides." stay with us for more on what to expect for the next trump pr

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