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u.s. election results program live from washington, d.c.. kamala harris concedes a bid for u.s. president after congratulating donald trump >> while i concede this election, i don't concede the find that fuels th campaign. >> congratulations pour in for donald trump as he promises a negolden age for the u.s.. i'm caitríona perry. thanks for being with us. we are live in washington, d.c.. in the past hour kamala harris made her first comments since losing the presidential election to donald trump. at a speech at howard university in washington, d.c. she told

supporters she concedes the election but promised to not give up the fight on issues like abortion rights, gun violence, and the protection of democracy. she congratulated donald trump in a phone call earlier and pledged to ensure a peaceful transfer of power. projections from cbs news partners in the u.s. showed donald trump pass to the winning target of 270 electoral college votes and he will return to the white house for a second term. president biden also congratulated president trump on his victory and invited him to the white house. in a phone call president biden said he was committed to ensuring a smooth transfer of power and highlighted the importance of bringing the country together. president biden himself is do to address the nation tomorrow. projections show donald trump won many key swing states including pennsylvania, wisconsin, michigan, and georgia. there are states still counting,

but not only that. donald trump won the popular vote and described his victory as magnificent. in her concession speech, kamala harris said at last nights results work the outcome of the democrats wanted, but she said she was proud of the race they had won. let's listen to some of what she said. >> while i concede this election, i don't concede to the campaign. -- i don't concede the fight to fueled this campaign. -- that fueled the campaign. the fight for freedom, opportunity, fairness, and the dignity of all people. i fight for the ideals at the heart of our nation. the ideals that reflect america at our best. that is a fight i will never give up. [applause]

i will never give up the fight for a future where americans can pursue their dreams, ambitions, and aspirations. where the women of america have the freedom to make decisions about their own bodies. and, not have their government telling them what to do. we will never give up the fight to protect our schools and streets from gun violence. and, america, we will never give up the fight for our democracy, for the rule of law, for equal justice, and for the sacred idea that free -- that everyone of us, no matter who we are or where we start out have a certain fundamental rights and freedoms tt must be respected

and upheld. we will continue to wage this fight in the voting booth, in the courts, and in the public square. we will also wage it and -- in quieter ways, in how we live our lives. by treating one another with kindness and respect. >> congratulations continued to flow in from global leaders today after sweeping victory from republican candidate, former president,, president-elect donald trump. we have heard from the nato secretary-general an britain's prime minister sir keir starmer spoke with donald trump to congratulate him on the win discussing the middle east and the two countries close relationship on a phone call earlier.

indian prime minister narendra modi said he had a great conversation with donald trump and congratulated him on what he called his "spectacular victory." prime minister modi said he was looking closely to working with the new president and strengthening relations. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu congratulated donald trump in what he called "history's greatest comeback." netanyahu spokesperson said the two leaders agreed to work together for israel's security and to address the threat of iran. in the u.s. former republican president george w. bush congratulated donald trump and vice president-elect jd vance on their win. in a post on x, former president bush wrote "we join our fellow citizens in praying for the success of our new leaders at all levels of government. " former president bush never formally backed a candidate during the election despite calls for him to endorse kamala

harris. mixed reaction from countries with strained relations with the u.s. and donald trump's former policies. ukrainian president of rodema zelenskyy congratulated donald trump tuesday. we haven't heard anything yet from russian president vladimir putin and there has been no official statement from china or north korea by the chinese minister of foreign affairs says beijing respects the americas people -- american people's choice. now let's speak to christian fraser at the touch screen. he can remind us how the election unfolded. >> we said at the beginning of e night that katrina -- kamala harris best path to the white house ran through the midwest but as in 2016 the blue wall crumbled. you have to look at voting patterns going back through history. let's start in michigan. what joe biden did particularly well in 2020 compared to hillary clinton in 2016 is put up more

votes in democratic cities and suburban areas where democrats were strong. this is a really good example. 62% for kamala harris last night. in 2016, it's a gross -- worse result then hillary clinton and she lost the state by 10,000 votes. look at what joe biden did in wayne county, detroit, that was a 70%. there was an anomaly in wayne county. in dearborn one third of the vote is arab american. they are unhappy about the middle east. for me that was starting to ring alarm bells as to where kamala harris was going in the state. similar in oakland county. independent women have given the vote to democrats in recent years, much better performance than hillary clinton in 2016, but if you look at what happened here in 2024, she is down two

points. it is a similar story in wisconsin. in milwaukee she's down two points. in a city with a big black vote on joe biden. and here in dane county. that is at the university of wisconsin. it's madison. one of the trends we spotted since 2000, every cycle, is democrats, y can see it here through 2016. look at this number. it jumps significantly. in every cycle since 2000 democrats have been putting on a vote share of 10,000. yet, last night, it's only 13,000. the vote in democratic places was supposed to compensate for what donald trump was doing in rural counties. go across your to pennsylvania. i won't go all the way through these, but take my word for it. through here, small, rural,

conservative counties, 1%, 2% more than in 2020. look at philadelphia. that is quite a healthy margin. but this is a real problem for democrats. look at the vote on barack obama in 2008 around 85% and fell to 83% with hillary clinton and went down to 81% with joe biden and last night it goes under 80% for the first time. you can't win pennsylvania if you aren't winning philadelphia and pittsburgh. the big democratic behemoths. by bigger margins that that -- than that. last night we were asking if there was a red mirage similar to 20. the only mirage we saw in philadelphia was here. reading, 70% latino, out of town, next door, hazleton.

big latino populations. they were supposed to go for harris. and all of them broke for trump. >> christian, thank you. we are joined by our top panel. former republican congressman from illinois rodney davis, former democratic congresswoman from florida stephanie murphy, and our own north american correspondent anthony zurcher. looking at the figures christian was outlining their, you can look at this as kamala harris having lost the election or donald trump having a tremendous day at the office. >> you have to give donald trump and his campaign a lot of credit. there always a lot of handwringing when a loss happens that somehow, people voted against me or against that person. more times than not the majority of people voted for the winner because they wanted to, not because they had to. and i think that is where a lot of pundits and pollsters miss the fact that people actually

like the job donald trump did when he was president the last time. let's not underestimate too, probably, we need to ask, would joe biden have recovered a and done better than kamala harris -- recovered postdebate and done better than kamala harris? i found it ironic in her speech she brought up loyalty after what the democrats did to push biden out of the way just to lose more badly than we anticipated. >> what do you make of it all, stephanie? >> there were clear signs that this was going to be a tough race on the issues voters care the most about, the economy, immigration. that favored trump. and i think that democrats, the polling also showed that when asked, voters said democrats were more extreme. they saw harris as a more extreme candidate than donald trump.

democrats were hoping they could overcome the political gravity and overcome this by having a strong turnout, fueling operation and putting together an anti-trump coalition. that strategy did not wo. i think the strategy the trump campaign had, to reach out to low propensity voters and turn them out did work. the strategy democrats had of trying to use dobbs to motivate women, women just did not break for the party in the numbers they had hoped for. and of the numbers of disaffected republicans as they got a did not make up for all of the other areas. works there has been a lot of handwringing in democratic circles today about how joe biden would have done, would it have made a difference. kamala harris pulled --polled better than joe biden. >> she did but as robbie mentioned it's hard to imagine a

worse result if joe biden was nominee. they lost the senate and they will lose the house and they lost the presidency by a comfortable electoral margin. when there is an election everything the winner did looks brilliant and everything the loser did looks awful. but the trump campaign told us there strategy months ago when it joe biden was still the president. they talked about turning out low propensity voters in rural areas and a chipping away at the electoral coalition the democrats have, particularly young male that, voters of color, black men, hispanic men. look at the exit polls. they aren't definitive. but you look at the defect -- different counties christian mentioned ended rather dramatically illustrates republicans were able to reduce margins while driving up turnout and it was a formula for victory. >> of course we are still waiting on nevada and arizona but it looks like donald trump might take all the swing states.

the point anthony is making is about discipline. we commented on that at the republican convention during the summer, how discipline the campaign was in comparison to past trump campaigns. >> you have to give susie wilds, chris ault evita and the whole campaign credit for a lot of discipline with an undisciplined candidate. another interesting aspect of the whole apparatus is susie, chris, the whole donald trump campaign and donald trump himself, they executed a historic victory and were outspent by $400 million. that's an amazing statistic. i don't think it is something a lot of folks will be able to wrap their heads around in the political consulting world for a long time. >> we want to bring in the chairman of the georgia republican party on the line. we were speaking to you last night before georgia was projected as a win for donald trump. we were just talking about how

the campaign was run in georgia, very effectively, from where you are sitting. >> absolutely. i heard the comment about the disparity in found angel -- financial wherewithal between the campaign. we made up with that -- for that in georgia with the coordination the federal election coalition now allows with outside groups when it comes to canvassing. in georgia we had a number of offices and staff that the georgia republican party and trump campaign was working for and working with groups like turning point, tea party patriots that were also knocking on doors. the trump campaign was able to be like an air traffic controller moving folks where they needed them to be. they were a force multiplier for us. >> results came in early from georgia last night because so much of the state voted by mail.

traditionally, that hasn't been the preserve of the democratic party. it did you put extra effort into getting people to vote early and by post? >> in georgia what we usually do at this time is early in person voting. you go to a location and vote in person and almost 4 million georgians took an advantage of that option with about 300,000 absentee ballots by mail. we made an enormous push over the last year for georgia republicans to vote early in person. we wanted to bank those votes and get as many low propensity voters as we could in the bank before election day. we had over 800,000 of them vote between the opening of early voting and friday, november 1. it made our job a lot easier to turnout base of voters in the final 96 hours before election day. >> if you were to distill this for one -- to one particular method for low propensity voters

that don't vote ofn what was that one key point? >> i think that joe biden got elected by promising the american people "they were torn -- a return to normalcy". i think whether it is t economy, immigration, or instability around the world, we had a lot of chaos. i think people want inflation to come down. if they want the border secure. and they want america generally at peace and not involved in foreign conflicts. that is what i heard over and over again when i was knocking doors talking to georgia voters. >> donald trump has made a lot of promises at politicians do on the campaign trail. what is the first thing you think him to do or want him to do? >> i think we will see him move very quickly on the economy. earlier you were talking about president trump already engaging with foreign leaders around the world. i know that he is very

interested in bringing more manufacturing back to the u.s.. very concerned about unfair competition. i imagine he will engage in those discussions, and get ready to address those issues. i think that for him job at one is the economy and related to that is bringing down the cost of fuel, which is really driving inflation when it comes to going to the grocery store, buying basic staples georgians and americans need. i think that is what you will see him lead with when he takes office in january. >> chairman of the georgia republican party, thank you for speaking to us. now we can go to some of our correspondence. at howard university where kamala harris, the vice president, was speaking a few moments ago and will brand in florida at donald trump's headquarters there. we heard from the vice president within the last hour or so. the venue has emptied out there.

what were the people saying as they left in reaction to her spee? >> this was not a speech all of -- any politician wants to make. kamala harris suffered a resounding loss. she needed to speak to supporters. perhaps she could have done so last night. that was the feeling we got from a lot of people we were speaking to. she also needed to concede the election to the country. that she did. in her speech she did it with grace and wit striking an optimistic toneh and also accepting her loss. i think for people here it was a very difficult pill to swallow. think about what the atmosphere was like last night. it was a party. people were dancing. the dj was spinning tunes. it was a party. and as we started getting more and more results, we saw the party atmosphere become a lot more subdued. today it was very noticeable how

quiet the walk in towards howard university was. the stands were not as filled up like they were last night. people were visibly disheartened. one woman was wearing sunglasses, trying to hide the fact she had been crying. another man that i spoke to was overcome. he could not believe how decisively the democrats had lost this election. but because she struck that hopeful tone and made it very clear at the fight is not over despite this defeat, i think it is a message supporters here really needed to hear, that they needed to move on from feelings of hurt and start to rebuild and go forward. >> thank you for that. in florida at the donald trump headquarters, is the party still going there? >> it has been a day ostunned silence in a way.

as people recover from the night before, they are so surprised that it was so much easier than they had predicted, that the win was grant that night quite early in the vote count comparatively to the expectation that this could run into days, weeks, legal challenges, all of these predictions that never came to pass. i think that for trump supporrs there is a bit of a hangover literal and figurative. but there is the content meant that they were ultimately write about how much support their candidate had, not just here in florida where we already knew he would be important, but nationally. in all those key battlegrounds he won. they said over and over again that he was being demonized, that he was more popular with young men then he was given credit for, with minority groups, with latinos particularly. again, numbers bore that out.

so this has been a moment where i think trump voters, that are long-standing, that have voted for him several times since 20 are reassured by seeing their man back in power, or on his way to returning to power on the 20th of january. those that voted for him certainly feel like he is no longer the parietal that it is ok -- the pariah. that it is ok to say you are a trump supporter. people are waiting to see what he would do. there was a point made by your guest about the economy. that is pretty much the first thing you would hear from anybody that voted for donald trump yesterday. >> donald trump has a lot of jobs to a point, 4000 in the federal government when he takes over. are there any notablesoing in and out of mar-a-lago today? >> there is always a bit of

movement this very first day after the election. nothing obvious we can report. but we have seen the names that have been mentioned throughout the campaign by donald trump himself. most obvio, of course, is elon musk. whether he will indeed be in charge of a government office for eliminating government waste and overspending. that would be an extraordinary development. the richest n in the world would also be in charge of a government office. secondly, there is robert f. kennedy, jr., who is expected to have important health care role. his critics say he's an anti-vaxxer and his suggestion that fluoride be removed from america's public water system is deeply concerning. and another one mentioned often is marco rubio, a senator here in florida.

he is being suggested to take the role of secretary of state. that would have real implications for neighbors like mexico as well as the socialist nations in latin america like venezuela and cuba. >> i think there would be a lot of people lining up for the secretary of state job in the donald trump administration. many people who worked with him in the past administration came out and campaigned against him this time. we will see if there are any familiar fes going back to the donald trump administration. will grant in florida, thank you for joining us and bringing us up to date there. we have been watching the concession speech of kamala harris at howard university. as the election of donald trump continues. announcer: funding for presentation of this program is provided by... financial services firm, raymond james.

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