Trump Wins White House, Congressional Race Results
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Donald trump is returning to the White house.

They want to thank the american people for the external honoring elected your forty seventh president and you're forty five president.

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Though votes are still being counted, trump has either one or come close to winning all seven swing states, and he spoke without waiting for news organizations to formally call a winner. Cma Harris has yet to concede, though he is expected to speak later today.

The country will also see a change in congress. Republicans captured enough seats to take control of the senate.

This is a new dawn of republican leadership.

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Donald trump, the forty fifth president at the united states, will be the forty seventh trump address. Supporters gathered florida around two thirty this morning.

Frankly, this was, I believe, the greatest political movement of all time has ever been anything like this in this country. And maybe the. And now it's going to reach a new level of importance because we're going to help our country heal franco. Arda.

as has been following the trump campaign, and he's on along with us now from florida. Good morning. Good morning show antia shia m has been following the Harris campaign.

She's in washington, D C. hyde's. per. Either we going to with franco. Franco are strong showing for the former president and now president elect. What did he .

say his yeah I mean, there was a more positive speech than we're kind of used to from him. Certainly recently, I mean, we did not hear the grievances and promises of retribution that we've kind of come to expect these last few days. The campaign trail of the last few weeks, he did not mention his opponent, though ice president cma Harris in his beach.

Instead, he thanked voters for the honor of electing home. And as you just heard there, said he was time to heal the nation. He also boosted of his diverse coalition of supporters. And what that would mean for .

how head lead amErica has given us an unprecedented and powerful Mandate. We have taken back control of the senate. Wow, that's great.

He took credit for those Victories, actually saying they were part of his movement.

So let's go to deeper now. You were at the harassed vente Howard university last night, which is here in washington, dc. When did to become clear that things we're not going her away know.

I would say, was around eleven pm ish. And you know, the night before that started off really exuberant and before the results really started rolling in, there is dancing and singing and just a lot of anticipation for this potential that commonly Harris could come to Howard or on a motor and make reMarks. And then, yeah, around eleven P.

M, I think he was even before north CarOlina was called four former president trump. S, you know, the campaign had these big TV screens at their watch party, and folks were, you know, was about a couple thousand people there, but IT IT was very quiet, and people were just apply watching the T, V screens and know, just in a very hush way, the moral got really low. I would say the energy got really low.

And at one point, you know, the crowd started shouting for the DJ to turn the music back on. So the immutable ted CNN, they started blasting music. But I was sort of this guilt kind of atmosphere. And you know, i'll tell you, people started leaving the dreaming out well before, you know, the campaign told folks that Harris wouldn't be speaking at that night.

This was a big sweet for trump in the key states. He is set to be very empowered as he returned to the White house. So, so Frankl talk about what resonated with his voters. I mean, spend a lot of time on the campaign trail. What do you think rested?

I know for a lot of people that was the economy, but for others, I was absolutely the persona. I mean, ki had two tracks in this campaign. There is the policy message about the economy, about the border SHE broke IT i'll fix IT those comments vents.

But the second track was a much darker one IT was the unscripted one IT was so bank on grievances and losing the twenty twenty election and seeking retribution against political enemies who he described as the enemy within you over and over. You know, the supporters who I talked to told me that what appealed to them was how he spoke, that he wasn't politically correct, that he wasn't a, quote, politician. IT was the policy positions, though, that helped with the more moderate voters. They may not have appreciated the rhetta c, but the more immediate concern they had was their pocket books so deep.

What about on the democratic side? I know there's obviously going to be a lot to think about here. I recognize this this sort of early days, and there's going to be a lot of talking about this in the in the next couple of days and weeks, likely months. But but what's next deepa? I mean, look.

the immediately answer is that they'll have to wait and hear from their candidate, right? We haven't heard yet from commonly haras. SHE is expected to speak today again at Howard, although the timing of her reMarks is still unclear. But you this is the point in a campaign that has gone wrong, right, where people will start to pass out every choice that was made, analyze how this happened, what strategies worked and didn't work.

You know, why did they court certain voters? Why did haris picked the running mate that SHE packed? And so there's going to be, I think, a long moment of trying to figure out how this happened and started a question, you know, how does the party rebuilt?

We've talked a lot about this, franco. You spend a lot of time on the campaign trail. You spend a lot of time with the former president now that he's returning to office, how do you think you're going to a remember this moment?

Yeah, i'll think about, you know, his speech today talking about the man day, how he's kind of portraying this Victory, what that means to him. Here's more of what he said.

Actually, many people have told me that god spared my life for a reason.

And that reason wants to save our country and to restore amErica to grain. This.

you know, big picture also, is just how stunning of a political come back. This was, I mean, his career was supposed to be over after the january six attack. Then they were the multiple indictments, and now he's about to walk back into the White house as the first convicted felon to take office. And he was really able to tap into something so profound that americans just looked over all the other stuff.

And not only that, the fact that so many people who worked closely with him went public to say that they did not believe that he should be returned to office is also kind of truly remarkable. Deepa, before we let you go just briefly, is there a moment that stands out to you from your time with the hairs campaign?

I would say I think IT was her closing message right. SHE really almost you know kicked off her campaign that was so short a only one hundred and seven days with this feeling of of trying to bring back some some joyfulness into politics um and then the campaign got really serious, of course with a lot of policy issues and and policy ideas that he talked about but at the end there, I really think SHE ran the race as as herself SHE talked about her story, her history um and you know why SHE was in the race and and ended making IT about her rather than about trump in and that really stood .

up to me want to talk about but just a truly remarkable and extraordinary moment in american politics that's in paris Frankl or doing us and tipper shim.

Thank you both.

Thank you. Thank you.

Let's talk about other consequent races. Now trump p has presidential experience and a favorable supreme court heading into his second term. Any has something else?

Control of the senate? Yeah, the senate confirms judges. So the republican majority that developed last night gives trumpet chance to appoint more judges and add to his influence on the courts. Any bid to advanced legislation depends on control of the house too, which is undecided for now.

And P. R. Congressional course on a year to watch has been following all this for us.

And she's here to tell us more. Good morning. Good morning, me show.

So republicans didn't need to pick up a lot to win the senate control of the senate, especially given that the west Virginia a seat was essentially a guaranteed flip. After john mentioned retirement, he started his crews as a democrat. He turned independent, and he decided to retire. But where else did they win?

So republicans picked up a seat in montana, democratic s. Senator john tester loss to business men, former veteran tim shi. They also flipped a seat in ohio. Republican business man berne marino defeated a democratic senator, shared Brown.

Brown had been out performing the top of the ticket, sort of like tester was for a while, but trump won the state of ohio by double digits. That was just too much for Brown to overcome. Marino talk last night about what republicans are going to do with their majority.

This is a new dawn of republican leadership. We are going to a advancing agenda that is an american agenda, an agenda that says we are pro immigration, but not pro invasion. We're going to make certain that the people come to this country are invited here.

It's also possible that republicans are going to expand the senate majority even more. There are still tight races that haven't been called. Democrats are defending seats in michigan, wisconsin, sylvania an nevada.

If republicans gained more of those seats and flip those to bread, its possibly they could have a cushion. They could even lose a couple of votes from some other mother members and still confirm trump judges. And ominous.

So IT seems that these results kind of help to show how polar ized the country is. There are almost no states left that have sent both a democrat and a republican the senate. There was some ticket splitting in a few other races, but not for the senate. So what does this mean for transport ability to govern?

I mean, he has been given solid control to install nominees for his cabinet. Uh, he'll also have the votes to confirm more conservative judges to the federal bench. If there are any vacancies on the supreme court and there could be republican senate can confirm trumps nominees.

We already saw three conservative justices in trumps first term be appointed to be confirmed to the high court, and we saw the impact that their decisions had on issues like abortion and presidential power in terms of their legislative agenda. Republicans are planning to take up border security. They're planning to renewed trumps tax cuts that we're going to expire at the end of twenty twenty five. And energy legislation is another big thing on their agenda.

As for the house of representative, as we said, IT remains undecided at this point. Who's going to control that? What are you taking a look at?

What are you watching? You know, there are still a lot of races that haven't been called in places like arizona in california. There's still some really tight races in new york.

Democrats to need to pick up a total of four seats to retake control. There is a possibility that they could win a narrow majority. They would effectively be a backstop if that happens.

But it's also possible that republicans are onna hang onto their near on majority and that republicans will control both chAmbers of congress. That's the scenario that trump had when he took office in twenty seventeen. And we could be looking at that again.

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