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Speaker 3: From the Australian. Here's what's on the front. I'm Claire Harvey.
Speaker 3: It's Thursday, November seventh. Donald Trump is the past and
Speaker 3: future president of the United States of America, pulling off
Speaker 3: a stunning popular vote victory powered by young, Latino, African
Speaker 3: American and white men, union voters and people of faith.
Speaker 3: Today we break down who voted for Trump and why,
Speaker 3: who should take the blame for the democrats defeat, and
Speaker 3: what we can expect from President Donald J. Trump's second term.
Speaker 3: Millennial men, Latino voters, Union members, Catholics, African American men.
Speaker 3: They make up what looks like a powerful new coalition
Speaker 3: of Republican voters, all helping Donald Trump make history.
Speaker 4: And every citizen, I will fight for you, for your
Speaker 4: family and your future. Every single day I will be
Speaker 4: fighting for you, and with every breath in my body,
Speaker 4: I will not rest until we have delivered the strong, safe,
Speaker 4: and prosperous America that our children deserve and that you deserve.
Speaker 4: This will truly be the Golden Age of America. That's
Speaker 4: what we have to do.
Speaker 3: For the first time in his three attempts, Trump won
Speaker 3: the popular vote, and it was by more than five
Speaker 3: million votes. As well, he took out the total Electoral
Speaker 3: College votes required to take the White House. Our US
Speaker 3: correspondent Adam Crichton was there for Trump's victory speech.
Speaker 5: Crowd here spreadic studying Johnnie.
Speaker 3: Fagerhartst and Chief International correspondent Cameron Stewart watched Trump, the
Speaker 3: man he saw win in twenty sixteen and lose in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty become the forty fifth and forty seventh president
Speaker 3: of the United States.
Speaker 6: So it's just been the most extraordinary political comeback I
Speaker 6: think we've seen in a generation.
Speaker 3: We'll have more from Camp later in this episode. Kamala
Speaker 3: Harris thought she'd get young women, and she did. She
Speaker 3: went for the university educated and she got them sweeping
Speaker 3: the East and West coasts. But African American men did
Speaker 3: not turn out for Harris in the numbers the Democrats
Speaker 3: hoped for, nor did Latinos. And Donald Trump's populist, protectionist
Speaker 3: rallying call to the working class worked for him, particularly
Speaker 3: with voters under thirty young man turning out for Donald Trump.
Speaker 7: And me think the reason he won is you look
Speaker 7: at that bro strategy and the white male turnout and
Speaker 7: white grievance politics that he has used to great success
Speaker 7: in this country, calling.
Speaker 8: That young men under thirty. In North Carolina, when I
Speaker 8: came to set just a little bit ago, sixty percent
Speaker 8: said they supported him. That's up from forty two percent
Speaker 8: that voted for him back in twenty twenty.
Speaker 3: So continuing to watch that abortion, Republican strategist Carl Rove
Speaker 3: said Trump's appeal to men of all colors was simple.
Speaker 9: They thought he was a strong, effective leader, and they
Speaker 9: thought he would do something about the issues the most about,
Speaker 9: which is an economy in which they think they get
Speaker 9: the short stick, inflation which has decimated they're purchasing power,
Speaker 9: and illegal immigration, which has affected their communities deeply.
Speaker 3: Harris pinned her hopes for women's votes on the fight
Speaker 3: for reproductive rights. Abortion.
Speaker 8: It's for young women, it is their top issue, and
Speaker 8: that's where we're reallyaseing a huge genderitivide also for young
Speaker 8: women forty two percent saying it is their top issue,
Speaker 8: to just ten percent of men saying that it's their
Speaker 8: top issue.
Speaker 3: Trump appealed to those men not on cultural or racial identity,
Speaker 3: but on the economy and immigration.
Speaker 10: That Latino vote in Texas, when you've got over sixty
Speaker 10: percent Latino men moving in Texas towards the Republicans, that's realignment.
Speaker 9: What Trump is running on. Remember is his first day
Speaker 9: in office to start a mass deportation plan.
Speaker 10: The big story of the night is the shift among Hispanics, and.
Speaker 3: Much of this comes back to wealth, educational status, class.
Speaker 3: He's Trump's former spokeswoman, Kellyanne Conway.
Speaker 11: Donald Trump has expanded this party. He has converted this
Speaker 11: into the party of the worker, and he has told
Speaker 11: Americans not everybody has to be stopped into a four
Speaker 11: year college degree. That the welders, the steel workers in
Speaker 11: Pennsylvania is the coal miners. They've got a seat at
Speaker 11: the table. They can work again. It's a big deal.
Speaker 10: I think we're starting to see sort of a working
Speaker 10: class coalition start to drift to the right. You know,
Speaker 10: before Donald Trump had working class whites. Now he's adding
Speaker 10: working class Hispanics and working classes, not necessarily seeing evidence
Speaker 10: of working class African Americans, but adding working class Hispanics.
Speaker 10: That becomes a very durable majority.
Speaker 6: Lord, we trust in you.
Speaker 2: We give to you everything, our leaders, our president, our country,
Speaker 2: We give it all to you.
Speaker 3: In maya political conversation. Religious faith is.
Speaker 12: Central, Jesus, we trust in you, Amen.
Speaker 3: One of the factors that makes the American electorate so
Speaker 3: different from other Western democracies.
Speaker 13: Heavenly Father, in the midst of this election season, I
Speaker 13: come before you with a humble heart.
Speaker 3: During the wall to wall election coverage, ads for prayer
Speaker 3: apps played alongside the usual home security systems and recliner chairs.
Speaker 13: I confess that at times I have allowed fear, anger,
Speaker 13: and confusion to cloud my perspective.
Speaker 3: Trump knew white Catholics would respond to his rhetoric on abortion.
Speaker 3: That he appointed judges to the Supreme Court who overturned
Speaker 3: Roe versus Wade, but they were joined by voters of
Speaker 3: faith from other demographics, including in counties with strong new
Speaker 3: immigrant populations of Hindu and Muslims. So how did Trump
Speaker 3: get to victory through the early part of the American evening?
Speaker 3: Everything fell the way it was expected all votes.
Speaker 10: She wins the state of Delaware.
Speaker 13: Donald Trump will win Florida, connecting.
Speaker 14: Harris will win Colorado, Illinois, and New York Texas.
Speaker 10: Donald Trump wins Texas tonight. He also wins North Dakota's
Speaker 10: He wins Wyoming tonight three.
Speaker 3: As the night wore on, the pressure on Harris began
Speaker 3: to mount.
Speaker 14: Kamala is not hitting the suburban marks that Joe Biden did.
Speaker 5: I'm going to make a prediction, go out on a
Speaker 5: little bit of a lim here. She would have to
Speaker 5: sweep the blue Wall yep. And based on the information
Speaker 5: that we have in the early voting success of the
Speaker 5: Republicans of both Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, I don't think she
Speaker 5: can do it.
Speaker 3: That was commentator Sean Hannity on Fox News, and that
Speaker 3: blue wall is the group of Northeastern states Kamala Harris
Speaker 3: had to win in order to take the White House.
Speaker 3: Hannity was right, and it all came down to Pennsylvania
Speaker 3: called for Trump as dawn approached.
Speaker 14: This is a huge historic moment in the United States
Speaker 14: of America as the foreign president. Trump is closing in
Speaker 14: with just a few electoral votes away, now from clinching
Speaker 14: to seventy as Pennsylvania is called for Donald Trump.
Speaker 3: There were three elections on Tuesday, the Presidency, the Senate,
Speaker 3: and the House of Representatives. As expected, the Republicans took
Speaker 3: the two seats they needed to get control of the Senate.
Speaker 3: That makes life a lot easier for Donald Trump to
Speaker 3: get his judicial nominees and Republican legislation through Congress. And
Speaker 3: in the House of Representatives, the count continues as Democrats
Speaker 3: hope to cling to something they can rebuild in the
Speaker 3: twenty twenty six midterm elections.
Speaker 4: You have some great senators and some great new senators,
Speaker 4: and it also looks bike will be keeping control of
Speaker 4: the House of Representatives.
Speaker 3: After the break. Our Chief International correspondent Cameron Stewart on
Speaker 3: who should take the blame for the Democrats' failure. We've
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Speaker 7: Cam.
Speaker 3: You've covered a lot of American elections. How significant is
Speaker 3: this one?
Speaker 6: I think it's the most significance by a long way. Claire. Actually,
Speaker 6: everyone was incredibly shocked. Of course, in twenty sixteen when
Speaker 6: Trump actually beat Hillary Clinton, people didn't A lot of
Speaker 6: people thought that would never happen. But I think that
Speaker 6: this was in so many ways even more unlikely. If
Speaker 6: you go back to the fact of Trump when he
Speaker 6: decided to run in November twenty twenty two, people were
Speaker 6: completely dismissive of it. He was parodied in the media.
Speaker 6: He had that terrible long press conference at Mara Laga
Speaker 6: that they thought Ronda Sanders and Nicki Haley, this new
Speaker 6: generation of Republicans were going to come up, and Trump
Speaker 6: just kept battling away, and he swatted them off. He
Speaker 6: kept going, and then he had all the legal charges
Speaker 6: against him, He delayed them, swatted them off effectively as
Speaker 6: far as his campaign's concerned. And then here he is
Speaker 6: actually defeating Biden effectively, and then now defeating Harris. So
Speaker 6: it's just been the most extraordinary political comeback I think
Speaker 6: we've seen in a generation.
Speaker 4: God spared my life for a reason, and that reason
Speaker 4: was to save our country and to restore America to gredness.
Speaker 4: And now we are going to fulfill that mission. Together.
Speaker 4: We're going to fulfill that mission. The task before us
Speaker 4: will not be easy, but I will bring every ounce
Speaker 4: of energy, spirit and fight that I have in my
Speaker 4: soul to the job that you've entrusted to me. This
Speaker 4: is a great job. That there is no job like this.
Speaker 4: This is the most important job in the world.
Speaker 3: One interpretation of Trump's impact is that he's just a
Speaker 3: populist that if you stand up and say I will
Speaker 3: fix everything, I will make America great. Again, I'll save
Speaker 3: your job and make everything better.
Speaker 13: You will get elected.
Speaker 3: But is there more to it with Donald Trump?
Speaker 6: The great skill that John Donald Trump is he is
Speaker 6: just a gut instinct politician. He's the most natural, gut
Speaker 6: instinct politician I think we've seen, perhaps in our lifetime.
Speaker 6: He's really remarkable in the way that he can speak
Speaker 6: to his supporters in a language that they understand. It's
Speaker 6: a language that has won over America's working class, it
Speaker 6: really has. He has stolen the working class America from
Speaker 6: the Democrat Party. The Democrat Party is now a party
Speaker 6: of wealthy elites in the big cities in America, and
Speaker 6: there's not enough of them. And so we've clearly seen
Speaker 6: that Trump has the numbers. And I think his unique
Speaker 6: strength is his ability to communicate in that very bizarre
Speaker 6: language of his which actually shocks the Democrats but totally
Speaker 6: energizes his own base. And that's where you can see
Speaker 6: that a guy like Trump can run the most maverick,
Speaker 6: unscripted campaign you have ever seen. We've never seen a
Speaker 6: campaign like this, and yet his supporters love it. And
Speaker 6: enough people were upset by the fundamental issues in America,
Speaker 6: price rises and concerns about the border to go across.
Speaker 6: He won back Middle America, which he lost in twenty twenty,
Speaker 6: and that's a remarkable feat.
Speaker 4: We're going to make you very proud of your vote.
Speaker 15: I hope that you're going to be.
Speaker 4: Looking back someday and say that was one of the
Speaker 4: truly important moments of my life when I voted for
Speaker 4: this group of people. Beyond the president, this group of
Speaker 4: great people America has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate.
Speaker 3: Kamala Harris only had one hundred days to get herself
Speaker 3: elected after Joe Biden pulled out of the race. Where
Speaker 3: did she go wrong?
Speaker 6: I think Kamala Harris actually ran a reasonably good campaign,
Speaker 6: wasn't the perfect one. She made mistakes. She should never
Speaker 6: have said in that interview that she can't think of
Speaker 6: anything that she'd do differently to Joe Biden.
Speaker 15: This is not a time to throw up our hands.
Speaker 15: This is a time to roll up our sleeves. This
Speaker 15: is a time to organize, to mobilize, and to stay
Speaker 15: engaged for the sake of freedom and justice and the
Speaker 15: future that we all know we can build together.
Speaker 6: I think early on she was a bit of a
Speaker 6: policy free zone, just talking about the Joyous five rather
Speaker 6: than getting meety policies, but looked to be fair to
Speaker 6: Krmala Harris. I think a lot of the blame for
Speaker 6: her loss rests with Joe Biden. He was the one
Speaker 6: who failed to see his impaired cognitive capabilities. You can
Speaker 6: also perhaps blame his family and his aides for not
Speaker 6: telling him the truth. But it was Hubris that made
Speaker 6: him want to serve a second term, or initially he
Speaker 6: was only going to serve one term, and so he
Speaker 6: got himself in too deep, and we didn't realize how
Speaker 6: old he was, if you like, until that terrible debate,
Speaker 6: and he was doomed at that point. He effectively, through
Speaker 6: that misjudgment, ensured that his replacement, which of course was Harris,
Speaker 6: was replaced without a chance to really think about their agenda,
Speaker 6: without going through a proper primary process, and with a
Speaker 6: shortened election cycle. In lots of ways, Joe Biden threw
Speaker 6: Kamala Harris to the wolves.
Speaker 16: While I concede this election, I do not concede the
Speaker 16: fate that fueled this campaign. The fight, the fight for freedom,
Speaker 16: for opportunity, for fairness and the dignity of all people,
Speaker 16: a fight for the ideals at the heart of our nation,
Speaker 16: the ideals that reflect America at our best. That is
Speaker 16: a fight I will never give up.
Speaker 3: Finally, Donald Trump has promised to deport people on his
Speaker 3: first day in office. He's zeroed in on illegal immigration
Speaker 3: as the issue that he knew would resonate with voters,
Speaker 3: and it really has, including with Latino voters, working class people,
Speaker 3: and of course people in the South. Is this problem
Speaker 3: actually solvable for Donald Trump? And do you think he
Speaker 3: really is going to deport hundreds of thousands of people.
Speaker 6: It's never solvable completely because the American borders, for various reasons,
Speaker 6: are always much more porous than other countries. But he
Speaker 6: will certainly put in tough policies in place. Donald Trump
Speaker 6: exaggerates a lot. That's how he sells his points to people.
Speaker 6: He's not going to deport that many people, but he
Speaker 6: will deport a reasonable amount I would presume, so it
Speaker 6: will be somewhere in the middle. But certainly he's been
Speaker 6: elected on this tough border policy. And look, the lesson
Speaker 6: of modern politics around the world, including in Australia frankly
Speaker 6: as well, is that governments in England as well Germany
Speaker 6: governments to sloppy with their borders get penalized by the public,
Speaker 6: and that's precisely what's happened to Krmala Harris and I
Speaker 6: think that therefore Trump will be quite tough on the border.
Speaker 4: This will forever be remembered as the day the American
Speaker 4: people regained control of their country.
Speaker 3: Cameron Stewart is the Australian's chief international correspondent, joining us
Speaker 3: from the United States. Subscribe at the Australian dot com
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