WEBVTT - Trump's Claimed Victory, But How Did We Get Here? 0:00:21.610 --> 0:00:24.290 You're listening to a Mumma Mia podcast. 0:00:25.170 --> 0:00:28.450 Mamma Mia acknowledges the traditional owners of the land. We 0:00:28.530 --> 0:00:31.930 have recorded this podcast on the Gattigul people of the 0:00:31.970 --> 0:00:35.690 Eor Nation. We pay our respects to their elders past 0:00:35.730 --> 0:00:39.370 and present, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and 0:00:39.410 --> 0:00:41.210 torres Rate Islander cultures. 0:00:42.090 --> 0:00:45.170 Hi. I'm Claire Murphy. This is Muma MIA's twice daily 0:00:45.210 --> 0:00:48.490 news podcast, The Quickie. Today we'll be breaking down the 0:00:48.610 --> 0:00:51.530 US election and where we stand. As the votes continue 0:00:51.570 --> 0:00:54.490 to be counted, we check in with our US correspondent, 0:00:54.530 --> 0:00:57.810 Emelia Lester to find out what this result also means 0:00:57.810 --> 0:01:06.090 for us here in Australia. Former President Donald Trump is 0:01:06.210 --> 0:01:08.970 former no more, taking to the stage at his Florida 0:01:09.010 --> 0:01:12.290 resort marri Lago last night to thank his supporters and 0:01:12.330 --> 0:01:14.970 declare himself the winner of the twenty twenty four US 0:01:15.010 --> 0:01:17.370 election and the forty seventh president. 0:01:17.690 --> 0:01:20.250 The task before us will not be easy, but I 0:01:20.330 --> 0:01:25.730 will bring every ounce of energy, spirit and fighting that 0:01:25.850 --> 0:01:28.810 I have in my soul to the job that you've 0:01:30.170 --> 0:01:32.890 entrusted to me. This is a great job. There's no 0:01:33.050 --> 0:01:36.650 job like this. This is the most important job in 0:01:36.690 --> 0:01:41.210 the world. Just as I did in my first term. 0:01:41.250 --> 0:01:44.210 We had a great first term, a great, great first term. 0:01:44.730 --> 0:01:49.930 I will govern by a simple motto. Promises made, Promises kept. 0:01:49.970 --> 0:01:50.970 We're going to keep our. 0:01:50.850 --> 0:01:54.450 Promise in Trump was surrounded by his family, his team, 0:01:54.570 --> 0:01:57.890 and a number of notable supporters. CEO of the UFC, 0:01:58.130 --> 0:02:00.890 Dana White, joined Trump on stage to celebrate the win. 0:02:01.410 --> 0:02:04.650 This is what happens when the machine comes. After what 0:02:04.770 --> 0:02:07.130 you've seen over the last several years, this is what 0:02:07.170 --> 0:02:10.570 it looks like. Couldn't stop him. He keeps going forward. 0:02:10.730 --> 0:02:13.810 He doesn't quit. He's the most resilient, hardworking man I've 0:02:13.810 --> 0:02:16.530 ever met in my life. His family are incredible people. 0:02:16.770 --> 0:02:19.930 This is carmel ladies and gentlemen. He deserves this. They 0:02:20.010 --> 0:02:21.170 deserve it a family. 0:02:21.410 --> 0:02:24.370 Trump's new Vice president, JD. Vans, also stood by the 0:02:24.410 --> 0:02:27.490 man he once compared to Hitler, saying he's ready to 0:02:27.530 --> 0:02:28.850 help lead the country. 0:02:28.730 --> 0:02:32.050 President Trump's leadership. We're never going to stop fighting for you, 0:02:32.170 --> 0:02:35.450 for your dreams, for the future of your children. And 0:02:35.650 --> 0:02:39.610 after the greatest political comeback in American history, We're going 0:02:39.690 --> 0:02:43.050 to leave the greatest economic comeback in American history. Under 0:02:43.090 --> 0:02:44.290 Donald Trump's leadership. 0:02:44.570 --> 0:02:47.890 Channel seven spoke to Trumpets founder Tony Holt Kramer, who 0:02:47.970 --> 0:02:49.690 said there were some Aussies in the crowd too. 0:02:49.770 --> 0:02:54.570 The President is here. President Trump just arrived. He's sitting 0:02:54.610 --> 0:02:59.010 at a table with Elon Musk. Rfk Junior is here. 0:02:59.370 --> 0:03:03.690 We just have tons of celebrities here, and most important, 0:03:04.370 --> 0:03:08.730 your biggest celebrity in Australia is with me at my table. 0:03:09.810 --> 0:03:11.330 Gina Reinhart is here. 0:03:11.490 --> 0:03:14.890 Despite the celebrity endorsements and war chest of funds, it 0:03:15.010 --> 0:03:17.850 wasn't enough to swing those red leaning states in Kamala 0:03:17.890 --> 0:03:21.050 Harris's favor. Some big names even heading out to long 0:03:21.170 --> 0:03:24.650 queues where young Americans were waiting hours to cast their vote, 0:03:24.850 --> 0:03:27.250 some for the first time. Paul Rod just showed up 0:03:27.530 --> 0:03:29.170 Nicole because he heard the line was so long. 0:03:29.210 --> 0:03:30.450 Paul, what brought you out? 0:03:31.050 --> 0:03:33.410 I just wanted to give people water or they're waiting 0:03:33.410 --> 0:03:34.450 in line for a long time. 0:03:34.490 --> 0:03:36.570 And it's a wonderful thing that all these young people 0:03:36.610 --> 0:03:37.170 are out voting. 0:03:37.290 --> 0:03:40.930 Overnight, Trump secured enough Electoral College votes to take the win, 0:03:41.250 --> 0:03:45.450 securing the battleground states of Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, now sitting 0:03:45.490 --> 0:03:48.290 with two hundred and seventy seven votes to Harris's two 0:03:48.330 --> 0:03:51.330 hundred and twenty four, with five states and districts still 0:03:51.370 --> 0:03:54.770 to be decided, Democratic voters are mourning the loss. 0:03:54.890 --> 0:03:56.930 I'm just waking up to the news that Trump has 0:03:56.970 --> 0:04:01.170 won the election. My overall feeling is disappointment, and my 0:04:01.210 --> 0:04:07.290 fellow Americans disappointed that so many chose a convicted felon 0:04:07.730 --> 0:04:11.250 of our qualified woman, that they chose a man who 0:04:11.330 --> 0:04:16.930 rambles incoherently about perceived plans for policy over the current 0:04:17.010 --> 0:04:24.210 vice president. Have chosen Anne, who thinks clearly only of 0:04:24.290 --> 0:04:27.090 himself and what he can gain from the presidency, of 0:04:27.290 --> 0:04:31.490 a woman who looked to gain the presidency to unite 0:04:31.530 --> 0:04:33.210 and uplift the American people. 0:04:33.610 --> 0:04:36.250 So I'm pretty devastated by the results. 0:04:37.290 --> 0:04:38.890 I just. 0:04:40.850 --> 0:04:41.850 Never saw it coming. 0:04:42.570 --> 0:04:46.890 I really believe that common sense would prevail. Harris is 0:04:46.970 --> 0:04:49.530 yet to concede, her chief of staff sending an email 0:04:49.570 --> 0:04:51.970 out to the team late yesterday in an attempt to 0:04:52.010 --> 0:04:55.290 remain positive in the face of ever red turning states 0:04:55.330 --> 0:04:59.050 saying they remained hopeful, but Harris canceled her post election 0:04:59.210 --> 0:05:02.530 party and has yet to deliver a speech. Late yesterday, 0:05:02.530 --> 0:05:05.370 we caught up with Foreign Policy Deputy editor Emelia Lester 0:05:05.490 --> 0:05:09.770 to better understand how this election unfolded, Emelia. We closely 0:05:09.810 --> 0:05:12.370 watched those swing states that you told us about last time. 0:05:12.370 --> 0:05:14.770 We caught up to chat about the polling and how 0:05:14.810 --> 0:05:18.290 the candidates were shaping up pre election in places like Pennsylvania. 0:05:18.450 --> 0:05:21.250 Now it seemed really close for quite some time, and 0:05:21.290 --> 0:05:24.970 then things start to shift to Trump's favor. What was 0:05:24.970 --> 0:05:27.770 the deciding factor for voters in those states? What happened? 0:05:28.250 --> 0:05:31.450 So there were seven swing states or battleground states that 0:05:31.490 --> 0:05:35.130 were in contention, and all along or since Harris took 0:05:35.130 --> 0:05:38.290 over the ticket, the polls had shown Harris and Trump 0:05:38.530 --> 0:05:41.770 neck and neck in all seven of those battleground states, 0:05:42.330 --> 0:05:45.490 and a lot of people thought that meant that the 0:05:45.530 --> 0:05:49.290 election was going to be close. But then polsters and 0:05:49.330 --> 0:05:53.730 statisticians pointed out to us another scenario, which is that 0:05:53.850 --> 0:05:56.130 the election would not be close, and that in those 0:05:56.130 --> 0:06:00.370 seven battleground states, one candidate could actually sweep all of them. 0:06:00.650 --> 0:06:04.330 And astonishingly, we don't have the final results in yet, 0:06:04.410 --> 0:06:07.890 but it is possible at this point for Trump to 0:06:07.930 --> 0:06:10.330 sweep all seven of the battleground states. 0:06:10.970 --> 0:06:13.170 When we look at an election, we generally look at 0:06:13.210 --> 0:06:16.130 how a candidate won, but I think when we are 0:06:16.170 --> 0:06:19.050 reflecting on this election, it'd be interesting to look at 0:06:19.370 --> 0:06:22.170 how Carmela may be lost, because when you look at her, 0:06:22.210 --> 0:06:24.050 she looks like she would appeal to a lot of 0:06:24.090 --> 0:06:27.530 different communities. But one community in particular who seemed to 0:06:27.570 --> 0:06:30.810 have really supported Donald Trump is the Hispanic community. And 0:06:30.810 --> 0:06:33.410 that's despite a lot of the conversations that he has 0:06:33.410 --> 0:06:36.850 started around immigration and border crossings and things like that, 0:06:36.890 --> 0:06:40.810 which you would presume Hispanic communities would automatically feel like 0:06:41.290 --> 0:06:43.770 that is not what they'd wanted their candidate. How was 0:06:43.770 --> 0:06:46.090 it that she wasn't able to win communities like that over. 0:06:46.970 --> 0:06:49.730 Yeah, it's interesting, isn't it. I saw that Florida was 0:06:49.730 --> 0:06:51.890 called pretty early, as it always is, and it's become 0:06:51.890 --> 0:06:55.210 a safe Republican state since two thousand. But Trump had 0:06:55.250 --> 0:06:58.330 an exceptionally strong showing there, much stronger than he did 0:06:58.370 --> 0:07:01.890 in twenty twenty, and people thought that that was a 0:07:02.010 --> 0:07:05.970 sign that the Hispanic vote was actually trending towards Trump, 0:07:06.010 --> 0:07:08.890 which was the opposite of what people had predicted, particularly 0:07:08.890 --> 0:07:12.610 given the Tony Hinchcliffe Puerto Rico floating island of garbage 0:07:12.610 --> 0:07:14.970 remarks in the last days of the campaign. And I 0:07:15.050 --> 0:07:17.730 think that the post mortems are already being written that 0:07:17.850 --> 0:07:21.890 Harris just didn't win over enough groups. She increased her 0:07:21.930 --> 0:07:25.810 support amongst college educated voters. But if you break it 0:07:25.890 --> 0:07:28.970 down in other ways, Trump's Black vote was up, Trump's 0:07:29.010 --> 0:07:33.010 Hispanic vote was up, and while women and young people 0:07:33.210 --> 0:07:37.610 did favor Harris over Trump, neither group actually turned out 0:07:37.650 --> 0:07:40.290 in as bigger numbers. It looks like, so far, that's 0:07:40.290 --> 0:07:43.330 my caveat neither group turned out in as bigger numbers 0:07:43.370 --> 0:07:45.450 as they did for Biden in twenty twenty. 0:07:45.810 --> 0:07:48.210 Can we talk about what impact the cost of living 0:07:48.250 --> 0:07:50.410 crisis has had on this election, because a lot of 0:07:50.450 --> 0:07:54.250 people in exit poll interviews were saying that four years ago, 0:07:54.330 --> 0:07:56.370 under Donald Trump, they felt like they had more money 0:07:56.370 --> 0:07:59.370 in their pocket, that their businesses were more successful, and 0:07:59.490 --> 0:08:02.250 they've had to deal with what is actually a global 0:08:02.530 --> 0:08:06.570 issue of rising inflation and cost of living crises. Do 0:08:06.610 --> 0:08:08.850 you think that's played a major role in why Trump 0:08:08.890 --> 0:08:11.770 did look so good to some voters who are really 0:08:11.770 --> 0:08:12.730 struggling right now. 0:08:12.970 --> 0:08:16.850 Yes. The most important issue for voters consistently in every 0:08:16.890 --> 0:08:22.010 survey was the economy, and that overwhelmed abortion amongst women. 0:08:22.250 --> 0:08:24.650 The economy was across the board the most important issue 0:08:24.650 --> 0:08:27.170 and then the second most important issue was immigration. But 0:08:27.290 --> 0:08:29.690 just focusing on the economy for a little bit, I 0:08:29.730 --> 0:08:32.530 think it is fair to say that globally, incumbents are 0:08:32.530 --> 0:08:36.930 getting thrashed at elections because everyone's economy after COVID is 0:08:36.970 --> 0:08:39.850 not in a particularly good way now. Actually, economists say 0:08:39.890 --> 0:08:42.210 that the US economy is probably the strongest in the 0:08:42.250 --> 0:08:45.570 world right now, but it doesn't feel like that to people. 0:08:45.850 --> 0:08:49.170 Economists aren't sure why there's this dissonance between how the 0:08:49.210 --> 0:08:51.970 economy is doing and how people feel about the economy, 0:08:51.970 --> 0:08:55.890 but it's definitely there. And Harris didn't have the opportunity 0:08:55.930 --> 0:08:58.610 to or never fixed on a narrative of how she 0:08:58.730 --> 0:09:01.170 was going to turn things around. I think that in 0:09:01.210 --> 0:09:03.450 the post mortems, a lot of people are going to 0:09:03.530 --> 0:09:06.090 turn to this appearance that she made on the view. 0:09:05.890 --> 0:09:08.730 Which you have done something differently than President Biden. 0:09:09.170 --> 0:09:10.610 During the past four years. 0:09:12.010 --> 0:09:14.130 There is done a thing that comes to mind in 0:09:14.250 --> 0:09:17.610 terms of and I've been a part of most of 0:09:17.650 --> 0:09:19.650 the decisions that have had impact. 0:09:19.850 --> 0:09:22.730 A Trump campaign manager Jason Miller wrote a piece for 0:09:22.770 --> 0:09:25.410 Politico a couple of days ago where he said to 0:09:25.530 --> 0:09:28.010 him that was the turning point in the campaign. By 0:09:28.050 --> 0:09:30.930 not distancing herself from Biden and more to the point, 0:09:30.970 --> 0:09:34.410 Biden's economy, she may have sealed the deal for Trump. 0:09:34.890 --> 0:09:39.690 You've mentioned abortion rights also being top ticket for a 0:09:39.690 --> 0:09:42.850 lot of voters in this election. Were you surprised to 0:09:42.890 --> 0:09:45.690 see that Unlike a lot of the other states that 0:09:45.810 --> 0:09:49.050 have brought in abortion band since Roe v. Wade was overturned, 0:09:49.370 --> 0:09:53.090 Florida has become the first state to fail to overthrow 0:09:53.170 --> 0:09:56.450 those with the option that they had on their ballot 0:09:56.810 --> 0:09:59.010 in this election. Did that surprise people? 0:09:59.170 --> 0:10:02.170 I think so, because a lot of really conservative states 0:10:02.530 --> 0:10:05.650 have voted to enshrine abortion rights. One state that did 0:10:05.650 --> 0:10:08.730 that on election night, conversely, was Missouri, which is an 0:10:08.730 --> 0:10:11.410 extremely red state. I don't quite know what's going on 0:10:11.450 --> 0:10:14.730 in Florida. Florida is often regarded by Americans as a 0:10:14.730 --> 0:10:16.770 bit of a mystery. It's a bit of a wildcard, 0:10:16.810 --> 0:10:19.570 and I think that's one of those wildcard results. I 0:10:19.610 --> 0:10:22.410 have seen some ANALYSI that says the reason why abortion 0:10:23.090 --> 0:10:26.210 generally never took off as an issue for Harris is 0:10:26.410 --> 0:10:31.650 because people feel inured to the national abortion debate because 0:10:31.650 --> 0:10:34.170 they live in a state where they feel simparticle with 0:10:34.210 --> 0:10:38.490 that state's values on abortion. Because the conservative line on 0:10:38.530 --> 0:10:40.970 the overturning of Roe v. Wade through the Dobbs decision 0:10:41.090 --> 0:10:43.370 was that we're just handing the abortion decision back to 0:10:43.410 --> 0:10:45.730 the states. We're not saying federally what we want to do. 0:10:45.850 --> 0:10:48.490 We're just handing the right to decide about abortion back 0:10:48.530 --> 0:10:51.130 to the states. And people took them kind of at 0:10:51.130 --> 0:10:53.770 phase value at that it appears and decided, well, I'm 0:10:53.850 --> 0:10:56.130 safe because I live in a state where I agree 0:10:56.130 --> 0:10:57.810 with what this state is doing on abortion. 0:10:58.450 --> 0:11:01.170 There's been a lot of discussion about women's rights. If 0:11:01.210 --> 0:11:05.650 Donald Trump returns to power, could it get worse for 0:11:05.730 --> 0:11:08.530 women in the US? I mean, it's gotten pretty bad 0:11:08.690 --> 0:11:11.730 with stories we're hearing regularly about women who are dying 0:11:12.090 --> 0:11:14.530 because they can't access the kind of care that they need. 0:11:14.810 --> 0:11:18.730 The infant mortality rate has increased. Could it get worse? 0:11:19.410 --> 0:11:21.770 I think healthcare is dea going to get worse for 0:11:21.810 --> 0:11:24.810 women because we don't know exactly what's going to happen 0:11:24.890 --> 0:11:27.450 with abortion. Trump has sort of day dallied on whether 0:11:27.530 --> 0:11:30.050 or not he would sign a national abortion ban. We've 0:11:30.050 --> 0:11:33.410 talked about the popular support for enshrining abortion rights at 0:11:33.410 --> 0:11:35.770 the state level, but I think it's safe to say 0:11:35.770 --> 0:11:40.970 that there are some really conservative, politically extreme ideologues who 0:11:41.050 --> 0:11:44.130 are going to make up this administration, people like Trump's 0:11:44.170 --> 0:11:47.610 vice president Jedie Vance, who has made pretty clear he 0:11:47.610 --> 0:11:50.530 thinks that a woman's main purpose is to pop out babies. 0:11:50.730 --> 0:11:52.930 I just don't think that the way that this campaign 0:11:52.970 --> 0:11:56.130 has talked about women from the top down is a 0:11:56.130 --> 0:11:59.570 good thing for women generally. I think ambiently there's a 0:11:59.570 --> 0:12:01.690 lot of fear amongst women in the US. A lot 0:12:01.770 --> 0:12:04.570 of women feel like this election was a referendum whether 0:12:04.690 --> 0:12:07.770 women are equal to men, and the kind of coarse 0:12:07.890 --> 0:12:10.730 language that's been used throughout the campaign really made women 0:12:10.730 --> 0:12:14.090 feel panicked, and I think this result is not going 0:12:14.090 --> 0:12:15.090 to do anything to fix that. 0:12:15.530 --> 0:12:17.250 I'd love to get your opinion on this. You know, 0:12:17.290 --> 0:12:20.490 Australians watch the US election as a kind of gay 0:12:20.610 --> 0:12:23.050 which as to what may unfold here in Australia. And 0:12:23.090 --> 0:12:25.330 we saw during the last Trump administration and during the 0:12:25.330 --> 0:12:28.290 Morrison government here that a lot of those values seemed 0:12:28.330 --> 0:12:31.450 to be reflected and it felt very divisive. And we 0:12:31.570 --> 0:12:34.930 have seen here in Australia just in recent months two 0:12:35.010 --> 0:12:37.810 states at least look at bringing in abortion bands where 0:12:37.850 --> 0:12:42.370 abortions have been legalized for some time now do we 0:12:43.570 --> 0:12:46.650 fear that the sentiment that Trump may bring back again 0:12:46.770 --> 0:12:48.570 like we saw in the lead up to the twenty 0:12:48.610 --> 0:12:51.450 twenty election, might happen here again in Australia too. 0:12:51.770 --> 0:12:54.570 I think that you'd be hitting yourself if you thought 0:12:54.570 --> 0:12:57.530 that the broad cultural dynamics and currents that play in 0:12:57.570 --> 0:13:00.330 this election are going to stay within American borders. The 0:13:00.450 --> 0:13:03.130 US is the most culturally influential country in the world, 0:13:03.690 --> 0:13:05.730 and what happens in the US is not going to 0:13:05.730 --> 0:13:08.010 stay in the US. In fact, I saw a poll 0:13:08.210 --> 0:13:11.010 last week that was by Talbot Mills and it was 0:13:11.050 --> 0:13:13.490 asking Australians in New Zealanders who they would support in 0:13:13.530 --> 0:13:17.650 the election, and one really fascinating finding was that young 0:13:17.730 --> 0:13:21.370 men clearly prefer Trump, and his support of young women 0:13:21.490 --> 0:13:24.050 is tiny. I was very surprised to see the numbers 0:13:24.090 --> 0:13:26.650 of men under thirty who support Trump. It was actually 0:13:26.730 --> 0:13:29.650 forty three percent of young Australian and New Zealand man 0:13:29.730 --> 0:13:32.530 supporter Donald Trump. So I think that the kind of 0:13:32.570 --> 0:13:36.410 aggressive gender politics that we've seen unfolds here in spectacular 0:13:36.450 --> 0:13:39.410 fashion are absolutely going to make it across the Pacific Ocean. 0:13:40.730 --> 0:13:43.610 World leaders have congratulated the new president. One of the 0:13:43.610 --> 0:13:46.970 first to reach out was Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyaho, 0:13:47.290 --> 0:13:51.050 who began with Dear Donald and Milania Trump, congratulations on 0:13:51.210 --> 0:13:54.690 history's greatest comeback. Your historic return to the White House 0:13:54.730 --> 0:13:58.010 offers a new beginning for America and a powerful recommitment 0:13:58.050 --> 0:14:01.170 to the great alliance between Israel and America. He signed 0:14:01.210 --> 0:14:05.730 off in true friendship, Yours, Benjamin and Sarah Netanyahu. Ukraine 0:14:05.810 --> 0:14:10.210 President Vladimir Zelenski also congratulated Trump, saying he appreciated his 0:14:10.330 --> 0:14:14.130 peace through strength approaching global affairs, saying this is exactly 0:14:14.210 --> 0:14:17.410 the principle that can practically bring just peace in Ukraine. 0:14:17.490 --> 0:14:21.010 Closer Russian leader Vladimir Putin has yet to ignore knowledge 0:14:21.010 --> 0:14:24.850 Trump's win. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau posted a picture 0:14:24.850 --> 0:14:27.250 of him and Trump together at the White House, saying 0:14:27.250 --> 0:14:30.050 the friendship between Canada and the US is the envy 0:14:30.050 --> 0:14:33.410 of the world. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Alberzi took to 0:14:33.450 --> 0:14:36.890 social media, saying Australians and Americans are great friends and 0:14:37.010 --> 0:14:40.530 true allies, and working together can ensure the partnership between 0:14:40.570 --> 0:14:44.050 the two nations remained strong into the future. Earlier this year, 0:14:44.090 --> 0:14:47.090 The Saturday Paper reported that former Liberal Prime Minister Scott 0:14:47.130 --> 0:14:51.010 Morrison had positioned himself to serve the Albernese government as 0:14:51.050 --> 0:14:53.650 an informal envoy to Donald Trump if he were to 0:14:53.690 --> 0:14:57.330 be successful at the election. Opposition leader Peter Dutton posted 0:14:57.370 --> 0:15:00.330 his congratulations, saying, may the years ahead be some of 0:15:00.370 --> 0:15:03.370 the most defining for our alliance, in which, driven by 0:15:03.450 --> 0:15:06.570 tests of our times, the necessity of deterrence and the 0:15:06.570 --> 0:15:10.010 cause of securing peace through strength, we unleash the defense, 0:15:10.170 --> 0:15:15.730 industrial and economic opportunities of Orcus at speed and scale. 0:15:15.810 --> 0:15:18.410 The response from Wall Street has been a positive one 0:15:18.410 --> 0:15:21.130 off the back of Trump's election win. US SA treasury 0:15:21.210 --> 0:15:24.970 yields and bitcoin stocks hitting record highs. The US dollar 0:15:25.050 --> 0:15:27.730 also gained and the Dow added more than twelve hundred 0:15:27.770 --> 0:15:31.610 and fifty points. Senior market analyst David Morrison said financial 0:15:31.610 --> 0:15:34.850 markets responded to the relief of a quick and undisputed 0:15:34.890 --> 0:15:38.610 election results. Now that Trump has won, it may be 0:15:38.730 --> 0:15:40.970 the end of some of the criminal cases currently in 0:15:41.010 --> 0:15:43.570 the process of being heard against him. The two federal 0:15:43.610 --> 0:15:47.010 cases brought by the Department of Justice over alleged interference 0:15:47.010 --> 0:15:49.490 in the twenty twenty election and the second over his 0:15:49.570 --> 0:15:53.010 handling of classified materials found at his resort in Florida, 0:15:53.130 --> 0:15:55.970 have already been hit with hurdles, but Trump may now 0:15:56.050 --> 0:15:59.290 personally order the dismissal of the cases, already saying he 0:15:59.330 --> 0:16:02.290 would fire special counsel Jack Smith, who brought the charges 0:16:02.330 --> 0:16:06.130 against him immediately. The state cases, one in Georgia, where 0:16:06.170 --> 0:16:08.850 he's been charged with an alleged conspiracy to disrupt the 0:16:08.850 --> 0:16:13.130 twenty twenty election result, is beyond the Department of Justice's jurisdiction, 0:16:13.490 --> 0:16:16.290 but Trump could ask the DOJ to file a lawsuit 0:16:16.330 --> 0:16:19.330 in federal court to pause the proceedings and fast track 0:16:19.370 --> 0:16:21.570 it to the Supreme Court, who ruled in July that 0:16:21.650 --> 0:16:25.090 former presidents are immune from prosecution. As for the New 0:16:25.130 --> 0:16:27.690 York hush money case, in which Trump was found guilty, 0:16:27.930 --> 0:16:31.090 the judge agreed to postpone sentencing until after the election, 0:16:31.490 --> 0:16:34.370 but legal scholars are now suggesting that sentencing may be 0:16:34.450 --> 0:16:39.850 postponed until after the next federal election. The transition to 0:16:39.890 --> 0:16:42.450 a Trump administration is not a quick one. It will 0:16:42.490 --> 0:16:44.450 be a few months before he moves back into the 0:16:44.450 --> 0:16:47.730 White House, but the process mandates that work begins five 0:16:47.810 --> 0:16:51.090 days after the election. State election officials still have to 0:16:51.130 --> 0:16:53.810 certify their elections and wait to see if any recounts 0:16:53.810 --> 0:16:57.290 are required. Then, on December seventeen, the Electoral College will 0:16:57.290 --> 0:17:00.850 meet to certify the results. Congress will then formally count 0:17:00.890 --> 0:17:04.250 and certify the vote during a special session on January sixth, 0:17:04.370 --> 0:17:07.810 where Trump's opponent, Kamla Harris will preside as the envelopes 0:17:07.810 --> 0:17:11.330 are opened and verified. Then Trump's inauguration will be held 0:17:11.370 --> 0:17:14.090 on January twenty on the steps of the Capitol as 0:17:14.090 --> 0:17:18.330 his four years in power begins. Barring any special circumstances, 0:17:18.450 --> 0:17:26.290 Trump will not be able to run again. Thanks for 0:17:26.330 --> 0:17:28.290 taking the time to feed your mind with us today. 0:17:28.330 --> 0:17:30.970 The quickie is produced by me Claire Murphy and our 0:17:31.010 --> 0:17:32.730 executive producer, Taylor Strano.