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Speaker 1: Okay, let me get you up to speed on what

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Speaker 1: is happening in the US election. Now at this point

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Speaker 1: it is still really early, and really have to stress

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Speaker 1: it is early. There's a lot yet to happen. But

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Speaker 1: I tell you what, it's feeling a hell of a

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Speaker 1: lot like it could be Trump's night. The New York

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Speaker 1: Times has just started forecasting a Trump win. They are

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Speaker 1: running a needle on their site and it basically swings

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Speaker 1: one way or the other depending on how things are going.

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Speaker 1: At the moment, it is leaning to Donald Trump and

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Speaker 1: it's giving him a sixty nine percent chance of winning

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Speaker 1: the selection. None of the seven swing states have been

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Speaker 1: called just yet, but he is probably going to win,

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Speaker 1: at least according to the New York Times. Georgia, he's

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Speaker 1: got quite a lead there, so I say probably right.

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Speaker 1: And North Carolina two swing states now potentially he will

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Speaker 1: win those, depending on how things are going, by a

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Speaker 1: lot more than the polls were predicting. Now a couple

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Speaker 1: of other things have also gone his way already. He's

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Speaker 1: won Florida. Florida, to be fair, historically a swing state,

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Speaker 1: but you know, since he's been in the running in

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Speaker 1: twenty sixteen's has pretty solidly been a Trump state. But

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Speaker 1: the interesting thing here is that the Democrats were talking

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Speaker 1: about the possibility that they could flip Florida over the

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Speaker 1: abortion issue. There that hasn't happened. He has won it

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Speaker 1: by a margin, and it is a huge margin. And

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Speaker 1: if that is a sign of the mood of the

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Speaker 1: country at the moment, he will be very happy. By

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Speaker 1: the end of tonight. He's also won Ohio again, a

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Speaker 1: Trump state, like Florida, used to be a swing state

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Speaker 1: but has been his since twenty sixteen. Again won it

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Speaker 1: by a big margin. Now, as I say, really early days, okay,

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Speaker 1: he is absolutely ahead in the electoral College vote, and

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Speaker 1: every single outlet that I've had to look at as

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Speaker 1: counting him like eighty votes higher than Karmala Harris, but

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Speaker 1: that is to be expected. There usually is what they

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Speaker 1: call a red mirage really early in the evening, where

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Speaker 1: they get a lot of votes coming in for the

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Speaker 1: Republicans and then the Democrats catch up later on. Nothing

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Speaker 1: surprising has happened at the moment. Neither side has actually

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Speaker 1: managed to flip a state against the other. But so

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Speaker 1: far two swing states and two signal states have gone

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Speaker 1: for Trump, and early on it feels like it's going

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Speaker 1: his way. We're going to keep you post throughout the

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