Thanks to everyone, both on the camera and behind the camera.
It takes a lot to put this kind of program together tonight.
Chris, what's on your mind?
What did you want to talk about?
Yeah, so I voted for Vice President Kamala Harris in this election, and I think in many cases, this wouldn't have been a difficult decision at all.
You know, I find myself considerably to the left of Vice President Harris on several issues.
But as an American who has spent his whole life kind of waiting for the privilege to vote, you know, the elections I've been exposed to have really kind of underscored just what a critical threat to everything America represents that Donald Trump has both promised to be, in some cases has attempted to be, and in other cases has followed through on those promises.
I personally think that he kind of represents the sort of duplicitous, self-interested, wealthy individual that most people hold a disdain for New Yorkers.
So to see him kind of taking a lead, at least in some of these early battleground states tonight, it's a difficult, difficult situation to see kind of unfold again.
I think.
Chris, what are the issues?
If you say you're to the left of Kamala Harris, what are the issues of concern to you?
Yeah, I think personally, as we look at the recovery in our economy over the last few years, the Democrats didn't necessarily do a great job of owning this recovery because I think in many instances there's been underlying shifts to the left and they don't want to necessarily alienate too many of their own voters.
But at the same time, the recovery in this economy is one that's mostly for those who already had money before the downturn.
You know, you've heard several voters call in tonight talking about the effects of inflation and that's a very real issue for many people.
In New York, where I live, rent, as in many places, has gone up and the prospect of homeownership has faded for so many more Americans coming into adulthood.
On the matter of Israel, I think it's a question of to what extent should Americans be involved?
And, you know, more people would prefer a greater level of involvement in some aspects, but I'm not really sure that the current administration has really made it clear just how involved America is in the Middle East today.
Chris, we appreciate your time.
It is just after 11 o'clock here on the East Coast, and the West Coast polls have closed.
Washington, Oregon, and California are just closing.
And we have an update from Greta Broner.
Yeah, races have been called in California.
Let's begin there.
The Associated Press, even polls just closing there.
And Vice President Kamala Harris will pick up those 54 electoral votes.
Moving on to the state of Idaho, this has also been called this evening for President Donald Trump, the former president there, will win the state of Idaho.
And then finally, Washington State, the Associated Press, is declaring a winner there.
12 electoral votes.
Vice President Kamala Harris will pick them up.
I also want to give you an update from Patricia Murphy, who reports for the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
This is around 1052 tonight.
Breaking, she says.
Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger predicts that Georgia will go for Donald Trump.
Quote, if you look at who's leading the race right now, Donald J. Trump has an insurmountable lead with the number of votes outstanding.
It looks like this is done, said the Secretary of State.
Peter?
Dan is calling in from Bel Air, Maryland.
He is a Trump supporter.
Dan, please go ahead and tell us why you called in.
Can you hear me?
We're listening.
Please go ahead.
I voted for Trump, and I voted for Trump because of Biden's policies.
And I thought that inflation was bad under Biden, and I didn't get any financial aid for college under his college aid plan.
And I could have used the extra cash from that to buy a new car, like a Hellcat or something, because I don't like my car currently.
We'll leave it there, Dan, and go on to Steve in Anaheim, California.
Steve, what made you call in tonight?
And what's this election season been like for you?
It's been a real headache, Peter.
I'm just glad it's over.
I thought I'd just call in and say hello to you and Greta.
I got a question for your guest, by the way.
Kevin, I believe your name is.
Kevin.
Oh, Evan, that's right.
Evan, Evan mixed something.
I can't say your name, guy.
A is silent, just, we're good.
Yeah, I know.
I just been a long day.
But anyway, you've got like 21 people that actually are the major donors to all these campaigns.
So is anybody investigating actually, I mean, how these people are getting their money or where they're giving their money to?
And are these the new oligarchs that we have to worry about in the future?
Hey, we'll get an answer in just a minute, Steve.
Steve, can you hear me okay?
Yeah, I can hear the my connection here is spotty as well.
Okay.
What do you do in Anaheim and why has it been a long campaign season for you?
I'm actually retired, Peter.
I've been retired for a while.
I mean, I'm just living off of my investments.
Everybody keeps saying that the rich don't pay their fair share, but I'm paying 33%, you know, taxes.
So, you know, I don't know where they get off saying that we're not paying our fair share.
You've got to make at least $500,000 in this country to live.
You know, half of it goes to taxes and half it can go to investments.
I really feel sorry for the younger generation because these two parties have really made a mess of the country.
As far as who I voted for, I voted for Bernie Sanders so I can have a clear conscience for the next four years.
I mean, January is when they're going to have to deal with the budget.
And I mean, oh my God, that's going to be a mess because the Democrats have increased the amount of spending, which has brought more debt to it.
Then we got the wars over in the Middle East where they can give Israel almost $3 trillion, but they can't give black people reparations.
So, yeah, I don't know.
I've just been tired of listening to the ads, the attack ads, people running on, you know, campaign promises, no solutions, and no clear vision.
Sorry, Doug.
Okay, no, thanks for calling in.
It's good to hear from you.
Thank you for calling in.
Evan, we will come back to you for an answer from Steve after we talk to Greta.
Let's check in on the Battleground states, beginning with Wisconsin.
Want to show you and Evan and our viewers where we're at right now.
61% of the vote in 10 electoral votes.
And again, as we've been noting here, the former president in the lead in Wisconsin, as well as the other so-called blue wall states.
Moving on to Michigan, it's the same thing there as we noted: 28% of the vote in.
Still a long way to go, as you and Evan have been talking about.
More of the vote has to come in, but you can see where the state of the race is right now.
Let's go to Pennsylvania and give you an update there.
19 electoral votes, 72% of the vote in, and the former president is in the lead.
In North Carolina, in the Tar Hill state, 16 electoral votes at stake, 87% of the vote in, and Donald Trump also in the lead by a little bit less than 2 percentage points.
And in Georgia, as we said, the Secretary of State told reporters that he believes that the former president will win the state of Georgia.
90% of the votes are in.
We're almost there, just missing that 10%.
And he is in the lead there by nearly 2 percentage points.
Let's go to Arizona.
And this is part of the Sunbelt swing states: Arizona, Nevada, North Carolina, and Georgia.
They were the Sunbelt swing states.
50% of the vote in, 11 electoral votes.
And you can see 0.2 percentage points separate these two candidates.
Bernie Peter, let's go to Bernie Marino.
He's coming out in Ohio, talking to supporters there.
This is that Ohio Senate race challenging Sherrod Brown.
Let's listen in.
Today starts a new wave.
You know, we talked about wanting a red wave.
I think what we have tonight is a red, white, and blue wave in this country.
Because what we need in the United States of America is leaders in Washington, D.C. that actually put the interests of American citizens above all else.
We're tired of being treated like second-class citizens in our own country.
We're tired of leaders that think we're garbage.
And we're tired of being treated like garbage.
You know, my opponent talked a lot about helping the working man.
And I will agree with him on the need to help working Americans.
But the difference is talk without action is nothing.
So what we're going to do, thanks to now having a Republican majority, by the way, how about that in the United States Senate?
And Chuck Schumer, if you're watching, thanks for the help in the primary, but you're fired, buddy.
This is a new dawn of Republican leadership.
With President Trump and JD Vance in the White House, we are going to advance an 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 who come to this country are invited here, are invited here like I was, like my family was, on our terms.
We're going to make this country an energy-dominant nation so that my kids do not grow up in a country where we ever rely on a foreign nation for energy ever, ever again.
And we have that energy right here in Ohio.
That means coal, that means natural gas, it means oil, and it means nuclear.
And in terms of EV mandates, they need to be gone first thing in January.
And we're going to make certain that we tell California, you don't get to dictate to the whole country what our emission standards are.
We're going to dictate that at the federal level, and we're going to allow consumers to pick the kind of car they want.
Look, the other piece that I want to talk about is what President Trump has brought to this country, which is peace and stability around the world.
America will be a leader in the world, will always be a leader in the world.
American leadership has made the planet safer, more prosperous, and more secure than at any point in human history.
But it means that we ensure peace through strength.
The weakness of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris is rejected.
And I know that from whether it's in Jerusalem or Kiev or anywhere else on earth or Taiwan, they're cheering this election because they know American strength will ensure peace.
Peace around the world.
And if you're a police officer, if you're a police officer in this country, just know you have a senator and me and a Republican Party that will always have your back.
And we got rid of Chuck Schumer tonight, but pretty soon we're going to get rid of another couple people that need to be gone.
First among them, Randy Weingarten, should start packing her bags.
Because what we need in this country is school choice for all Americans.
And as I look at my children, I've blessed with four kids.
And by the way, can we give my wife an amazing round of applause, please?
Thank you, Bridget.
Look, we need to make certain that we honor teachers, that we honor teachers.
They're doing great work in every corner of the country.
Teachers are our frontline.
Unfortunately, they have a teachers union that doesn't care about them.
We're going to make certain we empower teachers to teach our kids what they need to do.
And that means getting the federal government out of the way and allowing states to take on responsibility.
And finally, I'm going to say this.
We're $36 trillion in debt.
This is not sustainable.
We cannot continue on this fiscal path.
What we're going to do is massively reduce the size and scale of the federal government.
And we're going to do it from Congress because it's Congress that has the power of the purse.
Now, that starts by getting rid of agencies we don't need, relocating them out of Washington, D.C. We're going to have a bold and ambitious agenda for the Republican Party.
And I know that President Trump is going to bring greatness back to this country, unlike anything we've ever seen.
So President Trump, if you're watching, thank you.
Thank you for being decisive in my primary.
Thank you for being the greatest president of my generation.
And thank you for the sacrifices that you've made for this country.
This country owes Donald J. Trump a debt of gratitude.
And to Senator JD Vance.
Ohio loves you, man.
Ohio loves you.
I love you.
Look, I cannot think of a more brilliant pick than when President Trump selected JD Vance.
I know J.D. Let me just tell you, he's a great man.
He is going to be an incredible vice president.
I can't wait to have him leave his office so I can be the senior senator from Ohio.
I also just got off the phone with my friend Jim Jordan.
Jim is a great human being, a great power here in Ohio.
Jim Jordan, thank you so much for what you've done.
I'd also like to thank my campaign team.
We've built the greatest campaign team out there.
And if you're watching this and you want to go to Washington, D.C. and you're from Ohio and you want to go down there to make a difference, let's talk tomorrow.
Let's talk tomorrow.
Because we're going to build an incredible campaign operation, incredible Senate operation, an incredible constituent services operation, because I believe that people who pay taxes deserve a government that works for them.
And then finally, let me just say to my kids, thank you so much for being on this journey with us.
You know, I have absolutely been blessed by God Almighty with an amazing wife, amazing kids, three amazing grandkids.
But I want to introduce you to my extended family because as I like to say, we're overperforming Catholics.
So I'm going to bring my siblings.
I'm not going to bring my siblings up on stage.
Where are they?
They're all over here.
Let's give them a round of applause.
I'm going to say one last thing.
And we are live on election night at C-SPAN in Washington, D.C.
That was Bernie Moreno.
That race has not been declared yet.
He is running against Sherrod Brown, but he seems to think that he has a path to victory.
So that was his talk to his supporters.
It is 11.15 here on the East Coast, and we will be with you for the next 12 hours or so live, getting election results.
Joining us here on our set is Evan McMorris Santoro.
He is with Notice.
That is News of the United States.
He is a reporter with them, and we appreciate him being here.
We've been joined throughout the evening by Kirk Beto.
He is editor-in-chief of Hotline, and he may have a chance to come back and join us as well.
And of course, Greta Broner of C-SPAN is with us, and Greta has an update for us.
Let's start with that Ohio Senate race.
We just heard Bernie Moreno speaking, and as you said, he thinks he has a path to victory.
The Associated Press has not called this race yet.
89% of the vote in.
You can see he has a five-point lead over Democratic incumbent Sherrod Brown.
Moving on to the state of Pennsylvania and the Senate race there, I want to give you an update here.
75% of the vote in and Dave McCormick is leading incumbent Democratic Senator Bob Casey, a slight lead over the incumbent.
And then in the state of Michigan, this is an open seat.
Debbie Stabenah left this.
31% of the vote in.
Mike Rogers is now in the lead over Alyssa Slotkin there by nearly four percentage points.
Let's check in on Texas here.
This has not been called by the Associated Press.
74% of the vote in.
And you can see Senator Ted Cruz has a good margin right now with 74% of the vote in.
But Associated Press has not called this in the red column yet.
And then let's go to Wisconsin.
This one, a very tight race tonight.
Tammy Baldwin seeking a third term.
She's trying to win over, keep the seat in the Democratic column so that Democrats retain the majority in the Senate, 65% of the vote in.
And this is neck and neck still.
And we'll go to Arizona as well.
Check in on this Senate race.
This is an open seat, independent.
Kirsten Sinema decided not to run.
We talked about how expensive this race was, hundreds of millions of dollars.
You can see here Ruben Gallego with a good lead right now over Kerry Lake with 50% of the vote in.
The other crucial contest in the Senate is that Montana Senate race.
We want to check in on that one tonight.
John Tester running for a fourth term, used to close elections here.
Look at it right now, though.
Tim Sheehee, the Republican with a sizable lead, 6% of the vote in though.
So we'll see those numbers change because only 6% of the vote in.
As we said, John Tester, used to close races.
In 2006, he won by 0.9%.
In 2012, 3.7%.
2018, his last contest, he won by 3.5%.
And then in the state of Nebraska, this is a race that people were not expecting to be competitive.
Dan Osborne, an independent, a union worker who says he will not caucus with either party, is in a dead heat right now with incumbent Senator Deb Fisher, the Republican.
She has won by double digits in previous cycles.
And look how tight this is with nearly 60% of the vote in.
Peter?
Greta Bronner, thank you.
Both of our mouths kind of dropped when we saw the Deb Fisher, Nebraska race.
59% of the vote was in there.
Again, nothing, you know, it hasn't been called.
It's not in yet, but this is one of those sleeper races where it has been a very fascinating race out there.
This Osborne, a union leader who ran as this independent, who spoke about he's going to, you know, he's not going to caucus with anybody, be some kind of true independent.
He did get support from Democrats.
Democrats did sort of help him.
I mean, not officially, but you could see that Democrats were hoping that he would win, right?
They like this idea.
But he really has a shoot a lot of that and gone his own way.
And he's really plugged in with this new labor movement led by guys like Sean Fane at the UAW.
You know, it's a long way to go, but this is a really surprising thing.
We will keep an eye on that.
But Greta Bronner has results.
Yeah, we have a call in the Battleground State of North Carolina.
The Associated Press puts this in the Republican column.
The former president winning North Carolina again, 16 electoral votes for him tonight.
Peter?
Let's go to Ryan.
Ryan is in Laramie, Wyoming.
And Ryan, what made you call in to C-SPAN tonight?
What did you want to tell us?
Well, I called in today because, you know, I really appreciate you guys keeping a neutral opinion on the coverage of this election.
I know.
There's certain media sources that like to lean right and lean left.
So right off the top.
I just want to thank you guys for that.
But going forward, I abstained this year and the election.
My two points were the economy and healthcare.
I think fiscally we'll be better off with Trump in office for the economy, but his stance on health care I don't really align with.
And then, you know, with Kamala Harris, I know she wants to expand the ACA and expand certain benefits within Medicare, but I don't think that's quite enough.
I'm more of a supporter for a national health care where the federal government can dictate prices for all the diagnosis codes that are submitted by the physicians.
And yeah, I mean, that's my two cents.
And I couldn't really decide between the two and didn't really want to pick one of the two poisons.
Ryan, what are you doing, Laramie?
I work in tech, work for an EHR company, electronic health record company out here.
So I'm in the industry of healthcare.
Thank you, sir.
Appreciate your calling in.
Evan McMorris-Santoro.
When Greta was going through the results a little bit earlier, the Senate results, they kind of mirrored what we're seeing in the presidential level.
Dave McCormick ahead, Eek in Pennsylvania, same with Mike Rogers in Michigan and Eric Hovede in Wisconsin.
And where is the path to victory when we look at the individual counties?
What's the path to victory for both the Democratic Senate candidates and Kamala Harris?
Well, as we mentioned, the AP has not called Georgia as far as I know, but Brad Raffensberger came out and said he's going to call Georgia, right?
So we don't know what the answer is there.
If Georgia is true and it's a Trump state and North Carolina is a Trump state, as it's been called now, then, you know, Harris has really got to run that blue wall out.
That's what she asked you.
It's Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan.
She's got to get those three.
And actually, you know, as you've been talking throughout the night and things have sort of become, I mentioned that narrowing path.
You know, I actually obtained an email just recently from O'Malley Dillon, the vice president's campaign manager.
Jen O'Malley Dillon.
Yeah.
Sent out to campaign team, the aides, you know, throughout the campaign.
And they're saying the same thing.
They're saying that, you know, we've known all along the Sunbelt was going to be tough.
Dr. Clinton from South Africa said, we've known all along that our clearest path to 270 lies through the blue wall states.
They say they feel good about what they're seeing.
They talk about Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin.
That's correct.
They say that in Pennsylvania, they don't have election day results from Philadelphia yet, but they feel like they did well on their turnout operation.
Outside of Philadelphia, they have limited data, but they do believe that what they do have is tracking expectations.
They're awaiting results and hoping for more time and waiting for things to come in.
In Michigan, we both have talked about this.
Wayne County, we're waiting for a big vote to come in.
Hasn't come in yet.
They're like, chill out.
We're waiting to see what happens with that.
Wisconsin, which is to me, tonight, as we're watching, the one I'm been most intrigued by, they say there's a significant vote remaining in Dane and Milwaukee.
And we're seeing signs of strong performance in those WOW counties that are those suburban counties.
And we don't expect complete results from Wisconsin until tomorrow between 3 and 5 a.m.
So, you know, if Pennsylvania is gone by then, it doesn't really matter what Wisconsin is.
If we're waiting, you know, if she gets Pennsylvania, you know, if Harris somehow, if Harris wins Pennsylvania, then we may wait for that three to five days and see what happens in Wisconsin.
But that is what the Harris campaign is currently saying internally and releasing to reporters and talking about what they're doing.
Evan, is this presuming that Trump picks up Arizona and Nevada?
Because again, if Pennsylvania doesn't go to Trump, then Arizona and Nevada are must-haves, correct?
That's right.
They have other options.
But like I said, this email from General Malley Dillon says we continue to see data trickle in from the Sunbelt states.
But we've known all along our clearest path is through the blue wall.
So this is clearly a message to those of us who are watching these blue wall results come in to say, hey, chill out for a second.
There's a lot to go on in Wisconsin still.
We feel good about what we did GOTV-wise, get out the vote-wise during the day today in Pennsylvania.
We're waiting to see how those results come in.
That's what they're saying right now with those dates.
But of course, we're waiting for Nevada and other states to come in.
But that's the state of things as of like 13 minutes ago from the Harris campaign.
That's what it is.
Well, you mentioned Dane County.
That's Madison, the home of the University of Wisconsin.
85% of the vote is in.
74% went to Kamala Harris at this point, but 85% of the vote is in.
Pardon me, Milwaukee County.
54% of the vote is in, 66%, 67% to Kamala Harris.
So there's maybe a bigger load of votes in Milwaukee County than there is in Dane County.
Sure.
I don't know if this is right.
I'm telling you what the campaign is saying.
It's unclear what, you know, we don't really know.
Obviously, we're waiting for votes to come in.
This is that thing where this is what the campaign is saying to itself and speaking about to itself.
But I think it speaks to that conversation we had earlier about this narrowing path.
Let's check in with Greta Broner again.
Let's start with that Wisconsin Senate race that you guys were just talking about and see where it's at right now.
Let's look at the percentage of the vote in first.
66% of the vote in, and former president is leading.
As you were talking about, Peter, if you go to the map of Wisconsin, there's a large percentage of the vote that still has to come in from Milwaukee and Madison.
The email that Evan was just referring to.
Peter, back to you.
I'm going to cut you off there, because Sherrod Brown, senator from Ohio, just stepped to the podium.
Tonight, I'm sad, but I'm never giving up, and neither is Connie.
No way.
In the light of day, I know most of you are never giving up either.
I'll close the same way I've closed pretty much every speech in my career fighting for Ohio because the values I fight for have not changed.
They will never change.
In my lapel, I wear this pen depicting a canary in her birdcage.
You might have heard this before.
It was given to me decades ago by a steel worker at a Workers Memorial Day rally in Lorraine.
You know the story.
At the turn of the century, coal miners took the canary down in the mines with them to warn them of poisonous gas.
The mine worker in those days knew he didn't have a union strong enough or a government that cared enough to look out for him.
He was on his own.
Over the last century and a half, we have done so much to change that.
All of those fights required going up against powerful special interests.
I think about the lesson that any union organizer knows.
They don't just give you fair wages, safe workplaces, good benefits.
They don't just give it to you.
You go out and take it.
That's how progress, that's how progress has always worked in this country.
Wall Street and corporations just didn't say one day, you know, people work so hard out there.
We ought to have Social Security and we ought to have an eight-hour day and time and a half and a ban on child labor.
No, we fought for it.
We demanded it and we got it.
And the big insurance companies just didn't all of a sudden say, you know, a lot of people are sick.
We ought to provide seniors health care.
No, we fought for it.
We demanded it and we got Medicare.
And in the 1960s, a bunch of segregationist southern senators didn't just decide one day, you know, everybody ought to be able to vote in this country.
No, we fought for it, we demand it, and we got voting rights.
And then, and then last year, then last year, politicians didn't all of a sudden say, you know, we really ought to stop interfering in women's personal health care decisions.
Of course not.
We fought for abortion rights in Ohio.
We demanded it and we got it.
In all those fights, progress didn't happen on its own.
We know there are so many fights still ahead.
When I first came to the Senate, like all new senators, they gave me one of those really expensive, fancy pieces of jewelry.
You could kind of walk around and I'm a senator.
I'm a big deal.
I wore it for a couple days, but it just didn't feel right, so I took it off and I put my canary pin back on.
And I've worn that canary pin every day since.
So tonight, nothing changes.
I don't take off this pen.
I'm not giving up on our fight for workers, and I know you won't either.
Thank you.
And that was Sherrod Brown in Ohio, conceding to Bernie Marino, who is the new senator-elect the Republican from Ohio, joining current Senator JD Vance.
who is obviously the vice presidential nominee in Ohio.
So those are the two new senators or the new senator from Ohio.
We are here live in Washington, D.C. on election night.
We will be here all night and all morning, up until noon tomorrow, live, taking your calls, hearing your voices, giving you the results, analysis without spin, and of course, all of the candidate speeches as we go through the evening.
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So let's hear from Alex in Salt Lake City.
Alex, what is on your mind tonight and what made you call in?
Hey.
I called in because I wanted to talk about some two little problems that I have.
And the reason why I voted for Trump in the first place.
There's this just ginormous issue with economy and education in America lately, where schools aren't really teaching the practical information or the necessary things that human beings need to grow and learn, and not only that, it's also ludicrously unaffordable it it's it's really hard to even get into schools, like not not even just colleges, but high schools, elementary schools.
The payment is it's it's been really bad uh, considering that toll on the uh toll on the economy with the inflation.
Um, it and inflation has got so bad you can't even go to the the store anymore and and like get normal beers or some food or anything like that without spending like 50 or 100 for something so small.
Um and Alex, do you think that that a change in UH Party in the presidency can impact that?
Yeah I, I think that Uh Trump is probably the best choice, because when Trump was in office previously, the economy wasn't as just insanely terrible as it was with uh mr Biden in office.
It was just uh Biden Biden made the economy just tank and the gas was going crazy.
I I, I work and live in out of a, out of a vehicle, so I need gas in order to to live.
Basically now, what do you mean?
You work and live out of a vehicle.
Um I, I live alone in an rv and I i've been across the Uh places but I I I don't move all that much because I can't afford gas anymore.
All right Alex, thank you for calling in from Salt Lake City.
Greta Brawner is with us all evening as well and she has an update.
Well, let's talk about that.
Oh race, you just heard uh, the incumbent there Shared Brown, who was seeking a fourth term, in his speech.
The Associated Press has called Bernie Marino the winner there.
In Ohio.
That means Republicans have picked up a second seat tonight, first in West Virginia with Jim Justice and now in Ohio.
So it looks if, if it, if everything holds, it looks like Republicans will have the majority in the Senate.
There's more races to be called.
Follow the balance of power on the side of your screen all night long.
Also, you can dig into the Senate races if you go to Cspan.org slash results.
Another call for you in the Senate, Virginia race, Tim Kaine seeking a third term and he gets it.
Tonight the Associated Press gives him the check mark with 79 percent of the vote in.
Peter Michael is in San Rafael, California.
Uh, Kamala Harris Supporter Michael, good evening to you.
Please tell us what's on your mind, what's happening there, but I think it's troubling.
On the left issue uh, first I want to apologize for my English already.
Well Michael, i'm going to have to put you on hold one more second, two things.
I promise you.
We will not hang up on you.
We will not hang up.
We will want to hear you, but I need you to turn down the volume on your tv.
And now we also want to go hear from Dave Mccormick, the Republican candidate for senate in Pennsylvania.
coming up.
By about 100,000 votes, he's leading Casey 49.7 to 47.8.
Now, I mean, folks, we are so excited.
We are going to make history tonight, but I got to ask you to hang with us a little bit longer.
There were two big Republican counties.
Many of you folks may have heard about Cambria County this morning.
They had problems with the machines, so the polls were held open till 10 p.m.
So Cambria and York are still outstanding, but they are big red Republican counties.
So I want you to continue having some fun.
We'll be back with a further update by 12:30, if not earlier.
Okay?
Let's go.
The distance between you and I.
Well, they're just priming the audience at the Dave McCormick party in Pennsylvania.
That was not David McCormick.
And once he comes out to speak to the crowd, we will bring that to you live.
Now, we are going to return to our friend Michael, who is in San Rafael, California.
And we're going to listen to what Michael has to say.
Michael, are you with us?
Yes, I'm Marco.
No, Michael.
Marco.
Marco.
I apologize to you, sir.
First, I apologize for my English.
You know, it's been a long time and I live in this country, but I never lost my accent.
I want to make a generic conversation because I hear the few many of your phone calls.
And I want to know what is wrong with this country.
So the former president Trump accused the Latino, the immigrante, they poisoned this country.
I don't know.
And so these people wave the flag behind the Trump.
And I think they should be shamed because maybe they forget when they come in this country.
It's not them, their parents or their great-grandparents.
And as he said, they poison this country.
America is pulled by Latino.
Everything, the agriculture is Latino.
In the restaurant, most of the restaurants in the kitchens, it doesn't matter which country is the restaurant, which food they made.
Most of the people in the kitchens are Latino.
And the cleaning is Latino, construction Latino.
So they don't poison this country.
America is pulled by the Latino.
You know why?
Because Americans don't want to do this every work.
This Latino, they're working and they're working very hard and they send the money to the family.
They live in five, six in a room and stuff like that.
Hey, Marco, I'm going to.
Marco?
Marco, when did you come to this country?
And are you from Italy?
I'm coming from Italy.
I come in this country 23 years ago.
And I'm a citizen.
I voted.
This is why I have think that I have the right to send my opinions.
Early today, somebody was in our vote and said, but he was talking.
He said, if it was me, I said, do you vote?
No, you have no right to talk.
You want to talk here to vote.
And then you can say your voice.
So once again, America is cooled by the Latino.
If they take away the Latino, you will see what is going on in the economy and this country.
They do job, they do work, and then the America didn't want to do it.
All right, Marco, we appreciate your being on hold.
We appreciate your telling us what your point of view is.
And it was nice to hear from you.
So thank you.
We appreciate that very much.
Evan McMorris Centoro, what did you hear from our friend Marco in San Rafael?
This passion that he had, which is the other side of this issue we've been talking about with this immigration issue, which is that, you know, we have lived through yet another campaign cycle, another year of incredibly divisive rhetoric, you know, rhetoric that people call are not used to hearing.
And, you know, when you hear words like poison, it tends to divide people, right?
This is the challenge that Trump had when he was president, you know, when he was president in his first term in office.
And he hasn't changed his rhetoric a lot.
And there are still a lot of Americans who are very turned off by it.
So when I hear it, you know, I hear about some of the challenges that will be happening in politics should Trump end up being elected tonight.
But also it's a question of what kind of politics do people want?
Because Marco also talked about this idea of, you know, if you don't vote, you know, you shouldn't be able to say anything.
People are eager, I think.
People I've seen across the country and met across the country are eager to have conversations with each other.
They're eager to be sort of decent Americans to each other as much as they can.
They feel like it's very difficult now.
And because of some of this rhetoric and because of some of the way the politics works now, so I think that this is something that we should all are all going to be hearing a lot about and thinking a lot about in the coming weeks and months, years and everything else.
When you go to cspen.org/slash results and you pull up the magic map, which it really truly is, you get a map there.
And all the states that have been declared for Kamala Harris are in dark blue.
The ones that have been declared for Donald Trump are in dark red.
No surprises yet.
But guess what?
There are one, two, three, four, five, six still uncalled.
All, you know, of the seven, North Carolina is the only one of the battleground states that has been called that was called for Donald Trump.
Georgia, according to the Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger down there, says that it is Donald Trump's to win.
And four of the other battlegrounds all are red-tinged right now because he is in the lead there.
But when you look, you can click on each of the states and you can do this yourself and you can see where votes are still outstanding and what votes have come in already.
So you can kind of do your own calculations and see if how true this is.
The only state that has no color on it is Nevada at this point.
It is still standing out there white.
It's not red nor blue nor nor neutral.
Comes in late, tons of mail vote, mail-in vote to count, a lot of early vote to count.
Nevada keeps us hanging.
They keep us hanging on.
Well, in about 15 minutes, we will see the results from Hawaii.
I don't think they'll be a surprise for anyone, the Senate race and the presidential race when their polls close.
Greta Bronner, what do you got for us?
Let's check in on those light blue, light red states that you were just talking about on the map.
Beginning with Wisconsin, want to update our viewers.
Now, 69% of the vote is in, and the former president holding on to his lead so far in Wisconsin.
Moving on to Pennsylvania, the other brick in the blue wall for Democrats.
19 electoral votes, 81% of the vote is in, and the former president still maintains a lead.
Moving on to Michigan, the third brick in the blue wall.
And there are 15 electoral votes at stake.
40% of the vote is in.
So still quite a ways to go in Michigan.
And Jonathan Osting, who reports out of Michigan Politics Reporter, says Trump is leading in Michigan according to current AP results, but those figures don't include Detroit numbers that the city has posted online.
Race is pretty much dead even as counting continues, is what he is reporting out of Michigan tonight.
Let's go back to the states, the Battleground States and Georgia and give you an update there.
16 electoral votes at stake.
91% of the vote is in here.
We've been talking about this.
If the Secretary of State is right, then this will go in the GOP column tonight.
Moving on to North Carolina, as we said earlier, this was called by the Associated Press for the former president.
So he gets those 16 electoral votes.
Virginia, this is one that we have been watching this evening to see what happens here.
And it looked tight before, but Kamala Harris gets the red check in the state of Virginia with 83% of the vote in.
And then we're going to end with that Texas Senate race that we were talking about earlier.
The total spending by candidates and outside groups was hundreds of millions of dollars.
Senator Ted Cruz is able to hold on to that seat for Republicans, 77% of the vote in.
54 to nearly 44% for Colin Allred.
Evan McMorris Centora, what were you hearing from Greta when she was giving the results and showing the maps and talking about what votes are still out there, including the Philly?
There's some votes left in the Philly suburbs and in Philadelphia proper as well.
Right.
That's the big basket that Democrats care about, is what those numbers come in.
But you and I were talking about Pittsburgh, that we're seeing some numbers in Pittsburgh that look like they're kind of matching what Biden's numbers were.
That's good for Harris.
That's the kind of thing that she needs to see is to at least match those numbers and improve other places.
You know, we have seen in other parts of the country and other sort of places that we've been checking that Trump's numbers outside of those blue dots in the rural areas has really performed quite well tonight, more than he did in 2020.
That's helping him out in these conversations.
The Texas race is interesting too that Greta just mentioned.
My colleague at Notice, Casey Murray, did a lot of reporting on this Texas race.
And, you know, this is another place.
Democrats find themselves here every six years, it feels like, right?
Texas, we're going to do something in Texas, and they can't really seem to pull it off.
Her reporting this cycle suggested that, you know, maybe there were some issues in the border areas of Texas that maybe the Democrats were not, you know, it's a very big state, maybe they weren't spending enough time in some places they could get votes that they weren't getting them.
But whatever, this is it.
It feels like in every six years conversation we have about Texas, this is going to be a big year for Texas and, you know, it's a Republican state.
Next call here on C-SPAN is Gloria calling from Detroit, a Kamala Harris supporter.
Hi, Gloria.
How was the process for you to vote?
Oh, it's been kind of nerve-wracking, especially with all of these ads.
But I just want to say something.
I really feel sad because we as a country profess to be a Christian nation.
And I've been in church all of my life, you know, from Sunday school to Bible class to church services to conferences, conventions, etc.
And in studying, we're taught we're to love God, love Jesus, and accept him as our Lord and Savior, and that we are to love one another, have compassion, show forgiveness, and as much as possible to live peaceably with all men.
But we're also taught there are things that we are not to do.
We are not to lie, and Trump lies all the time.
We are not to be prideful and boastful.
Trump is both.
Only he alone can do it.
We are to think of others as better than ourselves.
And I don't think Trump thinks there is anyone better than him.
And I just feel that there will be a price to pay.
And each of us, each of us, is accountable to God.
And one of the things that he does not like is disobedience.
Disobedience is sin and separates us from God.
All right, Gloria, I think we got your point about that.
Did you go to any Kamala Harris rallies while she was in Detroit?
She's been through there several times.
Right.
I was working, but I watched the rallies.
I watched both the Trump rallies, the JD Vance, the Kamala Harris, and the Waltz rallies.
And that helped me to come to the conclusions, the meanness, the vileness of Trump.
Ooh, awful.
And shame on us.
How did you vote in the Senate race there, Gloria?
Between Alyssa Smith?
I voted.
Straight Democratic.
Have you always voted straight Democratic?
Well, I voted for a Republican once, but it was as punishment.
Because I felt sometimes that we take too many things for granted, all the privileges and all the things that we have.
I mean, we just went through one and a hundred-year pandemic.
Everything was shut down.
All these containers that were at ports that couldn't, the glitz couldn't be brought in.
We suffered some of the worst things.
Just one last thing.
I mean, not one last thing.
No, you got to keep it close.
You got to go.
Okay.
But it's just, you know, we, I don't think, realize the depth of the damage that was done by the pandemic, both to our economy and, you know, we can't serve both God and worship money.
That's Gloria in Detroit.
We appreciate your time this evening.
Greta Broner, what do you have for us?
Another state has been called in the presidential race, New Mexico.
77% of the vote in five electoral votes go to Kamala Harris tonight.
Let's talk about some Senate races.
These have been called as well New Mexico.
Martin Heinrich is running for a third term.
His GOP challenger there, C-SPAN Junkies, will recognize that last name, Nella Dominici.
She is the daughter of the late former Senator Pete Dominici, and Martin Heinrich holds on to his seat in New Mexico.
Moving on to New Jersey, this is an open seat.
Democrats keep it in their column tonight.
Andy Kim, the Democrat, the congressman, fends off a challenge from Republican Curtis Bashaw there with 84% of the vote in.
And then in California, this seat left open by the late Diane Feinstein, Adam Schiff, along with many other Democrats running for this seat against Steve Garvey, the former baseball player, and 61% to nearly 40%.
Adam Schiff is declared the winner in California.
And then in Washington State, another incumbent, Maria Cantwell, the Democrat, seeking a fifth term, and the voters give her one tonight.
Evan McMorris Santoro of Notice, News of the United States.
We have been listening and watching Greta go through all that.
And what's your reaction?
Well, the Senate map is looking pretty good for the Republicans.
We've seen that all night.
A lot of these results are not that surprising.
But some of these, you know, we're waiting for all the results to come in, all the totals to come in.
But some of the totals are a little closer than you would have expected.
You know, we were talking about New Jersey.
We don't know what the final result will be, but that's a very blue state.
And it was a strange Senate race in the sense that, you know, the senator that the current senator was convicted of a crime, all of that stuff with Menendez, Andy Kim coming in to replace him, being elected, it sounds like tonight.
But that number was close.
And that goes back to some of the stuff that Kirk was talking about with their seeing sort of Republican performance all over the map, right?
So I think that like, you know, Democrats are happy that they fended off some of these late challenge races that we talked about.
We talked about New Mexico.
Trump went down there, maybe tried to make a game of it.
It didn't really happen with New Mexico.
But some of these numbers are a little bit closer than Democrats, I think, would have been hoping for.
Next call tonight is from James in Norfolk, Virginia.
Please go ahead, James.
What's on your mind?
Well, the only thing on my mind that I really want to say is just kind of a message to everybody, because I think the one thing that is clear about this election of all is that we've had the most people in this country in a long time come out to actually vote and participate.
And it has probably been one of the most divisive elections ever.
As I've heard it quoted before, people don't just think of the other side as an opponent.
They think of it as an enemy.
So as a reminder to all of America, as long as we can still look at each other across the aisle and just kind of go have a beer with each other, I think we'll be able to survive to the next day.
That's all I have to say.
Hey, James, you're down there in Norfolk.
Is Jen Kiggins your congresswoman?
I believe so, sir, but I'm technically an out-of-state resident in Virginia currently.
All right.
Where did you vote?
I voted absentee for California.
Thank you, sir, for calling in.
Are you in the Navy?
Yes, sir.
There we go.
Alex, Appleton, Wisconsin.
Hi, Alex.
Oh, hey.
Hello.
What's going on?
Yeah, I voted for Kamala Harris this year, and I voted blue every year since 2018, since I turned 18.
And I'm just like, I just am so confused and so worried about the rhetoric being spread and stuff like that.
Like, I just don't get like, I know I'm up in Wisconsin, and I don't see a lot of immigrants really up here, but why are is potentially, you know, Trump says that there's 25 million illegal immigrants in America, which is less than 1% of our population.
You know, why is that such a huge issue?
How are they actually affecting this many people in this sort of way?
And I'm also just deeply concerned about just women's rights and the rights of all people in America.
You know, what's next for what they plan to take away?
Hey, Alex, what do you do up there in Appleton?
I'm a delivery driver for UPS.
How's business?
Oh, it's been busy.
It's been real busy.
Would you say the economy in Appleton is good?
Yeah, I mean, yeah, like, like, I mean, with the pandemic and everything like that, obviously we slowed down, or we sped up, I mentioned, but the economy slowed down.
But, like, I don't know.
Like, with that's another thing, I guess, is like under Trump's plan, doesn't it, like, if we take 10 minutes to think about it, isn't it like, you know, gonna make tanker economy based on everything that I've seen.
And also, one last thing, I apologize.
With COVID, do we all just forget that COVID started in Trump's presidency and hundreds of thousands of people died because he refused to even acknowledge its existence for a while?
Like, I had a cousin that passed away.
You know, I'm sure millions of people had family members or a coworker or someone that was affected by this.
Like, did we forget that it was his decision to not help us?
All right, we'll get an answer.
We'll talk to our reporter about that in two seconds.
One final question from me.
You're somebody who drives around Appleton all day long.
Are you seeing Harris Trump signs anywhere?
I mean, that's one thing I've appreciated a lot.
I mean, I live up in Appleton.
It's pretty Trump up here, but just in general, I think I've seen a lot less political signs.
And I guess that's kind of the way I like to see it, I guess, you know, just vote in the poll and not, you know, out in public.
So thank you guys so much.
I love that.
Thanks, Alex.
Thanks for watching.
We appreciate that.
Let's start on some of his issues backwards, starting with the COVID issue.
You mentioned this earlier.
We have not discussed that issue in this campaign very much.
That's correct.
It was just not a central focus of anyone.
And you can think about how important it was to our election cycle in 2020 and to everybody's lives back then.
The caller was very sort of, you know, very, very eloquent about speaking about that.
It just never really connected with people.
And, you know, there's a lot to be talked about why that is.
We've done some reporting on it at notice about why that is.
But it just was not something that you hear about.
You hear about the economy.
It calls you to mention.
It is midnight on the East Coast, and the polls in Hawaii have closed.
And Maisie Hirono is up for re-election there to the Senate.
I don't think there's any issues with her, and it's favored for Kamala Harris as well.
Greta Broner, what do you want to update us with?
Let's check on some competitive House seats.
Democrats need a net gain of four to take over the House chamber.
We could see a double flip tonight.
History in the making here.
And the majority runs through some of these races.
Let's begin with Iowa's first congressional district.
We've been talking about this one where the incumbent, Representative Marionette Miller-Meeks, a Republican there, she's trailing the Democrat.
And four years ago, she won this seat by six votes.
You remember Kirk Beto told us this, not six points, six votes.
Let's update you on Iowa's third congressional district.
This is another potential pickup here.
93% of the vote in.
And the incumbent, Zach Nunn, is staying strong here.
He is leading the Democratic challenger.
Moving on to Colorado's eighth congressional district, this is another one that people are watching here to see if Democrats will hold on to this seat.
So far, 66% of the vote in, and the incumbent Democrat there has the lead.
Moving on to Texas District 34, another competitive Senate race.
The Congressman, Democratic Congressman Vicente Gonzalez, in a matchup with Myra Flores, once again battling to represent this portion of South Texas.
Flores, 38, briefly represented the district after she won a special election in July of 2022.
At the time, Gonzalez represented a neighboring district.
However, after state lawmakers redrew the state's congressional maps following the 2020 census, they ended up challenging each other there.
And you can see where this vote is.
It's a tight race, 79% of the vote in.
Let me go to Nebraska's second congressional district.
This is one that folks are watching closely to see if Democrats will pick this up as part of their way to gaining net four seats.
And you can see here that Tony Vargas, the Democrat who has challenged Don Bacon several times for this seat, has a slight edge over Don Bacon here.
Now, Vargas lost to Bacon two years ago by fewer than 6,000 votes.
This congressional district is known as the blue dot.
Joe Biden won this district and it's one electoral vote by six points in 2020.
Nebraska and Maine are the only two states that split up their electoral votes that way.
They don't do winner takes all.
They dole them out by who wins congressional districts and then statewide for a handful, a couple of their electoral votes.
Let's end with Alabama's second district, looking at this race.
Democrats were leading in polls in this district, dominated by Republicans for 60 years until the Supreme Court ordered it to be redrawn in 2022.
The district encompasses the state capital, Montgomery, and has a majority of black voters.
Black vote makes up 27% of the entire state's population.
And you can see there, Democrats picked up this seat in Alabama's second congressional district, 98% of the vote in, according to the Associated Press.
Greta Broner, thank you.
Unfortunately, Evan and I are sitting here just watching you and commenting on every race that comes up.
And I've completely lost my train of thought now because that was so interesting to watch your Nebraska II numbers.
It's very interesting because, you know, that is an important, that was an important dot for Democrats.
But actually, you know, when I was on the trail recently, I was speaking to a senior Democrat who had moved into a swing state after being very active in that Nebraska II race.
And they were telling me that, you know, they didn't feel so great about that.
You know, Bacon's a good candidate.
He's been around for a while.
Like, they weren't feeling too strong about it.
But now you're seeing these Democratic numbers look pretty good there for the Democratic challenger in that Nebraska II.
That's also an electoral vote.
It's a very interesting race in the sense that that House race could directly impact the presidential election as well.
And that is a good news moment for the Democrats tonight.
And I would notice that our results showed that Kamala Harris will pick up probably that one electoral vote.
Right.
Because Nebraska divides them.
Nebraska's looking really interesting, right?
Because we're talking about the two-year-olds.
We had the two Senate races.
We got to check out the Deb Fisher race again, too.
But Don Bacon, 83% in.
He's down 3,000 votes at this point.
Greta also mentioned Iowa and went through a couple of the races in Iowa.
But according to the presidential vote, 90% are in.
Donald Trump, 56%, Kamala Harris, 42%.
So that poll, that Ann Seltzer poll was wrong.
That poll was wrong.
But, you know, Ann Seltzer would say that it could be wrong.
You know, I mean, this is pollsters are, you know, this is not to beat up on anybody.
Pollsters do what they do.
And when these races completely is really over with, we will dig through and find out where the polls are wrong and where they were right.
But this one, which was such an outlier, appears to be an outlier.
John is calling in from Santa Paula, California on our support President Trump line.
John, good evening to you.
How's this election season been for you?
Well, it's been stressful, I'm sure, for everybody, but I want to comment that you guys are doing a really good job tonight, and I really appreciate C-SPAN and being able to talk.
And I have a comment maybe that Evan can follow up on is one of the reasons I think Trump got so many good votes from the workers is his schedule.
I mean, he outworked Kamala Harris.
He was up at seven, crack of dawn every morning, working late at night for day after day after day after day.
And that resonates with the working man because we all get up early.
Rain or shine, we got to go to work and we got to be there.
And that role model of getting up and just really pounding it out every day through everything they threw at him.
And that resilience and fortitude is, I think, what drew a lot of workers to Donald Trump versus somebody just in a suit coming in and saying, we'll save your jobs.
But I think he really identified with the workers.
And I guess my second point would be that I think the Democrats had a hard time.
They made two mistakes.
One, they didn't have a primary where Joe Biden could have debated and we could have found out earlier about Joe Biden.
And then the second one, which is, I think, the critical mistake for the Democrats, is for three and a half years, everybody in America knew that if you drilled for oil, prices everywhere would come down.
The refusal to drill for oil, keeping inflation high, I think was the kicker that tipped it.
All right, John, we appreciate hearing from you this evening.
Truman is in Las Vegas.
Truman?
Hello.
Who did you vote for, Truman?
So I'm a Libertarian, and we did not have a viable candidate this year, but my companion here did vote, and she's a registered Republican.
So for whom did she vote?
For whom did she vote?
Trump.
All right.
Did your companion vote early?
No, she voted just within the last three days.
She's a senior citizen, and here in Las Vegas, part of the reason why her selected candidate was Trump is that it's not tenable to do any of the expected things that people normally do to participate in civil society.
She's retired from the court system here, and the courts are lockjammed.
Like everything is difficult to just manage for her.
So I think that part of her decision-making was based on just wanting to get back to normal.
Truman, what do you do?
What do you do in Vegas?
I'm a consultant.
I'm just visiting, but we have been cruising through the networks, and I said, hey, let's turn it on C-SPAN.
We were just fatigued with all of the just abysmal pontification and back and forth and this and that.
And it's just so, so regular and refreshing to see the C-SPAN graphic.
And you look great.
I remember you from Brian Williams when you first began hosting.
You look awesome.
Just glad C-SPAN is available for us.
Okay.
That's Truman in Las Vegas.
We appreciate your calling in.
Appreciate you staying with us.
Nice thing about C-SPAN is you also get results, analysis with no spin.
You get all the speeches.
And most importantly, we get to hear your voices.
Paul in Baltimore.
Hi, Paul.
Hi.
What's on your mind?
Well, I voted for Kamala Harris.
And I'll only give my opinion, okay?
That I struggle to think of anybody that I wouldn't vote against Trump for because he's a sociopath.
I get that back in 2016, he was an outsider, and people could project their hopes and insecurities onto him.
And America gave him a chance.
And what we got was four years of toxicity topped off by anti-democratic violence.
And so all I can say when I see Harris's path narrowing and narrowing is that if Trump wins, if voters put this creep back in the White House, they shouldn't be surprised about what's coming to them.
That's Paul in Baltimore.
Okay.
Evan McMorris Centoro is with Notice.
N-O-T-U-S NewsoftheUnitedStars.org.org.
There you go.
It's a dot org.
Yeah, just like C-SPAN.
There you go.
We've taken a couple of calls.
We've heard some voices.
What have you marked down on your sheet?
I was really interested in the caller that talked about Trump being a guy who worked, outworked Vice President Harris, right?
Up early, to bed late.
We talked earlier about issues that did not really become a huge part of this campaign.
COVID was one of them we mentioned.
Other things have come up.
But you think about it, you know, there was a challenge Democrats had at the beginning of the election that they had this, the oldest president ever to, and would be, you know, to run for reelection, that that was a big challenge for them.
Trump would be the oldest president ever elected if he gets elected.
And that really has never been an issue for him in this campaign.
It's one of the things you hear Democrats have often complained about when they sort of do their thing of what the media has done wrong or thing, you know, they'll talk about that.
But really, what that caller was mentioning and the way people think about, you know, about Trump as sort of this worker bee type of guy, I think that rings really true in sort of how this age issue never really landed on him in the way it landed on, say, Biden.
And I thought it was a really interesting way, very crystal clear, just how that looks because you have basically the exact same age people running, but when it came to Trump, it just never was an issue for him.
Greta Bronner is here all evening, and she has some new results for us.
Yes, the Associated Press has called the U.S. Senate for Republicans.
They have flipped that chamber.
According to the Associated Press, they will be in control of it in January when a new Congress convenes.
It came with this call in Nebraska.
72% of the vote in.
Deb Fisher is able to hold on to her seat there, just eking out a victory compared to her previous cycles where she won by double digits.
She beats out a challenge by Independent Dan Osborne.
Let's go to Pennsylvania and check on that battleground state in the Senate race there.
Dave McCormick still has a slight lead over incumbent Senator Bob Casey, 85% of the vote in.
Moving on to Michigan and the open seat there, Mike Rogers also in the lead over the Democrat Alyssa Slotkin, 48% of the vote in Michigan.
And then in Wisconsin, we're watching this race.
Tammy Baldwin seeking a third term right now.
The Republican challenger, Eric Hovey, is stopping her from doing that, but it's very tight, 78% of the vote in.
Let's go on to Arizona in that open seat.
Republicans are hoping to pick this up.
Democrats want it to stay in their column.
Kirsten Cinema, the Democrat turned independent, caucused with them.
Ruben Gallego is in the lead over Kerry Lake, excuse me.
50% of the vote is in.
Montana, Democrats have been eyeing this seat this whole election cycle.
15% of the vote in.
Tim Shee, the Republican, leading incumbent Senator John Tester.
And then let's end with Texas.
This is Ted Cruz, as we said, was the victor tonight over Colin Allred.
86% of the vote in, and look, he won by 10 percentage points.
That'll change as more votes come in, but right now, a 10-point win for Senator Ted Cruz.
Peter?
And Ted Cruz recently came out to his supporters and talked about his victory.
Here he is.
I want to congratulate Colin Allred on a hard-fought campaign.
And I want to say to all of those who didn't support me: you have my word that I will fight for you, for your jobs, for your safety, and for your constitutional rights.
But tonight, the people of Texas have spoken.
And their message rings clear as a bell across our great state.
Texas will remain Texas.
You know, the media, we're ready to write off Texas.
And Chuck Shilmer poured in more than $100 million to our state.
Well, I want to say thank you, Chuck.
And I hope we win a few more Senate seats tonight because you wasted so much money in Texas.
They deployed every trick, every lie, and every Hollywood celebrity they could find.
Chuck Schumer tried to buy this Senate seat like it was a piece of Manhattan real estate.
But he learned what we've always known, that Texas isn't for sale.
And Texans can't be bought.
Amen.
Over the last two years, I've traveled every corner of this state from the panhandle to the valley from deepest East Texas to far in West Texas.
We have traveled 9,094 miles, 53 rallies, all over the state of Texas.
I've worn out my boots, at times my voice, and certainly the patience of my incredible political team who did an amazing job on this campaign.
and I think is the very best team in all of politics.
And what I found traveling the state of Texas was worth every single mile.
Because everywhere I went, I found something that gives me profound hope.
Common sense isn't dead.
It is alive and well in Texas.
Everywhere I went, I met Texans who share a simple dream to keep their families safe, to keep their freedom secure, and to keep their Texas values strong.
Tonight, we are witnessing incredible results, especially with Hispanics across the state of Texas.
And we are seeing tonight generational change in South Texas.
The results tonight, this decisive victory, should shake the Democrat establishment to its core.
I've spent months in the Rio Grande Valley, sitting in family kitchens, visiting small businesses, praying in local churches.
And let me tell you what I learned.
Our Hispanic communities aren't just leaving the Democrat Party.
They're coming home to conservative values they never left.
My dad is 85.
My mom turns 90 this month.
Both are here tonight, and I love you both very much.
You are my heroes.
And here is what Texas promises.
Not equality of outcomes, but equality of opportunity.
Not guaranteed success, but a guaranteed chance.
Not life without struggle, but a life where struggle has meaning, where merit matters, and where dreams that are backed by sweat and steel determination can still come true.
That is the promise of Texas.
That is the American dream.
That's what all of us fought to preserve here tonight.
And that's what I give you my word.
I will continue to defend with every fiber of my being in the United States Senate.
And that was Senator Ted Cruz talking about his reelection to the Senate in Texas in California.
Adam Schiff has just come out to talk about his victory in California, Senate.
And for your children.
And because of this, every day I woke up energized and hopeful.
In Bakersfield, I met with entrepreneurs who turned their passion into successful small businesses that had lifted up their communities.
In Salinas, I heard from farm workers who toiled in the fields from sunrise to sundown, rain, or shine to ensure that families across the country had food on their tables.
In Oakland, I felt the joy and energy of an early morning service at the Allen Temple Baptist Church.
In Merced, I sat down with college students and heard about the careers they were building for themselves.
In Lakewood, I saw firsthand the hard and rewarding labor of child care providers.
I witnessed their patience, their kindness, and the love that they bring to their work.
Our state has its struggles, like every state, but none are insurmountable because we are the golden state and we get big things done.
And my promise to you is that I'm going to deliver on day one, week one, year one, and keep on delivering for this amazing state.
Because together there is no challenge that we cannot overcome.
We leave no community behind.
We do not stop.
We do not rest until all our citizens have a safe place to live, clean water to drink, clean air to breathe, safe neighborhoods to raise their children, good hospitals, clinics, and health care, and the best public schools in the world.
In pursuit of this dream for all our people, I will not rest California.
In the Senate, I will be a champion and voice for all Californians, whether you voted for me or not, whether you live in the big city or a small county, whether you grew up here or came to America searching for a better life.
We are going to build more affordable housing so that you aren't forced to choose between your rent and putting food on the table.
We are going to ensure that our fellow neighbors do not have to sleep on the street.
We are going to help hardworking families by lowering costs.
We are going to fight tooth and nail to protect abortion access and defend democracy and our freedoms.
We are going to bring resources and jobs back to the Golden State to create opportunity for all Californians.
We're going to fight on behalf of our dream workers, our farm workers, our immigrant families, so they no longer have to live in the shadows.
We are going to protect our planet, fight climate change, and bring good-paying green jobs here to California.
It is a big task, I know, but we can do it because we are going to do it together.
I am determined to fight every single day on behalf of this great state and its great people.
And I am so thankful for your trust and your support.
And I can't wait to do this job with you together.
I want to thank my incredible wife, Eve, and yes, we are Adam and Eve.
My kids, Lexi and Eli.
Lexi's boyfriend, Eric, gets a shout out.
My brother, Daniel and his wife, Amy.
My brother David and his family, my nieces and my nephews, and of course, the one the world revolves around, baby Maya.
I could not have done this without your endless love and support, and it's so wonderful to get to celebrate with you tonight.
Eve, I don't know where to begin, but this atom would be lost without this Eve.
I love you, and I'm grateful to you for your strength and love.
Lexi and Eli, being your dad is my favorite job in the world.
I love you, and I am so proud of you.
And I also want to acknowledge my mother and father, Cheryl and Ed Schiff.
While they're no longer with us, I wouldn't be standing here but for their love and guidance and support.
My father lived to be 96.
He passed earlier this year.
And I so wish he could be here with us tonight.
Dad, give mom a hug and tell her I hope she's still not upset with me for not being a doctor.
I also want to thank every volunteer and supporter who made calls, sent texts, knock on doors, and chipped in a few bucks because your hard work not only made this Senate race possible, but you are going to deliver the House of Representative majority to Hakeem Jeffries tonight.
And I want to thank Nancy Pelosi, the greatest of all time, the most incredible speaker in our history, for her friendship, her mentorship, her leadership.
There was no one who stood more in the breach defending our democracy than Nancy Pelosi, and I thank you.
We set out to build the largest grassroots campaign in California history, and I think we hit the mark.
To my wonderful staff, I thank you.
You are all dedicated public servants who have committed countless hours, nights, weekends to this effort, and this victory is also yours.
To my wonderful, wonderful constituents in the 30th Congressional District who have supported me for over 25 years, I cannot thank you enough for your confidence and the honor of representing you.
I hope that I have served you well and made you proud.
And to my new constituents all over the state, whether you voted for me or not, I am committed to being a champion for every Californian in every corner of this wonderful state.
California, I thank you for your trust.
I am grateful to serve as your U.S. Senator.
Now, let's get to work.
Thank you, California.
Thank you, everyone.
God bless the state and country.
Thank you so much.
That's the new senator-elect from California, Adam Schiff, who defeated former L.A. Dodger Steve Garvey in the Senate race there.
And now, live to Washington, D.C. and West Palm Beach, split screen.
On your left is the Harris headquarters at Howard University in Washington, D.C.
And on your right in West Palm Beach, Florida, at the convention center there is the Trump crowd.
And you can see both have supporters there milling around.
We will go live, of course, to both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump if and when they speak to their groups.
It is 1230 here on the East Coast, and two-thirds of the states have been called.
And Greta Bronner has some more results for us.
We'll check in on those competitive New York House races.
The path to the majority runs through these New York races and California races.
Let's start with some called races.
This is the first district in New York, 98% of the votes in.
Nick Lalota is seeking his second term is going to do so in the next Congress.
John Avalon, CNN analyst, political analyst, ran for this seat and is unable to unseat La Lota tonight.
Moving on to New York's 18th congressional district, this seat is represented by Democrat Pat Ryan, and he gets another term in the House next year.
Moving on to New York's 22nd district, Republican Brandon Williams loses tonight.
He's serving in his first term, excuse me, and he loses tonight to his Democratic challenger there.
These are the other New York races that are competitive that we're watching.
The New York third race, the district is represented by a Democrat there who won a special election.
This is to fill Congressman, the disgraced Congressman George Santos' seat when he was removed from office.
And you can see where the vote is right now with 97% of the votes in.
And moving on to New York's fourth congressional district, it's represented by the fourth congressional district represented by first-term Republican Anthony D. Esposito, who prior to electing to office was a detective in the NYPD.
He became, he had some controversy in the closing days, a scandal in the closing days of this election.
He's hanging on right now, the Democrat leading him with 98% of the vote in.
And then two more New York races.
The 17th congressional district is also a competitive race.
Mike Lawler represents this district.
Lawler, who in his first term worked in political communications and worked for Republican elected officials before being elected to the state assembly in 2021.
His campaign also found controversy this election cycle.
And he is holding on right now with 75% of the vote in.
Let's look at New York 19th congressional district.
It is represented by Republican Mark Molinaro serving his first term and the Democrat Josh Riley leading the incumbent at this point.
97% of the votes in.
So we'll watch to see if this gets called by the Associated Press.
Peter?
Thank you, Greta.
Alyssa Slotkin, the congresswoman from Michigan, the Democratic nominee for Senate, is out speaking.
Let's listen in.
This is live.
I also want to recognize my biggest champion in this race, and that's Debbie Stabenow, Senator Debbie Stabenow.
She is the definition of pure Michigan.
She has quite literally dedicated her life to serving the state at the local, state, and federal level.
She's been in service for 50 state years, 50 straight years.
And as the first woman ever elected at the federal level for the state of Michigan, I owe her a huge debt of gratitude that I can never repay.
And women of Michigan cannot repay.
She put up with an enormous amount of crap.
Enormous.
So, we always knew that this was going to be a tight race, and that is exactly what we are seeing unfold in front of us.
There are a lot of votes left to count.
This happens in every single election.
I've had three tough elections, and we're here till the wee hours of the night.
So, my message to you all is to get some rest, hunker down.
We've got a long way to go.
But I want to talk for a moment about where we are in general and where we go from here.
Michigan is a big, diverse, beautiful place that has given so much opportunity to so many people, and that is something that we should all be deeply proud of.
If you can do big things in Michigan, you can do big things in the whole country because we are a microcosm of the country here.
We are home to Democrats, Republicans, and Independents, and everything in between, and that's not going to change anytime soon.
We are on this boat together.
It has been a very long, very heated campaign, but over the next few days, the results will come into focus, and the task before us will be to come together, to reach out to people we may not always agree with, to focus on our future as a state and as a country.
Because no matter how passionately we disagree, first and foremost, we are Michiganders.
We are all Michiganders, we are all Americans, and we got to move forward together.
We're all in this boat together.
We have had difficult periods in our history before, right?
We all know that our politics have been really divisive for a good better part of seven or eight years.
But it is not the only time that we have had tough, divisive periods in our history, right?
If you go back through history, you can see these chapters one after another where Americans were fighting each other, were frustrated with each other, were tense with each other, and it was right that people said to themselves, How will we go on as a nation?
But every single time we have gotten through those periods with two things: engaged citizens and principled leaders.
Every single time in our history, we've had citizens who just do a little bit more than they're used to doing because they're concerned about their country, and then you've had principled leaders ready to receive the ball and do something about it.
Just by being here, so many of you have worked so hard in order to help our state, the country you love.
You are engaged citizens, and I thank you for that.
And I will do everything in my power to be the principled leader you deserve, whatever the results of the election tonight.
So, thank you for your time, for your energy.
Get some sleep, try to process through.
Don't just scroll and scroll and scroll.
Like, we're gonna know tomorrow on a whole bunch of things, but for now, I cannot tell you how much I appreciate you.
It has been the greatest honor of my life to be the nominee for U.S. Senate in the state of Michigan, the state I love.
And I cannot tell you how positively I feel no matter what happens about the future of our country.
Because I've seen people step up, I've seen people operate, I've seen them take a hold and just do something with that energy.
So, thank you, thank you, thank you.
To be continued, and I appreciate every one of you.
Thanks so much.
Thanks, everybody.
And that's Congresswoman Alyssa Slotkin in Detroit speaking to supporters.
It's kind of a speech we've heard a lot tonight, which is: we don't know what the results are going to be, and we will be back in touch.
We have heard also that Kamala Harris will not be speaking in D.C. tonight.
Cedric Richmond will be speaking in her place.
Congressman Richmond, former Congressman Richmond, is part of the DNC.
He was part of the Biden White House as well.
And he'll be speaking for her, but we will not be hearing from Kamala Harris tonight at Howard University in Washington, D.C. David McCormick of Pennsylvania is coming out in just a minute, and we will go live to that.
But in the meantime, let's go live to Greta Bronner.
Let's check in on the battleground states, Peter, before we do that.
In the state of Wisconsin, watching this one closely because you can see the former president in the lead, and it's still close, 82% of the vote in.
We'll see what happens when more of the vote comes in throughout the night.
Then we'll go to Michigan and the former president leading here, 52 to 46%, 55% of the vote in.
You just heard Alyssa Slotkin say, we're not going to know anything in her race, likely not know the outcome of the presidential race in Michigan either tonight.
Moving on to Pennsylvania, the Keystone state, the biggest electoral vote prize here.
And again, the former president leading there, 51 to 48, 86% of the vote in.
We told you earlier that one of these battleground states was called North Carolina being called for the former president there.
And he will get those 16 electoral votes.
Too close to call in the other six battleground states.
And in Georgia, look where it stands right now, 16 electoral votes, nearly all the vote in, 93%.
And the former president still retains his lead there.
Let's look at Arizona.
The former president leading there just slightly in Arizona, less than a percentage point, 51% of the vote in.
Let's talk a little bit about these battleground states from reporters in those states.
Beginning with Jonathan Martin, just focusing on Pennsylvania here, he put this on X a little after midnight.
Bellwether, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, in Lehigh Valley Valley, Biden won by a hair.
Harris is down five points with 90% of the vote in.
And then this is from the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Again, around midnight, former President Donald Trump is exceeding his 2020 vote shares in rural and Rust Belt areas across Pennsylvania.
Trump has improved on his 2020 vote share in 35 of the 36 counties with 95% or more of the vote counted as of 11 p.m. Eastern Time.
If you want to dig into these counties in Pennsylvania, go to our website, cspan.org slash results.
Click on the state that you want to focus on.
It will bring it up and you'll be able to see the votes being tabulated in real time in these counties.
Peter?
To add to what Greta said, that QR code in the far left corner of your screen, just put your phone at that and that'll take you right to that results.
This map is in real time.
It's pretty fantastic if you'd like to track this type of stuff.
Cedric Richmond is due to speak for Kamala Harris shortly at Howard University.
So we will be going live to that once that happens.
In the meantime, we want to hear your voices as well.
Melinda in Salita, California, how is today for you and how'd you vote?
Well, it's looking positive when I see some of these results.
I voted for Trump.
And my purpose for calling in is to mention a few things in Response to some comments I've heard at least four people made today in reference to Trump.
I wanted to clear those up, but I first wanted to, I think the gentleman with you is named Evan, is that right?
Evan McMorris Santoro of Notice, N-O-T-U-S.org.
He had to leave.
And unfortunately, so we had to say goodbye to Evan.
And so that's the situation.
Well, I just wanted to compliment him on or thank him for his comment about Trump's mental stability as far as his aging, because so many times people judge people simply by age.
And I have to say that my mother was 95 and a half and still had all of her mental faculties when she passed away from other circumstances.
So Melinda, why are you showing Chronicle?
Why are you a supporter of President Trump?
I supporter because I believe in a lot of his tactics as far as dealings with foreigners.
I know that I wanted to comment and reply to a statement made by a gentleman earlier today about that man worrying about how he befriends he.
And we're going to leave it right there.
Melinda, I apologize.
Cedric Richmond, live at Howard University for Kamala Harris.
Good evening, HU.
I want to say good evening to all of the Harris campaign, the campaign family.
Thank you for all that you have done.
Thank you for being here.
Thank you for believing in the promise of America.
We still have votes to count.
We still have states that have not been called yet.
We will continue overnight to fight to make sure that every vote is counted, that every voice has spoken.
So you won't hear from the vice president tonight, but you will hear from her tomorrow.
She will be back here tomorrow to address not only the HU family, not only to address her supporters, but to address the nation.
So thank you.
We believe in you.
May God bless you.
May God keep you.
And go HU and go Harris.
Thank you all.
And that was former Congressman Cedric Richmond of Louisiana on behalf of the Harris campaign.
You heard what he had to say about Harris, about Kamala Harris not coming out tonight to speak to the audience.
We have not heard yet from West Palm Beach, which is the Trump Vance headquarters down there.
Once we do, we will go live.
There's a live picture of West Palm Beach Convention Center.
Let's go back to your voices.
Matt is in New York State in Canada.
Matt, help me with the name of your city, please.
Hello.
Yeah, so my name is Matt Bolo.
I'm calling from New York right now, even though I lived in Alaska for a while.
I've called him Peace Command before.
I'm a professional musician who travels around the country and I work with the Vermin Supreme campaign.
And for people who don't know, Vermin Supreme is the guy who wears like the boot on his head and goes around.
We meet him every four years in New Hampshire.
Okay, yeah.
So I played concerts with him.
I played piano in the background with him and stuff.
And he paid me about $3.
But the bigger issue right now going on right now is like the divisiveness of this country because I'm an Eagle Scout and I care about America.
And the ridiculous ridiculousness of politics right now and stuff is basically through Donald Trump and the internet and everything else.
And the best way to overthrow American democracy is by voting for the most illegitimate candidate and promoting the most illegitimate candidate, which turned out to be Donald Trump.
Even though Vermin Supreme took blame for, you know, paving the way for like mean candidates and all sorts of stuff.
Hey, Matt, thanks for checking in with us.
We appreciate it.
Greta Bronner, what do you got for us?
We want to check in on some competitive house races beginning with Michigan's seventh district.
This is Representative Alyssa Slotkin's district.
She's running for Senate, as you all know.
Democrat Curtis Hurdle and Republican Tom Barrett, both former state senators, are running to replace her.
And you can see with 68% of the vote in, Republicans have a lead at this point.
If that holds, this could be a pickup for Republicans.
And then let's go to Michigan's eighth congressional district.
This is a key to expanding the GOP majority.
This is Representative Dan Kildie's seat, who opted to retire.
You can see the Democrat is in the lead there narrowly, though, 33% of the vote in.
Finally, a third race we want to keep an eye on tonight.
This is another potential Democratic pickup in Wisconsin's third congressional district.
However, you can see the Republican incumbent, Derek Van Orden, has a lead over Democrat Rebecca Cook with 93% of the vote in.
Peter?
In about 12 minutes, the polls close in the state of Alaska.
And there is a house race there.
Mary Peltola is the current congresswoman from Alaska.
She's a Democrat.
There is ranked choice voting up there as well.
Nick Begich is the Republican nominee.
So that seat could very well be very well important to the control of the U.S. House of Representatives.
And whether the Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries stands for Speaker or Mike Johnson or another Republican stands for Speaker.
Next call to hear your voices is Chris in St. George, Utah.
Chris, good morning or good evening to you.
Yeah, good evening.
How are you?
How are you?
What's on your mind, Chris?
Yeah, I voted for Donald Trump tonight.
And I'm in St. George, Utah.
So pretty obvious who's going to win here, but there's a lot of downcast votes that we're hoping are going to go in our favor as well.
What do you mean downcast votes in your favor?
Well, just House and Senate, and then just a lot of our county elections as well.
Oh, did some Democrats pick up seats in the county?
Not in our county right now.
They're still, our county is one of the last ones to report, so we're still waiting on what's happening here.
But just over the years, we've been a little bit leaning left in a lot of our elections.
So we're hoping that we can get a little bit of a better Chris.
You have a new governor and a new senator in Utah, don't you?
Yeah, Governor Cox is this is his second term running.
So personally, not my favorite first pick for governor, but he's, you know, he's Republican in name, I guess.
And who's the new senator from Utah?
Celeste Malloy.
And she's been pretty good.
A few things that I personally disagree with, but she's been pretty good.
She represents the southern portion of the state, which is where I'm from.
And so hopefully this next term for her will be positive.
That's Chris in St. George, Utah.
I think he was speaking about a state senator.
I'm not the new national senator for Utah, which we'll get the name of for you.
Angel in Union City, New Jersey.
Hi, Angel.
You guys, hello?
Can you hear me?
We're listening.
Please go ahead.
All right.
So, you know, before I start, I just want to say thank you for doing the reporting until like 3 a.m.
That's really amazing.
But anyways, I've been watching and keeping track of the election since morning in the afternoon for an assignment for my EP government class.
And I'm a newly registered voter.
And I had a conversation with my professor, Melissia, recently.
And right now I'm doing an assignment from C-SPAN classroom.
And I'm glad of my decision for supporting Kamala because she has great views on abortion rights.
And I believe that women in the country should have a choice on their body as well as with their tax plan.
Because with Trump, he only cares about the wealthy.
And it's time for to make history in the U.S. with Kamala.
Angel, where do you go to school?
Who is your professor?
I go to Jose Marty STEM Academy, and my teacher is Matthew Melissia.
Is that a high school?
Yes.
Is it in Union City?
Yes.
And what exactly was the assignment?
Right now we have to take notes on the entire election.
So it's like a title of the assignment, 2024 Election Night, What to Expect.
We've been looking at previous elections, learning about the different swing states, especially the swing states, because there's a focus on Pennsylvania right now because it's pretty much the deciding factor in the election.
Okay.
What have you learned watching election night tonight on C-SPAN?
Definitely about how there is a blue shift and a red mirage and vice versa.
How at first, you know, there can, you know, it could be leaning toward one party, but then, you know, after time passes, it switches to another.
And that's like really important since Harris is at 220 and Trump is at 230 right now.
Have you looked at c-span.org/slash results on your computer or your phone?
Yes, I'm looking at it right now.
Have you used the map?
Yes.
What do you think?
I think it's very amazing.
I like how you guys show how the districts are voting and it provides a lot of insight.
Angel, we really appreciate you watching C-SPAN.
Please tell your teacher, thanks for her assignment, and keep up the good work.
Credit for honor.
The Associated Press earlier tonight calling the U.S. Senate for Republicans.
That party will seize control of the upper chamber for the first time in four years.
The Democrats had a less favorable map.
They had to defend 23 seats while Republicans were defending 11.
There were, though, a number of safe incumbent Senate seats, and we want to go through them right now.
Let's start with the state of Connecticut.
Senator Chris Murphy running for a third term.
He has the check mark next to his name tonight.
Hawaii, there, Maisie Harano running for a third term, and she will do so when the next Senate convenes here in January.
In Massachusetts, Elizabeth Warren asking for a third term, and she gets one from the voters in Massachusetts tonight.
And then in Minnesota, Amy Klobuchar is declared the victor there.
Moving on to the state of New York, Kirsten Gillibrand, she will serve a fourth term in the U.S. Senate.
And then in Rhode Island, Sheldon White House, he will be serving a fourth term as well in the U.S. Senate.
And let's look at the state of Maine.
Angus King is an independent.
He caucuses with the Democrats.
With 47% of the vote in, he has a sizable lead this has not been called yet.
Peter?
Let's go to Pennsylvania.
David McCormick, the Republican nominee for Senate, has just started speaking live.
We have no idea what he's going to say.
We've got to do it.
And listen, this election night's not quite over, but about 85% of the vote is in.
And we've looked at where all the rest of it coming in.
And it looks like we're headed in a very good direction.
And listen, when we started this, Dina and I looked at the country.
We feel like we've been blessed by everything America has to offer.
Two of the luckiest people in the world.
But that opportunity, that American dream is slipping away.
And we got to get it back for every single Pennsylvanian and every single American.
And we need new leadership.
We need new leadership in the Senate to make sure that every single kid in Pennsylvania has the opportunity to be all that they can be, regardless of party, race, creed.
We need to create opportunity for every single person.
We need to create an economy that works for everybody.
We need to secure our border.
We need to have energy policy that protects the environment but also makes us secure and creates great jobs.
The bottom line is we need leadership.
We don't have it and we're going to get it.
And so, listen, in the coming days, the election results will be finalized.
And when they are, we will look forward to a new agenda, a new America.
And we'll look back on this day today and we'll say that was the day that we turned the corner.
That was the day that we had new leadership in Pennsylvania.
That was the day that we got our country back on track.
And, you know, some of you know, I think most of you probably know, I had the opportunity to go to West Point, and my brother went to West Point, and my mom and dad went with us to West Point for eight years in a row.
And they hadn't come back for 35 years.
And we took them back last fall.
Yeah, with Dina's parents as well.
And we walked past the MacArthur statue.
And it has a very famous speech etched in granite.
And the speech says, duty on our country.
Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems little cause for faith, and to create hope when hope becomes forlorn.
And that makes sense to me because this is a moment where we don't have enough leaders showing courage.
This is a moment where Americans are losing faith.
This isn't a moment where America is losing hope, but we can turn that page.
We can look forward.
We can have an America that works for everybody.
It starts now.
It starts with this election.
It starts right here in Pennsylvania.
And so, from the bottom of our hearts, we have been so honored to campaign across Pennsylvania.
450 visits in every little town and every city.
And the people we've met along the way have given us hope.
They've given us faith.
They've given us courage to want to represent and serve the great people of our Commonwealth.
It'll be the honor of our lifetimes.
Thank you very much.
McCormick in Pittsburgh, not declaring victory, but speaking to his supporters.
Bob Casey, the incumbent senator, we have heard is not coming out to speak to his supporters tonight.
So we will not be hearing, we don't think, from Bob Casey.
But we will be hearing from Greta Broner.
As the Secretary of State in Georgia predicted, Georgia is red tonight.
The former president winning this state 50.9% to 48.4%.
So put those 16 Electoral College votes under the former president.
You can see on the side of your screen, we're keeping tabs on the Electoral College count tonight.
One of these candidates needs to get to 270 to be declared the victor of the White House.
Peter?
Let's return to your calls and your voices and your thoughts.
And we're going to talk to John in Washington, D.C. John, good evening.
What do you think about election night tonight?
Good evening.
Thank you for the work that you do.
My roommate and I love to call or watch D-SPAM.
We tuned into the RNC and the DNC.
Election night, what am I thinking?
I didn't vote this year.
I am so I'm just kind of watching the results thumb in and biting my nails.
Why did you not vote this year?
I believe that a democracy should be a contest for votes.
And in 2020, I voted for Joe Biden.
I held my breath.
And with the foreign policy of the current government and the genocide in Gaza, I wasn't comfortable to vote for Kamala Harris.
Who would you like to have seen run for president?
I supported Bernie Sanders in 2020.
I would have supported him in 2016 if I were able to vote.
I think that our system is unfortunate in the way that it's designed, kind of the power of money in our politics, the entrenchment of elites.
I understand it's kind of hard to deal with what's politically pragmatic and possible.
But still, I think that even with the two-party system, that both sides could have articulated a more humane policy in Gaza.
I think about the smirk of Matthew Miller at the State Department.
I think about the complacence of Jake Sullivan in the White House.
Maybe he's been quiet.
John in Washington, D.C., thanks for watching.
Thanks for calling.
Greta Broner, do you have an update for us?
Yep, on the Keystone State, Peter, let's look at Pennsylvania here.
90% of the votes are in, and Donald Trump is still leading Kamala Harris there.
Cook political report with this update just before 1 a.m. Eastern Time.
Which way will Pennsylvania fall?
Erie County, an iconic bellwether that went Obama, Obama, Trump, Biden has Trump winning by 1.5 points with almost all the vote in.
Go to c-span.org/slash results.
Go to the Pennsylvania, click on the state of Pennsylvania, Erie County, up in the left corner, there it is, and watch this county, Cook Political Report, calling it a bellwether for the state of Pennsylvania.
You can see it's trending red right now.
The Cook political report says this also about Pennsylvania.
The same is true for Northampton County, another historic bellwether, and Trump leads there by five.
Again, go to the map, c-span.org/slash results.
Use the QR code in the lower left hand of your screen to get there, and you can follow along as we continue to watch Pennsylvania.
The Senate has been called for Republicans with Republicans picking up at least two seats in West Virginia and in Ohio, and looking favorable for a couple of other seats for the Republicans.
The House, too early to call.
Who controls that?
The Democrats only needed to pick up four seats to gain control of the House of Representatives.
That's too early to call.
The presidency, of course, also too early to call.
About 20 minutes ago, we heard from Cedric Richmond, who worked on the Harris campaign, said we would not be hearing from Kamala Harris at Howard University tonight, which is where she had her supporters gather, but rather tomorrow morning.
We have not heard anything yet from West Palm Beach Convention Center, where the Trump folks are gathered.
We do know that Mike Johnson, the Speaker, is in his headquarters or his home district of Shreveport.
We know Steve Scalise is in Metairie outside of New Orleans, his home district.
Tom Emmer, the third-ranking Republican in the House, is at the West Palm Beach Party.
Hakeem Jeffries is in his home in New York.
Catherine Clark, the second-ranking Democrat, is in D.C. Pete Aguilar is out in California, the third-ranking Democrat in the House.
So that's where the House leadership is right now on election night.
But that could change depending on who may or may not win.
Brian and Des Moines, thanks for holding on.
Iowa got a lot of news this past week.
Brian, what'd you think of that?
Oh, it's been a lot.
I'm glad it's coming to an end finally.
I'm glad it's looking like Trump's going to be the next president.
You know, we're finally getting to the end of the runway here.
Brian, did you see where the poll by the Des Moines Register came out and had Kamala Harris ahead by three points?
Yeah, I did.
I didn't really put any weight into it.
Most of us, average working class out here, is where it's going to fall.
That's just going to be around the main cities, Des Moines, and that kind of stuff.
Yeah, we, according to the AP results, which are on our website at c-span.org, results, 56% to 42%.
That's a 14-point victory for Donald Trump in Des Moines.
That's 94% of the vote counted.
Brian, what makes you call C-SPAN tonight?
What motivated you to call in here and voice your opinion?
Mostly it's so everybody cares about every little word, and nobody's really putting the time or looking into the track record of these candidates.
We're not hiring people to be nice.
We're hiring people to take care of us, American citizens.
In three and a half years, I haven't seen much from Kamala.
But Trump, every time I turn around, when you look at his actual policy and what he does, it seems like he's got the homeland in his sights all the time.
So, I mean, if he could stay off social media, he'd probably be liked a little bit more.
But he's still doing the best he can for the majority and not focusing on the minority, like the small groups the Democrats want to pick.
Brian, what do you do in Des Moines?
I run a service center in the automotive.
Oh, thanks.
Appreciate you calling in.
Let's go back to Greta Bronner.
We'll check in on those competitive Senate races beginning in Pennsylvania.
Want to show you where the vote stands now: 90% in.
And look how tight this is between Dave McCormick and Democratic Senator Bob Casey, the incumbent there.
Moving on to Michigan, and you heard Alyssa Slotkin say we won't know anything tonight in this race.
60% of the vote is in Mike Rogers with a lead there.
And then in Wisconsin, Tammy Baldwin, the incumbent Democratic senator, seeking a third term versus Eric Hovedy, the Republican.
And he, the Republican challenger, is in the lead with 86% of the vote in.
Checking across the country in Arizona for this open Senate seat when Independent Kirsten Sinema decided not to seek reelection.
50% of the vote in Ruben Gallago holding on to his lead over Kerry Lake.
And then Montana, this Senate race, folks have been watching this to see what happens with incumbent Senator John Tester, who typically has tight races.
You can see he is trailing tonight by nearly 15 percentage points.
There's only 20 percent of the vote in, so we'll keep an eye on that one.
In Nevada, this is another race that we're watching.
There is 74% of the vote in.
Jackie Rosen seeking a second term here, facing off against Army veteran Sam Brown.
The total spending in this race, over nearly almost $200 million.
Rosen won by five points in 2018 in her first bid for the Senate.
Look how close this is with 74% of the vote in.
And then let's end with New Jersey's open Senate seat.
This was called earlier tonight.
This was the contest for the seat after Senator Bob Menendez opted not to run after being indicted on federal corruption charges.
He ultimately resigned after being convicted.
This seat stays with Democrats.
Peter?
We'll check in with Greta Bronner in just a few minutes.
Greta talked about the new senator-elect from New Jersey, Andy Kim.
Well, he spoke to the supporters a few minutes ago.
Here it is.
I can't tell you how incredible this is.
I'm having a hard time processing this moment right now.
I'll be honest with you.
There have been only a few moments in my life where I've felt the weight of the moment as I do right now.
Like a gravity generated by the magnitude of the consequence in our country.
It isn't about me.
It is about this moment in America and what we each individually tried to do to meet that moment.
I look out in this room and I can tell you I see so many people from all different moments of my life.
You are here in this room because in one way or another you have touched my life.
You have helped me in ways I may never fully be able to express to all of you.
whether i met you in elementary school or on the campaign trail i want to start by saying thank you start with my congressional team
For the last six years, we've served the 3rd Congressional District and I hope that we have made the people of the 3rd Congressional District proud of the work that we've done.
We have a team of incredible public servants of all different ages, everyone working together, many of them here.
And I just have to say how proud I am of that team.
To my campaign team, who carried out our message of change going forward, I know that many of you took risks to join this campaign.
You had people doubt your choice to join this campaign.
You worked long hours and struggled and stressed about the challenges we confronted.
I hope you take pride in this moment.
Whoever says young people don't care about politics haven't met the young people that are the engine, power.
And to our supporters, look what we've accomplished.
Look what we've been in.
By most standards of what is possible, this moment right now should not be occurring.
A year ago, six years ago, few believed we could show what we could accomplish.
That we showed that politics isn't some exclusive club just for the well-off and the well-connected.
That we built something that epitomizes the grassroots.
I hope this experience has brought you closer to understanding the essence of our democracy, that you have a deeper understanding of what it means to be a citizen of this great country, and that you feel empowered by that.
You heard me say this line a lot, and I'll say it again tonight, that I believe that the opposite of democracy is apathy.
And by extension, I hope that you see our campaign as a means of being the opposite of that helplessness.
I hope this moment is every bit as meaningful for you as it is for me.
I want to say thank you to my family.
My parents and my sister are here, who gave me the grounding in service and purpose that powers me every day.
To my wife, Cammie, Cammie, look what we've accomplished.
Look what we've done for them, right?
I'm just so proud of our family and what we've been able to do, our humble family, be able to take this kind of action.
To my boys, I'm proud of the two of you.
I know that this has been tough.
I know it hasn't been easy.
And I know there have been moments where I haven't always been there for you the way that I wish I was as a father.
But I hope you're proud of me.
And I hope that when you learn about this moment in America, that you come to understand why I did what I did and why I fight for you.
I chose this hotel for a particular reason.
37 years ago, when I was five years old, my family and I lived out of this hotel for several weeks when we first moved to New Jersey.
My first nights in the state were right here in this hotel.
My dad had just accepted a job, his very first job ever, working at a lab in Camden to do cancer research.
And we were looking for a home for us to rent.
My very first nights, as I said, were here, and some of the strongest memories I have ever had in my life, early hard moments in my life, were here.
I remember staying here.
I remember there's a restaurant here.
I think it was called Circles.
I can't remember, but I just remember feeling like the food was amazing.
I was like, people in New Jersey live good here.
Quality of the food, high class, I felt like a prince.
And I just have to say, I wanted to be here tonight in this hotel.
I wanted to pay tribute to my parents, to my family, to the state, for giving a kid like me a chance to be on the dream, for giving me the tools through public education and a kind community.
It wasn't easy initially.
We had no family to lean on here, no friends to help us get started, but New Jersey welcomed us.
I wanted to return here tonight to give perspective.
For my parents, this hotel was an important step in achieving the American dream, and then they'll ultimately give them back to this state.
My parents taught me something I'll never forget.
They taught me to love America.
I revere this country.
I am in awe of America.
When I worked at the White House, I've shared this story before, when I worked at the White House, I had a pair of black pristine leather shoes that I would only wear whenever I was asked to go into the Oval Office.
I wanted to treat that room different.
I wanted to remind myself that I'm part of something bigger than all of us.
And it's because of my reverence for this nation that it also pains me to our core to see the struggles that we are going through.
That we aren't just having policy debates and fights, but instead the very foundation of our democracy is render tragedy.
People tell me they simply didn't trust their public servants.
They simply didn't trust that the politics was working for them.
That they didn't think that the big challenges we face in our family and as a state are solvable because they thought nobody was looking out for them.
While we know what happened in our race, I certainly recognize right now that we are at a moment of profound anxiety about what comes next for our country.
That the coming minutes and hours and days could very well be excruciating.
But regardless of what happens next, we need to recognize that we face significant challenge regardless of the outcome.
That the divisions we face are deep to the boat.
They will not be fixed by any single election.
And it isn't just about the politics.
We live in a time of the greatest amount of inequality in our nation's history too.
In Salem, I visited a public housing complex and talked to a mother who showed me the black mold growing on her home on the walls where her kids live.
She told me about her pleas for help that did not go answered.
I heard from a young man who felt so pessimistic about his life, he said to me that he didn't think that he could ever afford to buy a home in this state because of the high cost as well as a high student loan burden that he was facing.
Regardless of what the final results are from this election, our nation is on an unsustainable trajectory.
But let there be no doubt that this is a new era of politics rising.
The same old, same old is dumb.
And we've shown New Jersey that there's a better way.
We've shown the country that there's a better way to be able to do this.
It can mean a politics that lifts people up, that gives people hope, that delivers for everyone.
It could mean a politics that changes the trajectory of our nation and builds a brighter future.
I'd like to put forward a challenge to us all.
In a little over a year, we're going to be celebrating our 250th anniversary as a nation, as a democracy.
Let us use that extraordinary milestone as a moment of healing.
Let us change this trajectory that we find ourselves on.
In the same way that I reflect on my family start in this very hotel, let us reflect upon the first principles of our nation and put forward a renewed vision.
Let us use the 250th anniversary to be a reminder of the greatness of America.
That the greatness of America is not what we take from this country, but what we give back.
It is what we pass down as I look to my parents and as I looked to my two boys, the hope I give for the same opportunities and the certainty that my parents gave us when we first came to this hotel nearly 40 years ago.
That we should use the 250th anniversary to make major investments in our country and our democracy, like supercharging civics education, like building a national service program, investing in civic organizations and community groups about rebuilding the architecture of community that has decayed in our nation with the goal of breathing new life into a meaning of patriotism.
This challenge is a reminder that today, that Election Day is the starting line, not the finish line.
What we built isn't just a campaign.
We have built a movement.
A movement to fix broken politics.
A movement that does not end with the election tonight, but it does not diminish with the votes ending.
It's a movement that helps our nation heal by reminding us that we have more in common than what separates us.
It's one that can put service at the center of our citizenship, giving everyone a chance to give back and be part of something bigger.
It's one that can lift up the knowledge of our citizenry to ensure we are informed to make decisions and also remind people that public service is something we should be proud of, aspire to, and not diminish.
Not showing Americans that being patriotic means looking out for one another.
Not tearing each other down or attacking our democratic institutions.
I approach this moment with the utmost humility as I prepare to take on this job, a job that only 2,000 Americans in the history of this country have ever had the honor to do.
Out of approximately 600 million people who have ever been called Americans, to be able to step up and have this opportunity.
Of the over 120 years of Koreans being in America, that I can add a chapter that hasn't been written before.
And I understand that I will not be perfect, that I will stumble, and I will struggle at times.
But I assure you I will give this everything I got, and I will try and serve with honor and integrity.
I promise you I will not lose myself along the way.
I will anchor myself in the deep sense of public service that has guided me all these years.
I won't let the job change me.
Instead, I will work to change the job to be able to better fulfill what the people in America can serve.
The change and broken politics that have decayed our nation.
And I hope to represent everyone in this state.
Whether you voted for me or not, I serve you.
And I hope to bring back meaning to that phrase, public service.
The way I see it is I am now dedicating the rest of my service to this nation to address one singular question, which is how do we heal this country?
I do this for my boys, for Austin and August, who deserve more than I can ever create.
We do this for your kids and your grandkids, because what is the point of our time on this planet if we take more than we give?
I thank you not just for being with me on this journey, but for being with me on the journey ahead.
What started in living rooms in Burlington and Ocean Counties and grew into convention halls and mammas and other things.
We have become the strongest grassroots mobilization New Jersey has ever seen.
And from a movement that nobody believed would win to one that is bringing my voice, your voice, to the highest levels of our great democracy, I just have to say how incredible of an experience that this is.
And I want to ask you, are you proud of what we built?
Do you believe in the change that we can build?
And are you ready to keep fighting for our country?
And I thank you from the bottom of my heart for this incredible honor, for this Jersey kid who never thought he'd be able to say this, that I am your next United States senator.
And that was Congressman Andy Kim, who is now senator-elect from the state of New Jersey, replacing Bob Menendez.
In just a few minutes, we expect President Trump to come out and address supporters in West Palm Beach, Florida.
That's a live picture of the convention center there and the crowd.
Of course, we'll bring that to you live as soon as that happens.
In the meantime, while we're waiting, let's talk with Greta Broner.
An update on the presidential contest.
The Associated Press calling the state of New Hampshire for Kamala Harris.
She picks up four electoral college votes from the state of New Hampshire tonight.
Peter?
Back to your phone calls.
Adrian, Denver.
What's on your mind tonight, Adrian?
Hey, how's it going?
I just wanted to call because it seems like I'm hearing a lot of voters give their reasons for voting for a candidate.
And the reasons that they're giving are misinformation or just distorted, outright lies, you know?
Can you give an example, Adrian?
Yeah, there was a gentleman that said that he was under the impression that the Biden administration had limited domestic oil production when the Biden administration actually boosted domestic oil production to record levels.
And it seems like there's a disconnect with reality happening here in the electorate.
Adrian, did you vote for Vice President Harris?
I did.
And for what reason?
There's a laundry list of reasons, but I guess the most important one is that her campaign is based on presenting facts.
And I think that supporting Ukraine is of utmost importance.
I think that protecting the rights of women to make their own reproductive health decisions is of utmost importance.
And obviously, climate change is a real thing.
It affects everybody.
It doesn't discriminate.
And she has a sound policy on that.
Adrian and Denver, thanks for calling in and thanks for watching C-SPAN on this election night.
We're going to go back to the hotline.
Kirk Beto is the editor-in-chief there.
He has been with us throughout the evening, reporting on some of the Senate and House races.
Kirk, we appreciate your staying up late with us.
We want to talk about some of the House races in California, beginning with District 13.
Yeah, Peter, it looks like District 13 right now.
It's about 50% of the vote is in right now.
John Duarte is losing right now.
He's the Republican representative in that seat.
He's the most vulnerable member of the California delegation.
We're probably gonna have to wait a little bit longer because of how California counts its votes here right now.
But it's not looking great for him and the first batch of votes coming in.
Now, what we're seeing here is this cross-current of narratives right now.
As we were talking earlier tonight, Harris might be dragging down House members, and that could still be true.
We're watching those races in Michigan pretty closely right now, where House Democrats are struggling.
But we could be on the precipice of a triple flip right now where Trump wins the White House, Republicans flip the Senate, which they already have according to AP, and Democrats flip the House.
This is an almost unheard of scenario here where we have a triple flip in one election cycle.
Now, you said John Tuarte is the most endangered incumbent in the California Republican delegation.
Why is that?
Where is the 13th district?
It's in the Central Valley.
It's a little bit of a bluer district than some of the other ones we've seen.
He's a first-time, he's a freshman representative.
He's been out-raised and out-spent in this race.
And Democrats made it a real priority to flip this seat, and they see it as crucial on their path back to the majority.
So, again, this is one of those seats where if, you know, for example, Kevin McCarthy was still Speaker, still out there fundraising with his close ally over here in California, in the Central Valley area, it might have been a little bit better protected, a little bit better funded by national groups.
But Democrats came in really hard and heavy here and have made it a top priority to flip.
Do you know offhand who took Kevin McCarthy's seat and whether or not that seat is still Republican?
It is definitely still Republicans.
A safe Republican seat.
The name of the member escapes me right now, but that is a safe Republican seat.
Well, down in Southern California, the dean of the Republican delegation in California, Ken Calvert, who served several terms.
What's his status?
Ken Calvert is leading in the early votes right now, which puts him in a strong position to hold on to that seat.
Right now, he was always a little bit more of a reach for Democrats right now as we entered into election night.
And the early returns are pretty favorable for him.
So, again, way too early to make a decision, make a call either way.
But I'd rather be Ken Calvert right now.
Hey, Kirk Beto, we just showed a graphic with his race.
You said he is leading.
The graphic we showed had him behind Will Rollins, the Democrat.
Well, I must have been looking at some little outdated data before I jumped on here.
But if Will Rollins is leading right now, he should be again, Ken Calvert is going to be a tough out either way.
I mean, this is a district where Democrats have been fundraising pretty well in there.
They have been on air in that very expensive media market.
But I still think it will be a little bit more of a reach, even if the early returns right now are showing Will Rollins up.
And that's 60% of the vote is in the Ken Calvert race.
Another Southern California seat, Orange County, Michelle Steele.
Where does she stand?
Right.
Derek Tran, I believe, is leading.
Last time I looked at the returns right now, and that's a race, again, where it's come online pretty late here.
We were talking to some Republican sources here before we jumped on, where they are very concerned about that race right now.
It's not trending in the same direction that you see some of these other more competitive races in the Midwest, like in Michigan or in Pennsylvania, that look like they're returning going into Republicans' favor.
This might be one of the rare bright spots for House Democrats right now, knocking off a very well-funded incumbent.
But it's those races in the Midwest right now that are really concerning, at least in terms of overall control of the House.
And Michelle Steele is behind about a point with 60% of the vote in.
Want to get an update on two Pennsylvania seats as well, Pennsylvania 7 and Pennsylvania 8.
That's the Matt Cartwright seat up in Scranton and Susan Wilde in the Lehigh Valley there.
Those are kind of must-win seats for Democrats.
Last time I looked, they were trailing ever so slightly to their Republican opponents.
Again, those are must-win seats for Democrats.
And I think those are the areas where you see Harris's underperformance really drag down those members.
Again, these are areas that Biden really ran up the score on Trump, or at least made it close in the case of Cartwright's district.
Trump carried that Scranton area seat.
But it's those type of white working class areas, a little bit lower education level, that Biden clearly outperforms Harrison and that have been primed almost to break for Trump.
And as we've seen throughout the night, those areas are breaking pretty heavily for Trump.
And Harris might drag down Cartwright and Wilde.
Kirk Beto, as of right now, 1.30 a.m. on the East Coast, who's going to control the House of Representatives?
It's a tighter than a coin flip right now in terms of the House.
But if the trend that we're seeing right now at the top of the ticket with Harris underperforming, I would almost want to be Republicans right now.
It might be a smaller majority than this about four or five seat majority that they have right now.
But if the national trends hold, which they tend to do in the House, then I would probably favor Republicans right now.
But we could also almost just as easily be in a scenario we get that triple flip where the Senate flips, the White House flips, and the House flips.
If the Republicans maintain control of the House, is Mike Johnson the Speaker in the next Congress?
I think he will be still the Speaker.
I mean, he's been barnstorming all around.
He's been fundraising, going out there, getting out on the trail with his members.
Now, a narrow majority makes it a lot more difficult, but Johnson's been doing everything in his power to court Trump as a powerful ally.
And in a narrow House where Trump's voice, especially from the White House, is very, very powerful.
If he gets that Trump endorsement, it's hard to imagine a world where he is not the Speaker if he wants it.
In the lower 48, the states that have not been called yet for either Vice President Harris or President Trump, Maine, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, along with Arizona and Nevada.
So we still have five battleground states outstanding, plus Minnesota and Maine.
Alaska has not been called as well.
Hawaii has been called.
So there's the update.
You can find all this information at c-span.org slash results.
You'll find this map there.
You can go into each individual state.
You can go into each individual state and then each individual county.
And you can get real-time results.
These are provided by Associated Press.
And as Greta has told us throughout the night, we do not call the race until Associated Press calls the race.
Let's go back to your phone calls as we await President Trump in West Palm Beach, Virginia, Graysville, Tennessee.
Good morning to you, Virginia.
How was Election Day for you?
Listen, I just want to commend you on the wonderful job that you and your group are doing.
I will be 80 years old in January, and I have never sit and enjoyed an unbiased report that you guys have given.
I am thoroughly impressed with you guys.
And I want you to know that I'm a Trump advocate.
I voted for him every time that he ran.
I think he's a good guy that has been kind of swooshed under the carpet about things sometimes.
He isn't perfect, as most of us aren't.
But, you know, when the man told us that he was going after the bad guys, he did just that and he took them down.
You know, it seems like he never got praised for all the good things that he did, but all of the things that some people didn't approve of, he really got his knuckles beat.
And bless his little heart, he's like me.
You know, when the Lord gave us two ears and one mouth, he was trying to teach us we need to listen more than we speak.
And that's what got him in trouble.
He's a decent person.
There's two things that I got out of this campaign.
I felt like that he supported closing the borders.
And I feel like that V.P. Harris supported abortion and allowing little innocent babies to be murdered.
And Peter, to me, that's what it is.
It's murdering these babies that don't have a choice in the matter.
I'm just proud.
I'm proud to be a Republican.
Virginia, where is Graysville, Tennessee?
And give us a quick biographical sketch of yourself.
Okay.
Do you have any idea where Chattanooga, Tennessee is?
Sure.
Or Knoxville?
Okay.
Both of them.
I'm about 45 miles north of Chattanooga, and we're probably about maybe 100 miles south of Knoxville.
So, okay, I'm going to throw this out to you.
Have you ever heard of Monkey Town?
No, but I've heard of Pigeon Forge.
Okay, we're not far from Pigeon Forge.
That's up next to Knoxville.
But, you know, when Bryan College and the evolution, you know, where we came from?
Sure.
Okay.
1925 Scopes monkey trial.
The monkey trial.
That was held in Dayton, and I'm about five miles south of there.
So that was a big thing in Dayton.
They still have a big thing every year about that.
But I live in a very small town.
It's a town where people care about each other.
You know, you watch out after your neighbor.
And do you know, Peter, I was so sorry for this lady tonight that was a Christian and she'd been a Christian all of her life and she'd gone to seminars and been in church all of her life.
I was so sorry for her that she could bring out all the terrible things that Trump had done, but she never mentioned the sin in the Bible about murder.
And you know, to me.
For Virginia, I apologize.
We're going to have to leave it there.
It's a pleasure to talk to you tonight, and thank you for watching.
Still waiting on President Trump to come out.
He's due to come out shortly.
In the meantime, let's talk with Greta Bronner.
Yeah, before we hear from the president, a quick update on the seven swing states, the former president picking up two of them earlier tonight.
The Associated Press calling the race in Georgia for Donald Trump.
They did so in North Carolina as well earlier tonight.
Let's look at where it stands in the remaining swing states, beginning with Wisconsin.
And with 98%, 88% of the votes in, 10 electors at stake, and you can see the former president with the lead there.
And then in the state of Michigan, with 66% of the vote in, Donald Trump is leading the vice president there as well.
Moving on to the state of Pennsylvania, and this is 19 electoral votes.
This is pivotal here.
We are close.
93% of the vote is in, and the former president leading by three points.
Politico putting out this on X at about 1:34 a.m.
The math isn't great for Harris in Pennsylvania.
There are just 37,000 male ballots left to count in Philadelphia.
And of course, not all of them will be for Harris.
Moving on to the Sunbelt in Arizona, let's look where it stands right now in Arizona.
51% of the vote in and Kamala Harris trailing the former president by one percentage point.
In Nevada, the vote is at 77%, six electoral college votes here, former president leading there as well.
Peter?
And if you want to continue to follow those results in real time, go to cspan.org/slash results or that QR code, point your phone at it, the one you see on your screen, and you'll be able to go right to the same map and you'll be able to get real-time results by presidential race, senate races, and house races as well.
Let's talk with Jill in Los Gatos, California, a Harris supporter.
Hi, Jill.
Hi.
How's election night?
It's good.
It's really scary.
I'm 20 years old.
I'm a female.
And I just want to say I'm truly shocked that our country has gone in this direction, choosing a felon as president or leaning that way at least.
I just don't know how we can look past January 6th when that was an attack on democracy.
It's scary that my mom had more rights at my age than I do now and going forward.
And I'm just really scared for the future of our country.
Jill, you talked about two issues that are important to you: the reproductive rights issue and democracy.
What is it that you do in Los Gatos?
I'm a student.
I'm in college.
And what are you studying?
I'm studying industrial design.
Jill, thanks for watching.
Thanks for calling in.
We appreciate it.
Glad you're with us.
Thank you.
Cade, Anchorage, Alaska.
Hi, Cade.
Hey, how you doing, man?
How are you?
I'm doing well.
I just want to say I voted for Trump and as a convicted felon in Canada, long story.
I voted for Trump mainly because that one point and the fact that as a small business owner in Alaska, I own multiple small businesses.
I've overcome a lot of things.
I own a buffet parlor with an arcade bowling alley and attached haberdashery.
I got my start by a policy Trump actually implemented, helping out the GPAA, the Gold Prospectors Association of America.
Gold panning is a big thing up here, and a lot of rural folk rely on it.
Gold panning only.
That's what we do around here.
That's our motto.
And I want to say that I speak for a lot of Alaskans and rural Alaskans when I say that let's go Trump.
You know, I've been a big part of my life, and I truly hope that our country can come together and support him.
Hey, Cade, ranked choice voting up in Alaska.
Mary Peltola is the current congresswoman.
Nick Begich was the Republican.
How did you vote?
Well, I did not vote for Beltola.
Let me say she voted with Joe Biden 80% of the time, and it's been rough.
Now, in the ranked choice voting, did you put down just one candidate or did you have a backup as well?
I did not have a backup.
I actually, I didn't even vote in state.
I only vote local and presidential because my thing is, is when it comes to state, my vote probably does not matter.
But local, I will say this for everyone on national TV, local politics is what directly affects you.
And that's, I think, the way to vote.
Thanks for calling in from Anchorage, Cade.
We appreciate it.
Thank you so much.
The ticker at the bottom of the screen is going through results and obviously the big races, but also some of the House races.
And if you watch that, you'll see where Marionette Miller-Meeks, the congresswoman from Iowa, who was expected to lose, has now taken a lead in her race.
She's the Republican incumbent, the one who won by six votes in 2020.
But it looks like she has taken the lead, as well as Scott Perry.
Scott Perry is a member of the Freedom Caucus, and he represents the Harrisburg area of Pennsylvania.
And it looks like he has also taken a lead.
You can get those updates at the ticker at the bottom of some of the House races that are still uncalled.
We've learned a lot about what's going on in the Senate.
We know the Republicans are taking that over.
Obviously, we're still waiting on the presidency as well.
We're still waiting on President Trump to come out.
We were told earlier that Kamala Harris will not be speaking at Howard University, where her supporters had gathered tonight, but would be speaking tomorrow, probably.
So that's the update.
Liz is in Salem, Oregon.
Liz, good evening to you.
A couple of key house races out there in Oregon, aren't there?
Yes.
Good evening, Peter.
I just want to say, as somebody who supports community media out here in Oregon, I have always loved C-SPAN.
You guys are true democracy by taking calls from the people of the country.
Nobody else does that.
And I so appreciate that.
You guys are cutting edge.
So thank you, C-SPAN.
And also, thank you for all the crew, the people behind the cameras in the control room, you know, the ones taking the calls.
Fabulous all the way around.
Thank you very much.
Yeah, that was, well, that was very kind of you to call in and say that, Liz.
That was Zaina who answered the phone when you called in.
So she's been answering the phone since 7 o'clock this evening.
So God bless her.
Yes, God bless her.
I agree.
Well, listen, I just wanted to also say thank you for taking my call because I've tried on many other issues.
So I'm glad I broke through tonight.
I voted for Kamala Harris.
I believe that's a hope for our country.
It is wonderful to hear the voices of other people calling in from around the country.
However, I have to say that a convicted felon, a person who is found liable for sexual assault, somebody who is a constant liar, is a vile person who embarrasses the United States on the world stage, who's looking to crush NATO, remove the United States from the World Health Organization,
and who knows what else he's going to do with the United Nations, is not the person who should be in the White House.
It's absolutely unconscious.
I don't even know how to say that word, but it's frightening too.
And the other thing that's frightening is the violence that he happily incites and that his supporters are happy to follow and materialize.
And I can't tell you how many people walk around with guns in our state and other states, and they're only too glad to, you know, as he said the other night about putting a gun in Liz Cheney's face, a lot of his supporters are only too happy to pull a gun on their fellow citizens.
So how are we ever, you know, let's get it together, people.
Let's stop the violence and really try to have a dialogue and come together.
We have to have peace.
Liz and Salem, Oregon.
Thank you for calling in.
It's good to hear from you.
Thank you for your kind words.
Linda is in Fennville, Michigan.
Linda, good evening.
Good evening.
Yeah, I'm calling to say that I'm a lifelong Democrat, but I have had enough of the Democratic Party.
I voted for Joe Biden in the last election, but there's no way I could vote Democrat or Republican anymore, and so I voted for Jill Stein.
What was it about the Democratic Party that dismayed you?
Well, I had been for Bernie Sanders in 2016 and 2020.
And in 2020, especially, I know for, I mean, I'm sure nobody can tell me otherwise that he would have won, he actually would have won the primary.
And I think that they, you know, it was a crooked primary.
And then at this point, both of the parties are controlled by big money, big corporations, and it seems as though they're almost like one party, now a unit party.
And I just can't vote for either.
Well, I never hardly voted Republican.
by big corporate interest.
And they ran Robert Kennedy out of the Democratic Party.
They lied about him on national TV.
And that really didn't make me feel any better about them either.
Oh, I've just and plus the wars, all the wars and the bombing and all the people being killed, the children and babies.
I just can't go along with them anymore.
Linda, Fennville, Michigan.
Pardon me.
Thank you for calling in this evening.
Let's hear from Gary in Pleasanton, California.
Gary, good evening.
What's on your mind?
What made you call in to C-SPAN tonight?
Hey, thanks for calling.
Or thanks for accepting my call.
Really appreciate you guys.
I just want to get your opinion on how the election's going so far.
What do you think about it?
You nervous?
Hopeful?
Are you talking to me?
Yeah.
Well, why don't we hear from you?
Oh, I don't have many comments on the election.
I go to Amador Valley High School in Pleasanton there, Go Dons.
I just want to, you know, call in, represent my class.
It's 2025.
And from Mr. Weaver's class, we all want to say, go Trump.
Okay, Gary, Pleasanton, California.
Mr. Weaver, name the high school again.
Say it a little slower.
Amador Valley High School.
Amador Valley High School.
Is this an assignment to watch election night tonight?
Well, there is optional assignment for credit.
Okay.
Well, you're going to get credit because you got proof that you were watching, I guess.
Yeah, exactly.
I'm going to be on the show.
Well, you're on right now.
You're on TV.
So what have you learned tonight?
What have you learned?
Tonight?
Yeah, watching.
It's pretty interesting to see how over the years the states have switched from Democrat to Republican based off Joe Biden's presidency last year.
Okay.
Just Trump's won most of the swing states already.
Let's be honest.
That's Gary, who is a high school student at Amador Valley High School in Pleasanton, California.
Mr. Weaver, we appreciate your assigning the kids to watch Election Night.
North Beach, Maryland is the home of Tom.
Tom, what's on your mind?
Well, Tom, you're on C-SPAN.
We are listening.
Please go ahead.
I'm sorry, but sure.
You could hear me.
All I wanted to do was thank the three of you for being there tonight to share your insight, your information, and the things that you share.
You're at the pinnacle of mental gymnastics.
I don't know what to call it, because what you do and how you do it well is you listen to everyone while you're there the entire time.
That's an amazing skill.
Thank you.
That's Tom in Maryland, and this is Sharon in Dade City, Florida, a supporter of Kamala Harris.
Sharon, what's on your mind tonight?
Well, I'd just like to say thank you again for taking the calls and good morning.
But it'd be interesting to see the breakdown of the votes, the totals, by gender, because I do believe we are still a sexist country.
And all Donald Trump really had to do was not be a woman, and in particular, not be a woman of color to win.
Because I phone banged and campaigned for Harris, and I can't tell you how many men I talked to that just said they just could not vote for a woman for various reasons, including some of the crazy reasons like they're too emotional or they're not qualified.
She's not qualified enough, which we all know she's more qualified than he is.
He was a failed businessman that ran the country into the ground with his bad handling of COVID and his bad trade deals.
And now he's a convicted felon who's going to do it again.
So I'm just curious to see what's going to happen in 2026 and the midterms when people get a taste of all of his lies coming to fruition.
So that's pretty much all I have to say.
Sharon, thanks for watching.
Thanks for calling in.
Douglas in Fisher, Texas.
Good evening.
Hey, how do you do?
Thanks for taking the call.
Yeah, my name is Walker.
I'm a disabled whole family of veterans.
I've always voted independent by the issue.
And I've always considered voting as thinking of the nation as your house and you're living in the house.
You don't vote for yourself, you vote for the house because whether you prosper or not depends on the house you live in.
You don't want the roof caving in.
And basically, I voted for Trump the first time he ran with trepidation because I realized that his modes of speech and whatnot were not typically what you'd expect from a presidential candidate.
But I looked at the businessman aspect of it.
And the fact is, the United States is a corporation.
Every state's incorporated.
Every city's incorporated.
Every town's incorporated, except for the city I live in.
It was just unincorporated tiny town in Texas.
But there's a lot of people calling in that seem very emotional about it.
And I realize this is a very emotional election, much like the last one.
But a lot of people tend to cast their votes for personal, emotional reasons and not reasons that will make their house stronger, so to speak.
And explain what you mean.
Like there's a lot of people voting for Harris, and the reason they give is women's rights or reproductive issues.
And those are not important issues to you.
Well, it's not that it's not an important issue, but it's a state issue, not a federal issue.
Supreme Court, the Constitution gives states certain power.
Well, it gives the federal government certain powers and everything else falls to the state.
And since it doesn't give anything involving reproductive rights to the federal government, it's obviously a state issue.
And if people don't like the reproductive rights, so to speak, I think the best reproductive right is common sense or keep your legs closed or, you know, just like Douglas in Fisher, Texas.
And Greta Bronner has some new information for us.
Let's check back in on two of the bricks in the so-called blue wall, starting with Pennsylvania and those 19 electoral college votes.
Remember, in 2016, former President Trump won here by over 44,000 votes, became the first GOP presidential candidate to win since 1988.
2020, Biden flipped it, won 50 to 48.8%, over 80,000 votes.
Moving on to Wisconsin, 10 electoral votes at stake here.
Trump won the Badger state by 0.8% or 23,000 votes.
2020, Biden won by 0.6 or 21,000 votes.
That's how close it's been in those two battleground states.
Continue to watch them and we're getting closer here with more of the votes in.
Peter?
And as we know, the Senate will be Republican this year in the next Congress.
The House, still to be determined.
The presidency, still to be determined.
Up next is Chris in Kent, Ohio.
Chris, good evening to you.
How's Election Night trading you?
How are you doing, Peter?
Can you hear me?
Chris, we're listening.
Please go ahead and make your comments.
Okay.
Well, I voted for Harris.
I am absolutely astonished that half the country is willing to vote for ex-President Trump and that he is ahead even in the popular vote.
I'm just absolutely astonished and what that says about half the population of our country.
It just amazes me that half the population is willing to overlook the behavior of this man, who is obviously so uncouth and so out of control,
and is willing to have him represent our country on the world stage, when he's not even someone who they would want their children to behave like.
All right, Chris in Kent, Ohio.
Heather is in Eastland, Texas, a Trump supporter.
Hi, Heather.
Hello, good evening.
Thank you so much.
Thank you for this evening.
And I just wanted to say that this election has been exciting.
I have a daughter in college, microbiology at Texas Tech, who drove three hours with her boyfriend for early voting.
So it's a very exciting election for us.
And a shout out to my sister, my niece in northern Nevada.
That's why I'm up late.
We're waiting for the results to come in.
But I wanted to speak very specifically on two things.
One is COVID.
During COVID, President Trump gave states the ability to make their own decisions.
And under Ted Cruz, Texas was not shut down for the extended period of time that other states were.
In our particular county, we were only out of school for the six weeks, and then our children were back in school.
The children that were out during COVID has dramatically affected their academic careers.
It's a big discussion.
I have a junior in high school, and we talk about the children that are younger, and that time out of school was very challenging.
And we were very fortunate to be in Texas and have the freedom to return to school.
I spent my 20s in software development in Southern California.
I'm a native Nevadan, and my great-grandfather said ranchers were the first environmentalists.
And I relocated to Texas when my children were very young so that I could afford college for them.
The thing that has kept me alive out here in Texas is oil and gas.
I took my software skills and parlayed them into oil and gas.
And as a woman, I wanted to speak on oil and gas.
During COVID, most of the pipeline was shut down.
We were all under lockdown.
Permits were on hold.
Companies were cutting salaries to try and keep employees on staff.
And when things opened back up, we worked as hard and as fast as we could to catch up on lost work that had sat.
Everybody was hungry.
Everybody was desperate to go back to work.
As soon as Biden came into office, he froze all permits in the state of Louisiana.
There was a gentleman earlier that said, well, under Biden, there was more oil than ever.
Well, yes, because we've all been working our rear ends off trying to compensate for that.
I now work on the commercial side of commercial insurance for oil and gas.
And these businesses, we're talking trucking companies, lumber yards, steel yards, food vendors, food trucks, hotels, are all so affected by inflation, and it is trickling down to your young family man who's working 60 hours a week.
Trump offers, and he is presenting to have no tax on overtime, which affects all these young families, young workers.
My daughter and her friends worry about how they're going to pay for college and when they get out, how they're going to buy a home.
These are, we're underestimating our young people.
All right.
Tell me, we're going to leave it there from Eastland, Texas, and talk to Andy in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, a Harris supporter.
Hi, Andy.
Hey, can you hear me?
Just want to make sure.
We're listening.
Awesome.
Hey, first time calling C-SPAN.
It's not my first time voting.
Obviously, I said I voted for Kamala this year.
Last year, I voted for Trump.
I don't know if my vote's coast or not, but it seems like anytime I vote for the candidate, the only candidate just seems to win.
But, you know, I got out of Lily to vote, and I went in and voted for Kamla and looked at the polling and stuff.
And I just, you know, it seems like Kamala was going to win.
Trump just seemed like a bloat of a candidate compared to the Comba Palm League.
And it's crazy to see Pennsylvania just be so flip-floppy like this.
And Pennsylvania told me that.
Pennsylvania has not been called yet.
President Trump is in a lead there, but not all the votes are in.
And it is very tight, and it has not been called.
Diane, Center, Alabama.
Yes, this is May.
Vote for the Compline.
Diane, I'm going to have to move on.
If you get through, please turn down the volume of your TV because there is a delay, and we will hear that through here, and it gets really confusing.
You'll hear everything through the phone, I promise.
Ross in Raleigh, North Carolina, you got about a minute because President Trump is coming out to speak to his supporters shortly.
All righty.
Well, first off, thank you for having the call.
I've really appreciated the coverage tonight.
But I, like a couple callers before, isn't kind of an independent voter voting on issues all the way down the ballot.
But I just wanted to call and mainly touch on the essentially, I think, the echo chamber that the Democratic Party has somewhat created in terms of the media coverage surrounding everything.
I think I would highly, well, I don't know how much my opinion matters, but I think it's high time for the Democratic Party to reevaluate their messaging strategy and how they're reaching out to voters in light of Kamala not only losing the electoral vote as of right now, obviously, but in light of her losing the popular vote as well, which has not been a trend of Democrats in recent years.
Anyways, appreciate you having me on, and thank you.
Thanks, Ross, for calling in from Raleigh, North Carolina, one of the battleground states, of course, that went for President Trump.
A couple of House races.
If you're watching the results at the bottom, you can see all the House updates and presidential updates, et cetera.
But two House races I wanted to point out.
Marionette Miller-Meeks, Iowa, Republican, won by six votes two terms ago, seems to be in the lead with most of the votes counted.
She was endangered.
And Eugene Vinman, replacing a retiring congresswoman in Virginia, the Democrat is leading his Republican opponent.
So Eugene Vinman, of course, ties back to the 2016, 2017 impeachment of President Trump because of Russia and Ukraine.
So it looks like he will be in Congress as well.
Joe is in Lookinggrass, Oregon.
Please go ahead, Joe.
Hi.
I wanted to compliment you guys on your coverage.
I got into C-SPAN here during the last primaries, and I found out how balanced you guys were, and I was very happy with it.
I voted for Trump.
I wanted to kind of counter the lady who had called in from Salem.
I live out in the woods, literally, and most of Oregon is actually pro-Trump.
It's only the population centers, Portland, Salem, Eugene, that are pro-the-liberal.
And unfortunately, those tend to drive the entire state.
Because we have our voting by mail in Oregon, we haven't had a legitimate, I think, election in close to 30 years.
We haven't had a Democrat elected, or I'm sorry, we've had only Democrats elected in Oregon.
And I think the vote-by-mail system is flawed that way, as President Carter said many years ago.
But I wanted to let everybody know that Trump is going to be a much better president than Kamala could ever be.
She has no, had nothing that she would commit to, except that she wanted to distance herself from everything that she said in 2019.
And so, based on that, she has shown herself to be as bad or worse a candidate than even Hillary Clinton was.
That's Joe in Looking Glass, Oregon.
Still waiting to find out who's going to control the House and who's going to control the presidency.
We know the Senate is Republican.
And Don is in Ardmore, Oklahoma on our support Kamala Harris line.
Hi, Don.
Hi, yes.
No, it was Najee Harris that I supported.
I am super glad that I'm here to witness all this.
It's really great.
I'm a non-voter totally, but Ever since Bush, my friends, Mac, Joey, Aaron, Johnny, Wolf, Shane, they've all said the same thing.
They've all said boomer center, which is important to all of us.
So I'm glad for the coverage, and go you.
Don, Elk Grove Village, Illinois.
Please go ahead and make your comment.
Don, we're looking forward to hearing it.
I've been watching the C-SPAN for almost 40 years.
I watch that more than anything else.
I got my family watching that, either that or Raymond or King of Queens.
And the thing is, I just love the C-SPAN.
I really do.
But what it is, the people have to stay with the real issues that affect the lives of everyday Americans.
Everything is important, everything.
But the thing is their standard of living.
That's the most important thing.
And I think Trump will do it okay.
And the thing is, like you said, it all depends on the Congress because they make the laws and then the Senate's okay him.
And then, you know, then we got to go from there, you know?
So, but if we can get a Congress, Republican Congress and Senate and Trump signing the papers and they don't do anything stupid, I think this country will move alongside because the whole thing is economics.
You know, the BRICS.
The BRICS is, it's like building an alliance of the Axis and the Ellis of World War II.
It's exactly the same thing, only it's reversed.
You know, Don, what is it about President Trump that attracts you?
Number one, the border, okay?
Because in 1974, I told the head of the National Security Senate Committee to put censors and troops on their borders.
I knew what was going on.
In 1978, when Jimmy Carter gave away the Panama Canal, the Chinese military moved in.
The Chinese made a statement in 1998 that they're going to take over the world without firing chefs.
So the border is the number one issue for you.
Number one issue.
All right, Don, we're going to have to leave it there.
We are waiting on President Trump to come out in West Palm Beach to talk to his supporters.
Kamala Harris is not speaking tonight.
We heard that earlier at Howard University, where her supporters were gathered here in Washington.
She will not be speaking tonight, but we are expecting President Trump any second now.
So we will go to that as soon as he comes out.
Shemer, New York City.
Hi, Shemer.
Hello.
Am I saying your name right?
It's Shamar.
Shamar, thank you, Shamar.
What's on your mind?
Lots of things.
So, Kamala Harris, first of all, I think, I mean, I'm with her, but at the same time, not so much.
For one thing, I think that she's a coward for just like, is she scared that she's going to lose?
Is that it?
So that's why she left?
Come on.
Like, she's Kamala Harris.
She's supposed to be, you know, she's got a lot of people writing on her to make it through.
And she just leaves?
Come on.
And also, and also, I want her to win.
Everybody wants her to, lots of people want her to win.
And I do not want her to throw in the towel, so to speak.
That gives more power to people like Donald Trump.
And Donald Trump, I mean, him not being elected, that's just the start of things.
But, I mean, Kamala Harris overall does represent a huge, like a huge disconnect.
Donald Trump, he represents a much more greater disconnect.
It's basically the lesser of two evils.
That's basically what it is.
What do you do in New York?
Shamar, what do you do in New York?
Just resting.
Do you work?
Trying to find myself a job.
All right.
Shamar, thanks for calling in from New York City with your point of view.
And Herschel is going to share his from Richmond, Kentucky.
Go ahead, Herschel.
Hi, I appreciate you having me on.
I just wanted to say that I 100% support President Trump.
Why?
He is the only candidate that can fix what is going on in our country.
What's going on?
Got to give a specific.
We have a border crisis.
We have out-of-control inflation.
And there is no one else that can fix this other than Trump.
That's Herschel in Richmond, Kentucky.
And Jocelyn is in Nashville.
Hi, Jocelyn.
Hi, Peter.
Thank you for taking my call.
I love C-SPAN, and I've been watching you all night.
So thank you.
What's on your mind?
The main thing that's hitting me tonight is the Electoral College and the whole system we have.
I'm not a student of history per se, so I can't talk volumes about how it came about, but I understand that it was based on slavery and how the southern states wanted to have more say, and so they used their slaves to count as one-third of a human being or two-thirds or whatever it was, and they weren't even represented.
So, anyhow, it just, it's, I'm shocked that Trump has come this far in the results here.
I presume that they're accurate.
I don't believe that they're inaccurate, but I just want them to be all counted before these states get called.
And then I live in the state of Tennessee, so my vote doesn't even count because it was red already.
I live in a blue county in a red state, and our votes don't count, just as people who live in a red county in a blue state, their vote doesn't count.
So that's the main thing that concerns me.
Hey, Jocelyn, can I make a counter argument to you?
Very quickly.
In California right now, 46% of the vote is in, and over 3 million people have voted for Donald Trump.
In Tennessee, the entire vote is in, and 1.9 million people voted for Donald Trump.
My point being: if you get rid of the Electoral College, why not hang out in California and not worry about the votes in Tennessee?
Does that make sense?
Because there are more Republicans in liberal California than there are Republicans in Tennessee.
Yeah, I can't do that.
It's a shell game.
I can't do the math here.
But I appreciate your numbers there and the thought.
It's just, it should be one person, one vote.
And we're all Americans, and we should all vote.
And I'm just shocked to see that so many people are supporting former President Trump, who we know.
I don't have to repeat everything about his history.
We all know what he's been through and what we've watched it.
Jocelyn, what do you do in Nashville?
I'm a music teacher.
I'm an independent music teacher.
That's a good place to be a music teacher, isn't it?
It is.
It can be.
Yeah.
It's an open carry state, though, so we have to be careful.
You know, it's just whatever.
Well, Jocelyn, we appreciate you being with us this evening and for calling in.
It's good to hear your voice.
Noel is up in Mackinac Island, Michigan on our Support President Trump line.
Hi, Noel.
Hi, how are you?
How are you?
I'm great, and I'm thankful for all you're doing, and I'm honored to be on your program.
What's on your mind?
I've been praying for the last four years that everything goes back to Trump.
And I do think he is a good business person.
I know that he's got a loud demeanor, but I've watched for years.
I'm a freelance artist, and I do much better.
I'm going to just say when the state is red, and I'm in Michigan, and if it switches back to red, that would be really great.
So I'm just glad I want, you know, he has a lot of good things for the children.
The whole just border crisis, we're at a border state.
There's a lot of things.
And for the small business people like myself, I'm hoping that positive outcome the whole country.
Noel, thanks for calling from Northern Michigan, Mackinac Island.
Jacqueline is next.
Jacqueline's in Port Jervis, New York, a Harris supporter.
Hi, Jacqueline.
Hi, how are you?
Thank you for having me on your program.
What's on your mind?
Well, I'm a little disappointed in the numbers, of course.
And I work with special education students.
I have for the last 22 years.
And Trump's stance on education deeply concerns me.
And because I work in a school district, I'm also a union employee.
And I know he's not very high on the list for unions.
And I heard the one gentleman earlier speaking about no taxes on overtime, but he was quoted in saying that he would never pay overtime.
I'm just dismayed at how I'm going to use the word, I was trying not to use it, how goable they will fall for some of the false things that he says and backtracks and whatnot.
But I do appreciate the way that you set up your program.
Everything is there for us to see, and it scrolls very nicely.
It's accurate and it's on time.
Other channels are not.
But I'll live through another four years should he win.
But it's discouraging that so many people can be forgiving, too forgiving, in my opinion, of the things that he's done.
He plans on releasing the people that attacked our capital.
The list would go on for me.
I heard someone say earlier there's a laundry list, and yes, there is.
Jacqueline, we appreciate your voice and we appreciate your calling in.
It's 2:22 a.m. on the East Coast.
Donald Trump is expected to address his supporters in West Palm Beach shortly.
He hasn't come out yet, but what you're looking at there is a live picture of the West Palm Beach Convention Center.
Yes.
According to the Associated Press, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 states have not been called.
They are, sorry, eight.
Alaska, Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Maine.
Those states have still not been called for either Vice President Harris or former President Trump.
And if you go to c-span.org slash results, you will get a map that labels each state in deep red or deep blue.
Those are the states that have been called.
The states that you see in light blue, including Minnesota, or light red, including Nevada and Arizona, have not been called yet but are leaning in that direction, either Republican or Democrat.
You can click on each one of those individual states, and that will pull up a county-by-county map.
And you can see exactly how many people have voted in real time, how many people have voted which way.
So it's a terrific tool.
Hope you'll try it.
You can go to that QR code on the corner of the screen right now, or you can go to c-span.org slash results.
Let's see what looks like the president, former president, is coming out.
Ready?
And before the president starts speaking, I want to announce that AP has called Pennsylvania for former President Trump.
From the lakes of Minnesota to the hills of Tennessee, across the plains of Texas, from sea to sand and sea.
From Detroit down to Houston, and New York to LA.
Where there's pride in every American heart, and it's time we stand and say to be an American, where at least I know I'm free.
And I won't forget the men who died, who gave that life to me.
And I gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today.
Cause there ain't no doubt I love this land.
God bless the USA.
I won't be an American where at least I know I'm free.
And I won't forget the men who died who gave that life to me.
And I gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today.
But there ain't no doubt I love this land.
Thank you very much.
Thank you very much.
This is great.
These are our friends.
We have thousands of friends in this incredible movement.
This was a movement like nobody's ever seen before.
And frankly, this was, I believe, the greatest political movement of all time.
There's ever been anything like this in this country and maybe beyond.
And now it's going to reach a new level of importance because we're going to help our country heal.
We're going to help our country heal.
We have a country that needs help and it needs help very badly.
We're going to fix our borders.
We're going to fix everything about our country.
We made history for a reason tonight and the reason is going to be just that.
We overcame obstacles that nobody thought possible and it is now clear that we've achieved the most incredible political thing.
Look what happened.
Is this crazy?
But it's a political victory that our country has never seen before.
Nothing like this.
I want to thank the American people for the extraordinary honor of being elected your 47th president and your 45th president.
And to every citizen, I will fight for you, for your family and your future.
Every single day I will be fighting for you with every breath in my body.
I will not rest until we have delivered the strong, safe, and prosperous America that our children deserve and that you deserve.
This will truly be the golden age of America.
That's what we have to have.
This is a magnificent victory for the American people that will allow us to make America great again.
And in addition to having won the battleground states of North Carolina, I love these places.
Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
We are now winning in Michigan, Arizona, Nevada, and Alaska, which would result in us carrying at least 315 electoral votes.
But it's much easier doing what the networks did or whoever called it because there was no other path.
There was no other path to victory.
We also have won the popular vote.
That was great.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Winning the popular vote was very nice.
Very nice, I will tell you.
It's a great feeling of love.
We have a great feeling of love in this very large room with unbelievable people standing by my side.
These people have been incredible.
They've made the journey with me and we're going to make you very happy.
We're going to make you very proud of your vote.
I hope that you're going to be looking back someday and say that was one of the truly important moments of my life when I voted for this group of people beyond the president, this group of great people.
America has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate.
We have taken back control of the Senate.
Wow, that's good.
And the Senate races in Montana, Nevada, Texas, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania were all won by the MAGA movement.
They helped so much.
And in those cases, every one of them, we worked with the senators.
They were tough races.
And I mean, the number of victories in the Senate was absolutely incredible.
And we did tele rallies.
We did tele rallies with each one of them.
And sometimes we did two or three.
And it was amazing to look at all of those victories.
Nobody expected that.
Nobody.
So I just wanted to thank you very much for that.
And you have some great senators and some great new senators.
And it also looks like we'll be keeping control of the House of Representatives.
And I want to thank Mike Johnson.
I think he's doing a terrific job.
Terrific job.
I want to also thank my beautiful wife, Melania, first lady, who has the number one best-selling book in the country.
Oh, no, she's done a great job, works very hard, works very hard to help people.
So I just want to thank her.
But I want to thank my whole family, my amazing children, and they are amazing children.
And we all think our children are amazing.
Everybody here thinks their children are amazing, but that's a good thing when you think they are.
But Don, Eric, Ivanka, Tiffany, Baron, Laura, Jared, Kimberly, Michael, thank you all.
What a help.
My father-in-law, Victor, is tremendous.
And we miss very much Melania's mother, Amalia.
We miss Amalia, don't we, huh?
She would be very happy right now standing on this stage.
She'd be so proud.
She was a great woman, that one.
Beautiful inside and out.
She was a great woman.
I want to be the first to congratulate our great, now I can say, Vice President-elect of the United States, J.B. Bill, and his absolutely remarkable and beautiful wife, Ushabez.
And he is a feisty guy, isn't he?
You know, I've said, go into the enemy camp.
And you know, the enemy camp is certain networks.
A lot of people don't like to, sir.
Do I have to do that?
He just goes, okay.
Which one?
CNN, MSDNC?
He'll say, all right, thank you very much.
He actually looks like, he's like the only guy I've ever seen.
He really looks forward to it.
And then he just goes and absolutely obliterates them.
Say a couple of words.
Well, Mr. President, I appreciate you allowing me to join you on this incredible journey.
I thank you for the trust that you placed in me.
And I think that we just witnessed the greatest political comeback in the history of the United States of America.
And under President Trump's leadership, we're never going to stop fighting for you, for your dreams, for the future of your children.
And after the greatest political comeback in American history, we're going to leave the greatest economic comeback in American history under Donald Trump's leadership.
Thank you very much.
He's turned out to be a good choice.
I took a little heat at the beginning, but he was, I knew the brain was a good one, about as good as it gets.
And we love the family, and we're going to have a great four years, and we're going to turn our country around, make it something very special.
It lost that little thing called special.
We have to make it.
We're going to make this so great.
It's the greatest country and potentially the greatest country in the world by far.
And right now, we're going to just work very hard to get all of that back.
We're going to make it the best it's ever been.
We can do that.
We just, if we had to wait longer, I don't know it was going bad and it was going bad fast.
We're going to have to seal up those borders and we're going to have to let people come into our country.
We want people to come back in, but we have to let them come back in, but they have to come in legally.
They have to come in legally.
Let me also express my tremendous appreciation for Susie and Chris, the job you did.
Susie, come, Susie.
Come here.
Come here, Susie.
Chris, come here, Chris.
Susie likes to stay sort of in the back, let me tell you.
The ice baby, we call her the ice baby, right?
Come here, Chris.
Chris, come here, Chris.
Susie likes to stay in the background.
She's not in the background.
Come here, Susie.
This was unexpected, but I just want to thank, obviously, President Trump for this journey.
It was a great one, and he's a hell of a candidate.
He's going to be a hell of a great 47th president.
And this team that we had, the best team.
And, of course, even my boss, Susie Wiles, the best.
Thank you.
Thank you.
And thank you, Susie.
Look at her.
She's shy.
I've never seen her be shy before.
Susie, they're great.
Everybody up here is great.
Everybody up here is very special, but the Trump, who did you say?
Oh, let me tell you, we have a new star.
A star is born, Elon.
Now he is.
Now he's an amazing guy.
We were sitting together tonight.
You know, he spent two weeks in Philadelphia and different parts of Pennsylvania campaigning.
You know, he sent the rocket up two weeks ago, and I saw that rocket, I saw it coming down, I saw it, it was, when it left, it was beautiful, shiny white.
When it came down, it didn't look so pretty, was going 10,000 miles an hour, and it was burning like hell.
I said, what happened to your paint job?
He said, we've never made a paint that could withstand that kind of heat.
But I saw it come down and turn around.
And it was, you know, it's like 22 stories tall, by the way.
It looks a little smaller than that, but it's big.
And it came down and down, and you saw that fire burning.
And I'm saying, only Elan can do this.
It must be an Elon.
And I tell the story.
I told it last night.
I had a man on the phone.
I had the screen muted, no sound.
I was talking to a very important man, happens to be here.
And that very important guy, one of the most important people in, I would say, the country, actually.
But, you know, I was president, and now it looks like I was going to be maybe president again.
So I figured I could ask him to hold.
So I asked him to hold.
And because especially because you're going to be president again, they hold.
So I took the phone down and I'm looking at the screen.
I'm seeing this crazy thing that's going around and coming down.
It looks like it's going to crash into the gantry.
And I said, oh, no.
And I said, do me a favor, do you mind holding for a couple of minutes?
I want to see this.
I thought it was a space age movie or something.
I put the phone down.
Bad part, I didn't pick it up for 45 minutes and he was holding.
But this spaceship came down and I saw those engines firing and it looked like it was over, it was going to smash.
And then I saw the fire pour out from the left side and I put it straight and it came down so gently and then it wrapped those arms around it and it held it and just like you hold your baby at night, your little baby.
And it was a beautiful thing to see.
And I called Elon.
I said, Elon, was that you?
He said, yes, it was.
I said, who else can do that?
Can Russia do it?
No.
Can China do it?
No.
Can the United States do it other than you?
No.
Nobody can do that.
I said, that's why I love you, Elon.
That's crap.
And you know, when we had the tragic hurricane Halleen, and it hit, in particular, it hit North Carolina.
They were really devastated.
The water.
This was a big water, as big as we've ever seen, what a hurricane.
It built lakes out of nothing.
Fields became lakes, and the danger was unbelievable.
And the people from North Carolina came to me and they said, would it be possible, at all possible, for you to speak to Elon Musk?
We need Starlink.
I said, what's Starlink?
It's a form of communication.
So I called Elon, and I'll tell you what, he had, and it was very dangerous.
People would die.
They had no communication.
All the wires were down.
I called Elon Musk.
I said, Elon, you have something called Starlink.
Is that right?
Yes, I do.
What the hell is it?
He said, it's a communication system that's very good.
I said, Elon, they need it really, really badly in North Carolina.
Can you get it?
He had that there so fast, it was incredible.
And it was great.
It saved a lot of lives.
He saved a lot of lives.
But he's a character.
He's a special guy.
He's a super genius.
We have to protect our geniuses.
We don't have that many of them.
We have to protect our super geniuses.
I want to thank some of the guys.
You know, we have up here today the U.S. Open Champion.
He's fantastic.
Alfred.
Slightly longer than me.
It's a little bit longer than me.
Just a little bit.
Bryson DeChambeau is up here someplace.
What happened to Bryson?
Where is he?
Bryson.
Oh.
Here we shall.
He's hitting balls.
Oh, he's on the way.
He's hitting balls.
Bryson.
Oh, look at him.
He had a great, he's got a great career going.
Great U.S. Open, Bryson.
That's a fantastic job.
And we also have a man, Dana White, who has done some job.
He's a tough guy.
So Dana started UFC and came to me.
Do you mind if I use your...
Nobody wanted to give him my reins because they said it's a rough sport, a little rough.
And I helped him out a little bit and I went and I said, this is the roughest sport I've ever seen, but I began to like it and he loved it.
And nobody's done a better job in sports.
And you know, he's a very motivational kind of a guy, what he does.
He gets these fighters and they really go at it.
It's become one of the most successful sports enterprises anywhere at any time.
It's doing so well.
I'd like to ask Danny just to say a couple of words because people love to hear from him.
Nobody deserves this more than him and nobody deserves this more than his family does.
This is what happens when the machine comes after you.
What you've seen over the last several years, this is what it looks like.
Couldn't stop him.
He keeps going forward.
He doesn't quit.
He's the most resilient, hardworking man I've ever met in my life.
His family are incredible people.
This is karma, ladies and gentlemen.
He deserves this.
They deserve it as a family.
I want to thank some people real quick.
I want to thank the Nelt Boys, Aiden Ross, Theo Vaughn, Bustle with the Boys, and last but not least, the mighty and powerful Joe Rogan.
And thank you, America.
Thank you.
Have a good night.
That is a piece of work.
Now, he's an amazing.
He's really an amazing guy.
But most of all, I want to thank the millions of hardworking Americans across the nation who have always been the heart and soul of this really great movement.
We've been through so much together, and today you showed up in record numbers to deliver a victory like really, probably like no other.
This was something, this was something special.
And we're going to pay you back.
We are going to do the best job.
We're going to turn it around.
It's got to be turned around.
It's got to be turned around fast.
And we're going to turn it around.
We're going to do it in every way, so many ways, but we're going to do it in every way.
This will forever be remembered as the day the American people regained control of their country.
So I just want to say that on behalf of this great group of people, these are hardworking people.
These are fantastic people.
And we can add a few names like Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
And he's going to help make America healthy again.
And now he's a great guy, and he really means it.
He wants to do some things and we're going to let him go to it.
I just said, but Bobby, leave the oil to me.
We have more liquid gold, oil and gas.
We have more liquid gold than any country in the world, more than Saudi Arabia.
We have more than Russia.
Bobby, stay away from the liquid gold.
Other than that, go have a good time, Bobby.
We're going to be paying down debt.
We're going to be reducing taxes.
We can do things that nobody else can do.
Nobody else is going to be able to do it.
China doesn't have what we have.
Nobody has what we have.
But we have the greatest people also.
Maybe that's the most important thing.
This campaign, this campaign has been so historic in so many ways.
We've built the biggest, the broadest, the most unified coalition.
They've never seen anything like it in all of American history.
They've never seen any young and old, men and women, rural and urban.
And we had them all helping us tonight.
When you think, I mean, I was looking at it.
I was watching it.
They had some great analysis of the people that voted for us.
Nobody's ever seen anything like that.
They came from all corners, union, non-union, African American, Hispanic American, Asian American, Arab American, Muslim American.
We had everybody, and it was beautiful.
It was a historic realignment, uniting citizens of all backgrounds around a common core of common sense.
You know, we're the party of common sense.
We want to have borders.
We want to have security.
We want to have things be good, safe.
We want great education.
We want a strong and powerful military, and ideally, we don't have to use it.
You know, we had no wars.
Four years, we had no wars, except we defeated ISIS.
We defeated ISIS in record time, but we had no wars.
They said, he will start a war.
I'm not going to start a war.
I'm going to stop wars.
But this is also a massive victory for democracy and for freedom.
Together we're going to unlock America's glorious destiny.
We're going to achieve the most incredible future for our people.
Yesterday, as I stood at my last stop on the campaign trail, I'll never be doing a rally again.
Can you believe it?
I think we've done 900 rallies approximately from the, can you imagine?
900, 901, something, a lot of rallies.
And it was sad.
Everybody was sad.
Many people, I said, this is our last rally.
But now we're going on to something that's far more important because the rallies were used for us to be put in this position where we can really help our country.
That's what we're going to do.
We're going to make our country better than it ever has been.
And I said that.
Many people have told me that God spared my life for a reason.
And that reason was to save our country and to restore America to greatness.
And now we are going to fulfill that mission together.
We're going to fulfill that mission.
The task before us will not be easy, but I will bring every ounce of energy, spirit, and fight that I have in my soul to the job that you've entrusted to me.
This is a great job.
There's no job like this.
This is the most important job in the world.
Just as I did in my first term, we had a great first term, a great, great first term.
I will govern by a simple motto.
Promises made, promises kept.
We're going to keep our promises.
Nothing will stop me from keeping my word to you, the people.
We will make America safe, strong, prosperous, powerful, and free again.
And I'm asking every citizen all across our land to join me in this noble and righteous endeavor.
That's what it is.
It's time to put the divisions of the past four years behind us.
It's time to unite.
And we're going to try.
We're going to try.
We have to try.
And it's going to happen.
Success will bring us together.
I've seen that.
I've seen that.
I saw that in the first term.
When we became more and more successful, people started coming together.
Success is going to bring us together.
And we are going to start by all putting America first.
We have to put our country first for at least a period of time.
We have to fix it.
Because together we can truly make America great again for all Americans.
So I want to just tell you what a great honor this is.
I want to thank you.
I will not let you down.
America's future will be bigger, better, bolder, richer, safer, and stronger than it has ever been before.
God bless you and God bless America.
Thank you very much.
Thank you very much.
I'll say young man.
If you're from all the ground, I'll say young man.
Cause you're in a new town.
There's no need to be unhappy.
Young man.
There's a place you can go.
I'll say young man.
When you're short on your door, you can't stay there.
And I'll show you a five minute way to have a touch.
It's for the state of why MCA.
It's for the staying the fight.
They have everything to endure.
You can hang out with all the boys.
It's fun to stay in the fire MCA.
It's for the state of the wide MCA.
You can get yourself leave.
You can have a new meal.
You can do whatever you feel.
Young man.
Fucking listen to me.
I'll say your man.
What if you wanna be?
I'll say young man.
You can make million dreams, but you've got to know.
This won't be no man.
Do it all by himself.
I'll say your name.
Put your pride on shelf and just go there to the wider CN of today.
Damn, help you today.
It's for the standpoint, MCA.
It's for the stay in the wide MCA.
They have everything for you to enjoy.
You can hang up with all the boys.
It's for the state of fire.
And that was President Trump addressing supporters in West Palm Beach, Florida, at his rally.
He declared himself the winner.
That is not official.
At the moment, he has 267 electoral votes, and he is on the verge and on track to become the 47th president of the United States.
Chance that he could get 313 electoral votes.
Nevada, Arizona, Alaska, Wisconsin, and Michigan have not been called, and they are all trending in his direction.
That would add up to 313 electoral votes.
In 2016, he won 304, and then in 2020, Joe Biden got 306 electoral votes.
We are still live.
We will be live throughout the morning, taking your calls, hearing the speeches, getting analysis without spin, and of course, sharing the results with you.
It is going on 3 a.m. here on the East Coast, and we're going to check in with Greta Broner.
Let's talk about the president's path here tonight.
He declared victory, and as you said, the Associated Press has not quite yet, but he is on the verge, as you said.
So take a look at these battleground states, how he got to where he is right now.
The big prize was Pennsylvania, 19 electoral votes of all those swing states.
It was the largest, 96% of the vote in.
And he right now has less than a two-point victory over the vice president.
Moving on to North Carolina, this was called much earlier this evening.
North Carolina, 99% of the vote in.
And you can look at this point.
He, and this will hold pretty close to it.
President Trump winning with less than 3% of the vote.
Moving on to Georgia, another win for the former president.
And this with 16 electoral votes, the Associated Press calling him the winner tonight in Georgia.
Back to your phone calls and your voices and how you feel about election night.
And we're going to begin with Rose out in the Battleground State of Arizona.
Rose, how was election night for you?
Hi, thanks for having me on.
It's been great.
I've been watching it.
I really never ever watched it on C-SPAN and I'm really enjoying it, the unbiased approach that you guys have.
I appreciate that.
Well, thank you for that.
So how was election night for you?
It's great.
I'm just sitting up watching it still and I'm excited, very excited.
Who was your candidate?
Trump.
Why?
Well, you know, we gave the Democrats several years now to, you know, like make things better.
And it seems everything has just gotten worse.
And you know, I'm a seventy-year-old woman living by myself on Social Security and three days a week, you know, still working.