She and Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota, won it by five points.
Let's hear from Carmen.
Carmen is in Cleveland, Ohio.
Good morning, Carmen.
How are you?
I'm fine.
I'm not fine.
I voted for Harris, and I'm kind of upset at the way they played their ground game.
I wish they had just told the truth on how everything went down.
Who's that?
The lady who's that called and said, oh, things were better under Trump.
You know, things were cheaper.
But that was all a result of what Obama had done.
And it was pre-COVID.
After COVID and the supply chain demand, everything went up.
Period.
And then it took years.
It took a couple years after Biden got in to get everything back under control.
Now things are starting to go back down again.
They got things under hand.
And you can better believe for the next two years, things have been going to be going pretty good because of what Biden has done.
And Trump is going to take credit for it again.
Hey, Carmen, I got to ask you.
You got a new senator, Sherrod Brown, went down in Ohio.
He is such a nice and caring and giving man.
I've met him personally.
I used to work the polls.
And he would always come to Cleveland and, you know, check around the polls.
And JD Vance from Ohio is the new vice president elector will be.
And this is something I want to say, too.
And I hope everybody's listening.
Everybody thinks Trump is the main thing.
JD Vance is going to be our president.
Why do you say that?
Trump ain't going to lie.
I don't think Trump is going to last.
That man is really, he's uncontrollable now because if they let him get in, the people he wants to surround himself with, they are not politicians.
They don't know how things run.
And it would be just total chaos.
They need a politician.
JD Vance is educated, is smart, and he's a politician.
Hey, Carmen, do you think Joe Biden should have stayed in the race or were you a fan?
Are you a fan of Kamala Harris?
I love Kamala Harris, but this is what I really wanted to happen.
I wish he hadn't did that debate.
I really do.
Or he should have just sat down and he had debate or just canceled and said, I don't feel good today.
I think he just didn't feel good that day.
Because when he came back and gave his speech of, you know, leaving, he did a great job.
So I said, well, wait a minute.
But then I thought about it.
I think he should have ran.
They should have let him run and he would have ended up giving it to her.
I think he could have beaten him.
And I don't care.
The way we felt about Biden, I really believe if Biden had ran against him, he would have won.
Final question, Carmen.
Final question.
Tell us a little bit about yourself.
What do you do in Cleveland?
I'm a retired nurse, but I am disabled.
I end up hurting my back at work, and I've been disabled for some years.
But I do, you know, stay politically, and I watch you all the time.
I've been watching C-SPAN for years.
I love C-SPAN.
All right.
You're where I get my news, my political news.
I'm getting to the point I don't even want to hear the other news stations because it's so biased now.
That's Carmen in Cleveland.
We appreciate it.
Thanks for calling in at 3 o'clock in the morning.
Gaudi, Goldsboro, North Carolina, Trump supporter.
Gaudi, what's on your mind?
Yeah, this is Donnie.
I'm a 100% disabled vet.
And I think my big thing was I watched a lot of the commercials and the debates and everything.
And nobody seemed to bring up the fact that when the president runs, you're also voting for the vice president.
And I just couldn't bring myself to vote for a party that had a vice president who stood on national TV and called himself a knucklehead because of the fact, would you like someone who believed they were a knucklehead if God forbid something happened to the president?
They had their finger on the button.
So that was one of the big things.
All right, Gaudi.
Tell you what, why don't we leave it there?
Now, we're going to play a couple of videos for you from earlier tonight.
We're going to play some of the victory speeches where you're going to hear from Ted Cruz, Senator from Texas, and you're going to hear from Adam Schiff, Senator-elect from California.
And we appreciate your being with us.
We are live until noon on Wednesday.
And you'll be able to continue to call in and talk and get results and hear the speeches.
But right now, we're going to hear from Ted Cruz and Adam Schiff.
God be the glory.
Tonight is an incredible night.
A huge victory here in Texas.
Right now, we're up by eight points at over 600,000 votes.
And they're still counting votes.
It also looks very likely that we're going to have a Republican Senate next year.
And I believe and I hope and pray that Donald Trump will be re-elected as President of the United States.
I want to say thank you, number one, to my extraordinary wife, Heidi, my best friend in the world.
Such an amazing partner on this magic carpet ride of life.
And I want to say thank you to our two beautiful and amazing girls, Caroline and Catherine.
You know, politics at times exacts a price on the family.
And I want to say I am so grateful for their love and support.
And you guys are amazing.
Thank you.
I also want to give a special shout out to Alexis Nungri.
Alexis, thank you for your incredible courage speaking out for your precious Jocelyn.
And your courage has made such a profound difference in this nation.
We're going to.
I also want to thank all the Democrats across Texas who crossed over and supported my campaign, including especially Harris County District Attorney Kim Aug.
Who has stood strong for prosecuting violent criminals.
And I want to thank every Texan across our great state who has stood with us in this fight.
who worked, and who fought for Texas.
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 were 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.
They understand something the liberal elites never will.
There's nothing progressive about open borders.
There is nothing compassionate about chaos.
And there is nothing Latino about letting criminals roam free.
And just for good measure, we're not tacos.
We're small business owners who know that lower taxes means more jobs.
We're parents who know that secure borders mean safe neighborhoods.
And we're families who know that Texas energy independence means prosperity for everyone.
And I found this same awakening to common sense everywhere I traveled.
I saw it in the eyes of Texas mothers, tired of being lectured to about their values, their faith, and their children's education.
I heard it from energy workers in the Permian Basin and the Eagle Ford Shale, men and women who know that American energy independence isn't just about dollars and cents.
It's about national security and freedom.
It's about families being able to fill their gas tanks without emptying their bank accounts.
But common sense isn't complicated.
It tells us that borders have to mean something.
It tells us that laws must be enforced.
That children deserve innocence.
And that prosperity comes from work, not a handout.
And here's what common sense tells us above all.
That the people who built Texas, whether their families came five generations ago or five months ago, understand Texas better than any social engineer in Washington ever will.
When I return to the Senate, I carry with me not just a victory, but a mandate.
A mandate from the people of Texas.
And let me be crystal clear about what that mandate means.
First, we must secure the border, not with empty promises, but with concrete and steel and law and order and with the unshakable resolve from knowing we are protecting those we love.
The cartels who poison our communities, the traffickers who prey on the innocent, their days are numbered.
Second, we must unleash Texas energy.
The answer to America's energy needs isn't Venezuelans' oil fields or the Ayatollah in Iran.
but rather it is right here in Texas, in the Permian Basin, and throughout the state of Texas.
We will drill.
We will frack.
We will produce and we will lead the entire world.
And we will never again let foreign dictators hold American energy independence hostage.
Third, we must defend our God-given rights.
Not some of them, not most of them, but all of them.
The right to speak truth in an age of enforced lies.
The right to worship the Lord God Almighty with all of our heart, mind, and soul without government getting in the way.
And the right to protect our families without asking bureaucrats for permission.
But above all, this mandate means fighting for what we believe in.
Fighting every day in every way that matters, fighting for Texas jobs, for Texas values, for Texas families, fighting for the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
And fighting without retreat and without apology.
Because this isn't just about politics.
It's about preserving a way of life that has made Texas the last best hope for freedom for mankind.
You have to keep doing it.
I know this in my bones.
You see, this isn't just political for me.
It's personal.
Like all of you, my family journey makes me who I am.
Many of y'all know my father, Pastor Rafael Cruz.
My dad arrived here from Cuba with nothing but $100 sewn into his underwear.
He washed dishes for 50 cents an hour.
He learned English watching John Wayne movies.
And he worked his way through the university graduating class of 61.
That journey from a Cuban prison to Texas freedom, from a dishwasher to a small business owner here in Houston to today a pastor spreading the gospel across the state.
That's not just my story.
That's Texas's story.
Likewise, my mom, who's Irish and Italian, born to a working class family in Delaware, who became the first person in her family ever to go to college.
She graduated from Rice in 1956 with a degree in math.
And she became a pioneering computer programmer at the dawn of the computer age.
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.
Tonight's victory belongs to all of us, to all of us across the state.
Thank you to each of you.
May God bless you and may God continue to bless the great state of Texas.
I love you.
And thank you to Speaker Rob Rivas.
We are so lucky to have Rob Rivas as our Speaker of the Estate Assembly.
Are we not?
Isn't he incredible?
It is such a delight to be here with you tonight.
And before I begin, I want to acknowledge my opponent, Steve Garvey.
I know it's not easy to be a candidate for any office.
It's hard on you.
It's hard on your loved ones.
And I wish him well.
And I join him in celebrating the Dodgers' amazing win over the Yankees.
Tonight, I am especially grateful to the millions of Californians who put their faith in me.
I also find myself thinking about Senator Dianne Feinstein, who was a friend and mentor, and as long as I knew her, she was a giant in the U.S. Senate.
Nobody will be able to fill Diane's immense shoes, but her memory will be my guide.
And tonight, I am so humbled to be your next United States Senator.
Thank you, California.
I will spend every day trying to repay the trust that you have placed in me by serving this golden state with all of my heart and soul.
Thank you, California.
Tonight is going to be a very long night.
We won't know the result of every race.
We will need to be patient.
And whatever the result of the presidential race, we know there will be serious challenges facing the state of California and the country.
Regardless of the outcome, regardless of the way people may have voted, I want to make one thing clear.
As your senator, I am committed to standing up for every Californian.
I am committed to taking on the big fights to protect our freedoms and to protect our democracy.
California will continue to be at the forefront of progress, the bulwark of democracy, the champion of innovation, and the protector of our rights and freedoms.
We are a big, beautiful, diverse, and generous state.
We look out for each other.
We stand up for each other.
We extend our hands to lift up each other.
We celebrate and appreciate our different backgrounds and cultures.
I've seen it firsthand.
From the first day I launched this campaign to the visits I've made to nearly every corner of the Golden State.
From meeting with local leaders in the border community of Calexico to seeing the restoration of Redwoods north of Willits, I've met the most amazing people all across California.
I've listened to your concerns.
I've heard your fears.
I've shared your hopes and imagined the future that you want to see for yourselves 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.
Welcome back to C-SPAN's continuous coverage of election night 2024.
It is just after 3.30 a.m. here on the East Coast, just after 12.30 a.m. out on the West Coast.
We are in the middle of 17 hours of election night coverage.
And as always, we want to hear from you.
If you are just joining us, here are the phone lines.
If you support Vice President Kamala Harris, the number is 202-748-8920.
If you cast your ballot for former President Donald Trump, the number is 202-748-8921.
And all others, you can give us a call at 202-748-8922.
We also welcome your text.
You can send that to 202-748-8903.
We will get to your calls and comments in just a few minutes, but we also want to give you an update on where the race currently stands.
Looking at the Electoral College, former President Donald Trump is currently leading Vice President Kamala Harris, 267 to 224.
The magic number there is 270, meaning former President Trump needs just three more electoral votes to win the election.
In the Senate, the Republicans did manage to pick up the seats needed to retake control of the upper chamber.
They picked up both West Virginia and Ohio.
And in the House, the House is still up for grabs.
You can see here the Republicans currently lead the Democrats by 20 House seats.
The needed number there to control that chamber is 218.
We want to orientate you as to what you are seeing on your screen right now.
On the left-hand side, you are seeing the latest when it comes to the balance of power in the House and Senate, as well as the current electoral count and the popular vote.
There across the bottom of your screen, you can see the races where they stand, races from across the country.
And also, if you look down in that bottom left-hand corner, you'll see a QR code.
If you scan that, it's going to take you directly to our website, cspan.org, and you can see all the results, including concessions and victory speeches happening tonight.
As we mentioned, we are hearing from you, our audience, tonight, and your reaction to the 2024 election.
Let's hear from Ryan calling from Phoenix, Arizona, on the line to support former President Trump.
Good morning, Ryan.
Hey, good morning.
Thanks for having me on.
And you guys have been doing a good job, so we appreciate you.
Tell us about your vote, Ryan.
Why did you support former President Trump?
There's a lot of reasons.
Number one, you can't reward bad behavior.
The Harris administration, Biden administration, whatever, just letting all the legal immigrants coming in, flying them in, bringing them in, just real underhanded.
I don't know what the point of that is, but I didn't like that.
So that was number one.
And just letting the economy, the inflation get out of control.
You know, it just was, you know, it was tough.
It was tough on a lot of levels.
Just didn't trust those guys, which is too bad.
They just didn't seem to have America's interests at heart.
Ryan, you're in a key area for the election.
You're in a swing state and also an area of Arizona that is a battleground itself, the county there.
What's been your experience?
What have you been seeing the past year, the past few weeks?
You know, everybody just definitely see a lot of people for both candidates.
I have friends for both candidates.
I voted early, so I wanted to get it out of the way, but it's been pretty good down here.
The way that it's set up, I've never heard of anything too.
I think they had some, you know, ballots that started a box on fire or something.
Somebody did, but a couple little things.
But overall, I think everybody was pretty.
Everybody needs to come together now.
Trump, hopefully he holds on to this victory and everybody needs to come together and give him a chance.
You realize he's a nationalist.
He's a patriot.
He wants to do well.
And he has Elon Musk and he has Kennedy, a lot of good allies.
I mean, they could really do some history.
So I think it could be a great thing.
And can't be sore losers.
People got to come together.
Hopefully we've got to get this country back on its feet again.
Ryan, you said that you had friends who supported Vice President Kamala Harris.
What have your discussions with those friends been like?
Have you guys been able to talk about the differences and where the candidates stand on the different issues?
Some of you, I have friends and family that support Kamala.
The family has been kind of, you know, they're less, they don't want to talk about it.
They think, so they're wearing the highway some people, but yeah, I have friends that we've debated, and people get passionate about it.
And you can't force your opinion on anybody, give them your reviews, they give you yours.
I mean, I voted for Obama before.
I'm not a Republican, so but for me, Trump just seems more authentic.
He just seems like a real person.
So that's kind of what I, you know, there's a lot of reasons why I liked his personality better.
And one last question for you.
If he were to take office, he's just three electoral votes away from that happening.
What do you want to see him focus on first?
The deficit would be good.
He needs to get the deficit under control.
We need to focus on that.
Peace in the world, all that would be great too.
But I think we should be more of an isolationist.
Definitely rule with a strong hand or whatever we need to.
But that's another thing I liked about him: he did keep us out of conflicts.
Everybody always is freaked out.
He's so crazy.
He does all this crazy stuff.
I mean, it was peaceful when he was in office.
I actually liked that he got along with North Korea and Russia.
I mean, it's good to keep your enemies close.
If you can be friendly with your enemies, why not?
But all these people think that he's compromising America.
I mean, the guy's a patriot.
He loves the country.
He got shot at.
Like they were saying during the speech, he doesn't have to do this.
I thought that was really cool.
I thought that was a good, his speech was good.
It was history in the making.
Seeing Trump, such a polarizing, unique character, Elon Musk, the tycoon of our era.
That's history, folks.
That was Ryan in Phoenix, Arizona.
Chrisha in Austin, Texas, also on the line for support former President Trump.
Good morning, Chrisha.
Good morning.
How are you doing today?
Doing well.
I've been watching C-SPAN since 2012, since the election of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.
And I really like y'all, and I really appreciate y'all doing this for us.
Well, thank you for that.
There is a huge team behind tonight's election results and the months leading up to it.
So I know they appreciate hearing that.
Tell us about your decision to vote for former President Trump.
Well, I really support him on the border wall.
That's the main thing.
And I just want to say that God must have a real purpose for this guy because he's had two assassination attempts on him, and he's still up and running.
And so God really must have a purpose for him.
And Christia, you're in Austin, Texas.
What have you seen this election cycle when it comes to the different candidates?
Everybody here is, well, there's a few of us that are for Trump, but a lot of people are for Harris here.
Austin's probably the most liberal town city in Texas.
And your senator, Senator Ted Cruz, managed to hang on to his seat.
I love him.
I absolutely love him.
You voted for him as well?
I sure did.
I used to be a Democrat.
I voted for Obama, but after that, I just realized that the Republicans are more in line with what the Bible says.
And if former President Trump does get those last three electoral votes, he needs to take office again, what do you want to see him focus on first?
Middle the wall that was Krisha in Austin, Texas.
Adrienne in Miami, Florida.
She voted to support Vice President Kamala Harris.
Adrienne, good morning.
Hi, good morning.
Thank you so much for this program.
It's encouraged my insomnia to stay up during the election.
So I just wanted to call and reach out because I feel like we're witnessing the greatest con of our nation's history.
Like Trump used our working class, he manipulated them into believing that he actually cares about them.
He claimed he had the greatest first term, but yet 400,000 people died from COVID under his lack of leadership when leaving office and focused on supporting his friends like Russia and North Korea during his presidency.
Inflation, which I keep hearing as a common theme, in my opinion, is the cause of Citizens United being allowed back in 2010 because now companies or billionaires can support financially with a lot less financial restrictions than they had before, which allows their vote to have more influence than ours.
And then I hear people talking about the border wall.
That's a joke because certain parts of the border are physically unable to be built upon due to the landscape of the like the land itself.
And then other parts, we've seen documentaries being done where you'd be cutting through people's private property.
For people calling like Donnie or Ryan, calling things like, oh, he said he was a knucklehead.
That's why I didn't vote for him.
What about the fact that the person that you all are voting for was convicted 36 times on felonies?
Isn't that enough of a reason not to vote for that person?
I'm going to be surprised if he's even allowed into certain countries that usually don't even allow felons to come visit.
This is going to be like, I feel like we're the joke of the world right now.
And while he hasn't been officially elected, I'm really scared because he's never really been pro-unity.
He's always been divisive, even on his platform tonight.
He brought up Aiden Ross, which continuously talks bad about black people and uplifts white nationalists.
So I'm still not seeing how he's going to unify us.
And I'm kind of scared.
Adrienne, you're there in Miami.
It was a state that former President Trump did win the electoral votes to.
You also saw your Senator Rick Scott win re-election.
Did you vote Democrat down the ballot?
Yes, I did.
And it wasn't just because I didn't want to just vote blue.
I do mail-in ballots, so I receive my ballot.
I look up all the different people before I make my decisions.
And just their records, what they've done in the past for us, it just aligned more to vote with the Democratic ticket.
That was Adrienne in Miami, Florida.
Holly, Washington, D.C., on the line for others.
Good morning, Holly.
Oh, thank you so much for taking the call, and thank you for doing this.
It's been a great, great program.
I really appreciate C-SPAN.
Holly, tell us about your vote.
You are on the other line.
Did you vote in the election?
I did not.
And before Trump spoke, Peter made an observation about the Electoral College, and it had to do with, I think, there being actually more Republicans in California than I think it was Tennessee.
For people who don't, I have a different observation.
It's for people who don't like the Electoral College.
And that is, if it was National vote and not by state, the whole campaign system would be completely different instead of being geared towards these swing states.
And also, I think people's voting would be different.
I live in the District of Columbia, where we have one pitiful electoral vote, and it's also overwhelmingly Democrat.
So if I went, however, I voted, it really wouldn't make much difference.
I didn't feel very well.
I didn't want to vote for either one of the major candidates.
I probably would have voted for Jill Stein.
But I am happy that Trump seems to be winning because I really have been disgusted by the Democrats and their pretense of calling for a ceasefire in Palestine where they keep supplying arms and money and political cover and vetoes at the UN in support of this genocide.
And it's just impossible to reward them for that.
I don't know what Trump's going to do.
I don't know that he's going to be any better on that score, but I'm glad that they were punished for that.
Holly, you mentioned the Electoral College and a popular vote.
Right now, former President Trump is leading Vice President Kamala Harris by just over 5 million votes.
Does that change your opinion at all?
No, it doesn't change my opinion at all.
I don't really know what you mean.
You also had in D.C., you didn't vote at all, not just for president, but at all in the ballot.
There was a ranked choice initiative on the ballot.
How do you feel about ranked choice voting?
In general, I support it, but here it was a little bit funny.
It was linked to another initiative, and there was a lot of argument about it.
And as I say, I'm elderly.
I didn't feel very well.
I just didn't feel like it was worth bothering to vote about it.
That was Holly in Washington, D.C., Isaac in Caledonia, Michigan on the line for support, Vice President Harris.
Isaac, did I say the name of your city correctly?
You did.
Thank you.
Oh, great.
Tell us about your vote.
I'd like to start out by saying thank you for your calm, neutral voice on C-SPAN.
And again, calmly allowing people from both sides to speak their peace.
I voted for Kamala Harris.
And I did so because I believe she represents a path forward that is less divisive, believes climate change is real, and that is a problem that we need to address, and is not isolationist, where I view Donald Trump as a demagogue, someone who seeks power by showing division and preying upon people's hates and fears.
And that tends to lead to a dark place.
Isaac, let me ask you a question.
You're in Michigan, a key battleground state, and that state has yet to be called.
The Associated Press has not called it, but right now, former President Trump is leading Vice President Harris by just over 300,000 votes.
What have you seen there in the past few months?
I've seen a lot of hateful language.
I go out to get groceries and I see people waving signs clearly in the pro-Trump camp that use predominantly language to attack,
to present all Democrats as much of it language that I don't feel is appropriate for C-SPAN, but basically calling Democrats all the vile things that have been heard of on Fox News and such.
The more polite things that can be spoken of are liars, cheaters, thieves, and it's worse than there.
That was Isaac in Michigan.
Wanted to give you an update on a race that has been called, and that is for the Senate Ohio Senate race.
The incumbent Sherrod Brown, he has been, he's the senior senator.
He's held the seat since 2007.
He was defeated last night by his Republican challenger, Bernie Moreno.
Right now, looking at the votes there, it looks like just over almost 300,000 votes.
Bernie Moreno is leading with 99% of the votes in, 50.2% to 46.4%.
It is notable that Don Kissick, he is the Libertarian candidate, did get 3.4% of those votes.
Both candidates spoke this evening about the race.
We will let you listen to Bernie Moreno first and then Senator Sherrod Brown.
Okay, I need to get this off the microphone.
Thank you, by the way.
Thank you.
Look, 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.
We'll 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 front line.
Unfortunately, they have a teachers union that doesn't care about them.
We're going to make sure 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 that 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 I like to say, we're overperforming Catholics.
So I'm going to bring my siblings.
If I can 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.
You know, my mom and dad left the safety and security of knowing what they had when they left Columbia, South America.
They didn't know what America would mean to them.
They didn't know what it would mean to the seven of us.
But they did it anyway because they knew that in America, whatever dream you have, whatever ideas you have, you can make come true if you're willing to work hard enough and persevere.
And my mom and dad are not alive to watch this moment, but I know they're up in heaven watching down upon us and thinking this is a great country.
And they made the right decision.
And I know for one person that my mom and dad would be looking down and saying, this is an amazing thing, is my sister Vicki.
We'll be so proud of you, Vicki, for everything that you've done.
You've been kind of our substitute mom along the way.
Look, Vicki, you were almost like my mom growing up because both my parents worked really, really hard.
So Vicki was the one who would make sure that I always stayed true to myself.
My brother Luis, thank you for your leadership and guidance.
I think Sherry Brown and Chuck Schumer owe you a little bit of an apology, by the way.
I don't think it will come.
I don't think it will come.
And to Jose and Alex and Richie, thank you so much for kicking the crap out of me when I was younger.
I appreciate it.
You made me tough.
You made me tough.
Hey, look, to all of you, we celebrate tonight not as Republicans.
We celebrate tonight as Americans.
And if there's and to the people out there in Ohio who didn't vote for me, just know that I will always advocate for you.
I will always have your back.
And I will work for the next six years to win you over.
Because my responsibility is to the entirety of Ohio.
And I will always work tirelessly to make certain that we do everything possible, that I work my tail off to make your life better.
So to Ohio, to all the people I've met on the campaign trail, to the thousands and thousands upon people who prayed for me, prayed for Bridget, and kept us in your prayers.
I can't tell you what this means.
This is the greatest honor of my life to represent you in Washington, D.C., and I will not let you down.
Thank you so much.
We're the ones who need it worse.
Let the rest of the world help us for change.
And let's rebuild them very first.
Our highways and bridges are far apart.
Who's blessed and who has been cursed?
There's things to be done, rebuild America first.
We may.
Thank you.
We may be tempted to say hope was not enough.
We might be tempted to second guess ourselves and question whether we worked hard enough or long enough.
That is not our story tonight.
We believe that all work has dignity.
We always will.
We believe in the power of people over corporate special interests.
We always will.
We believe if you love this country, you fight for the people who make it work.
We always will.
This is a disappointment, but it is not a failure.
It will never be wrong.
It will never be wrong to fight for organized labor.
It will never be wrong to fight for the freedom of women to make their health care decisions.
It surely will never be wrong.
It surely will never be wrong to fight for civil rights and human rights.
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 is 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 demand 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 pen back on.
And I've worn that canary pen 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.
It was
Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown, his concession speech this evening after being defeated by Republican challenger Bernie Moreno.
You can see the numbers there on your screen with 99% of the votes in.
Bernie Moreno is leading 50.2% to 46.4%.
Also wanted to once again show you where the current presidential election stands, looking at the electoral votes.
Right now, former President Donald Trump is leading Vice President Kamala Harris 267 to 224.
Again, the number needed is 270 to clinch that presidency.
So Donald Trump is just three electoral votes away from winning the 2024 presidential election.
We will go back to your calls.
Don in Washington State is on the line for former President Donald Trump.
Good morning, Don.
Good morning.
Thank you so much for letting me speak.
Of course, Don, tell me the name of your city.
Bishaston.
Okay, I wasn't even close.
I've seen signs, but didn't know how to say it.
Don, tell us about your vote.
Well, this is my third vote for Donald Trump.
And I voted for him every time because I thought that, first of all, we needed to move away from the block voting tendencies of the Democratic Party as opposed to the Republican Party,
which allowed a great deal of diversity to show up in their Senate votes and in the House votes that the Democratic Party did not allow.
The Democratic Party seemed to rule from a top-down force that actually enforced members of the party to follow the block voting rules of the leader.
And I disagree with that heartily.
I think that every individual has to express the opinion in his heart that he holds dear to him and follow his conscience and obey a set of moral rules that each of us have.
And that's quite different than what I see manifest in both parties today.
But as I said, I prefer the Republican Party being a conservative myself for 88 years.
I learned to be conservative at a very young age.
And I remember President Truman's first election.
I sold the newspaper that said Dewey won when he was reelected in 1948 Or elected for the first time.
So Don, let me ask you this.
You are in a red area for what's considered a blue state.
What have you seen in your area the past over the last year, over the past few months, over the past few weeks?
What kind of conversations have you had with your neighbors?
Well, a number of them, really.
I have in the first election in 2016, for example, I saw quite a few Trump signs promoting Trump in this state, including myself.
This year, I saw quite a few Republicans, more Republicans, because I paid close attention to the politics.
And I even attempted some local meetings among the Democratic Party, or the Republican Party, rather.
And what I did is chose to support the people running in the local county seats for government and the senatorial seats in the states and Republican representan representatives.
And the difference is that I didn't see much in the way of promoting Trump.
And I understand that because Trump does so much damage to himself with his ego that I don't think he really appreciates that.
But nevertheless, I respect the man for his leadership abilities.
And there is no question that he has leadership abilities beyond any candidate that we've seen running in the last number of decades.
Don, the former president is just three electoral votes away from becoming the president once again.
What would you like to see him focus on first?
I would like to see him first secure the border.
Secondly, I would like to see him focus on education in public schools.
When I was a child, learning how to use numbers at an early age was standard operating procedure.
These days, high school graduates don't know how to make change in a cash transaction without the aid of a computer, and some of them don't even know how to use a calculator.
So I'm very disappointed in the loss of the ability to solve problems that need quantitative solutions.
So my first priority would be to change the method of teaching numbers in elementary school and teach and using numbers to teach elementary age school children how to vote and how to use numbers to promote unity among the population.
And you begin not by indoctrination, but by teach, letting teach, letting children learn from themselves how numbers can influence their life so powerfully.
I am an engineer.
Don, you're also in an area that has a lot of agriculture, and former President Trump has suggested a plan for deportation.
How do you impact your area?
I don't think that it would have a huge long-term impact, but it certainly there have been short-term effects.
One of the impacts has been that a good part of the agricultural workers in this area actually go back to Mexico for winter vacations, for example.
And last year, they weren't able to get back in.
So that created some hardships.
But workers did get back in.
This year, we happen to have had a very strange occurrence of bad weather that destroyed about 80% of the crop.
And there was no need for all of the agricultural world.
So we haven't seen the long-term impact.
And that's one of the common things that I think are so wrong with the general view, public view today, that we look for short-term results without considering the long-term results.
And when I say long-term, I'm not talking about decades.
I'm talking about centuries.
And one of the things that I'm so proud of about this country is the people in it are so good in heart that I have associated with for my entire life and know them to be very, very good people.
And yet there are very few people in government that learn how to maneuver opinions within the government and change the rules of government to the detriment of the American people.
And that has got to be turned around.
And that is why education of students in elementary school is the way I would solve that problem.
That was Don in Washington State.
Chase in Georgia says that you're calling on the undecided line.
Good morning, Chase.
Good morning.
It looks like President Trump is going to once again win the election, and he's going to have both chambers of Congress under Republican control, similar to his first two years in office.
During that time, he was unable to achieve most of his goals that he set out and he laid out in his first election.
Do you think this time's going to be different for him?
Chase, it says on my screen that you're undecided.
Did you vote in the election?
I did, yes.
Who did you vote for?
I actually wrote in a candidate, a Georgia native, an individual who I consider to be a good man who I've met several times, Jimmy Carter, actually.
Tell me about the decision to write in former President Carter as opposed to voting for Vice President Harris or former President Trump.
Were you undecided?
You just couldn't make up your mind?
You didn't like either?
I wasn't impressed with either one.
I looked at the policies that former President Trump was able to enact under his leadership, and I noticed that a lot of what he was saying wasn't actually what was being enacted.
And similarly with Vice President Harris, I wasn't really able to get a good sense of what she actually stood for and what she wanted to achieve in office.
And I went back with a man who I considered decent and hardworking, and that was former President Carter.
And Chase, the state of Georgia was called for former President Donald Trump.
He won by, it looks like about 120,000 votes.
Do you know anybody else who didn't vote in the presidential race?
I did.
So I'm actually in college right now, and we had a presidential watch party that I got home from about an hour ago, actually.
And we have a lot of dual enrollment students.
So these are high school students.
And of course, they weren't eligible to vote.
But we also have a large portion of individuals who are ineligible to vote, either through felony convictions or through the fact that they are not citizens of the country.
We're in a large area with first-generation Americans.
And Chase, if former President Trump does get those last three electoral votes and become president, the Senate has already been flipped to Republican control.
The House is still up in the air.
We don't know who's going to control that.
But as you mentioned, if it does come down to where Republicans control all three chambers, the Senate, the House, and the White House next year, what do you think is going to happen?
What do you hope that they focus on?
Well, mostly I think it's going to be the same that we've seen for the last 12 years.
And that's mostly getting most of the administrative stuff.
You know, it's not going to hold up the judicial nominations or the nominations of officers in the U.S. military, but I don't see any major policies getting enacted.
But one of the things that I think young people have been focusing on, and especially those who I've interacted with at my college, is the local elections.
And that's really where most of the change that we're going to see in our everyday lives is going to happen.
When we're looking at access to health care or education or abortion rights, these are changes that are happening at the state level.
And one thing that happened this election that I haven't seen in previous ones is more people were interested in down ballot measures.
We're seeing more turnout for the House of Representatives, for the Senate races, for my specific area, for some of the ballot measures that we have, all three constitutional amendments passed in the state of Georgia.
And unfortunately, we had a transit referendum that failed in my county.
But we had a higher turnout for that than anyone had really expected.
So I'm excited to see young people, especially looking down the ballot and not just at the president.
And Chase, I'm looking at an article in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, the headline, something you just mentioned.
Trump closes in on a victory after record voter turnout in Georgia.
The article says that more than 5.2 million people voted in the general election.
This broke the state's previous record of 5 million voters in the 2020 general election.
Let me ask you one more question.
You said that you have individuals that are in high school.
They're not yet eligible to vote in the election.
What were their biggest concerns?
What were some of the biggest issues they're concerned about?
Some of the biggest things that they expressed concern was access to education funding.
Of course, through the updated FAFSA form is something that us college students are really, it's a big struggle.
The rollout of it was extremely slow.
It takes about four hours now to fill out as opposed to the old one, which was only about 45 minutes.
And as well, there's no ability to finish filling it out unless your parents have filed their taxes.
And for individuals whose parents may not be filing their taxes through the IRS for people who might not be in the country legally, it's a huge burden.
It makes it much more difficult.
And so a lot of people were looking at Vice President Harris thinking that she would continue the Biden administration's loan policy and just looking at that.
Another thing is access to health care, access to abortions, right?
Always a big ticket item on young voters.
And like you mentioned, young voters are more likely to vote early, and we really saw that.
Of those 5.2 million who voted, we had over almost 60% voted early, which was just an unbelievable number.
I'm not sure on what the record was, but I believe in 2020, it was only around 40% that voted early.
So we saw a 50% increase in early voting this year, which was crazy.
That was Chase and Georgia.
Hazel is calling from Fort Collins, Colorado, on the line supporting Vice President Kamala Harris.
Good morning, Hazel.
Hi.
I'm actually also a college student right now.
Tell me about your vote, Hazel.
Yeah.
So on the one hand, I was really excited to vote in this election because it's the first time I could vote for the presidential race.
I voted for the midterms, but I wasn't, I was still in high school for the 2020 election.
But I'm also really disappointed in how Harris did overall.
I was really hoping that she would win the presidency, and now it looks like that's most likely not going to happen.
Hazel, you voted for Vice President Kamala Harris.
Former President Trump is just a few electoral votes away from winning a second non-consecutive presidency.
Knowing that, what would you like to see the former president focus on if he were to return to office?
I just want him to not be able to do most of the stuff he wants to do.
I disagree with pretty much everything he stands for.
One of the things I'm really concerned about is what the previous caller had mentioned, access to health care, abortion specifically.
A lot of people I know also need access to gender-affirming care for like transgender individuals.
And I know a lot of states have banned that for people who are underage.
And I'm worried that that's going to be expanded, like maybe even federally.
So that's something I'm really worried about.
Something else that I really don't want him to do is that I don't want him to do all the mass deportation.
He's been talking about something like 15, 20 million people.
Like in my mind, there's no way that could happen without like, I don't know, it just without like essentially like concentration camps.
And so many people are going to die if that happens.
And I just, I don't know.
I'm really scared.
This is Hazel in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Matt in Kennard, North Dakota, on the line for support former President Trump.
Good morning, Matt.
Good morning.
Tell me about this.
I voted for Donald.
For one, he's not a politician.
He is a businessman.
And the first term he was in, he did this country really well.
Didn't care for a lot of the Twitter and all that stuff that he did.
If he had just stayed with his concept of doing what he was doing, it was great.
The Twitter and all that, you know.
No, stay off that.
Just do what you were doing.
He did a phenomenal job otherwise.
My question is: why is it so hard to get our country back to what it was 20 years ago?
Why is it so divided?
Matt, I am so sorry.
We are going to have to leave it right there.
That's a great question, though.
Tim Sheehy, the candidate in the race for Montana Senate, is speaking.
all listen live to those remarks about me about my family about you guys I've had campaign staffers specifically singled out uh and it's been a rough time for everybody uh businesses and charities I'm involved in have even been targeted so all of you who've been part of this campaign I know you even do it a lot uh my friends family and partners of Bridger Aerospace you've been maligned terribly out there but you've continued to do your job You've put your head down, fought fires, and protected our communities despite all that.
So all of you on the campaign team and everyone else has helped us out.
Thank you very much for your dedication to this country.
Thank you.
And everybody who voted for me, thank you.
I have, since I was 18 years old, I've served this country.
I sought it on the dotted line, like many of you here did, and I was proud to serve my country overseas, came home, served my country fighting fires.
And to those who did not vote for me, I will also serve you.
Just like I did in the military, I took an oath to serve all Americans, and I'll take an oath here to serve all Montanans.
So I will earn your vote in the future.
If you didn't vote for me, I will work to earn your support in future elections because we have to save this country.
And to save it, we've got to come together and figure out how to heal this country.
We have to disagree better, and we've got to actually move forward and stop arguing about everything.
We've got to make some progress to our miners, to our loggers, to our truck drivers, our diesel mechanics, our electricians, our plumbers, our carpenters, to the people who work with your hands, our ranchers and farmers who make this economy run.
You are the people that we have to make this economy work for again.
We've got to make sure that the folks who go to work every day work with their hands, pay for their own education, and put food on the table for their families, we've got to make sure this economy works for them again.
That's going to be our top priority.
Bring inflation down, get real wages back up, and make sure that if you work with your hands, you can make a good living in this country and provide for your family.
And a key part of that is our resource economy.
We've got to bring back our resource economy, and that hits home hugely here in Montana.
We've got to make sure our coal miners don't have to worry every single year that they're going to go out of business.
They're going to lose their jobs.
Our timber industry, copper, oil and gas.
We need to unleash American resources.
We do it better, safer, and greener here in America than anywhere else in the world.
So let's do it here with Montana jobs.
And to our veterans, our police officers, our first responders, our military members, our firefighters out there, you have a sacred duty.
We're so grateful that every day you put on a uniform and you decide to put your life on the line to protect the rest of us.
It's about time we stand behind you unequivocally.
We've got to rebuild our military.
We've got to make sure our military is ready to fight our next war and prioritize combat lethality for our men and women in uniform.
We owe them a lethal military, and we're going to give it to them.
In Montana, our Native brothers and sisters, it's about time we turn the page on relations here.
Make sure we get our tribal communities back on their feet economically.
We give them sovereignty and agency so that they can succeed economically, grow businesses on the reservation, and have the economic freedom to grow their communities, have prosperity, and have a successful organic economy on every tribal community in the state.
And finally, you've heard me say it a million times, I'll say it again: common sense.
It's about time we bring common sense back to this country.
And in Montana, we've run a grassroots campaign, as you all know.
We couldn't outspend our opponents on the air.
We couldn't beat them in the media.
So we traveled the state.
Grassroots, we burned a lot of shoe leather, burned a lot of diesel.
We visited every single county, most of them multiple times.
And what we heard is Montanas want common sense back.
They want a secure border, safe streets, cheap gas, cops are good, criminals are bad, boys or boys, girls or girls.
Now, most of you here know the real Tim Sheehee.
Unfortunately, most of Montana knows Shady Sheehy at this point.
So over the next few months, hopefully they'll get to know the real Tim Sheehee.
And they'll learn that I've dedicated my life to this country, as is my wife, as is our family.
We'll take this role, will be no different.
We are going to dedicate our time and our energies to make sure we get this country back on the right track.
We make Montana and America work for all Americans.
Thank you so much for your support.
God bless.
That was Tim Sheehy.
He is the Republican challenger for the Montana Senate seat and challenging incumbent Democrat John Tester.
And he talking there about the race.
That race has not yet been called.
The numbers there are on your screen.
You can see 62% of the votes are in.
He is leading Senator John Tester, 52.7% to 45.5%.
Also wanted to update you on the state of the presidential election.
Right now, former President Donald Trump is leading Vice President Kamala Harris, 267 votes, electoral votes to 224.
Again, the magic number needed is 270, meaning former President Trump is just three electoral votes away from winning a second term in office.
We will hear more of your calls in reaction to that.
First, we want to show you a video of former President Trump speaking at Mar-a-Lago in Florida earlier this evening.
First, the news is that candidate equality matters.
In this cycle, Republicans in the Senate races in particular feel like some pretty darn good candidates that gave them a shot in states where Republicans often face an uphill battle.
And the fact that it looks like it won't be just a squeaker, there might be a little margin there for Republicans and Senators testament to that.
Let's see where Wisconsin is, guys.
We put up Havdi in Wisconsin.
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome President-elect Donald J. Trump, First Lady Melania Trump, and the Trump family.
accompanied by Vice President-elect JD Vance, second lady, USHA Vance, along with friends and campaign staff.
And I'm proud to be an American, wearing these danger.
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 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 Melanie.
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.
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.
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. Very powerful. Thank you.
Thank you very much, Jackie.
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 great.
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 Firstlady, who has the number one best-selling book in the country.
Can you believe that?
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.
Now, 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.
What a great father-in-law, Victor, is tremendous.
And we miss very much Melania's mother, Amalia.
We miss Amalia, don't we?
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's 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 this, 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 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.
Lost that, lost that little and lost that little thing called special.
We have to make it so 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, Susie.
Chris, come here, Chris.
Susie likes to stay in the background.
She's not in the background.
Come here, Susie.
This wasn't expected, 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 and I saw it coming down.
I saw it.
When it left, it was beautiful, shiny white.
When it came down, it didn't look so pretty.
It 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 Elan.
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 great.
And you know, when we had the tragic hurricane Halle, 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, water 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 DiChambeau is up here someplace.
What happened to Bryson?
Where is he?
Bryson.
Oh.
Here we shot.
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 rings because they said it's a rough sport, a little rough.
And I helped him out a little bit and I went and they 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 has 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, hard-working 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, Boston 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 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.
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 quarters, 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.
You swim off 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 no place you can go.
I'll say young man.
When you're short on your door, you can't stay there.
And I'm sure you will find many ways to have a good time.
It's fun to stay at the PyMCA.
It's fun to stay in the fight.
They have everything under middle turn.
You can hang out with all the boys.
It's fun to stay in the wide MCA.
It's fun to stay at the wide MCA.
You can get yourself.
You can have a good meal.
You can do whatever you feel.
Young man.
Fucking listen to me.
I'll say amen.
What do you want to be?
I'll tell you.
You can make middle of dreams, but you've got to know.
This won't be.
No man does it all by himself.
I'll say your name.
Put your bride on the shelf and just go there to the YMCA.
I'm too hanged out you today.
It's fun to stay in the YMCA.
It's fun to stay in the wide MCA.
They have everything from the middle of your.
You can hang up with all the boys.
It's fun to stay the IMCA.
It's fun to stay in the YMCA.
You can get to Sambling.
You can have a good meal.
You can do whatever.
Welcome back to C-SPAN's continuous coverage of Election Night 2024.
It is 5:07 on the East Coast and 207 out on the West Coast.
Wanted to give you an update as to where races currently stand.
Looking at the electoral vote right now, former President Donald Trump is leading Vice President Kamala Harris.
267 to 224 electoral votes.
270 is the magic number, meaning former President Trump is just three electoral votes away from winning a second term.
And also wanted to update you on where the Senate currently stands.
The Senate Republicans did pick up a few seats, meaning that they will be in control of the upper chamber come next year.
They picked up West Virginia as well as Ohio.
Several other races, several other Senate seats are still undecided.
And over on the House side, right now, you can see that Republicans are also leading in the race to control the House.
Republicans have 196 seats.
Democrats have 177.
218 is the number needed to control that chamber.
There's still 62 races left to be called.
We will continue to bring you updates on all of the races this morning.
We are in the middle of 17 hours of election night coverage.
And as always, we want to hear from you.
If you are just joining us, here are the phone lines.
If you support Vice President Kamala Harris, the number 202-748-8920.
If you support former President Trump, the numbers 202-748-8921.
And all others, you can use the line 202-748-8922.
You can also send us text messages at 202-748-8903.
We'll go to your calls.
We'll hear from Keith in Birmingham, Alabama.
He's calling on the line for others.
Good morning, Keith.
Morning.
Hi, Keith.
Tell me about your vote.
Well, I really didn't vote for either one.
I just wanted to voice my opinion on the election.
I believe the Trump will be the right one for this time anyway.
I just want people to understand when the last election, I don't recall Mr. Trump at any time saying, go attack the White House, tear the White House down, but everybody wants to put the blame onto him.
I just don't understand that.
Keith, it sounds like you support former President Trump, but you didn't vote in the election?
Well, not really.
I just want to say that the thing about the whole thing is that when you defund the police department and they want to say Trump did this and Trump did that,
when you defund the police department and then all the states had crime and burnings and okay, so you want to defund the police department, where is the security, where is the protection once you do that?
Those people have family.
They've got to take care of them.
But when you defund the police department, you're defunding the people.
They can't support their families.
The police department lays off officers.
They can't hire officers for more security.
I don't understand.
So I'm kind of, you know, in the middle.
I'm kind of like a neutral person here.
I believe, and I've always been a firm believer, that the Republican and Democrat party should be gone.
For the simple reason it should be gone.
When people vote for you to be in the office, that is your job to see and don't fuss and argue and battle over.
Your job is to be in there to find out and solve the solution instead of bickering for each other and fighting about each other.
That doesn't make no sense to me.
Keith, the former president is just a few electoral votes away from getting back into the White House.
That happens, what do you want to see him focus on first?
Well, I would like for him to focus on security, securing our schools, our college.
We need officers, we need security guards, we need armed, unarmed, we need more security in our schools.
I worry about every day about my grandkids going to school.
I worry every day about my kids going to school.
But my kids are gold now.
My grandkids are.
But I worry about them going to school, even getting on a bus.
Are they going to make it to school?
Are they going to get back home?
We need more security.
We need more officers.
We need unarmed, armed, patrolling our schools, patrolling our campuses.
Because what I do believe in, once a person sees a uniformed officer, armed, unarmed, either way, it kind of deters them to say, hey, let's get through.
We got to work around them now.
So we need more security.
That was Keith in Alabama.
Gabe is calling from Los Angeles on the line supporting Vice President Harris.
Good morning, Gabe.
Hi, how are you?
Doing well, Gabe.
Tell me about your vote.
Well, I am a first-time voter.
I'm 18 years old, and I voted third party in this election because I felt that a lot of the earlier positions that Democrats had taken were sort of backtracked upon with the climate and with fracking.
And for me, one of the biggest issues in this election was the genocide in Palestine.
And so to see continued support from the Democratic Party towards Israel really deterred me from voting in their favor.
And now I did vote in a blue state, and so I felt comfortable voting away from the Democratic majority because I knew it wouldn't affect the concentration within California.
Although I do, I would very much prefer a Harris presidency to a Trump presidency.
Gabe, you're 18.
Are you finishing high school or are you starting college?
I'm a freshman in college.
And what about your classmates?
Are you hearing similar thoughts from them?
Well, I think there's sort of, and maybe the sort of the context of a college campus, or perhaps it's simply the context of Los Angeles as a West Coast sort of liberal city.
Most people are very open about their support towards Kamala Harris.
Well, on the other hand, people that drifted towards voting towards Trump oftentimes describe their stance as a sensitive subject or they want to work sort of they talk around the issue and aren't always as proud about who they voted for, which I think is very strange.
I think there's also sort of a general sense that looks down upon third-party voters because it detracts from the strength of Democrats from winning the presidency.
But I think it's important to recognize that the Democrats didn't lose this election because of third-party voters.
They lost because they sort of denigrated their own voter base.
They backtracked on important issues.
They abandoned not only their Latino, their Latino sort of voters, but also their Muslim voters and people with a sense of empathy towards sort of issues in the world that, especially existential issues such as climate change, which the Democrats, again, have taken steps in reverse of counteractive.
And Gabe, let's talk about other races there in your state.
Were you as, it sounds like you're pretty tuned in for an 18-year-old in terms of why you supported a candidate or not.
What about the other races?
Were you as well-versed and knowledgeable in those?
Yes.
Well, I will say I supported the Democratic option for pretty much every local position.
I'd say every local position here in California and in Los Angeles.
And I was very passionate about many of the propositions that were proposed.
Prop 6, I was very passionate towards because I think the existence of slavery through further labor is completely abhorrent.
And I'm disappointed that the rent control proposition 33 did not pass either.
But yeah, I'd say I was tuned in at both the federal as well as the local level.
He, what are you studying in college?
Architecture.
I'm actually in the studio right now.
Very late night, just working on a project, but we have C-SPAN on right now.
We're just tuning into the news.
Well, thanks for tuning in to us and appreciate your call.
Sarah in Stockbridge, Massachusetts is on the line saying she voted for Other.
Good morning, Sarah.
Hello.
Hi, Sarah.
Hi.
Tell me about your vote.
It says on my screen that you voted for Other.
What does that mean?
So I voted for everything else except for the president, I guess.
I just honestly couldn't bring myself to vote for either candidate.
I thought it felt like the options that the American people were given were just, I don't know, the ultimate form of disrespect.
Like we were not given any good options.
And I felt like I couldn't, even though I'm from Massachusetts, I felt like I couldn't vote for, I don't know, the Democrat or Kamala Harris.
Certainly couldn't vote for Trump.
Sarah, did you vote in 2020?
I did, yes.
Who did you support in that election?
I voted for Biden.
And then in 2016, I voted for Hillary.
And, you know, the 2016 election, I had just turned 19.
So, like, Donald Trump has been the like an overwhelming political figure throughout my entire adult life that I could be involved in politics.
And he won't be gone until I'm in my 30s.
It's just, I don't know, but it's honestly, it's incredibly disappointing, though unsurprising.
But it's incredibly disappointing, I feel like.
What are your biggest concerns, Sarah?
Yeah, honestly, my biggest concern, I would say, ultimately is reproductive rights for women.
I think that Donald Trump is too easily flattered and swayed.
I don't know that he has any convictions either way.
JD Vance is like scary, aggressive, anti-woman.
And so I'm worried about that, honestly.
And honestly, just saying that it's a state's issue is kind of mind-boggling to me.
I don't know.
And you said you did vote in other down ballot races.
Yes, yeah, I did.
Tell me about those.
Did you vote straight Democrat?
I believe so.
I mean, it's Massachusetts.
Most of them are.
I mean, the Senate race, I did vote for Elizabeth Warren.
There was a Republican.
I don't know who it is who was running against her.
I like Elizabeth Warren.
Disagree with her on a lot of things, but I think she's very principled, and I respect that.
There were a lot of interesting ballot questions, but I think pretty much Democrat.
There were a couple independents, but it's Massachusetts, so there's mostly Democrat anyways.
That was Sarah Jerry in Clinton, Wisconsin, on the line supporting former President Trump.
Good morning.
Good morning, Jerry.
Hi.
Yeah, I would like President Trump to focus on giving God the glory for his victories and success and to practice more humility reading his Bible because blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.
And I would like him to tell it like it is.
He doesn't mince words, but the baby in the womb is a person, not part of the woman's body.
And I want him to hold those accountable who parked nukes on Russia's doorstep and laundered money to the Ukraine.
And I'm proudest of my young men in the trades who voted for President Trump who care about their future.
Gary, did you support former President Trump in 2020 and or 2016?
I did.
Both, both years.
And you said that you want him to focus on the glory for his victories and success.
What about policy-wise?
I did this and I did that.
What?
What about policy-wise?
What would you like to see him focus on policy-wise?
I'd like him to strengthen our border again.
I'd like him to all the things he talks about, using our resources and getting back on our feet.
And he's a man of peace.
We didn't have wars with him in office.
Biden and Kamala started those wars.
Richard in Greensboro, North Carolina, on the line for support, Vice President Harris.
Good morning, Richard.
Good morning.
Thank you to C-SPAN.
Thank you for the privilege of being allowed to express my opinion on your air.
I was enthusiastic about my support for Kamala Harris.
Our nation did not elect a Republican today.
They basically have installed a personality cult.
I am, you know, the woman who was on previously said that, you know, Trump, you know, won't be gone until she's in her 30s.
My primary concern is that Trump now, with the Republican Senate, is going to be able to install more right-wing ideologues into the federal bench, the legacy of Donald Trump and the damage that is going to be done to our civil rights and civil liberties for the next generation or longer.
It's just brutal.
I mean, from all, I mean, he's a convicted felon.
He's been found liable for sexual assault.
The Access Hollywood comments that he made are just reprehensible.
He's a convicted felon.
You know, when I went to vote today, I wouldn't have been allowed to vote if I was a felon.
Yet there's a convicted felon on the ballot.
You know, anybody who would have voted for Trump today simply hasn't been paying attention to what's been going on in the last eight years.
He took all of those documents, classified documents, down to Mar-a-Lago and interfered when the FBI came to execute their warrants and tried to secret away bankers' boxes full of those documents.
He wanted to subvert the election in Georgia.
Just find me 11,780 votes.
He led an insurrection on January 6th.
I fear that one of his very first acts when he's in office is going to be to pardon or commute the sentences of all of the criminal insurrectionists.
He calls them patriots.
They're criminals.
They tried to steal the election on January 6th of 2021.
He's just so, so dangerous.
I mean, ex-generals that were in his inner circle during his first term have all warned us.
So, Richard, Richard, the former President Trump is just three electoral votes away from winning another term and returning to the White House.
If you could get a message to him, what would you tell him?
What do you want him to focus on?
Boy, oh boy.
I want him to focus on actually doing something for the working people in this country that he duped into voting against their own working class interests in this election.
I have, you know, he's an autocrat.
He cozies up to Viktor Orban, Vladimir Putin, a love affair with Kim Jong-un in North Korea.
I just want him to truly try to do what's in the best interests of the country, but I'm afraid that his own self-interest is the only thing that he's going to be pursuing.
The only reason he's back in power, why he was so eager to regain the presidency, was simply to avoid all of the liability for his criminal actions, for his civil offenses.
Delay, delay, delay.
The D.C. appellate court voted unanimously that Trump was not immune for prosecution.
But the hand-picked ideologues that he put on the Supreme Court, coupled with Roberts, Thomas, and Alito, basically have given him blanket immunity for all of his official acts.
If we have a Republican House and the Republican Senate and Trump in there, the damage that could be done to our civil rights and our civil liberties, it's just beyond the pale.
I used to think that Trump was the worst thing that has happened to this country since 9-11.
But now, I think that this election yesterday is now even worse than that because rather than terrorists flying planes into the Capitol and the World Trade Center, the havoc that is going to be reaped upon this country has been endorsed by the American people.
And that makes it just catastrophic.
Anyone who voted for him simply hasn't been paying attention.
And I just think that November 5, 2024 is going to be looked upon in history as one of the darkest days in this country's history.
And I just pray to God we survived the first four years of Trump.
But, you know, you just wait until Clarence Thomas and Samuel Lito resign their positions on the Supreme Court so he can put some 40-something year old right-wing ideologues in there to take their places.
And with the three that he put in there last time, we won't get a decent decision out of the Supreme Court for over a generation.
I'm a retired attorney, and when I read case law in law school, the justices, when they were able to have a majority, were the ones that promoted our civil rights and our civil liberties.
And now that's all gone.
You know, people talk about sending this back to the states with regard to abortion.
I hate to think that our civil rights and our civil liberties, you know, a woman's choice to do what she says is in the best interest of herself, her family, her body, that's not up for a ballot.
I live here in North Carolina, and my experience would be that we wouldn't have voting rights for minorities had it not been for the Voting Rights Act and the fact that so many of the justices in their opinions affirm that time after time.
But now that was Richard in North Carolina, we appreciate Richard's thoughts.
Wanted to update you, Richard Colleen, from one of the key battleground states.
Another battleground state is Michigan, not just for the presidency, but also for control of the Senate.
The House or the presidential race has not been called there, and neither has the Senate race between Mike Rogers, a Republican, and Alyssa Slotkin, the representative, Democratic representative, taking him on.
And the vote there is very close.
You can see that the percentage Mike Rogers has the slightest lead right now at 48.6% compared to 48.4%.
This headline from the Detroit News talking about Rogers taking the lead over Slotkin and the open seat that they are fighting over, former U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, she is stepping down.
And again, that race has yet to be called.
But both of the candidates did speak to their supporters this evening.
We will show you what Mike Rogers had to say, followed by Alyssa Slotkin.
Love it. Love it.
By the way, I'm more entertaining if the bar is open.
I hope the bar is open.
Listen, don't pay any attention to the polls you see on the TV.
We're tracking it precinct by precinct.
There are no trends that we can find in those numbers.
Trust me, this is going to be a very long night.
Yeah, and winning.
Thanks, Mike.
Thank you.
First of all, let me thank Christy.
I couldn't have done this without Christy and actually my family, who were, I see them, there they are, all they are right there.
We were all celebrating that 80th birthday.
They probably didn't realize how important that event was to getting us in the race up in Escanaba.
I know Aunt Barb.
There she is.
Hey, Ant Barb.
She was going to become the unofficial mascot of the campaign for a while.
We appreciated that.
You know, when you think about all of the time that we've spent at this and all of the people that said Michigan could not be won, I mean, I can't tell you how many times we heard that.
I couldn't tell you how many times people said it just isn't competitive enough to be interested in helping out in a state like Michigan.
But what we said is, you know what, why we think that's wrong is because we've talked to so many people and my wife have talked to so many people around this state.
And they expressed the hurt and the pain that we are all going through from the last four years of economic hardship, of the fundamental change of our automobile industry.
2,400 layoffs at Stellantis, 1,000 at General Motors, a recent 700 layoffs at Ford.
And we thought, boy, you know, there is a better way to do this.
Because I believe in every fiber of my being with every Michigan citizen, that ingenuity, that grit, that spirit that makes us who we are.
We knew that if we engage that, we could be competitive in this state.
And because of you, all of you, we became the most competitive U.S. Senate seat in the country within the last few weeks.
And so my wife, we've been joking along the campaign pile.
I say my wife and I decided about, I don't know, maybe two months ago that we would split our time.
Oh, come on, that's funny, people.
Light none.
She didn't think it was funny either, by the way.
She said, don't tell that joke.
So she was going to the west side, I was going to the east side, and then we would cross again.
And we just started doubling our numbers and doubling our conversations and getting people excited about this race.
And something really phenomenal happened about, I don't know, I'm going to gay maybe eight weeks ago now.
And it really started with one big endorsement, by the way.
We were able to get the endorsement of Michigan's Farmers, the Farm Bureau endorsement.
They hadn't endorsed a Republican in this seat since 2006.
And they decided that this was the time because we sat down and talked to farmers and we worked through their issues and decided that the regulatory burden that was coming out of Washington, D.C. was a bit too much.
And this was the first time in our history we had to import more food than we exported.
And as I like to say about farmers, trust me, in politics, they know where BS belongs.
It's on the field, right?
And when they did that, people sat up and took notice.
45,000 family farmers, a million agri-workers across the state took up and took notice.
And we could fundamentally start seeing the switch.
Like, hey, maybe something's going on here.
Maybe people are more engaged than they have been in the past.
Maybe people are saying, this is not a state to give up on.
This is a state to work for.
And through the weeks, yeah, you bet.
And then we created the best, and I'm not just saying this, the best ground game in the country.
Just think of that.
Last week alone, right leading up to the election, 88,000 doors.
We've touched over 3.5 now million voters through voter contact.
We haven't done that in years in a statewide race.
And we did that not with all the money in the world.
We've been outspend, I don't know, six to one, I think.
But we did it through people power because people believed in something bigger than themselves.
They believed if they hit one more door or dropped one more hanger or had one more conversation, we could be in this race.
We could be here to make a difference for our state and our country.
And man, did we do it?
So the last few polls have been tied.
Like I said, don't pay attention to the precincts in and the precincts out.
That thing's going to bounce around all night long.
The most important number is at the end of the night.
And I do believe this is going to be a nail biter.
And as my folks are telling me, we are likely not even to know the results tonight of this race.
Now, that's not great news, but here's what the good news is.
That means you have made this race competitive.
So for all of those people that we've had the good fortune to talk to, the police officers who believed that they have been mistreated over the years, for the farmers who are under siege right now and their ability to put food on our table,
for the auto workers who are terrified about their future, for the Teamsters who have talked to me yesterday who said our number of car hauls is going down and we can see it, which means layoffs are coming for them too.
For the teachers who are saying, man, we need some help.
Yeah, yeah, you there they are.
For the men and women of the United States military who are saying, man, please just give us a service worthy of our service.
Think of that.
All of those people, and we have talked to all of them who are ready to do something different for this state.
That's why this race was important to us, why it was important to my wife, Christy, why it was important to so many of you who got in the rain and the cold some days.
And those Saturday mornings when everyone else was doing something fun, you were going to a door and knocking on a door or putting up a sign.
That's what this campaign was always about.
Christy said it best.
It wasn't about me.
It wasn't about us.
It was really about all of us and what we want for our future.
What we can do for the future of our kids.
And do we want a hand in America that represents prosperity and freedom and all the things that we know and love?
Or is it a country where the government tells you what kind of stove you can have and water heater and kind of car you can drive?
That's where we're at.
And that's going to be the difference in this campaign.
And so tonight, I mean, all the work is over, really.
All of the doors have been knocked, the literature hung, the phone calls made.
My wife was watching TV the other night.
She said, I don't know who that guy is, but I sure wouldn't marry him.
Just talking about me, by the way, in those ads.
Certainly wasn't pleasant going through it.
But what we know is that guy that we met the other night who told us that, you know, I came here 10 years ago as a legal immigrant.
And I told the guy I would be his best and hardest worker if he would take a chance on me.
And he got that job.
He was a Bellman and a valet.
And he said, you know, what's crazy is I couldn't get this job in my country, home country, without paying somebody for it.
And then they would charge me to have this job every month.
He said, this is an amazing country.
I get to God, I'm doing this by my own hard work.
And he said, I just saved up after 10 years enough money.
My wife and I are going to put a down payment on our own house.
Think of that.
That's the difference between America and everywhere else.
But it's also the difference between conservatives and Republicans and what the left is presenting for a future of America.
This is our chance to stand up for those people who won't be engaged in politics.
This is our chance to stand up for those people who are throwing their hands up and saying, man, life is just too hard.
So for all of those, help me do this tonight.
Let's do this.
Let's keep our spirits high.
It's going to be up.
It's going to be down.
Hopefully, if this really goes well, we'll be here at midnight going, hey, we won.
This will be great.
But for all of those people who can't get involved or couldn't have the time, for the mother who is spending the last two or three days at the food pantry this month because of the high inflation that came out of Washington, D.C., for her, for the military, for the police, this is our chance to stand tall and say, come November, come November, we're going to have your back.
Thank you very, very much for all of you for what you've done.
We'll be back later tonight with a better upgrade on numbers.
Thank you.
Stay fired up.
We can and will win this race.
God bless.
We had planned to show you Representative Alyssa Slotkin's comments as well, but we are instead wanting to let you know that the presidential race has been called for former President Donald Trump.
He has been elected the 47th President of the United States.
Wanted to show you how he got here, walking you through those key battleground states.
He won Pennsylvania by 51 to 48%.
He also won North Carolina.
Also, 51 to 49%.
That's on your screen.
Georgia also called for the former president.
You can see the numbers on your screen with the apologies, Georgia there, 97% of the votes in.
He is leading Vice President Kamala Harris.
Also, Wisconsin, that is the state that put him over the 270.
He won that state 49.9% to 48.6%.
A few other states have yet to be called.
Michigan has not been called, but as you can see, the former president also has a lead there, 52% to 47%.
And in Arizona, that is the, it's the same story in Arizona, where he is with 60% of the vote in, he's leading 51.9% to 47.2%.
Nevada also has yet to be called.
The votes there are still being counted as well.
84% are in, and he is leading Vice President Harris, 51.5% to 46.8%.
Again, former President Donald Trump has been elected the 47th President of the United States.
We will continue to hear from you and get your reaction.
Jim in Defiance, Ohio, on the line supporting former President Trump.
Good morning, Jim.
Good morning.
How are you guys today?
We're doing well, Jim.
All right.
Yeah.
Listen, I voted for, I voted for former President Trump, I guess President Trump now.
But, you know, I think he's going to have a lot more trouble trying to get this economy back up.
I mean, this economy is pretty wrecked from my standpoint.
It's going to take a lot for him to even try to turn it, to even slow it down.
My main reason for voting for President Trump was his, you know, his foreign policy.
I'm hoping that he can do something to slow down this, what's going on in the rest of the world with Russia and Ukraine, the Middle East, with China.
I've got two son-in-laws that are in the military.
My best friend, he's got a son that's stationed at Iraq right now.
And I'm hoping he can slow down or at least bring us back from, I don't want to say World War III, but, you know, an escalation of the conflicts that's going on.
That's my biggest concern, right?
Jim, have you previously supported former President Trump in 2020 or 2016?
In 2016, I did not.
As a matter of fact, in 2016, I left the presidential ballot blank because, you know, I was going by the media and basically the debate between him and Hillary Clinton embarrassed me as an American.
It took a couple of years for me to warm up to, hey, this guy's really doing something.
I did vote for him in 2020, you know, so it took me a couple of years to warm up.
And you mentioned the economy as one of the key factors for you.
Talk to me about what you're seeing there in Defiance, Ohio.
What are the biggest concerns when it comes to the economy?
Well, you know, General Motors isn't doing that good.
We have a plant here.
I mean, just all around, General Motors is not looking good.
And we have the same problem here with, you know, they're just not filling jobs.
The inflation is pretty bad here, I think, you know, considering when I go to the grocery store, when I go to the gas station, you know, people have been trying, you know, with the bank rates the way they are.
I did refinance my house back when he was president.
And they're trying to give me, you know, you ought to refinance.
Why would I want to do that when I'm paying such a low interest rate?
You know, the interest rates are up.
I've seen foreclosures go up and things like that.
Overall, not too bad, but it's definitely not what it was before 20, you know, basically because of COVID, I think.
You know, that wrecked a lot of things.
A lot of the mom and pop organizations that were businesses were around, some of them never opened back up.
They just got hit too hard.
Jim, former President Trump will be sworn into office again come January 20th.
What do you want to see him focus on first?
Well, I'd like to see the border secure.
I would like to see that.
I'd like to see something done with that.
You know, whatever he can do with the economy, I mean, we got to slow this inflation rate down.
I mean, it is coming down, but it's not to the levels that we had under him.
But I think if he can, his foreign policy, I mean, come on, let's get Putin and Zelensky to sit down.
Let's get something going there.
Let's get, you know, Israel and Iran.
You know, you can't say Hamas and Hezbollah because, you know, they're funded by Iran, but get those two to say, hey, you know, something's got to give here.
You know, and we got to do something about China.
They're getting very aggressive.
I guess I want to see that.
And, you know, if you could get that where we can slow down the giving away arms, that's going to put more money back into the United States, our taxpayer dollars, back into the coffers.
So that'll help a little bit, you know.
That's Jim in Defiance, Ohio.
And Jim mentioned foreign policy.
There are several world leaders who have already begun congratulating former President Trump on the election when Indian Prime Minister Modi tweeting out, heartiest congratulations, my friend, real Donald Trump, on your historic election victory as you build on the success of your previous term.
Look forward to renewing your collaboration to further strengthen the India-U.S. Comprehensive Global Strategy Partnership.
And also one from French President Emmanuel Macron.
He says, congratulations, President Trump.
Ready to work together as we did for four years with your convictions and mine with respect and ambition for more peace and prosperity.
And UK Prime Minister Kerr Starmer says, congratulations, President-elect Trump on your historic election victory.
I look forward to working with you in the years ahead.
Back to your calls and your reaction after former President Donald Trump has won election, the 47th President of the United States.
Up next, Jeremy in California, line for support, Vice President Harris.
Good morning, Jeremy.
Hey, good morning.
How are you?
Doing well.
Great.
I wish I could say the same.
My stomach's in nuts.
Very disappointing results, obviously, and really hoping for the other way around just for the future, the country, the future for my children and to grow up in.
And it's really hard to see someone take the presidency again after trying and raise my children to learn or to live by build people up, don't knock them down.
And yet the president of our country continuously tears people down.
And it's really hard to watch and hard to accept.
Jeremy, how old are your kids?
They are nine and six.
And are they tuned in at all?
Are they aware of the candidates?
Have you been helping them follow along?
My nine-year-old, yeah.
You know, we have discussions and everything.
And the first time Trump ran, you know, we tried to keep it pretty neutral, you know, and open because you never know what she would discuss at school.
And maybe these kids, their parents, tell them that they are, you know, supporter of someone.
And, you know, you don't want to do that.
You don't want to offend people or you want to listen.
But this time around, you know, I'd say we expressed a little bit more of our own viewpoints of the character of Trump and how we, my wife and I, do not find his character something to look up to or strive for, let alone lead an entire country of people.
And Jeremy, the former President Trump will be sworn into office again come January 20th.
If you could give him a message, what would you say to him?
Oh, boy.
I would say, can you please not just focus on your own interests, the interests of those in the 1%, the country's richest, and also the interests of dictators from around the world and not be flattered by them.
That would be great.
That is Jeremy in California.
Cam in Cheffy Chase, Maryland, line for supports former President Trump.
Good morning, Cam.
Cam, are you there?
Cam Cam has been on hold for a while.
I believe they may have fallen asleep.
Cam, if you wake up, give us a call back.
Sasha in Richmond Hills, Nevada, line for supported others.
Good morning, Sasha.
Good morning.
I'm in New York.
Oh, I'm sorry.
My eyes are getting tired.
It looked like a V. All right.
Thank you.
That's all right.
Tell me about your vote, Sasha.
I abstained from the top of the ballot.
I really wanted another choice, and I could not find one.
And for me, number one was the war in Gaza.
And when I heard the debate, neither candidate said anything that meant anything to me.
I would have voted for RFK Jr., but he didn't make the ballot in New York.
And then he suspended his campaign.
So that choice was gone.
And nothing else really fit.
So I just, I couldn't make myself vote.
I couldn't do it.
I couldn't vote one or the other.
My conscience wouldn't let me.
So I abstained.
But I just vote the rest of the ballot.
Tell me about the rest of your ballot.
How did you vote?
Okay.
I went along party lines very generally.
The past, the rhetoric of the past four years has really put me off.
I feel like people have been marginalized, ostracized for having the wrong point of view.
Your politics, your political affiliation does not make you morally superior.
And I'm tired of, I love my country.
I love our nation.
I love the great social experiment.
We are a plural people and we always have been.
You are not divided.
We are plural.
And I so appreciate these bands coverage this election night and today for its objectivity.
I get to hear from other Americans and hear what they think and all the different points of view.
I appreciate the lack of punditry and bias because I go to vote and I see my neighbors and we don't hate each other.
We're not tearing each other apart.
It is normal in real life.
But this world that has sort of been created by the media, it's just wild.
And I was put off by the rhetoric.
And I don't mean a GOP.
I'm just being honest.
So every time, so every time I tried to vote Democrat, I thought of the rhetoric of the past four years and I voted Republican.
I did.
And when I had the opportunity, I voted for third party.
I would like more of an opportunity to vote third party because I think this major party two-party system isn't serving us.
We are more plural than the choices we're being given.
That's just what I think.
Sasha, you cited the Palestinian-Israel war as one of the reasons that you didn't vote at the top of the ticket.
How would you like to see former President Trump handle the situation once he's back in office?
Honestly, I would like him to, you know, I feel for the people in the Ukraine as well.
I would like him to diplomatically get us out of the situation in Ukraine because the Biden administration involved us.
So we have to diplomatically remove ourselves.
And I would like him to divest our weapons and our money from Israel.
I do not believe we should be involved in that conflict.
I want us out of it.
It doesn't feel good.
I don't like what's happening.
I think it's wrong.
That was Sasha in Richmond Hills, New York, not Nevada.
Up next, Jeremy in San Bruno, California, line for support Vice President Harris.
Good morning, Jeremy.
It's a pleasure to talk with you.
My name is Jeremy Sarnikin.
It's quite late in the great state of California.
And I just want to say I ran for San Bruno City Council in 2020 and 2022 because I have a great dedication to the mission of our country, which is democracy.
And I'm just so abhorred to see that our country would vote for a felon and also a traitor to our Constitution.
And I would just like to lay the blame on our current president, who is Joe Biden, for not showing any accountability to this treasonous, soon-to-be elected president.
He undermined our democracy and tried to steal the election in 2020.
And in 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024, we saw no accountability for outright treason to our Constitution.
Jeremy, who did you vote for for president in 2020?
2020, I was a proud Joe Biden supporter.
I felt like he was someone that could lead our country strongly in the areas of eliminating economic inequality, fighting climate change, and also taking our country out of the COVID pandemic.
And, Jeremy, we're going to have a President Trump come January 20th.
What would you like to see him focus on first?
Well, you know, I would really like him to denounce his prior ways of trying to undermine our Constitution, for one.
And I would like to see him trying to bring about more peace in the global stage.
I feel like Joe Biden, all of the good he's done for our country, has definitely had a marred legacy in terms of his foreign policy.
And I would like to see Donald Trump be a representative for the American people and their willingness to see less of their tax dollars go to supporting foreign wars.
Jeremy, did you vote the rest of your ballot as well?
What did that look like?
Absolutely, yes.
I am definitely someone that thinks that everyone should vote for the local propositions and all of the local laws that take place in both their city, county, and state.
And I am definitely someone that feels like every American should engage in the American process, the electoral process.
Jeremy, you said that you ran for office a couple times.
How did you do?
I was an underdog in every single campaign I ran.
I ran on a string, a shoestring budget, and that is completely, that's something I'm completely proud of.
I had a message for my city, and I felt like I tried to give something to every single person that could make their lives better.
And I wish the Democratic Party did more of that.
And at this point in time, I feel like I am completely betrayed by a Democratic party that has not held Donald Trump accountable.
And I will be doing exactly what I feel like is necessary, and that is supporting a third party candidate in 2028.
That was Jeremy in California.
Brittany in Dover, New Hampshire, on the line for support former President Trump.
Good morning, Brittany.
Hello.
I just wanted to say congratulations to Trump for winning the campaign because that is amazing.
And I wanted to say that I did support Trump and I did vote for Trump in 2016, 2020, and in this year's election.
And I am very thankful that he won.
I do support him because of the borders, because right now we need to focus on our people and just getting like food for us and housing and just all of that focused on.
And then getting everyone legally allowed to come in.
And then I just didn't want our amendments getting taken away.
So that's another reason why I voted for Trump because I didn't want our rights being taken from us.
Brittany, tell me about the rest of your ballot.
Did you vote Republican down the ticket?
I did.
And what other elections remind us what was going on in your state?
There was a governor's race?
What was that?
I'm sorry.
The governor's race.
I believe Kelly Ayot won.
The Republican won the governor's seat.
Yes, yes.
What's your reaction to that?
I'm excited for that as well.
Actually, I'm very excited that everything happened the way I voted.
That's Brittany in Dover, New Hampshire.
And again, we are hearing from you this morning.
Former President Donald Trump has been elected the 47th President of the United States, winning several of those key battleground states.
We have much more to come this morning.
And of course, our hearing from you, you can go ahead and give us a call if you're just joining us.
Here are the lines.
If you support Vice President Kamala Harris, the number 202-748-8920.
If you support former President Trump, it's 202-748-8921.
And if you support somebody else other than those two candidates, the line 202-748-8922.
You can also send us a text message at 202-748-8903.
We'll hear next from Chris in Dallas, Texas.
He is on the line for supports former President Trump.
Good morning, Chris.
Good morning.
How are you doing?
Doing well, Chris.
I just want to say, I'm a foundational black American, the Senate of shadow slavery and American Freeman, and I'm glad to see the fall of the Democratic Party.
This years of using this people of color issue to push agendas of this global rainbow coat is over.
And Kamala Harris, she basically pulled the same mood that she did that Hillary Clinton did.
But it's just worse because it's so disrespectful.
She didn't even have the audacity to speak to the black kids that did fight for her and try to get her elected.
And it's really amazing.
And I know that mainstream media and a lot of liberals are going to try to blame black people.
And at this point, like, we really don't care no more because I feel like Trump is going to be better for black people anyway.
And if he listened to the right grassroots groups instead of the black immigrants that portray grassroots groups or infiltrate grassroots groups, then he will go down as the best president ever, especially in black Americans' eyes.
Chris, let me ask you, have you supported former President Trump previously in 2020 or 2016?
No, I didn't vote both years.
The last time I voted was when I was 18, and that was for Obama the first time.
And the second time I didn't vote for him because I just seen how he was trying his best to not identify with black Americans, which we understand why now, because he was like an anchor baby, a tether.
And what were some of the issues most important to you that helped motivate you to vote this year?
Immigration was a big key to me.
And although we really didn't push the reparations issue and it got usurped by the Democratic Party and they used it as a trinket to draw us back to the plantation,
I feel like if Trump talked to the right people, he can come up with a plan that won't make white America feel uncomfortable by giving us the payment that we all know that black Americans deserve.
That was Chris in Dallas, Texas.
Connie, Brooklyn, New York, on the line for supports Vice President Harris.
Good morning, Connie.
Hi, good morning.
My name is Connie actually, but that's okay.
The message that I want to say is, Vice President Harris, don't concede.
Do not concede.
You had too many supporters right off the bat who supported your campaign.
Please do not concede.
I do not acknowledge this.
I do not recognize him as the 47th president.
Do not concede.
That's really all I have to say.
Connie, why don't you want her to concede?
Did you support former President Trump and his reaction to the 2020 election?
I'm on the Democrat line, but I was pretty much independent.
The fact that he has said that if you vote for him, you will never have to vote again scares me.
And I'm surprised how many people heard that message, or if they heard that message, in some of the swing states and said, yeah, you know what, I don't feel like voting anymore.
I can't believe that.
I refuse to believe that of this country.
Vice President Harris, do not concede.
Connie, if she does concede, former President Trump will be sworn in on January 20th.
What message do you have for him?
Oh, I believe we lost Connie.
We'll go to Lewis in Pottersville, California, line for others.
Good morning, Louis.
Oh, good morning.
It's Louise from Porterville, California.
Oh, good morning, Louise.
Good morning.
I voted for Kennedy this election, but I guess from what I've seen, Trump has won, and I'd like to, in a sense, congratulate, although I feel quite indifferent.
I am visually impaired.
I am blind.
So I guess the message what I want to give to Donald Trump is, you know, I congratulate and hopefully he'll take people like me who are blind into account for his four-year term.
I do remember living comfortably when he was president from 2016 to 2020.
So hopefully this term would be just as comfortable.
Luis, you said that you voted for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
What policies attracted you to him?
I guess the main one was the fact that he did support, he did criticize the war in Ukraine, and I did see that I did perceive him to be anti-war.
That was my main attraction to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Did you vote in 2016 and 2020?
No, I am only 19 years of age.
This is my first election.
Well, congratulations.
Your first election.
Karen in Florida, calling on the line for supports former President Trump.
Good morning, Karen.
Hello.
How are you?
Doing well, Karen.
I'm glad that Trump won.
I voted for him the first time, and now I voted again for him.
Anyone.
I know it's going to be a mess cleaning up what the others have left behind.
And he's going to have a problem with that.
Hopefully, he's a businessman.
He knows how to deal with stuff.
This is why I voted for him.
But any of his personal stuff that he's done in his life is really actually nobody's business.
The job at hand is being the president and taking care of everybody in the United States.
So I think he'll do a great job like he did before.
And I guess that's all I got to say.
Karen, your former President Trump will be sworn in again January 20th.
What do you want him to focus on first?
The American people to the border to keep their well see.
Yep, that's about it.
I can't complain about the others, what they did, because they know what they didn't do.
But I know that Trump will clean up that mess and everything will be fine.
Lower taxes, you know, just do the border, the wall, build the wall again, because weird people out, I guess.
Karen, who's when you're saying, when you say weird people, what do you mean weird people?
Just people that, you know, that don't actually, they come in here and they don't pay taxes and they want to live off the Americans.
And, you know, that's what they do.
They don't do anything.
They come over here and cause trouble.
They don't need, they don't need nobody like that over here.
Curious.
Do you see a lot of immigrants where you live in Florida?
Yes, born and raised.
What city are you in?
Inglis?
Inglis, Florida.
It's a little small town.
I'm from Tampa.
Okay.
That was Karen in Florida.
Larry in Ohio, line for supports Vice President Harris.
Good morning, Larry.
Morning.
Hi, Larry.
Hi, how you doing?
Doing well.
I voted for Aunt Harris because she votes for the chance and team.
She help us out.
I don't like Trump.
Larry, is this your first time voting or did you vote in 2020 or previously?
All the voting, the voter.
Who did you vote for in 2020?
Biden.
And what about Vice President Harris?
Did you like what policies?
Yes.
That was Larry in Ohio.
Brittany, Blue Springs, Missouri, line for supports former President Trump.
Good morning, Brittany.
Good morning.
Yes, I voted for Trump, and I am aesthetic that he won.
I'm speaking from a minority group of black women.
I'm a native of America.
I'm a black woman.
A few calls ago, Chris called in from Dallas.
We have a lot of the same points.
I believe that, well, with Kamala, I was very insulted with the acts that she used for her campaigns, like Megan Thee Stallion and Sexy Red and Blow Rilla.
It's insulting that she used a lot of art entertainers and kind of pushed that narrative to the forefront of America.
It's embarrassing because as a majority of black women, most of us are not like that.
And I feel like it's insulting and it's playing with our intelligence.
And this isn't the 90s anymore where our grandparents and parents taught us that, oh, if you're black, you vote Democrat.
They're for the black people.
They're for the black people.
We have mass media now, or we have the internet now.
We have YouTube.
We could do our own research and knowledge is power.
Everybody that grins is not your friend.
And I believe that, I'm sorry, oh, no, I was just going to ask you, did you vote in 2016 or 2020?
No, I have the same story as Chris.
So I voted back in 2008 for Barack Obama.
But his next term, I did not vote for him because I was just disappointed.
And I haven't voted again until this year, just because I kind of lost hope and democracy and everything.
But then I realized that that's what democracy is about.
And I need to place my vote.
And I believe that President Trump, I don't like how it's like the narrative of If you're like all the racist people vote for Donald Trump or Donald Trump doesn't like black people, I don't believe that.
I believe that Donald Trump sees American people and he figures green and he's a businessman and he's in the interest of American people, no matter what color you are, as long as you are a citizen or you go through the process to be a citizen and be here.
And yeah, I just hope that they don't do one of those.
I mean, police brutality exists, but I'm just hoping that another one of those stories doesn't blow up on him and it gets blamed on him because I just really hope that the people that do follow him are not can I say it.
I hope that the people that do follow him.
I don't believe it's Donald Trump.
I believe that sometimes it's the people that follow him and I hope that this doesn't make them radical because we're all in the United States.
We should all be working together.
And yeah, I don't believe Donald Trump is racist and I'm happy to be on.
Brittany, the former president will be Soren in again on January 20th.
What do you want to see him focus on first?
That's kind of hard for me.
I believe it's a tie between the economy and inflation and immigration.
I believe they both work hand in hand.
With immigration, there's a lot of people that come over the border illegally and they don't pay taxes.
They end up, a lot of them end up getting aid and getting assistance when there's people that have been born here.
Like I'm born here.
My mother is born here.
My grandmother and my grandmother's grandmother.
We were all born here.
And I believe that the focus should be on the people that are here already.
And I believe that will all snowball into making the account any better.
Brittany, do you know who your mother and grandmother supported?
Yeah, I believe my mom is more so on the Democrat side.
I kind of heard her cheering for Kamala.
And then I'm not sure what my grandmother is.
Last time I took, she was more so on the Republican side.
When I was younger, I didn't understand it.
But now that I'm older, I can make my own decisions.
And Brittany, let me ask you one more question.
Did you vote the rest of your ballot?
What did your other ballot selections look like?
Yes, I did.
I actually voted for a mix.
Some Democrats, some Republican, which I know isn't usual, but I voted more so with the individuals of the things that they represented.
So whatever happens, I'm going more so people's individual ideas.
Brittany, what time is it where you're at?
It is 5:18.
It's 5:18.
Have you been up all night, or are you getting up?
And are you on your way to work?
No, I actually work overnight.
Yeah, so I've been watching it all night.
We have that in common.
Well, thanks for giving us a call.
That was Brittany in Missouri.
Andrew in Staten Island is calling on the line for supported others.
Good morning, Andrew.
Yeah, yes.
Good morning.
How are you?
Doing well, Andrew.
All right, great.
I think we're in trouble.
Most of your callers, and I hear it, they really, really don't understand history.
They don't.
And I foresee the next three or four years are going to be very troubling years for the United States.
I foresee that the next year, year and a half, is going to be very bad for people that are immigrants here legally and illegally.
From my studies of history, these people just, I don't want to say this, but I have to be truthful.
Most Americans have a very low IQ.
And this is what Trump was playing on.
Andrew, let me ask you this.
You're calling on the line for supported others.
Who did you vote for?
I voted for others.
I'm not being safe because I don't know what these people are going to do once they get into office.
They have both the House and the Senate.
Individuals really don't know what's going to happen until it happens to them.
Believe me, and it's not going to be good.
Andrew, did you vote the rest of your ballot?
What did the rest of your choices look like?
Oh, we lost him.
We will go to Frank in Florida, calling on the line for support Vice President Harris.
Good morning, Frank.
I voted for office Harris.
Tell me about your decision to vote for her.
What drew you to her?
Well, I've always voted Democrat.
And the thing with Harris, she's been there.
She has very intelligent IQ.
She is what we really need.
Trump, I didn't vote for him the first time.
The guy came into presidency, lied about everything.
Obama left him the COVID solution.
He gave it away.
He did so many different things.
He's the only sitting president that put his family in key positions who truly didn't have any knowledge or political background to be in those positions.
And he allowed them to make money.
His daughters, his sons, even he made money as president.
And nobody in a sitting office is allowed to make money while sitting as a president.
And he has bent every law that you could possibly bend.
And everyone keeps convicted felons from voting.
Yet, you got a 34 convicted felon sitting now as president.
We're in trouble.
Frank, former President Trump will be sworn into office again on January 20th.
What message would you give him?
Well, I would let him know and tell him that think of the people first.
Don't think about fat in your pocket again.
And do not put your family members in key positions to negotiate deals with foreign people with no political background.
And just think of the people.
That was Frank in Florida, Mel in Hiawatha, Kansas, on the line for supports.
Former President Trump, good morning, Mel.
Mud morning.
Now, it's a great morning.
Mel, talk to me about your vote.
Why did you support former President Trump?
Because this is going to be a long story made short.
The Biden-Harris administration took over and everything went to the toilet and down through the drain.
Give me some examples, Mel.
Let's see, the money that they funded Iran to start the war in the Middle East stopped our pipeline, emptied our reserves, buying trash oil from Venezuela.
Our economy is non-existent.
All of this is caused by the Biden-Harris administration.
They were given almost a perfect example of how we should be living.
Everybody lived better.
Prices were down.
People could afford houses.
And by the grace of God, we'll get back to that.
Mel, what would you like to see former President Trump focus on first once he's sworn back into office?
Start drilling.
Get our economy down because it's going to take a while to round up all the illegal immigrants that have been living on our pocket and deport them.
If they want to come into the U.S. legally, by all means, close that border.
Mel, did you support former President Trump in 2016 and 2020?
Both times.
And what did the rest of your ballot there in Kansas look like?
Did you vote straight Republican?
Republican straight across the board.
That was Mel in Hiawatha, Kansas.
We'll go to Diana in Glendale, Arizona.
She is calling on the line for supported others.
Good morning, Diana.
Good morning.
Tell me about your vote.
Who did you vote for?
I left it blank.
I do not support either.
I do disagree with the fact that we did not have a Democratic runoff.
I don't believe Kamala should have been our nominee for the Democratic Party.
It's a hard choice between sandwiches, basically.
At this point, my votes went towards legislative, state, and my regional votes.
Dana, who did you vote for in 2020-2016?
I'm an independent Jorgeson Paul Johnson.
That's been my historic votes, yeah.
And would you have you were talking about the not having a runoff that Kamala Harris wasn't part of the primary process?
If it had been Biden at the top of the ticket, would you have voted for him?
No, absolutely not.
Too old, too out of context.
Both nominees were too out of context for me.
And you are there in the battleground.
State of Arizona, what has the past year, past few months, past few weeks, been like for you there in Glendale?
Non-stop people at my door, non-stop phone calls, non-stop tech messages.
It's been insane.
And it's obviously a turn for one way, and it is what it is.
And good luck to everybody in the next coming years.
It's Diana in Glendale, Arizona.
Davis in East Aurora, New York, on the line for supports former President Trump.
Good morning, Davis.
Howdy.
Hey, I just went and voted for President Trump because what Biden did and Harris did not do, I had to change things.
They changed things in the border.
They wanted everybody coming over the border.
9 million people came over to the border.
I said, no, that's not going to happen.
Then all these other things, and then Harris comes over and says, Oh, we're going to go charge you the money that you make on your investments, stocks.
She's going to charge, she wants to tax that.
I don't think it's right to do anything like that.
I think Mr. Biden and Mrs. Harris was the worst thing that ever happened, which I believe was stolen by.
I mean, I watched 20 and 20 where they had cardboard going over where people were counting votes.
They had cardboard going over windows.
That's not right.
This time, that did not happen.
I believe everything was done correctly this time, at least.
And then, Mr. President, Trump won.
And Davis, former President Trump will be sworn into office again in January.
What do you want him to focus on first?
Border.
Number one, border.
He's got to get, you will get by doing the tariffs he's going to be doing, you will take care of getting things back normal with our economy.
The reason why our economy went bad, the first thing Biden did is knock off all our oil that we were pumping out all the oil.
It raised oil prices, which raised the whole rest of everything, what every did.
Everything that got raised in groceries, everything went up in price.
As soon as everything else went up in price, houses went up in price.
Apartments went up in price.
Davis, talk to me about the rest of your ballot.
Did you vote straight Republican?
All conservative.
100%.
And what house district are you in?
There were some key districts there.
Yeah, I seen, and I didn't like, oh, geez, the person in New York, in New York City, she's actually from our area, but she just screwed everything up also.
I'm trying to figure out her name, though.
I'm sorry to put you on the spot.
We'll leave it there and appreciate you tuning in this morning.
That is our last call for this portion of the program.
Wanted to make sure that you notice in the bottom left-hand corner of your screen, there is a QR code.
You can scan that and it will take you directly to the C-SPAN website showing the results for all the races across the country, including the electoral vote, which former President Donald Trump has won.
He is leading, or he won 277.
Vice President Kamala Harris is currently at 224.
There are still a few races yet to be called, but former President Donald Trump is officially the 47th, has officially been elected as the 47th President of the United States.
That wraps up this portion of our election night coverage.
An extended Washington Journal is next.
There will be five more hours of election results and reaction from across the country.
Former President Trump again has won the presidency.
He spoke to supporters in Mar-a-Lago in Florida earlier this evening.
Here are those remarks.
The news aren't stating that candidate equality matters.
In this cycle, Republicans in the Senate races in particular feel like some pretty darn good candidates that gave them a shot in states where Republicans often face an uphill battle.
And the fact that it looks like it won't be just a squeaker, there might be a little margin there for Republicans.
Senators testament to that.
Let's see what Wisconsin is, guys.
We'll put up Havdi in Wisconsin.
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome President-elect Donald J. Trump, First Lady Melania Trump, and the Trump family.
accompanied by Vice President-elect JD Vance, second lady Usha Vance, along with friends and campaign staff.
And I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free.
And I won't forget the men who died, who gave that right 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 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 Melanie.
When there's pride in every American card, and it's time we stand and save to be an American, where at least I know I'm free.
And I won't forget the men who died, who gave that right 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.
Thank you, baby.
And I won't forget the men who died who gave that right 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 U.S. 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, Archie.
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 great.
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 bestselling book in the country.
Now, 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.
Now, 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?
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. Bush, 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 fun.
He's like the only guy I've ever seen.
He really looks forward to it.
And then he just goes and absolutely obliterates that.
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.
Lost that little and lost that little thing called special.
We have to make it.
So 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's going to say something.
This wasn't expected, 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.
And 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.
When it left, it was beautiful, shiny white.
When it came down, it didn't look so pretty.
It 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 great.
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.
He's slightly longer than me.
It's a little bit longer than me.
Just a little bit.
Bryson DiChambeau is up here someplace.
What happened to Bryson?
Where is he?
Bryson.
Oh.
Here we shot.
He's hitting balls.
Oh, he's on the way.
He's hitting balls.
Bryson.
Look at him He had a great he said 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 rings because they said it's a rough sport, a little rough.
And I helped him out a little bit and I went and they 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.
And 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, hard-working 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 Vaughan, 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 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 them.
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, my 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.