of Hispanic voters nationally significantly underperforming Joe Biden's 33-point margin in 2020.
Mark in Pennsylvania, Republican.
Hi, Mark.
How are you doing?
I spoke to you yesterday before I went to go vote, and I'm so glad that Trump carried Pennsylvania.
Like I said to you the other day, both candidates came up to our area, and they were campaigning very hard.
And I'm just glad that in the end, Trump carried Pennsylvania.
And I did like what Harris had to say as far as making the transition of power that she would be there to help the Trump people do that.
I think that was very professional of her organization and very professional of her to offer that to President Trump.
All right.
Mark, a Republican in Pennsylvania.
As he said, Mr. Trump carried Pennsylvania, the Associated Press, calling that at 2.24 a.m. on this Wednesday.
Take a look at cspan.org/slash results, and you can see where the votes came in for Mr. Trump in Pittsburgh and the surrounding counties around Pittsburgh.
It was all red around the blue dot of Pittsburgh.
Take a look at the counties close to Philadelphia, red as well.
And then Erie County, the Bellwether County in Pennsylvania, red in 2024.
Here are some headlines for you this afternoon after President Trump was declared the victor by the Associated Press and the other networks, USA Today.
A contest like no other has shaken the old order.
That's USA Today.
Another headline for you is San Francisco Chronicle.
They had a special edition put out.
It's time to unite, quoting Mr. Trump in his speech last night.
And then from Hawaii, the star advertiser, Trump wins.
Caroline, Houston, Texas, Democratic caller.
Hi, Caroline.
Hi.
Thank you for taking my call.
I didn't know.
I muted the call as soon as you told me to.
I muted the TV.
So I was glad that you allowed me to hear her while I was waiting.
However, I'm not happy about this result.
I don't think it was fair.
But unlike her and her team and her staff, me, myself personally, I would have called it rigged just the way Trump would have done had he won.
Why do that?
Why do that when you heard from her?
I'm hearing what you're saying.
That's why she didn't do it because she's more professional than I am.
I'm telling you that I would do that because I think it was rigged as well.
He has never won a popular vote since he's been running.
He never won the popular vote.
All of a sudden, now he's got it by 5 million more people.
I don't believe it.
Why not?
Why not?
What about his message do you think would not have resonated?
He didn't have a message.
He lied the whole time.
He called her all kinds of names.
He disrespected her.
And I don't think it was right for him to do that.
I don't think it's right that another convicted felon can't get a job at a McDonald's or someplace like that, and he can run for president.
I don't understand why that is.
Carolyn, what about those who said I voted for him because I was better off four years ago?
Or the border issue is why I voted for him.
I think Democrats are not afraid of the people who are trying to vote for him because I wasn't better off four years ago.
Four years ago, I saw people, dead people in refrigerated trucks because he didn't handle the pandemic well.
He was given a playbook by President Obama about the pandemic because Obama had ideas about what to do in case it ever happened.
He threw it away because he couldn't stand to honor anything that Obama might have given him.
So he didn't bother to use it.
And we lost all those people, hundreds and thousands of people we lost because of his inaction.
All right.
Caroline, when you listened to the vice president this afternoon, do you think that she will carry on in some way in politics?
Again, I really do.
I hope so.
Maybe they'll be ready for a woman then.
Maybe they'll be ready for a person of color then.
Right now, they're not.
Who's they?
Who's there?
Who's they?
Republicans.
They're not ready for it, obviously.
All right.
Caroline, Texas Democratic caller.
Jason in North Carolina, Independent.
Hi, Jason.
How are you?
Thank you for taking my call.
You bet.
What are your thoughts on the election?
I'm happy with the election.
And for people to say that it's all based because people ain't ready for a person of color and everything else is absolutely ridiculous, I think.
I think he won the popular vote because here in North Carolina, we've got eggs that cost $6 a dozen.
And everybody was a lot better off when Trump was in office.
And when Biden took over, inflation hit.
And it don't matter about the pandemic because both of the presidents screwed up on that aspect, in my opinion.
Okay.
Vicki, Ormond Beach, Florida, a Republican caller.
Hi, Vicki.
Yes.
Hi.
How are you today?
Doing well, Vicki.
I am very thrilled with the outcome of this election.
It was blatantly obvious she had no platform to stand on whatsoever.
All we ever heard about was joy and happiness.
What are you going to do about the economy?
What are you going to do about the border?
What are you going to do about everything?
And you had the last four years to do it.
You're not brand new.
You didn't just come out of the woodwork.
She had four years to try and make a difference.
All you ever heard was the first thing she's going to do when she gets in office.
Well, I got news for you.
You are in office.
Go down the street, wake up Joe, and have him sign something to go close the border.
Would you?
It's blatantly obvious.
Would you have said that about Vice President Pence?
Will you say that about JD Vance, that he has the power as vice president to change laws, write executive orders, push the agenda?
What I said was, is that he could go, she could go and speak to the president, okay, and work with the president to get it done.
These are things, that is her job.
She is the vice president.
She's not there just taking up space on the stage when he makes an announcement.
She's there to work.
We haven't seen her in four years.
Vicki in Florida, Republican caller.
More from exit polling on education.
Those with no college degree made up 57% of voters.
And of those voters, 42% voted for the vice president.
56% voted for President Trump.
Those with college degrees, 43% of the electorate.
55 voting for Vice President Harris.
42 voting for the former president.
If you break it down by race, take a look at those numbers as we continue to take phone calls.
Amita in Memphis, Tennessee, Democratic caller.
Hi, Amita.
Hi, how are you?
Doing well.
I agree with Caroline.
To me, she was awesome.
I loved her.
And it hurts me to see we have so many people.
This man stood up and talked about outrage like a dog, and you still went out and voted for this man.
That hurts.
That hurts me.
You know, and the other lady talking about, yes, eggs are high, eggs are high.
Not eggs was high when he was in office.
And I think she was better off than he was to me.
That's how I feel.
And it hurts me to know that our people, not only our people, but women, go out and have this man sit there and talk about them and you still vote for him.
I don't have nothing else to say.
That hurts.
Amita, do that hurts.
Amita, when the vice president said today, don't throw in the towel to young people, she said, roll up your sleeves.
She was right.
I told my son that because he didn't want to go vote, he said, I don't want to vote for Trump.
I said, well, you got the female.
And he said, I don't know.
I said, well, listen to her.
Because I didn't tell him what to do.
He's 28.
And I said, you do what you know, you do how you feel.
I can't push what you want to do.
And I think a lot of young people where I work at was asking, I said, well, you know what you had to do?
You had to listen to her.
Listen to her.
Just listen to us.
What do you think was the hesitation from those young people to vote for her?
For one, a lot of them, I think they're young and like some of them first time voting.
They don't know what's what.
And listen to Trump.
To me, he was lying from the day one.
Not only this time, he was lying last time.
I know, but stick to those voters.
I don't know.
I guess they was like, I don't know if to vote for Trump, to vote for this, because my son asked me.
And like I said, he's young and he's still in school.
And some other ones are in school.
And as I said, you have to read.
You have to read and you have to look.
And they were like confused.
Some of them was confused.
All right.
Josh, Crookston, Minnesota, Independent.
Josh.
Yes.
You're in Minnesota.
Thanks for taking my call.
How did you vote?
Well, I voted Republican on this ticket.
You know, for me, it's policy.
Her policies were kind of full of holes.
And we have Governor Waltz as a governor, and he doesn't do a very good job in our own state.
So that's kind of the direction me and some other voters kind of took.
And you said you voted Republican this time.
You voted for Democrats in the past.
Yes, we have.
I mean, for us, me, it's all policy.
We're looking for what's best for the country, best for my area.
And for me, Donald Trump is the ticket.
Did you, how did you vote in 2020?
I actually voted for Trump in that case, too, based on policy.
And in 2016?
Trump.
Okay.
When's the last time you voted for a Democrat?
The previous election prior to that.
All right.
Josh, in Minnesota.
Joe, Louisville, Kentucky, Republican.
Hi, Joe.
Hey, how are you doing?
Hi, Joe.
Well, honestly, what I think it really comes down to, you know, the fact that she was never voted into the Democratic nominee.
And I think that resonated with a lot of voters in the wrong way.
It was almost like she was just appointed up there.
And, you know, with everything that went on with the hurricanes and stuff like that, it kind of, you know, left a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths.
So as far as like the outcome of the election, I'm not really surprised by it at all.
Joe, what did you think of her remarks this afternoon?
I mean, I thought she took the loss like a champ.
I think she did come out and, you know, say everything that she needed to say.
But as far as her going back and running again, I think she needs to take notes where she kind of fell short and pour more into the actual people and policies and things like that that would actually help the American people.
Because I feel like, you know, with a lot of interviews she did, there were a lot of, you know, dodging and not answers and things like that.
And, you know, losing the amount of black voters that she did really hurt.
And, I mean, she only can look at herself and blame herself.
All right.
That was Joe there in Kentucky, a spokesperson for the British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer.
With this statement, the Prime Minister spoke to President-elect Donald Trump this evening to congratulate him.
The leaders fondly recalled their meeting in September, and President-elect Trump's close statement said, connection and affinity to the UK and looks forward to working with one another.
Kirstarmer is the leader of the Labour Party there in the UK.
The president, the elect heard from other world leaders as well, as he claimed victory yesterday, excuse me, early this morning, that is, after Tuesday's election.
Mildred in New York, Democratic caller.
Hi, Mildred.
Hi.
So I vote Democrat, and I'm flabbergasted.
I didn't expect her not to win, but I went into this thinking it's absolutely feeling just the anxiety from 2016 was hitting.
And I have a one-year-old now and a 24-year-old son as well.
And all I can think of is my daughter is what am I going to do for her?
You know, I mean, this is not how the life should be.
And I wonder why nobody is talking about something along the lines of Elon Musk and his lottery that he's been, he was doing in swing states.
Like, that is completely like we knew Trump was going to try something, but that's what's upsetting.
You know, we knew that this was not, that he would not allow for a free and fair election.