Election Results (Part 1): A Trump Win?
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
The US presidential election is not yet decided but the race is tilting towards Donald Trump.
North Carolina and Georgia were two states that the Democrats were eyeing up in their bid to make Kamala Harris the first female president in US history.
But with those states now out of play, the Harris campaign is pinning its hopes on winning the "blue wall" states and the crucial state of Pennsylvania, which Fox News has already declared for the former president.
HOSTS: • Justin Webb, Radio 4 presenter • Sarah Smith, North America Editor • Anthony Zurcher, North America Correspondent • Marianna Spring, Social Media Investigations Correspondent
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. It is 25 past five, UK time. We're in the office of the BBC |
| 0:09.8 | in Washington, D.C. Yeah, Anthony, you're giggling. I've got like a 20 pizza boxes over my left |
| 0:16.4 | shoulder here. It's not the most salubrious of our pop-up studios, but if you're hungry, it's a great place to be. |
| 0:22.8 | It's a very good place to be. Anyway, we are here because it is time to not exactly call the result. |
| 0:28.2 | It's too early to do that, but to talk quite certainly about what seems to have been happening overnight. |
| 0:33.0 | So, welcome to AmeriCast. |
| 0:37.2 | AmeriCast from BBC News. |
| 0:40.1 | There was blood pouring everywhere, and yet I had God on my side. |
| 0:45.0 | So I decided the best way forward is the past the torch for a new generation. |
| 0:48.8 | You think you just fell out of a coconut tree? |
| 0:51.4 | We're effectively run in this country by a bunch of childless cat ladies. |
| 0:55.3 | You know it, you feel it. |
| 0:56.7 | These guys are creepy, and yes, just weird as hell. |
| 0:59.6 | Let Trumpomania run wild, brother. |
| 1:03.1 | Let us choose joy! |
| 1:05.1 | Thank you. It's Justin in the pop-up pod in the kitchen of Washington, D.C.'s BBC Bureau. |
| 1:20.8 | And it's Anthony standing between Justin and Pizza Boxes, also in the BBC Bureau. |
| 1:26.0 | And it's Mariana, aka misinformation, also opposite the pizza boxes. |
| 1:30.2 | Right. First question. Is there a winner, Anthony? |
| 1:32.7 | Not yet, but there is definitely a direction that this is heading. |
| 1:36.0 | The first battleground state of the seven that we've been watching, North Carolina, |
| 1:40.0 | has been called for Donald Trump. He is leading perhaps decisively in Georgia, another one of those |
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