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Electioncast USA: Trump Back

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.46.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump looks set to become President of the United States for the second time.

Adam spent the night in the BBC bureau in Washington as the results came in.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.

0:04.7

It's 232 on the East Coast of the USA, which means it's 732 in the morning in the UK.

0:11.5

And it's a Trump back.

0:13.3

Donald Trump is just a handful of votes away from being re-elected as president of the USA.

0:18.5

He has won several of the battleground states and is projected

0:22.8

to win several more of them, although we might not know for certain for the next day or so. And that

0:28.6

leaves him on 266 votes in the electoral college. It leaves his Democrat rival Kamala Harris on

0:34.4

just 194. It seems that he's won big with black voters, Latino voters,

0:42.5

in the suburbs, amongst the young, in places where Joe Biden had done well in 2020,

0:48.8

and in places where he had done, where Donald Trump had done well in 2016.

0:58.7

It's really quite a miraculous political comeback.

1:03.9

Only one other president ever before has served two non-consecutive terms.

1:06.6

That was Grover Cleveland, and that was a long time ago.

1:15.4

I've spent the night behind the scenes of the BBC's election coverage on TV, radio and online here in the BBC HQ in Washington, D.C.

1:22.4

And here is the story of what Friends of the podcasts are beginning up to on this momentous, momentous night.

1:25.9

And everyone's just been using the word momentous because that's what it is.

1:32.9

We're just minutes away from the first results in a historically close election.

1:35.0

After months of campaigning across the country.

1:37.4

Newscast from the BBC.

1:39.3

Comala Harris is a train wreck.

1:41.8

Donald Trump is increasingly unhinged.

1:42.8

Childless cat ladies.

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