How Trump won again

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🗓️ 6 November 2024

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Summary

Former President Donald Trump will return to the White House next year. The Washington Post's Michael Scherer explains how Trump won. Then, Jacorie McCall is a Black voter who supports Trump and has worked on past Republican campaigns. He reacts to the victory. And, Axios' Margaret Talev takes a look at Trump's likely policies on issues ranging from immigration to health care to taxes and foreign policy. Plus, Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd reports from Arizona. Finally, former Pennsylvania Rep. Jim Greenwood, co-founder of Pennsylvania Republicans for Harris-Walz, talks about which political messages did and didn't resonate in the battleground state.

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0:00.0	Support for here and now anytime comes from MathWorks, creator of MATLAB and Simulink software for technical computing and model-based design.
0:09.2	MathWorks, accelerating the pace of discovery in engineering and science. Learn more at Mathworks.com.
0:16.4	It is now clear that we've achieved the most incredible political thing.
0:22.1	Look what happened.
0:23.2	Is this crazy?
0:24.6	It is pretty amazing.
0:26.0	It's the first time in over 100 years that a candidate has reclaimed the presidency after losing it.
0:32.2	It's also the first time a convicted felon has been elected president in the United States.
0:36.9	And Donald Trump was voted
0:38.4	resoundingly back into office by the most diverse electorate a Republican president has won
0:44.5	in decades.
0:53.9	It's Wednesday, November 6th, and this is here and now anytime from NPR and WBUR.
1:00.1	I'm Chris Bentley.
1:04.0	The voters have spoken, and Donald Trump is moving back into the White House.
1:09.2	We'll have analysis of the vote
1:10.9	and hear from some people who cast their ballots.
1:13.7	I am honestly terrified of what will happen after the election.
1:17.9	I don't know what to expect.
1:20.0	I've been praying for months that it works out okay.
1:24.1	Also,
1:25.0	America has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate.
1:32.7	We have taken back control of the Senate.
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