Trump redraws the US’s political map
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Democratic candidate Kamala Harris has called the president-elect to concede. Trump surged among Latino and young male voters relative to his 2020 performance. We hear from voters in the Midwestern battleground state of Wisconsin.
Also on the programme: we hear reaction to Trump’s victory from Gaza and Ukraine; and the potential impact of a second Trump administration on international treaties to limit global warming.
(Picture: at the Palm Beach County Convention Center, Florida, U.S., November 6, 2024. Credit: REUTERS/Brian Snyder)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service with Julian Marshall in London |
| 0:08.5 | and me James Kamara Sami in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. And it was the result in this Midwestern |
| 0:14.4 | state announced at 4.30 a.m. local time that took Donald Trump over the line and back into the |
| 0:20.4 | White House at the end of a |
| 0:21.6 | momentous election campaign. A short while ago, his Democratic opponent, Carmelah Harris, |
| 0:26.9 | called the president-elect to concede. We are expecting her to give a public concession speech, |
| 0:33.0 | the first public comments she's made since that defeat, pretty soon. We will bring them to you as and when |
| 0:39.3 | she makes them. She had, of course, hoped to be the history maker, the first woman in the Oval |
| 0:44.1 | office, the first person of mixed South Asian and Black Heritage to become America's commander-in-chief. |
| 0:50.4 | Instead, it is Mr. Trump, who has rewritten the history books and, for now at least, redrawn America's political map, getting the young out to vote, doing much better among Latino voters than in the past, in fact, doing pretty well amongst all sections of American society. The 45th President of the United States will now also be the 47th, the first time that anyone |
| 1:11.7 | has won non-consecative US elections since Grover Cleveland in 1892. At 78, he'll also be the |
| 1:19.6 | oldest person to be inaugurated in January after his opponent. Kamala Harris has one of her final |
| 1:24.8 | bitter jobs as vice president in the US Congress, |
| 1:28.0 | where she will officially declare Donald Trump the next president. |
| 1:31.4 | He will, of course, also be the first convicted felon to hold the job. |
| 1:35.6 | Well, in this edition of NewsHour coming live from Sollies Grill, a diner in northern Milwaukee, |
| 1:40.8 | we have been inhabiting for the last few days with a love to have their |
| 1:45.7 | butter burgers. I can see people chomping on them right now. We will be looking at why Donald |
| 1:50.7 | Trump won this election. We'll get reaction to the result from the US and across the world. |
| 1:54.9 | We'll also ask what a second term might look like. Will it be Trump unbound, as some have suggested? |
| 2:00.7 | And if so, what could that look like? What will it |
| 2:02.8 | mean? Well, this is what Mr. Trump promised |
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