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This Is Why

USA '24: Planning Trump’s America

This Is Why

Sky News

News, Daily News, News Commentary

4.0552 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

As Donald Trump begins to prepare for his return to The White House, our US correspondents James Matthews, Martha Kelner, and Mark Stone reflect on his historic election victory. 
 
From criminal convictions to a defiant fist pump after his near assassination, it has been an extraordinary campaign for the president-elect. Having spent the year crisscrossing the country, the team share their most enlightening encounters with voters in the run up to election. They discuss how Trump was able to broaden his base and why two of the Democrats’ top issues of abortion and democracy ultimately fell flat. 
 
And ahead of his January inauguration, we hear what America and the world can expect from the first few months of a second Trump presidency.   
 
Producer: Rosie Gillott  
Editor: Philly Beaumont 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to USA 2024 on the road with me James Matthews in a hotel room currently in Madalago, Florida.

0:13.5

Me, Martha Kalnett, here in Sky News HQ in Washington, D.C.

0:17.7

And me, Mark Stone, also here in Washington.

0:27.6

Thank you. DC. And me, Mark Stone, also here in Washington. Yeah, I'm in this hotel in Maralago because it gives us a balcony view of Maralago.

0:33.1

Clearly, we're staying in Florida waiting to see what he will say next.

0:37.0

I'm looking at the TV or was earlier on, and I saw CNN, and I thought, that's a familiar backdrop. They're clearly in the same hotel. And then I flipped over, and there's another network broadcaster in exactly the same place. So that is our life for the next four years. Four years to come, but I hear the hotel's quite posh, James. That's all right. Well, it's not like us. It's not like us. But, yeah, Eleanor, our producer, not half an hour ago, said, as we were about to edit, do you need a chair or are you happy with the Shaz Long? What was the answer? Oh, Shes Long, clearly. Well, look, we must get going because I've got to get to the White House

1:12.1

and you've got to eat your lobster rolls, I hear.

1:15.6

Trade secrets.

1:20.2

As the dust settles from Donald Trump's historic victory, both sides

1:23.6

starting to think about what comes next.

1:26.1

For Trump and his team, they'll be looking ahead

1:28.5

to what they can achieve in four years. For Kamala Harris and the Democrats, there's likely to be

1:34.2

some serious soul-searching over what went so wrong in their campaign. So I suppose it's a good

1:40.6

moment for us to do some reflecting as well. On our last year or so when

1:46.2

we've been covering the campaigns, it's certainly been eventful. There were assassination

1:50.8

attempt. And there were giveaways. A million dollars every day from now until the election.

2:00.1

There were gaffs, too.

2:01.5

There is not a thing that comes to mind.

2:03.4

Eating the dogs.

2:04.7

They're eating the cats.

2:05.7

Floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now.

2:09.3

I think it's called Puerto Rico.

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