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00:00Good evening and welcome to United States Decides 2024, the special show in Televisor
00:14English in which we'll be following the electoral process in the United States.
00:19We had a winner last night, that was Donald Trump in the Republican Party and we'll be
00:23analyzing the aftermath today.
00:25My name is Belinda Santos and with me as my anchor with all the information, all the data
00:31is of course Gladys Quezada, hello Gladys.
00:34Hello Belen and yes, precisely as you were announcing and explaining today in the aftermath
00:40of this fresh result and outcome of the presidential election in the U.S., we are going to give
00:46you the latest updates but also a little bit of analysis on the figures and the data and
00:51how the vote took place in the U.S.
00:53All of this with you and of course with our audience in this show today.
01:00Exactly, and also joining us again is Professor Danny Cho, thank you professor for joining
01:08us one more time.
01:10Thank you for having me, there's a lot to unpack now that Donald Trump, much to the
01:15chagrin of the liberals, is the 47th president of the United States of America.
01:24Exactly, and that's not all, we're also joined by correspondent Luis Gutierrez, who is in
01:30the United States and bringing us all the information as he also did last night.
01:34Hello, can you hear us?
01:38Yes Belen, thank you and thank you Gladys.
01:41Good afternoon or good evening to everyone at the studio and to our audience, our telestudio
01:47audience.
01:48From here we will continue to report on the results of the U.S. presidential election
01:52and throughout the rest of the night we will bring in every detail as well as the latest
01:56updates to our audience around the world.
02:00And it's so important to have all these testimonies, we will continue throughout tonight to analyze
02:07what were the results last night and bring you everything you need to know to continue
02:13going through this electoral process.
02:15This is United States Insights.
02:17Hello and greetings from New York.
02:19After Trump's victory and Kamala Harris's acceptance of defeat, what's next for the
02:25United States with the new Republican administration?
02:28All details in our special show.
02:32That was Henrica Miller, our special envoy in New York, also bringing all the information
02:38to this show in which we will continue to analyze the results of the election.
02:43To this show in which we will continue to analyze the aftermath of last night's elections
02:48in the United States.
02:49This is United States Insights 2024.
03:43So now we begin with the information and we need to begin with the most important data
04:06that we have from last night.
04:07We were up all night last night following this electoral process and we finished with
04:12the electoral win of Donald Trump from the Republican Party and now we will go and see
04:18some key general data regarding this election, how the voting was, how the final results
04:25were.
04:25So let's try to see them on screen.
04:27So we are seeing now some data on screen.
04:34The total amount of votes counted stood at 140,024,261 as the votes continue to be counted
04:43with Republican Donald Trump obtaining over 72 million votes, which represents more than
04:4950% of the votes.
04:50With Republican Donald Trump obtaining over 72 million votes, which represents more than
04:5650% of the ballot cast.
04:58While Democrat Kamala Harris has over 67 million votes in her favor.
05:03That represents more than 47% of the totals.
05:08As for the electoral votes from the 270 needed to win Trump obtained so far 295 are earning
05:18those of the seven key swing states.
05:21For her part, Kamala Harris gave only 226 electors, losing states like Wisconsin, Michigan,
05:28Pennsylvania and Georgia, who voted blue in the year 2020.
05:34Republicans are also winning the U.S.
05:37Senate, a party that has been locked out of the majority in the chamber since 2021.
05:43With some races still to be declared, Republicans will have at least 52 seats in the chamber.
05:49As for Democrats, their total of 44 seats includes one independent senator who caucuses
05:56with the party.
05:57For its part, the results for the House of Representatives are being reported in races
06:01across the country.
06:03From the 218 seats needed to win, Republicans have 205 with six seats flipped and are defending
06:12a narrow majority, which they won in the year 2022.
06:16While Democrats have won 190 seats, flipping two.
06:27So before we get into the analysis of these numbers that we've just gone through, let's
06:32go to Luis Gutierrez in Los Angeles to bring his perspective about what was happening on
06:38the West Coast last night and today.
06:40Tell us, Luis.
06:44Well, the last evening was became relatively calm after everyone was waiting for the final
06:51count and for the final results of the electoral college.
06:55However, when we when we woke up this morning, when we went out to the street this morning
07:00to to talk to people and get some reactions, what we encountered was, you know, a very
07:08disappointed, very disappointed attitude among among the California voters.
07:15That was in the early hours of the day.
07:17However, through the day, we started to find out about all these different rallies that
07:21were being organized around the city behind me.
07:24You might in a moment see a group of people that are marching in the in the neighborhood
07:30of Boyle Heights.
07:31This is the east of in East LA.
07:34And let's just to just to give you some more context.
07:38Boyle Heights, it's the it's the the the heart of the Latino resistance in the city
07:44of Los Angeles.
07:45And here people are organizing to have a moment to to do some out to the community and to
07:53communicate a message that the migrant community is not alone, that the Palestinian people
07:58are not alone and that people will continue to organize under a new Donald Trump presidency.
08:08Excellent, Luis.
08:09Thank you for your information and to continue to bring us everything in the latest in the
08:15West Coast.
08:15We'll come back to you either tonight or the day come during this week.
08:22OK, so let's go to first impressions regarding the numbers that we just read.
08:32Precisely, I think that last night was a sweeping victory for Donald Trump.
08:40And as many international media are saying, it is one of the most will be one of the most
08:47remembered political comebacks.
08:49Because let's recall, he won against Clinton back in 2016.
08:54He lost the presidential bid, the presidential election and the reelection bid that he did
08:59in 2020.
09:00And afterwards, despite the felony charges against him, despite the general media and
09:06the public giving him, you know, like the losing seat, he is now here standing as the
09:12new president of the US.
09:14And he was the 45th and now he is the 47th.
09:18And not only the way that he won, OK, because of the electoral votes, also the gains that
09:25he did as the new candidate for the new president of the United States and how he prompted new
09:32voters for some states that had a Democrat tendency and trends regarding votes.
09:39And even in those states and those counties that were discussing topics like abortion
09:44rights, like minorities rights in some cases.
09:47And he gained traction.
09:49He gained voters.
09:50And, you know, something about electorates and something about votes is that you don't
09:56lose or win a vote because of nothing.
09:59And you don't win a vote in a day and you don't lose a vote in a day.
10:03So those people, those votes, those figures that in the bottom line are people, you know,
10:09social actors and individuals, they change their mind because some situations become
10:15some lacks in one side and some proposals in the other.
10:18So we have to see the two sides of this, because it's not only that Trump now has a greater
10:24or maybe a stronger discourse, is that also the Democrats left blank spaces.
10:30And as we were saying last night, gaps in the politics and in the discourses.
10:34And we'll be going through that analysis in this special show.
10:38Let's listen to some of what Trump was saying last night.
10:46OK, can we, Danny, first impressions of this electoral win?
10:51About 140 million Americans voted last night.
10:55That means roughly over 100 million did not participate, whether it was boycotting the
11:02vote or voting for a third party candidate, or they weren't allowed to vote because they've
11:08been charged with a felony or disenfranchised.
11:12Disenfranchised.
11:14It's interesting to compare this amount of participation to years past.
11:20Trump didn't just win the Electoral College.
11:22He also won the popular vote by roughly four and a half million votes.
11:28Some votes are still coming in, but this is a resounding, sweeping victory.
11:33First time a Republican president won both the popular vote and the Electoral College
11:38vote since 2004 when George W. Bush did it.
11:43And the Senate, in the House of Representatives, the Senate at this point stands with 52 seats
11:51for the Republicans with only 45 for the Democrats.
11:54And they're up in the House of Representatives with some seats still to be determined.
11:59This was a massive rejection of the Democrats, of Kamala Harris as well.
12:06It sure seemed like after the first Trump assassination, which was an inflection or
12:11a high point in his campaign, when they announced Kamala Harris, there seemed to be quite a
12:16bit of enthusiasm that the octogenarian, the elderly Joe Biden was no longer in the mix,
12:24but they did not have enough momentum.
12:27She had a very poor showing.
12:29Listening to her concession speech, she encouraged people to accept the results.
12:36There's no way that she can say fraud.
12:38Surely they'll again try to blame the Russians because the Democrats are not good at self
12:43reflection.
12:44In looking at, it's the void that they created.
12:46It's the economic negligence, their inability to respond to everyday working class needs
12:52that created this social and economic vacuum in which Donald Trump was able to come in
12:59with his rhetoric, with this whole front that he's the candidate of working people.
13:05But at this point, the American people have given him the mandate for the next four years.
13:10Exactly.
13:10And we'll come back to some of those topics you were just making reference.
13:14Now let's go and listen to what some of Donald Trump was saying last night, particularly
13:20making reference to this powerful mandate that means also winning the Senate, for example.
13:25Let's listen.
13:26This was a movement like nobody's ever seen before.
13:31And frankly, this was, I believe, the greatest political movement of all time.
13:40There's never been anything like this in this country and maybe.
13:44We don't know.
13:44It would be meaningful if we end up there.
13:47But it's only for America has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate.
13:55We have taken back control of the Senate.
13:59Wow.
14:00That's good.
14:04It's time to put the divisions of the past four years behind us.
14:09It's time to unite.
14:11And we're going to try.
14:12We're going to try.
14:13We have to try.
14:14And it's going to happen.
14:16Success will bring us together.
14:17I've seen that.
14:18I've seen that.
14:20They came from all corners, union, nonunion, African-American, Hispanic-American, Asian-American,
14:28Arab-American, Muslim-American.
14:31We had everybody.
14:33And it was beautiful.
14:34It was a historic realignment.
14:37This is a great job.
14:38There is no job like this.
14:40This is the most important job in the world.
14:45So there's a lot of things to break down from what Donald Trump was making point last night.
14:51After his electoral win, one of the things had to do with the powerful mandate, that's
14:56how he called it, that the people had entrusted on him, not only because he was winning, not
15:02that the people had entrusted on him, not only because he was winning, not only the
15:07electoral, but the popular vote, as you were just mentioning, Danny, and also by taking
15:11control of the Senate.
15:13So what does this mean?
15:16It's a complete rejection of what the Democratic Party stands for.
15:21Liberals in my country, in the United States today, had a very difficult time.
15:26They were up late.
15:27They were praying.
15:29I think from very early, we witnessed it unfold live here, watching state by state.
15:36And we could see from really the beginning, as the votes came in, in the early votes,
15:42that this was a clear mandate for Trump.
15:44This is a rejection of what Kamala Harris stands for.
15:48She brought all of the celebrities out to speak up for her, but neither Robert De Niro,
15:54Lady Gaga, or LeBron James was enough.
15:58The American people want concrete improvements.
16:01Trump with his America first and make America great again rhetoric, though it is rhetoric.
16:08These jobs are not going to return, these industrial jobs that have left.
16:12So it'll be interesting in the next year or two to see the ongoing radicalization of
16:19the working class across the U.S. as they see that Trump is just that.
16:24He is a pundit.
16:27He loves to hear himself speak.
16:29He's a braggart.
16:30And he's been very open about his xenophobia, about his racism.
16:35So I think liberals in America are going through an existential crisis.
16:39Many are saying that they're actually going to leave the U.S. for the next four years
16:43and go to Canada or Europe instead of staying and fighting against the very conditions,
16:50the economic marginalization and neglect that has given Trump this mandate.
16:56So if we don't analyze the objective factors that created this vacuum, what's going to
17:03change?
17:04It'll certainly be interesting to see what type of rhetoric Trump continues to use
17:08about the Constitution.
17:10Right now he doesn't have to blame anybody about stealing the elections from him.
17:14But surely there is a reason to be afraid that in the next four years he could try to
17:20usurp the Constitution, stay in power longer.
17:23As we heard from Luis in Los Angeles and Boyle Heights, one of the traditionally Latino,
17:32Chicano neighborhoods of Los Angeles, people are already in the streets.
17:37Every immigrant, every LGBTQ person, every woman in America, I think, does have reasons
17:44to fear.
17:45There is such a history of hate crimes and xenophobia, sexism, homophobia.
17:52All these things are very real.
17:54We could see a spike in hate crimes.
17:56That's also something that the liberal media will try to manipulate.
18:00Last time Trump won, they said the next day that there was a 4,000 percent increase in
18:05hate crimes, and that seemed more like hyperbole than actual facts.
18:09So there is a lot of hysteria and perhaps paranoia on the liberal side of this equation.
18:15Okay, so now let's go, as we continue to analyze this electoral win,
18:20to Henry Camelo in New York with the latest also over there.
18:29Good evening, Belen and Gladys.
18:33Greetings from the Big Apple.
18:36And Kamala Harris finally accepted her defeat.
18:44And the big question here in the Big Apple is, what will be the next for United States
18:52with this new administration?
18:55Well, regarding immigration, the return to a zero tolerance policy, the phrase,
19:02let's build the wall from his 2016 campaign gave way in this election cycle to the largest
19:10mass deportation program in history.
19:13Thus, Trump has called for use of a national guard and giving more power to national police
19:20forces, although he has not spoken, he only has spoken in general terms and has not specified
19:28what the program will be like and how he will ensure that it targets only people who are
19:35in the United States illegally.
19:38He has proposed doing an ideological test for those who want to enter the United States,
19:46ending the birthright citizenship, which could require a constitutional change,
19:52and reactivating policies from his first term, such as the stay in Mexico program.
20:00He has also proposed limiting the entry of immigrants for public health reasons and
20:07severely limiting or banning entry from certain Muslim majority nations.
20:13Another of his plan goes against diversity and LGBTQ rights.
20:20Trump has called for reversing the societal emphasis on diversity and giving legal protections
20:27for LGBTQ citizens.
20:31He has also proposed ending diversity, equity and inclusion programs in government institutions
20:38that are funded with federal funds.
20:41So there are many changes that people should expect in the next coming years.
20:49Thank you, Henry.
20:50We will continue to follow that.
20:52We're going from the West Coast to the East Coast and we continue to analyze
20:56the repercussions of this electoral win.
21:01Okay, so now we go for a short break, but we'll be right back.
21:04Stay with us.
21:24Hello, so we continue in USA Decides 2024.
21:28USA Decides 2024 as we continue to analyze the electoral process that had its high point
21:34last night.
21:35And a lot has been said during this past day about the demographics of this election and
21:41how the votes shifted and how can we understand not only the Trump win, but also his win in
21:49popular vote, which means that a lot of votes have shifted towards his direction.
21:54So let's see on screen some key demographics, just some numbers, of course, not all, but
22:00some pollings have been done as exit polls and some data has been crossed.
22:06And I just wanted to share with you some key numbers so that we could analyze a little
22:10bit better.
22:11So what we're seeing on screen is that the Hispanic Latino vote in this election was
22:1752% for the Democrats and 46 for the Republicans.
22:22That means that while it still has a majority vote for the Democrats, that Republican vote,
22:27that 46% had a big growth.
22:30It was up from the 32% it had in 2020.
22:36So that was a big rise.
22:39Within the Latino men, their vote for Trump was 55%.
22:45So that demographic had a big majority for the Trump and it's expected that that was
22:52one of the areas in terms of demographic that really pushed this electoral win for Trump.
23:00Also, another key demographic in terms of understanding where these votes are coming
23:06from, and that's what I wanted to share with you and talk about today, has to do with the
23:13education level of voters and their decisions.
23:17And just two key factors in this, in this discussion, we have some exit polls showing
23:23as previous analysis in the previous days had also shown that voters who have never
23:30attended college were voting 63% for the Republicans and 35% Democrat.
23:36That's a big lead for the Democrat, for the Republicans in that segment.
23:41And quite the contrary, voters with advanced college degrees were voting majority 59% for
23:48the Democrats.
23:49So those are the statistics and that is the information from where we could understand
23:55and jumpstart a discussion on where did Trump get this vote?
24:00Well, I think there's an interesting thing to point out.
24:04We were talking last night about not only the, thinking about the Hispanic, the Latino
24:09vote, also the women, but also a class segment that had to do with understanding where these
24:17alignments were.
24:18So Gladys, what do you think about this?
24:20Well, first of all, education and as we have been discussing in prior emissions and broadcasts,
24:27education is now a status quo symbol because as we know, education is, it means extra resources.
24:36It means a steady economy, you know, patrimony and family and education is also aspirational.
24:44So when you have education as a margin for social ratings, you have people who have aspirations,
24:50who have other visions and also it marks, we want it or not, it marks the cultural background
24:58of the people, the ambiances and how they have critical thinking regarding the politics
25:04and socioeconomic issues.
25:06So of course it has attraction.
25:09It has the ground on how people could approach to politics.
25:14And in this case, it is obvious that it had a toll on the vote for Democrats and it made
25:21gains for Trump.
25:23You were presenting some statistics.
25:25It was very interesting to see.
25:28And other numbers also give more information regarding, because in 2016, when Trump ran
25:36against Clinton, for example, there was 1.9 percentage points for the Democrats in the
25:42cases of people with a college degree.
25:45Okay.
25:46In 2020, when Biden ran against Trump, there was 5.7 percentage points for the Democrats.
25:52But in this election, the wins, and of course, because we are seeing the big picture numbers,
25:58are for Trump because in this case, he gained 3.3 percentage points in the margin of people
26:06with a college degree.
26:07But he grew in 1.5 percentage points in some counties amongst the people or the population
26:14with less, you know, degrees in education.
26:17So there is a role, there is a play.
26:19And as I was saying and explaining, I think that it has to do or it comes to play with
26:27the aspirations because, you know, education is how people conform also the, you know,
26:35the future of their kids, is an inversion also economically.
26:40So maybe in sectors that have seen a society and an economy that is in a downfall, okay,
26:47so they have this vision that hard work, okay, and services and other kind of jobs
26:53are paying more socially and economically than not just education.
26:58And that maybe could be one of the points that turn the tables for Trump.
27:02Well, we were warning last night about the dangers of having a superficial approach to
27:08this identity reads in terms of, well, generally Latino population will vote Democrat because
27:16if we analyze the rhetoric, if we analyze like who's talking about criminalizing Latino
27:21people, for example, it makes sense to vote one way or the other.
27:25However, all the experts or all the analysis now is heading towards really the question
27:32of, well, then how do we explain such an increase in the Republican vote on a special sector?
27:39And I was bringing this statistic regarding education because if we think that those who
27:45are not accessing higher education are not doing so because they belong to, for example,
27:52a sector of society, the working class that have not been facilitated those access, we
27:57are looking at a working class perspective.
28:00And there is a sector of people worried about that downfall economy that have not gotten
28:06their answers from that Democrat rhetoric.
28:09So how do you see this, Danny?
28:11Yeah, those demographic statistics are fascinating.
28:15They're extremely telling about the Dems abandonment of the working class, particularly
28:22not in the coastal regions, but in middle America, which is now long been for the past
28:27eight years what they call, quote unquote, Trump country.
28:31When we talk about 55 percent of Hispanic men voting for Trump, it's because Trump is
28:37more relatable.
28:38When we start talking about academia, education, higher education in the United States has
28:44become more and more dominated by this agenda of identity politics.
28:50That's why we've seen this conservative backlash, often an opportunistic backlash or a radical
28:57backlash where they try to reduce college education to just being simply a type of indoctrination
29:05and wokeness.
29:06Now, that's more hyperbole than reality.
29:08But there is a huge truth behind that.
29:12Academia really teaches us.
29:15I'm a survivor of academia myself.
29:19The Ivy League, et cetera, really teaches us to disdain our fellow Americans, to look
29:25down on the everyday carpenter in Ohio, to look down on these hardworking people in Texas
29:32or in Kentucky.
29:34That played out last night.
29:36Trump, if we listen to him in his debates, the debate against Kamala Harris in particular,
29:44he did do a lot of the dog whistling.
29:47He wasn't trying to appeal in any type of educated or academic way.
29:52He was speaking in everyday language, often vulgar, very anti-immigrant language.
29:59A lot of people who don't have access to education, they fall for this dog whistling.
30:05They fall for that xenophobia.
30:07There are people who truly think our country is being invaded by criminals.
30:12We have everyday headlines in New York City about the Tren de Aragua, this supposed Venezuelan
30:20gang that is dominating the streets of New York City.
30:23It's a lot of scapegoating.
30:24It's a lot of sensationalism.
30:26But it played into the hands of the Republicans this time around.
30:30Definitely.
30:33I think maybe the construction of academia, like an elite, it also distanced maybe the
30:41discourse and the narratives created by the Democrats regarding the masses.
30:47Because if you are going to think about it, it is an elite.
30:50The access to higher education, the access to a scholar degree, a PhD,
30:55it is limited because of access, because of the economics.
31:00So people in the masses, they saw a distance.
31:03I think the gap, ideology, the gap between those who do not have a college degree.
31:09And I'm not assuming intelligence.
31:11I'm not assuming IQ.
31:13I'm just assuming a possibility of access.
31:15So if you create this idea of an elite in academia, of course, the people who do not
31:20have access to that kind of higher education will see the gems.
31:24And let's recall that Harris presented herself waiting for the results in an HBCU.
31:30OK.
31:31She was at her university and she has been very vocal and very explicit of her having
31:36a higher education and having this kind of preparation and background.
31:40OK.
31:40So maybe, maybe the masses are seeing a distance.
31:44OK.
31:44Maybe they are seeing this gap, this elite constructed, and they are feeling left behind.
31:49Also because academia has been on the lead with all of this wokeism.
31:54OK.
31:54And they'll fight for a better foreign policy.
31:57You know, academia and universities were the ones that led the protests for the Vietnam
32:02War.
32:03And now they are leading the protests for the war in Gaza.
32:07And many, many, many people are seeing those problems like problems far behind, far left.
32:12You know, we don't need that.
32:13We don't have to worry about it.
32:14It's not our problem to address it.
32:16So how we can go inside and fix what is inside?
32:20Well, you have the motto of Trump.
32:22Trump will fix it.
32:24And that's the way he grasped and he had the vote of the people, maybe with less opportunities
32:30for a higher education.
32:32And I think it's always important not to think about this in terms of educated, uneducated
32:39people, but as education and higher education in particular, as a marker of different sectors
32:45of society and the access they have to different things.
32:48So it's an expression of how, for example, the working class may be voting and thinking.
32:53And you were just mentioning Kamala Harris and Democrat Kamala Harris had a victory speech
32:58scheduled on Tuesday evening from the Howard University, as you were just saying, Washington,
33:02D.C., which is a historically black higher education center.
33:06But after the results started coming in, her campaign co-chair Cedric Richmond addressed
33:11the gathered crowd and announced that she would not be speaking that day, but on Wednesday.
33:15Let's see.
33:16We still have votes to count.
33:20We still have states that have not been called yet.
33:25We will continue overnight to fight to make sure that every vote is counted, that every
33:33voice has spoken.
33:36So you won't hear from the vice president tonight, but you will hear from her tomorrow.
33:45She will be back here tomorrow to address not only the HU family, not only to address
33:50her supporters, but to address the nation.
33:54So thank you.
33:55We believe in you.
33:57May God bless you.
33:58May God keep you.
34:00And go, HU, and go, Harris.
34:04Thank you all.
34:06Apparently, they believe in them, but are not willing to stay up to meet them.
34:13But afterwards, on Wednesday, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris addressed, finally addressed
34:18her supporters and assured that Biden's administration would guarantee a peaceful
34:23transfer of power.
34:27Now I know folks are feeling and experiencing a range of emotions right now.
34:33I get it.
34:36But we must accept the results of this election.
34:40Earlier today, I spoke with President-elect Trump and congratulated him on his victory.
34:46I also told him that we will help him and his team with their transition and that we
34:53will engage in a peaceful transfer of power.
34:57So after seeing these reactions from Kamala Harris, we'll go to a short break and we'll
35:02be right back with all the analysis.
35:27We're back with United States Asides.
35:29And in the last segment, we finished with the concession speech of Kamala Harris that
35:34took place Wednesday and not election night as her supporters were waiting.
35:40Gladys, more on that.
35:41Well, I think, Bel, that she was waiting until the last vote was counted.
35:46She had a strong hold.
35:49And I want to present the space between those words.
35:52She had a strong hold on hope.
35:54And she waited that, you know, the process was going on her favor.
36:00But I want to recall some of the sentences and phrases of her speech, considering her
36:05defeat and granting the victory for Donald Trump.
36:08She said that she felt gratitude with, you know, the people that supported her, the family
36:14and also the volunteers of the campaign.
36:16She even addressed the officials of the electoral institutions.
36:21And that was a gesture.
36:22That was her grace, because, you know, Democrats are trying to stand in the posture of defending
36:28institutions, of being going on with the establishment.
36:32And those are points of contrast with what has been doing, you know, Donald Trump since
36:382020, when he said that he was stolen, that he got stolen the election.
36:43And he was saying that the other party, the Democrats, were committing fraud.
36:50So in that case, she said, I'm so proud of the race we run.
36:55And she was referring to the short amount of time she had for the campaign and all the
37:00activities she had to perform.
37:03And aside from her duties as vice president.
37:06But what is interesting about these words that she gave, these statements, she said
37:11that we will engage in a peaceful transfer of power.
37:16She will do what Donald Trump never did after the inauguration of Joe Biden.
37:21And that's interesting that she's announcing that.
37:24And she said that she's considering the election, even if she is not, of course, fully happy
37:32or fully pleased with the results.
37:35But she referred to two main points.
37:37First, for the young people to keep believing in what is fair, according to her, and what
37:44is just for the United States.
37:45And she is keeping that for her.
37:48And she also said that she will continue the fight.
37:51And that's one of the key elements.
37:53Will she run again?
37:55Will she prepare the continuity for the Democrat Party?
37:59Will she give the power to some legislators or will, you know, have this work with some
38:06legislators to face Trump's advance?
38:10Well, we don't know.
38:10But those were her words.
38:12And it is also interesting that she said that, but also authorities in California,
38:18which is a Democrat stronghold with 54 electoral votes that they gave her last night in the,
38:24you know, in the count of votings, they were saying that they are ready for Trump and they
38:29are ready to be the continuity of the Democrats.
38:32So there is like this idea of, yeah, we lost the election, but we were the fair ones.
38:38We had grace.
38:39We were polite.
38:40We did the things right.
38:42You know, in contrast with the current president elect.
38:46And it is the presentation of her as, you know, she's taking the baton from Biden.
38:52She's closing good for Biden.
38:54OK, she did good for Biden.
38:56And maybe that's the idea for her to be announced or presented again to other election.
39:01What do you think about it?
39:03I want to know where Biden is.
39:05He's still the president, right, of the United States of America.
39:09A very, very pathetic, very deflating to see at Howard University.
39:15The crowd was left without even hearing from Kamala Harris last night.
39:21I think one of the most important memes right now that we can focus on, it's a meme that I
39:26first saw.
39:27It caught my attention in 2008 when Barack Obama won the election because so many people
39:33across the U.S. somehow thought that the victory of this personality of Barack Obama meant
39:39somehow the end of white supremacy and the end of imperialism and the end of Zionism.
39:43And nothing could be further from the truth.
39:46And what the meme shows is the Republicans bombing is always Iraq, Afghanistan, Panama.
39:53But then it shows the Democrat bombs and the bombs of the Democrats have labels.
39:58Black Lives Matter, the rainbow flag, the trans flag.
40:03So I can't help but always post that meme, a classic anti-imperialist class conscious
40:10meme, which brings us back to the core issues.
40:13These elections have nothing to do with the personality of Tweedledee, of Tweedledum,
40:19whether it's stomach cancer or colon cancer.
40:24The American people are up against two mouthpieces who very predictably say the same
40:30things about foreign policy and the issues that are most important to us.
40:36Nothing really changes at its core.
40:39And we urge liberals to take a closer look at the American system.
40:43And the whole system is anti-democratic to its core.
40:48In 2016, what I most remember in New York City when Trump won, every liberal went into
40:54a panic.
40:55They started joining self-defense classes.
40:58Every socialist meeting was packed with new people.
41:03And the liberals said they were going to fight.
41:05A month later, they did not go to their self-defense classes.
41:10They didn't go back to any socialist meetings and they stopped fighting.
41:15I think this time they're mostly just staying home from work.
41:19My 17-year-old, who's a senior in high school in Virginia, many of his teachers were absent
41:25this morning, which is quite telling.
41:28But how important it is to keep uniting, to not give up on the American people.
41:34It's that very academic language and arrogance of looking down on our fellow Americans that
41:42created the space that Trump now, as the 45th president, and now the 47th president, was
41:49able to jump into and take advantage of.
41:52Precisely, Danny.
41:53And as reactions to this outcome of the presidential elections in the U.S. are pouring in, we saw
42:00many, many chiefs of staff and chiefs of state, you know, heads of state, that were reacting
42:05to this.
42:05But let's hear from someone, from one head of state, that had something to say regarding
42:11this.
42:15It is a golden opportunity for this historic return of Donald Trump to put an end to wars,
42:21not to open any more war fronts, to allow U.S. to have respectful relations, sensible
42:28dialogue, understanding with all of Latin America and the Caribbean, relations that
42:34respect diversity in our continent.
42:38We have always been willing since Comandante Chavez, the Bolivarian Revolution, has seen
42:44former President Bill Clinton and former President George W. Bush pass, through the
42:54White House, eight years to the former president, Barack Obama I, four years of the president,
43:03elect Donald Trump four years, of President Joe Biden.
43:14And we have always been, Delcy, you know it, Celia, you know it.
43:22I know it to me as foreign minister of Chavez.
43:26In 2006, we have always been willing to relations of dialogue, sensibility, understanding,
43:37respect.
43:39And I ratify to the United States of America, to all the society that the way has to be,
43:48the new relations of respect, sensibility, dialogue and understanding.
43:55And those were the words of the president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela,
43:59Nicolás Maduro Moros, who had, you know, a special show today.
44:04And he was addressing the outcome of the U.S. elections.
44:07And it is so interesting because when he was the winner back in July 28th, you know,
44:14one of the many heads of state and one of the many governments that tried to dismiss,
44:19to try to smear this victory was the president of the United States, Joseph Biden.
44:25And also, he was disrespecting the system and devoting system here in Venezuela.
44:31And it is primordial to recall that because in this occasion, the president, Nicolás
44:35Maduro Moros, is just respecting and giving his stance in his position regarding this
44:41victory.
44:41And he was saying something very interesting and is that Trump has the opportunity to close
44:47all the open wars that started under the Democrats and also the conflicts, the aggression,
44:52the hostilities towards Latin American progressive countries.
44:56Danny?
44:58Yeah.
44:59Nicolás Maduro is the maximum representative of the Bolivarian people of Venezuela, is
45:06really giving an example of class, of respect for the sovereignty of the people of the United
45:13States.
45:14If only our leaders, Democrat and Republican, could reciprocate, that'll never happen.
45:20Never have we seen in U.S.
45:22history respect towards the self-determination of other countries that the United States
45:27can't control.
45:29And I think this election was telling because the Democrats historically have tried to paint
45:34themselves as the peaceful white doves, just so innocent like snow, right?
45:40How many wars did Barack Obama start?
45:44Of course, the dismemberment, the colonization, the bombing, very cruel of Libya, which we
45:49never hear about today.
45:51The dirty war against the Syrian people, a coup in Paraguay, a country most Americans
45:57probably haven't even heard of.
45:58And Manuel Zelaya, who was couped in Honduras as well.
46:04Interesting now that it's the Republicans leading the charge for peace.
46:08We saw Tucker Carlson go and interview Vladimir Putin.
46:13That's something that the Democrats and Hillary Clinton were so afraid of, to humanize Putin.
46:20Well, that cuts into the military industrial complex's budget.
46:25So how ironic that the ones they always try to frame as the war hawks, the Republicans,
46:32some of the major personalities like Tucker Carlson, Trump himself saying he's going to
46:37end this proxy war in Ukraine.
46:41That could earn Trump himself more assassination attempts.
46:46Anything could happen.
46:47People want predictions.
46:49Many things are unpredictable.
46:51But if there's another assassination attempt against Trump, and if one were to be successful,
46:57the last two were unsuccessful, though one bullet did graze Trump's right ear, certainly
47:04that could be a harbinger for even deeper polarization or even some type of military,
47:12militant, militia showdowns.
47:15We know that the FBI continues to raid the homes of many Americans in violation of their
47:21Second Amendment rights.
47:23There's new legislation that the House is trying to pass against militias.
47:28So they are afraid of an armed and conscious American populace that can rise up against
47:34the entire system and rise up against its maximum representatives like the Trumps, the
47:39Bidens, the Bushes, the Obamas, these ruling class families that could not be more distant
47:47from our everyday economic reality.
47:50Yeah, Danny, and just for doing or enhancing your point here, was Barack Obama back in
47:572015 who imposed the first sanctions against Venezuela and all the legislation that today
48:02is straining the economic lives and the well-being of the Venezuelan population.
48:08And also I want to announce now and to present some of the reactions on social media that
48:13we had after the outcome of these elections.
48:16I'm asking for them.
48:17So let's bring them in.
48:19Let's start with the reaction on X from Kamala Harris.
48:24Let's see it.
48:28So we have this tweet of her and we have the text and she posted, my heart is full today,
48:34full of gratitude for the trust that you have placed in me and full of for your country
48:41and full for resolve.
48:42Also the outcome of this election is not what we wanted, not what we fought for, but hear
48:49me when I say the light of America's promise will always burn bright.
48:54Those were her words and it's so similar.
48:58Those words are so similar of her conceding speech and she continued saying earlier today
49:04I spoke with President Trump and congratulated him on his victory.
49:08I told him that we will help him and his team with that transition and we will engage in
49:15a peaceful transfer of power.
49:17Peaceful is the word of this sentence.
49:21Okay, she is trying to clarify that she is not similar to Trump in this and that she
49:26will cooperate with institutionality and will cooperate with the president-elect even
49:32if she is happy or not with the outcome of the election and what happened yesterday.
49:38We have other reactions and now we'll go to Jill Steyn.
49:43Okay, so we will see a tweet of her and let's recall she was the runner for the Green Party
49:50and Jill Steyn, she has been running for several times.
49:56She was first in 2016, afterwards in 2020 and now in 2024 and she is just in this long
50:04text that we have on screen, she's just slamming the bipartisanship, she's slamming the electoral
50:11college system and explaining that the economic and political elites are just straining the
50:19real will of the people and are just letting them down.
50:27Let's see the reactions from other candidates and political figures in the U.S. after the
50:34outcome of these elections.
50:36We have on screen the reaction in a post of Claudia de la Cruz and Karina Garcia.
50:43They were the formula of the Communist Party for 2024 and there is a statement of her and
50:49she's saying the results of the election demonstrate just how the Democrats have failed
50:55at fighting for defending the people.
50:58Only the people will save the people and that's a phrase we have been hearing a lot of these
51:04days, not only because of the United States Socialist Party and the activism, these alternatives
51:12they have been doing there.
51:13It is also one of the phrases that encapsulates, I think, the disbelief of the people in the
51:20institutions, in the establishment and, you know, the governments and those who are the
51:26political elites.
51:30Okay, so we are now going live with one of our analysts as we continue to analyze what
51:37happened yesterday and also understand the motives why this electoral win went the way
51:43it did.
51:43And we now have live Yvonne Tellez, she's an international law expert and she's sharing
51:49with us in this special program regarding the US presidential elections.
51:53Good evening Yvonne, thank you for joining us.
51:56Good evening, happy to be here again.
52:00So just to begin, we would like to get, this is our first show after the election, so we
52:05are trying to just really understand and get a comprehension from our perspective of what
52:11happened yesterday and how this could impact the country and then the world, also our region.
52:17So what is your read on the electoral win of Donald Trump?
52:23Okay, I think definitely the issue number one of this election was the economy.
52:31And I think that explains a lot why Trump was re-elected.
52:36However, if we see the major matrix of the US economy, we can say that the US economy
52:43is going well.
52:45However, Americans still view it unfavorably and a significant number of voters blame Joe
52:54Biden and even Vice President Kamala Harris for failing to make enough improvements for
53:01Americans' financial situations over the past four years.
53:04So maybe that's one of the main reasons.
53:06The other ones, I think, remain pretty stable.
53:10I'm talking about, for example, the usual votes, women leaned toward Harris, men leaned
53:18toward Trump.
53:20One of the surprises was that most of the Latino men embraced Trump in this case rather
53:27than previous elections.
53:29And I think that one of the other reasons was that white voters without college degrees
53:35were the ones that represented Trump.
53:39And I think that's the base of support.
53:41So, and as we can see, or when we were seeing the reactions of voters or previous to the
53:50elections, one of the main concerns was the economy.
53:56And most of them, or these concerns related to these, for example, immigration policies
54:02blaming migrants again for probable failures of the U.S. economy.
54:09So I think that's one of the reasons that can explain why voters voted for Trump instead
54:19of Kamala.
54:20Another one, another very, very strong point, I think, is that the fact that, for example,
54:28how this rhetoric, this unusual rhetoric that Trump holds, for example, representing
54:37some unique and very different ways of doing this politics seem to have captured the younger
54:47voters that Kamala failed to capture in this place.
54:51And she was one of the, I don't know, of the ones who was called to just bring those
55:02voters to her back.
55:04But she failed to do it.
55:06And that will be kind of a response to the young voters that were a definite group and
55:14a very important group of voters that not only represented these electoral votes, but
55:20also the regular votes, as we've seen, that not only Trump was winning or won because
55:29of the electoral votes, but because of the regular popular vote, that's something unusual
55:34as well.
55:36Thank you, Yvonne, for your input.
55:37Sadly, we are short on time tonight, but it's really helped us understand a little bit better
55:43your perspective on what happened last night in the United States.
55:46We appreciate your participation in United States Society.
55:50Thank you very much.
55:55Okay, so we are about to close our analysis just for tonight.
55:59So any last remarks just before we conclude on this first read on Trump's win?
56:08Danny?
56:09Well, listening to Presidente Nicolás Maduro, I'm reminded of what respect can look like
56:17between different countries, Democrat or Republican.
56:21We have not seen a U.S. president respect the Caribbean and the sovereignty of South
56:28America.
56:29Both José Martí and Simón Bolívar warned about this imperial plague.
56:35And I think it's especially important right now to think about this as the Cuban people
56:41confront Hurricane Rafael, which has knocked out their electric grid.
56:47But it's not really the natural disaster that concerns me in Cuba.
56:51It's the colonial disaster.
56:5465 years of colonial policy punishing the Cuban people because of the popularity of
57:01their leadership and anti-imperialist leadership, a courageous leadership, and how opportunistic,
57:08how telling that in Cuba's most difficult moments that whether it's Biden or Trump back
57:16in 2016, who put into effect more than 630 new coercive policies within this blockade
57:27to try to cause hunger and all types of pain to the Cuban people.
57:34So I think it's important to end on this high note.
57:37Nicolás Maduro is not just the president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
57:44He's the president of all people across the world who believe in working people, who believe
57:50in equality.
57:51And we're just super grateful that Atele Sur exists to tell the truth, because as I go
57:58through the headlines, which is part of my job and responsibility as an international
58:03affairs analyst, having to read CNN and MSNBC and Fox and Breitbart and Newsmax and The
58:09New York Times, it's so painful to see the same rhetoric about how great the United States
58:15is and the American dream, but how important to ask about the Venezuelan dream, the Bolivarian
58:20dream, the Cuban dream.
58:22And as we know, regardless of who won last night, it is a horizon of a lot of struggle
58:29and resistance that's in front of all of us peace-loving people across the world.
58:34Yeah, precisely.
58:35And I think one of the closing words we have to say is that those numbers are speaking
58:41about realities, are speaking about social realities, and are speaking about people,
58:45people that thought about a future and had a decision to do in terms of their survival.
58:52And those are readings that we have to do in upcoming emissions and upcoming broadcasts.
58:59Exactly.
59:00And in this way, we are now concluding this special show.
59:04Once again, it's really gone fast, fast, because there's a lot to talk about, but we will continue
59:10to analyze everything regarding the US election, the Trump win, and what that means both for
59:16the country and also for the world.
59:18So thank you, Dani Show, once more for joining us.
59:23And thank you, Gladys, as well, as usual.
59:25Thank you, Belen.
59:26Thank you, Dani.
59:26We will see us next time.
59:29Exactly.
59:29My name is Belen De Los Santos, and this is United States Decides 2024.