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From The Australian. Here's what's on the front. I'm Claire Harvey. It's Thursday, November seventh. Donald Trump is the past and future president of the United States of America, pulling off a stunning popular vote victory powered by young, Latino, African American and white men, union voters and people of faith. Today we break down who voted for Trump, why, who should take the blame for the democrats defeat, and what we can expect from President Donald J. Trump's second term.
Millennial men, Latino voters, Union members, Catholics, African American men. They make up what looks like a powerful new coalition of Republican voters all helping Donald Trump make history.
And every citizen, I will fight for you, for your family and your future. Every single day I will be fighting for you, and with every breath in my body, I will not rest until we have delivered the strong, safe, and prosperous America that our children deserve and that you deserve. This will truly be the Golden Age of America. That's what we have to do.
For the first time in his three attempts, Trump won the popular vote, and it was by more than five million votes. As well, he took out the total Electoral College votes required to take the White House. Our US correspondent Adam Crichton was there for Trump's victory speech.
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Fagerhart and Chief International correspondent Cameron Stewart watched Trump, the man he saw win in twenty sixteen and lose in twenty twenty become the forty fifth and forty seventh president of the United States.
So it's just been the most extraordinary political comeback I think we've seen in a generation.
We'll have more from Camp later in this episode. Kamala Harris thought she'd get young women and she did. She went for the university educated and she got them sweeping the East and West coasts. But African American men did not turn out for Harris in the numbers the Democrats hoped for, nor did Latinos. And Donald Trump's populist, protectionist rallying call to the working class worked for him, particularly with voters under thirty young man turning out for Donald Trump.
And me think the reason he won is you look at that bro strategy and the white male turnout and white grievance politics that he has used to great success in this country, calling that.
Young men under thirty. In North Carolina, when I came to set just a little bit ago, sixty percent said they supported him. That's up from forty two percent that voted for him back in twenty twenty. So continuing to watch.
That abortion, Republican strategist Carl Rove said Trump's appeal to men of all colors was simple.
They thought he was a strong, effective leader, and they thought he would do something about the issues heard the most about, which is an economy in which they think they get the short stick, inflation which has decimated they're purchasing power, and illegal immigration, which has affected their communities deeply.
Harris pinned her hopes for women's votes on the fight for reproductive rights. Abortion.
For young women, it is their top issue, and that's where we're reallyaseing a huge generitivide. Also for young women forty two percent saying it is their top issue, to just ten percent of men saying that it's their top issue.
Trump appealed to those men not on cultural or racial identity, but on the economy and immigration.
That Latino vote in Texas. When you've got over sixty percent Latino men moving in Texas towards the Republicans, that's realignment.
What Trump is running on. Remember is his first day in office to start a mass deportation plan.
The big story of the night is the shift among Hispanics.
And much of this comes back to wealth, educational status, class. He's Trump's former spokeswoman, Kellyanne Conway.
Donald Trump has expanded this party. He has converted this into the party of the worker, and he has told Americans not everybody has to be stopped into a four year college degree. That the welders, the steel workers in Pennsylvania, the coal miners, they've got a seat at the table. They can work again.
It's a big deal.
I think we're starting to see sort of a working class coalition start to drift to the right. You know, before Donald Trump had working class whites. Now he's adding working class Hispanics and working classes, not necessarily seeing evidence of working class African Americans, but adding working class Hispanics. That becomes a very durable majority.
Lord, we trust in you.
We give to you everything, our leaders, our president, our country.
We give it all to you.
Political conversation. Religious faith is.
Central Jesus with trust in you, Amen.
One of the factors that makes the American electorate so different from other Western democracies.
Heavenly Father, in the midst of this election season, I come before you with a humble heart.
During the wall to wall election coverage, ads for prayer apps played alongside the usual home security systems and recliner chairs.
I confess that at times I have allowed fear, anger, and confusion to cloud my perspective.
Trump knew white Catholics would respond to his rhetoric on abortion that he appointed judges to the Supreme Court who overturned Roe versus Wade, but they were joined by voters of faith from other demographics, including in counties with strong new immigrant populations of Hindu and Muslims. So how did Trump get to victory Through the early part of the American evening? Everything fell the way it was expected all votes.
She wins the state of Delaware.
Donald Trump will win Florida.
Connecting Harris will win Colorado, Illinois, and New York Texas.
Donald Trump wins Texas tonight. He also wins North Dakota's He wins Wyoming tonight three.
As the night wore on, the pressure on Harris began to mount.
Kamala is not hitting the suburban marks that Joe Biden did.
I'm going to make a prediction, go out on a lot bit of a live here. She would have to sweep the blue Wall.
Yep.
And based on the information that we have in the early voting success of the Republicans of both Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, I don't think she can do it.
That was commentator Sean Hannity on Fox News, and that blue wall is the group of Northeastern states Kamala Harris had to win in order to take the White House. Kennedy was right, and it all came down to Pennsylvania called for Trump as dawn approached this is.
A huge historic moment in the United States of America as the foreign President Trump is closing in with just a few electoral votes away now from clinching to seventy as Pennsylvania is called for Donald Trump.
There were three elections on Tuesday, the Presidency, the Senate, and the House of Representatives. As expected, the Republicans took the two seats they needed to get control of the Senate. That makes life a lot easier for Donald Trump to get his judicial nominees and Republican legislation through Congress. And in the House of Representatives, the count continues as Democrats hope to cling to something they can rebuild in the twenty twenty six midterm elections.
You have some great senators and some great new senators, and it also looks like we'll be keeping control of the House of Representatives.
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Cam.
You've covered a lot of American elections. How significant is this one?
I think it's the most significance by a long way. Claire. Actually, everyone was incredibly shocked. Of course, in twenty sixteen when Trump actually beat Hillary Clinton, people didn't. A lot of people thought that would never happen. But I think that this was in so many ways even more unlikely. If you go back to the fact of Trump when he decided to run in November twenty twenty two, people were completely dismissive of it. He was parodied in the media.
He had that terrible long press conference at Maria Laga that they thought Ronda Sanders and Nikki Haley, this new generation of Republicans were going to come up, and Trump just kept battling away, and he swatted them off. He kept going, and then he had all the legal charges against him, He delayed them, swatted them off effectively as far as this campaign's concerned. And then here he is
actually defeating Biden effectively, and then now defeating Harris. So it's just been the most extraordinary political comeback I think we've seen in a generation.
God spared my life for a reason, and that reason was to save our country and to restore America to grend Us.
And now we are.
Going to fulfill that mission. Together. We're going to fulfill that mission. The task before us will not be easy, but I will bring every ounce of energy, spirit and fight that I have in my soul to the job that you've entrusted to me. This is a great job that there's no job like this. This is the most important job in the world.
One interpretation of Trump's impact is that he's just a populist that if you stand up and say I will fix everything, I will make America great again. I'll save your job and make everything better. You will get elected. But is there more to it with Donald Trump?
The great skill that John Donald Trump is he is just a gut instinct politician. He's the most natural, gut instinct politician I think we've seen, perhaps in our lifetime. He's really remarkable in the way that he can speak to his supporters in a language that they understand. It's a language that has won over America's working class, it really has. He has stolen the working class of America
from the Democrat Party. The Democrat Party is now a party of wealthy elites in the big cities in America, and there's not enough of them. And so we've clearly seen that Trump has the numbers, and I think his unique strength is his ability to communicate in that very bizarre language of his which actually shocks the Democrats but totally energizes his own base. And that's where you can see that a guy like Trump can run the most maverick, unscripted campaign you have ever seen. We've never seen a
campaign like this, and yet his supporters love it. And enough people were upset by the fundamental issues in America, price rises and concerns about the border to go across. He won back Middle America, which he lost in twenty twenty, and that's a remarkable feat.
We're going to make you very proud of your vote. I hope that you're going to be looking back someday and say that was one of the truly important moments of my life when I voted for this group of people behind the president, this group of great people America has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate.
Kamala Harris only had one hundred days to get herself elected after Joe Biden pulled out of the race. When did she go wrong?
I think Kamala Harris actually ran a reasonably good campaign, wasn't the perfect one. She made mistakes. She should never have said in that interview that she can't think of anything that she'd do differently with Joe Biden.
This is not a time to throw up our hands. This is a time to roll up our sleeves. This is a time to organize, to mobilize, and to stay engaged for the sake of freedom and justice and the future that we all know we can build together.
I think early on she was a bit of a policy free zone, just talking about the joyous five rather than getting meety policies, but looked to be fair to Krmala Harris. I think a lot of the blame for her loss rests with Joe Biden. He was the one who failed to see his impaired cognitive capabilities. You can also perhaps blame his family and his aides for not
telling him the truth. But it was Hubris that made him want to serve a second term, or initially he was only going to serve one term, and so he got himself in too deep and we didn't realize how old he was, if you like, until that terrible debate,
and he was doomed at that point. He effectively, through that misjudgment, ensured that his replacement, which of course was Harris, was replaced without a chance to really think about their agenda, without going through a proper primary process, and with a shortened election cycle. In lots of ways, Joe Biden threw Kamala Harris to the wolves.
While I concede this election, I do not concede the fate that fueled this campaign. The fight, the fight for freedom, for opportunity, for fairness and the dignity of all people, a fight for the ideals at the heart of our nation, the ideals that reflect America at our best. That is a fight I will never give up.
Finally, Donald Trump has promised to deport people on his first day in office. He's zeroed in on illegal immigration as the issue that he knew would resonate with voters, and it really has, including with Latino voters, working class people, and of course people in the South. Is this problem actually solvable for Donald Trump? And do you think he really is going to deport hundreds of thousands of people.
It's never solvable completely because the American borders, for various reasons, are always much more porous than other countries. But he will certainly put in tough policies in place. Donald Trump exaggerates a lot. That's how he sells his points to people. He's not going to deport that many people, but he will deport a reasonable amount I would presume, so it will be somewhere in the middle. But certainly he's been
elected on this tough border policy. And look, the lesson of modern politics around the world, including in Australia frankly as well, is that governments in England as well Germany governments to sloppy with their borders get penalized by the public, and that's precisely what's happened to Kamala Harris and I think that therefore Trump will be quite tough on the border.
This will forever be remembered as the day the American people regained control of their country.
And Cameron Stewart is the Australian's chief international correspondent, joining us from the United States. Subscribe at the Australian dot com dot au for more of can and for all the world's best journalism.
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