Transcripts For KCNC Campaign 2016 CBS News Coverage Of Elec

KCNC Campaign 2016 CBS News Coverage Of Election Night November 9, 2016

Michigan, having a look at that now. Look how squeaky tight that is. Donald trump just ahead of Hillary Clinton in michigan. Arizona, still considered by cbs news to be a tossup. Donald trump slightly ahead. Now lets have a look at nevada. Nevada is leaning, in our estimate, toward Hillary Clinton. But not by a great deal. And new and Hillary Clinton essentially tied there. It is a tossup. This is a review of the 13 battleground states at the beginning of the night might have gone either way. The red states have gone for trump, the blue for Hillary Clinton. And those remaining states you see right there in all but one of them, donald trump has a lead but its a slender lead, and yet, he does not need much. Hold on ufs just looking in about mitt romney won that 63 to 35 in 2012. So in pennsylvania, where its very close, youve got a county that looks like its out, nothings been reported yet. That should be a strong county for republicans. Pelley and by out you mean it hasnt been reported yet. Yes, yes. All right, in nevada, we have a call. Cbs news projects Hillary Clinton will win nevada when all of the votes are counted. This is a state that the Clinton Campaign felt strongly they would do well in, in part because of the early vote and the sizable hispanic population. But nevada has just six electoral votes. But that puts her within 55 of 270. Are you good at math, bob schieffer. 55 and one more we can cross off the list. We are now down to five battleground states. Able to call who is the 45th president of the United States. We should check in with our correspondents who have been covering these two candidates for more than a year. Lets check in first with Major Garrett who has been covering the Trump Campaign. Major, it sounds look a celebratory mood there. Yeah, theyre feeling very, very good here at the Trump Campaign headquarters. Youll probably hear ripples of applause behind me as various projections come through. Certainly, t circle feels better than they felt the entire night. They see numerous paths to 270 to make donald trump the next president elect of the United States. I will tell you this in the last week to week and a half, everyone associated in the inner circle of Donald Trumps campaign told me the following, that if this breaks, if there is a collective sense that donald trump is the change agent, that the country says it wants, it will break late, and it will break consistently throughout all of the narrow states. And it wont necessarily be polling data. It was that central hunch, ive called it the great hunch repeatedly on cbsn, that is beginning to be borne out by the votes of americans in all or nearly all of the battleground states. That there would be this psychological sense that it was worth taking the chance on donald trump as not only an agent of change, but someone who would bring a stronger sense of leadership dealing with terrorism, dealing with the global economy, meaning word i heard over and over on the campaign trail, disrupt the washington order. That appears to be whats going on. The sense that that collective psychology might take hold appears to be on the target. Major garrett, thank you. It is late into the night. Nancy cordes hes been at the clinton watch party. And, nancy what, is the mood like there . Reporter norah, its like all the air has been sucked out of the room, and everyone is holding their breath. Would be coming down to a state like wisconsin. And heres why. Back in 2012, president obama won that state by seven points. In 2008, he won it by 14 points. Michigan, another state thats too close to call right now, president obama won in 2012 by 10 points. And just for fun, i was looking back at some of the articles that have been in wisconsin newspapers in the past few days sosee what they were saying about this race, and get a load of this headlinom today,Hillary Clinton hoping to win wisconsin without setting foot in the state. The article says it was shes the First Major Party nominee not to visit the state during the general election since 1972. The fact that it is so close tells me two things. First of all, that trade was an even bigger issue in some of these midwestern states than the Clinton Campaign believed. And this was one of Donald Trumps signature issues. Probably didnt believe that their own state was a battleground state. They may have grown complacent because the Clinton Campaign wasnt treating wisconsin like a battleground state. A lot of voters may have thought that they didnt need to, either. All right, nancy cordes. Thank you. We should take a look at the toorm map right now, because donald trump leadses with 244 electoral vote. Hillary clinton has 215 electoral just 26 vote away from the presidency. Weve still got five states on the map. It could still go either way. I can just throw this on the table, regardless of how this turns out tonight, as you point out, bob, as weve all said, it could go either way, shouldnt he be congratulated or Somebody Just say what hes done is extraordinary. The fact that it started with 17 candidates. Its now Election Night. After midnight, we still dont know how this is going to turn out. If you were a supporter of donald trump, or he wasnt your candidate, what hes accomplished is extraordinary. Extraordinary. Pelley its a remarkable feat. Few of the pollsters would have expected anything like this. I dont know any pollster that predicted this. Pelley ion of the washington elites week expected this, and yet he has essentially what he said he would do. Is this, scott, is this a victory for the Republican Party or is this a victory for some new party . Is this the victory for the trump party . I mean, where does the Republican Party go . We talking about if trump lost, would the Republican Party survive . Well, the Republican Party david brooks had a column in the New York Times today calling for a new party. Calling for a new party. There will be some who see a parade in front of which they now want to run and will try to join in. And there were those who tried to keep their distance from donald trump, who will now join in. And he will, if he becomes the president , if this roll he is on continues, he will need the help of other republicans. What about the Democratic Party . Is the Democratic Party going to survive this . Its not like theyve had great years lately. Pelley donald trump will be the leader of tub his own image, if he chooses to. It will be interesting. It will certainly abe different Republican Party than weve known about in the past. Starting with it will me longer be a party for free trayd trade. He thinks of it as more than a party. He thinks of it as a movement. He compared himself to brexit. Yes. Pelley as you might imagine, social media is on fire tonight, and our Elaine Quijano is keeping up with that. Draintheswamp. Deplorable josh tweets. Ive never been more proud to be a deplorable. I i think all my fellow deplorables, drain the swamp. Election night. Another one, also from a trump supporter tweets, the silent majority stands with donald trump. Drain the swamp. We have one from an account, democrats for trump. The establishment is drain the swamp. Lock them all up. At the same time, we have others tweeting under the hashtag america is over party. One of them reading, if you voted trump. You voted trump. If you voted third party. You voted trump. If you didnt vote, you voted trump. So, scott and norah, just a sampling of some of the reactions that were seeing right now over social media. All right, Elaine Quijano. We are waiting on calls in a john, what state are you looking at . Remember when i was talking about Lebanon County being out, meaning the votes had not been counted yet there in pennsylvania. It was once a 2,000person race. Donald trump was ahead by 2,000 votes. Hes now ahead by 26,000 votes. Lebanon has come in. Pelley he is beginning to pull away, john, as you say in pennsylvania. And he is now leading in the remaining five states. He only needs two or three to win the presidency tonight. And we will be following that for you, and we will break in at any moment that we are able to make an estimate about one of these remaining states. But in the meantime, russia has come up again and again in this campaign. The Clinton Campaign accusing russia of hacking their Democratic National can committee emails and the like. And so we sent our elizabeth reaction to the election there. Liz. Reporter good morning. Well, the suns just come up here in moscow. And russians are getting out of bed to discover that donald trump has a plausible path to the white house. Thats going to go down very well here. People generally think of trump as a man that russia can cobusiness with. Hes called nato obsolete, and has leadership style. And so russians, who would like better relation wgz the world, they want an end to sanctions, hope this may lead to less aggression between russia and the u. S. Now, the kremlin, you can probably see the kremlin towers behind me, president putin and his insiders probably up all night watching the results come in. President putin is a pragmatist, and he has made it clear he will these results bring some kind of discord in the United States because basically, he still sees the owz as an opponent, and anything that weakens it, strengthens the kremlin. Scott, norah. Pelley Elizabeth Palmer in moscow for us tonight. Bob schieffer, did you ever think youd hear that . Well, i can tell you, i havent had time to do a survey yet, but i think moscow is going to be one of the few places this isnt going to enthusiasm. I think its going to create a lot of worry in the capitals of the world. I think the japanese are going to theyre going to theyre going to wonder what happens next . Can they count on the United States . I think south korea is going to have problem about this. And all across western europe. This this is going to come as a surprise around the world. Perhaps what about the middle east . Well, yeah, i wouldnt even know how to assess that. Syria, but well see where this goes. Pelley we dont want to venture very far from the electoral map. Let us show you again. This is exactly where the race stands right now. Donald trump very close to being the 45th president of the United States, with 244 electoral votes, 270 needed to win. Hillary clinton at 215. There are five swing states still out, and donald trump is leading by tiny margins in all five. In particular, which has been the keystone state and a key part of her strategy in order to win the presidency, it appears now that he is opening up a bit of a lead in pennsylvania. John, can Hillary Clinton win without pennsylvania . No. I mean, not especially not the way michigan and wisconsin are going. The problem for Hillary Clinton in pennsylvania is the big area wheres she can get her vote big areas. Did she under perform obama in philadelphia . All the talk was if she ran up the vote tally essentially in philadelphia, which is why she had that huge rally there with jon bon jovi, with Bruce Springsteen, the president of the United States, the first lady, was to energize that because pennsylvania has no early vote. Barack obama got 557,000 votes, she got 2,000 votes more than barack obama. 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John dickerson, as you go through the exit poll information and all the vote coming in, how did he do it . Well, im still looking at that, scott. Its in different ways in different states. He you know, part of it is that if you look at a state like pennsylvania, barack obama 13 of the electorate in 2012 was African American pennsylvania. So now its only 10 . So Hillary Clintons vote didnt turn out a little. His vote did turn out. Then youve got in florida, North Carolina, youve got gary johnson, the libertarian candidate, got 7 of the vote, took some of the Millennial Vote, which was up in North Carolina, but because johnson was taking it, Hillary Clinton, it looks like didnt grab as much of the Millennial Vote in that close state. In florida, Hillary Clintons strength with suburban excuse voters did not exist. Donald trump beat her with that group by 20 point. Whereas in a state like pennsylvania, shes up by 20 points with collegeeducated white women. Its a bit of some of it is idiosyncratic to the state, but basically in the rural areas he boosted his support i think there are two big factors. The hispanic vote . I think there are two big factors here. The first factor is seven out of 10 voters are angry, dissatisfied, sick of government. Number one age group, blacks, hispanics, independents, she underperformed barack obama. So the Clinton Campaign had talked about that she would build a new kind of coalition, different than the Obama Coalition. It is a different coalition. And she wasnt able to replicate the Obama Coalition of 2012. Pelley i was talking to African American voters in cleveland, and i said, do you feel the enthusiasm that you did for obama . But i dont feel the groundswell. Which is why president obama made such a push to black voarpts in a personal appeal saying you have knot to get out and vote. Charlie rose is with the political analysis. Were with lesley san chelz, and ruth marcus of the washington post. This is more than a national election. Absolutely. Talking to a lot of folks, certainly in the Republican Party, they feel this is an ic event, especially when you combine it with brexit, which was very much a big part of Donald Trumps argument. Hes also talking about the fact and norah was talk this in the bug cities you saw the democratic machine turn out but we whatwe see now is an avalanche of rural voters, small cities, the suburbs, the exushes that turned out in a bag way for donald trump, and nobody really saw that wave coming. Theres a saying that ideas i think in this election, you had two very controversial people. And ultimately, you saw the motivating factor for Hillary Clintons voters, among the Barack Obamas constituencies, the younger voters, minority communities, et cetera, not be as much of a motivating factosh as the motivation of Trump Supporters, both for him and against her. Ruth. I know you dont want to hear this word, but im going to have to say recount. It could be donald trump wins tonight and Hillary Clinton concedes, but i close in enough state, its very possible we could enter the 2016 version of a recount, which is recounting provisional ballots. It probably is not going to happen but it definitely could. Ben, i have to go to break. Well be right back. More from cbs news election ask your doctor if 24hour breo could be a missing piece for you

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