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welcome to the special election edition
of CNN 10 I'm KY wire and it is
Wednesday November 6th the goal of this
episode will be to bring you the key
moments from CNN's coverage of election
day 2024 yesterday millions of Americans
headed to the polls to cast their vote
for who would become the next president
of the United States and when we
produced this episode CNN had projected
that Donald Trump would become the 47th
president of the United States joining
Grover Cleveland as the only US
presidents to hold the office for two
non-consecutive terms here's a special
look now at how the historic day played
out this is CNN's coverage of election
night in America the race for the White
House the campaign for Congress and the
challenges facing the nation do we
believe in the promise of America we
will make America great again there's
never been an election like this one and
anything is possible until the last vote
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democracy in action as you see voters
casting ballots in Arizona as well as in
Wisconsin and of course all across the
nation had the very first exit pole
information with potential clues for how
this Knight might play out David challan
has that and David how are voters
feeling about the state of the country
as they cast their balance sorry before
we dig into the numbers I just want to
say two things so that everybody
understands what we're looking at here
one these are early preliminary exit
poll findings these numbers will shift
as the night goes on and more and more
interviews come in the second thing
everyone should be aware of this exit
poll encompasses every kind of voter
whether you voted pre-election day on
Election Day by mail early in person
before election day uh we have
Incorporated polls of all kinds of
Voters that are incorporated into this
exit poll with that being said let's
look at the numbers on the mood of the
country it's a pretty Dow mood in terms
of the way people feel things are going
in the United States nationally only 7%
of Voters say they're enthusiastic 19%
say they're satisfied look at these
numbers 43% dissatisfied 29% angry
72% of the electorate in nationally say
they're dissatisfied or angry what about
America's best days we ask are they in
the future or are they in the past 61%
of Voters in this election across the
country say America's best days are
ahead of the the country 6 and 10 say so
34% say the best days are in the past
and finally President Joe Biden's
approval rating it's at 41% in these
early preliminary exit pole findings
58% of Voters in this election across
the country nationally disapprove of the
way that the incumbent Democratic
president is doing his job J uh Sarah
now I it looks like I don't know if this
is the after workor crowd that you're
seeing but it does look like is quite
busy right now it is and it's been
getting busier and as you mentioned 5:00
hit and we started seeing another run of
people it's been sort of trickling all
day it was lots of people in the morning
and now we're starting to get a lot more
people in the evening I do want to bring
in quickly the fellows lease family what
we have been seeing that is so um lovely
here in cedarberg is that entire
families are showing up voting
separately but together I noticed that
you did this lovely thing where they
were show showing you the ballots and
sort of how it was working I heard you
guys talking back and forth and it was
just wonderful to see families teaching
and also learning about this really
important process that we all should be
taking part in and cedarberg as we
understand it may have up to 95% of the
voters come in to vote which is an
incredibly High number so thank you so
much for doing your civic duty and
coming in today as the whole family I
love it it's wonderful go to John King
at the magic wall John Jak let's start
with the context what you just just went
through I'm going to wander over this
wall here just to show the race of 270
at the moment uh if you're a republican
you might be saying wow this is a route
if you're Democrat you might be saying
oh my goodness we should be worried No
we're early in the night as Chris
Wallace said I love the analogy nobody
has broken serve yet as in every red
State here Donald Trump won in 2020 when
he lost the White House every blue State
on the map so far Joe Biden carried when
he won the White House what don't we
have uh we don't have Rhode Island we
don't have Connecticut we don't have New
Jersey we don't have Illinois just yet
long time blue States so as we move west
and as the count advances in some of the
mo New York as well some of the most
reliably blue States this map will
change uh in the near future at least
that is our expectation we'll keep an
eye on it major
projection CNN projects that Donald
Trump will win the state of North
Carolina this is the first of seven
Battleground states that we're keeping
an eye on Georgia will go to Donald
Trump Georgia a very highly contested
battleground of 16 elector votes CNN
projects that Donald Trump will win the
great Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania this is a huge huge
achievement for Donald Trump and a huge
bucket of electoral votes 19 of them for
his path back to the
presidency we still have votes to count
we still have states that have not been
called yet we will continue overnight to
fight to make
sure that every vote is counted that
every voice has spoken so you won't hear
from the vice president
tonight but you will hear from her
tomorrow she will be back here tomorrow
to address not only the h family not
only to address her supporters but to
address the nation so thank you we
believe in you may God bless may God
keep you and go hu and go
Harris and CNN can now project that
Republicans will win back control of the
United States Senate we can make this
projection because CNN projects
Republicans win the US senate seat in
Nebraska the GOP picking up enough seats
to reclaim the majority that they lost
four years ago this is a huge victory
for Donald Trump's
party this was a movement like nobody's
ever seen before
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and frankly this was I believe the
greatest political movement of all time
there's never been anything like this in
this country and maybe
Beyond and now it's going to reach a new
level of importance because we're going
to help our country heal we going to
help our country heal we have a country
that needs help and it needs help very
badly
we're going to fix our borders we're
going to fix everything about our
country
and we made history for a reason tonight
and the reason is going to be just that
we overcame obstacles that nobody
thought possible and it is now clear
that we've achieved the most
incredible political thing look what
happened is this
crazy the presidential race is
officially undecided but officially is
doing a lot of work in that sense the
winner appears more and more obvious by
the minute Donald Trump is on the cusp
of clenching the Oval Office and
becoming the 47th president of the
United States the Battlegrounds that we
said would decide the race have all
broken for or may soon Bend toward the
Republican three big ones already in the
Trump column North Carolina Georgia
Pennsylvania the four still on the board
heading into the ninth inning and
showing a trump lead
sizable Trump lead Arizona Nevada
Michigan and Wisconsin again ahead or
declared in all seven of the
Battleground States so how did Donald
Trump do it like 2016 he ran up the
score in the rural areas but unlike 2016
or 2020 he seems to be rewriting some of
the DNA of his political
Coalition it is now official CNN
projects that Donald Trump has been
elected president defeating vice
president kamla Harris and making a
political comeback unlike any in modern
American politics now we can make this
projection now because CNN projects that
Donald Trump has won Wisconsin you can
see right there currently ahead by
30,000 votes with 99% of the vote in Mr
Trump is only the second former
president in US history to be reelected
to the White House he will return to
office after two impeachments in his
first ter followed by unprecedented
criminal indictments and felony
convictions Mr Trump scoring a landmark
Victory as he now heads back to Power
leading a politically divided nation
again CNN projects that Donald J Trump
is elected the 47th president of the
United States