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00:00:19(♪) (♪)
00:00:23>> Announcer: THIS IS A CBC NEWS
00:00:26SPECIAL PRESENTATION. (♪) >> Adrienne: IT IS ELECTION
00:00:29NIGHT IN THE UNITED STATES AND A
00:00:31CHANCE FOR AMERICANS TO TRY TO HELP TO DETERMINE HOW THE NEXT
00:00:35TWO YEARS OF DONALD TRUMP'S PRESIDENCY MIGHT PLAY OUT.
00:00:39>> IT'S A MESS RIGHT NOW AND WE NEED TO GET THESE PEOPLE OUT OF
00:00:43OFFICE. >> EVERYTHING THAT TRUMP STANDS FOR IS WHAT WE CARE ABOUT AND
00:00:46WHAT MATTERS. >> WE NEED TO SUPPORT DEMOCRACY
00:00:49IN AMERICA. >> Adrienne: TONIGHT VOTERS WILL ELECT A NEW HOUSE OF
00:00:53REPRESENTATIVES AND RESHAPE THE SENATE. TWO CHAMBERS THAT IF LEFT IN
00:00:57REPUBLICAN HANDS COULD MAKE ACHIEVING TRUMP'S AGENDA
00:01:00RELATIVELY EASY. IF NOT -- >> BEGINNING ON DAY ONE IN A NEW
00:01:04CONGRESS WE'RE GOING TO HOLD THE CROOKS ACCOUNTABLE.
00:01:06>> WHEN THIGH COME TO TAKE OUR TAX DOLLARS TO MAKE WAR, WE
00:01:10WON'T BACK DOWN! (♪)
00:01:13>> Adrienne: AND THIS TIME THE STATESIDE ELECTIONS HAVE A WHOLE
00:01:16NEW MEANING RIGHT HERE IN
00:01:18CANADA, BECAUSE -- >> O CANADA.
00:01:22>> President Trump: CANADA HAS BEEN RIPPING US OFF. >> Adrienne: YEAH, THAT AND THIS. >> President Trump: THEY'LL END
00:01:26UP BEING THE 51ST STATE. >> Adrienne: AND ALSO THIS --
00:01:30>> MANY CANADIANS ARE LIKE GET
00:01:32THE HELL OUT OF OUR COUNTRY. >> Adrienne: AND LOTS OF TARIFFS
00:01:35BUT TONIGHT THE VOTERS GET TO DECIDE IF THEY'RE STILL BEHIND
00:01:38THE M.A.G.A. MOVEMENT OR IF THEY
00:01:40JUST WANT TO MOVE ON.
00:01:43>> DON'T MOVE!
00:01:48>> Adrienne: SO WILL THE DEMOCRATS TAKE CONGRESS?
00:01:50CAN THE REPUBLICANS PULL OFF A
00:01:52SURPRISE TRUMP TRIFECTA? WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN FOR YOU
00:01:56AND CANADA AT LARGE? IT IS TIME TO FIND OUT.
00:01:59THIS IS "AMERICA VOTES."
00:02:07>>> HELLO AND WELCOME TO OUR SPECIAL COVERAGE OF THE 2026
00:02:10MIDTERM ELECTIONS AND I'M ADRIENNE ARSENAULT. LET'S TALK NUMBERS AND TONIGHT
00:02:14ALL 435 SEATS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ARE UP FOR
00:02:17GRABBINGS, ALONG WITH 35 SENATE SEATS, THAT'S MORE THAN
00:02:21ONE-THIRD OF THE SENATE. ALREADY POLLS HAVE BEGUN CLOSING
00:02:25IN 19 SENATE RACES AND 266 HOUSE RACES.
00:02:29SOME JUST MOMENTS AGO. WE WILL GET TO SOME EARLY
00:02:32RESULTS IN JUST A MOMENT, BUT, FIRST -- A LITTLE INTRODUCTION
00:02:35TO OUR TEAM HERE. AND I'M JOINED TONIGHT BY PAUL
00:02:39HUNTER, BETWEEN US, WHAT, 437 YEARS OF COVERING THE UNITED STATES?
00:02:42AND ALSO JOINING US ON THE DESK THE MOST RECENT FORMER
00:02:45AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED STATES,
00:02:48KIRSTEN HILLMAN AND BESIDE HER
00:02:50THE DIRECTOR FOR VICE-PRESIDENT
00:02:53KAMALA HARRIS, AND A FORMER
00:02:56PRESS ADVISOR TO THE THEN HOUSE SPEAKER JOHN BOEHNER.
00:02:59SO WE'LL SEE A LOT OF YOU AND I'M SO HAPPY TO SEE YOUR PHONES
00:03:02AND NOTEBOOKS BECAUSE I KNOW
00:03:03THAT YOU'LL WORK YOUR YOUR SOURS
00:03:08AND CONTACTS TONIGHT. ONE THING YOU THAT WILL SEE A
00:03:10LOT OF, CAST YOUR EYES TO THE
00:03:13BOTTOM OF THE SCREEN, REAL-TIME RESULTS BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
00:03:16THE A.P. HAS BEEN THE COLLECTOR
00:03:18OF THIS DATA FOR 180 YEARS AND
00:03:21THAT BAR SHOWS YOU THE NUMBER OF CANDIDATES WHO ARE ELECTED IN
00:03:24BOTH THE HOUSE AND THE SENATE RACES.
00:03:26AND HOW MANY SEATS EACH PARTY NEEDS TO SECURE A MAJORITY.
00:03:30ON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, THAT IS WHERE ALL OF TONIGHT'S
00:03:34PROJECTIONS WILL BE COMING FROM.
00:03:35THE TEAM THERE USES A SIMILAR PROCESS AS CBC NEWS WHEN IT
00:03:39WHICHS TO READING RESULTS AND THEY HAVE THE EXPERTISE
00:03:42NECESSARY TO MAKE THOSE PROJECTIONS.
00:03:46SO WHEN IT COMES TO RESULTS, IT'S DAVID COCHRANE WHO IS GOING
00:03:49TO BE YOUR GUY ALL NIGHT LONG, MAYBE INTO THE MORNING, BREAKING
00:03:53DOWN THE KEY RACES AND HOW THINGS ARE SHAPING UP. SO ALREADY I KNOW THAT YOU'VE
00:03:56GOT SOMETHING FOR US. WHAT DO YOU HAVE? >> Reporter: YEAH, LOOK, THIS
00:04:00YEAR BEGAN WITH THE DEMOCRATS WITH A PRETTY GOOD CHANCE OF
00:04:02TAKING THE HOUSE BUT REALLY NO CHANCE OF GETTING CONTROL OF THE SENATE.
00:04:05WHAT A DIFFERENCE THAT 11 MONTHS AND 3 DAYS CAN MAKE.
00:04:09AND THERE'S 435 SEATS UP FOR GRABS IN THE HOUSE OF
00:04:11REPRESENTATIVES AND YOU NEED 218 FOR CONTROL AND THE DEMOCRATS
00:04:15WON 215 LAST TIME AND THE MAGIC NUMBER IS THREE.
00:04:19AND RIGHT NOW THE DEMOCRATS ALREADY ARE PLUS 19 IN THE VOTES
00:04:23THAT ARE BEING COUNTED. LET'S SHOW YOU SOME OF THE
00:04:25REASONS WHY THEY HAVE THAT LEAD. AND THIS IS INDIANA'S FIFTH
00:04:29DISTRICT, NORTH OF INDIANAPOLIS.
00:04:31AND THE REPUBLICAN VICTORIA
00:04:34SPARSE WON BY 18 PERCENTAGE POINTS IN 2024, AND HERE WITH
00:04:3861% OF THE VOTES COUNTED SHE IS
00:04:4011 POINTS DOWN BEHIND J.D. FORD RUNNING FOR THE DEMOCRATS.
00:04:43WE HAVE A SIMILAR STORY UNFOLDS IN FLORIDA AND WE'LL SHOW YOU
00:04:47FOUR DISTRICTS, WHICH WERE GERRYMANDERED -- REDISTRICTING
00:04:50HAPPENED IN FLORIDA TO MAKE IT EASIER FOR THE REPUBLICAN.
00:04:53WELL, HERE IN FLORIDA, A 44.2%
00:04:58OF THE VOTE WITH 99% OF THE VOTES IN AND THAT'S STILL A
00:05:02REPUBLICAN SEAT AT THIS POINT. BUT WHAT IS INTERESTING IT THAT
00:05:05THEY WON IT BY NINE POINTS IN
00:05:08FLORIDA AND 13 POINTS OVERALL. AND FLORIDA REDISTRICTED TO HELP THE REPUBLICANS TO MAKE IT
00:05:12HARDER FOR THE DEMOCRATS AND HERE YOU HAVE WITH 91% OF THE
00:05:15VOTES COUNTED A SIX-POINT LEAD FOR KATHY CASTER FROM THE
00:05:19DEMOCRATS.
00:05:20IN FLORIDA, 22, A DISTRICT THAT
00:05:23DONALD TRUMP WON BY 10 POINTS IN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WITH
00:05:2694% OF THE VOTE IN, YOU HAVE A
00:05:28FIVE-POINT LEAD FOR THE
00:05:30DEMOCRAT, AND IN FLORIDA, 27, A SEAT THAT THE DEMOCRATS --
00:05:34SORRY, THE REPUBLICANS -- EXCUSE
00:05:36ME -- WON BY 21 POINTS IN 2024.
00:05:40THERE YOU HAVE NECK-AND-NECK.
00:05:4650/50 WITH 90% OF THE VOTE IN.
00:05:50SO THE SHIFT IN MOOD AS PRICES
00:05:52WENT UP AND POTUS WENT DOWN, THINGS HAVE SLID BLEW AT LEAST IN THE HOUSE.
00:05:56AND WE'LL MOVE TO THE SENATE WHERE YOU NEED 51 FOR CONTROL
00:05:59AND SO THE MAGIC NUMBER FOR THE DEMOCRATS IS FOUR.
00:06:02AND STICKING WITH FLORIDA LOOK AT THIS. IN A STATE THAT DONALD TRUMP WON
00:06:05BY 13, IN A SENATE SEAT WHERE THE DEMOCRATS WERE CONSIDERED TO
00:06:08KIND OF HAVE NO HOPE, ANGIE NIXON, AND CONTROVERSIAL BECAUSE
00:06:12SHE'S A MEMBER OF THE DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS FOR AMERICA AND SEEN
00:06:15AS MAYBE A MISTAKE PICK IN THIS
00:06:18STATE, RIGHT NOW LESS THAN ONE FULL PERCENTAGE POINT BEHIND
00:06:21WITH 88% OF THE VOTES COUNTED. SO THAT'S ONE SEAT AND WE
00:06:25WEREN'T EXPECTING IT TO BE IN PLAY.
00:06:27AND THIS IS GEORGIA, WHERE A YEAR AGO THEY THOUGHT THAT IT
00:06:31MIGHT BE THE MOST VULNERABLE DEMOCRAT IN THE SENATE.
00:06:34AND THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HAS ALREADY PROJECTED HIM TO BE
00:06:37ELECTED.
00:06:3964.5% OF THE VOTE TO 35% FOR MIKE COLLINS WITH NEARLY HALF OF
00:06:42THE VOTES COUNTED. SO IF YOU'RE A DEMOCRAT THIS IS
00:06:45NOT A BAD START WITH VOTE SHARE AND SEAT.
00:06:47AND LET'S LOOK AT OTHER SEATS, NORTH CAROLINA, ROY COOPER, A
00:06:51TWO-TERM GOVERNOR IN THAT STATE HAS NEVER LOST AN ELECTION.
00:06:54AND WHEN HE'S PUT HIS NAME ON THE BALLOT IN NORTH CAROLINA,
00:06:57THIS IS A SEAT WHERE THOM TILLIS
00:06:59WAS THE INCUMBENT REPUBLICAN SENATOR AND DIDN'T QUITE FALL IN
00:07:03LINE WITH THE M.A.G.A. WING WITH
00:07:08DONALD TRUMP AND DECIDED TO RETIRE INSTEAD OF FACING A
00:07:12CHALLENGE. AND THIS ONE THAT THE REPUBLICANS ARE EXPECTED TO FLIP.
00:07:15AND LET'S MOVE TO OHIO ANOTHER
00:07:18SEAT, THIS WAS J.D. VANCE'S SENATE SEAT AND HE HAD TO LEAVE
00:07:21THAT TO BECOME VICE-PRESIDENT. AND SHERROD BROWN IS LOOKING TO
00:07:24RETURN TO THE SENATE, WITH A
00:07:25GOOD START, WITH 28% OF VOTES
00:07:28COUNTED HE HAS A 24-POINT LEAD
00:07:31OVER JON HUSTED WHO HAS BEEN
00:07:35PRAISED AS A CANDIDATE AND HE'S TRAILING FOR THE REPUBLICANS IN OHIO.
00:07:39LET'S GO TO THE NEXT SEAT, MAINE, WHERE SUSAN COLLINS IS
00:07:42HOPING FOR TARIFF RELIEF ON THINGS LIKE CONCRETE AND ROAD
00:07:45SALT CAN HELP HER FROM THE CHALLENGE PRESENTED BY THE
00:07:48DEMOCRAT TROY JACKSON WITH A BACKGROUND IN THE LABOUR MOVEMENT AND THE LOGGING
00:07:52INDUSTRY IN MAINE. SHE'S BEEN THERE FOR DECADES. THIS MAY BE HER TOUGHEST
00:07:56CHALLENGE YET. AND MOVING ON TO TEXAS, THE
00:07:58DREAM OF DEMOCRATS.
00:08:01IT'S ONLY 6% OF THE VOTES,
00:08:04DEMOCRATS, IF YOU'RE WATCHING BUT THAT'S A GOOD START FOR
00:08:07JAMES TALARICO AND 72% TO
00:08:11PAXTON'S 25%.
00:08:12AND J JOHN CORNYN AND FORCED OUT
00:08:17IN A PRIMARY, WILL IT COST HIM A SEAT? WE'LL SEE.
00:08:20A SURGE IN EARLY VOTING AND ESPECIALLY AMONGST THE LATINO VOTERS.
00:08:23AND, FINALLY, MICHIGAN. THE DEMOCRATS -- THEY NEED TO
00:08:27HOLD HERE AND ABDUL El-SAYED RUNNING AGAINST MIKE ROGERS AND
00:08:31MIKE ROGERS STARTED THIS CAMPAIGN AS A TARIFF SUPPORTING
00:08:34TRUMP LOYALIST AND HE ENDED THIS CAMPAIGN WITH A BOTTLE OF THAT'S
00:08:37BLUE IN HIS HAND AND SAYING THAT CANADA IS NOT OUR ENEMY.
00:08:41ABDUL El-SAYED, A CURVEBALL IN
00:08:43THE FINAL DAYS WITH HIS COMPETITOR IN THE NOMINATION
00:08:47ENDORSING MIKE ROGERS BUT HE'S SEEN A SURGE IN FUNDRAISING AS A RESULT OF THAT.
00:08:51IF THE DEMOCRATS GET THE FOUR SEATS THEY NEED THIS IS WHERE
00:08:54WE'LL SEE THE RESULTS BECAUSE,
00:08:56ADRIENNE, THIS LOOKS LIKE VERY EARLY -- REAL GOOD MOVEMENT FOR
00:09:00THE DEMOCRATS. THESE ARE EARLY RESULTS, BUT IF
00:09:02YOU JUST SEE THE SHIFTS IN THE
00:09:04VOTES, IT IS A BIG MOVEMENT OF
00:09:07THE VOTE SHARE AND RIGHT NOW THEY'RE PLUS 26 IN THE HOUSE IN
00:09:10EARLY COUNTING. >> Adrienne: OKAY, WE'LL SEE IF THAT STORY HOLDS.
00:09:14DAVID, THANK YOU. PAUL, IF WE PULL BACK, WHAT ARE
00:09:17THE AMERICANS TRYING TO WEIGH TONIGHT? >> Reporter: I JUST WANT TO
00:09:20LISTEN TO DAVID COCHRANE DO THAT ALL OVER AGAIN.
00:09:24>> Adrienne: LISTEN TO YOU TOO. >> Reporter: I'LL KEEP IT SIMPLE.
00:09:26AT THE END OF THE DAY THIS IS --
00:09:29THE QUESTION IS TO REBUKE OR TO
00:09:32REINFORCE THE POLICIES, THE ACTIONS, THE LEADERSHIP OF
00:09:35DONALD TRUMP, RIGHT?
00:09:36I MEAN, FAMOUSLY THE PRESIDENT'S
00:09:39NAME IS NOT ON THE BALLOT IN THE MIDTERMS AND FAMOUSLY DONALD
00:09:43TRUMP SAID TO IMAGINE HIS NAME ON THE BALLOT THIS TIME.
00:09:45AND IT'S HARD TO IMAGINE ANYONE WHO ISN'T DOING THAT AS THEY
00:09:48CAST THEIR BALLOTS TODAY AND IN EARLY VOTING. WHY?
00:09:52BECAUSE OF THE NUMBER ONE ISSUE -- AFFORDABILITY.
00:09:55AND, YOU KNOW, STUFF COSTS MORE. AND THAT AFFECTS EVERYBODY,
00:09:59RIGHT? AND SO, YOU KNOW, WHEN STUFF
00:10:02COSTS MORE, PEOPLE GET ANGRY AND
00:10:04PEOPLE WANT TO BLAME WHO'S IN
00:10:07POWER. AND WHY DOES THE STUFF COST MORE?
00:10:11BECAUSE OF TRUMP AND HE EFFECTIVELY TARIFFED THE WORLD AND PRICES WENT UP.
00:10:15HE STARTED THE WAR IN IRAN AND PRICES WENT UP FURTHER.
00:10:18THIS IS A CHANCE TO SAY THUMBS UP OR THUMBS DOWN ON ALL OF
00:10:22THAT. FINALLY AFTER ALL OF THE TALK, NOT TO OVERSTATE IT, BUT IT'S
00:10:25THE MOMENT OF TRUTH. >> Adrienne: IT IS. VOTE LIKE HIS NAME IS ON THE
00:10:29BALLOT, THAT MAY WORK OUT FOR
00:10:30HIM OR IT MAY BE A VERY -- >> Reporter: AT THE END OF THE
00:10:34DAY, VOTERS WHO SUPPORT BOTH PARTIES ARE PROBABLY THINKING
00:10:37THAT AND THAT MAY -- AS WE HAVE HEARD FROM THE EARLY NUMBERS
00:10:40FROM DAVID, UM, BACKFIRE ON
00:10:42DONALD TRUMP.
00:10:44>> Adrienne: SO WE HAVE TEAMS IN THE MOST CONSEQUENTIAL RACES
00:10:47ACROSS THE U.S. AND THE CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT ROSEMARY
00:10:50BARTON IS IN OTTAWA AND TACKLING THE STAKES IN THIS COUNTRY AND
00:10:54WE'LL HEAD TO A WATCH PARTY IN CANADA WHERE THE RACES ARE
00:10:58WATCHED EXTREMELY CLOSELY. BUT, FIRST, WHY DON'T WE GO TO
00:11:01PAY A VISIT TO DAVID COMMON -- AND THERE'S KATIE SIMPSON IN
00:11:05TEXAS AND WE'LL CONNECT WITH KATIE SIMPSON BUT I THINK THAT
00:11:08WE WANT TO SEE DAVID COMMON IN
00:11:11DETROIT, AND BECAUSE WE JUST SPOKE ABOUT ABDUL El-SAYED.
00:11:14THERE YOU ARE, SIR. YOU ARE IN MOTOR CITY.
00:11:17HOW MUCH HAVE THE TALKS OF TARIFFS DRIVEN THE VOTE THERE,
00:11:20FROM WHAT YOU CAN TELL, DAVID? >> Reporter: IT'S QUITE SOMETHING, ADRIENNE.
00:11:24NOT THAT MANY MONTHS AGO, MOST
00:11:26AMERICANS AND MOST MICHIGANANERS
00:11:33DIDN'T KNOW WHAT THE EFFECT WOULD BE AND NOW IT DIRECTLY
00:11:37COSTS TO COST OF LIVING WHICH IS THE TOP OF THE BALLOT QUESTION
00:11:39IN THIS STATE AND IN SO MANY
00:11:42OTHER STATES THAT MANY AMERICAN VOTERS -- THOSE WHO MIGHT HAVE
00:11:45SUPPORTED DONALD TRUMP IN THE PAST, LOOK AT THEIR GAS TANK,
00:11:49LOOK AT PUSHING A GROCERY CART DOWN THE AISLE AND THEY SAY IT'S
00:11:53COSTING ME MORE AND HE SAID THAT IT WAS GOING TO COST LESS.
00:11:55AND THAT HAS DRIVEN A LOT OF THE
00:11:58DEMOCRATIC SUPPORT, CERTAINLY IN THIS STATE.
00:12:01MICHIGAN -- THE PARTY GETTING STARTED HERE AT THE DEMOCRATIC
00:12:04PARTY HEADQUARTERS WITH PEOPLE
00:12:07OF MANY FAITHS AND MANY BACKGROUNDS AND FROM MANY PARTS
00:12:10OF THE STATE COMING IN AND EXPECTING A VERY GOOD NIGHT FOR THE DEMOCRATS.
00:12:14THIS IS A DIFFERENT, THIS STATE. WHILE THERE'S NO INCUMBENT, THEY
00:12:18NEED TO HOLD. AND IF THEY DON'T, THAT'S A MARKER OF A BAD NIGHT FOR THEM
00:12:21BECAUSE A REPUBLICAN SENATOR IS
00:12:24NOT WON HERE SINCE 1994.
00:12:28ABDUL El-SAYED HAS HAD, AS COCHRANE WAS MENTIONING A VERY
00:12:31CONSEQUENTIAL AND AT TIMES CONTROVERSIAL CAMPAIGN -- NO QUESTION ABOUT THAT.
00:12:35HE'S SEEN THAT LAST-MINUTE ENDORSEMENT OF HIS RIVAL BY A
00:12:38FELLOW DEMOCRAT, THE PERSON WHO RAN AGAINST HIM FOR THE SENATE
00:12:42NOMINATION AND LOST. AND THE MIDDLE EAST HAS COME UP
00:12:46REPEATEDLY.
00:12:47TARIFFS HAVE COME UP REPEATEDLY.
00:12:50THAT LA BLAT BLUE IN A
00:12:54COMMERCIAL HAS COME UP NUMEROUS TIMES NOW.
00:12:56AND POLLS ARE SCHEDULED TO BE
00:12:59CLOSED, BUT CLOSE TO 30% OF THE
00:13:01ELIGIBLE VOTERS ALREADY VOTED, EITHER BY MAIL-IN OR EARLY VOTING.
00:13:05SO THEY HAVE INDICATED MUCH MORE
00:13:07THAN THEY HAVE IN THE LAST
00:13:09MIDTERM VOTE THEIR WILLINGNESS AND ENTHUSIASM ABOUT VOTING.
00:13:12THAT COULD BE A HARBINGER AGAINST THE PRESIDENT AND HIS
00:13:16PARTY AS IT VERY OFTEN IS IN MIDTERM CAMPAIGNS.
00:13:20WHAT HAS BEEN A DEFINING ISSUE THOUGH CONTINUES TO BE TARIFFS.
00:13:23LOOK AT THOSE AUTO COMPANIES -- THE DETROIT BIG THREE WHO ARE
00:13:27HEADQUARTERED JUST AROUND ME. I'M ABOUT A KILOMETRE AWAY FROM
00:13:31DETROIT AS I TALK TO YOU RIGHT NOW AND THEY'VE BEEN HEMORRHAGING MONEY.
00:13:34SO IT'S GOING TO BE A CONTROVERSIAL NIGHT AND AS I
00:13:37WRAP UP, ADRIENNE, SO GLAD THAT YOU HAVE PAUL HUNTER THERE -- I
00:13:41REMEMBER HIM FROM THE FIRST TRUMP WIN. I REMEMBER HIM FROM THE FIRST
00:13:45OBAMA WIN, OUT IN STREETS AND ALL OF THE EXCITEMENT.
00:13:47BUT YOU DO HAVE TO ASK HIM -- BECAUSE I THINK THAT HE WAS THERE DURING THE GEORGE
00:13:51WASHINGTON WIN -- ASK HIM ABOUT
00:13:53THE QUAINT WHITE HOUSE BACK THEN.
00:13:57>> Adrienne: OH, DAVID, IT'S SO EARLY FOR THE DAVID COMMON-NESS
00:14:00TO BE EMERGING AND I THINK YOU HAVE BEEN UP FOR 47 HOURS.
00:14:04ALL RIGHT, THAT IS DAVID COMMON IN DETROIT.
00:14:06SO YOU GOT A SNEAK PEEK OF KATIE
00:14:09SIMPSON EARLIER WHO IS IN AUSTIN, TEXAS.
00:14:11LET'S GO BACK TO SEE KATIE AND SHE'S AT A JAMES TALARICO WATCH
00:14:15PARTY. HOW ARE YOU, KATIE? >> Reporter: ADRIENNE, YOU KNOW,
00:14:18OF ALL OF THE TIME THAT I'VE COVERED POLITICS, I HAVE NEVER
00:14:21IN MY LIFE MET A GROUP OF VOTERS
00:14:25MORE NERVOUS TO FEEL EXCITED.
00:14:28MORE AFRAID TO BE EMBRACING WHAT LOOKS TO BE A POSITIVE NIGHT.
00:14:31AND THAT IS BECAUSE SO MANY
00:14:34TIMES IN THE PAST DEMOCRATS HAVE
00:14:36HAD THEIR HEARTS BROKEN BY CANDIDATES, AND THINKING THEY
00:14:39CAN GET ACROSS THE LINE HERE IN TEXAS AND THEN JUST FALLING SHORT.
00:14:43AND THERE IS -- IF EVERYTHING IS BIGGER IN TEXAS, THAT GOES FOR
00:14:47THE ANXIETY TOO. THE DEMOCRATS ARE LOOKING AT THE
00:14:49POLLS AND HEADING INTO THE FINAL DAYS OF THIS CAMPAIGN IN THE
00:14:53RACE FOR SENATE. AND IT IS NECK-AND-NECK WITH
00:14:56SOME POLLS EVEN GIVING THE DEMOCRAT JAMES TALARICO A BIT OF
00:14:59AN EDGE IN THIS CAMPAIGN. HOWEVER, BECAUSE TEXAS IS A
00:15:03REPUBLICAN STRONGHOLD, DONALD TRUMP WON THIS STATE BY 14
00:15:07POINTS BACK IN 2024.
00:15:09AND THAT THEY'RE TOO NERVOUS TO
00:15:13TO TRY TO EMBRACE OR RELAX AND THAT'S WHAT WE HAVE SEEN OVER
00:15:15THE PAST COUPLE DAYS HERE IN TEXAS. NOW WE'RE AT A WATCH PARTY RIGHT
00:15:19NOW FOR TEXAS DEMOCRATS AND IT'S SLOWLY STARTING TO FILL UP.
00:15:22AND SOME INITIAL RESULTS ARE
00:15:24COMING IN JUST AFTER 7:00
00:15:26EASTERN TIMES WHEN THE POLLS OFFICIALLY CLOSED AND YOU HEARD
00:15:30THOSE INITIAL CHEERS. WE SHOULD GET RESULTS RELATIVELY QUICKLY IN TEXAS.
00:15:33THEY DON'T HAVE A LOT OF MAIL-IN BALLOTS SO THAT DOESN'T TAKE A
00:15:37LONG TIME TO COUNT BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO HAVE A SPECIFIC REASON
00:15:40TO CAST A MAIL-IN BALLOT IN TEXAS.
00:15:42SO BY MIDNIGHT WE SHOULD HAVE A LARGE BULK OF THE RESULTS IN AND
00:15:46A BETTER IDEA OF WHICH WAY THIS IS GOING TO GO.
00:15:49JAMES TALARICO, A MODERATE DEMOCRAT, WHO HAS SLOWLY AND
00:15:53CONSISTENTLY BUILT MOMENTUM THROUGHOUT THIS CAMPAIGN, HE'S
00:15:56TRIED TO REACH OUT TO MORE CONSERVATIVE VOTERS IN THIS
00:15:59STATE BY TAPPING INTO HIS DEEP ROOTS AND HIS CHRISTIAN FAITH.
00:16:02THAT IS SOMETHING THAT HE'S TRYING TO LEAN OVER TO ACROSS
00:16:06THE AISLES AND THE REPUBLICANS TO TRY TO CONNECT AND RELATE WITH THEM.
00:16:09HE'S UP AGAINST KEN PAXTON WHO
00:16:11IS A DEEPLY CONTROVERSIAL FIGURE IN TEXAS.
00:16:14HE WAS ENDORSED DIE DONALD BY DP
00:16:19THOUGH HE'S BEEN INDICTED AND GOT A PLEA DEAL.
00:16:22HE HAS A NUMBER OF PERSONAL
00:16:24SCANDALS THAT HAVE PLAYED OUT PUBLICLY. [Cheers and Applause]
00:16:27SO WE'RE GETTING SOME APPLAUSE HERE BECAUSE SOME INITIAL
00:16:30RESULTS ARE IN FROM TEXAS, AND
00:16:33AN AMERICAN NETWORK IS SHOWING
00:16:34ABOUT 13% OF THE VOTES IN IN
00:16:37TEXAS AND JAMES TALARICO HAS AN INITIAL EARLY LEAD.
00:16:40NOW A MOMENT -- A WORD OF
00:16:42CAUTION -- BECAUSE THE EARLY
00:16:44VOTE OFTEN INCLUDES THE ADVANCED
00:16:47VOTING AND PERHAPS THERE'S A
00:16:50SKEW TOWARD DEMOCRAT, BECAUSE THERE WAS SO MUCH ENTHUSIASM IN THIS RACE.
00:16:54AND IT COULD CHANGE OVER THE COURSE OF THE NIGHT AND THAT'S
00:16:57THE ONLY WARNING THAT I WANT TO PUT OUT THERE. PEOPLE MIGHT BE VERY EXCITED
00:17:00RIGHT NOW AND THAT COULD CHANGE. AND IT'S PROBABLY GOING TO BE A
00:17:03LONG NIGHT HERE IN TEXAS, ADRIENNE, BUT WE'LL CONTINUE TO WATCH IT.
00:17:06>> Adrienne: I WILL HOLD YOU TO THE NOTION THAT THERE WILL BE
00:17:09EARLY RESULTS IN TEXAS AND BY
00:17:11MMIDNIGHT.
00:17:14ALL RIGHT, KATIE SIMPSON IN
00:17:16AUSTIN, TEXAS.
00:17:18SO ROSEMARY BARTON IS IN OTTAWA.
00:17:21AND QUIET AND CALM OTTAWA WATCHING HERE.
00:17:24ROSIE, WHAT IS YOUR SENSE OF WHAT COULD CHANGE FOR CANADA
00:17:27TONIGHT DEPENDING ON THE RESULT? >> Rosemary: I MEAN, LISTEN, I DON'T THINK THAT CANADIANS WHO
00:17:31PAY ATTENTION TO MIDTERMS HAVE
00:17:33EVER SEEN CANADA MENTIONED AS MANY TIMES DURING THIS
00:17:37MIDTERMS -- THIS TIME AROUND. EITHER BY PRESIDENT TRUMP, BY
00:17:40FORMER PRESIDENT OBAMA, BY A
00:17:43MULTITUDE OF CANDIDATES. AND FOR VARIOUS REASONS.
00:17:47EITHER TO POINT THE FINGER AT
00:17:49CANADA, OR TO POINT TO THE
00:17:51ISSUES OF TARIFFS AND TRADE.
00:17:53IT IS PERHAPS THE FIRST MIDTERM
00:17:56ELECTION EVER WHERE THE U.S.
00:17:58AMBASSADOR TO CANADA PETE
00:18:00HOEKSTRA HAS ACCUSED CANADIAN POLITICIANS OF MEDDLING IN THE ELECTIONS.
00:18:04THE U.S. EMBASSY RELEASING A FACT SHEET OF ALL OF THE
00:18:08INSTANCES WHERE CANADIAN POLITICIANS TRIED TO INFLUENCE
00:18:10THE OUTCOME HERE TONIGHT. THAT'S SOMETHING THAT THE PRIME
00:18:13MINISTER OBVIOUSLY REBUKED VERY, VERY STRONGLY.
00:18:16IN SOME WAYS CANADA WAS ON THE BALLOT IN SOME OF THESE PLACES,
00:18:20AND CERTAINLY WHERE DAVID COMMON IS IN MICHIGAN. AND CERTAINLY IN MAINE.
00:18:24AND WHERE THE REPUBLICAN
00:18:26CANDIDATE SUSAN COLI COLLINS HAO
00:18:30BEG PRESIDENT TRUMP TO REMOVE TARIFFS OFF KEY THINGS THAT MAINE NEEDS.
00:18:34AND THE QUESTION FOR CANADIAN OFFICIALS TONIGHT AS THEY WATCH
00:18:37THINGS UNFOLD IS IF EITHER THE
00:18:40SENATE OR THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES GOES TO THE
00:18:43DEMOCRATS, WHAT HAPPENS.
00:18:45IF BOTH OF THEM GO TO THE
00:18:48DEMOCRATS, DOES ANYTHING MATERIALLY CHANGE? BECAUSE DONALD TRUMP IS
00:18:52COMMITTED TO TARIFFS.
00:18:54AND IT IS NOT CLEAR THAT THAT
00:18:57SIMPLE CHANGE -- OR THAT BIG CHANGE -- WOULD ACTUALLY CHANGE
00:19:01HOW DONALD TRUMP APPROACHES CANADA.
00:19:03BUT WE KNOW THAT THEY HAD A PHONE CALL, RIGHT, AND THE PRIME
00:19:06MINISTER AND THE PRESIDENT OVER THE WEEKEND. AND THE PRIME MINISTER WAS ASKED
00:19:10ABOUT IT JUST TODAY. HE SAID THAT PROGRESS IS BEING
00:19:13MADE, THAT NEGOTIATIONS HAVE INTENSIFIED. WHETHER THAT WAS BECAUSE OF THE
00:19:17MIDTERMS OR WHETHER THAT WAS BECAUSE DONALD TRUMP IS GETTING
00:19:19THE MESSAGE IS KIND OF UNCLEAR. >> Adrienne: YEAH, WE ALSO KNOW
00:19:23THAT THE U.S. PRESIDENT IS PROBABLY GETTING A BRAND-NEW
00:19:26VETO SHARPIE STANDING BY THAT HE
00:19:28MAY GET A LOT OF USE OUT OF.
00:19:32ROSIE, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. AND HERE'S A CHANCE FOR US TO HAVE A CHAT WITH OUR PANEL
00:19:35BECAUSE I CAN FEEL YOU GUYS BOUNCING OUT OF YOUR SEATS HERE.
00:19:38[LAUGHTER] AMBASSADOR HILLMAN, I AM CURIOUS
00:19:42IF THERE IS A SENSE OF WHETHER
00:19:44CANADA MAY HAVE HAD MORE
00:19:46LEVERAGE GOING INTO THE
00:19:49MIDTERMS, OR WILL STILL HAVE SOME LEVERAGE COMING OUT OF IT?
00:19:53IS THERE GOING TO BE A CHANGE IN THAT LEVERAGE AT ALL, DEPENDING
00:19:56ON WHAT HAPPENS? >> YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT
00:20:00THERE'S GOING TO BE A LEGACY
00:20:02FROM THE DEGREE TO WHICH TARIFFS
00:20:04ARE BEING DISCUSSED IN THIS NEGOTIATION -- IN THIS ELECTION.
00:20:07AND I THINK THAT WHAT WE'RE GOING TO SEE IS THE FACT AS
00:20:11FOLKS HAVE BEEN SAYING THAT THE TARIFFS HAVE BEEN SO CLOSELY
00:20:14LINKED TO THE COST OF LIVING. THAT CONVERSATION ISN'T GOING TO
00:20:17END AT THE END OF THE ELECTION. THAT'S A CONVERSATION THAT AMERICANS ARE GOING TO CONTINUE
00:20:21TO HAVE. AND THE DEMOCRATS HAVE ALREADY
00:20:24SAID THEY'RE GOING TO PUT FORWARD THE LEGISLATION ON TARIFFS.
00:20:27SO THEY'LL KEEP THAT CONVERSATION GOING AND THAT'S GOOD FOR CANADA AND THAT'S GOOD
00:20:31FOR CANADA GENERALLY AND IT'S GOOD FOR CANADA AT THE NEGOTIATING TABLE, BECAUSE IT'S
00:20:34WHAT WE HAVE BEEN SAYING FOR TWO YEARS. AND NOW, YOU KNOW, MANY
00:20:38AMERICANS HAD UNDERSTOOD THAT BEFORE, BUT NOW IT'S BEING
00:20:41DISCUSSED OPENLY AND FORCEFUL HE AND SO I THINK THAT A GOOD
00:20:45THING.
00:20:46WHETHER IT LEADS TO A CONCLUSION
00:20:50QUICKLY OR IT WILL CONTINUE TO TAKE TIME, IT REMAINS TO BE SEEN.
00:20:53BUT THE DEGREE TO WHICH AMERICANS ARE MAKING THIS
00:20:55CONNECTION IS HELPFUL. >> Adrienne: JUST ONE QUICK
00:20:59THOUGHT TO YOU, ASHLEY. WHAT SPECIFICALLY ARE YOU GOING
00:21:01TO BE LOOKING AT -- IT'S EARLY, RIGHT? SO WHAT ARE THE EARLY THING US
00:21:05THAT LOCK AT FOR A MEASURE OF SUCCESS OR FAILURE? >> THERE'S THREE THINGS THAT I
00:21:09LOOK AT AND ONE IS THE BLACK VOTER TURNOUT.
00:21:12IT'S BEEN RECORD TURNOUT EARLY
00:21:14VOTE, MORE THAN -- WELL, 160,000
00:21:17MORE BLACK AMERICANS HAVE BEEN VOTING THIS CYCLE.
00:21:20AND PRIMARILY BECAUSE THEY'VE BEEN MORE DEVASTATED BY THIS
00:21:24PARTICULAR ECONOMY AND DONALD TRUMP HAS BEEN VERY INTENTIONAL
00:21:27ABOUT UNDERMINING BLACK ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL POWER FROM, YOU
00:21:30KNOW, 600,000 BLACK WOMEN BEING
00:21:32OUT OF A JOB TO THE UNDERMINING
00:21:35OF THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT.
00:21:37SO THEY'VE HAVE BEEN AGGRIEVED
00:21:40BY THIS PRESIDENT SO THEY'RE TURNING OUT. AND THAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE IN TEXAS AND OHIO AND MICHIGAN.
00:21:44AND THE OTHER THING THAT I'M LOOKING AT IS WHETHER OR NOT THE
00:21:47SOUTH WILL RISE AGAIN. YOU KNOW, WE HAVE SOME
00:21:50INCREDIBLE CANDIDATES FROM GEORGIA, TO NORTH CAROLINA, AND
00:21:53THE GOVERNOR IS EXCEPTIONAL, TO
00:21:56TEXAS, MISSISSIPPI, PICK IT, CHOOSE IT, YOU SEE THE DEMOCRATS
00:22:00NOW VOTING IN HIGHER NUMBERS IN THE SOUTH.
00:22:02AND WHO IS TO BLAME FOR THAT? DONALD TRUMP AND HIS POLICIES.
00:22:05HIS POLICIES HAVE DISPROPORTIONATELY IMPACTED THESE RED STATES.
00:22:09SO NOW THEY'RE VULNERABLE. SO THE QUESTION FOR ME IS NOT JUST TONIGHT BUT IT'S LONG
00:22:13TERM -- THE IMPLICATIONS FOR 2028. AND THE THIRD THING THAT I'M
00:22:16LOOKING FOR IS THIS ISSUE OF CORRUPTION. AND I THINK THAT YOU GOT TO IT
00:22:19AND YOU SPOKE TO IT, AMBASSADOR,
00:22:20AND THAT'S AROUND PEOPLE FEELING
00:22:23LIKE SOMEHOW THAT THE PRESIDENT
00:22:26WHO HAS MADE TWO PLUS BILLION DOLLARS OFF OF THE OFFICE AND
00:22:29HIS RICH BUDDIES ARE MAKING A FORTUNE AT THEIR EXPENSE.
00:22:32AND THAT EXTENDS FROM EVERYTHING FROM THE TARIFFS TO THE DATA CENTRES.
00:22:36I MEAN, PEOPLE ARE SEEING THESE THINGS POP UP IN THEIR LIVES.
00:22:39AND NOW 88% OF THE AMERICAN PUBLIC HAVE CONCERNS ABOUT
00:22:43CORRUPTION AND ARE TYING IT BACK TO THEIR POCKETBOOKS.
00:22:45AND IT'S ACTUALLY HIGH ARE THAN THE ECONOMY. SO THOSE ARE THE THREE THINGS
00:22:49THAT I'M LOOKING AT. >> Adrienne: OKAY, THAT'S A LOT.
00:22:52AND, MAURA, I WAS THINKING OF YOU WHEN WE LOOKED AT FLORIDA AND THE EARLY RESULTS THERE.
00:22:56AS A REPUBLICAN IS THAT A STATE THAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT VERY
00:22:59CAREFULLY TO GIVE YOU A SIGN WHAT IS IN THE WIND? >> I THINK THAT I'M LOOKING AT
00:23:03IT WITH THE POTENTIAL REALIGNMENT AND FUTURE.
00:23:06DONALD TRUMP OBVIOUSLY WENT IN THERE AND TRIED TO PLAY WITH THE
00:23:10REDISTRICTING AND WE'RE SEE SOMETHING OF THESE RACES THAT
00:23:12ARE BACKFIRING ON THAT ALREADY.
00:23:14SOME OF THE RACES THAT ARE, YOU
00:23:18KNOW, AND IF THE REPUBLICANS
00:23:19DON'T WIN THOSE, THAT WERE
00:23:22PURPOSEFULLY DESIGNED TO GET A REPUBLICAN WIN, THAT'S DAMAGING
00:23:26TO THE PRESIDENT. AND THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO REMEMBER THAT REDISTRICTING IS
00:23:29NOT SOMETHING THAT THEY WOULD HAVE SUPPORTED. SO I LOOK AT IT AS AN
00:23:33OPPORTUNITY TO DO A REASSIGN LENT AND THIS FAILED AND DONALD
00:23:36TRUMP CHOSE TO DO THIS AND YOU AS REPUBLICAN NEED TO TAKE BACK
00:23:39YOUR OWN PRINCIPLES AND VALUES AND REAFFIRM THEM TO YOUR CONSTITUENTS.
00:23:42OR YOUR HOPEFUL CONSTITUENTS IN 2028.
00:23:45BECAUSE BEING SILENT ON AN ISSUE
00:23:47AS IMPORTANT AS THAT, AS I THINK
00:23:50IS AN ABDICATION OF YOUR PRINCIPLES, BUT ALSO THINGS THAT
00:23:54WE STAND FOR IN AMERICA. >> Adrienne: SO WE'RE GOING TO HAVING A CONVERSATION WITH YOU
00:23:58ABOUT DISTANCING LATER ON TONIGHT, IF SOME OF THESE RESULTS HOLD.
00:24:01I WANT TO GO TO A GUEST THAT WE HAVE THE LINE IF I MAY.
00:24:04THE FORMER DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER
00:24:06CHRYSTIA FREELAND IS JOINING US FROM SAN FRANCISCO.
00:24:09YOU WERE IN THE THICK OF IT DURING THE NEGOTIATIONS OF CUSMA.
00:24:13THANK YOU FOR SPENDING SOME TIME WITH US TONIGHT.
00:24:16I SUSPECT THAT YOU HAVE MORE FREEDOM TO TALK THAN YOU USED
00:24:20TO, SO WHAT IS YOUR INSTINCT
00:24:22ABOUT WHAT MIGHT BE IN CANADA'S
00:24:24BEST INTEREST TONIGHT?
00:24:26>> WELL, I VERY MUCH AGREE WITH
00:24:30WHAT KIERSTEN, AND AMBASSADOR
00:24:32HILLMAN SAID, HI, KIERSTEN, NICE TO SEE YOU.
00:24:35AND WE WERE IN THE THICK OF IT TOGETHER.
00:24:37I REALLY BELIEVE THAT CANADA IS
00:24:40ON THE BALLOT TONIGHT IN THE
00:24:41UNITED STATES. TARIFFS AGAINST CANADA ARE ON
00:24:45THE BALLOT. AND AMERINS DON'T LIKE THEM.
00:24:48THERE'S ACTUALLY AN ASTONISHING
00:24:50POLL THAT SHOWS THAT AMERICANS
00:24:53ARE MORE SUPPORTIVE OF CANADA'S
00:24:57RETALIATORY TARIFFS AGAINST THE UNITED STATES THAN ON THE U.S.
00:25:00TARIFFS THAT WERE PUT IN PLACE AGAINST CANADA IN THE FIRST PLACE. AMAZING.
00:25:04AND THE AMERICANS DON'T LIKE THE TARIFFS BECAUSE THEY KNOW THAT
00:25:07THEY ARE INCREASING THE PRICES AND THEY ARE INCREASING
00:25:10INFLATION AND THEY ARE HURTING BUSINESSES AND THEY ARE HURT BE
00:25:14JOBS. AMERICANS MORE BROADLY DO NOT
00:25:17LIKE SEEING THE PRESIDENT FIGHTING WITH CANADA.
00:25:20THEY ACTUALLY KNOW THAT IT'S A WIN-WIN RELATIONSHIP. AND I THINK THAT WE'RE SEEING
00:25:24THAT THE AMERICANS THINK THAT IT'S JUST ABSURD TO BE BEATING
00:25:27UP ON CANADA. ONE OF OBAMA'S BEST LINES IN ONE
00:25:30OF THE PRECAMPAIGN RALLIES WAS
00:25:32WHEN HE MADE FUN OF THIS ATTACK ON CANADA.
00:25:35SO I THINK THAT CANADA IS ON THE BALLOT TONIGHT.
00:25:38AND IF WE SEE AMERICANS SAYING
00:25:41THAT WE DON'T LIKE THIS POLICY
00:25:43TOWARDS CANADA, I THINK THAT STRENGTHENS CANADA'S HAND AND
00:25:47IT'S GOING TO STRENGTHEN CANADA'S HAND BECAUSE PEOPLE
00:25:50WILL BE ELECTED TO THE HOUSE AND
00:25:52THE SENATE IN PART BY SAYING THAT THIS TREATMENT OF CANADA IS WRONG.
00:25:56AND WHAT I ALSO EXPECT IS THAT
00:25:59WE COULD SEE REPUBLICANS STARTING TO BREAK WITH THE PARTY
00:26:03LINE. WE HAVE SEEN SUSAN COLLINS
00:26:06ALREADY BASICALLY BEGGING THE
00:26:07PRESIDENT TO LET UP ON CANADA.
00:26:10WHAT KIERSTEN WILL REMEMBER IS,
00:26:12LIKE, REMEMBER THAT WE HAD A BIG FIGHT WITH THE UNITED STATES IN
00:26:16THE FIRST TRUMP ADMINISTRATION.
00:26:18THE PRESIDENT CALLED ME A NASTY
00:26:20WOMAN AND HE SAID THAT I WAS TOXIC, ETC., ETC.
00:26:23BUT WE GOT A DEAL IN THE END. AND THE REASON THAT WE GOT A
00:26:27DEAL WAS REGULAR AMERICANS WERE
00:26:29ON OUR SIDE, AND AT THE END OF
00:26:32THE DAY, SENIOR REPUBLICANS --
00:26:34PEOPLE LIKE CHUCK GRASSLEY, PEOPLE LIKE PAUL RYAN, PEOPLE
00:26:38EVEN LIKE MITCH McCONNELL WERE ON OUR SIDE.
00:26:42I THINK THAT IF THERE IS A STRONG -- WHAT I WOULD CALL A
00:26:46PRO-CANADA VOTE IN THESE MIDTERMS -- WE'RE GOING TO SEE
00:26:49MORE VOICES LIKE THAT APPLYING PRESSURE ON THE WHITE HOUSE. THAT'S GOOD FOR CANADIANS.
00:26:53ALSO GOOD FOR AMERICANS, BY THE WAY. >> Adrienne: AND THE TIMING OF
00:26:56THIS MIGHT BE INTERESTING AND WE HAVE SEEN SO MUCH SIGNALLING
00:27:00FROM THE WHITE HOUSE EVEN TODAY -- A DEAL IS COMING, IT'S COMING.
00:27:03IN YOUR EXPERIENCE OF HAVING NEGOTIATED A DEAL WITH DONALD
00:27:06TRUMP, HOW REAL DOES THATOPTTIST
00:27:12OPTIMISM FEEL OR DOES THAT FEEL
00:27:15PERFORMATIVE TO YOU? >> LOOK, IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO JUDGE. I THINK THOUGH THAT WE SHOULD
00:27:19UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS A CRITICAL VOTE FOR THE PRESIDENT.
00:27:22AND EVERYTHING THAT HE IS SAYING
00:27:24BETWEEN -- YOU KNOW, UP UNTIL
00:27:27EVERY BALLOT IS CAST IS ABOUT
00:27:30TRYING TO DO BETTER IN THE MIDTERMS.
00:27:33I ACTUALLY THOUGH TAKE THOSE COMMENTS AS A GOOD SIGN, BECAUSE
00:27:37WHAT THAT SAYS TO ME IS THAT THE
00:27:38WHITE HOUSE IS RECOGNISING THIS
00:27:41FIGHT WITH CANADA IS A POLITICAL LOSER.
00:27:44AND I THINK THAT THE WHITE HOUSE HAS BEEN TRYING DESPERATELY --
00:27:48AND I THINK PROBABLY
00:27:50UNEFFECTIVELY TO SIGNAL BEFORE THE MIDTERMS, IT'S OKAY, DON'T
00:27:58THEY HAVE TO SAY THAT. >> Adrienne: OKAY, ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU.
00:28:01FORMER DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER CHRYSTIA FREELAND, REALLY NICE TO SEE YOU AGAIN.
00:28:05THANK YOU VERY MUCH. AND LET'S SPIN OVER TO DAVID
00:28:07COCHRANE WITH MORE NUMBERS. >> David: ADRIENNE, WE HAVE A
00:28:10GOOD START IF YOU'RE A DEMOCRAT RIGHT NOW AND WE TOLD YOU AT THE
00:28:13BEGINNING THEY NEEDED TO FLIP FOUR SEATS TO TAKE CONTROL OF
00:28:16THE SENATE AND RIGHT NOW LEADING IN SEVEN REPUBLICAN SEATS AND HAVE FLIPPED ONE.
00:28:19STARTING WITH NORTH CAROLINA. AS WE TOLD YOU THAT ROY COOPER,
00:28:23THE FORMER GOVERNOR WHO NEVER LOST AN ELECTION IN THAT STATE
00:28:26AND HIS WINNING STREAK IS CONTINUING AND HE HAS NEARLY 67%
00:28:30OF THE VOTES CAST. AND SIMILAR STORIES IN OTHER KEY STATES.
00:28:33LOOK AT THIS, KANSAS HASN'T
00:28:36VOTED DEMOCRAT SINCE 1932 WHEN
00:28:39HERBERT HOOVER WAS PUTTING TARIFFING ON THE WORLD ECONOMY.
00:28:42AND ADAM HAMILTON HAS A 17-POINT LEAD OVER ROGER MARSHALL WITH
00:28:4512% OF THE VOTES IN. AND TEXAS IT CONTINUES TO BE A
00:28:48GOOD NIGHT FOR JAMES TALARICO --
00:28:51BETO O'ROURKE HAD TO WALK SO JAMES TALARICO COULD RUN.
00:28:5523% OF THE VOTE IN AND 60% GOING
00:28:58FOR JAMES TALARICO.
00:29:00SOUTH CAROLINA -- LINDSEY
00:29:02GRAHAM'S OLD SEAT AND HIS SISTER DARLENE GRAHAM IS RUNNING FOR
00:29:05THE REPUBLICANS AND A
00:29:07PAEDIATRICIAN WITH 51.5% OF THE
00:29:10VOTE, WHICH 35% OF THE VOTE IS COUNTED AND IN OHIO, J.D.
00:29:14VANCE'S OLD SEAT, S SHERROD BRON
00:29:19WITH 34% OF THE VOTE IN, AND 420
00:29:22MILLION DOLLARS AMERICAN SPENT ON ADVERTISING IN THAT SENATE RACE.
00:29:26FEDERAL ELECTIONS IN CANADA COST ABOUT $40 MILLION, SO, ADRIENNE,
00:29:30THAT'S THE STATE OF THE SENATE. AND DEMS PLUS SEVEN AND IN THE
00:29:34HOUSE RIGHT NOW AND COUNTING, PLUS 47 IN THE HOUSE.
00:29:37THEY ONLY NEED THREE TO FLIP IT.
00:29:39THOSE AREN'T FINAL BUT THAT'S WHERE WE ARE IN THE EARLY
00:29:43BALLOTS BEING COUNTED.
00:29:50COMBINATION -- I'M NOT SURE WHAT IS HAPPENING. SOMETHING IS HAPPENING OVER HERE.
00:29:53LISTEN, MORE ON WHERE THE RESULTS STAND SOON AND IT IS
00:29:56ABOUT 8:30, SO THE POLLS ARE
00:29:58CLOSED IN ALL OF THE 31 STATES
00:30:01AND ABOUT TO CLOSE IN ARKANSAS. WE'RE GOING TO TAKE A QUICK
00:30:04BREAK AND AFTER THE BREAK IAN HANOMANSING IS MORE WITH SOME OF THE OTHER NEWS OF THE DAY
00:30:08BECAUSE THERE'S OTHER THINGS HAPPENING HERE TOO.
00:32:51(♪)
00:32:52(♪)
00:32:55>> Ian: WE'LL RETURN TO OUR U.S. MIDTERM ELECTION SPECIAL IN A
00:32:58FEW MINUTES, BUT FIRST SOME OTHER NEWS, BEGINNING WITH A
00:33:01SUSPECTED BEAR ATTACK HERE IN BRITISH COLUMBIA. A WOMAN WAS FOUND DEAD NEAR A
00:33:04TRAIL IN BELLA COOLA. HER DAUGHTER IS STILL MISSING.
00:33:07WE SPOKE WITH THE FAMILY WHO FEAR THEY HAVE LOST THEM BOTH.
00:33:11>> THEY WERE TWO PEAS IN A POD
00:33:14AND WHEN JENNY HIKED SHE WAS BESIDE HER. >> Reporter: 48-YEAR-OLD
00:33:18JENNIFER BALCAROS AND HER
00:33:21DAUGHTER SAILOR REID WENT FOR A
00:33:22WALK IN BELLA COOLA ON SATURDAY
00:33:26AND THEY NEVER RETURNED HOME. THEY ARE BELIEVED TO BE THE VICTIMS OF A GRIZZLY BEAR
00:33:30ATTACK. >> THEY HAVE CONFIRMED THE
00:33:33REMAINS OF OUR SISTER JENNY, AND
00:33:40AT THIS POINT IN TIME IT'S NOT BELIEVED THAT SAILOR HAS
00:33:44SURVIVED EITHER. >> Reporter: BELLA COOLA IS A
00:33:47SMALL COMMUNITY ON B.C.'S CENTRAL COAST.
00:33:50ABOUT 11 HOURS FROM VANCOUVER.
00:33:53RCMP AND SEARCH-AND-RESCUE TEAMS
00:33:56LOCATED THE REMAINS ON MONDAY.
00:33:58THE SEARCH FOR REID CONTINUES. >> THERE WAS EVIDENCE TO SUGGEST
00:34:02A BEAR MAY HAVE BEEN INVOLVED.
00:34:04THE PUBLIC IS URGED TO AVOID THE
00:34:07AREA UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE DUE TO THE DANGER. >> Reporter: IT WAS JUST ONE
00:34:10YEAR AGO THAT A SIMILAR INCIDENT SHOOK THE COMMUNITY.
00:34:13WHEN A GRIZZLY BEAR ATTACKED AROUND 20 ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
00:34:16STUDENTS AND THEIR TEACHERS, LEAVING AN ADULT AND THREE
00:34:20CHILDREN BADLY INJURED. THE BEAR IN THAT ATTACK WAS
00:34:23NEVER FOUND. THIS TIME OF YEAR ACROSS B.C.,
00:34:27EXPERTS ARE URGING EXTRA CAUTION.
00:34:30>> WELL, AS BEARS GET READY FOR
00:34:32HIBERNATION, PEOPLE SHOULD BE CAUTIOUS AND THE BEST WAY TO BE
00:34:36CAUTIOUS IS TO TRAVEL IN GROUPS,
00:34:38KEEP YOUR DOG ON LEASH AND TO
00:34:41CARRY BEAR SPRAY THAT TIME. >> Reporter: THE FAMILY SAYS THAT THE AREA WHERE THE PAIR
00:34:44WERE HIKING WAS NOT REMOTE. AND MAKING THE TRAGEDY EVEN
00:34:47HARDER TO UNDERSTAND.
00:34:50>> BOTH JEN AND SAILOR WERE VIBRANT AND FULL OF LIFE AND
00:34:54THEY HADN'T BEEN IN THIS COMMUNITY LONG.
00:34:56THEY WERE LIVING -- IT'S
00:35:01UNTHINKABLE. >> Reporter: THE B.C. CONSERVATION OFFICER SERVICE SAYS THAT EFFORTS TO TRAP THE
00:35:05BEAR OR THE BEARS ARE ONGOING.
00:35:08MICHELE GASOOB, CBC NEWS,
00:35:11VANCOUVER. >> Ian: PRIME MINISTER MARK CARNEY SAYS THAT RUSSIA WILL NOT
00:35:14BE ALLOWED TO COMPETE AT NEXT MONTH'S WORLD JUNIORS HOCKEY
00:35:18TOURNAMENT IN ALBERTA. >> Rt. Hon. Mark Carney: WELL,
00:35:21RUSSIA AND BELARUS ARE
00:35:24SUPPORTING THIS HORRIFIC WAR IN UKRAINE AND AS LONG AS THAT'S
00:35:27GOING ON, THERE WILL BE NONE OF
00:35:30THOSE ATHLETES COMPETING FOR
00:35:32THEIR COUNTRIES IN CANADA. >> Ian: CARNEY'S COMMENTS COME
00:35:35AFTER A RULING CLEARED THE WAY FOR RUSSIAN ATHLETES TO TAKE
00:35:38PART IN THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY TOURNAMENTS, INCLUDING THE WORLD
00:35:42SEWN YOURS. A GROWING NUMBER OF EUROPEAN
00:35:44COUNTRIES, INCLUDING SWEDEN AND NORWAY AND FINLAND, HAVE
00:35:48ANNOUNCED THEY WILL NOT PLAY AGAINST THE RUSSIAN TEAMS.
00:35:50>>> MARK CARNEY MADE THOSE COMMENTS ON THE ISLAND OF
00:35:53ANTIGUA WHILE ATTENDING A COMMONWEALTH GATHERING WHERE HE
00:35:56PUSHED FOR EXPANDED TRADE WITH THE CARIBBEAN NATIONS.
00:35:59BUT AS DAVID THURTON SHOWS US,
00:36:02DONALD TRUMP'S TARIFFS STILL LOOM LARGE. >> Reporter: THE U.S. ISN'T PART
00:36:06OF THE COMMONWEALTH BUT AS LEADERS GATHERED, DONALD TRUMP
00:36:10WAS THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM.
00:36:12>> WE GATHER AT A TIME WHEN GLOBAL POWER REMAINS UNEQUAL,
00:36:16NATIONAL INTERESTS COMPETES.
00:36:20>> Reporter: ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA, THEY PLAYED HOST TO THE
00:36:23COMMONWEALTH HEADS OF GOVERNMENT MEETING.
00:36:25A FORUM FOR LARGE ECONOMIES -- >> Rt. Hon. Mark Carney:
00:36:28SHIFTING TO MUCH OF A RESULTS FOCUS. >> Reporter: AND SMALLER ONES --
00:36:32>> Rt. Hon. Mark Carney: WE ALL KNOW HOW MUCH THE WORLD HAS CHANGED.
00:36:36>> Reporter: ALL DEALING WITH TRUMP'S PUNISHING TARIFFS BY SEEKING NEW TRADING PARTNERS.
00:36:40>> WHY WOULDN'T YOU TURN TO THE GLOBAL SOUTH, WHY WOULDN'T YOU
00:36:43GO TO OTHER COUNTRIES PART OF
00:36:46THE COMMONWEALTH AND WHY WOULDN'T YOU GO TO THE CARIBBEAN?
00:36:49THAT'S STILL A SIGNIFICANT PLAYER.
00:36:51>> THERE'S A TRILLION DOLLARS OF TRADE.
00:36:54>> Reporter: BUT IT WAS OVERSHADOWED BY DEMANDS FOR AN
00:36:58APOLOGY AND REPARATIONS OVER
00:37:00BRITAIN'S ROLE IN THE
00:37:04TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE. >> THE KING SHOULD APOLOGISE THOUGH HE HIMSELF WAS NOT PART
00:37:07OF THAT. >> Reporter: KING CHARLES STOPPED SHORT OF SAYING SORRY.
00:37:11>> THE TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE
00:37:15STILL CASTS A SHADOW OVER THESE
00:37:17ISLANDS AND OTHER MEMBERS OF OUR COMMONWEALTH.
00:37:20AS I'VE SAID BEFORE, THAT
00:37:24SHAMEFUL CHAPTER OF HISTORY IS
00:37:25ONE THAT FILLS MY HEART WITH SORROW.
00:37:29>> Reporter: FOR COMMONWEALTH NATIONS, THERE'S HARD WORK AHEAD
00:37:33GRAPPLING WITH THE GLOBAL POWERS OF THE PAST AND THE PRESENT.
00:37:36ON THAT FRONT, MARK CARNEY HAD AN UPDATE ON THE TRADE
00:37:39NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE U.S. >> Rt. Hon. Mark Carney: WE'VE MADE PROGRESS BUT WE HAVEN'T FINISHED.
00:37:42IF I WERE TO PARAPHRASE IT, IT'D
00:37:48THEY'RE OFFERING MORE. >> Reporter: THE PRIME
00:37:51MINISTER'S GLOBAL AGENDA IS UP
00:37:52AGAINST HIS DOMESTIC ONE, WITH
00:37:55CARNEY SPENDING 24 HOURS ON THIS CARIBBEAN ISLAND BEFORE HEADING
00:37:59BACK TO OTTAWA AHEAD OF THURSDAY'S FEDERAL BUDGET.
00:38:02DAVID THURTON, CBC NEWS, SAINT
00:38:06JOHN'S ANTIGUA. >> Ian: NEW LIFE ON THE
00:38:09TERRIFYING MOMENTS BEFORE THAT DEADLY PLANE CRASH IN FLORIDA ON
00:38:12SUNDAY. INVESTIGATORS NOW SAY THAT PARTS OF THE JET'S ELEVATOR THAT
00:38:16CONTROLS THE PLANE'S MOVEMENTS UP AND DOWN WERE FOUND MORE THAN
00:38:20SIX KILOMETRES FROM THE CRASH SITE. THIS DISCOVERY IS SUPPORTING THE
00:38:23THEORY THAT KEY PARTS OF THE PLANE WERE TORN APART IN MID
00:38:27AIR. ALL NINE PEOPLE ABOARD WERE KILLED.
00:38:30>>> WELL, THAT'S IT FROM US AND I'M IAN HANOMANSING IN VANCOUVER.
00:38:34AFTER THE BREAK WE'LL TAKE YOU BACK TO OUR U.S. MIDTERM
00:38:37ELECTION SPECIAL WITH ADRIENNE. >> Annou
00:41:47(♪) >> Adrienne: WELCOME BACK TO
00:41:51"AMERICA VOTES." >>> WELL, THE POLLS HAVE NOW
00:41:53CLOSED IN ALL OR PART OF 32 STATES AND WASHINGTON, D.C., AND WE WANT TO INTRODUCE TO YOU
00:41:57SOMETHING THAT WE CALL THE THERMOMETER AND IT WILL HELP US
00:42:01TO TAKE A TEMPERATURE CHECK OF HOW THE RACES ARE SHAPING UP THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT.
00:42:05HAVE A LOOK AT THIS, THIS IS THE LAY OF THE LAND FOR BOTH THE
00:42:08SENATE AND THE HOUSE. KEEP AN EYE ON THAT AND KEEP AN
00:42:11EYE ON THE BOTTOM OF YOUR SCREEN AND ALWAYS KEEP AN EAR OUT FOR
00:42:14DAVID COCHRANE WHO HAS THE LATEST IN THE NUMBERS. DAVID? >> David: WE'LL TAKE A LOOK AT
00:42:18THE HOUSE. LOOK, RIGHT NOW WE HAVE ONLY
00:42:20PROJECTED ELECTED 43 DEMOCRATS AND 19 REPUBLICANS.
00:42:23WE TOLD YOU AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SHOW THAT DEMOCRATS NEED TO
00:42:26BE PLUS 3 IN TERMS OF FLIPS. RIGHT NOW IN THE COUNTING, ALL
00:42:30OF THESE GREY DOTS ARE STILL BEING COUNTED BUT WE CAN TELL
00:42:33YOU THAT THE DEMOCRATS ARE PLUS
00:42:3654 IN THE COUNTING THAT POINT. LET'S SHOW YOU WHERE THEY'RE LEADING.
00:42:39IN NORTH CAROLINA, IN THE 11TH
00:42:42DISTRICT WITH 75% OF THE VOTES
00:42:44IN THE DEMOCRATIC CANADA IS
00:42:47LEADING 76% TO 37%. AND THE REPUBLICANS WON THAT BY
00:42:5113 POINTS IN 2024.
00:42:53IN NEW JERSEY 7, A DISTRICT THAT
00:42:55YOU MAY KNOW ABOUT BECAUSE
00:42:58THOMAS KEAN, THE CONGRESSMAN
00:43:00DISAPPEARED FOR A LONG TIME FROM THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES WHILE RECEIVING MEDICAL TREATMENT.
00:43:04THIS IS ONE THAT THE REPUBLICANS
00:43:06WON BY FIVE, WITH 27% OF VOTE IN
00:43:09IT'S A 30-POINT LEAD FOR THE
00:43:12DEMOCRAT, REBECCA BENNETT. AND INDIANA 5 THAT WE SHOWED
00:43:16YOU, NORTH OF INDIANAPOLIS WITH 74% OF THE VOTE IN, IT IS
00:43:19TIGHTENING THERE AND IT'S DOWN TO SINGLE DIGITS AND AN EIGHT-POINT LEAD FOR THE
00:43:23DEMOCRAT, BUT, AGAIN, THE REPUBLICANS WON THIS BY 18
00:43:26POINTS IN 2024. SO THAT'S THE STATE OF THE HOUSE.
00:43:29NOW TO THE SENATE. WE ALREADY TOLD YOU THAT THE
00:43:33DEMOCRATS HAVE FLIPPED NORTH CAROLINA. AND THEY ARE LEADING IN SIX OTHER SEATS.
00:43:37WE HAVE A COUNT HERE THOUGH --
00:43:39THIS IS THE REPUBLICAN HOLD IN
00:43:41FLORIDA THAT WE TOLD YOU EARLIER THAT WAS VERY CLOSE AND THE
00:43:44REPUBLICANS HELD ON TO THIS 50.8%.
00:43:47BUT WHAT IS IMPORTANT HERE IS THE MARGIN.
00:43:50DONALD TRUMP WON THIS SEAT BY 13 POINTS IN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
00:43:53SO THAT GIVES YOU A SENSE OF WHAT IS HAPPENING TO THE VOTE SHARES RIGHT ACROSS THE EARLY
00:43:57RESULTS. NOW WE GO TO TEXAS WHERE JAMES
00:44:00TALARICO HOLDS ON TO A LEAD WITH
00:44:0229% OF THE VOTE IN AND HE HAS
00:44:0558.6% OF THE VOTE OVER REPUBLICAN KEN PAXTON. AND IN KANSAS, AGAIN, A SEAT
00:44:09THAT HAS NOT VOTED DEMOCRAT SINCE THE 1930s WITH 18% OF
00:44:12THE VOTE COUNTED AND ADAM HAMILTON, LOOK AT THAT FOLKS, HE
00:44:16HAS A 62% TO 35% LEAD OVER THE
00:44:20REPUBLICAN ROGER MARSHALL. SO, ADRIENNE, THE NUMBERS KEEP
00:44:23COMING IN AND IT'S NOW PLUS 58
00:44:28FOR THE DEMOCRATS AND PLUS SEVEN
00:44:32FOR THEM IN THE SENATE. >> Adrienne: PAUL, WHAT IS
00:44:35RATTLING AROUND IN THERE? >> Paul: WE HEAR EARLY RESULTS
00:44:38AND THIS AND THAT AND HANG ON WE HAVE A LONG NIGHT AHEAD OF US
00:44:42AND I THINK BACK TO 2016 AND I
00:44:45WAS IN DONALD TRUMP HEADQUARTERS AND IT WAS A VERY DIFFERENT CIRCUMSTANCE, OBVIOUSLY.
00:44:48BUT ON THAT NIGHT EVERYONE THOUGHT THAT HILLARY CLINTON
00:44:52WOULD WIN AND TRUMP WOULD LOSE
00:44:56AND THEN THESE NUMBERS STARTED COMING IN. AND I KEPT SAYING, YOU KNOW,
00:45:00EARLY, EARLY, EARLY, DON'T THINK
00:45:02THAT THIS IS INDICATIVE OF ANYTHING BUT THEN IT KEPT
00:45:05GROWING AND GROWING AND GROWING. IT'S LIKE YOU TAKE A STEP BACK
00:45:09AND THE ANSWER WAS IN FRONT OF US ALL OF THE TIME.
00:45:12THE LESSON FOR THIS IS THAT YOU NEVER KNOW. AND WE SAY THAT EARLY NUMBERS
00:45:15ARE EARLY NUMBERS, DON'T COUNT THEM, YOU KNOW -- DON'T THINK
00:45:19THAT THEY'RE GOING TO MEAN WHAT WE THINK THAT THEY MIGHT MEAN BUT SOMETIMES THEY DO.
00:45:22AND THAT WAS THE CASE IN 2016. AND SO YOU NEVER KNOW.
00:45:26I MEAN, THAT'S WHAT WAVES ARE. WAVES HAPPEN EVERYWHERE AND YOU
00:45:29SEE IT -- WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE SOUTH, YOU KNOW, AND YOU
00:45:32WERE TALKING OFF-CAMERA, I THINK SOUTH CAROLINA, RIGHT?
00:45:36AND MAYBE IT'S ALL THERE. WE'LL SEE AS THE NIGHT
00:45:38PROGRESSES BUT EARLY NUMBERS CAN SOMETIMES MEAN SOMETHING. >> Adrienne: I QUITE LOVE
00:45:42SOMETHING ABOUT PAUL HUNTER WHICH IS WHENEVER WE DO AN ELECTION THAT PAUL MAKES THE
00:45:46POINT THAT AS YOU HEAD INTO ELECTION NIGHT COVERAGE YOU HAVE
00:45:48NO IDEA WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN. BUT THE MOMENT THAT IT'S OVER
00:45:51THE ANSWER IS, WELL, OF COURSE THAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN AND IT
00:45:54WAS RIGHT THERE IN FRONT OF YOU. WE WILL SEE. LET'S HEAD OUT TO THE FIELD NOW.
00:45:58AND WILLY LOWRY IS IN DES MOINES, IOWA, AT A REPUBLICAN
00:46:01WATCH PARTY. KATIE SIMPSON IS IN AUSTIN,
00:46:05TEXAS, AT A JAMES TALARICO WATCH
00:46:06PARTY.
00:46:10WILLY, YOU'RE IN A STATE WHERE
00:46:13SIX MONTHS AGO NO ONE WOULD HAVE GIVEN A SECOND LOOK IN TERMS OF
00:46:16IT BEING IN PLAY.
00:46:18WHAT WHA IS THE FEELING THERE?
00:46:21>> Reporter: I WOULDN'T DESCRIBE IT AS -- I BUMPED INTO A YOUNG REPUBLICAN, SOMEONE THAT I MET
00:46:25ON A PREVIOUS REPORTING TRIP
00:46:27HERE WHO HAD DESCRIBED HIMSELF
00:46:29AS A REGAN AND NOT A TRUMP
00:46:33LOYALIST BY ANY MEANS, BUT STILL A FAITHFUL REPUBLICAN. HE SAID THAT HE WAS CONFIDENT
00:46:37THAT THE PARTY WAS GOING TO
00:46:39PERFORM WELL HERE ACROSS THE STATE ALL DOWN THE BALLOT.
00:46:42BUT I SPOKE TO OTHERS WHO SAID THAT THEY THOUGHT THAT AT THIS
00:46:45POINT THAT IT WAS A COIN TOSS.
00:46:47THAT IT REALLY WAS 50/50.
00:46:49AS PEOPLE HAD GATHERED BEHIND MD
00:46:54MORE ATTENTION TO THE DISPLAY
00:46:55SCREENS SHOWING RESULTS.
00:46:58BUT CERTAINLY LOTS OF
00:47:02ANTICIPATION AND A FAIR AMOUNT OF ANXIETY. >> Adrienne: YEAH, NO DOUBT.
00:47:06KATIE SIMPSON, I MEAN, NO DEMOCRATIC SENATOR ELECTED IN
00:47:10TEXAS SINCE 1988, THAT'S THE YEAR BEFORE TALARICO WAS BORN.
00:47:13YOU KNOW, WE OFTEN HEAR THAT THE DEMOCRATS FEEL LIKE THEY'RE SO
00:47:17CLOSE IN TEXAS. WHY DO THEY THINK THAT IT IS
00:47:19DIFFERENT THIS TIME?
00:47:22>> Reporter: IT'S A COMBINATION OF FACTORS, ADRIENNE.
00:47:25ONE, IT'S FRUSTRATION WITH DONALD TRUMP. THE COST OF LIVING.
00:47:29THE PRICE OF GAS. A LOT OF POLICIES AND
00:47:32PARTICULARLY IN RURAL COMMUNITIES THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE
00:47:35IN TEXAS DON'T LIKE. THINK OF DATA CENTRES.
00:47:38THOSE ARE SOME OF THE FRUSTRATING ISSUES THAT ARE SORT
00:47:41OF COMING UP WHERE THE PEOPLE ARE NOT HAPPY WITH THE POLICIES
00:47:45OF DONALD TRUMP. THAT'S ONE FACTOR HERE.
00:47:47AND THE OTHER FACTOR COMES DOWN TO THE TWO CANDIDATES IN THIS RACE.
00:47:51JAMES TALARICO WHO IS A MODERATE DEMOCRAT, AND WHO IS
00:47:55CONSISTENTLY AND SLOWLY GAINING MOMENTUM THROUGHOUT THIS
00:47:59CAMPAIGN, HE'S DONE A VERY LARGE NUMBER IN TERMS OF FUNDRAISING
00:48:03IN THIS STATE. AND HE'S BEEN ABLE TO RESONATE
00:48:06WITH THE MESSAGE OF ON
00:48:09AFFORDABILITY, THAT THE BIGGER PICTURE DEMOCRATIC ISSUES.
00:48:11SO YOU'VE GOT A CANDIDATE FOR
00:48:14THE DEMOCRATS THAT IS MODERATE
00:48:16AND ALSO DEEPLY RELIGIOUS AND HE
00:48:19TALKS ABOUT HIS CHRISTIAN FAITH QUITE OFTEN.
00:48:21AND WE WENT TO HIS CONCERT AND
00:48:26HE WAS TELLING BIBLE STORIES AT
00:48:28THE CONCERT IN A AUSTIN.
00:48:31SO HE'S STARTING TO RESONATE WITH VOTERS.
00:48:33THEN YOU HAVE KEN PAXTON AND
00:48:37DONALD TRUMP DIDN'T LIKE JOHN
00:48:40CORNYN WHO DIDN'T THINK THAT HE WAS LOYAL ENOUGH.
00:48:43SO DONALD TRUMP ENCOURAGED KEN PAXTON TO CHALLENGE HIM AND
00:48:47ULTIMATELY KEN PAXTON WON THE NOMINATION AND HE'S RUNNING IN THIS RACE.
00:48:51HE'S A CANDIDATE THAT I HAVE SAID A NUMBER OF TIMES OVER THE
00:48:54PAST FEW DAYS THAT COMES WITH A LOT OF BAGGAGE.
00:48:57HE'S BEEN IMPEACHED AND INDICTED
00:48:59AND A NUMBER OF SCANDALS INVOLVING HIS PERSONAL LIFE.
00:49:02AND HE STILL BECAME THE NOMINEE AND HE'S STILL OUT CAMPAIGNING.
00:49:06NOW THE EARLY RESULTS ARE SHOWING THAT JAMES TALARICO HAS
00:49:08A LEAD OF ABOUT HALF A MILLION VOTES AT THIS POINT.
00:49:12BUT WHEN I TALK TO PEOPLE IN
00:49:14THIS ROOM WHILE THEY ARE EXCITED
00:49:16AND OPTIMISTIC, THEY'VE SEEN THIS MOVIE BEFORE, WHERE THE
00:49:20DEMOCRAT GETS OUT TO AN EARLY
00:49:22LEAD AND THEN IT SLOWLY, SLOWLY
00:49:24DWINDLES UNTIL THE REPUBLICANS HOLD ON AND THEY MAINTAIN THE
00:49:28CONTROL OF TEXAS.
00:49:29>> Adrienne: YEP, LISTEN, KATIE,
00:49:32AND WILLR AND PAUL ARE PART OF
00:49:35THIS TWO BLOCKS IN THE WHITE HOUSE PODCAST.
00:49:41HAS A QUESTION FOR YOU. >> Paul: IT'S YOUR PODCAST PAL,
00:49:45PAUL. HOW'S IT GOING?
00:49:47LOOK, LET'S BE HONEST, THIS IS A BLATANT PROMO FOR THE PODCAST
00:49:51AND WE HAVE AN EARLY VERSION TOMORROW.
00:49:55AND I HAVE A QUESTION FOR BOTH OF YOU TONIGHT. DONALD TRUMP SAYS THAT HIS NAME
00:49:58IS ON THE BALLOT, RIGHT, AND WE WERE MAKING THIS POINT EARLIER.
00:50:01BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY THE VOTERS HAVE TO THINK WHAT
00:50:05MATTERS TO THEM. YOU HAVE BEEN IN TEXAS AND IOWA, BOTH OF YOU, SO, I MEAN, I WANT
00:50:09TO HEAR FROM BOTH OF YOU ON THIS.
00:50:11AND KATIE, WE'LL START WITH YOU, WHAT MATTERS TO THE VOTERS THAT
00:50:15YOU HAVE SPOKEN WITH WHERE YOU ARE?
00:50:19>> Reporter: AFFORDABILITY. THE COST OF LIVING. AND, PAUL, YOU KNOW WHAT WAS
00:50:22REALLY INTERESTING TODAY -- WE
00:50:24WENT TO P TWO DIFFERENT POLLING
00:50:27STATIONS IN AUSTIN AND BASICALLY EVERYONE THAT WE SPOKE TO VOTED
00:50:31FOR TALARICO AND AUSTIN IS PROGRESSIVE AND ON THE TALARICO'S HOME TURF AND THAT'S
00:50:35NOT SURPRISING. BUT WHAT SURPRISED ME IS THAT A NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT WE SPOKE
00:50:39WITH SAY THAT I NORMALLY DON'T
00:50:40VOTE IN THE MIDTERMS, BUT I'M SO
00:50:43FRUSTRATED WITH WHAT IT IS GOING
00:50:45WITH THE STATE OF THE COUNTRY THAT I CAME OUT TO VOTE.
00:50:49AND ANOTHER PERSON WHO DOESN'T VOTE AND NECESSARILY VOTE FOR
00:50:52DEMOCRAT AND SAYING THAT I'M VOTING FOR TALARICO BECAUSE I'M
00:50:55FRUSTRATED WITH THE COST OF LIVING AND REALLY THE STATE OF DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA.
00:50:59AND THAT CAME UP MORE OFTEN THAN I WAS EXPECTING.
00:51:02THE THING IS WHEN AMERICANS RE-ELECTED DONALD TRUMP BACK IN
00:51:052024, IT'S NOT LIKE THEY DIDN'T KNOW WHAT THEY WERE GETTING AND THEY SAW WHAT HAPPENED IN HIS
00:51:09FIRST STORM AND THEY SAW JANUARY 6TH AND IF YOU TAKE A LOOK AT
00:51:13PAST BEHAVIOUR AS A PREDICTION
00:51:14FOR FUTURE BEHAVIOUR, THE SEEDS ARE THERE.
00:51:18AND SO IT WAS SUPER INTERESTING TO HEAR THAT PEOPLE DON'T
00:51:21NECESSARILY COME OUT IN MIDTERM
00:51:23ELECTIONS WERE COMING OUT TODAY. >> Paul: REALLY WHAT IS DRIVING
00:51:26THE VOTES IN IOWA?
00:51:30>> Reporter: I WILL BORROW A LINE YOU THAT LIKE TO USE ON THE PODCAST, AT THE END OF THE DAY
00:51:34IT COMES DOWN TO PEOPLE'S
00:51:36POCKETBOOKS AND THEIR WALLETS.
00:51:38EVERYBODY TO A P TH PERSON THATE
00:51:42HAVE SPOKEN TO IS AFFORDABILITY AND THE COST OF GROCERIES AND THE COST OF HOUSING IS REALLY
00:51:46THE ISSUE THAT IS DRIVING THEIR VOTE, WHETHER THEY ARE DEMOCRATS
00:51:49OR REPUBLICANS. HERE IN IOWA, IT IS A FARMING
00:51:53STATE, AND THE PRICE OF DIESEL
00:51:56IS REALLY FRONT AND CENTRE FOR A LOT OF FOLKS.
00:52:00>> Adrienne: ALL RIGHT, WILLY AND KATIE AND PAUL, JUST SAVE
00:52:03SOME OF THAT STUFF FOR THE PODCAST TOMORROW.
00:52:07>> Paul: AVAILABLE ON YouTube. >> Adrienne: THERE WE GO.
00:52:10ALL RIGHT, IN SPITE OF HIS COMMENTS THE U.S. PRESIDENT
00:52:13ISN'T TECHNICALLY ON THE BALLOT TONIGHT BUT MANY ARGUE THAT HE'S
00:52:16THE CENTRAL FACTOR IN THIS ELECTION. (♪)
00:52:20♪ ON THE FUN TO STAY AT THE YMCA
00:52:24>> Adrienne: THE FIRST TWO YEARS OF DONALD TRUMP'S CURRENT
00:52:27MANDATE HAVE PROVED INCREDIBLY DIVISIVE.
00:52:30STILL, HE HAS SPENT THE LAST FEW WEEKS ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL
00:52:33STUMPING FOR REPUBLICANS AND
00:52:34MAKING A REPEATED REQUEST TO HIS LOYALISTS -- HOPING TO PUSH THEM
00:52:38TO THE POLLS. >> President Trump: DO ME A
00:52:41FAVOUR, PRETEND -- PRETEND THAT I'M RUNNING. PRETEND THAT I'M ON THE BALLOT.
00:52:45BECAUSE IF YOU GET OUT AND WE'RE GOING TO WIN BIG.
00:52:48>> Adrienne: BUT OUTSIDE OF HIS TIGHT KNIT CIRCLE OF ARDENT
00:52:52SUPPORTERS, TRUMP HAS A SERIOUS POPULARITY PROBLEM.
00:52:56>> THE TRUMP ERA, AMERICAN IS
00:53:00NOT WHO WE ARE, WE ARE BETTER THAN THAT. >> Adrienne: TAKE A LOOK AT HIS
00:53:03APPROVAL RATING SINCE INAUGURATION DATE.
00:53:07WITH THE POLLS ANALYSED BY "THE NEW YORK TIMES".
00:53:09HE WAS AT 52% IN JANUARY 2025.
00:53:12AND SINCE THEN HE SLIPPED DOWN,
00:53:15DOWN, DOWN TO ABOUT 37%.
00:53:17AS OF OCTOBER 29TH.
00:53:20THAT IS LOWER EVEN THAN HIS
00:53:23LOWEST POINT DURING HIS FIRST POINT AND LOWER THAN JOE BIDEN
00:53:26AND LOWER THAN BARACK OBAMA AND
00:53:29LOWER THAN GEORGE W. BUSH.
00:53:32AND PLENTY OF GRIEVANCES. >> GAS PRICES AND FOOD AND RENT,
00:53:35PEOPLE ARE SUFFERING. >> WE'RE FIGHTING A WAR INORTH
00:53:38COUNTRY AND OUR FUEL PRICES ARE THROUGH THE ROOF, THE HEALTHCARE
00:53:42PRICES HAVE WENT HIGHER, NOT LOWER.
00:53:44>> PEOPLE ARE TIRED OF SEEING
00:53:46ALL OF THE NEGATIVITY, AND THE EMBARRASSMENT.
00:53:49>> Adrienne: BUT TRUMP'S BASE HASN'T ABANDONED HIM.
00:53:52MANY VOTERS STILL SUPPORT HIS POLICIES.
00:53:55>> HE'S DONE EVERYTHING THAT HE'S SAID THAT HE WILL DO AND HE'S ABSOLUTELY THE BEST
00:53:59PRESIDENT THAT I'VE EVER EXPERIENCED. I MEAN, HE'S INCREDIBLE.
00:54:03>> DONALD TRUMP, YOU KNOW, HE'S MORE LIKE US, YOU KNOW, HE'S A
00:54:06REAL GUY, YOU KNOW, THAT IS JUST TRYING TO MAKE THE COUNTRY A BETTER PLACE.
00:54:10>> Adrienne: AND HIS RALLIES STILL DRAW A CROWD, EVEN IF MORE
00:54:13PROTESTERS SEEM TO ATTEND. >> President Trump: THESE ARE PAID PROTESTERS AND THEY'RE PAID
00:54:16BY ENEMIES OF OUR NATION. >> Adrienne: SHOWING UP IS
00:54:20IMPORTANT IN ANY ELECTION. TONIGHT WE FIND OUT IF TRUMP'S
00:54:24PLEAS TO IMAGINE THAT HE'S ON
00:54:26THE BALLOT PAY OFF, OR BACKFIRE.
00:54:30(♪) ALL RIGHT, SO WE'RE APPROACHING
00:54:349:00, AND ALREADY SOME POLLS HAVE CLOSED AND WE'RE SEEING A PATTERN HERE.
00:54:37WHAT ARE YOU HEARING FROM YOUR REPUBLICAN FRIENDS?
00:54:41>> FOLKS ARE PESSIMISTIC AND THERE'S A LOT OF FOCUS ON
00:54:44WHETHER DARLENE GRAHAM AND YOU HAD MENTIONED SOUTH CAROLINA, IF SHE LOSES AND IT INDICATES
00:54:47POORLY FOR THE REPUBLICANS TO BE ABLE TO HOLD ON TO THE SENATE.
00:54:50AND I THINK THAT IT REQUIRES A
00:54:52LOOK AT THE TURNOUT AS WELL.
00:54:55AND YOUR PRELUDE VIDEO ABOUT TRUMP AND HIS IMPACT ON THE BALLOT, YOU KNOW, IF YOU
00:54:59REMEMBER IN 2018, THAT'S ONE OF OUR HIGHEST IN THE UNITED STATES
00:55:03A TURNOUT FOR A MIDTERM, AND IT WAS JUST OVER 50% JUST ROUGHLY.
00:55:07SO, YES, THERE'S AN IMPACT AND,
00:55:09YOU KNOW, THERE'S A TURNOUT BUMP THAT USUALLY HAPPENS, WE'VE HAD
00:55:12EXPERIENCE WITH THAT BUT NOT IN THE WAY THAT HE WOULD HAVE LIKED.
00:55:16>> Adrienne: OKAY, AND, ASHLEY, YOU HAVE BEEN WORKING THE PHONES TOO.
00:55:19WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN HEARING? >> OVERWHELMINGLY OPTIMISTIC IN
00:55:22MY HOME STATE OF TEXAS.
00:55:24EARLY VOTE NUMBERS FAR
00:55:26SURPASSING 2018, MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION VOTERS HAVE VOTED NOW
00:55:30AND I THINK THIS IS WHAT'S REALLY CONCERNING THE REPUBLICANS IS THAT THE
00:55:34DEMOCRATS ARE VOTING AT
00:55:36PRESIDENTIAL LEVELS IN A MIDTERM ELECTION.
00:55:38AND IN PLACES LIKE TEXAS, ONE
00:55:40THING THAT I WANTED TO ADD TO WHAT KATIE SAID IS THAT WHAT YOU
00:55:44ARE SEEING IS THE LATINO VOTERS ALONG THE BORDER NOW SHIFTING
00:55:48OVER TO VOTE DEMOCRAT BECAUSE OF THE IMMIGRATION ISSUE.
00:55:51THE I.C.E. RAIDS AND DEPORTING THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS, THAT'S
00:55:54GOING TO PLAY OUT IN OTHER PLACES ACROSS THE COUNTRY AS WELL.
00:55:57OHIO IS ONE OF THEM. FLORIDA AND OTHER PLACES.
00:56:01>> Adrienne: VERY, VERY BRIEFLY, THE NEXT RACE IN PARTICULAR THAT YOU ARE WATCHING FOR AS A REPUBLICAN?
00:56:05>> AS A REPUBLICAN I'M KEEPING MY EYES ON SOUTH CAROLINA, BUT ALSO OHIO.
00:56:08I'M VERY CURIOUS, THERE ARE SOME MODERATE MEMBERS WHO I WOULDN'T
00:56:11HAVE THOUGHT THAT MAYBE EVEN A FEW MONTHS AGO -- THAT MIGHT
00:56:15TURN AROUND A COUPLE SEATS THAT I'M REALLY KEEPING AN EYE ON.
00:56:18>> Adrienne: ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WE HAVE CONTINUING COVERAGE OF THE U.S. MIDTERMS.
00:56:22YOU CAN HEAD OVER TO CBC NEWS
00:56:24NETWORK OR WHEREVER YOU STREAM
00:56:27CBC NEWS AND TIME NOW FOR A QUICK BREAK. KEEP YOUR EYE ON THAT SCREEN AND
00:56:31YOU WILL SEE A QR CODE AND IF
00:56:34YOU SCAN IT YOU WILL FOLLOW UP WITH LIVE RESULTS.
00:56:37WE WILL BACK IN A FEW MOMENTS GO.
00:56:40REFRESH THOSE SNACKS.
01:00:26>> Adrienne: GOOD EVENING, AND IF YOU ARE JUST JOINING US WELCOME TO "AMERICA VOTES,"
01:00:29TONIGHT WE HAVE SPECIAL COVERAGE OF THE 2026 MIDTERM ELECTIONS.
01:00:33POLLS ARE NOW CLOSED IN 41 STATES AS WELL AS WASHINGTON,
01:00:37D.C.. AMONG THOSE THAT JUST CLOSED,
01:00:39THE REMAINDER OF MICHIGAN AND
01:00:42TEXAS AND MINNESOTA, ALL KEY BATTLEGROUND STATES TO SHAPE
01:00:46CONGRESS. FIRST AN INTRODUCTION TO THE TEAM THAT WE HAVE HERE.
01:00:48PAUL HUNTER IS HERE ALL NIGHT, PROBABLY INTO THE MORNING, WITH
01:00:51ALL OF THE ANALYSIS. AND ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE
01:00:55DESK, THE FORMER AMBASSADOR OF
01:00:56CANADA TO THE UNITED STATES,