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00:00:00to regain a certain power eh in terms of
00:00:03the decision on commercial policy by the US
00:00:07Senate, and with that, to start
00:00:10again, to give eh, in the case of President
00:00:13Trump, more work to the Office of the
00:00:16Trade Representative, who needs two things that
00:00:20President Trump does not necessarily like, which
00:00:23is time to conduct investigations based on commercial
00:00:26laws created during the Cold War, such as
00:00:30301, 232, 201 and others
00:00:33that they have already used
00:00:36of the after eh the elimination of ICE by the Supreme
00:00:39Court, and again, this type of results that we are
00:00:43seeing, how Congress could eh again eh
00:00:46try to return to it eh the constitutional attributions of
00:00:50the formulation of commercial policy and subtract power from the
00:00:54strong presidentialism that President Trump has developed in terms
00:00:58of commercial policy. This also converges in a
00:01:03political vision for question that many will ask if they live in the United States, they will no longer be able to collect their $5
00:01:07check because the map is bluer than red, I'm
00:01:10not saying it, that was a promise of this midterm election campaign
00:01:14neighbors, especially in that the President of the United States Donald Trump himself had put forward, let's
00:01:17pass this question to our correspondent
00:01:21Carlos Montero who is with us live from Miami,
00:01:24Carlos, nice to greet you, good
00:01:39Americans, I think there are very few of us, I am
00:01:42Argentine but naturalized American, I never
00:01:46believed Trump that he was going to fulfill that promise of
00:01:49$5, and I think most Americans neither
00:01:53will the Republican Party
00:01:56regained control of or the identify with the Maga Democrat win, but well, it's a situation that we
00:02:00are living accustomed to Trump saying one thing and doing
00:02:04another, but I have information about here the
00:02:08state of Florida, I would like to start, I was talking in the
00:02:12participations I had in the various news programs of Telesur
00:02:15about this
00:02:18drug trafficking and attention to Democratic candidate Angi Nixon, Angi Nixon belongs to the
00:02:21far left wing of the Democratic Party, they call
00:02:25themselves Democratic Socialists of America, DSA,
00:02:28she was very, very close to
00:02:32getting the scan for senator of
00:02:35Florida, Ashley
00:02:37open the debate on the effectiveness of Moodi beat her by very
00:02:40little, by one point,
00:02:42she will continue in office, Ashley Moodi was already in the
00:02:46Senate representing Florida, because she was the one who replaced
00:02:49Marco Rubio when Marco Rubio went
00:02:52to be at the State Department appointed by
00:02:56Trump, so Ashley Moodi will finish what...
00:03:00began then this mid-term but Angi
00:03:03Nixon, really a spectacular campaign,
00:03:06we had the opportunity here in Miami, to talk to her people,
00:03:10they mobilized the bases, they did a campaign on social
00:03:14networks really spectacular, and for
00:03:17a candidate from the Democratic Party from
00:03:20the far left wing who loses by one point
00:03:24to a Republican who has all the support of the party
00:03:28in a state. where Republicans
00:03:31are very, very, very strong, it's something
00:03:34really very worthy, Republicans also
00:03:38managed to win the governorship in Florida,
00:03:41eh, there is a Republican governor
00:03:45DeSantis and his successor will continue,
00:03:49become a swing state in undoubtedly Byron Donalds will
00:03:52continue and also won by very few points, two
00:03:55points against his opponent.
00:03:59Democrat eh David Jolly and I want
00:04:01to mention another contest that is in development that there are many
00:04:05times people Paola say I'm not going to vote what good is my
00:04:09vote for there are no
00:04:11decisive in differences in district 27 which is a district that those of
00:04:15analyzing, there is not a change in us who work in television know the two contenders because at some
00:04:18point in our career we had the opportunity to work with them, district
00:04:2227 of Miami which covers
00:04:25more than 70% of the
00:04:28population. are Latinos who live in this
00:04:32district and two eh
00:04:35former journalists compete, María Elvira Salazar in Latin America we know
00:04:39her very well because she works in the foreign relations committee of
00:04:42Congress, she is a representative for Florida and she competes
00:04:47what is the relationship it has had with against another journalist Elio Rodríguez, retired, he retired
00:04:50two or three years ago, now he got into politics
00:04:53and it's so close, almost
00:04:5790% of the votes counted and... the difference
00:05:00between one and the other is less than 1 votes, María Elvira
00:05:03is in the lead, that shows you in the past elections, María
00:05:07Elvira won by a wide margin and now that
00:05:11Elio Rodríguez who... today President Trump wrote in a tweet
00:05:15he referred to him as the worst of the left,
00:05:18undoubtedly he is not left-wing, Elio Rodríguez,
00:05:22he is more to the right of the Democratic Party, but eh Donald
00:05:26Trump is so far to the right that
00:05:29he considers Elio Rodríguez to be on the left side, but
00:05:33well, that is still not known, we are
00:05:36waiting, but the difference
00:05:38is very, very small, CNN projection. If
00:05:42you allow me Paola, the Democrats are going
00:05:46to get control
00:05:48House, the House of Representatives, CNN
00:05:52is projecting it at these
00:05:56eh moments, so Republicans lose the House
00:05:59of Representatives and everything indicates that they will also
00:06:03lose the Senate, so difficult times are coming
00:06:06for Donald Trump who has to rethink why Americans
00:06:09are voting this way eh. that according to the latest
00:06:13data we received, he is the most unpopular
00:06:17president in US history, his approval ratings are
00:06:20on the floor, a little over
00:06:2330%, let's see how he reacts, let's
00:06:27see if he keeps his promise that he had said, if we lose
00:06:31both chambers, the Republicans were controlling both
00:06:35chambers, I'm going to govern by decree
00:06:38with executive orders which would be crazy because undoubtedly
00:06:41it will eh clear the field as we say in soccer and
00:06:45it will complicate decision making for both sides, but well, that's what we have
00:06:49Florida, a state
00:06:53that continues to be eh
00:06:56Republican, but the Democrats are getting
00:06:58closer than they ever did in the past,
00:07:02things happened and that is reflected in
00:07:05the votes of Americans who are not satisfied with how
00:07:09Donald Trump is governing, I'll return to you Paola. Thank you
00:07:12Carlos Montero from Miami, from the state of Florida, one of the key
00:07:16and decisive states also for the vote of this election day of November
00:07:203rd, although well, more than 58 million citizens had already done
00:07:24so by absentee ballot in that country,
00:07:27Mariana, and in the midst of this scenario I think a big
00:07:30question comes, what will happen from now on for the
00:07:34next two years, will there be more false promises, will there
00:07:37be more excuses about what nothing has been achieved, will it be said
00:07:41today from: the White House,
00:07:44that it's simply that Trump was not on the ballot and that the
00:07:47candidates were not optimal to win this election, both in the
00:07:51House of Representatives, which today the Democrats control over the
00:07:54Republicans and the very, very close dispute in
00:07:58the Senate, not to mention the governorships, that's very possible,
00:08:01it's a very possible scenario that the loss will be attributed
00:08:05to their own campaigns that they themselves failed
00:08:09to do and not to President Trump, eh, as well... as
00:08:12the correspondents eh
00:08:15who eh have been updating us regarding each
00:08:19of the states that belong to eh what we know
00:08:23is that President Trump says one thing today and tomorrow he says
00:08:26another, something that has also earned him the title of "taco
00:08:30policy" eh he can modify or not eh according
00:08:34to the results and of course
00:08:37well we will see eh the statements he
00:08:41makes today if he does so through the
00:08:44media or through his favorite social network eh how
00:08:48he attributes this so far it seems
00:08:52a loss eh of the Republican party
00:08:55eh the various the various
00:08:58elections eh
00:09:02so far everything is almost blue yes
00:09:05that is the map that is being painted also at this time of night when it is
00:09:0911:09 this helps us understand
00:09:13how it has been marking not only eh the House of
00:09:16Representatives, the Senate, but also the governorships, which
00:09:20are constituted as something key and
00:09:24what we have been
00:09:27policy, but a change in the electorate, there is
00:09:30discontent, disapproval of the management from the
00:09:33economic, from the social, from the political, and
00:09:37it is divided practically into these two axes, right, internal politics, but
00:09:41also a policy. Yes, and above all, I want to remind
00:09:45those who are watching us on Telesur that foreign
00:09:48policy per se as a priority
00:09:51issue eh for decision-making in elections
00:09:55does not necessarily translate that way in the electorate, but rather how foreign
00:09:58policy eh that the
00:10:02executive has becomes an issue of
00:10:04internal policy that affects in the
00:10:07future the way of life, its
00:10:11quality of life and access to goods
00:10:14and services that can be provided, in this sense, well,
00:10:17the war in Iran that we have already analyzed eh
00:10:21throughout the program, the effects it has on oil
00:10:25prices or the commercial war eh
00:10:28with different countries in terms of tariff policies
00:10:32well, it has had significant effects for
00:10:36consumers, it also makes life much
00:10:39more expensive, also products and a topic that
00:10:43we have also mentioned throughout the program is health
00:10:46policy which has also been a topic that matters to
00:10:50and the voters and who have taken part in the decision-making
00:10:54of what we are seeing in these results regarding
00:10:58the White House, it calls a lot of attention that security
00:11:01per se is not one of the relevant issues that
00:11:04traditionally we see in presidential
00:11:07elections nor organized crime with drug
00:11:11trafficking, again it is
00:11:13specifically the issue of the economy, the
00:11:17wallet, how it has been affected and the way of life
00:11:21eh what is determining how
00:11:25voters are voting in the United States. And yes, and while
00:11:28this happens, the fight against drug trafficking, which also
00:11:32generated a great opioid crisis, especially with
00:11:36fentanyl, which at some point marked a difference, even in
00:11:39speeches, accusing Latin American nations, but
00:11:42also from the Asian continent. None of these issues has
00:11:46weighed so heavily in this electoral contest, but nevertheless,
00:11:50some of the voters have also appropriated it, because
00:11:53everything that has been done in quotation marks, under the
00:11:56justification of eradicating drug
00:11:59trafficking, with the term of narcoterrorism, of
00:12:02classifying as terrorists those who supposedly have links with these
00:12:06transnational illicit activities, has not resolved at all the
00:12:09situation that afflicts one of the countries most consumers of
00:12:22next November 3rd in the United States. Not only will they define
00:12:26the balance of power in Congress during the second half of Donald
00:12:30Trump's mandate, they will also determine what policies and
00:12:33budgetary priorities will have legislative
00:12:36support, among them those related to the
00:12:40internal fight against
00:12:43addictions. The US drug
00:12:46policy faces a challenge that goes beyond the
00:12:49persecution of illicit trafficking, the expansion of
00:12:52fentanyl and other synthetic
00:12:55substances: deaths from overdose and difficulties in
00:12:58accessing treatment keep
00:13:02security measures and public health strategies.
00:13:05The outcome of the elections can influence the orientation of the
00:13:09federal drug policy. Congress has
00:13:12the power to approve budgets, oversee government
00:13:14agencies and modify
00:13:18laws. One of
00:13:21the central points is the distribution of resources.
00:13:25is allocated to border control, investigations and operations
00:13:29against drug trafficking networks,
00:13:31the differences between these
00:13:34priorities fuel a political debate on whether the
00:13:38response should concentrate. And in the midst of all this
00:13:40scenario, we continue to add the perspective, the analysis of a
00:13:44day that already has results that speak
00:13:47broadly of a victory for the Democrats, at least in the
00:14:01drawing what appears to be a
00:14:04resounding result for the Democratic Party
00:14:08tonight, as more data is added
00:14:11on the results of this legislative
00:14:14midterm election here in the United States, as you
00:14:17said, the lower house, the House of
00:14:20Representatives. it is taken for
00:14:23granted that the Democratic Party
00:14:27has recovered it, and to help us precisely put into
00:14:30perspective everything that has been known so far,
00:14:34Andrea Fernández, analyst and member
00:14:37of the Latin American Affairs
00:14:41Working Group, thank you very much,
00:14:44thank you for being with us, thank you very much for the
00:14:53fact, it is already a fact that
00:14:56the Democrats won the lower house, the house,
00:15:00what are you reading that is happening or will happen with the
00:15:04Senate, I have hope, but I also think
00:15:08that from what we are seeing the Democrats
00:15:11will also win the Senate eh,
00:15:15I think that if we have both chambers under
00:15:18Democratic control then we will be able to see a
00:15:22type of eh, I guess a little more
00:15:26push against the administration and the policies that
00:15:29we are currently seeing, so the issue of the
00:15:33policies that we are currently seeing.
00:15:38for the Hispanic community in the United States we are talking about
00:15:4170 million Hispanics, of which
00:15:4539 million were
00:15:48eligible to vote, but not necessarily registered
00:15:52to vote, but they are increasingly a more important economic and political
00:15:55force and the Hispanic community is very discontent,
00:15:59especially with these ICE
00:16:03procedures, the US Immigration Service.
00:16:06That could have also played a role in this
00:16:10election, I understand that, especially if
00:16:13you look at the state of Florida, I think many
00:16:16of the sectors
00:16:19that previously voted for Trump very
00:16:22strongly, we saw a reduction in the number of votes that
00:16:25the Republican candidate received and I think much of
00:16:29that came from the issue of
00:16:31deportations and the detainees that
00:16:35people have had in the state.
00:16:38especially I know that the Cuban-American
00:16:41community that lives there, many of them were
00:16:44disappointed, as Trump's policy also affected
00:16:48them, who have been a minority who usually do
00:16:51not have eh do not suffer the same
00:16:54consequences, I suppose, as other Hispanic groups,
00:16:57but in Florida it is seen, in Texas, in Texas also
00:17:01we are seeing that the
00:17:04border, many of them also. eh have
00:17:08become markedly bluer, so I think
00:17:12that ICE and immigration policies specifically
00:17:15that we are seeing within the country have had
00:17:19an effect on how Hispanics have voted. President
00:17:22Trump launched exactly you remember that every
00:17:25day for the last 12 days or something like that, every day
00:17:29he visited some state campaigning and he said
00:17:32vote for me, in reality
00:17:35forget that you are voting for a Republican
00:17:38representative, vote for me in that very
00:17:42special style that he has, ultimately this was a
00:17:46referendum on Trump, I think
00:17:49so, I think especially
00:17:51looking at eh the results of different
00:17:55polls that have been recently eh
00:17:57his popularity is in the 30s, it's a very
00:18:01low number even when you
00:18:03compare it with Obama or with eh.
00:18:07Aiden previously, so I think that people really don't,
00:18:11no, they are not very much in favor of
00:18:14him currently and I think much of this has been a rejection of
00:18:18Trump as such, not so much. Do you think that this
00:18:21night or in the next few days all the results will be resolved
00:18:25or will they say that this was a
00:18:28fraud and mess up the game?
00:18:32Eh, well, unfortunately I
00:18:35think there will be some kind of
00:18:39a call of fraud or something like that, knowing how this
00:18:42administration, especially the president operate eh,
00:18:46so far we have not seen any evidence that this is the
00:18:50case, that this is the case, so let's hope not,
00:18:54but even so, this administration always surprises us, so
00:18:57I don't want to rule out that
00:19:00possibility, it is repeated what has
00:19:03been repeated in midterm elections
00:19:07in... previous opportunities that the party in
00:19:10power always loses or the
00:19:14party represented by the presidency in power, but
00:19:18this apparently may be what Obana himself
00:19:22experienced at the time that eh Obama
00:19:25described this, he says I had to live
00:19:28a beating, apparently we are in a similar
00:19:32situation, I think so, but
00:19:35also eh, I think
00:19:38that currently people see themselves in a slightly
00:19:42different situation than when Obama was in this situation,
00:19:45especially with the economic situation at a level
00:19:49that I don't think it was when Obama was in that
00:19:53situation, obviously there was a kind of rejection
00:19:56towards foreign policy, but currently
00:20:00we have the problem of foreign policy with Iran and other issues also
00:20:04with tariffs, but people also. are affected in their daily
00:20:08lives by the policies of this government,
00:20:11especially when they go to buy gasoline or go to buy
00:20:15eggs or any other daily necessities.
00:20:18Your family is in Puerto Rico, how is Puerto Rico living, how has it lived and
00:20:24the Trump government or with the impressions of the Trump government?
00:20:28Well, currently in Puerto Rico we have a governor who is
00:20:31a Trump supporter, she is eh very much in favor
00:20:35of the president and she is. always
00:20:38trying to find a way to unfortunately
00:20:40recently took action to in a
00:20:42certain way
00:20:45eh
00:20:48get many of the people who are in Puerto Rico, many of them are
00:20:52Dominicans from the Dominican Republic, eh, she
00:20:55gave ISIS the names of many of them,
00:20:58recently under the farce that ah, if they
00:21:02register we can give them licenses, many of them
00:21:05went to try to do the process and ICE took
00:21:08them, it's very sad and currently we see how these
00:21:12ICE policies also affect people in Puerto Rico
00:21:16that many people may not think would affect them in the same way.
00:21:20eh, but even so, economically Puerto Rico remains in a difficult
00:21:24situation and there has been no kind
00:21:27of improvement under this administration, I think. To
00:21:31finish, if you have to make a prediction, what
00:21:34will happen, how will it be in the next 2 years,
00:21:37now that the Democratic Party has had the success
00:21:41it has had in this election. I have hope that,
00:21:44especially with the new Democrats who are coming to power, many of
00:21:48them are more progressive. with a particularly
00:21:53foreign policy, a little more
00:21:56eh well progressive in the sense that
00:22:00they believe we should do better in how we treat our
00:22:04Latin America, I have hope that to some extent they can
00:22:08to some extent prevent the
00:22:12administration from continuing this trajectory towards
00:22:16fascism that we are seeing, but
00:22:19eh, we have to hope that they are strong and that they really take
00:22:23their positions
00:22:31precisely with Andrea Fernández, political
00:22:35analyst who was helping us, then, put into perspective
00:22:39this historic night, where it has already been confirmed
00:22:42that the Democratic Party has
00:22:46the House, the House of Representatives. and
00:22:50that there is a clearly justified
00:22:53optimism that the Senate may reach
00:22:57the same situation that the Democrats will regain
00:23:00control and thus control the US
00:23:04Congress. Back to you, Paola.
00:23:07Thank you, Jorge, and not only would it be the House of Representatives,
00:23:11this will also have its impact in the Senate,
00:23:15in the third that is also renewed this day. This is what
00:23:19is also registered in this vote in one of the
00:23:22states with the highest voting population, we are talking about
00:23:26Texas, yes it is, let's see the
00:23:28results, we share them with you, there we
00:23:32have Talarico with
00:23:3558.30% above Kent Paxton
00:23:38with 40.20%, what does this mean to tell
00:23:41you here the Democrats reverse,
00:23:45they flip the seat that has historically been painted
00:23:48red. for many years since
00:23:511988 today the Democrats recover this
00:23:54seat in their favor within the Senate, a
00:23:58very interesting policy, a very close contest and
00:24:02where Talarico has also won not only in this contest
00:24:05thanks to the electorate, but also the millionaire investment he has
00:24:09made technology billionaire Elomos
00:24:13who gave Paxton the sum of
00:24:16200 million dollars. His
00:24:20campaign, Mariana, this is not a minor fact, it is not a minor fact,
00:24:24especially when in the United States eh economic
00:24:27resources were decisive
00:24:30to eh win a presidential campaign, again
00:24:33this election is changing many things
00:24:37that eh previously we took for granted,
00:24:41so Elon Mus will not be happy at all because an important
00:24:44state, especially on artificial intelligence issues, it seems
00:24:48it will not be in his favor. This also helps us understand that
00:24:52not everything is discerned through digital platforms, through
00:24:56social networks that do have their impact, but the United
00:25:00States itself, which has become one of the central axes
00:25:03of these campaigns with the bot farms, the articulation, the
00:25:06financing that we also know where it comes from, from the large
00:25:10contributors who finance campaigns,
00:25:12mobilization of not going above the conscience
00:25:16of the electorate, there has been an interesting campaign mobilization of the...
00:25:20Democrats, what do you think the Democratic wing has managed to capitalize on
00:25:23over the Republican, especially the economy and how
00:25:27it is directly affecting the inability of
00:25:30many people to be able to eh buy their food, to be able
00:25:34to move eh eh in terms of energy
00:25:37resources, not to make it to the end
00:25:40of the month is
00:25:42definitely Paola something that is affecting
00:25:46significantly and I think we will have to study
00:25:50these elections with... a lot of calm because all those questions
00:25:53again that there was a clear trend in
00:25:56historical processes of electoral analysis in
00:25:59the United States are decoupling quite
00:26:02significantly and to this we also add the results that have
00:26:06to do with the Senate, we continue to talk about these decisive seats
00:26:10within US politics, for example,
00:26:13Georgia, John Ossoff with
00:26:1658.5% in favor of the Democratic wing
00:26:19above Mike Collins with 41.5%, well here
00:26:23a difference also of a few points but
00:26:26that speak of this trend that is maintained in several states
00:26:30of the United States. A
00:26:32trend eh that is maintained eh by
00:26:36the Democratic party's gain and what we can see
00:26:39so far in terms of results in the Senate
00:26:43eh there are two seats that the Democratic party has
00:26:47already won, meaning that they were previously
00:26:50Republican and have turned blue and in the House of
00:26:54Representatives there are six positions that the Democratic
00:26:57party has won eh it tells us a lot
00:27:01Paola according. Really there will be many who will
00:27:04not be very happy and as you said eh
00:27:07later it will be a matter of analysis about
00:27:10who is to blame for a loss that
00:27:14seems very important in certain
00:27:17sectors that previously under no
00:27:20circumstances would have been eh Democrats here a comparison
00:27:24for example to always have a perspective
00:27:27the coin with propriety economy
00:27:31migration two central axes that hit the Trump administration,
00:27:35the Republican party in this contest, but
00:27:38what other factors have weighed so that for example eh
00:27:41Florida, which is one of the absolutely conservative
00:27:44states, one of the Republican strongholds, remains
00:27:48so, it remains so eh because again I told
00:27:51you eh in terms of a voting trend
00:27:55the voters who
00:27:58project are a hard vote, right? And that's something
00:28:03that eh we haven't necessarily talked about until now, but
00:28:06eh it's called a hard vote, although
00:28:09any thing or any policy that the political
00:28:13party to which one belongs identifies with, the vote
00:28:17eh it is very unlikely that that vote will change,
00:28:21that is to say it is a vote eh, that is why it is called hard
00:28:25because it remains constant even if eh the
00:28:28let's say the problems eh affect you directly
00:28:31in the case eh of the Republican party and I think
00:28:35Florida is a great example, eh more than half of those who identify
00:28:39with the Maga project, not necessarily with the Republican party
00:28:43eh they said they would continue to vote
00:28:46eh for that party even if the policies eh
00:28:50affected them, it's not necessarily so for the Democratic
00:28:53party eh less eh around
00:28:5530% is considered the hard vote by
00:28:59the Democratic party eh in in...
00:29:02in the United States and that tells you a lot eh
00:29:06Paola about eh how eh one reflects
00:29:09or how one decides to vote for one
00:29:12party over another, so if we still see
00:29:16the results we have now and we can explain
00:29:20on that side eh why Florida eh remains, well,
00:29:23there is a great tradition and an important hard vote of the Republican
00:29:27party in a state that seems to remain
00:29:30red against the tide of
00:29:33others eh that you said very well eh to see
00:29:36the other side of the coin, Texas is turning
00:29:40blue and Florida remains red, these states
00:29:43that we are now seeing in midterm elections that can
00:29:46be modified will be very important and will probably
00:29:51the presidential elections in the
00:29:54future and that eh will be eh the subject
00:29:58of important monitoring of political analysis by
00:30:02those who study eh elections eh especially in
00:30:05the United States on how the average voter is being
00:30:09reconfigured and voting preferences, despite
00:30:13having even chosen candidates who represent
00:30:15certain eh population groups, no,
00:30:19as happened in Florida, the first
00:30:22governor of Tes eh
00:30:25dark that he has, has been elected, but I don't know to what
00:30:29extent this type of strategy has also served
00:30:32the Republican wing, I would like to add more results regarding
00:30:36this election, Virginia is also another of the
00:30:40states that consolidates the Senate seat in favor of the
00:30:43Democrats, Warner with
00:30:4659.7% against Bert
00:30:49Mizusawa with 40%.
00:30:52This also helps us understand how the movement of a broad
00:30:56campaign has been and what will come from now on Mariana.