Luis Gutierrez, correspondent in Los Angeles, California, reports on the development of election night in the most populated state in the country.
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00:00And again, by Luis Gutierrez from Los Angeles.
00:04Luis, please tell us the latest over there, everything you know,
00:08and also what's the feeling with the people on the streets?
00:15Hi, good night from Los Angeles, California.
00:17Yes, we we are the polls in this in this state close exactly.
00:23Well, like one hour ago.
00:25And they fill in the streets.
00:28It's a feeling of expectation for the results that are going to come
00:33from the other states, especially those swing states, as we know,
00:37that will most likely define the result of this election.
00:41One of the neighbor states, Arizona, it's one of the states
00:44that is like it's most likely to define who the winner of the
00:49of the presidency will be.
00:51And as we have been mentioning before, this is a state where Californians
00:56campaign outside of their their own state, trying to influence
01:00a neighboring state, hoping that they will be able to swing it
01:04towards the Democratic Party since California.
01:06It's a it's a party that has voted Democrat for the past
01:11like two elections, at least.
01:12And it's and that gives 50
01:16four votes to the electoral college.
01:20Yeah, Luis.
01:22OK, so Luis Gladys over here and I'm taking in from Berlin.
01:27And I want to tell you, of course, we know it was expected
01:31that California went for in blue.
01:34And you know that they had the support for Kamala Harris.
01:38But what about the scores?
01:40Because we have to see the two sides of the story.
01:43What about the scores of the Republican voters, the Republican people,
01:48the people that are seeing other options other than the Democrat Party?
01:54Because we need to get the perspective from you and not from the map
01:59and not from the results, because as we have been saying,
02:01the winner takes it all policy from the electoral college silences this.
02:06And we want to know, have you seen under your perception
02:08under maybe the figures, do you see a growing, a steady
02:12or a decline in the Republican voters that maybe are a minority
02:16or maybe have a little part or we don't know?
02:19We are expecting to hear that from you in this election from California.
02:25Yes, well, the city of Los Angeles is also a very pro-Democrat city,
02:30so it is actually hard to see Republican support there in the open.
02:34It's a very rare sight when you see someone with either like Trump
02:38had or make make America again had or
02:43people with Trump stickers around the city.
02:45These are like these are very rare sightings.
02:47Usually when you drive around and walk around Los Angeles,
02:51you can feel the support for Kamala Harris and Tim Voss.
02:55But I mean, everything, anything can change tomorrow
02:58if Trump is declared the winner.
03:00Maybe these things will become will be more in the open.
03:04We have to know that it is mostly in the support for
03:08we can't say that California is a state that that didn't
03:12that doesn't support Trump in one way or another,
03:14because if we go outside of the big cities, outside of L.A.,
03:17outside of the Bay Area, in the rural areas,
03:21you will see that these are mostly red leaning areas.
03:25So in the next few hours, we might see some sort of,
03:30you know, manifestation of this support.
03:33We might see some celebrations if the vote were to be
03:36finally defined for Donald Trump.
03:41Excellent, excellent, Luis.
03:43Thank you for joining us once again.
03:46It's so important to have your testimony from where everything is happening
03:52and your input. So we thank you from USAID's sides.
03:58Excellent. And I move on with some information.
04:01We were mentioning something like this before the.