Speaker 1: And your complete coverage of campaign twenty twenty four is
Speaker 1: right here on Boston's news station WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Lots of things to vote on today. On election day
Speaker 2: in Massachusetts, voters were asked a few questions at the
Speaker 2: ballot box ballid questions, five of them. Wbz's Nicole Davis
Speaker 2: has been keeping an eye on the results. Slow to
Speaker 2: get the results in, I guess, but you want to
Speaker 2: get them right, of course.
Speaker 3: Well, of course, absolutely every vote counts, and we are
Speaker 3: getting these results slowly but surely. And as for question one,
Speaker 3: the question about auditing the legislature, Yes on one, since
Speaker 3: we first started getting these results around eight o'clock has
Speaker 3: had a pretty healthy lead, with thirty three percent of
Speaker 3: the results in it stays that way seventy one to
Speaker 3: twenty nine percent. Question two, which is all about getting
Speaker 3: rid of the mcast graduation requirement, with about thirty two
Speaker 3: percent in yes on two, still steady up sixty to
Speaker 3: forty percent. Question three, if passed, would allow rod share
Speaker 3: drivers to unionize here in the Bay State. About thirty
Speaker 3: three percent of that vote in yes on three, still
Speaker 3: ahead fifty three to forty seven percent. Question five, the
Speaker 3: question about raising the minimum wage for tipped employees.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 3: On five, still on top here, sixty five to thirty
Speaker 3: five percent. And then then we've got another question all
Speaker 3: about mental health treatment.
Speaker 5: That is right, Nicole.
Speaker 2: Question four is all about the ability to grow and
Speaker 2: use certain psychedelics. Wbz's Jared Brosnan as more on that.
Speaker 6: Question four asks voters to consider the legalization of naturally
Speaker 6: occurring psychedelic drugs like DMT, mescalin, and psilocybin aka what's
Speaker 6: found in magic mushrooms. If passed, anyone over twenty one
Speaker 6: years old can grow, share, or use psychedelics at home
Speaker 6: as long as they stay.
Speaker 7: Below the legal threshold for each substance.
Speaker 6: But outside of growing them yourself, the only way to
Speaker 6: get the substances is through licensed professionals, so it wouldn't
Speaker 6: be as easy as going to a dispensary for marijuana
Speaker 6: or a liquor store for alcohol. Those against legalization point
Speaker 6: to the potential health risks from adverse reactions to the
Speaker 6: drugs and say they're unsure how the state can regulate
Speaker 6: at home use. They also worry about a lack of
Speaker 6: a breathalyzer type device that can instantly detect whether someone's
Speaker 6: under the influence. Those in favors say so phichadelics psilocybin
Speaker 6: in particular, can help treat things like post traumatic stress
Speaker 6: disorder and anxiety. They also argue that expensive treatment costs
Speaker 6: would mitigate any rampant recreational use. Jared Brosnan WBZ Boston's
Speaker 6: News Radio and.
Speaker 2: When it comes to question four for a bit, the
Speaker 2: race was pretty much fifty to fifty, but with thirty
Speaker 2: one percent reporting now no votes arranging out fifty seven
Speaker 2: to forty three percent. Marijuana has also been a top
Speaker 2: issue in a lot of states this election day. Massachusetts
Speaker 2: legalized recreational pot in twenty sixteen. This year, voters in
Speaker 2: Florida rejected a ballid measure to legalize recreational marijuana in
Speaker 2: their state. In the Dakotas, voters had similar measures. Those
Speaker 2: tallies still too close to call. Nebraska is voting on
Speaker 2: whether or not to legalize medical cannabis. Nebraska one of
Speaker 2: just six states where marijuana is still completely outlawed, even
Speaker 2: in medical settings. Twenty four states and the District of
Speaker 2: Columbia have already legalized recreational pot. Republican Kelly Ayo taking
Speaker 2: the governor's race in New Hampshire. Today the WDBZ Sherry
Speaker 2: Small is here with the latest art man.
Speaker 8: With that win, next year New Hampshire, we'll have his
Speaker 8: third woman governor in the state's history, former US Senator
Speaker 8: Kelly Ayot defeating former Manchester Mayor Democrat Joyce Craig. Now,
Speaker 8: this was one of the most competitive gubernatorial races in
Speaker 8: the country. Addressing supporters in Salem, Ayot called her win
Speaker 8: a victory for an even brighter future for the greatest
Speaker 8: state in the nation. Craig posting on exit, she was
Speaker 8: proud of the race that they ran, and said she
Speaker 8: called aot and wished her luck. Now, as far as
Speaker 8: the two congressional districts go, District one incumbent Democrat Chris
Speaker 8: pappiz with the seven point lead over Republican Russell Prescott
Speaker 8: House District two, Democrat Maggie Goodlander has a solid eleven
Speaker 8: point lead over Republican Lily Tang Williams. The AP, though
Speaker 8: has not yet called either of those races been.
Speaker 2: All right then Vermont Republican Governor Phil Scott he won
Speaker 2: reelection to his fifth two year term. Democrat Josh Stein
Speaker 2: wins the North Carolin a lot of Google to Torto race.
Speaker 2: He beat Republican incombent Mark Robinson, whose campaign was dragged
Speaker 2: into the national limelfe about reports of controversial comments he
Speaker 2: allegedly made in the past. Governor Lex Stein thanking his
Speaker 2: supporters after the race was called.
Speaker 9: We chose hope over hates, competence over chaos, decency over division.
Speaker 9: That's who we are as North Carolinians.
Speaker 2: Meantime, the presidential race in North Carolina is still too
Speaker 2: close to call, though it is leaning toward former President
Speaker 2: Donald Trump's favor. And we want to give you another
Speaker 2: update on the presidential race numbers. Kabla Harris has won
Speaker 2: Washington state. We told you earlier she had also won
Speaker 2: her home state of California, Donald Trump winning Idaho, and
Speaker 2: so as it sits right now, Kanala Harris has won
Speaker 2: twelve states, one district in Maine as well as the
Speaker 2: district of Columbia, while Donald Trump has twenty two states
Speaker 2: under his belt and one district Nebraska. The election results
Speaker 2: in terms of the electoral vote count, former President Trump
Speaker 2: with two hundred and fourteen, vice President Kamala Harris sitting
Speaker 2: at one hundred and seventy nine. Well all across the nation,
Speaker 2: Voters are keeping an eye on the balance of power
Speaker 2: in Congress. More and more votes are being counted in
Speaker 2: wbz's Emma Friedman is here with the latest on those votes.
Speaker 10: Emma Ben Democrats are facing strong headwinds to defend their
Speaker 10: narrow fifty one to forty nine majority. There's still thirteen
Speaker 10: races to be called. The GOP has gained one seat
Speaker 10: in West Virginia, with Jim Justice that seat replacing Senator
Speaker 10: Joe Manchin. Ohio is still counting the votes as of now,
Speaker 10: Republican Bernie and Marino is leading with eighty five percent
Speaker 10: of the votes counted. If he wins, that would flip
Speaker 10: the seat long held by Democrat Chared Brown. Meantime, Vermont's
Speaker 10: Bernie Sanders, Connecticut's Chris Murphy, and Rhode Islands Sheldon Whitehouse
Speaker 10: all held on to their Senate seat. We're going to
Speaker 10: keep you up to date here with Waldswall election coverage.
Speaker 10: Ben back to you all right.
Speaker 2: And in Maryland, Democrat Angela also Brooks has projected to
Speaker 2: win the Senate race there. Also, Brooks spoke about her opponent,
Speaker 2: former Governor Larry Hogan, after the race was called.
Speaker 11: I received a call from Governor Hogan congratulating me on
Speaker 11: tonight's victory, offering his congratulations and the congratulations of you.
Speaker 11: Me and I know that we both share a very
Speaker 11: deep love from Maryland and commitment to Maryland, so I
Speaker 11: certainly want to thank him so much for his service.
Speaker 2: Also, Brooks will be the first black woman to represent
Speaker 2: Maryland in the US Senate, Richard Neil holding off his
Speaker 2: challenger for the Massachusetts first Congressional district. There were three
Speaker 2: other races with challengers, but five of the congress Members
Speaker 2: of Congress from Massachusetts were unopposed this time around, Jay Cochincloss,
Speaker 2: Seth Moulten, and Catherine Clark among them. In Connecticut, Senator
Speaker 2: Chris Murphy won re election to a third term. Voting
Speaker 2: is a right, whether you've been casting ballots for decades
Speaker 2: or this is your first time going to the polls.
Speaker 2: WBC's Aile Shaffle catching up with all of the above.
Speaker 12: For Julia Mitchell, this election day is different from every other.
Speaker 12: This first time in my life, I vote. I'm sixty
Speaker 12: going on sixty seven. After decades on the political sideline,
Speaker 12: She's decided to vote on this one. Julia wasn't Donald
Speaker 12: Trump's camp during his presidency, but his behavior in the
Speaker 12: last days of the campaign trails motivated her to cast
Speaker 12: a ballot against him.
Speaker 10: A president shouldn't make derogatory, you know, remarks about anybody.
Speaker 12: Plenty of voters here at a West Roxbury polling station
Speaker 12: tell me the act of voting is a sacred right
Speaker 12: and duty. It's all the more powerful for Brandon, who
Speaker 12: is stripped from the voter rules in Texas nearly a
Speaker 12: dozen times before coming here. It's meant a lot to
Speaker 12: me to be able to just come down here and
Speaker 12: just vote. And the power of the vote reaches across
Speaker 12: the aisle for this Trump voter too.
Speaker 13: No, I always want I think it's the right thing
Speaker 13: to do.
Speaker 7: Obviously, a lot of people fought in this country to
Speaker 7: be able to vote.
Speaker 12: So Kyle Schaffel w BS Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2: More of the votes are being counted, a couple more
Speaker 2: states still need to close their poll We'll keep you
Speaker 2: up the date here on WBZ throughout the evening, the
Speaker 2: overnight hours, and of course join us tomorrow morning.
Speaker 13: First thing.
Speaker 2: Jeff Brown will be here with all of the information
Speaker 2: you need to start your day and trafficing weather together
Speaker 2: as well. I'm Ben Parker.
Speaker 1: Night side with Dan Ray Election Night in America WBZ,
Speaker 1: Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 14: I'm delighted to welcome back to our microphone someone who's
Speaker 14: become a regular guest on all of these big election nights,
Speaker 14: Former Lieutenant Governor Calmwealth of Massachusetts.
Speaker 13: Tom O'Neil, the third and the.
Speaker 14: Namesake son of I think the greatest House speaker in history,
Speaker 14: Former House Speaker Tom Tip O'Neil. Tom O'Neil, welcome back
Speaker 14: to night's side. I know this is not a great
Speaker 14: night for your party, but i'd love to get your
Speaker 14: reaction to it as it is evolving. It's not over
Speaker 14: until the Fat Lady sings, as they say, but here
Speaker 14: a warming up.
Speaker 5: I thought it would be a better Nightdea, and it's
Speaker 5: turning out to be. We needed to do better in
Speaker 5: states like New Hampshire in Virginia than we've done, although
Speaker 5: we probably will win both of those states. Then we
Speaker 5: needed to go south and do better in North Carolina
Speaker 5: and Georgia. And Kamala Harris is just not doing as
Speaker 5: well as Joe Biden did four years ago, and she
Speaker 5: may well lose both of those states. And though it
Speaker 5: leaves US. Then it leads us to the Blue Wall
Speaker 5: states of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan, and we need a
Speaker 5: minor miracle to win those states. And if she does,
Speaker 5: and she becomes an ex president of the United States,
Speaker 5: if Donald Trump continues to lead in Wisconsin as he
Speaker 5: has been, then we've got a problem. And tomorrow will
Speaker 5: be a different day, and then ex president will be
Speaker 5: the fortynth President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.
Speaker 14: So I guess there's no one who I know who's
Speaker 14: more experienced politically than you, because obviously you learned, you know,
Speaker 14: at your father's.
Speaker 13: Me literally growing up. How can you I never thought.
Speaker 14: That after January sixth, Donald Trump would be able, after
Speaker 14: all that he has gone through and you know, impeachments, indictments,
Speaker 14: could ever get back to this point. I thought he
Speaker 14: could cobble together the nomination. But I've never seen a
Speaker 14: I know that America loves comebacks, but I've never seen
Speaker 14: a political comeback of this magnitude. If indeed he does
Speaker 14: prevail tonight.
Speaker 5: If he does, and and add to that, Dan his
Speaker 5: rhetoric over the last two weeks, yeah, yeah, he's an
Speaker 5: off message. He's not he's not targeted at his own
Speaker 5: his own his own target and base groups. We all
Speaker 5: as political strategies really can't understand how he's done as
Speaker 5: well tonight and today as he has done. I think
Speaker 5: the better news side of the story is we may
Speaker 5: well lose the Senate, but it looks like we're going
Speaker 5: to go back and win the House of Representatives of
Speaker 5: the US Congress.
Speaker 14: I haven't I haven't thought that I had seth molten
Speaker 14: on and I asked him about last hour, and I
Speaker 14: know it's it's very close.
Speaker 13: I think that.
Speaker 14: Sharon Brown has just lost Ohio to the Republican candidate.
Speaker 5: They called it. And it looks like John Testa might
Speaker 5: lose in Montana, which would lose, which would leave us
Speaker 5: for a two seat deficit in the US Senate. But
Speaker 5: it looks as well that we might pick up five
Speaker 5: or six seats in the US House and it will
Speaker 5: give us some macharity in the House. And and that's
Speaker 5: great news for balance, you know, balance and in the
Speaker 5: in the in the Congress and the edit policy creation.
Speaker 14: I think most people like to have that that sort
Speaker 14: of balance. So let me ask you, uh, I guess
Speaker 14: a tougher question. Does the leadership well First of first
Speaker 14: of all, does the leadership of the Democratic Party. I'm
Speaker 14: talking Chuck Schumer and uh, you know Nancy Pelosi who
Speaker 14: no longer is the speaker. But do they have to
Speaker 14: at this point give way to new new leadership, you
Speaker 14: know within the Democratic Party, people like Seth Moulton and
Speaker 14: others who may maybe more in the following the Tip
Speaker 14: O'Neill Democrats. I mean, I kind of imagine that your
Speaker 14: father would have allowed Union leaders like Sean O'Brien and
Speaker 14: others to walk away from the Democratic Party in the
Speaker 14: presidential life.
Speaker 5: I do think, Dan, that we have to come back
Speaker 5: and reassess what it is Donald Trump, what he's talking to,
Speaker 5: what is his base, what are they listening to? What
Speaker 5: is it they want? We want delivering for them. The
Speaker 5: fact of the matter is, I am I've always considered
Speaker 5: myself a progressive. Yeah, by today's by today's logic, I'd
Speaker 5: be a moderate if I were in the US Congress.
Speaker 5: It does some order it and I just think we
Speaker 5: have to reassess where the Democratic has been going and
Speaker 5: where it needs to reside in order to win the
Speaker 5: middle class back where it needs to win. America's honted
Speaker 5: back and where those issues that we have traditionally been
Speaker 5: but apparently have lust and you know we've got we've
Speaker 5: got the mind and we've got the body. Well we
Speaker 5: need is we need to recapture the soul of what's
Speaker 5: going on in America.
Speaker 14: That's well said, well said. So my other question, and
Speaker 14: again I know that you know the president have known
Speaker 14: the president for a long time. I wonder if he
Speaker 14: is tonight thinking to himself if I wasn't forced out
Speaker 14: or maybe you accept that, maybe you don't, but I
Speaker 14: think he was kind of forced out that he can
Speaker 14: look back and say, hey, I was I passed in
Speaker 14: twenty sixteen. I beat this guy in twenty in twenty twenty,
Speaker 14: and I could have beaten him again tonight. Do you
Speaker 14: think regrets within the Biden family?
Speaker 5: I think with you know, he's a human being, So
Speaker 5: I'm sure he's thinking about if it were me, could
Speaker 5: I have done better than Kamala. The fact of the
Speaker 5: matter is, I don't know that that would have been
Speaker 5: the case. I think she turned out to be a
Speaker 5: very good candidate. I think the people around her gave
Speaker 5: her a very strong, strategic kind of target, and I
Speaker 5: think their campaign was right on. That's really the reason
Speaker 5: I'm saying to myself, I think we need to go
Speaker 5: back and reassess where it is we've been as a
Speaker 5: democratic body. Who the hell are we talking to, and
Speaker 5: how do we get back to representing you know that
Speaker 5: that that that middle class that we have traditionally represented,
Speaker 5: and bring it forward so that we can move America ahead.
Speaker 13: Well, it looked to me, you.
Speaker 14: Know, from Afar, that that there was some natural constituencies
Speaker 14: which were disappointed. I think that a lot of uh,
Speaker 14: you know, Jewish voters probably migrated to Trump, and I think, ironically,
Speaker 14: at the same time, there were Muslim voters who migrated
Speaker 14: to Trump simultaneously. I don't know how he did that,
Speaker 14: but I think that's what the statistics will show.
Speaker 5: I think you're right, and I think we have to
Speaker 5: figure out how he did to that and what they
Speaker 5: heard that we didn't understand, to be perfectly honest with you,
Speaker 5: because how a Jewish community can get behind Trump simply
Speaker 5: because he moved a capital or an embassy in Israel
Speaker 5: is extraordinarily beyond me. When the Democratic body has always
Speaker 5: been the hot of the Israeli state and the Jewish
Speaker 5: community and has viewed them as our greatest ally.
Speaker 14: From Harry Truman, who was the first area coming leader
Speaker 14: of any country. Tom O'Neill is always I thank you
Speaker 14: for staying up late. I wish for you. The results
Speaker 14: were a little bit different.
Speaker 5: It's not over yet, but we need me a miracle,
Speaker 5: but maybe we'll get it. If we don't, we're going
Speaker 5: to stay back and we're going to continue the good fight. Dan,
Speaker 5: thanks a minute.
Speaker 13: Thank you so much. Tom, who're talking to Okay, see
Speaker 13: you soon. Goodnight.
Speaker 14: All right, we have one other guest coming up, Spencer
Speaker 14: Kimball Polster who called Iowa correctly. He'll be with us
Speaker 14: in the next half hour. Stay with WBZ throughout the night.
Speaker 14: We'll give you the best coverage all the way till
Speaker 14: morning's early light.
Speaker 1: Campaign twenty twenty four America votes. This is WBZ Boston's news.
Speaker 2: Radio, sixty one degrees in Boston at eleven thirty. Good evening,
Speaker 2: I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. Some more states called
Speaker 2: in the presidential race for Vice president Kamala Harris. She
Speaker 2: has won thirteen states plus one district in Maine. In
Speaker 2: the District of Columbia, the latest state to go for
Speaker 2: Kamala Harris, Oregon. She now has one hundred and eighty
Speaker 2: seven electoral votes, while former President Donald Trump has now
Speaker 2: won twenty three states, along with one district in Nebraska. Carolina,
Speaker 2: which was a battleground state and both candidates that spent
Speaker 2: a lot of time in goes to former President Trump.
Speaker 2: He now has two hundred and thirty electoral votes of
Speaker 2: the two hundred and seventy needed to win the White House.
Speaker 2: Polls have closed in most of the states across the
Speaker 2: country now except for Alaska and Hawaii. Election results slowly
Speaker 2: but surely pouring in from every milk and cranny of
Speaker 2: the country except one. It'll be quite some time before
Speaker 2: we know which presidential candidate won the key swing state
Speaker 2: of Nevada.
Speaker 15: The Secretary of State says there are twenty eight thousand
Speaker 15: votes or so that need curing. That means ballots that
Speaker 15: need to be revised, that need to be validated, and
Speaker 15: in some cases the voters need to be notified in
Speaker 15: order for them to fix any issues.
Speaker 3: That arise with them.
Speaker 15: That process, plus the mail in ballo postmark by election
Speaker 15: day but arriving until Saturday, November ninth, could significantly delay
Speaker 15: when we learned the state's total results. Luciano CBS News, Las.
Speaker 4: Vegas, Nevada.
Speaker 2: In Massachusetts, the senior Senator Elizabeth Warren declaring re election victory.
Speaker 2: Wbz's Madison Rodgers with more projections.
Speaker 16: Say, it's going to be another six years in Washington
Speaker 16: for Senator Elizabeth Warren.
Speaker 17: We have reminded people that government can be harnessed to
Speaker 17: work not just for the wealthy and well connected, but
Speaker 17: that week can actually make government work for the people.
Speaker 16: Senator took the stage as her campaign and local Democrats celebrate.
Speaker 16: She outlined a top fight ahead and said in her
Speaker 16: third term she prioritize things like bringing down the cost
Speaker 16: of childcare and housing and restoring ropy wave protections. It
Speaker 16: is still yet to be seen how en reached those goals.
Speaker 16: Are the balance of power still teetering in Washington, Senator
Speaker 16: Warren telling the crowd it's going to be a long night,
Speaker 16: maybe a long week, but no matter what happens.
Speaker 3: She's ready for the fight ahead.
Speaker 16: In the South End, I'm Madison Rogers, WVZ Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2: On Tremont Street this evening, Warren's Republican challenger, John Deaton
Speaker 2: concedes alongside his supporters wbz's Mike Macklin with Moore.
Speaker 18: Look, I'm disappointing the results.
Speaker 13: I'm a competitive guy.
Speaker 19: John Deeton conceded defeat in his long shot bid to
Speaker 19: unseen Senator Elizabeth Warren and told his supporters he has
Speaker 19: no regrets despite the outcome.
Speaker 18: I'm proud of my campaign and how it was run
Speaker 18: from this entire time. No lies, no name calling, just
Speaker 18: trying to focus on policy.
Speaker 19: In a divisive campaign season. Deaton said he was determined
Speaker 19: to stay positive.
Speaker 13: We show people.
Speaker 18: There's a difference between fighting against things and fighting four things,
Speaker 18: fighting against people and fighting four people. I wish the
Speaker 18: race was more competitive than it was, but you know,
Speaker 18: something changes hard.
Speaker 19: Deeton said he remains committed to making the Republican Party
Speaker 19: more competitive in Massachusetts and would not rule out another
Speaker 19: bid for elective office.
Speaker 13: Change.
Speaker 18: It takes time, but we need change in this state.
Speaker 19: Mike Maclin, WBZ, Bospoon's News Radio.
Speaker 2: I got pon WBZ. We'll crunch the numbers on the
Speaker 2: ballot questions in Massachusetts eleven thirty three as we check
Speaker 2: traffic and weather together the super retailers of New England
Speaker 2: all we'll drive traffic on the three is how are
Speaker 2: we doing, Steve.
Speaker 20: Well, We're gonna look north to town where we've got
Speaker 20: some trouble. On four ninety five. There's a northbound crash
Speaker 20: after ninety three that's slowing things down. The right lane
Speaker 20: is blocked there. Then more delays with work northbound at
Speaker 20: mass af and southbound and andover at Very twenty eight
Speaker 20: ninety three south of the work rout spot pond.
Speaker 13: No delay.
Speaker 20: Then the left lane is taken at Roosevelt Circle. That's
Speaker 20: a speed limited ride one twenty eight north. You're gonna
Speaker 20: reduce speed passing a set up in Linfield at Walnut
Speaker 20: Street south of the town.
Speaker 13: No trouble.
Speaker 20: On the expressway Route twenty four north, you're gonna slow down.
Speaker 20: There's a lane taken before Route one forty Route three north.
Speaker 20: Two work zones with minor delays, first in Duxbury at
Speaker 20: Route fourteen, then by Bergen Parkway four ninety five south,
Speaker 20: construction in middle at Route twenty eight at the speed
Speaker 20: limit getting by there a bit slower northbound work after
Speaker 20: ninety five west of town on the pike work cruise
Speaker 20: both ways by the Charleton Service Plaza. Slow you down
Speaker 20: on the westbound side four ninety five North slows for
Speaker 20: work between the Pike and Route nine, then southbound and Berlin.
Speaker 20: At Route sixty two and four ninety five south and Marlborough,
Speaker 20: the ramp to two ninety is closed two ninety east.
Speaker 20: Watch for a work crew by Route nine in Worcester.
Speaker 13: No delay.
Speaker 20: Quiet downtown the deck to connector in the Tobin look good.
Speaker 20: Airport tunnels and the Pike. Checkout just fine. Steve Perez,
Speaker 20: WBZ twenty four hour Traffic Network.
Speaker 2: All right, we've got pretty decent weather still around these parts.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow or well, yeah, tomorrow, not later today yet, we're
Speaker 2: gonna have temperatures in the mid to upper seventies and
Speaker 2: we might set a record.
Speaker 1: Complete coverage of campaign twenty twenty four continues now on
Speaker 1: WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: Another update here from the WBZ presidential election results headquarters,
Speaker 2: New Mexico goes to come La Harris if she picks
Speaker 2: up the five electoral votes in New Mexico and now
Speaker 2: has one hundred and ninety two electoral votes compared to
Speaker 2: two hundred and thirty for Donald Trump. To seventy is
Speaker 2: the number needed for winning the White House. Will continue
Speaker 2: to follow these numbers as we head through the evening,
Speaker 2: and we continue on with our coverage about the questions
Speaker 2: in Massachusetts. And the thing is, there are all kinds
Speaker 2: of questions about those questions, five ballot questions on the
Speaker 2: ballot this year, and Nicole Davis has been watching things
Speaker 2: and we're starting to get a feel for who thinks
Speaker 2: they did what.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're getting an idea. The big news in this report, Ben,
Speaker 3: is that we have some movement on Question four. No
Speaker 3: official concession yet, but now we have a statement from
Speaker 3: the Yes on four campaign that says, quote, we understand
Speaker 3: that we're concerns about the home grow provisions. Again, this
Speaker 3: is the psychedelics question. I think go on in the
Speaker 3: statement to say the concerns have likely led to the
Speaker 3: question playing out the way it is. That being said, again,
Speaker 3: they have not conceded. They said they won't do so
Speaker 3: till tomorrow, after all the ballots are counted. It now
Speaker 3: we also just heard as well from the No on
Speaker 3: four campaign they say, quote, today voters across Massachusetts came
Speaker 3: together to reject the passage of Question four in recognition
Speaker 3: of the negative impacts it would have. Right now, No
Speaker 3: on four is winning fifty eight to forty two percent.
Speaker 3: Question one which would allow the legislature to be audited.
Speaker 3: Yes on one still ups a steady seventy one to
Speaker 3: twenty nine percent. It's been that way for about a
Speaker 3: couple hours. Question three to allow ride share drivers to unionize.
Speaker 3: Yes fifty three percent, No, forty seven percent. Question five
Speaker 3: the question about the tip to employee minimum wage, about
Speaker 3: fifty percent reporting ben No on five ups sixty five
Speaker 3: thirty five. And then our final question is a question
Speaker 3: about schools and a well known tests.
Speaker 2: Indeed, Nicole, it's all about the MCAST test that high
Speaker 2: school graduations. Wz's Brooke McCarthy explains question two right now.
Speaker 21: It's something all tenth graders need to take to graduate
Speaker 21: the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System tests better known as MCASTS.
Speaker 21: But on the ballot is question two, which would eliminate
Speaker 21: MCAST as a high school graduation requirement. If Question two
Speaker 21: does pass, students would still need to take the MCAST exams,
Speaker 21: but they would no longer need to get a passing score. Instead,
Speaker 21: the over three hundred school districts across the state would
Speaker 21: set their own criteria for graduation. This would make Massachusetts
Speaker 21: one of just a handful of states without a common
Speaker 21: graduation standard. Those in favor of question two say this
Speaker 21: would give all students the opportunity to thrive and reach
Speaker 21: their full potential because some don't get their diploma because
Speaker 21: of it. Those against Question two argue it's unfair and
Speaker 21: it's not right to grant diplomas to kids that aren't
Speaker 21: ready to graduate. Less than one percent of high school
Speaker 21: seniors don't get their diploma because of the mcast Brooke
Speaker 21: McCarthy WBZ, Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: As of right now, Yes On two remains up when
Speaker 2: it comes to results, fifty nine to forty one percent.
Speaker 2: Just over fifty percent of the votes have been reported.
Speaker 2: Exit polls from ABC show democracy, the economy, and abortion
Speaker 2: rights are top concerns among voters as the nation and
Speaker 2: chooses its next president. ABC's with Johnson's at mar Lago,
Speaker 2: where former President Trump is spending this election night.
Speaker 7: There are a lot of young men in the audience here.
Speaker 7: I was at Madison Square Garden with that big rally there,
Speaker 7: some twenty thousand people, and I spoke to a lot
Speaker 7: of these young men and asked them what it was
Speaker 7: about Donald Trump that appealed to them. Many of them
Speaker 7: either weren't old enough to vote before, or maybe didn't
Speaker 7: participate in politics in the past, but they were drawn
Speaker 7: to him for a variety of reasons. Immigration and the
Speaker 7: economy were a big part of it. A lot of
Speaker 7: these young men who feel like the middle class American
Speaker 7: dream is difficult to achieve, difficult to reach, they felt
Speaker 7: like they could connect with Trump and he was the
Speaker 7: man who could help them get there.
Speaker 2: And former President Trump has already won the state of
Speaker 2: Florida and its thirty electoral votes. Meantime, the Harris campaign
Speaker 2: is convening at her alma mater, Howard University. Even though
Speaker 2: the former president has a lead in the electoral college
Speaker 2: and popular vote, the vice President is hoping her work
Speaker 2: and swing states like Nevada will help to flip the
Speaker 2: tide where voters are concerned about the economy.
Speaker 22: The Hairs campaign is well aware of all of those issues,
Speaker 22: especially in Nevada. It's why she unveiled her housing plan
Speaker 22: in that state. She knew that she had to hammer
Speaker 22: home the issue of the economy and make clear that
Speaker 22: that was going to be her top priority, that lowering
Speaker 22: the cost of groceries was going to be at their
Speaker 22: very first priority. When she gets into office, She always
Speaker 22: said she would pass if elected, this big economic package
Speaker 22: of bills to do just that. The question is whether
Speaker 22: that message got across.
Speaker 13: And was enough.
Speaker 2: That is ABC's Mary Bruce. Florida voters strike down a
Speaker 2: ballot measure aimed at loosening that states strict limits on
Speaker 2: reproductive rights.
Speaker 23: Florida voters have rejected an abortion rights amendment and are
Speaker 23: keeping in place Governor Ron DeSantis's six week ban. The
Speaker 23: initiative failed to get the sixty percent threshold required. The
Speaker 23: measure faced an uphill battle in the deeply read state,
Speaker 23: where former President Donald Trump, a Florida resident, said during
Speaker 23: the campaign he would vote against the measure. About one
Speaker 23: fourth of voters have said abortion policy was the single
Speaker 23: most important factor for their vote. That's according to AP
Speaker 23: vote Cast, a sweeping survey of more than one hundred
Speaker 23: and ten thousand voters nationwide.
Speaker 2: I'm Haefendwani in New Hampshire. Voters deciding on the states
Speaker 2: two congressional seats and the race for governor, and it
Speaker 2: is a brand new governor coming in. We now know
Speaker 2: who that brand new governor will be, Sherry'small.
Speaker 8: That's why I've been in the race for governor. It's
Speaker 8: Republican Canada Kelly Aot who takes the win tonight, beating
Speaker 8: Democrat Joyce Craig. Aot came into this race with widespread
Speaker 8: name recognition as a former US Senator and former attorney general.
Speaker 8: She also had the endorsement of Republican Governor Christan UNW Craig,
Speaker 8: the former mayor of Manchester, the Granite State's largest city,
Speaker 8: posted on x that she was proud of the race
Speaker 8: that they ran in said that she called Aot to
Speaker 8: congratulate her. Now, Democrats are in the lead so far
Speaker 8: in both congressional districts. We're waiting for both of these
Speaker 8: races to be called by the AP, which should be
Speaker 8: very soon. The race in New Hampshire's first congressional district
Speaker 8: between incumbent Democrat Chris Pappis and Republican Russell Prescott. Pappis
Speaker 8: leading by eight points, and we are reading though, despite
Speaker 8: the fact that the AP hasn't called it, we're reading
Speaker 8: reports that Chris Pappis has declared victory tonight in the
Speaker 8: race and that Russell Prescott conceded. Also, there is the
Speaker 8: race in New hampshire second Congression congressional district that's between
Speaker 8: Democrat Maggie Goodlinder and Republican Louis Tang Williams Goodline. Good
Speaker 8: Lander with an eleven point lead.
Speaker 2: Ben all Right, thanks a lot, cherry, and most states
Speaker 2: have closed their polls. Only Alaska and Hawaii have not,
Speaker 2: and this election day is just about behind us. But
Speaker 2: CBS's Nicole Skanga tells us today's voting was not without
Speaker 2: a few scanners.
Speaker 17: Officials and at least two states made in Georgia say
Speaker 17: police have responded to threats against schools and polling places today,
Speaker 17: none of them credible. Brad Raffensberger, the Georgia Secretary of State,
Speaker 17: saying in a news conference that officials had identified the
Speaker 17: source that it was from Russia. The FBI also putting
Speaker 17: out a statement indicating many of the threats appear to
Speaker 17: originate from Russian email to.
Speaker 2: Mean maintime officials say the US Capital Visitors Center was
Speaker 2: closed this afternoon after a man tried to get into
Speaker 2: that building with a torch and a flare gun. Former
Speaker 2: President Donald Trump is trying to do something that has
Speaker 2: not been done since the late eighteen hundreds become president
Speaker 2: for a second non consecutive term, the last and only
Speaker 2: person to do it.
Speaker 12: Dear, this is your old pal, Grover.
Speaker 2: Our old pal, Grover Cleveland turned the trick. He was
Speaker 2: elected as the twenty second president, served from eighteen eighty
Speaker 2: five to eighteen eighty nine, and, after being defeated by
Speaker 2: Benjamin Harrison, won the presidency again as the twenty fourth
Speaker 2: president and served from eighteen ninety three to eighteen ninety seven.
Speaker 2: Cleveland's loss in eighteen eighty eight featured him winning the
Speaker 2: popular vote but losing with fewer electoral votes. By the way,
Speaker 2: Grover Cleveland the only president married in the White House.
Speaker 2: He married Francis Fulsom in June of eighteen eighty six.
Speaker 2: Stay with WBZ, We'll continue to follow developments on this
Speaker 2: election night. We've got Jim McKay coming up at midnight
Speaker 2: with more of the results from all across the country.
Speaker 2: I'm Ben Parker.
Speaker 1: Our election night coverage continues now with night Side with
Speaker 1: Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 14: Well, I'm delighted to be joined as our final guest
Speaker 14: tonight here on the Night Side portion of the special
Speaker 14: twenty twenty four presidential election program by Emerson College poster
Speaker 14: Spencer Kimball. Spencer welcome back, Thanks so much for being
Speaker 14: with us for a few minutes. To end my evening here,
Speaker 14: I have to say that I'm following this race very
Speaker 14: closely and I'm particularly watching Iowa, and I know you
Speaker 14: don't want to talk about it, but I just want
Speaker 14: to say congratulations.
Speaker 13: You called Iowa.
Speaker 14: Over the weekend, the Des Moines Register had a poll
Speaker 14: which suggested that perhaps Kamala Harris was in the lead
Speaker 14: of Iowa, and it was a shock poll. You had
Speaker 14: a poll over the weekend which has hit the final
Speaker 14: number in Iowa right on the button, fifty five to
Speaker 14: forty five approximately.
Speaker 13: You're not going to take a victory lap.
Speaker 14: I know you too well, but I got to tell
Speaker 14: you you must feel pretty good because there were a
Speaker 14: lot of people who were looking at that Des Moines
Speaker 14: Register poll a little more closely than they were looking
Speaker 14: at your polling in the state of Iowa.
Speaker 4: Well, then, it's always pleasure to be with you, and
Speaker 4: thanks for the coverage this evening. It was a good
Speaker 4: experiment in different methods in survey research, and that's what
Speaker 4: in our world. We had a chance last week to
Speaker 4: talk methodology, where each polster comes up with new methods
Speaker 4: of how to collect data and how to analyze data.
Speaker 4: And Ann Seltzer is a great polster out of Iowa,
Speaker 4: and she's had a traditional method of collecting data using
Speaker 4: live operators, using different techniques that have been very beneficial.
Speaker 4: But as technology and communication has advanced, so to have
Speaker 4: our methods. And I think it demonstrated that in the
Speaker 4: twenty first century of polling that some of those traditional
Speaker 4: methods which are still successful, can also be you know,
Speaker 4: new methods can be utilized that are also successful. And
Speaker 4: I think that Iowa demonstrated that.
Speaker 14: Now I had my eye on Iowa tonight, I assume
Speaker 14: you did as well.
Speaker 13: But you're very gracious in your comments tonight.
Speaker 14: So I'm going to move on here and tell you
Speaker 14: that I kept a particular look for it because I
Speaker 14: take some pride in the hometown team and you and
Speaker 14: a friend Dave Paleologus and John Zogby as well are
Speaker 14: the three poles is where I rely upon. So thank
Speaker 14: you for being available tonight.
Speaker 4: We well, we lived up to the expectation there.
Speaker 13: You sure did you sure did?
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 14: You've also lived up to the expectation tonight. I think
Speaker 14: this race is going very much in the way that
Speaker 14: that many thought. But what I mean, it looks to
Speaker 14: me as if Donald Trump is going to be the
Speaker 14: president elect, if not tonight, sometime in the next day
Speaker 14: or so. Am I reading that?
Speaker 4: Yeah? No, no, no, I think we've seen enough in
Speaker 4: the in the data here, certainly in the voting, that
Speaker 4: he has outperformed the polls once again. Now you know,
Speaker 4: we've been pretty good with him. We had him winning
Speaker 4: these states, but he's winning them by two to three
Speaker 4: points higher, which is still, you know, a pretty good polling,
Speaker 4: but that's his tradition. Now he's got some big What
Speaker 4: we've seen is not just in the swing states, and
Speaker 4: you know those are the most competitive because that's where
Speaker 4: Harris spent you know, billions of dollars in advertising, but
Speaker 4: in these other states, like look at New Jersey, what
Speaker 4: are we at four or five points in Jersey? Minnesota
Speaker 4: two three points, so Virginia that's been sitting. So these
Speaker 4: are states that the Democrats were at ten points. And
Speaker 4: while Trump may not win these states as we come
Speaker 4: back from this election, while there's a lot more things
Speaker 4: in play, and it looks as if the electorate has
Speaker 4: made a real shift in how they're going to vote
Speaker 4: in the future, and look at like the state of Florida.
Speaker 4: That state doesn't look to be in play at all
Speaker 4: for the Democrats in the future. That could become a
Speaker 4: problem for them as the electorate shrinks. And it's amazing
Speaker 4: to think where we were just eight years ago when
Speaker 4: Trump won that first election, not winning the popular vote.
Speaker 4: He might win the popular vote as well tonight when
Speaker 4: you start looking at California hasn't come in. Yeah, that's
Speaker 4: a good point, but I think he I think he
Speaker 4: could walk out with the popular vote.
Speaker 14: It's stunning to think of this. This this this political resurrection.
Speaker 14: I mean when you think of where he was in
Speaker 14: twenty twenty one, after the disgraceful events of January sixth,
Speaker 14: twenty twenty one, and the indictments, all of that, and
Speaker 14: everything was on the line for him tonight.
Speaker 13: I had I spoke with Tom.
Speaker 14: O'Neill earlier this hour, and he was trying to figure
Speaker 14: out I was trying to figure out what is the
Speaker 14: message that somehow Donald Trump.
Speaker 13: Was able to deliver this.
Speaker 14: This is almost a realignment election in terms.
Speaker 4: Of we're different.
Speaker 13: Yeah, so tell it. You can. You can explain that
Speaker 13: better than I can.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, please, well, the working class is becoming Republicans
Speaker 4: and the upper class is becoming Democrats. And the problem
Speaker 4: that the Republicans had a few years ago coming out
Speaker 4: of the Bush years, where that they were the upper
Speaker 4: class and the Democrats were the working class, and that
Speaker 4: change of what's happening in real time. But you know,
Speaker 4: it's happening as you watch these returns in Michigan, in Minnesota,
Speaker 4: and you know, I think we saw it in real
Speaker 4: time back in twenty sixteen in Ohio. When we think
Speaker 4: of that blue wall of Pennsylvania to Minnesota, we're forgetting
Speaker 4: that Ohio used to be a swing state. That's not
Speaker 4: you know, that's a I think we had it at
Speaker 4: twelve points tonight, maybe ten points. That's no longer in play.
Speaker 13: And the Republicans also also won a took a senencee to.
Speaker 4: Way packed up the Senate YEP, and they're going to
Speaker 4: do the same thing out in Montana. So the question
Speaker 4: is can the Democrats at this point hold the House?
Speaker 4: Otherwise the Republicans could potentially walk out with all three
Speaker 4: chambers and have a lot of power for the next
Speaker 4: two years.
Speaker 14: So what is the message that that Trump Wasn't it
Speaker 14: as simple as she broke it, I'll fix it. I mean,
Speaker 14: that was what he came down to at the end.
Speaker 14: She broke it, I'll fix it.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, it goes further back, goes back
Speaker 4: to NaSTA. He's back into the UH, into the into that,
Speaker 4: to that trade agreement where there's still a lot of
Speaker 4: you know, yeah, yeah, no, that's deep rooted, but you
Speaker 4: know he's part of that where hey, that was a mistake.
Speaker 4: People agree with it. And I think you saw Vance
Speaker 4: almost get it to a full boil during that vice
Speaker 4: presidential debate with Walls, where Walls ended up agreeing with
Speaker 4: them because you know, they were talking about experts and experts,
Speaker 4: and it got Walls twisted up on that argument. So
Speaker 4: that's where Trump has been able to make inroads with
Speaker 4: that union vote, the working class, and younger voters. So
Speaker 4: that I think the other concern.
Speaker 14: Yeah, do you think it would have made a difference
Speaker 14: if Kamala Harris, Kamala Harris had picked Governor Shapiro of
Speaker 14: Pennsylvania or do you think this.
Speaker 13: Was this was baked in the cake.
Speaker 6: No.
Speaker 4: I think that would have been one event that could
Speaker 4: have helped. I think there was a series of mistakes
Speaker 4: that were made on the Harris side and the communication
Speaker 4: front that opened up or didn't know off enough opportunities
Speaker 4: for the campaign, and she had to play for that,
Speaker 4: including not accepting many debates when she initially entered into
Speaker 4: the race. And because of that, the whole campaign kind
Speaker 4: of falls flat in October because there's no events, there's
Speaker 4: no you know, focusing events to get the country looking
Speaker 4: at something. And with that said, Trump was in a
Speaker 4: strong spot. There's a reason why Joe Biden President Biden
Speaker 4: was he dropped from the race because he thought he
Speaker 4: wasn't gonna win.
Speaker 14: Spencer, you you, you and and Dave Paleologus and and
Speaker 14: John Zogby are the best, simply the best, the three
Speaker 14: of you.
Speaker 4: Thanks so much, my friend Dan, thank you so much
Speaker 4: for having me.
Speaker 14: Any time, anytime we will we'll do We'll do a
Speaker 14: postmarting on this sometime in the next week or so.
Speaker 14: Thanks so much. Spencer Kimball Emerson College poster. Extraordinary, extraordinary.
Speaker 14: That is it for me. But please stay with WBZ.
Speaker 14: We got great coverage into the early morning hours. This
Speaker 14: race is not officially over yet. Stay with us.