Speaker 1: Auditing the legislature. That is what question one is all about.
Speaker 1: And the Yes on one lead has been growing by
Speaker 1: the half hour. Now Yes on one supporting the audit
Speaker 1: of the legislature that is up seventy two to twenty
Speaker 1: eight percent. Question two of the question about ending the
Speaker 1: mcast requirement for high school graduation, about sixteen percent reporting here.
Speaker 1: Yes on two up sixty to forty percent. Ballot question
Speaker 1: three the question about giving rideshare drivers the right to unionize, Yes,
Speaker 1: vote holding fifty four to forty six. Interesting thing here
Speaker 1: because earlier the question on psychedelics Yes on four was
Speaker 1: leading and it became very close, and now that question
Speaker 1: is starting to shift. Now No on four is taking
Speaker 1: a lead fifty seven to forty three percent. And that's
Speaker 1: not five questions has it been.
Speaker 2: No But we do have one more and that wouldn't
Speaker 2: make fune two, three, four five. Wbz's jaw Left tells
Speaker 2: us more about what question five is about.
Speaker 3: Question five on the ballot asks if tipped workers should
Speaker 3: make an increasing wage up to the state minimum on
Speaker 3: top of gratuity. If Massachusetts voters ops know on this one,
Speaker 3: nothing changes to how they're paid. But if it is
Speaker 3: a yes, majority servers, bartenders, barbers, bell hops would all
Speaker 3: work their way up to fifteen bucks an hour over
Speaker 3: the course of five years. It would also open up
Speaker 3: the door to tip pooling, where gratuity can be shared
Speaker 3: with back end staff like cooks and cleaners, though that's
Speaker 3: only optional. Those in favor say the law would protect
Speaker 3: employees vulnerable to wage theft and exploitation by their bosses.
Speaker 3: Those against say all this really does is spell a
Speaker 3: pay cut to servers, arguing patrons will give less as
Speaker 3: a result, and Massachusetts already requires employers to cover the
Speaker 3: difference if it's a slow night for tips. J Willette WBZ,
Speaker 3: Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: As it stands right now, No. One five is taking
Speaker 2: a bigger lead, sixty five to thirty five percent. A
Speaker 2: victory lap for Senator Elizabeth Warren.
Speaker 4: Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2: Warren hung on in her Senate tour Senate seat after
Speaker 2: defeating Republican challenger John Deaton in a landslide today. She
Speaker 2: gave a victory speech just a short time ago.
Speaker 4: We have reminded people that government can be harnessed to
Speaker 4: work not just for the wealthy and well connected, but
Speaker 4: that we can actually make government work.
Speaker 5: For the people.
Speaker 2: This will be Warren's third term in office. Meantime, John
Speaker 2: Deaton says he called to congratulate Warren and offer his
Speaker 2: assistance if need be. After conceding, Daton spoke to supporters
Speaker 2: at Nash Bar on Tremont Street, saying he's proud of
Speaker 2: his campaign. Speaking with reporters, Daton says, the way we
Speaker 2: talk about politics needs to change on both sides of
Speaker 2: the political spectrum.
Speaker 6: I think both sides have shown that they're part of
Speaker 6: the problem.
Speaker 5: You know, we had an.
Speaker 6: American president almost have his head blown off on live TV,
Speaker 6: and the rhetoric still didn't go that it's his thought too,
Speaker 6: and it's on their faut.
Speaker 5: We've seen a president sitting president called truck supporters garbage.
Speaker 6: We just like we saw Hillary Clinton say deplorable, and
Speaker 6: we just got.
Speaker 5: To stop doing that.
Speaker 2: Deeden says the key is compromised now. Hampshire voters are
Speaker 2: deciding on the states two congressional seats, as well as
Speaker 2: who will be the next governor. WBZ Shery Small is
Speaker 2: here with the latest cherry.
Speaker 7: Ben Democrats in the lead so far in both congressional districts.
Speaker 7: The race in New Hampshire's first congressional district is between
Speaker 7: incumb and Democrat Chris Pappis and Republican Russell Prescott, with
Speaker 7: fifty five percent of the precincts reporting so far, Pappis
Speaker 7: has fifty five percent of the vote to Prescott's forty
Speaker 7: four percent. The race in New hampshire second congressional district
Speaker 7: is between Democrat Maggie Goodlander and Republican Lily Tang Williams,
Speaker 7: with forty six percent of the precincts reporting. In that race,
Speaker 7: Goodlander leading fifty six to forty three percent. Now for governor,
Speaker 7: it's a Republican canon to Kelly Ayot versus Democrat Joyce Craig. Aot,
Speaker 7: we can tell you has just thanked her supporters for
Speaker 7: a victory.
Speaker 8: Craig has conceded.
Speaker 7: But we have to say the AP has not yet
Speaker 7: called this race, but it's evident Aot is the Granite
Speaker 7: State's next governor.
Speaker 2: Ben Somebody's had to win, we know that much. We've
Speaker 2: got an update now on some of the numbers in
Speaker 2: the presidential race. Colorado has just called its race for
Speaker 2: Kamala Harrish. She has now won ten states and has
Speaker 2: one hundred and nine electoral votes. Former President Donald Trump
Speaker 2: has won seventeen states so far. He has one hundred
Speaker 2: and ninety eight electoral votes out of the two hundred
Speaker 2: and seventy electoral votes that are needed for victory. Josh
Speaker 2: Stein winning the gubernatorial race in North Carolina, he just
Speaker 2: thanked his supporters.
Speaker 9: Fundamentally, this campaign is about you and all of the
Speaker 9: young people of North Carolina. We want all of you
Speaker 9: to want to call North Carolina home the same way
Speaker 9: we do.
Speaker 2: Governor elect Stein. He won the race over in battled
Speaker 2: Republican incumbent Mark Robinson, whose campaign was dragged into the
Speaker 2: national limelight when reports surfaced about controversial comments he had
Speaker 2: allegedly made in the past. Those included comments in which
Speaker 2: Robinson literally called himself a black Nazi, as well as
Speaker 2: comments on a porn website. The White House says President
Speaker 2: Biden's already called to congratulate North Carolina's new governor elect.
Speaker 2: It is still too early to call the swing state
Speaker 2: of Georgia. It is right now leaning in Trump's direction,
Speaker 2: and CBS's Alison Keys tells us one voter block is
Speaker 2: turning out for the former president.
Speaker 8: Our polling shows fifty four percent of Independence. In Georgia
Speaker 8: went for Republican nominee Trump compared to forty three percent
Speaker 8: for Democrat Harris, but in North Carolina, the two candidates
Speaker 8: tied among independents who went for President Biden in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: President Biden had flipped the Peach state blue four years
Speaker 2: ago in route to winning the White House. All eyes, sir,
Speaker 2: on the outcome of this election day. There's been lots
Speaker 2: of drama, laws of frayed nerves. Americans, though, are not
Speaker 2: the only ones who are keeping a close eye on
Speaker 2: the polls. China's watching too.
Speaker 3: China has no official position but perverse stability, and I.
Speaker 2: Think that probably means Harris.
Speaker 3: A Trump presidency, of course, would mean tariffs that would
Speaker 3: further hurt a slow in Chinese economy and a potential
Speaker 3: trade war.
Speaker 2: And of course questions remain. I think about how far
Speaker 2: either candidate would support Taiwan. That is ABC's Ian Penell.
Speaker 2: You are listening to us WBZ for the election results tonight,
Speaker 2: and of course we thank you for that. If you
Speaker 2: happen to be in New York City, you could be
Speaker 2: watching the Empire State Building for the election results. Sort of.
Speaker 2: The building is decked out in red, white, and blue
Speaker 2: tonight and when it comes to results, if a swing
Speaker 2: state is called for Vice President Harris, the iconic building
Speaker 2: shines blue for five minutes. If a state is called
Speaker 2: for former President Trump, the lights are red for five minutes,
Speaker 2: And if, by chance, the race is called tonight, the
Speaker 2: building will shine either red or blue for the remainder
Speaker 2: of the evening. Keep it too to WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: Will keep you up to date throughout the evening, throughout
Speaker 2: the overnight hours, and of course first thing tomorrow morning
Speaker 2: with Jeff Brown as we continue to await all of
Speaker 2: the results of Election Day twenty twenty four.
Speaker 10: Now Night Side with Dan Ray, an election Night special
Speaker 10: on wb Z, Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 5: This is Dan Ray, and this is twenty twenty four.
Speaker 5: We won't have another one of these nights for four years.
Speaker 5: That's what makes the night special with me. Also, someone
Speaker 5: who makes the night special, Congressman Seth Moulton here from
Speaker 5: Massachusetts Congress and Moulton represents the sixth Congressional district up
Speaker 5: in the northeast corner of the state.
Speaker 2: Congress.
Speaker 5: Molton, welcome back to Nightside, Dan.
Speaker 11: You're very kind. It's great to be back with you.
Speaker 5: Well, I'm sure you've had a pretty easy night because you,
Speaker 5: along with foro of the other members of the delegation,
Speaker 5: are uncontested, and you now have been elected to Congress.
Speaker 5: This will start your sixth term. Time flies when you're
Speaker 5: having fun. Congressman, I would.
Speaker 11: Say, well, time does fly, and it's not always fun,
Speaker 11: but it does feel important right now with everything atake.
Speaker 12: No, but it's honestly, Dan, it's a question.
Speaker 11: I get a lot. It's success. Why do you put
Speaker 11: up with this? How do you keep doing this? How
Speaker 11: do you stay sane? I mean, this is my friends,
Speaker 11: you know, asking these questions and and my family, and
Speaker 11: I get it. I get the concern, but actually the
Speaker 11: craziness makes it feel to me like, you know, now
Speaker 11: more than ever, try to try to keep some sane
Speaker 11: heads in Washington.
Speaker 5: Maybe this would make you feel better. But good friends
Speaker 5: of mine will ask me the same thing about my job.
Speaker 5: They'll say, not put it that yours is a much
Speaker 5: more important job than mine. Let's talk about what's going
Speaker 5: on across the country tonight. I'm watching CNN, I'm watching
Speaker 5: a little bit of Fox, and it looks to me
Speaker 5: like this racist indeed going to be as tight as
Speaker 5: the pollsters predicted. So far, it seems to be falling
Speaker 5: a script and at some point, obviously there's going to
Speaker 5: be a break point here. It looks like a tennis
Speaker 5: match that's going five sets. What is your sense as
Speaker 5: you watch this tonight from you know, from from home?
Speaker 11: That's my sense exactly as well. And I've been on
Speaker 11: the ground in swing states. It's felt really close, felt
Speaker 11: really close. I was down in Arizona, it was down Pennsylvania.
Speaker 11: You know, It's it's felt very close over the last
Speaker 11: several weeks. And I don't think we're going to know
Speaker 11: the results tonight. I mean we might, we might wake
Speaker 11: up in the morning and know the results, but there's
Speaker 11: a really good chance that we won't actually know the
Speaker 11: final results for a few days. We'll just have to see.
Speaker 5: Is that because of the slow count that is expected
Speaker 5: in Pennsylvania, each state does they count a little differently?
Speaker 5: And because Pennsylvania is not only close, but it's also
Speaker 5: very meticulously accounted. Is that a fair assessment?
Speaker 2: That's right?
Speaker 11: And there are just different procedures for when mail in
Speaker 11: votes are counted. For example, some are not even opened
Speaker 11: until election day. Until it takes a long time to
Speaker 11: go through them. Other states count them in advance. Uh.
Speaker 11: You know, these are state by state election laws, and
Speaker 11: so it depends. I mean, I remember Arizona took a
Speaker 11: while to get called last time. Uh maybe it won't
Speaker 11: be as close this time. You know, we don't know,
Speaker 11: but but I just I think people need to be
Speaker 11: prepared for this fact that this could drag out. And
Speaker 11: what often happens is sometimes the late votes that come
Speaker 11: in are are heading in a different direction. I mean, I
Speaker 11: remember in my first race, all the small towns, places
Speaker 11: like West Newbury where I think that was the first
Speaker 11: town to call in. Uh, they counted their votes pretty quickly.
Speaker 11: It took a while for big cities like Lyn uh
Speaker 11: to get their votes in. And uh, you know, Lynn
Speaker 11: could completely change the.
Speaker 2: Election for me.
Speaker 11: So uh, this is this is something that that you
Speaker 11: get used to. But uh, I'll tell you, Dan, after
Speaker 11: after speaking with you, I'm going to bed.
Speaker 5: Well, I appreciate you staying up late. So I just
Speaker 5: got to ask a couple other questions. One, I'm sure
Speaker 5: you're monitoring this around the country. The Senate looks like
Speaker 5: it's going to flip to the Republicans because of Montana
Speaker 5: and West Virginia, maybe Ohio. The House could flip back
Speaker 5: to the Democrats. Do you get a sense as to
Speaker 5: what's going on? I mean this for you know, four
Speaker 5: hundred and thirty five, four hundred and thirty eight races
Speaker 5: around the country. I'm sure you can't put your well,
Speaker 5: you can't take the pulse in all of them. But
Speaker 5: what sort of a chance do the Democrats have of
Speaker 5: getting at least a House of Representatives back tonight to
Speaker 5: balance off whatever I think it's at the White House?
Speaker 11: Yeah, no, I think it's a good chance. But I
Speaker 11: think you've summarized it well, which is that we've known
Speaker 11: for frankly, for years now that this was going to
Speaker 11: be a tough year for Democrats in the Senate, just
Speaker 11: based on the races that they were up for re election.
Speaker 11: And you know, a lot a lot of people have
Speaker 11: been saying for a while that they thought Democrats have
Speaker 11: the House in the bag. I've never said that. I've
Speaker 11: always said I think the House will be closed. Let's
Speaker 11: not forget the Republicans are ahead right now in the House.
Speaker 11: They have control of the majority right now, so you know,
Speaker 11: we have to flip that. And on top of that,
Speaker 11: when you just look at how gerry mandering, something that
Speaker 11: you know originated here in Massachusetts, but screwing up elections
Speaker 11: across the country ever since. You know that that the
Speaker 11: current map, the current gerrymandered map across the country does
Speaker 11: favor Republicans. So there are a couple of things working
Speaker 11: against Democrats here. You know, I think insiders know that
Speaker 11: the Republican Congress in the House has been a disaster
Speaker 11: under Speaker Johnson. They can't seem to get anything done,
Speaker 11: can't get out of their own way, didn't even have
Speaker 11: a speaker for three weeks, the first time in American
Speaker 11: history that that's happened. But you know, these races are
Speaker 11: this has decided race by race right across the country,
Speaker 11: and people aren't always voting on just how you know
Speaker 11: a Republican and Speaker does. They're just looking at the
Speaker 11: candidates that are going to represent them. And I think
Speaker 11: when you go race by race, it's pretty close.
Speaker 5: To two final questions. One, if it goes against UH
Speaker 5: your party tonight, either at the House level or at
Speaker 5: the presidential level, is it time for a shakeup of
Speaker 5: leadership UH in the in the Democratic Party and specifically
Speaker 5: within within Congress. Has this been an an experiment that
Speaker 5: maybe the American people were not quite ready for. I'm
Speaker 5: not talking Minister the Harris campaign, and I'm talking about
Speaker 5: the last four years of Democratic leadership.
Speaker 11: Well, I think the question is what a shakeup looks
Speaker 11: like because I've always been one calling for, you know,
Speaker 11: new generation of leadership, new ideas.
Speaker 5: Asking the question is why I'm asking the.
Speaker 11: Question right, appealing to a broader, uh, swath of Americans. Right,
Speaker 11: we want to be the majority party. We've got to
Speaker 11: get a majority voters on our side. That should be
Speaker 11: pretty obvious. But I think that there will be some
Speaker 11: real time to step down and say, Okay, what exactly
Speaker 11: does that look like? Because you know, we did have
Speaker 11: a generational change going from Biden to Harris. I was
Speaker 11: the third in the House, in the whole Congress actually
Speaker 11: House or Senate to come out and say that needed
Speaker 11: to happen.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 11: On the on the other hand, it doesn't. I also advocated,
Speaker 11: UH for Harris breaking away more from Biden. I love Biden,
Speaker 11: she loves Biden. She's a grace. She was a great
Speaker 11: loyal vice president. But I think one thing she could
Speaker 11: have done differently in this campaign is said here's where
Speaker 11: I'm going to be different than the president. You know,
Speaker 11: I'm going to handle immigration differently, or I'm going to
Speaker 11: handle the economy differently. I think she should have been
Speaker 11: willing to will to break with the past a bit
Speaker 11: more we do have.
Speaker 5: She was asked that question, She was asked that question
Speaker 5: point blank, and she just didn't have an answer.
Speaker 11: I was shocked by that. Yeah, I think that I
Speaker 11: think she did. Go ahead, Well, I'm going to.
Speaker 5: Say that's a tough question for you on this one.
Speaker 5: We'll talk about a greater, greater depth. But I just
Speaker 5: want to no matter who wins or how this all
Speaker 5: shakes out, we need to come together as a country.
Speaker 5: And and I know that you share that thought with me.
Speaker 5: But just a few final comments on the need for
Speaker 5: us to get together as Americans and to put this this,
Speaker 5: this divide, this this really horrible divide behind us.
Speaker 11: We do need to come together. And the level of
Speaker 11: just sheer vitriol, the name calling, the the baseless disinformation,
Speaker 11: the attacks on our democracy itself, you know, saying that
Speaker 11: elections are rigged, claiming that Trump won the last election
Speaker 11: when he clearly did not, just making up facts and
Speaker 11: whatnot that has got to end because that undermines the
Speaker 11: principles of our democracy.
Speaker 5: You know what, congress Manhak, I hate to do this here,
Speaker 5: but I agree with you totally on that. And unfortunately
Speaker 5: I should have asked you such a technical question because
Speaker 5: we're flat out of time. But I want to have
Speaker 5: you back and let's let's explore this in greater length
Speaker 5: on another evening, if that's okay with you, because I
Speaker 5: think it's important to discuss. Seth Molton. Thank you so
Speaker 5: much for joining us tonight. Thank you for giving it
Speaker 5: very much. We'll talk so we will be back with
Speaker 5: more of our special election coverage here on nightside. We'll
Speaker 5: be talking with Governor Chris Sinunu of New Hampshire in
Speaker 5: the next half hour.
Speaker 10: Campaign twenty twenty four America votes. This is WBZ Boston's News.
Speaker 2: Radio sixty three degrees in Boston at ten thirty. Good evening.
Speaker 2: I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. New Hampshire elect's Republican
Speaker 2: Kelly Ayott for governor. WBZ Sherry Small is here with
Speaker 2: the latest on the election in the Granite State.
Speaker 7: Cherry replacing the outgoing Republican Governor Christ Nunu with Republican
Speaker 7: Kelly Aot. This was a hard fought race which has
Speaker 7: bombarded the television airwaves with contentious attack ads between the
Speaker 7: two candidates that went on for months. Aot defeating former
Speaker 7: Manchester Mayor Joyce Craig Tonight, Craig conceding and posting this
Speaker 7: message on X saying quote, I first got involved in
Speaker 7: public service when I ran for school board. I wanted
Speaker 7: to strengthen our public schools and uplift my community. I
Speaker 7: am proud of the race we ran focusing on these issues.
Speaker 7: I called Kelly Aot and wished her luck in leading
Speaker 7: our great state.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 7: Ayot had statewide name recognition going into this as a
Speaker 7: former one term senator and attorney general, and she also
Speaker 7: had the endorsement of Governor Sanunu all Right. As far
Speaker 7: as the two congressional district races, District one incumbent Democrat
Speaker 7: Chris pappis with a nearly ten point lead over Republican
Speaker 7: Russell Prescott right now, House District two Democrat Maggie Goodlander
Speaker 7: a solid eleven lead over Republican Lily Tang Williams. The
Speaker 7: AP has not yet called either of those races.
Speaker 2: Been all Right, Jerry Massachusetts senior senator declaring a re
Speaker 2: election victory to iwz's Madison Rogers. Is at the headquarters
Speaker 2: of the party tonight.
Speaker 13: Projections say it's going to be another six years in
Speaker 13: Washington for Senator Elizabeth Warren.
Speaker 4: We have reminded people that government can be harnessed to
Speaker 4: work not just for the wealthy and well connected, but
Speaker 4: that week can actually make government work for the people.
Speaker 13: Senator took the stage as her campaign and local Democrats celebrate.
Speaker 13: She outlined a top fight ahead and said in her
Speaker 13: third term she'll prioritize things like bringing down the cost
Speaker 13: of childcare and housing and restoring ropy Wade protections. It
Speaker 13: has still yet to be seen how in breached those
Speaker 13: goals are. The balance of power still teetering in Washington,
Speaker 13: Senator Warren telling the crowd it's going to be a
Speaker 13: long night, maybe a long week, but no matter what happens,
Speaker 13: she's ready for the fight ahead. In the South End,
Speaker 13: I'm Madison Rogers WVZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: And on Tremont Street, her Republican challenger, John Deaton, conceding
Speaker 2: alongside his supporters. He says it was an uphill battle
Speaker 2: going against an incumbent Warren, and that change takes time.
Speaker 6: I wish the race was more competitive than it was,
Speaker 6: but you know, something changed is hard.
Speaker 2: Afterward, Deaton spoke with reporters calling for an end to
Speaker 2: the inflammatory comments on both sides of the political aisle.
Speaker 5: I don't know when the word compromise became such a
Speaker 5: bad word, but you have to compromise when you're in
Speaker 5: a divide.
Speaker 2: A country, when Dedon says, he called Warren after the
Speaker 2: wind to congratulate her and to offer his support. Father
Speaker 2: of the nine Massachusetts members of Congress were unopposed today.
Speaker 2: Laurie Trahan, Jacob and Klauss, Katherine Clark, Seth Moulton, and
Speaker 2: Aana Presley had no challengers. In terms of those with
Speaker 2: a challenger. District one, Congressman Richard Neal wins his challenge
Speaker 2: from Independent Nadiam Millern. In District two, Jim McGovern up
Speaker 2: his challenger, while Stephen Lynch wins over Republican Robert Burke.
Speaker 2: Bill Keating is still in a battle with Dan Sullivan
Speaker 2: and District nine, though Keating has a pretty healthy lead
Speaker 2: so far. Ten thirty three, Let's get you caught up
Speaker 2: on traffic and weather together, the SUPERU retailers something new
Speaker 2: England all wheel drive traffic called the threes. Where would
Speaker 2: you like to go, Steve, Well, let's look.
Speaker 14: Downtown where as promised, and I'm sorry to report Bike
Speaker 14: East is down to one lane from commav through the
Speaker 14: Credential Tunnel. That's going to slow you down westbound work
Speaker 14: on the way. The deck to connect her and the
Speaker 14: Tobin are fine, so the Airport tunnel south of the
Speaker 14: city Route twenty four north reducing speed with a lane
Speaker 14: taken prior to Route one forty. No trouble on the
Speaker 14: expressway Route three north. The work crew in Duxbury at
Speaker 14: Route fourteen a brief slow down there, and then we
Speaker 14: have roadwork on four ninety five slowing things down just
Speaker 14: a bit. Southbound of Middleborough at Route twenty eight and
Speaker 14: then northbound past ninety five north of town Won.
Speaker 2: Twenty eight north.
Speaker 14: There was a crash and a work zone at Walnut
Speaker 14: Street in Lynnfield. The left lane still closed there for work.
Speaker 14: The crash is cleared, no longer jam, but it's still
Speaker 14: going to slow you down ninety three south to set
Speaker 14: up a spot pond, not a problem. Then you're at
Speaker 14: the speed limit with the left lane taken Roosevelt Circle
Speaker 14: to Route sixty four ninety five. Work crew delays both
Speaker 14: ways northbound at mass Ave and southbound and.
Speaker 2: Over at Route twenty eight.
Speaker 14: To the west on the Pike, work crews both ways
Speaker 14: by the Charlton Service Plaza slow you down on the
Speaker 14: westbound side four ninety five north under the speed limit
Speaker 14: with work between the Pike and Route nine. More delay
Speaker 14: southbound and Berlin at Route sixty two, and then the
Speaker 14: ramp to two ninety is closed on to ninety east.
Speaker 14: No trouble passing work in Worcester at Route nine. Steve
Speaker 14: PEREZWBZ twenty four hour traffic network.
Speaker 2: As we check the four day actually weather forecast, how
Speaker 2: about we just check a couple of days. Yeah, like tomorrow,
Speaker 2: it's going to be well into the seventies. We could
Speaker 2: break a record with sunshine will still be above normal
Speaker 2: as we head through the rest of the week.
Speaker 10: Your complete coverage of campaign twenty twenty four continues now
Speaker 10: on WBZ Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: Massachusetts voters had five ballot questions to consider along with
Speaker 2: all of the racists. Today, WBC's Nicole Davis is here
Speaker 2: and a little better idea about how some of these
Speaker 2: are shaking out, yeah, a.
Speaker 1: Little bit, Ben, But let's start this time with question two.
Speaker 1: That is the one, of course, about removing the MCASS
Speaker 1: as a graduation requirement. Now about twenty three percent of
Speaker 1: the results in Yes on two leads sixty to forty percent.
Speaker 1: It's been there for about an hour or so. Ballot
Speaker 1: question three, the question about giving rideshare drivers the right
Speaker 1: to form a union, about twenty two percent in now
Speaker 1: yes on three, winning by a closer margin now fifty
Speaker 1: four to forty six percent. The results on question four
Speaker 1: on psychedelics continuing now to diverge, not as close as
Speaker 1: it was right now about twenty two percent reporting No
Speaker 1: on four leads fifty seven to forty three percent. Now
Speaker 1: question five, that question about raising the minimum wage for
Speaker 1: tipped employees, No on five, leading the charge sixty five
Speaker 1: to thirty five percent. And of course we have one
Speaker 1: more question, Ben, and this one's about keeping Beacon Hill
Speaker 1: in check.
Speaker 2: The last question we're watching, Nicole, is actually the first
Speaker 2: one on the list. It's question one in wwz's Kyle
Speaker 2: Schaffle as if question.
Speaker 15: One in your ballot passes, it would greenlight a probe
Speaker 15: of Beacon Hill lawmakers by the state auditor. Auditor Diana
Speaker 15: Desaglio would be able to demand the state legislature turn
Speaker 15: over some internal documents, like spending receipts. She says the
Speaker 15: legislature keeps a lid on too much. It's been ranked
Speaker 15: timing again as one of the most secretive in the nation,
Speaker 15: and she says if they've got nothing to hide.
Speaker 2: They'd let her look at the books.
Speaker 15: Disauglio has been locked in a struggle with Beacon Hill
Speaker 15: power brokers over transparency since the early days of her career.
Speaker 15: Now it's all coming to a very public head. Opponents
Speaker 15: and Hill leaders say the ballot question is political grandstanding
Speaker 15: and that an audit from Desaglio violates the separation of powers.
Speaker 11: Even if the.
Speaker 15: Measure does pass, Attorney General Andrea Campbell isn't sure it's constitutional.
Speaker 15: A court battle is likely, and lawmakers could gut it
Speaker 15: or appeal it anyway. Kyle schaffeld WBZ, Boston Shoge Radio.
Speaker 2: Well, let's get you caught up on what's going on
Speaker 2: in the presidential race. Obviously, no winner declared yet, but
Speaker 2: in some states yes, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York,
Speaker 2: New Jersey, among the states that have gone for Kamala
Speaker 2: Harris tonight, while Florida, South Carolina, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama,
Speaker 2: Oklahoma all among the states that have gone for Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: Right now, the electoral College vote sits like this. Former
Speaker 2: President Trump with one hundred and ninety eight Kamala Harris
Speaker 2: with one hundred and twelve two hundred and seventy are
Speaker 2: needed to win the White House. ABC exit polls showing democracy,
Speaker 2: the economy, and abortion rights were among the issues at
Speaker 2: the top of America's minds as the last of the
Speaker 2: polls will eventually close across the country, ABC's Wick Johnson
Speaker 2: is at mar Lago where the former president is spending
Speaker 2: election night.
Speaker 16: There are a lot of young men in the audience here.
Speaker 16: I was at Madison Square Garden with that big rally
Speaker 16: there some twenty thousand people, and I spoke to a
Speaker 16: lot of these young men and asked them what it
Speaker 16: was about Donald Trump that appealed to that. Many of
Speaker 16: them either weren't old enough to vote before, or maybe
Speaker 16: didn't participate in politics in the past, but they were
Speaker 16: drawn to him for a variety of reasons. Immigration and
Speaker 16: the economy were a big part of it.
Speaker 2: A lot of these.
Speaker 16: Young men who feel like the the middle class American
Speaker 16: dream is difficult to achieve, difficult to reach. They felt
Speaker 16: like they could connect with Trump and he was the
Speaker 16: man who could help them get there.
Speaker 2: And former President Trump, as we told you, has already
Speaker 2: won the state of Florida. Meantime, the Harris campaign is
Speaker 2: convening at her alma mater, Howard University. Even though the
Speaker 2: former president has a lead in the electoral college and
Speaker 2: popular vote, the Vice President's hoping her work in the
Speaker 2: swing states like Nevada will help flip the tide where
Speaker 2: voters are concerned about the economy.
Speaker 17: The Harris campaign is well aware of all of those issues,
Speaker 17: especially in Nevada. It's why she unveiled her housing plan
Speaker 17: in that state. She knew that she had to hammer
Speaker 17: home the issue of the economy and make clear that
Speaker 17: that was going to be her top priority, that lowering
Speaker 17: the cost of groceries was going to be at her
Speaker 17: very first priority when she gets into office. You always
Speaker 17: said she would pass, if elected, this big economic package
Speaker 17: of bills to do just that. The question is whether
Speaker 17: that message got across and was enough.
Speaker 2: That is ABC's Mary Bruce the key swing state of
Speaker 2: Georgia still too close to call, even though about ninety
Speaker 2: percent of the votes there have already been tallied. ABC's
Speaker 2: Rick Kline with the latest numbers the.
Speaker 18: Atlanta metro area. We've seen a significant amount of vote
Speaker 18: in Fulton County. It's a place where Harris has to
Speaker 18: be winning big, and she is winning big, almost exactly,
Speaker 18: hitting her benchmark to cab County again, almost exactly at
Speaker 18: that number.
Speaker 2: In some of the.
Speaker 18: Outlying suburbs of Atlanta. Donald Trump doing very well. Gwinnette
Speaker 18: County is going to be very important. It's about eight
Speaker 18: nine percent of the entire state right now. Harris up
Speaker 18: about sixty forty there.
Speaker 2: And with just over ten percent of the vote still
Speaker 2: to be counted in Georgia, former President Trump holding a
Speaker 2: fifty one to forty eight percent margin a lead in Georgia.
Speaker 2: President Biden did flip the Peach state blue four years
Speaker 2: ago en route to his White House victory. Florida voters
Speaker 2: strike down a ballot measure aimed at loosening up the
Speaker 2: state's strict limits on reproductive rights.
Speaker 11: STARTA.
Speaker 19: Voters have rejected an abortion rights amendment and are keeping
Speaker 19: in place. Governor Ron DeSantis's six week ban. The initiative
Speaker 19: failed to get the sixty percent threshold required. The measure
Speaker 19: face an uphill battle in the deeply read state, were
Speaker 19: former President Donald Trump, a Florida resident, said during the
Speaker 19: campaign he would vote against the measure. About one fourth
Speaker 19: the voters have said abortion policy was the single most
Speaker 19: important factor for their vote. That's according to ap vote cast,
Speaker 19: a sweeping survey of more than one hundred and ten
Speaker 19: thousand voters nationwide.
Speaker 2: A'm Heyependwani Josh Stein wins North Carolina's scubernatorial race over
Speaker 2: in battled Republican incumbent Mark Robinson. Governor elect Stein touched
Speaker 2: on the state's battle to recover from Hurricane Helene in
Speaker 2: his victory speech.
Speaker 9: Our hearts are with the folks of western North Carolina
Speaker 9: who are still struggling Hurricane Helene swept in devastation, destruction,
Speaker 9: and darkness. But the goodness of North KILLINNY and shown
Speaker 9: through neighbors helping neighbors, people dropping everything to lend the hand.
Speaker 2: The White House, Todaight says President Biden has already made
Speaker 2: congratulatory calls to Governor elect Stein, the former attorney general
Speaker 2: beat out in common but who's been battling controversy ever
Speaker 2: since reports surfaced about scandalous comments he allegedly made in
Speaker 2: the past. Marijuana is a top issue in some states
Speaker 2: this selection day. Massachusetts legalized recreational pod in twenty sixteen,
Speaker 2: but this year's voters in Florida rejected a ballot measure
Speaker 2: to legalize recreational marijuana in their state. Voters in the
Speaker 2: Dakota's voted on similar measures. Those talies still too close
Speaker 2: to call. Meantime, in Nebraska, they're voting on whether or
Speaker 2: not to legalize medical cannabis. Nebraska is just one of
Speaker 2: six states where marijuana is still completely outlawed, even in
Speaker 2: medical settings. Many young Americans casting ballots for the first
Speaker 2: time in their lives this year. CBS is Allison Keys
Speaker 2: catching up with the first time voter.
Speaker 8: Eighteen year old Tim casts first ballot and says it's
Speaker 8: a big deal.
Speaker 11: I really feel like my voice is being heard, even
Speaker 11: though it's one vote.
Speaker 8: He was initially turned away from the polling place because
Speaker 8: he was wearing a Trump van's T shirt and political
Speaker 8: attire isn't allowed at the polls, but he is.
Speaker 2: Proud of Trump. I just I think he did better
Speaker 2: for a.
Speaker 8: And being from Texas, tem says.
Speaker 18: I really think the biggest thing for me is immigration.
Speaker 8: Allison Key CBS News.
Speaker 2: The FBI warning about fabricated videos promoting disinformation about voter
Speaker 2: fraud and threats to polling places. While experts say those
Speaker 2: fraudsters are pretending to be from the FBI, likely they
Speaker 2: were working for Russia. The FBI says fake videos made
Speaker 2: claims about the risk of violence and polling places even
Speaker 2: claimed voting machines we're switching ballots in favor of Vice
Speaker 2: President Kamala Harris. Experts say it's likely the work of
Speaker 2: Russian disinformation groups known for impersonating media organizations and US agencies.
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Speaker 5: Welcome back everyone. We had delighted to be joined by
Speaker 5: the Governor of the great State of New Hampshire, my hap,
Speaker 5: my personal favorite governor, Governor Chris Sonunu and Governor Sonunu,
Speaker 5: I want to wish you a happy birthday today.
Speaker 12: Happy birthday, Nah who cares. Yeah, we're not.
Speaker 5: We're not going to put the number on it. But
Speaker 5: this is a big one as I understand it.
Speaker 12: Okay, it's a big one. It's a big one, but
Speaker 12: it's really about a look at at the end of
Speaker 12: the day, this is a great night, great election in
Speaker 12: New Hampshire. It's all I really cared about. So the
Speaker 12: dust will settle in a few in a few days
Speaker 12: and I'll be like, oh crap, I have to buy
Speaker 12: reading glasses or something like that. But now I'm just celebrating,
Speaker 12: trying to Yeah.
Speaker 5: Remember you can go to CBS and Walgreens and they're
Speaker 5: like twenty bucks seaven just you can lose them and everything. Look,
Speaker 5: tell us about the governor up there money.
Speaker 12: I have to save the money for the ozembic.
Speaker 5: Uh. You you were all in on this race. I
Speaker 5: thought that the commercials that you did for Kelly A
Speaker 5: probably won her the election. You're not going to say that,
Speaker 5: but I'll say that, what was the margin of up
Speaker 5: there tonight? What do you expect the margin to be.
Speaker 12: I think it's gonna end up being four or five
Speaker 12: at least, it's definitely bigger. I won in twenty sixteen
Speaker 12: and then the last open race by two points, and
Speaker 12: that was like a landslide. So Kelly definitely outdid me
Speaker 12: in a lot of towns, which was just great to see.
Speaker 12: And more importantly, let me tell you how crazy it
Speaker 12: is because Trump did not do well up here, right,
Speaker 12: he didn't invest any money, he didn't invest any time.
Speaker 12: So to have an open race for governor that then
Speaker 12: outpaces the presidential ticket by ten points, that's incredible. I mean,
Speaker 12: it's really incredible that she was able to pull off
Speaker 12: such a strong win, and just at a testament to
Speaker 12: how she ran the message she ran. She didn't talk
Speaker 12: about things that the party wanted or she wanted. She
Speaker 12: talked about things that the voters wanted. And that's a
Speaker 12: huge fundamental difference between her and her opponent. Her opponent
Speaker 12: just kind of ran this big, negative, anti party message
Speaker 12: all on on abortion and reproductive rates. Important issue, fine,
Speaker 12: but not an issue for us. You're not a top
Speaker 12: priority in here. It's not really a problem in New Hampshire.
Speaker 12: So it was a hugely flawed uh strategy on their part.
Speaker 12: But you know, at the end of the day, Kelly
Speaker 12: was just a not just a better candidate, but a
Speaker 12: better connector to the people on the ground.
Speaker 5: Again, I want to come back. It was a spot
Speaker 5: that you did, which I know you pretty well, and
Speaker 5: I thought, you know you you connected. You looked in
Speaker 5: that camera and you kind of smiled at people and
Speaker 5: said the New Hampshire Way, and it connected. I do
Speaker 5: not understand by the way the ad that she did
Speaker 5: with her husband. I thought that was embarrassing, but that's
Speaker 5: but I guess you.
Speaker 12: Know, people love that ad. It's the number one respond
Speaker 12: to that. Yeah, people people thought it was normal. I
Speaker 12: don't know. People thought it was normal and silly enough.
Speaker 12: So I don't know.
Speaker 5: Talked about her snoring. It was what what is he
Speaker 5: gonna say next? It was like it was terrified, terrifying.
Speaker 5: Let's talk about the national race. I am uh to
Speaker 5: see where this seems to be trending tonight. What is
Speaker 5: your take on this?
Speaker 12: Yeah? No, I mean, look, I've always thought, I really
Speaker 12: do believe in the last month, especially that Trump was
Speaker 12: going to win. I think this is what's going to happen.
Speaker 12: I've said it for a while and maybe I'm right,
Speaker 12: Maven wrong, but I think Trump is going to do
Speaker 12: better than everybody thought. It's going to be close. I
Speaker 12: don't I think he's going to declare victory. I don't
Speaker 12: think Kamala is going to concede. I think you're gonna
Speaker 12: have recounts for a couple of days and you know,
Speaker 12: getting these last townsend votes in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, in But
Speaker 12: at the end of the day, whether it's a couple
Speaker 12: of days from now or a week from now, I
Speaker 12: think that the Harris campaign is going to have to
Speaker 12: fold it up. And it's not they kept looking at polls.
Speaker 12: The difference is it's not the polls. It's the non
Speaker 12: poll data. It's the early ballots. It's the lead the
Speaker 12: Democrats thought they would have in the early voting states
Speaker 12: that they just didn't have. It's the fact that Trump
Speaker 12: is going to get. This guy's going to get a
Speaker 12: bigger vote for a presidential candidate than ever before from
Speaker 12: Latinos in African Americans. Right, So he's going to be
Speaker 12: the most popular presidential Republican presidential kendidate for Latino and
Speaker 12: African American voters in history that's hard to overcome. And
Speaker 12: so there's all these kind of things that aren't spoken
Speaker 12: about in the general media. They just look at these
Speaker 12: big national poll numbers. But on the ground, this is
Speaker 12: where it is. And Trump voters tend to keep everything
Speaker 12: close to the vest that we always know that they
Speaker 12: come out of the woodwork at the last minute. The
Speaker 12: Democrat message nationally has been you better vote for Kamala
Speaker 12: or else you don't believe in democracy. It's like a
Speaker 12: shaming type thing they were doing. That's not a way
Speaker 12: to earn people's trust. And so what that drives is
Speaker 12: a false narrative. On the polls. People say, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 12: I'm going to vote for Kamlay, just stop yelling at me.
Speaker 12: But at the end of the day, they're going to
Speaker 12: vote for what they think is in the best in
Speaker 12: their family's interests. And they might not like Trump, they
Speaker 12: might not like his personality, but they want a fundamental
Speaker 12: change in administration and culture down in DC.
Speaker 5: Well, I think you and I are pretty close philosophically,
Speaker 5: and I think in terms of what we feel about
Speaker 5: President Trump. I never had president President Trump maybe future
Speaker 5: President Trump on the show, and it's amazing to me
Speaker 5: as somebody who's covered presidential elections literally going back to
Speaker 5: nineteen seventy six and having interviewed Gerald Ford and Jimmy
Speaker 5: Carter as a young reporter, and having obviously the Reagan
Speaker 5: years and then the Bush years, and there was always
Speaker 5: reach out to minority groups that Jack Kemp used to
Speaker 5: try to do that and did it pretty successfully. But
Speaker 5: he was always that minority voice within the Republican Party
Speaker 5: that there are people in groups that have traditionally been
Speaker 5: Democratic who can identify with a Republican message. And Donald
Speaker 5: Trump above all was able to deliver that message, which
Speaker 5: again it's stunning, and it's also stunning to think that
Speaker 5: this guy who lost with such a lack of grace
Speaker 5: was able to somehow bring himself back through indictments. I mean,
Speaker 5: he put it all on the credible.
Speaker 12: I mean, it's incredible. It's it's an internet.
Speaker 5: Look.
Speaker 12: I was over in Dublin on a trade mission recently,
Speaker 12: and then I was in Greece doing something for a
Speaker 12: robotics program for education and Europe. People don't realize Europe
Speaker 12: right now is absolutely one hundred and fifty percent glued
Speaker 12: to this and they have been for the last six months,
Speaker 12: they are fascinated with what's happening here to the point
Speaker 12: that you just made, because you have somebody like Trump
Speaker 12: who's gone through all this turmoil and all this craziness
Speaker 12: and all the crazy things he says, and the indictments
Speaker 12: and all this stuff, and now it looks like he's
Speaker 12: actually going to win again, and he's again his I think,
Speaker 12: as everybody gets now, he's not connecting with people on
Speaker 12: a policy or if he connects with people with an attitude,
Speaker 12: with a pride in America, with a toughness, with I'm
Speaker 12: going to fight. You know, we're Americans. We got that
Speaker 12: in our DNA.
Speaker 11: A little bit.
Speaker 12: And I think too often the politicians go, well, this
Speaker 12: policy will help you, so you should vote for me
Speaker 12: because I'm going to help you, as opposed to kind
Speaker 12: of thinking a little broader and understanding what the DA
Speaker 12: and a of a free market American is all about.
Speaker 12: And there's something there that Trump connects with, and there's
Speaker 12: just no denying it.
Speaker 5: I follow some of the betting pools in Europe and
Speaker 5: have watched them intense interest in this race with the
Speaker 5: bookies on in London. I was stunned that he did
Speaker 5: not invite Nicki Haley to come out on the campaign
Speaker 5: trail with him, and I almost felt that he would
Speaker 5: have preferred to have lost the White House and all
Speaker 5: the implications of that, rather than share any any glory
Speaker 5: with with anyone other than himself. Am I reading that wrong?
Speaker 12: Well, I'll say this, I don't think he was willing
Speaker 12: to lose. I think the numbers just showed that the
Speaker 12: vast majority of Nicki voters were already with them, right.
Speaker 12: They were good, they were Republican voters. They like me,
Speaker 12: They wanted to change, they wanted the next generation. They
Speaker 12: fought hard for it. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 12: we're not voting for this insanity that Kamala was when
Speaker 12: and the and the buying campaign were bringing. And more importantly,
Speaker 12: I go to the statement, I say it a lot
Speaker 12: that a couple of the interviews she did in one week,
Speaker 12: she did like three straight interviews, but she was asked,
Speaker 12: what is going to be different? Like softballs, like the
Speaker 12: number one question. You should have been really prepared to
Speaker 12: answer back in July, Well, I can't. Nothing comes to mind.
Speaker 12: You want to be the leader of the free world,
Speaker 12: and nothing comes to mind about what you're going to
Speaker 12: do different. It was a mind bogglingly bad answer, and
Speaker 12: right at that point, combined with the vice presidential debate, which,
Speaker 12: believe it or not, I do think I had an impact.
Speaker 12: I think people were told yeah, and I think people
Speaker 12: were told that jd Vance was, you know, wacky and
Speaker 12: all this stuff, and he came up measured, incredibly smart, cordial,
Speaker 12: clearly willing to walk work across the aisle, not vindictive,
Speaker 12: and they said, Okay, this is the future of the
Speaker 12: Republican Party that we're voting for. We can buy into this.
Speaker 12: So it was a combination of things that were Kamala
Speaker 12: just really blew it. And so because they there was
Speaker 12: no there there, it was kind of an empty suit.
Speaker 12: And so again, the race isn't over. We'll see where
Speaker 12: all this goes. But sure, I think people like to
Speaker 12: your point, I think we're all pretty surprised. I got
Speaker 12: this close anyways, And now it looks like he's going
Speaker 12: to win Virginia. Some of these states that should have
Speaker 12: been walkaways for Kamala are are are being challenged.
Speaker 5: So I wonder what Joe Biden and Joe Biden are
Speaker 5: saying tonight in the Lincoln bedroom.
Speaker 12: You know, look my guess is they're more upset that
Speaker 12: Trump is winning than Kamala is losing.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 12: I really believe that. Look, I have said all along,
Speaker 12: the first person voting for Donald Trump was Gavin Newsom
Speaker 12: in California, because that guy's if Kamala had won, that
Speaker 12: guy's political career was over right. I mean, it means
Speaker 12: you can't run for president for eight years, that no
Speaker 12: one's going to care about him in eight year.
Speaker 5: So what we do, what we do know is there
Speaker 5: would be a different, a different Republican running in two
Speaker 5: thousand and twenty eight. Maybe it'll be Chris Soner and
Speaker 5: we'll say, hey, Chris, thanks so much again, happy birthday,
Speaker 5: and thanks so much.
Speaker 12: Thank you brother, everybody, so good night.
Speaker 5: When we get back on the other side, during the
Speaker 5: eleven o'clock news, we talk with the Tom O'Neill, the
Speaker 5: son of a former lieutenant governor, son of Tip O'Neil,
Speaker 5: as well as Polster Spencer Kimball. Stay with WBZ folks
Speaker 5: throughout the night,