Speaker 1: By this hyper partisanship and divisive rhetoric. I wish the
Speaker 1: race was more competitive than it was, but you know,
Speaker 1: something changed is hard. I saw a card recently that
Speaker 1: said hope has been described as a small rebellion, and so.
Speaker 2: Change takes time.
Speaker 1: You know, winning over an incumbent who has a lot
Speaker 1: more money than you is hard enough. But when you
Speaker 1: have a primary and then there's nine weeks only after
Speaker 1: that primary, for a candidate that doesn't have a lot
Speaker 1: of name recognition, it can be an uphill battle.
Speaker 2: I knew that from the beginning. You know.
Speaker 1: This system we have, it's very incumbent friendly. I was
Speaker 1: with Bernie Marino and I hope Bernie Marino wins in
Speaker 1: Ohio and we get rid of shared Brown. And Bernie
Speaker 1: was shocked when it was in June.
Speaker 2: He goes, what do you mean you still got a primary.
Speaker 1: I said, yeah, we got primary in September, September third,
Speaker 1: because that gives you like two months and I said yeah.
Speaker 2: He goes, I don't know if I would do it,
Speaker 2: and so but it's worth doing.
Speaker 1: It because change takes time. But we need change in
Speaker 1: this state.
Speaker 3: All right, Well that was John Deaton speaking there conceding
Speaker 3: the race to Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren, who has just
Speaker 3: won her third term in Washington. We're going to do
Speaker 3: a little bit of a m CAST ballot questions now
Speaker 3: for you. There were five ballot questions on the ballot
Speaker 3: today in Massachusetts. In fact, several communities had a sixth
Speaker 3: and or seventh question that they had to deal with.
Speaker 3: But one of the questions in Massachusetts had to do
Speaker 3: with the future of the m CAST some of the buses.
Speaker 3: Brook mccarthury takes a look right now.
Speaker 4: It's something all tenth graders need to take to graduate,
Speaker 4: the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessments some tests better known as mcasts.
Speaker 4: But on the ballot is Question two, which would eliminate
Speaker 4: MCAST as a high school graduation requirement. If Question two
Speaker 4: does pass, students would still need to take the MCAST exams,
Speaker 4: but they would no longer need to get a passing score. Instead,
Speaker 4: the over three hundred school districts across the state would
Speaker 4: set their own criteria for graduation. This would make Massachusetts
Speaker 4: one of just a handful of states without a common
Speaker 4: graduation standard. Those in favor of Question two say this
Speaker 4: would give all students the opportunity to thrive and reach
Speaker 4: their full potential because some don't get their diploma because
Speaker 4: of it. Those against Question two argue it's unfair and
Speaker 4: it's not right to grant diplomas to kids that aren't
Speaker 4: ready to graduate. Less than one percent of high school
Speaker 4: seniors don't get their diploma because of the mcast Brooke
Speaker 4: McCarthy WBZ, Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 3: We don't want to catch you up on some of
Speaker 3: the results that perhaps you have missed so far today.
Speaker 3: More polls have been closing at nine o'clock tonight. But
Speaker 3: in the presidential race across the country, Kamala Harris, as expected,
Speaker 3: has taken much of New England. New Hampshire undecided right now,
Speaker 3: and so is Maine. But the vice president has won Vermont,
Speaker 3: in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Ed Rhode Island, as well as New York,
Speaker 3: New Jersey and several other states. She has ninety nine
Speaker 3: electoral votes right now. She has just picked up Ohio
Speaker 3: as well. We are also looking at Donald Trump has
Speaker 3: picked up Ohio. I should say here one hundred and
Speaker 3: thirty seven electoral votes right now. He won Florida earlier,
Speaker 3: as well as Tennessee in Arkansas and Oklahoma and several
Speaker 3: other states. So we're watching the presidential race for you
Speaker 3: throughout the evening. We'll continue to keep you posted. Several
Speaker 3: college campuses reported long waits at their polling places today.
Speaker 3: ABC political consultant Steve Roberts says this apparent high turnout
Speaker 3: is a break in tradition from the way young people
Speaker 3: usually vote.
Speaker 5: Young people have always been a very important element and
Speaker 5: democratic coalition, but also a very uncertain element. Young people
Speaker 5: just don't vote in the numbers that older people for
Speaker 5: obvious reasons. They're more mobile, they don't have the vested
Speaker 5: interest in schools and taxes and street improvements, all the
Speaker 5: things that tether their parents and grandparents to their communities
Speaker 5: and incentivize them to vote. But when they do get
Speaker 5: organized and they do get energized, they can be an
Speaker 5: important factor.
Speaker 3: In several colleges across the country, in fact, let their
Speaker 3: students take the day off to vote. It includes Tofts, U,
Speaker 3: mass Amherst, and Suffolk University. Senate control is up for
Speaker 3: grabs this time around, and the nation has its eyes
Speaker 3: on several key races that could flip the Senate. In Massachusetts,
Speaker 3: We've told you Elizabeth Warren held on to Hurst Senate seat.
Speaker 3: WBC's Emma Friedman is here with Moron. What else is
Speaker 3: up for grabs, Emma Ben.
Speaker 6: There's thirty four Senate seats up, but nine of the
Speaker 6: most competitive races could ultimately decide the balance of power
Speaker 6: in the chambers. Senate races in Montana, Ohio, Michigan, Arizona,
Speaker 6: and Pennsylvania could shake up the democrats current slim majority.
Speaker 6: One major upset already. Republican Jim Justice has won in
Speaker 6: West Virginia, flipping the seat that was held by Senator
Speaker 6: Joe Manchin, and results are coming in in New England.
Speaker 6: Bernie Sanders wins Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut. Incumbent senators also
Speaker 6: hold on to their seats. It is still early, but
Speaker 6: we are getting election results pouring in here. We will
Speaker 6: keep you up to date with the latest coverage.
Speaker 3: Back to you, Ben, all right, Still too early to
Speaker 3: call the key swing state of Georgia right now. It's
Speaker 3: leaning in Donald Trump's direction, but one voter block is
Speaker 3: turning things in that direction.
Speaker 7: Our polling shows fifty four percent of independence in Georgia
Speaker 7: went for Republican nominee Trump, compared to forty three percent
Speaker 7: for Democrat Harris, but in North Carolina, the two candidates
Speaker 7: tied among independents who went for President Biden in twenty twenty.
Speaker 3: President Biden flipped the Peach state blue four years ago
Speaker 3: in rout too, winning the White House. Many voters who
Speaker 3: headed to the polls today felt like their votes carried
Speaker 3: a little extra weight this time around. WBC's Hyle Shaffle
Speaker 3: caught up with some of them.
Speaker 8: For so many of the voters I talked to, this
Speaker 8: is not just a humdrum election. It's the big one.
Speaker 9: It's probably the most input an election that I can
Speaker 9: remember in my entire.
Speaker 3: Lifetime, your entire lifetime.
Speaker 2: And I'm old, I'm seventy two.
Speaker 8: That was the general sentiment among voters at a West
Speaker 8: Roxbury polling station. Absolutely incredibly important election.
Speaker 7: Oh absolutely, this is a hugely important election.
Speaker 8: That sense of urgency maybe what drove people to the polls.
Speaker 8: With election workers telling me they had a steady poor
Speaker 8: of voters all day.
Speaker 10: I will tell you that I'm absolutely thrilled to see
Speaker 10: how many people have come out to vote.
Speaker 3: It has been amazing.
Speaker 8: To put things in perspective. People were so motivated to
Speaker 8: vote this time. More than a third of all registered
Speaker 8: Massachusetts voters cast a ballot early this year. Kyle Shaffeld
Speaker 8: to be Busy Boss's Radio.
Speaker 3: It's still a long way to go before we know
Speaker 3: who has won the White House. But if former President
Speaker 3: Donald Trump does win this time around to do something
Speaker 3: that hasn't been done since the late eighteen hundreds, become
Speaker 3: president for a second non consecutive term. The first and
Speaker 3: only time it was done, Grover Cleveland turned the trick,
Speaker 3: elected as the twenty second and then again the twenty
Speaker 3: fourth president in the late eighteen hundreds. Cleveland's loss in
Speaker 3: eighteen eighty eight featured in winning the popular vote, but
Speaker 3: he lost with fewer electoral votes. The iconic Empire State
Speaker 3: Buildings getting in on the election results this year. The
Speaker 3: building decked out in red, white, and blue when it
Speaker 3: comes to results. If a swing state is called for
Speaker 3: Vice President Harris, the building will shine blue for five minutes.
Speaker 3: A state called for former President Trump, the building will
Speaker 3: light up in red for five minutes, and if the
Speaker 3: race is called tonight, the building will shine either red
Speaker 3: or blue for the rest of the evening. We will
Speaker 3: be bringing you election results throughout the evening here on WBZ.
Speaker 3: Don't forget. You can always hear us streaming on the
Speaker 3: iHeartRadio app. More results and more of Dan Ray and
Speaker 3: Nightside coming up in just a couple of minutes. Here
Speaker 3: on WBZ, I'm Ben Parker.
Speaker 11: Nightside with Dan Ray, Election Night in America, WBZ, Boston's
Speaker 11: news Radio.
Speaker 10: Well back at you here on a very important night.
Speaker 10: My name is Dan Ray, the host of Nightside. Have
Speaker 10: the honor tonight to talk to several guests who are
Speaker 10: people who are well steeped in the tradition of Massachusetts politics,
Speaker 10: and none more steep than my next guest, Former Congressman
Speaker 10: Mike Capaano. Mike Capaano, Welcome back to Night'side. Always good
Speaker 10: to have you on, particularly on an election night.
Speaker 9: I love talking to idian.
Speaker 10: So on a night like tonight, You've been through what
Speaker 10: uh ten or so elections to Congress, you were the
Speaker 10: mayor of Somerville. Do the juices still float? Is the
Speaker 10: adrenaline flow as you're watching this? Are you like, you
Speaker 10: know the former guy that you know played in the
Speaker 10: NFL or the major leagues who still gets excited about
Speaker 10: watching NFL on Sunday or a Major League Baseball at
Speaker 10: a World Series in playoff.
Speaker 9: Time significantly less than you might think. I mean, really,
Speaker 9: you're in the ring so long you kind of get tired.
Speaker 9: And I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm desperately interested
Speaker 9: in the outcome of this election, but the juices are
Speaker 9: really interested in the outcome, not so much the game
Speaker 9: so much anymore.
Speaker 10: Okay, Now, I know that you were never, in any way,
Speaker 10: shape or form a big fan of Donald Trump. Can
Speaker 10: you explain to me from your perspective, how, after all
Speaker 10: that he has been through that he's still standing. I mean,
Speaker 10: this is a guy, you know, ben impeached, been indicted,
Speaker 10: been shot.
Speaker 2: At all of this.
Speaker 9: Most everybody around.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 10: I don't know if he's personally insulted you or not.
Speaker 10: But I've never had the honor of having him on
Speaker 10: my show, and I've always been convinced that he can
Speaker 10: win the Republican nomination if he wanted it. But I
Speaker 10: don't know that he can win tonight, And of course
Speaker 10: we'll know that he's the only Republican.
Speaker 9: I think he's the only Republican we can beat at
Speaker 9: this point in time. I think the Democratic label is
Speaker 9: a little bit damage at the moment on a national scale.
Speaker 9: But I think Donald Trump himself has significantly damaged on
Speaker 9: a national scale. So we'll see. It's is very It's
Speaker 9: gonna be an interesting election. I think I don't know
Speaker 9: too many people who are terribly excited to vote for somebody.
Speaker 9: A lot of people I know voting against somebody.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I said, a friend of mine looked for my
Speaker 10: predictions today, and I simply paraphrased Rick Patino and sent
Speaker 10: back a text that said, Jack Kennedy and Ronald Reagan
Speaker 10: are not through not walking through that door anytime soon.
Speaker 10: Uh and and you long for the day of that.
Speaker 10: How much of a mistake. And it has to have
Speaker 10: been a tremendous mistake for for former President Trump not
Speaker 10: to invite Nikki Haley out on.
Speaker 9: US trail with him. I mean, really, I don't get it.
Speaker 9: It's almost political malepractice, you know, like an I know
Speaker 9: she's said some tough things about him, But in publitical business,
Speaker 9: you're supposed to have a thick skin. You're supposed to
Speaker 9: understand that when the campaign's out there, it's like it's
Speaker 9: like a contest on a football field. Nobody goes out
Speaker 9: there and gives half half a loaf. They give everything
Speaker 9: they got, including against their best friend, and once the
Speaker 9: game is over, you shake hands, move on, you know,
Speaker 9: and you get on the maybe on the same team
Speaker 9: next year. But all that being said, I couldn't agree
Speaker 9: with you more. It's a huge mistake not to have
Speaker 9: reached out to her. Don't get me wrong, He's a
Speaker 9: good Democrat. I'm glad he made that mistake.
Speaker 10: Yeah, and there were others. I don't think that he
Speaker 10: campaigned with DeSantis or Rubio or many others.
Speaker 9: It almost my knowledge.
Speaker 10: It's almost seems to me that given a choice between
Speaker 10: winning with the help of say Nikki Haley, or realizing
Speaker 10: that he would lose, that he almost would prefer to
Speaker 10: lose then to have to share any credit for a win.
Speaker 10: And that to me is I'd like to talk to
Speaker 10: some psychologists a psychiatrist about that decision, who might have
Speaker 10: a minor.
Speaker 9: In two he might he governed that way as well.
Speaker 9: He didn't govern He governed by browbeating his Republican friends
Speaker 9: and totally ignoring Democrats. You know, that's he did that
Speaker 9: for four years. And that's one of the reasons you asked.
Speaker 9: In my opinion, he didn't show any of the business
Speaker 9: acumen of trying to work with people at all other
Speaker 9: than people who agree with him. And I don't think
Speaker 9: there's a successful businessman in the world who hasn't learned
Speaker 9: how to work with other.
Speaker 2: People, including competitors.
Speaker 9: Especially competitors. Now me, you compete when you compete, but
Speaker 9: then you try to get on the same side if
Speaker 9: you can. It's a game of addition, just like life.
Speaker 9: It's not a game of division.
Speaker 2: It just isn't that he assuming that.
Speaker 10: He were to win tonight, and I'm not making that assumption.
Speaker 10: But if he were to win tonight, do you think
Speaker 10: he will govern any differently in a second term?
Speaker 9: No, I think I personally think it'll be worse. I
Speaker 9: think he will have vindicated himself. Everything I have said,
Speaker 9: everything I have done, has now been vindicated, so I
Speaker 9: will do whatever I want to do. I think it
Speaker 9: will be worse than the first two.
Speaker 10: It's it's it's it's an interesting night. It's a fascinating night.
Speaker 10: I hope that when this is over, whoever wins, everyone
Speaker 10: at least gives them a chance to do the right thing,
Speaker 10: even if in the case of Donald Trump it's probably
Speaker 10: not likely. But I hope that whoever wins, you and
Speaker 10: I both can say well, that person is our president
Speaker 10: until they start.
Speaker 9: To stir up back right from your lips to Gazias,
Speaker 9: I totally agree. And you know, it's just the country
Speaker 9: is too divided. It's too there's too much animosity out there.
Speaker 9: And again, I've been in lots of street fights politically,
Speaker 9: and you know, fine, but I've also made friends as
Speaker 9: we go along, some people that I'm probably with today
Speaker 9: that I never would have thought I was friendly with
Speaker 9: thirty years ago. Why because things change, different issues come up,
Speaker 9: you work together, you realize, Okay, they're not so bad,
Speaker 9: and maybe I can be with them the next time.
Speaker 9: It's again, it's life, and I just I hope you're
Speaker 9: one hundred percent right. I pray to God you are.
Speaker 9: I think the country really needs it.
Speaker 10: You know, in another time and in another place, you
Speaker 10: were considered sort of the Democratic firebrand.
Speaker 2: There were some comments.
Speaker 10: That you and I don't have to recall that you
Speaker 10: made at rallies, which some of the Democrats will say, hey,
Speaker 10: can you keep it down a little bit, But today
Speaker 10: you would be considered a moderate Democrat within the contest
Speaker 10: of the National Democratic Party. How tough is that?
Speaker 9: It's again, I think it's one of the reasons the
Speaker 9: Democratic Party is struggling a little bit. I don't think
Speaker 9: we should be, but I think we are because of
Speaker 9: things like that. We have radicals in the party as well.
Speaker 9: Many of them are activists in the party, just like
Speaker 9: the Republican Party. And there are a lot of moderate
Speaker 9: regular people just going ahead a dated basis, try to
Speaker 9: make a living, try to make ends meet, and they
Speaker 9: want to be on the Democratic side. But they look
Speaker 9: around and they see some of the things that they
Speaker 9: just don't want to hear about. You know. They don't
Speaker 9: want to be told, you know, what kind of a
Speaker 9: neighborhood they have to live in. They don't want to
Speaker 9: be told they have to be a needle exchange or
Speaker 9: whatever it might be next to their own house, you know,
Speaker 9: and they don't want to hear it, so that you
Speaker 9: know there And my problem is that there are too
Speaker 9: many politicians who refuse to then go out and actually
Speaker 9: solicit and listen to the opinions of others. There's always
Speaker 9: some issues where a politician is going to have to say, look,
Speaker 9: I love and respect my constituents, but on this issue,
Speaker 9: it's a moral issue to me, I have to do X.
Speaker 9: But we're supposed to represent the people that we that
Speaker 9: elect us, and sometimes that means you do things that
Speaker 9: maybe you don't personally share one hundred percent, but that's
Speaker 9: what the job is, at least I think that's what
Speaker 9: the job is.
Speaker 10: Well, you did the job for a long time, and
Speaker 10: you did really well, and you're a Democrat that certainly
Speaker 10: had the respect at the time, and you still will
Speaker 10: have the respect and you are always welcome here at nightside.
Speaker 10: Mike Capawano, I want you to get back in the game. Thanks,
Speaker 10: thanks so much, my friend. Okay, we will talk again,
Speaker 10: and we'll talk soon. Thank you, Mike, say aha to
Speaker 10: Boubra form. We have Elizabeth Warren would be speaking pretty soon,
Speaker 10: so stay with us and we have more guests coming
Speaker 10: up and more program on this special election night twenty
Speaker 10: twenty four coverage.
Speaker 11: If you're listening to comprehensive coverage of the twenty twenty
Speaker 11: four election on New England's news leader WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 12: Campaign without money from corporate superpacks, we prove them wrong
Speaker 12: again and we financed our campaigns from the grassroots. Even
Speaker 12: more experts and insiders said, okay, you won, but progress
Speaker 12: will be slow to impossible, so go small but together
Speaker 12: we demonstrated that we.
Speaker 13: Can make change, big change.
Speaker 12: And here's where early gets to be fun. We beat
Speaker 12: big Pharma and now we have thirty five dollars insulin. Yeah,
Speaker 12: we've capped out of pocket prescription drug costs of Medicare
Speaker 12: can now negotiate lower drug prices.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 12: We beat big oil and pass the most ambitious climate
Speaker 12: legislation in history. Oh and better yet, we paid for
Speaker 12: it with my plan for a minimum tax on billionaire corporations.
Speaker 12: And now Amazon and other billionaire corporations are paying for
Speaker 12: our investments in a greener, cleaner America. We beat the
Speaker 12: big banks on Wall Street, and we cracked down on
Speaker 12: overdraft and jump fees. I led the charge to create
Speaker 12: the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau GHOSTS, and now with a
Speaker 12: cop on the beat, big banks have been forced to
Speaker 12: return more than twenty billion dollars directly to consumers. They
Speaker 12: cheated that CFPB has survived every attack, and I got
Speaker 12: news for Wall Street. The CFPB is here to stay.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 12: We got billions of dollars for roads, bridges, broadband, Cape,
Speaker 12: Codbridge's East West Rail, and enough help so that even
Speaker 12: when our economy was hit by COVID. Massachusetts towns didn't
Speaker 12: have to lay off a single teacher, firefighter, police officer, librarian,
Speaker 12: town clerk, or anyone.
Speaker 8: Else who served our communities.
Speaker 12: And Lord, we need to do more, but make no mistake,
Speaker 12: every one of these accomplishments is living proof that we
Speaker 12: can make government work for people.
Speaker 3: Senator Elizabeth Warren. They were hearing Senator Elizabeth Warren. She
Speaker 3: won reelection today in Massachusetts, her third term as Senator
Speaker 3: in Massachusetts, beating John Deton pretty handily. A results have
Speaker 3: not all been counted, but it's a bit about seventy
Speaker 3: percent or so for or Elizabeth Warren in the early counting.
Speaker 3: And again she wins reelection to the US Senate over
Speaker 3: John Deaton in the election today campaign.
Speaker 11: Twenty twenty four America votes. This is WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 3: Sixty four degrees in Boston. It is nine to thirty
Speaker 3: on election day. Good evening. I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening.
Speaker 3: About half the country is done voting. Polls closed in
Speaker 3: Massachusetts at eight o'clock this evening. There were long lines
Speaker 3: in many of the polling places today. In fact, so
Speaker 3: many people voted in Boston. That's some extra ballots had
Speaker 3: to be dispatched to certain polling stations this afternoon as
Speaker 3: they ran out of ballots. We'll crunch some of the
Speaker 3: numbers for you coming up in just a couple of minutes.
Speaker 11: Right now.
Speaker 3: On update on what's happening across the country from ABC News.
Speaker 14: This is a special report from ABC News. Your Voice,
Speaker 14: Your Vote. I'm Dave Hacker. New projections this hour. Based
Speaker 14: on our exit poll, ABC News projects that Donald Trump
Speaker 14: will win in Louisiana and Kamala Harris will win in
Speaker 14: New York, Rhode Island, and Delaware. And based on those
Speaker 14: exit polls, we project that Democrat Blunt Rochester wins the
Speaker 14: Senate race in that state, Heriston Jillibrand keeps her New
Speaker 14: York set at seat. ABC News also projecting that Florida's
Speaker 14: abortion band referendum will fail, meaning a six week abortion
Speaker 14: band will stay in place.
Speaker 7: Back to the race for the White House.
Speaker 14: All eyes on the battleground state of Pennsylvania tonight, and
Speaker 14: we may not know the winner there tonight. Governor Joshuapiro,
Speaker 14: pleading with the public and pressed to be patients, saying
Speaker 14: counting the votes takes time.
Speaker 7: Counting millions of votes accurately. It takes some time.
Speaker 2: Our goal is to get it right.
Speaker 14: Pennsylvania's nineteen electoral votes could be the key to winning
Speaker 14: this razor close election.
Speaker 3: This is ABC News, this is WBZ News Radio. Don't
Speaker 3: forget keep it tuned to us. We are keeping you
Speaker 3: up to date on election Day twenty twenty four. We
Speaker 3: will be here for you throughout the evening and of
Speaker 3: course always streaming on the iHeartRadio. We heard just a
Speaker 3: short time ago from Elizabeth Warren. She won re election
Speaker 3: third term to the US Senate. She defeated Attorney John Deaton.
Speaker 3: He gave his concession speech at Nash Bar on Tremont
Speaker 3: Street earlier this evening.
Speaker 7: Change takes time.
Speaker 1: You know, winning over an incumbent who has a lot
Speaker 1: more money than you is hard enough. But when you
Speaker 1: have a primary and then there's nine weeks only after
Speaker 1: that primary, for a candidate.
Speaker 2: That doesn't have a lot of name recognition, it can
Speaker 2: be enough. Hill Battle. I knew that from the beginning.
Speaker 3: Also in New England, senators in Rhode Island and Connecticut
Speaker 3: held onto their seats from voters. Today. Bernie Sanders won
Speaker 3: again in Vermont, and so did Vermont's governor now in
Speaker 3: Massachusetts there are some house races. Most of them, well
Speaker 3: five of them out of the nine were unopposed challengers,
Speaker 3: So Jim McGovern, Laurie Trehan, Jake Achinklaus Catherine Clark, Seth
Speaker 3: Moulton and Aana Presley all winning without a challenge. But
Speaker 3: I should tell you Jim govern is now the winner
Speaker 3: over Cornelius Shay, and Richard Neil has won his District
Speaker 3: one race as well. We'll continue to follow results as
Speaker 3: they come in throughout the evening here on WBZ, both
Speaker 3: in the local races and the governor's races. There's one
Speaker 3: in New Hampshire that so far is too close to call.
Speaker 3: We'll keep tabs on that as Kelly Aod and Joyce
Speaker 3: Craig look to succeed the outgoing governor Sinunu, who decided
Speaker 3: not to run for another term. So lots still to
Speaker 3: unpack here. On election night nine thirty three, we get
Speaker 3: caught up on traffic and weather together, starting with the
Speaker 3: Super Bowl retailers of New England all wheel drown traffic
Speaker 3: on the threes Zach, what are you seeing?
Speaker 2: Well, We're going to take a look downtown where things
Speaker 2: are good.
Speaker 15: The deck to connector in the Tobin are fine, so's
Speaker 15: the pike, but work crews on the way Airport tunnels
Speaker 15: on time.
Speaker 2: South of the City Expressway north the crash just clear that.
Speaker 15: The Braintree split was causing delays. That's over Route twenty
Speaker 15: four north. They're going to reduce speed with the work
Speaker 15: zone right before Route one forty and Route three north.
Speaker 2: Under the speed limit.
Speaker 15: Passing work in Duxbury at Route fourteen four ninety five south.
Speaker 15: Has construction in Middleborough at Route twenty eight at the
Speaker 15: speed limit getting by there a bit slower with northbound
Speaker 15: work by ninety five north of the city.
Speaker 3: One twenty eight north jams at a crash at Walnut Street.
Speaker 2: Heavy delays. Getting through your backed up about a half
Speaker 2: mile there.
Speaker 15: Route one has minor delays with the southbound work crew
Speaker 15: after the Linfield Tunnel and another northbound Route one fourteen
Speaker 15: ninety three south. The left lane is taken at Roosevelt
Speaker 15: Circle down to Route sixty in Medford.
Speaker 2: Not much of a delay there.
Speaker 15: Four ninety five heavy work crew delays northbound at mass
Speaker 15: Avens southbound and andover at Route twenty eight west of
Speaker 15: the City of the Pike. You're going to reduce speed
Speaker 15: with the work crew in both directions between the Charleton
Speaker 15: Service Plaza's minor delays there four ninety five north slows
Speaker 15: for work between the pike and Route nine. Steve Perez
Speaker 15: WBZ twenty four hour Traffic Network, And as we check
Speaker 15: the forecast, if you like temperatures that don't feel like November, boy,
Speaker 15: you're going to love tomorrow.
Speaker 3: We'll be in the mid to upper seventies and we
Speaker 3: could break a record.
Speaker 11: Complete coverage of campaign continues now on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 3: Nine point thirty four. As we continue along on election
Speaker 3: Night twenty twenty four, still plenty of results to get
Speaker 3: to when we're still counting ballots. Well we're not, I
Speaker 3: mean I'm not, but somebody is all across the country. Voters,
Speaker 3: by the way, we're asked a few questions at the
Speaker 3: ballot box today. There were ballot questions in Massachusetts and
Speaker 3: by the way, Nicole Davis is here with they there
Speaker 3: were five state wide ballots. There were also some local
Speaker 3: ballot questions. Many's had six and seven and even eight.
Speaker 3: I saw in some communities with various questions locally. But
Speaker 3: we're going to talk about what was happening state wide.
Speaker 3: And there were a bunch of questions.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I just got in from counting ballots, and boy
Speaker 13: or my arms tired?
Speaker 8: Hah.
Speaker 13: Now these results have been coming in super slowly then
Speaker 13: really dripping into the newsroom. But we'll start this time
Speaker 13: with question four. This one has been incredibly close. That
Speaker 13: is the question about using and growing certain psychedelics. Now,
Speaker 13: for a bit a few minutes there, the race was
Speaker 13: all but fifty to fifty, but with six percent reporting,
Speaker 13: No is now edging out fifty five to forty six percent.
Speaker 13: As for question one, the question about auditing the legislature,
Speaker 13: Yes on one has had a pretty healthy lead, and
Speaker 13: that's been the case pretty much the entire time, with
Speaker 13: seven percent in. It stays that way seventy two to
Speaker 13: twenty eight. Question five, the question about raising the minimum
Speaker 13: wage for tipped employees. No on five. Getting a bigger
Speaker 13: margin here, sixty one to thirty nine. Question two, which
Speaker 13: is all about getting rid of the graduation requirement with
Speaker 13: the mcast about eight percent in. Yes on two is
Speaker 13: up sixty to forty percent. And then Ben, we have
Speaker 13: that fifth question we're watching.
Speaker 3: Yes, we have the fifth question, which is actually question three.
Speaker 3: You follow me along at home?
Speaker 2: Good.
Speaker 3: It's about ride share drivers. In wc's Jeremy Russ fills us.
Speaker 16: In under federal law of ride share drivers don't have
Speaker 16: their right to unionize like most other workers because they're
Speaker 16: not employees. They're independent contractors. This measure aims to hurdle
Speaker 16: the semantics and let them organize anyway. A yes vote
Speaker 16: would give drivers the right to unionize. A no vote
Speaker 16: would keep the law as it is. Backers like the
Speaker 16: Service Employees Union and the International Association of Machinists say
Speaker 16: it just makes sense. Whether they're classified as employees or contractors,
Speaker 16: drivers are still workers and they should be able to
Speaker 16: bargain for better wages and conditions. On the flip side,
Speaker 16: critics say is not in line with federal law to
Speaker 16: let independent contractors unionize. They also claim the measure it'll
Speaker 16: lead to price hikes for customers no matter what. The
Speaker 16: measure doesn't apply to other gig drivers like door dashers
Speaker 16: and insta carters. Jeremy Russ WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 3: And with about six percent reporting in and being counted,
Speaker 3: Yes on three is winning right now sixty to forty percent.
Speaker 3: Abortion has been one of the top issues in this election.
Speaker 3: Voters in nearly a dozen states voting on whether to
Speaker 3: establish the right to abortion access. Ten states Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska,
Speaker 3: to Vada, New York, and South Dakota all with measures
Speaker 3: on their ballot today aimed at protecting the right to
Speaker 3: abortion access or reproductive freedom. And for the first time
Speaker 3: since Roe v. Wade was overturned in twenty twenty two,
Speaker 3: an abortion measure on the ballot has failed to pass.
Speaker 3: That measure in Florida did not get the sixty percent
Speaker 3: of the vote it needed to pass. Prior to this election,
Speaker 3: all seven states that had similar measures had passed them.
Speaker 3: Republicans pick an early victory in their battle to control
Speaker 3: the Senate. More on that from BBC.
Speaker 17: Stephen Portnoy, West Virginia Republican Jim Justice is elected to
Speaker 17: the Senate, defeating Democrat Glen Elliott. This is for the
Speaker 17: seat that was occupied for a couple of terms by
Speaker 17: Joe Manchion, West Virginia Democrat who's decided not to run
Speaker 17: for re election this year, and now it's the first flip.
Speaker 7: Senate.
Speaker 17: Democrats are on defense, particularly in some of the key
Speaker 17: battlegrounds in Michigan, in Wisconsin, in Pennsylvania, in Arizona and Nevada,
Speaker 17: there are Democrats who Republicans hope to beat, and if
Speaker 17: they can, well, then they could flip the Senate.
Speaker 3: In Massachusetts, Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren won her third term
Speaker 3: in the Chamber today. Control of the US House also
Speaker 3: was up for grabs this election. Republicans try and hold
Speaker 3: on to a slim majority, but several of the districts
Speaker 3: they're defending are in some deep blue states, places like
Speaker 3: New York and California. And then there's control over Virginia's
Speaker 3: seventh district, which is a toss up between Democrat Eugene
Speaker 3: Vinman and Republican Derek Anderson. Nebraska's second district, the key
Speaker 3: swing district, is leaning blue, Republican Don Bacon fighting to
Speaker 3: keep his seat there. Paul showed the race in New
Speaker 3: Hampshire for governor. Isn't that connect?
Speaker 2: W BZ.
Speaker 3: Sherry Small is here with the latest on the vote
Speaker 3: count so far. Sherry Ben, that's right.
Speaker 18: If you have any doubt that this is a tight race,
Speaker 18: just think about the contentious television ads you've been bombarded
Speaker 18: with by both candidates that's been going on for months,
Speaker 18: Republican Kelly Aod and Democrat Joyce Craig trying to replace
Speaker 18: outgoing Republican Governor Chris Sanunu. Aot has statewide name recognition
Speaker 18: and going back decades, she was a one term US
Speaker 18: Senator and is also the former Attorney general. Craig is
Speaker 18: the former mayor of Manchester, that's New Hampshire's largest city.
Speaker 18: Prior to that, she was an Alderman. Now, with thirty
Speaker 18: three percent of the precincts reporting so far, AOT is
Speaker 18: in the lead, but only fifty to Craig's forty seven percent. Now,
Speaker 18: Craig has built her campaign around protecting and expanding abortion
Speaker 18: rights and also attacking Aot on her pro life track record,
Speaker 18: but Ayot claims, if elected, she will uphold New Hampshire's
Speaker 18: current law that allows a procedure up to twenty four
Speaker 18: weeks of pregnancy under certain circumstances afterward.
Speaker 7: All right.
Speaker 18: Aot also has the endorsement of the very popular governor Sanunu.
Speaker 3: Ben all Right, and we are watching a couple of
Speaker 3: congressional races in New Hampshire tonight as well. District one
Speaker 3: right now, the Republican challenger Russell Prescott has inched ahead
Speaker 3: of Chris Pappis, who is the Democratic incumbent. It's real close,
Speaker 3: just over fifty percent for Prescott, just under fifty percent
Speaker 3: for Pappus. There's about sixteen percent of the votes counted,
Speaker 3: about the same amount of votes counted in District two,
Speaker 3: where Maggie Goodlander has about fifty three percent of the
Speaker 3: vote over Lily Tang Williams. Many young voters this time around,
Speaker 3: casting their first ballots in their lifetime.
Speaker 7: Eighteen year old timcasts first ballot and says it's a big.
Speaker 10: I really feel like my voice is being heard, even
Speaker 10: though it's one vote.
Speaker 7: He was initially turned away from the polling place because
Speaker 7: he was wearing a Trump van's T shirt and political
Speaker 7: attire isn't allowed at the polls, but he is proud
Speaker 7: of Trump.
Speaker 8: I just I think he did better for our country.
Speaker 7: And being from Texas, Tim says.
Speaker 10: I really think the biggest thing for me is immigration.
Speaker 7: Allison Key CBS News.
Speaker 3: We are watching, of course, the presidential race. It may
Speaker 3: take some time to get the results completed, but so far,
Speaker 3: former president Donald Trump has one hundred and seventy eight
Speaker 3: electoral votes to Vice president Kamala Harris's ninety nine. Georgia,
Speaker 3: which was a key battleground state, a key state in
Speaker 3: this election, leaning to Trump right now, of course, there's
Speaker 3: still time to go, has not been called as of yet.
Speaker 3: And some of the regular places we expected Harris to
Speaker 3: win she has done so, New York State, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts,
Speaker 3: and Rhode Island among them. Trump has won Florida and
Speaker 3: Texas and Oklahoma, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Indiana, and Ohio.
Speaker 3: So there is ways to go here in this election evening,
Speaker 3: and we will continue to keep you up to date
Speaker 3: on all of the happenings and all of the results
Speaker 3: as they come in. Now there is still polls open
Speaker 3: across the country, all of the western part of the
Speaker 3: United States still voting. CBS is Nicole Skanga has more
Speaker 3: on today's voting that was not without its share of scares.
Speaker 19: Officials in at least two states made in Georgia say
Speaker 19: police have responded to threats against schools and polling places today,
Speaker 19: none of them credible. Brad Raffensberger, the Georgia Secretary of State,
Speaker 19: saying in a news conference that officials had identified the
Speaker 19: source that it was from Russia. The FBI also putting
Speaker 19: out a statement indicating many of the threats appear to
Speaker 19: originate from Russian email domains.
Speaker 3: We are all watching the election results here in America,
Speaker 3: but in other parts of the world they're watching too.
Speaker 20: China has no official position but perverse stability, and I.
Speaker 3: Think that probably means Harris.
Speaker 20: A Trump presidency of cults would mean tariffs that would
Speaker 20: further hurt the slow in Chinese economy and a potential
Speaker 20: trade war. And of course questions remain. I think about
Speaker 20: how far either candidate would support Taiwan.
Speaker 3: That is ABCZ and Panel on the close eyes. China
Speaker 3: is keeping on our election. We'll continue to have election
Speaker 3: results for you throughout the evening. Stay with WBZ news
Speaker 3: Radio throughout the night, and throughout the overnight. We will
Speaker 3: be here to tell you who won, who lost, and
Speaker 3: well where the whole thing is going. I'm Ben Parker.
Speaker 11: Our election night coverage continues now with Nightside with Dan
Speaker 11: Ray on WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Welcome back everyone.
Speaker 10: We're now speaking with the cheer of the Massachusetts Republican Party,
Speaker 10: Amy Conna Valley.
Speaker 2: Amy, Welcome to Nightside. Welcome back to Night's Side.
Speaker 10: I believe that you're down in the southeast corner of
Speaker 10: the Commonwealth tonight at a number of Republican events. One
Speaker 10: of the things that I think you're most concerned about.
Speaker 10: I don't think you thought Donald Trump would carry Massachusetts
Speaker 10: or John Deaton would on seat Elizabeth Warren. But how
Speaker 10: are you doing at the legislative level here in Massachusetts tonight?
Speaker 21: Dan, thanks very much for having me back on the show.
Speaker 21: I am coming to you this evening from Taunton, Math.
Speaker 21: I'm here at the Kelly Douner uh celebration. They are
Speaker 21: counting votes as Kelly is running for state Senate in
Speaker 21: an open seat. She is currently up, but the still
Speaker 21: awaiting additional votes to be cast.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 21: So we've not yet called the called the race, but
Speaker 21: this would be a pickup for Republicans.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 21: It's it's an open Kelly is able to witness.
Speaker 9: Yes, open, it's what.
Speaker 10: The it's what they call an open seat because the
Speaker 10: longtime Democratic incumbent down there, Mark Pachico, I guess, had
Speaker 10: decided that he would he would retire from from office.
Speaker 10: What a what percentage of the votes do you have
Speaker 10: at this point? And just be curious how how it books.
Speaker 10: I know, you don't want to claim victory ahead of time,
Speaker 10: but she was a strong candidate, and I'd be interested
Speaker 10: as to what the numbers are looking like, either on
Speaker 10: a percentage basis or on a raw basis if you
Speaker 10: had had them available.
Speaker 21: So we're still waiting on a couple of towns. But
Speaker 21: right now in Taunton, which is the city Kelly is
Speaker 21: is up, which is typically a good good sign for Republicans.
Speaker 21: So again, we're still waiting on a couple of outside
Speaker 21: towns to come in. But and where where them in
Speaker 21: some of the other towns. But but she's up right
Speaker 21: now in Taunton, so it's a great sign.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 10: So right now there are forty state senators here in Massachusetts,
Speaker 10: and the Republicans only represent four for for members of
Speaker 10: the of the Senate. Uh, if things break well for
Speaker 10: you tonight, that's one seat you might pick up. Are
Speaker 10: there any other seats that are are available for to
Speaker 10: increase your.
Speaker 2: Your your number of senators?
Speaker 10: I mean it's a it's a it's a small, a
Speaker 10: hardy group, but a small group nonetheless that I'm sure
Speaker 10: you'd like to.
Speaker 2: Add to it.
Speaker 21: Well, everyone makes a difference, as we saw by the
Speaker 21: the addition of Peter Durant last year in a special election.
Speaker 21: Even having just one more state Senator as a Republican
Speaker 21: who's willing to speak up and and voice objections to
Speaker 21: some of the policies that that are being passed through
Speaker 21: Beacon Hill without a lot of debate or dialogue makes
Speaker 21: a difference.
Speaker 7: Uh so did.
Speaker 21: Another seat we're looking at this evening is State Representive
Speaker 21: Matt Moore Torri, who is running for State Senate. That
Speaker 21: race is currently neck and neck. It's much too early
Speaker 21: to call, really, I think that one could be a
Speaker 21: nail bier, you know, rate down to the to the wire.
Speaker 21: A lot of money has been spent in that race.
Speaker 21: SOT again, Matt gave up his uh state rep Seat
Speaker 21: to run for State Senate, and that's in the area.
Speaker 2: Okay, how are you doing again?
Speaker 10: I know that part of the problem that the party
Speaker 10: has had for a long time, well predated your very
Speaker 10: active involvement, is that many, many, many members of the legislature,
Speaker 10: of the Democratic Legislature were not even challenged. Do you
Speaker 10: have any possibility of increasing You have about twenty five
Speaker 10: members of the one hundred and sixty member House Chamber.
Speaker 10: Do you have any shot to increasing that group number.
Speaker 21: We do. So we have some challengers running and again
Speaker 21: some other seats open seats in the in the state house,
Speaker 21: state representatives, some open seats that were previously held by Democrats.
Speaker 21: So where we have competitive Republicans running, it is typically
Speaker 21: easier for Republicans, particularly in a presidential election year, to
Speaker 21: gain seats in when the Democrat is not running for
Speaker 21: re election and we are. We're a party that's coming
Speaker 21: off losses two years ago, so we really wanted to
Speaker 21: few center sites this this cycle on winnable races, and
Speaker 21: which is what I think we've done. So we have
Speaker 21: some strong candidates running in state rep seats, in some
Speaker 21: open seats too. So for example, we have Jesse Brown
Speaker 21: and Plymouth running, Ken Sweezey and Pembroke running Christopher Thrasher,
Speaker 21: which is an interesting race. He's running in Westport. That
Speaker 21: that race is actually five candidates, so you have of
Speaker 21: course the Republican, the Democrat, and three other political parties
Speaker 21: represented on the ballot, and that's an open seat. And
Speaker 21: Chris got on actually as a writing candidate, so it
Speaker 21: would be really interesting and if he could win that seat,
Speaker 21: and we think he has a real chance of doing that.
Speaker 2: So let's let's talk about your job.
Speaker 10: Your job is to revitalize a party which has been
Speaker 10: very dormant. Frankly, you've done well at the gubernatorial level.
Speaker 10: How are you getting people either to become Republican registers
Speaker 10: Republicans or actually you step up and say, hey, I'll
Speaker 10: run for city council or I'm going to run for
Speaker 10: state rep. Or I'm going to run for You know,
Speaker 10: It's one thing John Deaton to come in and try
Speaker 10: to take out Elizabeth Warren.
Speaker 2: Obviously he was not successful tonight.
Speaker 10: And Donald Trump at the head of the ticket is
Speaker 10: not going to have any cottails in Massachusetts whatsoever. How
Speaker 10: tough is it to get new members into a party
Speaker 10: that is such a minority party in a state like Massachusetts.
Speaker 10: Now you have a tough task in front of you.
Speaker 21: Yeah, So I would say, you know, this year, starting
Speaker 21: last year was a little more difficult than this year.
Speaker 21: I think people saw some of the failures on Beacon
Speaker 21: Hill as a result of the policies like the migrant crisis,
Speaker 21: of billion dollars being spent, little policy changes being made,
Speaker 21: and those policies really starting to impact kind of everyday
Speaker 21: residents of the Commonwealth in their schools and their cities
Speaker 21: and police and fire protection, and you know, some of
Speaker 21: this policy is like protection of victims over criminals. And
Speaker 21: so I do think we saw a real change in
Speaker 21: the mindset of residents in the Commonwealth this year, and
Speaker 21: we saw a number of Republican a number of our
Speaker 21: state rep candidates running as wright ins who really felt
Speaker 21: that they needed to step up and make a difference.
Speaker 21: So I think we're going to see that continue into
Speaker 21: next year, and I think we'll see really a flood
Speaker 21: of Republican candidates much more so than we saw this
Speaker 21: cycle headed into the twenty twenty sixth election.
Speaker 10: I want you to know that I know you're watching
Speaker 10: the competitive races very closely, but I also want you
Speaker 10: to know that the early returns on some of the
Speaker 10: ballot questions I think will please you when you think
Speaker 10: about how people think about issues. The effort to authorize
Speaker 10: the state auditor to audit the legislature again, it's only
Speaker 10: about fifteen percent center the vote, but is leading by
Speaker 10: quite a bit, seventy two percent to twenty eight percent.
Speaker 10: The question about psychedelic substances looks to be very tight. Also,
Speaker 10: the increasing minimum wage for tipped employees. That does not
Speaker 10: that's not doing well either. It's losing about two to one.
Speaker 10: So on many of the ballot issues, people voting I
Speaker 10: think in line with the philosophy of the Republican Party.
Speaker 21: Ironically, that's right, yes, And so the party did take
Speaker 21: a position on the ballot questions. We were we did
Speaker 21: join with the auditor on question one in favor of that,
Speaker 21: and you know, we think they are common sense issues
Speaker 21: of transparency and accountability for taxpayer dollars and the commonwealth.
Speaker 21: And we were opposed to the remainder of the questions,
Speaker 21: in particular, most active on question five on on the
Speaker 21: tipped employees, because we heard from many of our family
Speaker 21: restaurants and workers at the restaurants that they, in fact
Speaker 21: were not in favor of this ballad initiative that really
Speaker 21: kind of came out of California.
Speaker 2: It sure did, it sure did.
Speaker 10: Amy Connor Valley, thank you so much, and thank you
Speaker 10: for attempting to make Massachusetts more of a two party
Speaker 10: state than it has been before your arrival. You're working
Speaker 10: hard at it, and my hat's off to you and
Speaker 10: a best of luck tonight for the balance of the evening.
Speaker 10: Thanks Amy appreciate it very much.
Speaker 21: Thank you, Dan, and to all your listeners, thank you.
Speaker 2: You're welcome.
Speaker 10: When we come back during the ten o'clocker, I'll be
Speaker 10: talking with Congressman Seth Moulton a little after ten to fifteen,
Speaker 10: the Democrat from the north Shore. And then at ten
Speaker 10: forty five to time, we'll talk with New Hampshire Governor
Speaker 10: Chris Sununu, who's celebrating, ironically, his fiftieth birthday. So we
Speaker 10: have Tom O'Neil speak, the son of former Speaker Tom O'Neil,
Speaker 10: coming up, as well as Polster Spencer Kimball.
Speaker 2: Stay with WBZ News Radio thrillat tonight