Trump wins second term as U.S. President

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00:00The people of America have spoken and unanimously picked Donald Trump to rule them again for the next four years at this time

00:07Let's ask B waker respond to Jessica Stone for some questions on the just concluded

00:12Democratic exercise in the land of the free

00:17Good morning once again

00:19Hi, good to see you. Good to see you again, Jessica back in PTV news tonight. Thanks for making time to update us again today

00:27So it has been a very interesting 24 hours so much has happened

00:32Please update us on the red wave and the results that has I would say

00:37Shock the world

00:40Well, I would first of all say I haven't slept much because this was a nail-biter and overnight

00:46I mean we just kept having more and more reasons to watch longer

00:51and so I suspect that a lot of Americans are waking up this morning either to find out the results or

00:56With a with a calling in sick because they have literally stayed up all night

01:01this is

01:03Really unprecedented. We have never seen an American president, especially after being twice impeached and once convicted

01:09Retake the White House only one other time in US history has a US president even had two non-consecutive terms

01:16And that was over a hundred years ago

01:17So we are definitely in unprecedented times

01:20But at the risk of overusing that word because journalists can often be accused of that

01:24I want to get into some of the reasons why we landed where we landed in the United States number one

01:30You're gonna hear this a day in and day out the US economy. There's an age-old phrase. It's not actually that old

01:35It goes back to the Clinton years

01:38That it's the economy stupid and that's what we're seeing in the exit polling is that most Americans that said that they don't believe the economy

01:45Is on the right track or they think the the country is on the wrong track or that they do not feel as economically

01:50Secure as they did four years ago. They voted for Donald Trump

01:53Is that an endorsement of every policy that he is going to pursue? Maybe maybe not

01:59maybe it just means that some of those voters are just wanting something new because they've given four years to this administration and they

02:05Don't like the results

02:07We also know that some of the facts are different than the feelings in terms of the US economy

02:11It's still in much better shape than much of the world post Cove it all of that said we did see some very

02:17Key demographics come out for Trump that have not done. So before we saw larger numbers of African Americans specifically in the cities

02:25African-american males we saw an explosion of Latino men come out for Trump and we saw

02:32large numbers over 50% of the

02:35Voters that came out for him were non or excuse me

02:38There were high numbers of uneducated and by that I mean non university educated voters that came out for him as well

02:45So these are some of the trends we're watching. What does it mean?

02:48One interpretation is that we are seeing a swing and a switching of places of the classes that support these these parties

02:56Democratic Party has traditionally been the party of the working man the unions many of those voters are going over to Trump liking his populist

03:03message of shutting down

03:05External conflicts increasing US investment inside the country and trying to get out of foreign

03:10Entanglements and foreign trade deals that export US jobs. We're also seeing Democrats

03:17Attract a lot more of the elite of this country the wealthy of this country and the people that are more comfortable

03:22More comfortable with more government control

03:25so I think we are seeing a sea change in terms of how the electorate looks whether or not it's going to

03:30Translate into huge action on the economy that remains to be seen but that building behind me that building behind me

03:37I just got a Republican majority in the US Senate. That means that all of the people that that Donald Trump selects to be his

03:45Leaders of different departments whether that Secretary of State Secretary of Defense Commerce Treasury, etc

03:51They are much more likely to be confirmed

03:54There's not going to be a big contest contest over their confirmation

03:57And if the Republican Party keeps the house

04:00There is no divided government and that does mean a mandate for the Republican Party agenda

04:05Whatever it looks like by the time Trump takes office next January

04:08It is much more likely to come to pass because of those dynamics

04:13Okay, I'm very interested to see how the next couple of weeks two months would pan out

04:17But um, of course the world saw that Donald Trump

04:21Swept with in a decisive victory the US presidential race defeating Kamala Harris and even surprising as close as allies I would say

04:29But in that respect, how would you describe the different parties that gathered to support these candidates and their reactions per se?

04:40Well, I think that the Democrats are going to do a lot of soul-searching why did this happen how did they miss it

04:46Where was the where were the polling failures? Where were the strategic failures?

04:49I mean keep in mind

04:51Donald Trump had a much longer campaign ramp than Kamala Harris did coming into this election. She only had a few months

04:57he had many months and

05:00Pardon the noise behind me. The traffic is just getting going. So apparently some people are coming to work after a late night, but

05:08Definitely there's going to be some soul-searching on the left and on the right, you know

05:12there is really a huge sea change in terms of the Republican Party dynamics because

05:16The Trump wing of the party is vindicated. I mean they they have they didn't have a mandate in 2016

05:22They lost in 2020 and now had they have swept at least two maybe three parts of the US government and that's a big

05:30That is a big change. It's a big change, especially for the pro-defense and pro-conflict

05:35Neocons as we would call them the Cheney family and some of the older guard Republicans

05:39It's a this new Republican Party agenda is much more

05:44Anti-alliance pro isolationism or at least pro

05:47selective engagement

05:49and so there is a sea change in the Republican Party as well a lot for people to reckon with both politically and

05:55Potentially personally because this is still a very divided country despite the election results

06:02Yeah, funny. You should mention that it's still a very divided country

06:06of course, we have kept track of the different reactions around the world and have seen the polarized reactions, especially from the

06:13disappointed Democratic

06:14supporters

06:16What would you say?

06:18Would would this mean for the rest of the world especially on how it also relates to us in Southeast Asia?

06:26Well, I think for Southeast Asia and in particular for the Philippines it's going to mean a

06:32Stronger partnership with the United States while the u.s. Is not

06:36Well while the u.s

06:37Under Trump has not done a lot of outreach to all of the region in terms of the Indo-pacific

06:43framework many of the people close to the incoming president that I know are very much in favor of

06:49focusing much more on the u.s.

06:51China competition in the region and especially increasing the defense posture and support

06:57Two nations that are in partnership with the United States against some of the aggressive actions that Beijing is taking

07:03So I would say while there will be a more transactional approach. I know South Korea is very much concerned about

07:10The demands to pay more for the troops on the border between South and North Korea, for example

07:16The the I would expect the investments that are being made by the u.s

07:20military into the Philippines in particular to get even more investment and to be buttressed by other policy changes that really

07:27Try to

07:28change the foreign policy focus from the wars in the Middle East and the wars to Europe in Europe to Asia because that is a

07:35focus both economically and militarily

07:37for an incoming Trump administration

07:40Thank you very much. Jessica Stone for always updating us. Have a great morning

07:45You bet good to be with you

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