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... the simple majority of 538 electoral votes. It's a number Mr. Trump clearly reached on election night. JUDY WOODRUFF: The Associated Press is calling Wisconsin, so that puts him over the top. Donald Trump is the next president of the United States. WILLIAM BRANGHAM: That's the theory, at ...
... t name the third one? RICK PERRY: I can't. The third one, I can't. Oops. JOHN YANG: Last night, at a rally in Wisconsin, the president-elect defended his choice of ExxonMobil chairman Rex Tillerson to be secretary of state. Critics say Tillerson's too close to Russia ...
... lead the Environmental Protection Agency. Scott Segal, a partner with Bracewell LLP, a government relations firm that serves oil and gas industry clients, told the PBS NewsHour that Pruitt will revisit energy regulation and that some regulations "are probably going to be pared back." READ NEXT: For Native ‘water protectors ...
... KELLYANNE CONWAY: Hey, guys. We won. You don't have to respond. I mean, seriously. JOHN YANG: Today, Trump supporters moved to block recounts in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan. The president-elect was in New York today, meeting with longtime supporters Republican Senator David Perdue of Georgia and former U ...
... how votes are recounted or processed. STEWART: Can you walk us through the nuts and bolts process of this, what’s going to happen in Wisconsin, and then possibly in Michigan and Pennsylvania? KEITH: Yes, so what’s happening right now is that the Elections Commission in Wisconsin has reached ...
... by the U.S. Elections Project. But among those figures were stark contrasts in key states that helped swing the election to Trump -- in Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan and elsewhere -- indicating the President-elect’s leap from long-shot candidate to the most powerful political position in the world may ...
Video by PBS NewsHour NEW YORK — President-elect Donald Trump vowed Wednesday to unify a deeply divided nation, having scored a stunning victory backed by extraordinary support from working-class America. The tough-talking New York billionaire claimed victories in the nation's premier battleground states, but his appeal across ...
... in our government, our country was truly good. No Democrat or Republican can fix it. Only God can. ABBY ROSS, Black River Falls High School, Wisconsin: And I want the next president to know that women deserve equal pay to men. This is America, and we are known for our ...
With all the counting going on, exit polls will be used to predict election winners before all of the final votes come in on Tuesday night. To help explain these stats used by many media outlets and to examine the current predictions, Judy Woodruff speaks with NPR’s Domenico Montanaro.
A week before Election Day, the candidates stumped in battleground states: Donald Trump took his campaign to Pennsylvania, while Hillary Clinton appealed to Florida voters. Their last leg of campaigning comes amid a flurry of headlines about a Trump tax scheme and a possible FBI inquiry into the former Trump campaign chair. Lisa Desjardins reports.
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