>> Hey, everyone, thanks for joining us on the weekend.

Review one, Amanda Vicki, Americans have made their choice to make the country Trump again.

>> We have a country.

And it does help very badly.

The former president will return to the White House with more support in Chicago in Illinois than ever before.

>> Many people live told me that guy.

>> Spared my life for a reason.

And that reason to save our country and to restore America to greatness, leaving Democrats to wonder where their party went wrong.

Vice President Kamala Harris, sure supporters, it will be OK. >> encourages them to never give up.

>> While I can see this election, I do not concede the fight that fueled his campaign.

The fight.

The fight for freedom.

For opportunity on a speculation about voting irregularities.

She and President Joe Biden are vowing a co-operative in peaceful transition.

>> Now come questions about what a Trump presidency will mean for Chicago and the rest of Illinois.

>> To anyone who intends to come take away the freedom and opportunity and dignity of Illinois INS.

I would remind you that a happy warrior is still a word.

You come for my people.

You come through me.

>> Meanwhile, changes for certain coming to Chicago.

Public schools as voters for the first time elected members of the school board.

Cook County, Alexa, New State's attorney members of the City council's move too quickly pulled the plug on the mayor's property tax hike and a court blocks Illinois's ban on military grade guns.

>> Joining us for our week in review panel, our Sasha and Simons host of WBEZ is reset 80 Craig political reporter for the Chicago Tribune.

Our own Nic Blumberg and Heather Sharon Awt Tw news.

Now.

Let's get to it.

And we, of course, are going to spend the bulk of this program talking about the election, but want to begin with some breaking news that we just alluded to.

And that is Heather.

A federal judge has ruled it unconstitutional.

Illinois's ban on so-called Irwin really just 8 teams to be assault weapons.

What can you tell us?

Well, this ruling is not going to go into effect right away.

The judge in the case state it for 30 days, which will allow an appeal.

No doubt right away will be filed by proponents.

However, the Supreme Court has vastly expanded the Second Amendment to allow more people to own more guns, including weapons that otherwise had been banned.

>> This is has always been a case that was at risk of being over.

This law was always at risk of being overturned by the federal judiciary.

And that has begun to happen tonight.

And in fact, Illinois Attorney General's office did release a statement.

They are going to appeal, but Nick, just this week we had the CPD Superintendent, Larry Snelling and also going state's Attorney Kim Foxx saying the in the wake of a Chicago police officer getting shot.

>> Federal government needs to take action nationally to crack down on guns.

Otherwise this is going to continue to happen.

Welcome possible.

Under a Trump presidency.

I think we can maybe not unequivocally, but I think we can be pretty certain that that's not likely to happen.

And, >> you know, it's interesting.

This is where, you know, 2 things sort of, you know, run up against one another where the Trump, you know, the previous Trump presidency, this campaign, he and many of his surrogates have pointed to crime and violence and shootings in places like Chicago and said these are Democrat run places.

They're not run well, people are dying in the streets and at the same time, there are a great deal of folks on the right, including many of the Supreme Court justices that President Trump appointed who are hostile to these types of regulations.

So I don't you know, I think this law is going to face a real existential challenge and it is going to make it more difficult.

As you know, the state's attorney, the police try and crack down on some of this violent ones.

Trump said that he was going to, quote, rollback every attack on the Second Amendment that Biden put in place.

We can already see what was going to come down the pike.

We have our answer.

And of course, we know that Pro-Trump president's seat number 2.

>> May very well get to appoint more justices to the Supreme Court.

And this is a case that appears to be headed for that, right?

Exactly.

And a very dangerous situation.

You know, let's delve really into from there the full race for president.

We've had lots of prognosticating about what went right for Trump and what went wrong for Vice President Harris.

So ad, let's start with you there.

What did Trump to so Reza needed with the American public that he had really was sounding victory.

I'm not the expert on this.

And I actually don't like all the prognosticating happened immediately after election.

I don't think it's wise, but some of the convincing things that I've seen that I like to see more data on is that incumbents around the world have had trouble after the pandemic.

This happened kind of Europe wide economic interests kind of took over everything else.

I think there might have also been kind of a lack of enthusiasm among Democrats.

We saw some turnout here in Chicago drop among Democrats.

I think that's only part of it.

To what extent Kamala Harris being a woman being a black woman played into this is also something I would like more data on.

But I think the prevailing wisdom right now kitchen table issues, economic things overtook everything else.

You know, to that end Trump and his running mate, JD Vance have big promises to the American public when it comes to their pocketbooks.

Let's hear from the Comfort Inn in vice president elect.

>> The greatest political comeback in American history where Italy, the greatest economic comeback in American history Donald Trump's leadership.

>> So ad, let's stick with you.

What can we expect from a Trump second-term presidency, particularly when it comes to fulfilling those promises to the American public?

Economic promises.

I I want to kick to course, he's promised to put tariffs on a whole lot of goods made outside the country in an attempt to sort of force manufacturers.

>> Back to America.

The problem with that is as we heard over and over during the campaign that that those tariffs are likely to rise, make prices rise for every everybody whether or not.

>> It is made here in America.

I think that that threatens to supercharge inflation.

And of course, inflation was doing the tariff is a lot of people.

I do think there's so essentially a tariff is an extra charge.

If you bring something that was made outside America into America to be sold, it is sort seen, as you know from Trump is sort of paid by other countries or manufacturers outside.

But it is simple supply and demand.

Now I did not major in economics, but this is, you know, pretty straight But if you know, if it costs more to make things elsewhere, that means people who make things here have the ability to charge more.

So it can just sort of like lift the entire you know, you know, base of prices and that threatens to started.

the rollback of inflation that we've seen in recent months.

Well, and to that point, you know, we heard earlier this week from Congressman Eric Sorensen who survived a challenge.

>> You know, Trump has said that he wants to slap a 200% tariff on John Deere, which is headquartered here in Illinois because he says they're they're sending their jobs to Mexico.

They're moving more production there to hear John Deere tell if they're saying what we're not taking away from the jobs here.

This is a market we can expand into which Congressman Sorenson said he supports that.

You know, he wants to see this company succeed in new markets because it then benefits Illinois INS.

It's also interesting to see, you know, just how much you know, Trump's economic visions have reshaped the GOP because the notion that, you know, all this sort of anti free trade talk would be coming ahead of the party's standard-bearer.

Not something we would have seen just, you know, a dozen years ago, seeing how a lot of the economic plans to Trump has are going to clash against the economic plans Governor Pritzker has that are fueled by the chips Act, which think President Trump plans to unwind the inflation Reduction Act.

All the investments Governor Pritzker aren't making EVs.

I think that's gonna be like a fundamental clash that we're gonna have to watch going Promises made promises kept right.

That was his the night that he won.

>> And more so more so than the economy.

keep in mind that folks are most most paying most attention to the economy and immigration.

Those are the 2 things that those are the ways which he stoked our fear and in large part and so I am most interested in this mass deportation promise day one is when he says he's going to go ahead and, you know, start speaking with criminals, at least begin with criminals.

But I think it's going to go back to the days where we saw, you know, ice knocking on doors of of restaurants and so forth and literally like calling people out, we're going to go back to those days.

He wants to even birthright citizenship like he's he really has a very direct plan and he's targeting migrants undocumented folks.

And I think it's important to mention that even if that those mass deportation plans do not come to fruition.

>> You are going to have millions of undocumented immigrants across the country and hundreds of thousands of people in Chicago essentially retreat to the shot goes.

They will not call the police.

They will not seek health care.

They will not avail themselves of the services that they are entitled to for fear of being identified as an undocumented immigrant and put at risk of deportation and that threatens to rip apart families that have deep, deep roots in Chicago.

And I think we'll have a profound impact on neighborhoods like Little Village and Pilsen and I think it could potentially have dramatic economic consequences for Chicago because there are plenty of jobs that are done by undocumented immigrants and people who might not have clear citizenship status that American citizens refuse to do at any wage level.

And I think it is impossible to overstate just how terrified people are.

And I think that they are more terrified because they remember being terrified back in 2017.

And I think that that is going to be a real point of conflict between the city of Chicago and potentially the federal government is not just I think retreat into the shadows in Chicago and having an economic impact within the city.

But really throughout the country, including the rest of Illinois, where you have a lot of farm workers, the attendant on.

>> Undocumented immigrants.

To that end.

Let's hear from Governor JB Pritzker who says that Illinois has made preparations in case there is a change in tone as he called it in Washington.

So it will be able to fend off what he called an attack on the state's residents.

>> There are many people whose lives and livelihoods are.

risk and there many people cried at the result because they know what impact it may have on their families.

So think about them.

>> So, Nick, he said that Illinois is contemplating what else it can do after taking all of these actions previously to sort of safeguard or Trump proof the state.

What is he talking about?

What are the options?

Well, you know, in large part, they're limited by the federal government's power.

You know, there have been a number efforts.

>> You know, all this year, you know, expanding reproductive rights coverage under insurance plans.

You know, they made a lot of movement has been talk about.

Should Illinois trying to enshrine abortion rights in the state's constitution.

And I think that's going to be a big focus for Pritzker and a lot of lawmakers, obviously Pritzker has put a lot of his own money and efforts into, you know, national efforts to shore up reproductive rights.

But if you have, you know, a Congress and a federal judiciary that is, you know, hostile to those sorts of state-level efforts that's going to pose huge challenges.

And they, you know, likely depending on what the action is may be insurmountable.

>> Well, I'm Amanda and did a lot of reporting on this during the Democratic National Convention.

We asked Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton what it meant.

A mistake for Illinois not to put a constitutional amendment enshrining reproductive rights in Illinois is constitution.

I think that is a very open question at this point because will Illinois be able to do that in 2 years?

I mean, maybe what will happen to women is Trump doesn't pursue a federal abortion ban that seeks to outlaw the mailing of the abortion pill or in other ways tries prevent women from traveling to Illinois to obtain reproductive rights care.

And we haven't even mentioned the rights of LGBTQ people who have traveled to Illinois has sort of a safe haven to get the care that they need.

I think there are a lot of questions about what Governor Pritzker's.

He said he's a happy warrior.

What he has limited power and are sort of the federal is some sort of system of our country.

And I think that while many people found his, I think remarks reassuring the hit he had, he understands his powers limit.

Well, as we've seen, you know, more and more restrictions in states surrounding ours.

Of course, we're going to see now that Trump is leaving all jurisdiction up to the states.

We're going to see that increase.

Does Illinois have the capacity to take on more people coming into our state?

Do we have the staff?

Are we going to have enough resources?

Are we going get the federal money that we need to be able to continue?

>> Being that safe haven?

That's a question that's on top of my my yeah.

And I think the capacity question is a really key is, you know, not just with reproductive health care, but with gender affirming health care with, you know, trans young people.

>> This is not a quick process.

You know, you hear a lot of this about, you know, from folks, you know, particularly on the far right saying, oh, you know, you just sort of snap your fingers and all of a sudden, you know, your son becomes a daughter.

That's simply not the way that it works.

It is a years long, very intensive process.

There's a lot of mental health care as well as physical health care that goes into it.

So, you know, it's not necessarily quite as I don't use the word simple to diminish something like an abortion, but, you know, you can come to the state.

You can you know, have the procedure that you need to have done, you know, with something like gender affirming care.

It's not that term.

Yeah.

I think one of the things that I don't really understand because there's not enough data.

There were many states, including Arizona that voted for Trump but also enshrined abortion rights into their constitution.

And it's not clear to me sort of what that sort Delta, you know, is between people who thought, well, let me protect abortion rights, but also let me vote to return.

The man appointed the justices that overturned Roe versus Wade to the presidency.

>> I think there are a lot of questions of how voters came to that decision.

And I think that's one of the fundamental questions that all of you looking to understand in the weeks ahead.

So many so many questions, one that I have for you such a an is.

>> We've talked about sort of what Illinois may due to again safeguard itself from the Trump presidency.

But what at stake potentially when it comes to grants projects or is there anything on the horizon that we should be king in 2?

>> I will kick them.

I could even take it.

kicked over one thing everyone is concerned about is will there be continued funding for the Red Line Extension?

Looks like one of the visible federal projects that we all have mine.

>> The budget hearings this week, city officials basically said that flow during the last Trump administration expected to keep flowing now.

But there are other things on the list.

Well, you know, I think that the real question is, will federal government attempt again under a Trump administration to leverage the federal grants that the city relies on?

>> run its day-to-day operations to force changes in policy.

I think that we saw during the first administration that, you know, they want Chicago to stop being a self-proclaimed sanctuary city and they attempt to grants.

Yeah.

And so attempted to yank back millions in public safety grants which I always have to point out would have amounted to a de funding the Chicago Police Department but failed.

And there are now there is a Supreme Court decision on the books that will prevent that.

However, just like we saw Gov.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott sort of leverage the city's status as a sanctuary city far more effectively.

Then Trump They are going to try again.

The only question is how and will it be successful, especially now that we've spent 2 years started riven by a sort of the migrant crisis and sort of how deeply it's sort of strange the city safety net, right when the Magic's we should mention the O'Hare.

into that just another.

But yeah, I mean, to Haiti's point about, you know, are they going to be trying to take away some of, you particularly with something like transit.

>> You know, the administration future Trump administration transition teams wears up and down the project 2025.

Is not their vision.

But, you know, just speaking to that red line extension, I did go and read their sort of trance the section on the U.S. Department of Transportation in that document, which I should add was, you know, drafted by a former Trump administration official basically said, yeah, we're we've tried to get rid of some of these grant programs in the previous administration that got a lot of support on Capitol Hill.

So I think that might be one of the backstop even with Republican members.

You know, even if the Republicans do as currently looking like more likely take full control of Congress, there are members who see these programs and say, wait a minute, this is something that benefits folks back home.

So that can slow some of that down.

But, you know, certainly not stop in time.

And there's like there's backdoor ways to curtail a lot of the pro programs that Trump cares about or ones that he seeks to protect but also wants to do something else that would defund.

It's like playing like giving people break on payroll taxes has an effect on.

>> So I think in enacting tax cuts to the degree that the president wants, he's going leave a lot less funding for a lot of other things that will eventually trickle down.

Illinois, Chicago and the governor has said when asked about this that he believes that their legal protections for grants, that they can't be fully politicized.

But that, of course, would be left to.

>> A court system that is, again, going to seems more likely more complete control of the right and like all the regulatory stuff under Chevron, like could all change That's not direct grant funding that.

That is how like the system of government works.

The breakdown that I think we we have no idea what could happen.

What about impact of losing clout DC such that who again, Chicago is is is on the map right now.

Trump.

>> I hate to say it and doesn't like her son city doesn't like our state.

And and so, you know everything turning red in the White House is just not looking good for the state of Illinois.

>> And what do we make, therefore, of Trump making gains within the city and the state statewide.

presidents Biden and Secretary of State Clinton had earned about 17 percentage points more than Trump in 16 20.

And it's about 8% now.

What do you make of that?

What his chain?

I shocked.

I mean, again, just adding to the stats that you just you just shared Amanda, like we as a city, voted for, you know, Trump.

>> In 2020 at 12%.

This time around, it was 20%.

So that's a drastic jump.

And then when you zoom into the neighborhoods and you look at places like Little Village, which you could argue is like the Mexico of the Midwest and see how much that shift has.

You know, they've shifted to the right and we just talked about immigration and mass deportations and the migrant crisis that is flowing through this sanctuary city.

So I'm still trying to my mind around how we get here, how we get to a place where we shift red.

there are almost 90,000 ballots that have yet to be counted.

So I think it is premature to sort of draw sort of sweeping conclusions from the results because we do know that these late arriving ballots are more likely to be more progressive and more democratic given the pattern that we've seen in previous elections.

But there's no doubt that Trump card that there was there has been sort of a shift read.

I think the question is.

>> How big was that shift and sort why did people make that shift?

What they or was it that people did not come out and vote?

Because we've see there's no doubt that that that voter turnout will be much lower for the 2024 election for than than the 2020 election.

So that means in Chicago you're talking primarily about Democratic voters, not going to vote.

And I will again, sort of caution us all in the news media.

There was a lot of coverage about the long lines outside early voting places and long It was a long ballot with a lot of A to it seems every election we sort of have this sort of surge of everybody's voting.

Everybody's sort of what and it never quite materialized.

along with search for the change in voting patterns, I think it behooves us all to sort of take a deep breath and sort of, you know, focus on the facts and not the everyone thinks it's all been taking care That's why we see on Election Day.

There are no lines.

traditionally, yeah.

I think, you know, whatever comes of the analysis once we have more data, once we have more time to sort of parse what happened.

>> I think it does just point in general to greater volatility within the electorate in terms of who people support the ways in which they split their ticket.

You know, you saw in North Carolina, Trump win, but, you know, a Democrat elected governor.

Now, of course, he was running against a very troubled, shall we say, opponents on the Republican side.

But, you know, looking at things like that, looking at places like Arizona, you know, I think it's going to be a lot harder to predict and prognostic 8, at least near term of how folks are going to vote.

Yes, and no ago if you told me that Arizona was going to be likely to elect a Democratic senator, what Michigan was going to elect a Democratic Senator.

Wisconsin was going to elect a Democratic senator we don't know about Sylvania but that Trump would carry all of those swing states.

I would have said, I mean, maybe not likely, but that's what happened.

And I think we have to figure out sort why we've seen a return to ticket.

Illinois stands alone on the map in a sea of interested.

And if this like translates in some way to the Democratic Party of Illinois.

>> Or local elected officials shifting their messaging about what they care about the most to try to.

>> Adjust to whatever we do ultimately find out from the data like are we going see shifts in what elected officials say they care about as a result of this election to that end.

So let's talk about that.

The mayor is proposing this 300 million dollar property tax increase.

>> Is this focus on economics?

It seems to be the takeaway from this election going to hurt his bid for that.

We're already seeing pushback from the city council.

I mean, like alderman have from the beginning of time.

He did property tax increases.

part of that is probably nothing new little and you make it 300 million dollars, >> And the other part of this is that he has a really contentious relationship with the council right now.

And they actually feel emboldened in a way that they probably hadn't in previous administrations to push back.

But I think there are going to be alderman.

That's a look at the results of this election.

The people want more money in their pocket and we can't do that if we raise property taxes in a big hearing on that on Wednesday coming up.

So let's focus a little bit more on the elections locally because we've only got about a minute or so left.

>> Cps school board first time that we have folks that are elected to it.

Was this a proxy battle between Mayor Johnson and charter schools?

The And I was suppressed.

The CTU candidates didn't do as as well as I they would.

The independents sort like, you know, surged to the top.

The shout out to Cheney, right investment through won his race today.

But 32nd Heather.

What I just I think it's an interesting argument that like not everything is going to boil down and clear ideological lines because a lot of the independents who won had backing from established political establishment, especially in the 47th Ward.

>> And you had a lot of people who had sort of deep education resumes so that might have been convincing as opposed to people who were not quite as experienced in education.

And we will have to leave it.

There are post 2024 election show is out of time.

Our thanks to Sasha and Be quick.

>> Nick, Burke and Heather Sharon.

We will get back to wrap things up right after this.

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Stay healthy and safe night.

>> Take any potential rage out on those punk and ad I want to go to you because you covered the state's attorney Kim Foxx, not running for re-election.

>> Eileen Neale Burke easily defeated the Republican in this race together.

Real.

The real race was the March primary and that was a squeaker like I have not really seen on a county wide scale.

>> Very close.

And a lot of people kind of read into that.

Do we want Democrats want a tougher on crime type return to ordinary prosecutorial like Hart charging person or do they want a continuation for Ken Buck spot for which was like criminal justice reform and being reflective about the racial impacts, the criminal justice system.

And we don't Burke winds out slightly and it's Cook County.

So she threw focus on your back.

Yes, spoke with Tony Burke, her top priority, gun crime and wanting to hold the seat.

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