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Mitch McCann: US Correspondent on the mood of the Democrats, Republicans after Election Day · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump has taken well, pretty much everything you could
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  Speaker 1: possibly want from this election at this stage. Mitch McCann's
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  Speaker 1: a US correspondents with US Live from Detroit, Michigan. Mitch,
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  Speaker 1: what are people saying? What's reaction like on the ground there?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, good morning, Ryan. Well. I spent last night, in
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  Speaker 2: the last couple of hours at the Democratic watch party
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  Speaker 2: here in Detroit, and I can tell you he wasn't
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  Speaker 2: much of a party. The music might have been playing,
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  Speaker 2: but there was no one on the dance floor and
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  Speaker 2: people were leaving early. We actually had to go outside
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  Speaker 2: to do some work because they shut the event down
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  Speaker 2: and turned off the lights because everyone was going home. Now.
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  Speaker 2: As I've just come on here with you, I text
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  Speaker 2: this morning a Republican contact, a man named Brian Panabecker.
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  Speaker 2: He started a group called Auto Workers for Trump twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty four, a big Republican supporter. He told me for
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  Speaker 2: a long now, in the last couple of months that
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump was going to win easily in the state.
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  Speaker 2: I text him, how are you feeling, Brian, and he
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  Speaker 2: just replied, as you came on the air and said
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  Speaker 2: like a million bucks with five exclamation points. So there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of happy Republicans.
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  Speaker 1: Here. Are we going to hear from Krmala Harris?
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  Speaker 2: We are, we're going to hear from her. It's reported
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  Speaker 2: around four pm Eastern time, which bind my estimations is
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  Speaker 2: around midday in New Zealand. She's going to address a crowd,
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  Speaker 2: I believe at Howard University where she had hoped to
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  Speaker 2: give a victory speech last night. So we're going to
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  Speaker 2: hear from her at midday. We haven't heard from Joe
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  Speaker 2: Biden yet. He's yet to put out an official statement.
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  Speaker 2: We have heard from George W. Bush, the forty third president,
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  Speaker 2: this morning, who congratulated Donald Trump, but nothing from Harris
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  Speaker 2: and Biden just yet.
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  Speaker 1: All right, we'll stand by midday, we're expecting Kamala Harris
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  Speaker 1: to talk. That's Mitch mccannon, Detroit, Michigan.
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