Polls closed an hour ago in California and the West Coast

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Luis Gutierrez, correspondent in Los Angeles, California, reports on the development of election night in the most populated state in the country.

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00:00And again, by Luis Gutierrez from Los Angeles.

00:04Luis, please tell us the latest over there, everything you know,

00:08and also what's the feeling with the people on the streets?

00:15Hi, good night from Los Angeles, California.

00:17Yes, we we are the polls in this in this state close exactly.

00:23Well, like one hour ago.

00:25And they fill in the streets.

00:28It's a feeling of expectation for the results that are going to come

00:33from the other states, especially those swing states, as we know,

00:37that will most likely define the result of this election.

00:41One of the neighbor states, Arizona, it's one of the states

00:44that is like it's most likely to define who the winner of the

00:49of the presidency will be.

00:51And as we have been mentioning before, this is a state where Californians

00:56campaign outside of their their own state, trying to influence

01:00a neighboring state, hoping that they will be able to swing it

01:04towards the Democratic Party since California.

01:06It's a it's a party that has voted Democrat for the past

01:11like two elections, at least.

01:12And it's and that gives 50

01:16four votes to the electoral college.

01:20Yeah, Luis.

01:22OK, so Luis Gladys over here and I'm taking in from Berlin.

01:27And I want to tell you, of course, we know it was expected

01:31that California went for in blue.

01:34And you know that they had the support for Kamala Harris.

01:38But what about the scores?

01:40Because we have to see the two sides of the story.

01:43What about the scores of the Republican voters, the Republican people,

01:48the people that are seeing other options other than the Democrat Party?

01:54Because we need to get the perspective from you and not from the map

01:59and not from the results, because as we have been saying,

02:01the winner takes it all policy from the electoral college silences this.

02:06And we want to know, have you seen under your perception

02:08under maybe the figures, do you see a growing, a steady

02:12or a decline in the Republican voters that maybe are a minority

02:16or maybe have a little part or we don't know?

02:19We are expecting to hear that from you in this election from California.

02:25Yes, well, the city of Los Angeles is also a very pro-Democrat city,

02:30so it is actually hard to see Republican support there in the open.

02:34It's a very rare sight when you see someone with either like Trump

02:38had or make make America again had or

02:43people with Trump stickers around the city.

02:45These are like these are very rare sightings.

02:47Usually when you drive around and walk around Los Angeles,

02:51you can feel the support for Kamala Harris and Tim Voss.

02:55But I mean, everything, anything can change tomorrow

02:58if Trump is declared the winner.

03:00Maybe these things will become will be more in the open.

03:04We have to know that it is mostly in the support for

03:08we can't say that California is a state that that didn't

03:12that doesn't support Trump in one way or another,

03:14because if we go outside of the big cities, outside of L.A.,

03:17outside of the Bay Area, in the rural areas,

03:21you will see that these are mostly red leaning areas.

03:25So in the next few hours, we might see some sort of,

03:30you know, manifestation of this support.

03:33We might see some celebrations if the vote were to be

03:36finally defined for Donald Trump.

03:41Excellent, excellent, Luis.

03:43Thank you for joining us once again.

03:46It's so important to have your testimony from where everything is happening

03:52and your input. So we thank you from USAID's sides.

03:58Excellent. And I move on with some information.

04:01We were mentioning something like this before the.

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