Mark Gilbert: Former US ambassador to NZ on Kamala Harris expected to speak soon

Democrat and former US ambassador to New Zealand Mark Gilbert is at Howard University, Kamala Harris’ election night headquarters where she is expected to speak very soon. 

Gilbert tells Heather du Plessis-Allan this is not to be a concession speech – instead it is scheduled to follow the polls called in the West Coast. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now apparently things are not very nice at Karmala hq C.
And the vibes are a little bit.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Low, and I think the operative word right now is silence.
There's not a lot being said because the Harris team
appears to be searching for a bright spot in the
map as these results very very solemn.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
Hum Now, Democrat and former US Ambassador to New Zealand
Mark Gilbert is at Howard University with Karmala's expected to
speak and back with us Mark.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
Hallo and how are there, Kyoto?

Speaker 1 (00:29):
Now are you hearing that she's expected to speak potentially
within the next half.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
Hour, Yes, absolutely understanding rate where she's going to be speaking.
It's very loud, so I apologize for that in the background,
but I have to tell you what Dominic said was
about as far from the truth as it could be,
saying that Kamala Harris has not done a press conference.
She's talking to the press multiple times a day, Donald

(00:53):
Trump canceled her debate, Donald Trump wouldn't do sixty minutes,
Donald Trump wouldn't do town halls. I mean, I don't
know what Dominic was watching, but it's nothing, but you know,
far from the truth. He also talked about how crime
was up in America. Crime is way down since Donald
Trump was president. So you know, he's giving the New
Zealand people inaccurate facts and I think it's pretty disturbing. Mack.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
Is he speaking in the next half hour. Is it
a concetion speech?

Speaker 3 (01:21):
No, No, not at all. This was always scheduled to
be at this time after the polls called in the
West Coast. All the states that have been called so
far were expected to go to Donald Trump or Kamla Harris,
all the battleground states. The numbers are still coming in
and people have short memories. You know, Donald Trump came
out and said he won the election, you know, back

(01:41):
in twenty twenty, and then the votes to get count
it later are Democratic votes. So this race is still there.
It was always going to be a margin of the
margin of error race, and not a single battleground state
has yet to have been called.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
Do you still hold hope, mat because it sounds like,
in the face of all of the evidence that he
is going to win tonight. He's a head in the
electoral college vote. New York Times has got him winning
eighty eight percent. He's leading all the swing states that
are counting, you still think that something might come through from.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
Him, Heather. The New York Times had Hillary Clinton winning
in twenty sixteen. You know, during this period of time,
there hasn't been a single state that has been won
or lost by either candidate. Yet that wasn't expected, and
people forget Joe Biden. If you remember, Donald Trump came

(02:31):
out and claimed victory because he was ahead in all
of these battleground states, but when the Democrat votes were counted.
Many of the states, the early vote does not counted
until after the polls closed. And you know, we are
very helpful. We believe that the blue wall holes. We
believe she's going to win the city of Omaha, which
is one electoral vote, and all the unbelt states are

(02:55):
still in play. So the advantage that Kamla Harris has
is he has many from pass to victory.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
Brilliant Mike listen, thank you so much. I really appreciate
it and looking forward to hearing from her. That's Mark Gilbert,
the former US Ambassador to New Zealand. For more from
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