00:00We continue to analyze the results of these elections and what it represents for the United States.
00:06For that, let's go live to Washington, D.C. with our colleague Jorge Gestoso.
00:09Welcome, Jorge Gestoso, to From the South.
00:15Luis, we are still feeling the impact of the results that has been called a tsunami.
00:23A great victory, great in the sense of the numbers of the Democratic Party that took over the control of
00:32the Congress behind me.
00:34And precisely to help us to put in perspective the results, we have the honor to have with us the
00:41political analyst, Victor Hugo Ramirez.
00:44Victor, thanks very much for joining us.
00:46Thank you. Thank you for inviting me today.
00:49Hello, everybody.
00:50We are here again in D.C. today, two years after the election.
00:55Well, precisely, we wanted to know what is your reading?
01:00What happened?
01:02Two years ago, the American people put Donald Trump in the presidential and White House.
01:10And two years after, the same people and more millions of people spoke to many chains in this country.
01:19The tsunami you talked about yesterday and the midterm, it's big, big.
01:25The Democratic Party, it's a big win last night.
01:30What is your assessment of the weight of the Hispanic vote in the results of last night?
01:40This is historic because 72% vote yesterday.
01:46It's almost 18 and 24 years old men and girls voting yesterday.
01:53And it's a big impact because it's a lot of young fellows vote yesterday.
01:59We are discussing just before this interview that in the case of Virginia, I think that you mentioned,
02:06there were some sort of referendums, there were proposals regarding issues like abortion, same-sex marriage, etc., etc.
02:18Tell us about what happened.
02:21Oh, yesterday's big win for the Virginia state because all these proposed amendments
02:28and the Constitution for Virginia is approved for tsunami too.
02:34The tsunami is big in Virginia and the people is happy.
02:40What do you think that was the impact of the policies of government of President Trump regarding immigration?
02:52And has that had an impact of Hispanics also to go to vote?
02:57I think so.
03:01The boys and girls vote yesterday is because your father or grandmother or grandfather maybe
03:10don't have a status in this country.
03:11And these guys propose to go to vote to try to help your family, not deportation, stop deportation
03:20or separate families.
03:21I think so is a big impact for the Latin community, the policy for Mr. President Donald Trump against ICE,
03:30persecute the people and kill some people in the jail.
03:36And what do you think is going to be the future of the Hispanic community now that the Congress is
03:43going to be controlled by the Democrats?
03:45In the everyday life, something to the common Hispanic living in the U.S. is going to change?
03:54Yes.
03:54We see yesterday the start of the change because we have the new gobernador in California.
04:02His father and his mom is Mexican.
04:05So it's the first American, Mexican-American generation go to California.
04:12And Texas is the big, it's the big, the same thing for the Democratic Party.
04:18The Miss Hinojosa is, I don't think it's Mexican or Salvadorian heritage, but she is a Spanish woman.
04:30So we see this tsunami for the Spanish community in many and many parts of this country, Election Day.
04:38And when you talk, because you are in Virginia, and you took to the Hispanic community of Virginia, how they
04:47feel or how they were feeling before the election?
04:50They were interested in the participation more or less than before, and they did participate?
04:56Yes, I think maybe 30% vote in Virginia or 40% is the Latin people.
05:03And all Virginia go to the polls and vote yesterday against the Senators with the House and win many things
05:15yesterday.
05:15Yes.
05:16I think the tsunami is true for them.
05:20All these Latin people vote yesterday, too.
05:22Two more years of the presidency of President Trump.
05:26The last two years, it's called politically a lame duck.
05:31When you have no possibilities for a election, what do you think that is going to be his policies and
05:41his reaction regarding Congress that is going to put a lot of pressure on him?
05:49Yeah.
05:50Yeah.
05:50Last night I read in, no, today in the morning, I read, he say, okay, congratulations, Democrat Party.
05:57You win many things.
05:58We try to, together, working together in the Congress, and we try to make some deals on the same page.
06:07But I think he's got a special guest for cancer when he's not agreed for something that's made in the
06:17Congress.
06:18I don't remember the word right now.
06:20It's Beto.
06:22Yes.
06:23Beto.
06:23He said, I am Mr. Beto.
06:25She started yesterday.
06:27That's called this one in the morning.
06:29If I'm not agreed with the Congress, against me, I got Mr. Beto.
06:33What do you think that is what Mexico is living today, Mexicans, or what, regarding the results?
06:42How they are reacting?
06:44I'm thinking so the United States depends on Mexico, and Mexico depends on the United States,
06:50because we are the number one partner for the United States, on both sides.
06:55It's millions and millions of dollars crossed in two ways.
06:58Every day, for Mexico to come to the United States, and the United States goes to Mexico.
07:03So I hope Mr. President Trump has a better relation with the Mexican President, Claudia Sheinbaum, right now.
07:14Because we have that union together.
07:20We cannot separate both countries for the economy.
07:24Thank you very much.
07:26You're welcome.
07:27We were talking with Victor Hugo Ramirez.
07:31To get back to you now.
07:33Thank you, Jorge, for your information.
07:36Also to your guests for sharing his input here with us in From the South.
07:40We continue.
