Journalist Paul Larocque will be at the helm, Tuesday evening, of a special live broadcast devoted to the American electoral vote.
Surrounded by his “formidable American politics team”, with whom he has already covered many important political events over the past year, including the Trump-Harris debate, the departure of Joe Biden, and the Republican and Democratic conventions, he will track vote counting from state to state in real time.
“It’s our Stanley Cup final,” he said in an interview with the QMI Agency, on the eve of this evening which could last until the middle of the night.
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“We are ready for all scenarios. It can go until the early hours. It’s so tight at the moment that it would only take a shift, not that significant, of the electorate in one direction or another due to the distortion of the electoral college that it could cause a sweep. , he said, emphasizing that the scenario of a shortened evening is not impossible, but less likely.
“We could see a candidate pick up more than 327 members of the electoral college, which would be a major victory, but which in reality comes from a very close fight and a small swing at the end,” continued the host of The joust.
On the ground
Richard Latendresse will station himself in Florida, at Mar-a-Lago, in the Trump camp. Claudie Côté will go to Washington, in the Harris camp, while Marc-Antoine Le Moignan will go to Philadelphia, in the key state of Pennsylvania.
“These are not only the state results, but in two or three districts in particular, that we will follow the vote throughout the evening since it risks making the difference. It could once again be that a few tens of thousands of people make the difference in determining who will be elected,” said the political buff, who has covered more than twenty electoral campaigns over the course of his career.
In the studio, Emmanuelle Latraverse, Stéphan Bureau, Luc Lavoie, Jean-Marc Léger, Yasmine Abdelfadel and Pierre-Olivier Zappa, the magician of paintings and American geopolitics, will analyze and follow with interest the latest developments in the race for the House- White.
Quebecers in the United States
Julie Marcoux will be in direct contact with Quebecers living and voting in the United States.
“Beyond the swing states, we really need to watch what’s happening in North Carolina. It’s much tighter than we initially expected. Georgia and Arizona too, but it’s really in the northern states that it risks turning everything upside down. If Kamala Harris wins the three northern states, she will win the election,” believes Paul Larocque, who also sees in this campaign a significant resurgence of gender conflict.
“If women vote more than men, this is one of the signs that could announce Harris’ victory. On the other hand, if it is men who turn out to vote en masse, then the opposite will happen,” he said.
“This election is truly captivating and exceptional. Both in terms of its unpredictability and the issues involved. We have a bit of the impression that history will be written based on the results of this election,” argued the journalist who, over the course of election evenings, got into the habit of energizing his colleagues with a list of catchy music that he plays before going on the air to set the tone.
“This year again, I have my little surprise for the team,” he said with a laugh, explaining that this ritual mainly served to relax the troops and the atmosphere on the set.
And directly
The special show on the American presidential election will begin simultaneously on LCN and TVA at 6:15 p.m.
Regular programming will then resume on TVA, from 6:30 p.m. until 10 p.m. The network will then air its sister station’s special.
At LCN, special programming will continue indefinitely, until a clear outcome of the election.
