00:00And now we continue to assess the key issues in this U.S. election campaign where the cost of living
00:04is emerging as the main concern for households and the debate of immigration policies shaping
00:10the nation's political direction. To examine how these factors are mobilizing voters, we are joined
00:15by our colleague Carlos Montero, live from Miami, Florida. Hello, Carlos. Welcome to From the South.
00:22What news do you have for us? Alejandra, good morning. I'm here in Miami in one of the mayor's
00:28avenues. You can see a lot of cars. And you were talking about the cost of living and why the
00:33Democrats are doing so good in those polls number before tomorrow's election. One of the reasons the
00:41public transportation in Miami, for example, is awful. You need a car. And look, if you can see,
00:47let me show you the design. How much is the gas here in Miami? Not everywhere is the same. Different
00:54companies have different prices and different states have different prices. But here in Miami,
01:01the regular gas is $4.39. It's really amazing. That's something that Americans are upset. They
01:11don't like it. Also, those numbers, the inflation is something they worry a lot to the American people.
01:18Why the gas is so expensive? It has to do with something American Arabs said, most of them. It has
01:25to do with the Iran war, a war that nobody wants, but Trump has decided to do it and to
01:32keep going.
01:33And if those numbers, they were right, we don't know. Sometimes polls are wrong. You can see what's
01:39happening last Sunday in Brazil. It was impossible for Lula to beat Bolsonaro. And you know who is the
01:47president of Brazil right now and who is here in Miami, Bolsonaro. Polls and times are wrong. But in
01:53this case, I think it's going to be something difficult. The question is going to be a huge
01:59difference between Republican and Democrat, or it's not going to be as big. But Democrats are going to get
02:05back the representative, the House of Representatives, and they are going to get back the Senate. That's
02:11so important because they are going to make more difficult for Donald Trump to be in charge, to take
02:19his policy. What did he say? Something to worry about. He said, OK, maybe we are going to lose both
02:25chambers. We are going to lose the Democrat and the representative, the House of Representatives of
02:30the Senate, but I'm going to veto. I'm going to be the president of the veto. I'm going to be
02:34an
02:35executive order to stop what the Congress is doing. We don't know what's going to happen in this
02:39country, but it doesn't look good. Tomorrow, the polls, they are going to start at seven o'clock,
02:45and they are going to finish at seven, at nine, 12 hours. The Americans have a chance to go to
02:52vote here. The vote is not an obligation. They can do it if they want or they don't want,
02:57but it looks like a lot of people are going to vote. Before going back to you, Alejandra,
03:04a big news this weekend. It was in Michigan. What's happening in Michigan? It was a soap opera.
03:12A lady called Haley Stevenson. Not many people know about her. She's a Democrat, and yesterday,
03:20she said, I'm going to endorse the Republican candidate for the Senate. That's really amazing.
03:27The opposite side is somebody who is a controversial figure here in the USA,
03:36Mohammed Syed. He's running for the House of the Senate, and he's Muslim, and Donald Trump makes fun of
03:46him for his roots, and even though the Jewish community is really upset with him because
03:54he's against what's going on in Gaza, but amazing. Even Stevenson endorsed him.
04:01Mohammed Syed is leading in that state. Let me give you the last number by nine points. Abdul
04:09El-Sayed is over Mike Roger by 10 points, even though he was the soap opera with his young lady,
04:17a representative, who lost in the primaries with El-Sayed. And yesterday, it was a big surprise for
04:24all of us to endorse Roger. That's all from here. I don't know if you have any questions, Alejandra.
04:31I have, Carlos. Let's put back the scope on Florida. Angie Nixon, progressive Angie Nixon,
04:37is challenging Republican Ashley Moody. I wanted to ask you, what does her candidacy represent
04:44precisely in Florida, which is one of the main strongholds of Republicans?
04:51Angie Nixon, we are trying to interview her. We have an appointment with her this afternoon. Hopefully,
04:57we are going to be with her. It's a surprise. She's from a movement that's called Democrat Socialists
05:06of America, DSA. It's a movement that's to the left of the Democrat Party. When Donald Trump moved the
05:15Republican Party all the way to the right, some Democrats went to the right also to compete against
05:22Trump. But other Democrats, Bernie Sanders, Alexio Cortez Ocasio, they were upset and they moved to the
05:30to the left. That's the reason they call a Socialist Democrat of America. Something very
05:36here controversial in Miami. You know, there is a very strong Cuban-American community that
05:44they are very scared when they hear the word socialism. They are really scared. And what she's trying to say,
05:51what I want to do when I get, if I get elected, she's a little bit lower on the
05:56port. But what she said, when I get elected, I want to families have a right to health system that
06:04help them. The kids have a good education. I mean, things that make make sense. But like I said before,
06:12when you mentioned the socialist war here in Miami, people get really upset. And it's something that
06:19we are going to see what's happened in this state tomorrow.
06:24Yeah, we will. Thank you, Carlos, for all of your informations. We will be in contact throughout
06:30the day of today and also tomorrow to know all the latest details from the ground. Thank you very much.
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