Donald Trump becomes first convicted felon elected as U.S. president, right wing and progressive leaders respond – November 6, 2024

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• Donald Trump makes historic win to the White House as first convicted felon elected as U.S. president, Vice President Kamala Harris concedes.
• Political psychologist, Stephen Ducat, breaks down the allure of Trump’s authoritarian, xenophobic rhetoric that woo’d voters.
• Immigrant rights groups warn dangers of a second Trump presidency on immigrant communities and asylum seekers. KPFA speaks with Melissa Crow from the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies.
• Bay Area voters appoint new congress members in the East and South Bay and a new state senator for the East Bay.
• Voters oust Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao and Alameda County D.A. Pamela Price in billionaire backed recall.
• Supreme Court hears lawsuit against Facebook for data breach of millions of users by Cambridge Analytica that was used to target potential Trump supporters ahead of the 2016 election.
• United Nations General Assembly condemns Israel’s new laws barring U.N. relief agency, U.N.W.R.A. from operating in Gaza.

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