election night begins in the ARD already at 22.45. Sandra Maischberger is hoarse. The actor Hannes Jaenicke sits next to her. He is there because he has a time residence in the USA and has already voted. The ARD election expert Jörg Schönenborn stands in front of an American map and colors the usually republican states red and the usually democratic states blue. The exciting Swing States, which times, so times, so adjust, he leaves gray. Florida is important, he says.
If Clinton gets Florida, she has won as much as she can, and if she does not get Florida, she still has the best chances to win, only then will it be more difficult. At 7 o'clock in the morning the last results are from Hawaii. Already here the spectator suspects, it will be a long night and it starts as gorgeous as harmless, as supposedly no matter.
The ARD shows a Hillary-Clinton election broadcast, which is not aired in the electoral area, while the election campaign is over. Host Matthias Opdenhövel asks an American with a "Hill Yes" -baby heart in the studio: Why is Hillary Clinton their choice? He says she is a good candidate. And everything applauded. The camera drives over buttoned Democrats. Do we actually have Republicans in the studio ,? asks Opdenhövel. One hand stands up. Timid and seemingly shameful. The Republican says he's a Republican, but he would not choose Trump just because he thinks he's unsuited for this position. Applause. Laughter. Unity.
Florida is important to a couple from Cincinnati as well
The presenter Susan Link is wearing a red dress, which might come straight out of Hillary Clinton's wardrobe. She says we will keep you up to date, dear spectators. The moods of all the Facebook posts for the election will be displayed in a fever curve. Here on the screen! And we also show them what people are posting on the Internet. It is a great service for anyone who does not have internet.
Opdenhövel also promises, they will go wherever it is important. Florida is important, so they switch to Florida. The Florida reporter talks to a Clinton elector who says he was knocking the people out of their homes today to make them vote for Hillary. First countings of the postal votes had gone well. And? Is he euphoric? No, no, he is not euphoric, because Hillary simply did not have the same appeal to young people as Barack Obama she had, but they had record numbers among the Latinos who have balanced the blackout losses. The reporter says, ah, yes, the election campaigner, who is modest, does not want to look forward to early.
Hillary-Susan-Link switches to Washington: How was the election day actually going so far? The people have chosen with great seriousness, I would not have expected so, says the correspondent. In the queues she would have seen people who have read books. Others have heard podcasts.
This is followed by a contribution from Cincinnati: A couple has laid his holiday so that it is back in time to be able to vote in Cincinnati. These are just traces, but after these tracks we are looking for the whole night, someone says, it's just before midnight, the viewer has a hard time keeping his eyes on the screen.
Opdenhövel must have noticed at this point that the election transmission is so far of similar explosiveness as a Germany's Next Topmodel final. So, for the review of the most beautiful moments of the candidates Trump and Clinton, he falls straight into the GNTM-Duktus: Only one of them will make it into the white house! In the studio one is very sure who will be. Hannes Jaenicke says Trump is the perfect representative of the White Trash. Hm-mh, makes Sandra Maischberger agree.
Then wildly drauflos switched
Switch to Moscow. It is snowing and the Russian desire candidate is called Trump. Switch to Brussels: In Brussels one looks very closely at the election process, the correspondent says: If Trump President, would be weakening NATO. The EU also relies on Clinton. Turn to Tokyo: If Hillary wins Clinton, everything will be the same. Change to Paris: Hillary Clinton will be the new president, Francois Hollande publicly proclaimed. 86 percent of the French agree.
Switch to Cairo: Trump has not made friends with his statements about Muslims here. Turn to London: London is betting on Hillary Clinton, because she is a safe bank. Switch to Madrid: Here, says the correspondent, the election is not as big a subject as in Germany. But in Catalonia there are Clinton and Trump as wiggling nativity figures.
The viewer now wants to switch times and switches to the ZDF. Eight correspondents hold the Trump and Hillary wiggly figures on the camera. Everything is great fun. Presenter Steven Gätjen, the actor Walter Sittler and the presenter Jörg Thadeusz sit at Bettina Schausten. Steven Gätjen is wearing blue, he says he has also chosen blue. Walter Sittler is wearing red, but he still chose blue.
Did Trump do something right?
The ARD reminds us of September 11, 2001. Since then, fear has prevailed in the world. Fear that makes a candidate Trump possible. A tape runs down the screen. Sandra Maischberger talks to Trump fan and businesswoman Nadja Atwal and then, Sandra Maischberger talks with Trump fan and businesswoman Nadja Atwal. She is the only trump voter, the only other side who has invited the public-law program this evening.
Maischberger confronts them. Trump does not pay any taxes! Nadja Atwal quotes Trump, says the smart American does not pay more taxes than he needs. Maischberger asks, but does not it bother them that he has sexistically expressed about women? Atwal says I do not like it when men and women talk so much about each other, but for me there are more important things than Lockerroom-Talk, which took place years ago. What about the ailing health system for example?
Has Trump been right with anything, asks Maischberger? The journalist Markus Feldenkirchen says, Trump has made visible how politics is made in America. One does not get into the office if one is not supported by millionaires and billionaires, whose interests are later represented.
Clinton-Klobrste in the ARD
At 1 o'clock the first results come. Vermont goes to Clinton. Kentucky at Trump. All no surprises. The atmosphere is still so "shiny" as the "shiny floors" over the moderator Eva Maria Lemke on the ZDF so glad. By Skype she calls Jan Böhmermann. He says he has bought expensive chips for the night, and not just the cheap ones from the discounter. So everything is still pretty funny.
Then switch to Orlando. The voter Glory is very upset. Because she wanted to make America "great again", and a difference for her 9-year-old son she wanted to do but she could not because she is reported in Orange County, that is here Florida. She finds it unfair. In the ARD, a Hillary Clinton toilet brush is introduced.
At 1.30 clock in Florida 30 percent of all votes counted. West Virginia goes to Trump. Alabama goes to Trump. Opdenhövel asks the proven America expert Cathryn Clüver, how it was when she had made her election campaign in New Hampshire: Did anyone give you the door? She says no, not everyone has opened the door to me, but some of those who have opened my door to you were mentally handicapped, others lacked a tooth.
On the Internet you can see black, on TV pink
At 2.30 clock Florida is counted to 91 per cent. And Trump is in front. The mood is a little less omitted. Virginia could also break out of the surely "democratic wall". This would indeed be an interesting turn of this election evening, says choice expert Schönenborn. But still a presidential trumps seems impossible, yes still funny. On the ZDF, the German-American comedienne Gayle Tufts says: Trump is a television star like Dieter Bohlen, mixed with Donald Duck and a Pegida fan. Laughter and applause.
At 3am New York arrives at Hillary Clinton. Short cheers. North Dakota is a surprise to Trump. Florida is still not counted. No swing state is counted - but Trump is ahead of all swing-state forecasts. While the ARD of Matthias Opdenhövel voiced "Magic Moments" with Barack Obama, the democratic landslide in the Internet begins in favor trumps. The New York Times forecasts , which Hillary Clinton saw at the beginning of the night still far ahead, see Trump ahead. You can see its per cent minute when growing. In the ARD, experts are more likely to talk about how the Republicans will have to re-establish themselves after the election.
At 4:00 pm the ZDF hostess Bettina Schausten sits with red and blue slit experts on the sofa and notes: It will not be a run for Hillary Clinton. But do you have to worry about a President Trump? "We should not get into it," says one expert and a second agrees.
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