It's just after 3 pm Central time, and I'm running on about 90 minutes of sleep. No, seriously. If you missed our very fun election night blog, you can read it here. You can also read my election day coverage here. I am so grateful to my colleagues and you Twitchy readers for making the last 48 hours some of the most fun I've ever had covering politics.
I don't know what else to say except, 'Wow.'
The final electoral vote map. pic.twitter.com/6Z9UlD3joL
— GhostofCzars (@GhostofCzars) November 6, 2024
What the map doesn't show is the popular vote total. According to Decision Desk HQ, Trump has over 72 million votes, and a significant popular vote lead over Kamala Harris.
If you've read me here at Twitchy, I was someone who argued for a while Donald Trump was going to win this election, although I had no idea it would be a blowout like this.
But with some hindsight, lack of sleep, and lots of caffeine, the reasons were there all along.
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One of those reasons was the absolute hysteria of the Left and their increasingly unglued, violent, inflammatory rhetoric. This included calling us voters 'garbage' and 'Nazis.'
But the bigger reasons are the economy, crime, illegal immigration, and the woke nonsense so pervasive on the Left.
Because I am not a Leftist, I am capable of some level of introspection and am mature enough to admit when I'm wrong. I didn't think Trump would secure the popular vote, but someone I know predicted a popular vote win months ago and he was right. I should have seen it coming.
I'm glad Trump won the popular vote. Not that it will sway the Left, but winning both the Electoral College and popular vote puts to rest the Left's argument that the system is somehow rigged.
The Left, including the media, are in a shambles. Voters have said -- quite loudly -- they reject their economic policies, their foreign policies, their soft-on-crime 'justice reform' policies, and all things DEI. We reject their insistence that Donald Trump is Hitler and that we are racist trash for supporting him.
We were, in a word, fed up. Yesterday was a reckoning for the summer of 2020 and everything that came after: it was how white voters protest. Peaceably, at the ballot box.
This was the democracy they love to defend in action.
The question is: will they defend it?
It's just before 4 pm Central time and Kamala is due to speak shortly, apparently, concede the election. She already called Donald Trump to congratulate him.
I'll be very interested to listen to her concession speech, to see what she says. On one hand, after calling Trump a Nazi, Hitler, and a literal threat to our freedoms and democracy, she's painted herself into a corner. How do you engage in such rhetoric and then simply concede the election? It would be the much-needed death knell of such nonsense, which goes back decades, but it would also inflame the Democratic Party base who have doubled, tripled, and quadrupled down on insulting the American voters who have so soundly rejecting them.
She has an opportunity to walk away from this campaign looking like a gracious loser, a uniter, and someone who tried to heal the fractured nation. That her supporters largely won't listen to her is not her fault. All she can do is point them in the right direction.
I hope she does.
I will likely be disappointed.
If they choose -- as I suspect they will -- to fight the Trump administration, it will also put to rest their insistence that only they support democracy and the will of the voters.
They do not.
That was evident long ago -- remember Prop 8 in California? The anti-gay marriage bill that the Left took all the way to SCOTUS because they found the will of the majority not to their liking.
And if it's a fight they choose, so be it. Yesterday's election showed that not only are their policies wildly unpopular and politically damaging, it showed the traditional media no longer have influence over a vast majority of Americans.
72 million people heard the 'Trump is Hitler' rhetoric and pulled the lever for him anyway. They have no other recourse, no line of attack, that will work going forward.
So whatever argument(s) the Left hurl at Trump during his second term, they will likely fall on deaf ears. At best. At worst, they will continue to damage the media brand and influence to the point their approval ratings hit single digits. I'm fine with that.
This gives the Trump administration carte blanche to enact whatever policies he wants. So long as inflation goes down and World War III doesn't break out, voters will not return to a Democratic Party that thinks we're garbage.
Yesterday, we took them to the curb, and there they'll stay.
