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American citizens who in recent years raised questions about possible voter fraud in the 2020 election were censored, deplatformed, and stigmatized. The results of the 2024 election appear, however, to have vindicated such skeptics, at least in their understanding that there was something anomalous about the number of votes Joe Biden supposedly received.

The
official story regarding the 2020 election is that President Donald Trump received 74.2 million votes and Biden received 81.2 million votes — a combined total of over 155 million votes.

According to Decision Desk HQ’s latest count, Trump secured over 73.2 million votes in Tuesday’s election and Kamala Harris received 68.6 million votes — a combined total of around 141.8 million, with some votes still left to be counted in states such as California. At the time of publication, CNN had the numbers at 72.8 million for Trump and 68.1 million for Harris.

For some sense of historical context, in 2016, Trump secured 62.9 million votes and Hillary Clinton secured 65.8 million votes, and in 2012, former Utah Sen. Mitt Romney netted 60.9 million votes and President Barack Obama secured 65.9 million votes.

Harris’ performance, as measured by the popular vote, appears to be more or less in line with Clinton’s and Obama’s. Biden’s supposed result, on the other hand, stands out like a sore thumb.

‘Every f***ing time except 2020.’

On Wednesday,
Democrats and their allies in the liberal media started asking how they could have record turnout in the 2024 election yet still have Harris net tens of millions fewer voters than Biden did four years ago. By raising this question and in some cases suggesting that Trump must have cheated, Democrats unwittingly prompted renewed concerns among their counterparts about the legitimacy of the previous election.

Zerohedge shared a graph on X comparing the popular vote results in the 2012, 2016, 2020, and 2024 elections,
writing, “Sorry to beat a dead horse, but can we go back to what happened here?”

“Yes, let’s do go back. American voters want and deserve to know precisely where 81 million ‘votes’ appeared from and how all the official 2020 evidence collected via courts and states has never been properly analyzed, summarized and presented,”
wrote Rasmussen Reports. “It’s a huge public topic.”

BlazeTV contributor T.J. Moe
responded, “There is not a single honest person in America, who believes Joe Biden get [sic] 81 million votes. Last night made it clear 2020 was stolen. History will acknowledge this.”

Former Republican National Committee spokeswoman Madison Gesiotto Gilbert
asked, “Where’d all the Democrats go?”

The glaring discrepancy also caught the eye of last-minute Trump supporter Joe Rogan, who noted on his show after Trump’s latest landslide victory, “It’s so crazy. You look at it and you go, ‘Is this real?'”

Rogan
noted that the consensus in the lead-up to the 2024 election was that it was “one of the most consequential elections ever,” such that there was some expectation that voters would turn out for Harris in similar numbers as they supposedly had for Biden in 2020.

“Look at the difference in how many people voted for Biden in 2020. It’s unprecedented. It’s way higher than any other time,” said Rogan. “This is what’s crazy: They’re consistent. Look, they’re all like 60 — look at where the number is. It’s all like 65 million. … Every f***ing time except 2020, and in 2020 it goes way the f*** up.”

Nathan Hughes of Arkansas, one of the Jan. 6 protesters
prosecuted by the Biden-Harris Department of Justice, noted, “Obama got 69M votes. Kamala got 68M votes. But they want us to believe Joe Biden somehow got 81M votes and won, despite losing nearly every bellweather county? They raided our homes and sent us to jail for asking where those extra 13M votes came from.”

Hughes
speculated, “They couldn’t manufacture and pump them into the system like they did during Covid.”

When pressed about what might have changed, YouTuber David Freiheit, known under his online pseudonym “Viva Frei,” similarly
suggested that this time around,

they didn’t have limitless ballots like they did in 2020. In 2020 they mailed out ballots to everyone. Changed the rules for indefinite confinement, drop boxes, never did signature matches in Georgia, etc. It was designed to facilitate ballot harvesting so they could just come up with the ballots to meet whatever number was required to win the election. Plus they had the cover of Twitter which was not yet controlled by Elon. And the courts never stepped in like they did this time around.

Some conservatives are hopeful that with a Republican trifecta at the federal level, there will soon be answers and accountability.

“This entire phony thing is getting swept out,” the newly liberated Steve Bannon said ahead of Trump’s victory speech Wednesday morning. “Biden’s getting swept out. Kamala Harris is getting swept out. MSNBC is getting swept out. The Justice Department is getting swept out. The FBI’s getting swept out. You people suck, OK? And now you’re going to pay the price for trying to destroy this country.”

Bannon, who has long complained about alleged election shenanigans in 2020, added, “[Trump] may be empathetic. He may have a kind heart. He may be a good man. But we’re not. And you deserve … not retribution, justice.”

The liberal media rushed to reassure the public the 2020 election was legitimate.

The Associated Press — which has done a great deal in recent months to undermine its credibility, particularly with false reports about
Israel’s defensive war against Hamas, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), and Project 2025 — published a “fact-check” Wednesday titled, “FACT FOCUS: A multimillion vote gap between 2020 and 2024 fuels false election narratives.”

The AP article stated that “claims of widespread fraud in 2020 have been debunked countless times” and suggested that the final count might greatly narrow the delta between Biden’s unprecedented result and Harris’ more conventional result.

Once the remainder of the votes are counted and finalized, Americans will have a better sense of exactly how anomalous the 2020 election really was.

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Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) unleashed a scathing critique against the Democratic Party following its crushing defeat on Election Day.

In his blistering remarks, Sanders declared it was “no great surprise” that the party lost the presidential election and suffered many other congressional defeats.

Though Sanders claims he supports working-class Americans, he called President-elect Donald Trump’s hopes to end the federal income tax ‘insane economics.’

Sanders stated, “It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.”

“First, it was the white working class, and now it is Latino and Black workers as well. While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they’re right,” he wrote.

“Today, while the very rich are doing phenomenally well, 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck and we have more income and wealth inequality than ever before,” Sanders continued. “Unbelievably, real, inflation-accounted-for weekly wages for the average American worker are actually lower now than they were 50 years ago.”

“Will the big money interests and well-paid consultants who control the Democratic Party learn any real lessons from this disastrous campaign?” he questioned. “Will they understand the pain and political alienation that tens of millions of Americans are experiencing? Do they have any ideas as to how we can take on the increasingly powerful Oligarchy which has so much economic and political power?”

“Probably not,” Sanders concluded.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a former Democrat, responded to Sanders, writing, “Sadly late.”

In his critique, Sanders also slammed the Democratic Party for supporting Israel.

“Today, despite strong opposition from a majority of Americans, we continue to spend billions funding the extremist Netanyahu government’s all out war against the Palestinian people which has led to the horrific humanitarian disaster of mass malnutrition and the starvation of thousands of children,” Sanders stated.

He concluded that “those of us concerned about grassroots democracy and economic justice need to have some very serious political discussions.”

Though Sanders claims he supports working-class Americans, he called President-elect Donald Trump’s hopes to end the federal income tax “insane economics.” He argued that such a plan would “hurt desperately poor people and further enrich the very wealthy.”

Sanders, a sitting senator earning approximately $174,000 annually, is worth roughly $3 million. He won his third re-election campaign on Tuesday, keeping him in the Senate for another six years.

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An Alabama pastor has ignited backlash by demeaning black Trump supporters as “ignorant stupid Negroes” and hinting that former President Donald Trump will make them slaves when he gets back into the White House.

Pastor Michael R. Jordan of the New Era Baptist Church in Birmingham posted the incendiary messages on the church’s sign.

Jordan plans to leave the message up outside his church through the inauguration.

Jordan had the following message on the church’s sign: “Warning African Americans: A vote for Trump will put blacks back to picking cotton.”

The other side of the sign reads: “Attention to all blacks who plan to vote for Trump: You are an ignorant stupid Negro.”

The controversial sign sparked outrage.

Alabama’s Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth — a Republican — said of the sign, “Churches are supposed to spread the Gospel, offer messages of God’s love, and share the life of Christ, not threaten, intimidate, and insult those who exercise their right to vote and support the candidate that is best for them. Those responsible for this sign should be ashamed.”

When Jordan was asked if his controversial style might hurt his church, he told WVTM-TV, “No, they know point-blank it’s an ear-catcher.”

Jordan added, “He’s thinking from a Republican point of view. Donald Trump is making sad, pitiful negative statements about people every day.”

Jordan plans to leave the message up outside his church through the inauguration.

During his 32-year tenure at the New Era Baptist Church, the pastor has had a history of making inflammatory statements on his church’s sign.

In 2019, he displayed a sign that read: “A white vote for Trump is pure racism.”

Alabama.com noted that Jordan attacked the Church of the Highlands in 2018 for planning to launch a church in a predominantly black neighborhood by calling it a “slavemaster” church.

In 2017, he posted a message that said: “Trump deceived poor white folks.”

In 2004, Jordan’s church had a sign that read: “AIDS is God’s curse on homosexuals.”

According to the Christian Post, Jordan said, “This is my ministry. This is my calling. Pastor, white or black, is a watchman. I’m going to take a stand.”

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We’ve had mediocre presidential candidates before, elevated beyond their ability thanks to money, connections, or their family name. Kamala Harris is the first one to make it to the top explicitly because of her race and sex. As such, she’s the living embodiment of DEI.

If Donald Trump defeats her, it will certainly strike a potent blow against this poisonous ideology. But Harris is merely the most high-profile beneficiary. Our institutions are already so captured by DEI that American lives are at stake.

Is a white man’s life worth less than a black woman’s? Through DEI’s oppressor-victim hierarchy, the answer is unequivocally yes.

Any serious attempt to undo the damage of a decade’s worth of anti-meritocratic policies must begin in our medical schools

Ill communication

A recent report from the medical watchdog organization Do No Harm makes for a sobering read. American medical schools are prioritizing political agendas over essential health care education, with potentially dire consequences.

Titled “Activism Instead of Anatomy,” the report claims that diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives are overshadowing traditional scientific and medical training at institutions nationwide.

At the heart of the problem lies a clear departure from rigorous scientific training toward ideologically driven content. Medical students are now being subjected to courses that prioritize social and political goals over traditional medical knowledge.

This includes an increased emphasis on identity politics and social theories that have little to do with developing the skills and knowledge essential for competent medical practice. This shift is eroding the essential knowledge needed for effective patient care. Moreover, this shift comes amid declining public trust in the medical establishment, which, rather than rebuilding confidence, seems intent on pushing Americans away — or into an early grave.

Rigor mortis

One of the report’s most alarming findings is the diversion of crucial time and resources away from core medical training. Medical curricula are already demanding, yet DEI-focused coursework consumes hours that should be dedicated to vital subjects like anatomy, pathology, and pharmacology.

Essentially, the rigor of medical education is being diluted, leaving future physicians less prepared for real-world challenges.

Beyond replacing essential training, this ideological shift raises serious ethical concerns. Students are pressured to adopt a specific worldview, with dissent risking punishment (more on this later). Ironically, in the name of inclusivity, medical schools are stifling intellectual diversity.

Training doctors to view patients primarily through an identity-based lens fosters division and undermines the principle of treating individuals as individuals. Is a white man’s life worth less than a black woman’s? Through DEI’s oppressor-victim hierarchy, the answer is unequivocally yes. White privilege has never looked so distinctly dangerous.

This is not hyperbole. When identity politics and political correctness dominate medical training, there is a tangible risk of professionals prioritizing ideological considerations over evidence-based care.

For example, as the report notes, the fixation on “correct” language and politically charged issues like transgender health care has, in some cases, overshadowed the need for solid, patient-centric approaches. While culturally competent care is essential, it should not replace scientifically sound medical practice but complement it.

Doctor Feelbad

This ideological push in medical schools risks seeping into the broader health care system. When doctors-in-training are taught to prioritize identity markers and politically charged agendas over clinical facts, this mindset can infiltrate hospitals and influence health care policies, compromising every single aspect of patient care. The obsessive focus on DEI initiatives often sidelines efficiency and merit-based advancement, ultimately affecting patient outcomes.

Remember, DEI agendas come at the cost of meritocracy. As a result, medical schools are not only admitting objectively less qualified students, but they are also producing objectively less competent doctors compared to just a few generations ago.

DEI is genuinely destructive, posing existential risks in critical areas. In truth, it’s a matter of life and death, with significantly higher amounts of the latter, if the report is to be believed.

What we’re witnessing here is the professionalization of grievance and the prioritization of activism over expertise. Medical schools, once places of necessary knowledge and innovation, have transformed into training grounds for the next generation of political activists. The lunatics really are running the asylum.

Worse yet, much of the DEI narrative rests on a shaky foundation. Or, to be more accurate, no foundation at all.

Stage 4 racism

Recently, Dr. Kendall Conger, a former emergency physician at Duke University Health System, was terminated for questioning the claim that racism is a “public health crisis.”

When Conger requested data to support this assertion, none was provided. Instead of engaging in dialogue, the institution punished him for raising a legitimate concern. This reaction reveals the hostile environment that sane medical professionals now face, where challenging the narrative leads not to discussion but to retribution.

Cancel culture still exists. Common sense? Well, not so much.

The report’s conclusion is clear. Medical schools must resist this ideological encroachment and refocus on their primary mission: Equipping future doctors with the skills and knowledge to save lives and improve patient outcomes.

Yet, the damage seems done. Curricula take years to develop and implement. Even if the entire DEI agenda were addressed logically today, it would take years to return to the basics. In the meantime, more doctors will graduate, and more Americans will pay the ultimate price — with their lives.

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The failed Harris-Walz campaign is facing some difficult questions about how it spent more than a billion dollars in campaign donations after reportedly ending with $20 million in debt.

Many pundits saw the historic donations to the Harris campaign as a sign that the vice president was heading for victory, but President-elect Donald Trump easily won the election while being outspent.

According to sources who spoke to Politico California bureau chief Christopher Cadelago, the campaign ended up at least $20 million in debt despite raising and spending more than $1 billion.

An email from the campaign claimed that it was still keeping “organizers and volunteers on the ground” in those states “with key Senate and House races still too close to call” and asked for more money from donors.

A separate report from Puck News said that the campaign was selling its email list in order to help pay the massive debt. Breitbart News said a campaign staffer confirmed that Harris deputy campaign manager Rob Flaherty was “currently shopping around the Kamala fundraising email list to anyone who wants it to try to raise the money back.”

That report claims that the campaign blew through the massive pool of cash by paying for lavish campaign events with celebrities and pop singers instead of putting that money into marketing that could have helped Harris win.

According to the New York Times, the Harris campaign spent into “six figures” to fly banners over NFL games, while the Guardian reported that the campaign spent $450,000 per day to have ads on the Las Vegas Sphere in Nevada.

Trump was declared the winner of the election early Wednesday morning just hours after most polls closed.

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David Plouffe, a senior adviser to Vice President Kamala Harris, deleted his X account after posting a parting shot at President Joe Biden’s campaign amid infighting and finger-pointing following Harris’ landslide defeat by President-elect Donald Trump.

“It was a privilege to spend 100 days with [Harris] and the amazing staff led by [Jen O’Malley Dillon] who left it all on the field for their country. We dug out of a deep hole but not enough. A devastating loss. Thanks for being in the arena, all of you,” Plouffe said on Wednesday.

It was the line “we dug out of a deep hole but not enough” that has added fuel to the raging fire between staffers for Harris, Biden, and former President Barack Obama.

‘This is straight up BS.’

“Reacting to Plouffe’s tweet, one Biden-world source called Plouffe a ‘sanctimonious a**’ — another said ”I find this so unproductive. Joe Biden is the President of the United States and won with out you. He successfully beat Donald Trump — something he never did,'” Fox News senior White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich reported.

The blame game between the camps is starting to play out in leaks to the mainstream media.

“There is no singular reason why we lost, but a big reason is because the Obama advisers publicly encouraged Democratic infighting to push Joe Biden out, didn’t even want Kamala Harris as the nominee, and then signed up as the saviors of the campaign only to run outdated Obama-era playbooks for a candidate that wasn’t Obama,” a Biden side source told Politico.

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) criticized the Democratic Party for abandoning the entire working class, not just white voters, saying the out-of-touch positioning Democrats took on things like the economy doomed them this election.

“This is straight up BS. Biden was the most-pro worker President of my life time — saved Union pensions, created millions of good paying jobs and even marched in a picket line and some of MVP’s plans would have fundamentally transformed the quality of life and closed the racial wealth gap for working people across this country,” Democratic Party chairman Jaime Harrison said in response to Sanders on X.

“There are a lot of post election takes and this one ain’t a good one,” he added.

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Leftists in Massachusetts, one of the bluest states in the country, have pledged to protect the tens of thousands of illegal immigrants living there as a second term under President Donald Trump looms on the horizon.

On the campaign trail this year, Trump repeatedly promised to deport en masse many of the millions of illegal aliens who have stolen into the United States during the Biden-Harris administration.

“We’re going to have the largest deportation in the history of our country, and we’re going to start with Springfield and Aurora,” Trump said earlier this year, according to USA Today.

Now that the American people have spoken and voted overwhelmingly to send Trump back into office, Massachusetts liberals claimed they will do all they can so that the commonwealth’s 100,000 or so illegal aliens — who have drained untold millions in taxpayer-funded resources for the past four years — can stay where they are.

In response to MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell asking her on election night whether the Massachusetts State Police would “assist in mass deportations,” Gov. Maura Healey (D) replied, “No, absolutely not.”

Healey also told O’Donnell she would fight against any “pressure” exerted on state officials to cooperate in similar efforts.

“Every tool in the toolbox has got to be used to protect our citizens, our residents, and protect our states and certainly to hold the line on democracy and the rule of law as a basic principle,” she added.

‘Gov. Healey may feel her far-left Democratic base wants this, but this election showed us the vast majority of voters do not.’

Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell (D) slammed what she called Trump’s “deportation force” and promised to join forces with leaders across the country to stop it, even though polls consistently show that most Americans support deporting illegal aliens rather than granting them a pathway to citizenship.

“We are prepared for every scenario — obviously when he was president before, he led and started with a ban on certain populations and certain constituents,” Campbell said, referring to Trump’s previous ban on immigrants from some Muslim-majority countries. “We are well aware of that, and AGs came together then to work in partnership to combat that administration.”

The City of Cambridge, a sanctuary city and the home of Harvard University, likewise pledged to “protect” all of its residents “regardless of their immigration status.”

“As a Sanctuary City, Cambridge affirms the basic human rights and dignity of every human being and provides education, health and other critical services to all residents of Cambridge, regardless of their immigration status,” said a statement from city spokesperson Jeremy Warnick.

Cambridge is also committed to “supporting and promoting the safety, health, and well-being of all of its residents,” his statement added, according to the Harvard Crimson.

Paul Craney of the Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance claimed that these sentiments about illegal aliens are out of touch with most of the Bay State.

“Governor Maura Healey needs to begin listening to what the voters want instead of telling us what she thinks we should hear,” Craney said in a statement to Blaze News. “Illegal immigration and inadmissible migrants are having a big negative impact on taxpayer resources, and the election was fueled in part due to this issue. Gov. Healey may feel her far-left Democratic base wants this, but this election showed us the vast majority of voters do not.”

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Donald Trump’s campaign greatly expanded its youth voter base in the 2024 election following the president’s appearance on several prominent podcasts that appeal to young men.

Exit polls have shown huge numbers among young men for Trump, where he won by 14 points over Vice President Kamala Harris. This was a 15-point swing for Republicans since 2020 when President Joe Biden won the 18-to-29-year-old category with 56%.

Trump made gains with young female voters also, increasing his support by seven points since 2020 from 33% to 40%.

Overall, Trump massively closed the gap among young voters, according to statistics from Circle. What was a 25-point margin for Biden in 2020 shrunk to just a 6% advantage for Harris in 2024. The new 52% (D) to 46% (R) margin was actually Harris’ biggest block of support in the election, which is an obvious marker of how she ended up losing by almost 5 million votes.

With so many young voters, especially males, coming out for Trump, it’s hard to ignore the fact the president made a bounty of unexpected appearances on podcasts that appeal to that demographic.

‘He tells me about all the hot guys I’ve never heard about.’

As reported by Today, Trump credited his son Barron for urging him to go on “The Joe Rogan Experience” and many others podcasts.

Trump even told Fox’s Maria Bartiromo that Barron lets him know which podcasts are the most popular.

“He tells me about all the hot guys [podcasters] I’ve never heard about,” Trump laughed. “‘Dad, that guy is hot,'” he added.

Particularly, this was the reason why Trump appeared on a livestream with popular streamer Adin Ross.

“My son’s told me about you. They told me about how big — Barron, he said, ‘Dad, he’s really big,'” Trump told Ross during the livestream. Trump’s appearance reportedly averaged about 500,000 concurrent viewers on streaming platform Kick, while the YouTube version has 2.6 million views.

Newsweek also credited Barron for Trump’s appearance on “Bussin’ with the Boys,” a sports podcast starring two former NFL players.

This was coupled by an appearance on comedian Theo Von’s podcast that drew in 14 million YouTube viewers, while 7.8 million tuned in for comedian Andrew Schulz’s “Flagrant” podcast with Trump.

Trump also made a repeat guest spot on the “Full Send Podcast” with the Nelk Boys, who have a massive young, male audience of their own.

UFC President Dana White made reference to these appearances during Trump’s late-night victory speech. White made sure to thank nearly all of the aforementioned podcast hosts as part of the reason why Trump won.

Harris, on the other hand, made only two prominent podcast appearances; this included the “Call Her Daddy” podcast, which is widely considered the most popular podcast among women.

However, it was an odd choice given that the show focuses predominantly on sex and relationships.

Harris later appeared on “Club Shay Shay,” the popular show starring former NFL player Shannon Sharpe. Disappointingly for the Harris campaign, however, her appearance does not even rank in the top 50 most-viewed episodes of the podcast.

Barron’s influence on the election “cannot be understated,” says political commentator and noted young, male Trump supporter John Doyle.

Doyle told Blaze News that Barron spent “his most formative years watching his father be punished by a country he loves,” which likely drove him to help his father’s campaign in any way he could.

“I’m not surprised at all that he advised his father, and did so effectively,” Doyle added. “Especially since the position of the regime is to disenfranchise the very viewers of those podcasts, young male voters.”

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Plenty of things will kill you, but one will do it the quickest, and since August 1945, that’s been nuclear weapons. Climate change? Sure, it’s a concern. But the climate has been changing since Noah loaded up the ark. If we’re talking about what could literally wipe humanity off the map before we even get to debate the weather, then we’ve got to deal with the nukes first.

Donald Trump was dead-on in his appearance on “The Joe Rogan Experience” that nuclear disarmament is crucial, and he understands that every dollar we pour into foreign conflicts could be better spent protecting what we’ve got here at home.

Seek peace, be strong by practicing restraint, and use what we have to build up our communities.

The truth is that our foreign policy today is more about profit than patriotism. You’ve got the Federal Reserve churning out funny money like there’s no tomorrow, funding wars that fill the pockets of fat cats who’ve never seen a battlefield. The most decorated Marine in U.S. history said it best: “War is a racket. Always has been.”

Fiat dollars are no longer backed by the decades-long exclusive use in the oil trade. These increasingly borrowed dollars fuel military-industrial schemes that create more conflict than solutions. Defense contractors rake in billions while average Americans watch their tax dollars go up in smoke — sometimes literally — thousands of miles away.

In several recent cases, we’ve seen a meme come to life before our eyes as Israel launched U.S.-made missiles to intercept Iranian drones and Hezbollah rockets that were effectively paid for with fungible U.S. dollars released by the Biden-Harris administration.

Psalm 135 says it plainly: When you worship gold and silver, you lose your soul and your reason. In our case, it’s worse, because at least gold and silver have inherent value. Fiat money is worth less than the paper it’s printed on, except to those who put their faith in it.

I’m not saying every Democrat is worshiping a golden idol in his or her basement, but a foreign policy that constantly chases profits abroad looks a lot like a false god to me. By prioritizing war over peace and intervention over independence, the left has handed over the treasury to the corporate media and many bad actors within the military-industrial complex, both of which profit from every bomb dropped and every soldier and sailor deployed. This is a bipartisan problem in Congress, but there’s an unmistakable, stark policy difference between Harris and Trump that will be decided this week.

Our first step out of this mess? Elect leaders who see the whole picture, who understand that de-escalation should be our top priority but that we must also be strong and secure at home. We need folks in office who put American lives and well-being ahead of corporate interests and war contracts.

Trump’s call for nuclear restraint, and a foreign policy that prioritizes our own soil over endless foreign wars, is one we’d do well to heed. He has talked about these ideas for the better part of a decade. What I’ll be hoping and praying for is that he has, in fact, learned from his first term about the importance of hiring the right people to enact his vision of U.S. foreign policy and not warhawks like John Bolton.

But for the long haul, it will take more than a president with a responsible foreign policy. As a nation, we need to stop chasing false gods, whether they come in the form of cash or influence, and start asking ourselves what Jesus would have us do. The answer is as old as the hills: Seek peace, be strong by practicing restraint, and use what we have to build up our communities. That’s how we may save first our country, maybe the world, and also our souls.

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An 82-year-old Washington woman was arrested around 1 pm. on Monday for a hate crime after assaulting two Trump supporters, according to police.

The alleged victims — 55-year-old Gina Powell and 66-year-old Mary Jennings — were waving signs and flags supporting former President Donald Trump. They were allegedly confronted by an elderly woman while supporting Trump a day before the 2024 presidential election on a street in Edmonds, Washington.

‘She made it very clear it was my skin color.’

Police bodycam footage shows the suspect wearing a “Harris-Waltz 2024” button on her vest.

Race seemed to be a part of the Kamala Harris supporter’s issue with the women championing Trump.

Powell — who is Hispanic — told KTTH host Jason Rantz, “She looked at my face and said, ‘I can’t believe you’re voting for a racist … how dare you, you should be ashamed of yourself.'”

“I was just shocked at just the presence of mind, and she made it very clear it was my skin color,” Powell added.

The unnamed 82-year-old woman told police, “I approached her, and I said I want to know why you’re voting for Trump. That’s the only thing. And. And I said because you’re brown-skinned.”

The suspect allegedly told the Trump supporters, “Do you know what will happen to people like you if Trump is elected?”

She purportedly said the women “should know better.”

The Edmonds Police Department said in a statement on Wednesday: “During the incident, the suspect indicated the race of the victims, and their political beliefs were the catalyst for her approaching and yelling at them about their views before the assault.”

“When officers contacted the suspect, she stated that she could not understand why people of color would support this particular candidate,” the police noted. “The suspect commented on the victim’s attire and skin color before the suspect pushed the victim and punched her in the chin.”

At the time of the alleged confrontation, Powell was wearing a T-shirt that read: “Pro-God, Pro-Gun, Pro-Life, Pro-Trump.”

Powell told KOMO that the suspect shoved her and “pushed her back.”

Powell then allegedly told the woman, “Don’t touch me.”

“And then, not even a second, she just popped me right in my chin,” Powell explained.

The suspect told police, “I pushed her away, and then put my hand to her chin.”

Jennings attempted to get between the two women, and she was also allegedly assaulted.

Jennings said the elderly woman punched her in the chin and “slammed” her jaw shut.

The Trump supporters did not need medical treatment for the alleged attack. However, Powell said she hasn’t been able to go back to work yet because she’s “still kind of in shock.”

The Edmonds Police Department said the suspect was “very animated and even attempted to push an officer while demonstrating how she had acted.”

During the investigation, police said the suspect “continued to show no remorse for the incident and the potential to continue her behavior toward others.”

Officers established probable cause for a hate crime arrest.

KOMO reported that the suspect has not been charged, but a judge found probable cause for a hate crime offense and two counts of fourth-degree assault on Tuesday.

The 82-year-old woman was booked into the Snohomish County Jail.

Edmonds Police Chief Michelle Bennett stated, “The constitution protects peaceful rallies in our community, and community members should never be met with violence while exercising those rights. Our officers properly determined that this was more than just an assault and arrested the suspect for the appropriate charge.”

Mayor Mike Rosen said, “I’m disheartened that this violence has occurred in our community. Elections are an important part of society, and freedom of expression is the foundation on which democracy is built. Community members peacefully showing political support should not be subject to hateful violence. I’m thankful there were no serious injuries, and the suspect was held accountable.”

Powell said the alleged physical incident will not deter her from publicly supporting Trump.

“He got shot by a bullet, and he said ‘fight, fight, fight,’ I got a little jab in my chin, so I’m not sitting down,” Powell said, making a reference to the Trump assassination attempt at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania in July.

The Edmonds Police Department said it did not release news of the arrest until after the election was over so as to not stir up more political tensions.

You can watch the police bodycam video of the arrest here.

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As Democrats make excuses for losing yet another election to Donald Trump, more signs of a historic political realignment are emerging.

Look no farther than New Jersey.

‘Democrats need to take this extremely seriously by looking at whether this is an individual one-off or if there is something deeper and more systematic.’

A Republican presidential candidate has not won the Garden State since George H.W. Bush in 1988, and Democrats have won the state by double-digit margins since 1996 with one exception: George W. Bush’s 2004 re-election campaign.

By all accounts, New Jersey is a deep-blue state. But that could be changing.

Even though Kamala Harris won the state on Election Day, her margin of victory was only 5.1%. In other words, Harris had the worst showing for a Democrat in New Jersey since Bill Clinton in 1992, who would have defeated George H.W. Bush by a larger margin had third-party candidate Ross Perot not siphoned away a significant number of votes.

Put another way: Trump lost to Hillary Clinton by 14% in 2016 and to Joe Biden by 16% in 2020 — but by only 5% to Harris in 2024.

What should we think about Trump’s robust performance in New Jersey? According to Politico, it means New Jersey could be up for grabs as a swing state in future presidential elections.

Not only are Trump’s improving margins eye-popping, but Politico noted that Tuesday’s result is “more striking” because Democrats hold a significant voter registration advantage over Republicans in the state — about 900,000.

In light of Trump’s performance, Democratic strategist Dan Bryan told Politico that his party needs to wake up.

“Democrats need to take this extremely seriously by looking at whether this is an individual one-off or if there is something deeper and more systematic,” he said.

In Hudson County — part of the New York City metro — Trump improved by 9% compared to 2020. Other parts of the New York City area saw similar shifts in Trump’s favor.

Jose Arango, the Republican Party chairman of Hudson County, believes he knows why urban voters are shifting toward Trump.

“The Democratic Party talks about helping the poor, but if you talk about Hudson County, it’s segregated and the working class, and the liberal enclaves are basically the people who are supporting Wall Street in the places they can’t afford the rent. There’s no affordable housing,” he told Politico.

Chris Russell, a New Jersey Republican strategist, agrees that Trump’s agenda has struck a chord with New Jerseyans.

“I think you saw the beginnings of this in ’21,” Russell told Politico, referring to Republican Jack Ciattarelli nearly winning election to be New Jersey’s governor.

“There’s a frustration by voters in New Jersey on economic stuff, on crime issues, and I also think there’s an underbelly in the stuff Trump tapped into culturally,” Russell explained. “People are tired of being told they’re bad people, racists, bigots, or Nazis — all these crazy aspersions that are cast on people who support Trump or things that he believes.”

Even Gov. Phil Murphy (D) this week described his win three years ago as the “canary in the coal mine” foreshadowing a significant electorate realignment in his state.

Whether a Republican wins New Jersey in future election remains to be seen. But it’s clear that New Jersey is not an outlier.

In New York, for example, Trump lost by 23% in 2020. This year, he is poised to lose by only 11%. In California, Trump lost by 29% in 2020 but is currently losing by only 17% this year. This phenomenon — a red shift — happened across the nation, most prominently in historically blue states.

If Republicans lean into what made them successful this year, perhaps there is hope yet for California, New York, Illinois, and other longtime Democratic strongholds.

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Over the past few months, Americans everywhere had called on each other to make the results of the 2024 presidential election “too big to rig” — though many were skeptical that a feat of that nature was possible.

But it turns out it was.

The red wave was unstoppable, and Donald Trump won every single swing state.

“I mean, from the beginning, it kind of looked like there’s no path for her. There’s no path,” Pat Gray of “Pat Gray Unleashed” comments. “You didn’t want to believe it immediately because I didn’t want the beat down at the end.”

“But you know what, we are finally unburdened by what has been,” he adds.

The prospect of a Donald Trump win became clearer and clearer as the night went on, and one clip of Jake Tapper from CNN illustrates this perfectly.

As Tapper stands looking at an electoral map, his colleague shows him that there was currently no state in America where Kamala Harris was outperforming Biden in 2020.

“Literally nothing?” Tapper says, shocked, staring at the empty electoral map. “Literally not one county?”

Gray, Keith Malinak, and Jeffy couldn’t help but burst into laughter watching the clip.

“He hates Trump,” Gray comments. “It’s made him unreasonable, a guy who used to be somewhat of a real journalist,” noting that Tapper now has Trump Derangement Syndrome, like so many others.

While Tapper is not alone in his condition, the guys aren’t sure that Kamala supporters actually support Kamala enough to do anything about it.

“There might be a little bit of upheaval, but no one really feels the need to go out and burn the streets down because of Kamala Harris not winning,” Jeffy says.

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A mystery trader identifying himself only as Thèo secured an
estimated $48 million in profits betting that the 45th president would be elected the 47th president.

The trader, a Frenchman with a financial services background who has been dubbed the “Trump whale,” reportedly used four anonymous accounts — Theo4, Fredi9999, PrincessCaro and Michieon — on the crypto-based betting site Polymarket to bet on President Donald Trump to win the popular vote as well as most battleground states.

Thèo suspected that establishment pollsters and the mainstream media had overestimated support for Kamala Harris and once again underestimated Trump’s support.

Thèo
told Visegrád 24 prior to Election Day, “The polls are really different from the predictive odds in the predictive markets. It calculates something totally different. One is calculating what are the intentions of the people to vote. The other are bets made by real people with real money about who they believe the winner will be.”

The Frenchman noted in August, he began to realize that “media outlets are making the same mistakes they made in 2016 and 2020 underestimating the Trump vote. Why? Because, again, it’s underestimating the shy Trump vote effect.”

The Princeton Election Consortium
indicated, for example, in November 2016 that Hillary Clinton had a 99% chance of beating Trump, projecting her to take 312 electoral votes. FiveThirtyEight, then Nate Silver’s polling outfit, suggested that Clinton’s had a 71.4% chance of winning. Polls conducted that year by the Washington Post, ABC News, Google Consumer Surveys, Ipsos, YouGov, Fox News, Selzer & Company, and other outfits were similarly way off the mark, all putting Clinton ahead by several points.

Thèo indicated that this time around, the New York Times/Siena College polls and others were making the same mistakes, noting that in one instance, a poll showing Harris ahead by 2 percentage points in North Carolina was actually “un-representative by 9.3 percentage points.”

‘Don’t trust the mainstream media.’

Prior to Election Day, Thèo
told a reporter at the Wall Street Journal who had taken an interest in the trader’s enormous bets that RealClearPolitics polling averages showed Trump outdoing his swing-state polling numbers in the previous presidential election, which was particularly close.

Recognizing that the races would again be close in swing states such as Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, and factoring in the “shy Trump voter effect” — which the mainstream polling outfits apparently neglected to account for — the trader realized the Republican had upwards of a 90% chance of winning the day and a 65% chance of winning the popular vote.

The Frenchman took the addition step of commissioning a major pollster to conduct surveys to measure the “neighbor effect” stateside. Thèo noted that while the shy voter effect undermined the reliability of normal polls, neighbor polls — where respondents are asked which candidates their neighbors would likely support — would provide a better indication of voter preferences.

Thèo told the Journal that the results “were mind blowing to the favor of Trump!”

“Public opinion would have been better prepared if the latest polls had measured that neighbor effect,” he added.

Bloomberg
indicated that Polymarket bets on which candidate would become the 47th president produced almost $3.7 billion in volume this cycle.

Polymarket released a statement Wednesday morning,
noting, “Last night, Polymarket proved the wisdom of markets over the polls, the media, and the pundits. Polymarket consistently and accurately forecasted outcomes well ahead of all three, demonstrating the power of high volume, deeply liquid prediction markets like those pioneered by Polymarket.”

The company later shared a screenshot of an Oct. 22 Time magazine headline that read, “Don’t Trust the Political Prediction Markets,” commenting, “Don’t trust the mainstream media.”

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Winning elections is a collective effort, but some individuals shoulder far more responsibility than others, as demonstrated over the past several months by conservative activist Scott Ryan Presler, founder of the
Early Vote Action PAC and former chairman of Gays for Trump.

Presler, the son of a retired Navy captain, put his nose to the grindstone in Pennsylvania, working to turn out the vote for President Donald Trump.

After Trump beat Kamala Harris 50.5% to 48.5% in the Keystone State, Presler tweeted, “Mister President, I’m pleased to share that we have delivered Pennsylvania for you. Congratulations, sir.”

Presler is now being celebrated for his efforts.

BlazeTV’s Allie Beth Stuckey
wrote, “GREAT JOB!”

“Thank you, Scott,”
wrote Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “You were a miracle worker.”

“Thanks Scott!” Elon Musk
tweeted Wednesday following Trump’s landslide victory.

“You’re a legend Scott,”
tweeted Donald Trump Jr.

“The Republican party needs to pay this guy and put him in charge of voter registration in ALL of the swing states,”
wrote Wall Street Silver.

“Not a talker,”
wrote James O’Keefe. “A man of action. He put in the work and did what he said he was going to do.”

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Co.) similarly celebrated Presler,
writing, “You have gone above and beyond and we are so grateful for all the work you’ve put into winning this election.”

Presler previously
indicated that after graduating from George Mason University with a 3.63 GPA, he couldn’t find a job, so he began walking dogs for a living. Unfortunately for Harris, that turned out to be a short-lived career.

After spending two years working to defeat Hillary Clinton, Presler committed to getting Trump re-elected and renewing America. His activism took on different forms.

‘Pennsylvania has the power to change the world.’

For instance, in 2019, Presler traveled to cities dirtied by “failed Democrat policies” like Baltimore and worked to clean up their streets. He
told Fox News Digital at the time, “We organized 200 volunteers, on a Monday, a workday, and we picked up 12 tons of trash in 12 hours on the most dangerous streets of America in West Baltimore.”

“We went to Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Chicago, Denver, Dukane, Detroit, Houston, Kenosha, Los Angeles, Miami, Milwaukee, Portland, Pittsburgh, Philly, and I was even protested for picking up trash in San Francisco, California,” added the activist.

Over time, the activist refined and focused his efforts.

In January 2023, Presler announced the launch of his PAC with the stated purpose of “increasing voter registration, along with increasing absentee voting & early voting participation, beginning with the key 2024 swing states of Arizona, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.”

Presler noted in a Jan. 24, 2023,
op-ed that

EVA is going to organize and mobilize, devoid of insider political drama plaguing the RNC and the D.C. swamp, and lead the way in ensuring that every right-leaning American is registered to vote and excited to vote early, whether by mail or in person. And by achieving this goal, Early Vote Action PAC is going to ensure that 2024 is a year of Republican victories.

While making good on his plan, he was attacked viciously by Democratic operatives such as Alex Floyd, rapid response director for the Democratic National Committee, who
called Presler “an election-denying conspiracy theorist.”

Elements of the liberal media similarly smeared Presler. A Daily Beast hit piece, for example,
deemed him a “radical” and insinuated he was an extremist.

Undeterred, Presler announced on Sept. 20 that he would not leave Pennsylvania, citing the need to be present for the “final battle.”

“For the next 40+ days, I am not leaving Pennsylvania. I even purchased property in Pennsylvania just to vote for Donald Trump. We have 40+ paid staff on the ground & ALL of our resources are going to PA,”
wrote the activist. “We’re all in.”

Weeks later, when Trump returned to the site where he was previously shot by a Democratic donor, Presler was brought onstage, where he
told the crowd, “Pennsylvania has the power to change the world.”

After imploring audience members to double-check their voter status, he said, “A message to our union workers: We want your vote. We want to keep jobs here in America. To our beautiful Amish in Lancaster and across the state: We will protect your raw milk, your dairy, your farming, your school choice, your religious freedom, your ability to afford to have 10 beautiful children per family.”

Trump ultimately won the state with over 130,000 votes.

Blaze News reached out to Presler for comment but did not receive a response by the deadline.

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President Joe Biden appeared almost happy in the first speech he’s given since the devastating loss for Vice President Kamala Harris in the election.

Biden spoke for about 10 minutes from the White House on Thursday and tried to encourage supporters to keep fighting despite their discouraging failure to defeat President-elect Donald Trump.

‘The America of your dreams is calling for you to get back up. That’s the story of America for over 240 years, and counting.’

“In a democracy, the will of the people always prevails,” said Biden.

Biden claimed to have given the U.S. the “strongest economy in the world” and reassured followers that his policies would continue to help Americans for the next decade. Some viewers noted that Biden looked almost happy at times during the speech.

He said he spoke to Trump and congratulated him on the election. He also promised to ensure a “peaceful and orderly” transition.

He also encouraged Americans to avoid divisiveness and defended the integrity of the election.

“I’ve said many times, you can’t love your country only when you win. You can’t love your neighbor only when you agree. Something I hope we can do, no matter who you voted for, is see others not as adversaries, but as fellow Americans. Bring down the temperature,” said Biden.

“Setbacks are unavoidable. But giving up is unforgivable,” he said before repeating the line for emphasis.

“We all get knocked down. But the measure of our character, as my dad would say, is how quickly we get back up. Remember, a defeat does not mean we are defeated,” he continued. “We lost this battle. The America of your dreams is calling for you to get back up. That’s the story of America for over 240 years and counting.”

Trump appears to have garnered 312 electoral votes, and Harris has only 226, now that some outlets have called the races in Arizona and Nevada.

“The American experiment endures,” Biden said.

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Although Republicans have won the presidency and regained a majority in the Senate, it remains unclear which party will claim control of the House.

As of this writing, Republicans have secured 206 seats, while Democrats have won 192 seats, according to the Associated Press. Either party will need to win at least 218 of the 435 House seats in order to hold the majority. Currently, 37 seats are yet to be called, which could swing the majority in either direction.

Of the 37 seats, Republicans are leading 17 of them, while Democrats are ahead in 20. Although Democrats are leading in more uncalled races, Republicans only need 12 of the 17 seats to maintain their majority.

‘As more results come in, it is clear that, as we have predicted all along, Republicans are poised to have unified government in the White House, Senate, and House.’

Republicans are leading Alaska’s only House race, as well as Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District, Iowa’s 1st Congressional District, Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District, Pennsylvania’s 7th, 8th, and 9th Congressional Districts, Arizona’s 1st, 2nd, and 6th Congressional Districts, and California’s 13th, 22nd, 27th, 41st, 45th, and 47th Congressional Districts.

Washington’s 4th Congressional District is still uncalled but will go to one of the two Republican candidates due to the ranked-choice voting system.

Democrats are ahead in Washington’s 3rd and 8th Congressional Districts, Oregon’s 5th and 6th Congressional Districts, California’s 9th, 12th, 21st, 26th, 39th, and 49th Congressional Districts, Nevada’s 1st, 3rd, and 4th Congressional Districts, Arizona’s 4th Congressional District, and Colorado’s 8th Congressional District.

Farther east, Democrats are leading in Louisiana’s 6th Congressional District, Ohio’s 9th Congressional District, North Carolina’s 1st Congressional District, Maryland’s 6th Congressional District, New York’s 4th Congressional District, and Maine’s 2nd Congressional District.

Speaker Mike Johnson reassured his party, maintaining that he was confident that Republicans would hold their majority.

“This historic election has proven that a majority of Americans are eager for secure borders, lower costs, peace through strength, and a return to common sense,” Johnson said in a statement Wednesday. “As more results come in, it is clear that, as we have predicted all along, Republicans are poised to have unified government in the White House, Senate, and House.”

“House Republicans have been successful in securing critical flips in swing states including Pennsylvania and Michigan, while our battle-tested incumbents have secured re-election from coast to coast,” Johnson continued. “The latest data and trends indicate that when all the votes are tabulated, Republicans will have held our majority, even though we faced a map with 18 Biden-won seats.”

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The Democrats’ method of fearmongering, lying, and name-calling surprisingly didn’t secure Kamala Harris a spot in the Oval Office — and Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable” couldn’t be happier.

“Kamala Harris tried really hard to make you believe that miscarriage and abortion are the same thing,” Stuckey says, adding, “Kamala thought that she would be able to run exclusively on abortion. Every speech that she gave, every debate moment that she had, every interview that she offered, went back to abortion.”

“She will sacrifice any right that you have on the altar of abortion, and that is the only thing that she knew how to run on, because that is the only time she really sounds articulate,” Stuckey says, adding, “Which is completely demonic and depraved when you think about it.”

Not only has Kamala successfully convinced her voters to be terrified they’ll be faced with “forced births” despite abortion not even being on the ballot at a federal level — but her entire campaign was run on a hypothetical.

“Kamala Harris was asking that group of voters to vote based on a hypothetical that is probably not going to affect them. An abstract issue to them that is probably never going to impact their family. That is a difficult case to make when they are looking at things that really do affect their family in a tangible, physical way,” Stuckey says.

Those tangible things include the cost of living and crime — which have both skyrocketed under the Biden-Harris administration.

“What voters in general cared about more was being able to afford groceries and gas and being able to walk through their neighborhoods safely, communities, not being riddled with crime because of the purposeful and unmitigated importation of unvetted, military-aged illegal immigrants,” Stuckey explains.

“And so this campaign that she pushed, this deceptive strategy of convincing people that miscarriage and abortion is the same thing, and therefore you have to vote for the pro-abortion candidate, it just did not win,” she adds.

Not only was her abortion stance a failure, but her transgender advocacy was a major failure as well.

“People don’t want transgenderism,” Stuckey says, adding, “People don’t want its effects in their life. The idea that a man is a woman because he wears lipstick and a dress was the bridge too far.”

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President-elect Donald Trump secured sweeping victories in every battleground state, including Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

The election results for Arizona and Nevada were the last ones to be confirmed, with some media outlets, like the New York Times and the Associated Press, still holding off their announcements as of Thursday afternoon.

‘This is an extremely clear mandate from the people for significant change!’

However, according to Decision Desk HQ, Trump defeated Harris in Arizona by 5.5 points with 75% of the ballots tallied.

Decision Desk HQ reported that Trump also took Nevada by more than 3.5 points with 95% of the votes counted.

Trump’s win in Arizona and Nevada added 17 more electoral votes to his total, pushing him well over the 270 threshold required to secure the presidency. Trump’s final count is expected to be 312 electoral votes against Vice President Kamala Harris’ 226.

Trump also ran away with the popular vote, securing at least 4.5 million more supporters than his rival.

In the 2016 presidential election, Trump beat Hillary Clinton by 3.5 points in Arizona. Despite Maricopa County’s gradual shift toward the Democrats, Trump still managed to lead there by 2.9 points. In the previous presidential election, President Joe Biden defeated Trump in Arizona by less than half a point by picking up Maricopa County.

On Monday, Trump won the swing county by three points, with 77% of the ballots tallied. The Democratic stronghold counties, including Coconino, Apache, Pima, and Santa Cruz, went to Harris. Trump won the other 10 Arizona counties.

Both Biden and Clinton clinched Nevada by 2.4 points in the last two presidential races, thanks to their wins in Washoe and Clark Counties. However, on Monday, Trump flipped Washoe County, securing his victory in the state.

On Wednesday, Elon Musk wrote on X, “Arizona just declared for @realDonaldTrump, making it a clean sweep of all swing states! Massive red wave success!”

He noted that Republicans won the presidency, popular vote, Senate majority, House majority, state governor majority, and the state legislature majority.

“The few states that didn’t go red are mostly ones without voter ID requirements. Must be a coincidence,” Musk continued. “This is an extremely clear mandate from the people for significant change!”

It is still unclear whether the Republicans will hold the House and whether Senate candidate Kari Lake (R) will defeat her opponent, Ruben Gallego (D), in the Arizona race to replace retiring Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I).

Arizona counties ran into several speed bumps throughout the voting process.

The Navajo Nation in Apache County requested that polling centers stay open an additional two hours due to issues with the ballot-on-demand printers. A judge granted its request.

There were also a number of hoax bomb threats made to several polling locations.

Center for American Liberty founder and CEO Harmeet Dhillon told Glenn Beck on Tuesday evening that she expected Maricopa County to take up to two weeks to count all its ballots.

“That’s because they’re allowed to do that under the law,” she explained.

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MSNBC host Joe Scarborough was flabbergasted when he found out how much inflation has affected the price of butter in the United States, as the network comes to grips with Vice President Kamala Harris’ election loss.

On his talk show “Morning Joe,” Scarborough recalled an instance when he was speaking to a Harris voter who told him Donald Trump was going to win the presidency simply due to the unaffordability of groceries.

“A few weeks ago … somebody who was going to be voting for Kamala Harris came up to me and said, ‘Oh my God, Trump’s going to win. … I go to the grocery store, [and] butter is over $3,'” Scarborough recalled.

The host said he sort of laughed and thought to himself that the person’s argument was kind of “reductive.”

‘What, is it framed in gold?’

It was at that point, Scarborough’s wife and co-host, Mika Brzezinski, interrupted to tell him that the butter she buys is actually more than double that price.

“It’s $7. … I’m just saying it’s 7,” she stated as they somewhat spoke over each other.

“What’s that?” Scarborough asked.

Finally cluing in to what he heard, Scarborough looked shocked as he stopped dead in his tracks.

“Butter is $7!?” he asked.

“Yeah,” Brzezinski calmly replied.

“What, is it framed in gold?” Scarborough said as his panel laughed.

“Yeah, it depends on where you go,” his wife reiterated.

As the segment went on, it became clear that MSNBC and its hosts are either slowly figuring out that Americans are fed up with the high cost of living, or the network has finally decided to discuss the reality of the average consumer now that the election is over.

Part of these network revelations included an NBC News exit poll that showed how much worse Americans view their financial situation in 2024 compared to previous election years.

For 2024, 46% of those polled felt they were worse off financially than in 2020. In 2020, that number was just 20%.

For 2016, the same question saw 27% say they were worse off, while 33% said the same in 2012.

This was followed by a different exit poll showing how Americans have suffered as a result of inflation.

Respondents were asked how inflation has affected them and their families.

Three-quarters of Americans said that they have suffered either moderate (53%) or severe hardship (22%) due to inflationary costs, while less than a quarter (24%) said they felt “no hardship at all.”

Scarborough would go on to state that when looking at the current cost of groceries and gasoline compared to 2020, it must have been a very easy choice for the majority of Americans to vote Trump.

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Mainstream media is once again running to the hills following a second presidential election victory for Donald Trump, leaving audiences to wonder how and why network anchors seemingly didn’t shoot straight with them in their coverage.

With networks seemingly (and nonsensically) taking forever to call the election for Trump, a feeling of distrust in mainstream media seemed ever-present as votes rolled in on election night. Case in point: CNN didn’t call the election for Trump until well after 5 a.m. Eastern Time.

The reality of a Trump victory seemed like it was never going to set in for network anchors on election night, and despite an obvious shift in priorities among the American public, broadcasters went steadfast past midnight as if Kamala Harris still might become president.

CNN’s Jake Tapper was shocked to learn how much Vice President Harris underperformed, despite the Harris campaign’s platitudes and non-answers.

According to “The View,” Harris even ran a “flawless” campaign despite falling millions of votes short of Trump.

Over on MSNBC, blame for the loss quickly shifted to “white women” and “racism” on the part of Latino voters, even though they came out in record numbers for the Republicans.

At the same time, cable news’ blatant disregard for public sentiment has been painfully obvious to one man in particular: Elon Musk.

“You are the media now,” Musk posted on X just after 1 a.m.

Musk later noted, “the future is gonna be fantastic,” as he continues to drive traffic to X, citing record usage of the platform on election night.

— (@)

Watch more mainstream media meltdowns here.

“News should come from the people. From those actually on the scene and those who actually are subject-matter experts!” Musk said, echoing what has become one of the most popular forms of modern journalism.

Musk has pushed a free-speech mantra on his platform, leading to a steady flow of content creators and journalists jumping ship with the assurance that the vast majority of content on the X will not be de-ranked in any way.

— (@)

‘The mainstream media has always been a hub of misinformation.’

Social media coordinator and on-the-ground journalist Yaakov Pollak told Blaze News that if it weren’t for Musk, it would be “a lot harder to get the truth to people.”

He added, “Trust in the mainstream media is at an all-time low and has been super low for a while now. I do think that the [mainstream media] will continue to play a roll in calling elections; however, I do think more and more people are turning to X and other alternative media.”

“Some independent journalists and will play a bigger role in the future,” Pollak added.

This sentiment was shared by Oren Levy, whose viral news videos have broken dozens of stories around migrant hotels and the mayor’s office in New York City.

“The mainstream media has always been a hub of misinformation,” he said. “It’s always had a political agenda with some of them. Some stories they won’t touch, even when it’s big issues. They’re losing a lot of trust.”

Levy added that he believes mainstream media are forced to turn a blind eye to some stories due to their donors, who “don’t want you to see everything that actually happens.”

Musk agreed in another statement, saying that the reality of the election was “plain to see” on his platform, despite what mainstream media said.

— (@)

Musk continued, saying “legacy media lied” while repeating his new tagline, “You are the media now.”

At the same time, though, Levy warned that misinformation is everywhere on social media platforms, even X.

“Some people are turning into the mainstream media themselves. More and more people are showing up to these [protests], but they have a clear agenda. Independent media has definitely been infiltrated,” he concluded.

For now, Musk pushing for further video integration and even news articles seems to be making his platform look more and more like a replacement for networks, especially given that it comes with and offers recurring payments.

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