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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.

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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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The federal government agency tasked with managing the military draft database reshared a profane social media post, amplifying Democrats’ narrative likening President-elect Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler.

The New York Post reported that the Biden-Harris administration’s Selective Service System shared an X post on Wednesday suggesting that with the re-election of Trump, the United States is headed toward a mandatory military draft.

‘We are investigating this incident.’

The original post, written by a user going by the name “SloJoe,” read, “For all you stupid f***s out there that still believe military service will be voluntary. Remember Germany 1936.”

The post apparently referred to Hitler’s decision in March 1935 to reinstate military conscription in Germany, directly violating the Treaty of Versailles. A year later, Hitler ordered 3,000 German troops to occupy the Rhineland, a demilitarized region of the country bordering France.

A CBS News report pointed out the agency’s vulgar repost, stating, “What’s going on with the @SSS_gov X account?”

The post remained on the agency’s page for more than an hour before it was removed, according to the New York Post.

In June, Trump accused the Washington Post of coming “up with the ridiculous idea” that he would “call for Mandatory Military Service.”

“The Story is completely untrue. In fact, I never even thought of that idea,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

Under U.S. law, nearly all men between the ages of 18 and 25 are required to register with the Selective Service System.

The agency’s website states, “While there is currently no draft, registration with the Selective Service System is the most publicly visible program during peacetime that ensures operational readiness in a fair and equitable manner.”

The Selective Service System’s recent social media blunder follows a wave of repeated claims from the left that Trump is a “fascist.”

Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated that Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally echoed a 1939 Nazi rally at the same venue. Walz claimed there was a “direct parallel” between the two events.

The Selective Service System released a statement on Thursday addressing the repost.

It read, “Yesterday an inappropriate X post related to a mandatory draft was reposted on the Selective Service Agency’s X account. We are investigating this incident to determine how this happened and are proactively taking steps to prevent this from happening in the future. The reposted content was removed when we became aware of it. The content of the repost in no way reflects the views of the Selective Service System.”

Responding to the agency’s statement, one X user wrote, “Sounds to me like a DEI [diversity, equity, and inclusion] hire.”

“We want a name and notice of their termination. Better cut them loose now instead of waiting until January,” another user responded.

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Late-night hosts Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel were predictably upset to the point of tears in the aftermath of President-elect Donald Trump crushing Vice President Kamala Harris in the presidential election.

“Let’s be honest: It was a terrible night last night for women, for children, for the hundreds of thousands of hardworking immigrants who make this country go, for health care, for our climate, for science, for journalism, for justice, for free speech,” Kimmel said, holding back tears. “It was a terrible night for poor people, for the middle class, for seniors. … For our allies in Ukraine, for NATO, for the truth, and democracy, and decency.”

‘The majority has spoken, and they said they don’t care that much about democracy.’

“And guess what: It was a terrible night for everyone who voted for him. You just don’t know it yet,” Kimmel coped.

“It was a really good night for Putin and for polio and for lovable billionaires like Elon Musk and the bros up in Silicon Valley and all the wriggling brain worms who sold what was left of their souls to bow down to Donald Trump,” he continued in his sad state.

“Kimmel is an insufferable nonsense propaganda puppet,” Elon Musk said on X in response to Kimmel.

Colbert simply started his monologue with, “Well, f**k. It happened. Again.”

“I wish, you wish, so many of you wished this did not happen. … The majority has spoken, and they said they don’t care that much about democracy. And I want to take a moment to congratulate Kamala Harris and Tim Walz on running an amazing 107-day campaign,” Colbert said.

Colbert added that it is not true that comedians want Trump in office because he gives them a lot of material to work with. To illustrate his point, he joked that no one tells a janitor he should love cleaning up “explosive diarrhea” because he now has so much to work with.

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Golden State Warriors Coach Steve Kerr lampooned Donald Trump in response to the Republican’s election victory, using both inflammatory and positive language.

Kerr has been a staunch supporter of Kamala Harris leading up to the presidential election and was asked by reporters for his thoughts on the Republican landslide after the results came in.

“I believe in democracy. I think the American people have spoken and voted for Trump. I want him to do well the next four years. I want our country to do well.”

Anthony Slater, a sports reporter who posted Kerr’s remarks, noted the coach’s tone shifted to sarcasm as he began to recite a hyperbolic version of Trump’s position following the 2020 election results.

“I’m just thankful there wasn’t any voting fraud this time. Last time, all those illegal immigrants who crashed the border, raped and murdered people and then voted six times, that was unfortunate,” Kerr described.

The coach then claimed that Trump only believed there was election fraud in the previous election because he lost, stating “thankfully this time everything was clean.”

“It’s great that every election has been really valid except for that last one four years ago,” Kerr added, before pointing to a “twinkle” in his eye to note his sarcasm.

Kerr then switched from dramatic to positive though, saying he believes in democracy and “the will of the people.”

The 59-year-old pledged to support the country and government; “I want nothing but the best for us,” he said.

“Between wars abroad, global economy that has shifted everything, in terms of what it means for our citizens and their day to day lives. I’m well aware that I live in a bubble and I’m one of the luckiest people on earth. So I want what’s best for us. I hope Trump can deliver that.”

‘Let’s make America great again and beat the Celtics.’

In a video posted to X, Kerr was asked if he spoke with his team in order to reset their minds following the election results.

The coach’s reply was downright laughable.

“I just told them in our meeting this morning ‘Let’s make America great again and beat the Celtics.'”

Steph Curry and Steve Kerr both endorsed Kamala Harris.Photo by Harry Langer/DeFodi Images via Getty Images

Kerr and superstar guard Steph Curry had been openly endorsing Harris since at least the 2024 Olympic games in Paris.

In July, Curry claimed Harris was “primed to bring her energy” to the presidential campaign.

Curry pushed much of the same messaging that the Harris campaign itself did: positive energy and good vibes.

“For her in this moment, knowing what’s ahead, it’s all about positive energy and optimism knowing how divided our country is right now,” Curry said while in Paris.

At the same time, both Kerr and Curry have consistently remained positive even when their politics were clearly at odds with the news cycle.

The coach and player both expressed concern over the attempted assassination of Trump in July and said they hoped for the best for the United States.

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Far-left New York Attorney General Letitia James campaigned for her office on the promise that she would go after Donald Trump — and has done so relentlessly.

In the wake of Trump’s resounding presidential victory over Democrat Kamala Harris, James gave a bizarre and cryptic speech Wednesday promising repeatedly that she would “fight back” against Trump’s incoming administration.

‘So no matter what the next administration throws at us, we’re ready. We’re ready to respond to their attacks.’

While James started off congratulating Trump on his win, she immediately went negative and said “if possible” her office will work with his administration.

“But we will not compromise our values, our integrity, our principles,” James added.

It should be noted that James’ delivery of her speech was dramatic to the hilt — full of whispered endings to phrases and frequent pauses, as well as clipped, halting pronunciations of key words that seemed to reflect anger, shock, and sadness over Trump’s victory.

“We did not expect this result, but we are prepared to respond to this result,” James went on to say. “And my office has been preparing for several months because we’ve been here before. We faced this challenge before, and we used the rule of law to fight back. And we are prepared to fight back once again because as the attorney general of this great state, it is my job to protect and defend the rights of New Yorkers and the rule of law. And I will not shrink from that responsibility.”

James acknowledged that her office between 2019 and 2021 took nearly 100 legal actions against Trump’s previous administration.

“We know their playbook,” she added. “We know Project 2025 before it was even published. And we have been working both in my office and with other Democratic [attorneys general] across this country to make sure that we would be ready to respond to any attempt to roll back our rights.”

James — still projecting drama-filled tones — appeared to be giving the ultimate pep talk.

“So here we are,” she concluded. “We studied their platforms. We’ve identified certain possibilities, fact patterns. We’ve created contingency plans. So no matter what the next administration throws at us, we’re ready. We’re ready to respond to their attacks. We’re ready to respond to any attempts to cut or eliminate any funding to the great state of New York, as the governor outlined. So, despite what has happened on the national stage, we will continue to stand tall in the face of injustice, revenge, or retribution.”

James finally brought things to an end, seemingly rallying the leftist troops with this promise: “This is not the time to be fearful, New York, but faithful and steadfast, knowing that I, as the attorney general, along with my entire team, we are guardians of the law, and we are prepared, my friends, to fight back.”

You can view James’ relevant remarks here after the 9:20 mark.

‘Disgraceful’

Following the speech, Kerri Urbahn — Fox News’ legal editor — blasted James for her words, calling it “maybe the most distasteful speech I’ve ever seen a government official give after someone won the American presidency, and I think it reflects exactly how Letitia James has been this entire time.”

Urbahn added that James “has done everything in her power to destroy Donald Trump. She failed. Do you know how we know she failed? Because Donald Trump won decisively last night. This lawfare campaign that we have seen waged against Trump by attorneys general, by federal and state prosecutors, and doing so by twisting the law in ways they had never done before. … They used the law against Donald Trump in ways they’ve never used against anyone else in their states, in this country, and the American people spoke loud and clear last night and said, ‘We’re done with this.’ And yet for the attorney general of the state of New York to go on and give that speech just now is disgraceful.”

While the Department of Justice has moved to end federal cases against Trump before he takes office in January, state cases against him — such as the civil fraud case James brought against Trump, resulting in more than $450 million in penalties against him — still hang in the balance.

Urbahn noted in regard to the state cases that “you would hope and you would think” that the states would take similar stances as the federal government. She said that Judge Juan Merchan will decide next week if immunity applies following the headline-grabbing trial earlier this year in which a Manhattan jury found Trump guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records. What’s more, Trump’s sentencing is scheduled for the end of November.

But Urbahn cautioned Merchan, saying he should “think long and hard” about any further lawfare against Trump, given that widespread negative reaction to it was a big part of why Trump won back the White House so decisively this week.

She also said James “abused the law” against Trump and said the New York appellate court was “incredibly skeptical” of James’ civil fraud case against Trump. “I think he’s actually going to win that case, and I think that court has been holding that decision for after the election.”

Don’t forget

Readers of Blaze News likely haven’t forgotten when New York City Fire Department members heckled James with boos at an official ceremony earlier this year, presumably over her anti-Trump antics. James motioned with her hands and told her apparent underlings to “simmer down” — but soon the firefighters began chanting, “Trump! Trump! Trump!” Check out the heat here.

Unbelievably, FDNY Chief of Department John Hodges in response “fired off an email to other agency honchos warning a reckoning led by the department’s Bureau of Investigation and Trials was coming over the chorus of boos and chants of ‘Trump’ that James received,” the New York Post reported.

“BITS is investigating this, so they will figure out who the members are,” Hodges wrote in an email to FDNY leadership, according to the Post, adding that “I recommend they come forward. I have been told by the commissioner it will be better for them if they come forward, and we don’t have to hunt them down.”

In addition, a U.S. District Court judge said the chanting against James wasn’t about politics but about race.

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After Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election, she and her allies refused to accept responsibility and instead
blamed former FBI director James Comey, Russian President Vladimir Putin, former President Barack Obama, Wikileaks, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), supposed sexism, and, of course, “millions of white people.”

Having just lost the 2024 election to President Donald Trump by an even greater margin, Kamala Harris, her campaign, and allied Democrats are similarly looking for someone or something else to blame.

Rather than admit that Harris ran a bad campaign with a weak and amorphous message or acknowledge that her radicalism, lack of transparency, alienation of key voter blocs, difficulties communicating, disenfranchisement of Democratic primary voters, prioritization of vibes over policy, complicity in Biden’s failures, and collusion with a dishonest media likely turned off voters — or that Trump simply made the better pitch to Americans — they have instead settled on a scapegoat: President Joe Biden, the man they spent years pretending was fit for office then unceremoniously kicked to the curb.

CNN’s senior White House correspondent Min Jung Lee
told Wolf Blitzer Wednesday, “Obviously there will be a lot of soul-searching and a lot of questions in the coming days about what, if anything, could Democrats and the Harris campaign have done differently. One thing we are clearly already starting to see take place is finger-pointing and the blame game, and a lot of that is going to be directed at President Biden.”

‘The biggest onus of this loss is on President Biden.’

Lee added that the efforts to blame Biden are “even coming from some folks inside of the Harris campaign. One senior official I just talked to said, ‘Biden will hold a lot of blame for it,’ and frankly, they said, ‘He should.'”

Before deleting his X account Wednesday, David Plouffe, senior adviser to the Harris campaign, insinuated that Biden left Harris in a lurch,
writing, “We dug out of a deep hole but not enough. A devastating loss.”

Biden — who consistently polled better than Harris — did the vice president no favors by
calling millions of Trump supporters “garbage,” letting the vice president humiliate herself during Hurricane Helene, and donning a Trump 2024 hat after a 9/11 memorial in Pennsylvania. However, Harris’ allies appear to be primarily upset over Biden’s decision to run in the first place, having signaled years earlier he would only serve one term.

Several high-ranking Democrats, including three Harris campaign advisers,
told the Associated Press that Biden should have thrown in the towel earlier.

Those complaining on the condition of anonymity apparently believe that had Biden not waited until his ejection from the race through what some have
called a “coup,” Harris or some other Democratic candidate would have been afforded more than 107 days to fabricate a winning personality and agenda.

“The biggest onus of this loss is on President Biden,” said failed Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang, who endorsed Harris. “If he had stepped down in January instead of July, we may be in a very different place.”

Matt Bennett, executive vice president of the Democrat-supporting think tank Third Way, said, “Harris was dealt a really bad hand. Some of it was Biden’s making and some maybe not.”

“He shouldn’t have run,” Jim Manley, top aide to former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid,
told Politico. “This is not time to pull punches or be concerned about anyone’s feelings. He and his staff have done an enormous amount of damage to this country.”

Democratic strategist Mark Longabaugh similarly suggested that “Biden should have stepped aside earlier and let the party put together a longer game plan.”

Democrats appear reluctant to blame Rep. Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), Sen. Chuck Schumer (N.Y.), and the other Democrats who ostensibly forced Harris’ more popular boss out of the race.

Biden
reportedly called Trump Wednesday to congratulate him on his historic victory and invited him to the White House.

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Elon Musk played such a vital role in the red wave that ultimately resulted in the re-election of Donald Trump that during Trump’s victory speech, the 47th president of the United States called him “a star.”

“We have a new star. A star is born – Elon,” said Trump to a euphoric crowd.

Dave Rubin admires and appreciates Musk, who “clearly was so deeply, deeply connected to this win” and “who put his butt on the line” for the good of the people.

“If this had gone the other way, if the blue blob had won last night, it is very likely that Elon becomes the new target,” he says. “They would literally try to destroy the man.”

However, the tech mogul, knowing the risks, stood up for the rights of Americans anyway.

But now that Trump has won the election, he’s having a bit of fun rubbing it in the faces of the naysayers who hoped for his loss.

On November 6, following the announcement of Trump’s landslide victory, Musk tweeted the following:

“It’s a picture of him holding a sink, which was of course a famous image of when he bought Twitter,” photoshopped onto an image of “the Oval Office,” says Dave, adding, “I think he is going to be the head of the department of government efficiency, and I think we are going to cut trillions … from the budget” and also from “the deficit.”

“I think we can make government slim and trim and more effective again,” says Dave.

To hear his prediction for the future of the country under a second Trump administration, watch the clip above.

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San Francisco 49ers defensive end Nick Bosa said he doesn’t regret wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat on the field in Levi’s Stadium, even if he gets fined for it.

Following a 30-24 win over the Dallas Cowboys on October 27, three of Bosa’s teammates were participating in an interview with NBC’s Melissa Stark.

As Stark was asking star quarterback Brock Purdy about his halftime locker-room speech, Bosa popped up behind the two wearing a white MAGA hat with gold letters.

About a week later, reporters caught up with Bosa in the locker room to ask him about the “Sunday Night Football” incident.

‘Clearly the nation spoke, and we got what we got.’

“Nick, you could be fined for your hat; what are your thoughts on that?” one reporter asked.

Bosa paused to think before saying, “I don’t know; I haven’t got one yet. If it comes, it comes.”

“Did you feel that going in, that that could be a possibility?” a second reporter asked.

Clearly trying to be careful with his response, Bosa calmly replied, “It was well worth it.”

“I don’t think my position on speaking about it is going to change; clearly the nation spoke, and we got what we got,” he added.

Another media member chimed in off-screen, asking Bosa if he had watched any of the election coverage, to which Bosa replied that he had “fun” and a “good time” watching.

“I stayed up,” Bosa said, before the media session was quickly ended by 49ers staff.

Bosa was just one of several Trump-related headlines from the NFL leading up to the 2024 election; Bosa’s teammate threw support behind the president, as well.

49ers offensive lineman Jon Feliciano defended Trump against claims that there were racist remarks by a comedian at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally in New York.

“The only Puerto Ricans that are mad about Tony Hinchcliffe’s joke, are mad because it helps push their agenda,” Feliciano, a Puerto Rican himself, wrote on X.

On the eve of Election Day, the mother of Kansas City Chiefs star quarterback Patrick Mahomes endorsed Trump from the press box before the game.

“Make America Great Again! Let’s do it,” Randi Mahomes said.

Furthermore, Buffalo Bills fans got a little more familiar with their home team’s house rules when they found out they couldn’t wear a “Trump 2024” T-shirt at Highmark Stadium.

A group of fans clashed with a security guard who told them political T-shirts of any kind weren’t allowed in the venue.

The fans argued, but according to the Highmark Stadium guide, “Clothing or material with profane language or obscene graphics or anything political in nature” is prohibited in the venue.

The NFL does not have a prohibition on such material league-wide, but much like some political issues, the decision is left to each individual team.

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Over the past few years, Americans have gone through a mental and cultural revolution, and Jason Whitlock of “Fearless” believes it was a necessary one.

“Without the pain and suffering we went through the last four years, we wouldn’t be in position to make America great again,” Whitlock says.

“Everybody understands this. … Those of us trying to lose weight, we know that every time we work out and exercise and push ourselves and go through that pain, that’s what benefits us. That’s what allows us to gain muscle and to improve ourselves,” he continues.

And through that improvement, Americans were able to stand up.

“It’s exactly what needed to happen in order for a lot of white men, black men, Hispanic men to say, ‘Hey, you can call me whatever you want, but I’m going to stand up for male leadership, I’m going to stand against these evil people that are forcing this transgenderism on kids, I’m going to stand up to the people that have made abortion the center of their entire political movement,” Whitlock says.

However, while what Americans have been through under a tyrannical Biden-Harris administration has been at times been brutal — for those imprisoned after January 6 or for protesting at abortion clinics, for those forced to vaccinate against their will or who lost their jobs for refusing it, and so much more — we’re not victims.

“None of us want to consider ourselves victims, because we’re not. We deserve the suffering that we went through because we’ve been so irresponsible that the left has been in position to do what they were doing because we were cowards,” Whitlock says.

“That suffering was necessary, and thank God, we got through it,” he continues, adding, “And now we’re on the other side, and we can receive the benefits for that suffering.”

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The 2024 election will forever be remembered as one of the most significant political statements ever made by American voters.

For the first time since the dark days of the Obama era, there is absolutely no doubt who won the presidential election.

Mainstream media outlets might not have died on election night, but they were wheeled into hospice care.

There were no hanging chads in Florida. No reports of widespread election fraud. No cries of “Russia, Russia, Russia!”

There was nothing but a big, beautiful red wave — and with it, a mandate for change.

The American people have spoken, and their voice was loud and clear.

They want an end to the chaos at the border.

They want parents to be back in charge of their children’s education and for public schools to stop indoctrinating kids with insane ideas about socialism and basic biology.

They want prices to fall and wages to rise.

They want peace in Europe and the Middle East, not weak leadership and a flirtatious relationship with nuclear war.

In the coming months, much will and should be said about Republicans and the Trump administration 2.0. They have a golden opportunity to show Americans why free-market, pro-liberty policies work, and in the process, to usher in a new Reagan-like era of trust in the conservative movement.

I hope they don’t mess it up.

But this isn’t about the Republicans’ landslide victory. I don’t want to talk about the winners. I want to talk about the losers, and no, not just the sitting vice president.

Kamala Harris

Kamala Harris was a disastrous candidate. She was the perfect poisonous political cocktail of bitterness, anger, radicalism, and entitlement. She did nothing to earn the position of being president. She was chosen by party elites, not Democratic voters, and even they didn’t want her.

Harris lost to Trump in a historic landslide, but she cannot possibly be thought of as the night’s biggest loser. In life, she has far outperformed her talents and achievements.

In fact, I would argue Harris should be proud of herself. Of all the untalented people in the history of America, Harris has managed to get the furthest in life, and she should be applauded for it.

Harris is a loser, make no mistake about it. But she’s not the 2024 election’s biggest loser.

The Democratic Party

A good case could be made for the Democratic Party in general, of course. It not only lost the White House in stunning fashion, it also lost control of the Senate and blew its chance of taking over the House of Representatives, too.

The case for the Democrats as the night’s biggest loser is much stronger. The 2024 election was a self-inflicted political gunshot wound to the head. For eight years, the Democrats have increasingly become more radical in their economic and social policies, driving away key demographics into the welcoming arms of the pro-liberty movement.

If we can say anything for certain about big media outlets, it’s that they tried their little hearts out to stop Trump.

Republicans have become a big tent of ideas. It’s now the party of Elon Musk, Tulsi Gabbard, Donald Trump, Thomas Massie, Rand Paul, and Ted Cruz. That’s a remarkable statement, one that seemed impossible eight years ago.

Further, early exit polling shows that Trump performed much better with groups that typically cast their ballots for Democrats, including young Americans and Latinos. This appears to have been an especially massive problem for Democrats in swing states, although more data is likely needed to know for sure.

But as bad as things were for the Democratic Party and its donors — who spent far more than $1 billion to help a terrible presidential candidate lose in an Electoral College landslide — there is another, even more pathetic group deserving of taking the top spot in our quest to find the election’s biggest loser.

And the ‘winner’ is …

For more than eight years, one group tried harder than any other to destroy Donald Trump, and on election night, their efforts proved to have been an abject failure.

The 2024 election’s biggest loser is unquestionably the so-called “mainstream” media, which includes the nation’s largest newspapers, magazines, news and commentary websites, and television stations.

From the New York Times and Washington Post to the alphabet-soup of propaganda networks — ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC — the left-wing, state-affiliated media organizations that have dominated America for decades are now nothing more than historic relics. The kind of thing you might hang on your office wall for nostalgia but that you couldn’t possibly use in a meaningful way any longer.

Big media outlets used to matter. They used to be news sources that most Americans counted on — even when they shouldn’t have. But no longer. Mainstream media outlets might not have died on election night, but they were wheeled into hospice care. And the illness appears terminal. They aren’t going to make it.

If we can say anything for certain about big media outlets, it’s that they tried their little hearts out to stop Trump.

They spread malicious lies about Russia collusion. They trafficked in endless conspiracy theories and outright lies, like the infamous “very fine people” Charlottesville allegation.

They promoted totally absurd and often unconstitutional and unethical get-Trump lawfare campaigns.

They helped, along with the government, to pressure technology companies to silence free speech.

They largely ignored countless scandals and failures of the Biden-Harris administration, from remarkably big problems — like the Biden crime family scandal — to the smaller but still incredible moments from the disastrous Biden era. (Somehow, the American people still do not know who left that bag of cocaine in the White House.)

They dishonestly and outrageously suggested Trump and many of his supporters were aligned with fascism — an ideology that is properly put on the left side of the American political spectrum. They made outlandish, bizarre, and downright stupid connections between Trump and the Nazis.

They even inspired a crazy person to take a shot at Trump, miraculously only grazing his right ear.

And they sought to destroy anyone — personally, professionally, and financially — who stood on Trump’s side.

But despite all of that, and a whole lot more, the anti-Trump, old-guard, state-aligned media failed spectacularly to keep Trump out of the White House. Thousands of fake news articles, opinion pieces, dire television appearances, and biased investigations couldn’t do the job.

Much can be learned from the 2024 election, but the biggest, most exciting part of it all is that the establishment media has proven to be an outdated, dying, impotent institution.

This analysis is no longer an opinion, as some might think, but an empirical fact. If hundreds of media outlets working in concert to defeat one man cannot do it, after nearly a decade of trying, then there’s no possibility they ever will.

We have entered a new era of media and journalism, and it couldn’t come soon enough. Surely, this new period will not be perfect. But at the very least, we can say that elites’ stranglehold on news, information, and culture has finally broken.

And no matter where you sit on the ideological spectrum, that’s something worth celebrating.

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The woman who refused to shutter her Texas salon during government-imposed COVID lockdowns is now headed to Austin, having won the state House seat for District 62.

Shelley Luther made national headlines in 2020 after she was arrested and sentenced to spend a week in jail for criminal contempt of court, having reopened her North Dallas hair salon in defiance of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s stay-at-home orders.

‘It was God. It was how he chose to save me for such a time as this.’

Following her sudden rise to fame, Luther decided to become politically involved and ran as a Republican for the Texas Senate, a bid that was ultimately unsuccessful.

In 2022, Luther then challenged two-term incumbent state Rep. Reggie Smith in the Texas House District 62 Republican primary. Once again, she came up short.

About a year later, Luther suffered a brain aneurysm that nearly cost her her life. “I … definitely should have died,” Luther said in a statement to Blaze News.

After a grueling recovery process, Luther, a woman of deep Christian faith, felt God calling her to give a run for office one more try. “I realize now that I wasn’t ready to win back in 2020, even though I thought I was,” she told Blaze News.

Earlier this year, she once again challenged Smith in the Republican primary for the District 62 Texas House seat. This time, she won, as Blaze News previously reported.

District 62 — which represents Grayson, Franklin, Fannin, and Delta Counties — is conservative, so Luther’s win in the Republican primary in March boded well for her chances in the 2024 general election.

Even still, Luther seems to have outperformed. On Tuesday, she trounced her Democrat opponent, Tiffany Drake, earning more than 75% of the nearly 85,000 votes cast.

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“It was God. It was how he chose to save me for such a time as this,” she told Blaze News.

Though Luther ostensibly hopes to prevent further cases of onerous governmental overreach such as the lockdowns of 2020, she has other issues she wants to address as well.

One issue of particular concern in the area is funding for public education. Luther supports the expansion of school vouchers but claims lawmakers can still adequately fund local school districts with more available vouchers.

“For me, school vouchers and public school funding are two different things,” she told KXII on election night. “Even if we do pass school vouchers, that doesn‘t mean we can’t make sure that rural schools have the money they need to be successful too.”

Whatever the challenges, Luther indicated to Blaze News that she feels ready to meet them.

“With God’s suit of armor and protection, I am ready to go to battle and answer only to Him. Fortunately, for my constituents, they will receive those blessings in His honor.”

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Former comedian Rosie O’Donnell was one of the many liberals who decided to film and share their meltdowns over President Donald Trump’s landslide victory this week.

O’Donnell suggested in a Wednesday TikTok video that Kamala Harris’ crushing defeat signaled again the need for a radical transformation of the American republic, namely the abolition of the Electoral College. Trump
secured 312 electoral votes Tuesday, and Harris managed to nab only 226 votes.

It appears the grieving Trump critic was unaware that even without that institution, which enhances the status of minority interests and prompts political candidates to appeal to the whole of the nation as opposed to a few populous coastal states, she still would have ended up crying on TikTok.

O’Donnell’s
video was captioned, “I remain stunned and kinda numb #thankyoukamalaharris,” with the addition, “resist fascism #neverforget” — an apparent attempt to draw a parallel between Trump’s success and the Holocaust.

Holding back tears, the 62-year-old Trump critic, who celebrated the Republican president’s felony conviction earlier this year, said, “So what can we say? We watched Kamala do her speech — must have been very difficult to do — and Claire McCaskill crying on ‘Deadline White House’ with Nicolle Wallace, and so many touching videos from people today talking about how to take care of yourself when you’re, you know, overwhelmed and stressed and scared.”

“Get ready,” said O’Donnell, “because we’re in for one hell of a ride with him at the helm and no immunity guardrails.”

Hours before the former comedian posted her video, the
markets surged in response to Trump’s win — the first time the Dow jumped over 1,000 points in a single day since November 2022.

Midway through the video, O’Donnell said, “How about we get rid of the Electoral College? Does that — anybody like that? Anyone? I’m not so sure any more. It’s a popular vote. That’s what we need to do. Who gets the most votes wins. One vote, one person. No racist math in the equation. Okay?

“That’s what I’d like to do,” continued O’Donnell. “Spend my life doing that, right. Find a cause you believe in and go right for it.”

‘Who is going to tell her?’

President Trump not only won a landslide victory where it counts — the Electoral College — but also became the first Republican in 20 years to win the popular vote. At the time of publication, Decision Desk HQ
indicated that Trump had nearly 73 million votes — 4,637,738 million more votes than Harris. The difference roughly amounts to the population of Louisiana.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis
noted, “The scope of the victory — electoral swing state domination, popular vote victory, and a Republican-controlled Senate — represents a decisive rejection of the Biden-Harris administration.”

Critics online poked fun at O’Donnell’s failure to appreciate that her advocacy would likely not have prevented another Trump victory.

“Who is going to tell her?”
wrote one X user.

The Pittsburgh-based sports commentator John Steigerwald
asked, “Is she still in favor of packing the Supreme Court?”

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Millions of people around the world were holding their breath last night. I’ve talked to Europeans to try to get a bead on what’s happening over there. There are Europeans like you and me who are frustrated with their own globalist, tyrannical bureaucracies telling them how to live and what to believe. If Donald Trump didn’t win, where in the world would they look to for hope that this madness would stop? Which leader could they count on to stand in the gap against their globalist elites? They, too, had a lot on the line in our election last night.

But today brings hope, not only in America but for freedom-loving people worldwide.

We need to restore the balance of power in the federal government — the way America’s founders intended.

We know Trump is going to stop the madness at the southern border. He is going to deport serial criminals and sex offenders who entered our country under Biden and Harris’ watch. The media will try to convince you that deportations are something akin to Hitler, but they turn a blind eye to their Democratic predecessors who have deported even more illegal immigrants than Trump. In fact, Bill Clinton deported more illegal immigrants than any president in U.S. history, shipping 11 million out of the country in the 1990s. In contrast, Trump deported less than a million during his first term, which is even less than the 1.8 million under the Obama administration.

Deportations of criminals who are in our country illegally is critical to protecting the safety of the American people, a practice that has been exercised by presidents for decades.

Our friends across the pond have been witnessing the destruction of their societies since EU globalists opened Europe’s floodgates to immigrants in 2015. Crime is rampant, communities governed by Sharia law are multiplying, and their social programs are being pushed to a breaking point. Tuesday night gave them reason to hope. America is going to say, “No more,” and perhaps this will be the rallying cry for our European brothers-in-arms to stand up as well.

The election was also a major blow to draconian globalist organizations. The United States will no longer be beholden to the Paris Climate Accords. Our nation will no longer give credence to the World Economic Forum. We won’t give the World Health Organization a single penny more. All these very well-planned globalist initiatives are going away.

But Trump can’t act alone. Thank God we won the Senate. This is an incredible step forward, but for these big plans to come to fruition, we need the House. If the Republicans — actual freedom-loving, Constitution-abiding Republicans — don’t have the House, you’re not going to be able to get things done except by executive order, which we don’t want to do. One reason things were so bad during the last four years is that Joe Biden simply signed executive orders to reverse everything that Trump accomplished, completely bypassing Congress. We have to do it the right way. We need to restore the balance of power in the federal government — the way America’s founders intended.

One of the most hopeful things Trump said Tuesday night is that we’re going to enter a new golden era in America. I believe him. He could have said that in 2020, and I wouldn’t have believed him as much as I believe him now. That’s because Trump now has a team of people that’s not exclusively comprised of politicians.

Bringing in somebody like Elon Musk is one of the most hopeful things for our country I’ve witnessed in my lifetime. I know that guy can cut spending. I know he will find the waste in our government because he’s not a government guy — he’s a businessman. He’s going to slash all the redundancies that have been justified by career bureaucrats for decades. We have a chance of cutting our budget and creating a reasonable one.

Trump’s promise to cut regulations also spells hope for our country. He cut more regulation in his first term than any other president, but Biden and Harris have since added a mountain of rules. He will have his work cut out for him, but he will get it done. He must if this economy will roar again.

We could have a true rebirth of freedom and the American dream, and I find that really hopeful. So many Americans are tired of worrying about their kids struggling and seeing Bidenomics and regulation yank from their children’s hands the possibility of the American dream that they attained. Donald Trump is the biggest chance of bringing it back.

Today, I’m filled with hope. Real, tangible hope. And you should be, too.

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