President Donald Trump promised to usher in the “golden age of America” in his victory speech early Wednesday morning. At the open of trading hours later, the Dow gained over 1,320 points (in excess of 3%) while the S&P 500 index increased by 1.9% and the Nasdaq rose by 2.2%.

CNN indicated that this is the first time the Dow has jumped over 1,000 points in a single day since November 2022.

While some analysts suspect the decisiveness of the win may have put some investors at ease, others figure Trump’s policy proposals — especially those pertaining to deregulation and taxes — have investors excited.

Michael Block, COO at AgentSmyth, told CNN, “There is this huge perception of [a] business friendly, tax-friendly regime coming into place, especially with them winning the Senate.”

‘Business animal spirits could be rekindled once again.’

Republicans have secured a majority in the U.S. Senate and are poised to keep the House.

“Assuming the House goes Republican, we expect that a Red Sweep outcome will play out in a similar fashion to the 2016 playbook but to a lesser degree given a more mature economic backdrop and higher equity valuations,” Jeff Schulze at ClearBridge Investments told Bloomberg. “Business animal spirits could be rekindled once again from Trump’s pro-business approach.”

As it became clear Trump was going to win in a landslide, the price of Bitcoin rocketed from south of $70,000 to over $75,000 overnight, zigzagging around $74,400 Wednesday morning. This jump was energized by Trump’s embrace of crypto on the campaign trail.

In July, Trump told crypto boosters at a Bitcoin conference in Tennessee that he would make the U.S. the “crypto capital of the planet.”

Not only did the U.S. dollar rise against the euro, the peso, the Japanese yen, and the Chinese yuan in response to Trump’s landslide win — the biggest rise since March 2020 — the New York Times indicated that yields on U.S. government bonds also climbed sharply. Treasury 10-year yields reportedly advanced 18 basis points to 4.45%.

While the American market was ostensibly made great again, European stocks took a tumble Wednesday afternoon. CNBC noted that the pan-European Stoxx 600 was down 0.68% by 4 p.m. London time.

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Barstool Sports owner Dave Portnoy said Vice President Kamala Harris drove away independent voters by running a campaign based on moral superiority and name-calling.

Portnoy, who announced in September that he would be voting for Donald Trump, demolished Democrat Party brass for running the “worst” campaign he’s ever seen.

“Independents or moderates … the Democrats gave us no choice. That was the worst campaign, and the pure arrogance and moral superiority have driven people away.”

Portnoy noted that the strategy of saying Trump is a threat to democracy only resulted in pushing people to his side.

“He didn’t just win, he won for fun. He won the electoral, he won the popular vote, he won [by] more votes than last time,” Portnoy explained.

‘You are alienating all these middle-ground people.’

Furthermore, the Barstool boss pointed to the name-calling used by Democrats and their supporters, typically in the final weeks of the campaign where Trump rallies were likened to Nazi rallies.

“If you say you’re voting for Trump, suddenly it’s ‘Nazi, you’re Hitler, you’re garbage.’ Enough!”

Portnoy added, “You are alienating all these middle-ground people.”

“He won clear, he won decisive, so when you call us that and you say that, you’re calling the majority of the country racist, Nazi, Hitler.”

For Harris’ part, Portnoy said in his social media video that there was an obvious call for change that the vice president wasn’t up to, and Harris couldn’t articulate any way she was different from President Joe Biden.

The Trump campaign continuously highlighted an appearance by Harris on “The View,” where she stated, “There is not a thing that comes to mind,” in regard to what she would do differently from Biden.

Portnoy added that change was sorely needed to solve issues like inflation, border policy, and conflicts in the Middle East, which he said Harris did not address.

Portnoy’s gripes extended to the Democratic Party as a whole, which he felt was gaslighting him by running a candidate who “can’t answer any questions” and “didn’t get any votes” when she ran for president.

“It’s garbage,” Portnoy stated.

“Democrats were the one saying Joe Biden was mentally fit for two years when he was a vegetable. He couldn’t make it off stage after a speech, and the Democrats would lie to our face.”

Portnoy ended his video by saying he voted for Trump because he felt he “had no choice.”

The sports personality has remained consistent leading up to the election, voicing that he was worried that if Harris was elected, states like California and New York would become the norm for the rest of the country in terms of their decay.

“I wouldn’t have voted for [Trump] in the Republican primaries,” he revealed but said that what Democrats have done is “far worse.”

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The American electoral system was stronger when the sun rose Wednesday than it was the morning before
— but not simply because President-elect Donald Trump won the White House. Nor was it left without suffering some lasting injuries, either.

Two things are essential for electoral government to function. One: Votes must be fairly and accurately tallied and reported. Two: The public must believe that is the case. If the first breaks down, the system is no longer representative. If the second breaks down, it doesn’t matter anyway. Accuracy and trust are the essential foundations of a free society (a key reason that “democracy” can’t simply be airdropped into Iraq, Afghanistan, or other places where governing honesty and mutual trust are not ingrained in the society).

The Democratic Party faithful were not asked who their nominee would be — they were told. The experts knew better, and maybe they did?

Going into Tuesday, both suffered in the United States. The previous presidential election was beset by “glitches,” new regulations, broken rules, and suspicious counts. It’s unlikely we’ll ever understand how 129 million people voted in 2016, 137 million in 2024, and a whopping 155 million in the mail-in no-check days-long COVID-emergency election, so let’s not dwell on it any longer. Either way: The trust was shattered.

The necessary ingredients to rebuilding that trust were not just a return to expectable numbers, but a quick election decided while Americans were awake. That’s a hard thing to pull off, but to their everlasting credit, election officials did it. While counties that (rightly or wrongly) had garnered suspicion publicly stated that it might take days or even weeks to count the ballots, by and large, results came in.

Better yet: Urban counties kept up with rural counties. Again, rightly or wrongly: Large, late-night, election-altering ballot dumps from partisan cities do a lot to undermine the opposition’s trust that the election is being run fairly and properly.

And then there’s the money. Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign and its friends raised nearly $1 billion in just months — almost three times the money Trump and Co. raised. Since the dawn of American politics, people have grumbled sagely that money buys elections. As with 2016, 2024 was a blow to this rule. That’s not to say the person with the most money deserves to lose — just that it’s healthy to see it happen from time to time.

Then there are the powerful interests, which have earned their reputations as the bogeymen of the republic since slaveholding planters first battled it out with Northeast traders. While Trump earned wider high-profile backing than at any other time in his political career, Harris garnered the support of the vast majority of the country’s rich and powerful. That billion-dollar campaign wasn’t built on $5 donations.

Sometimes the rich and the powerful are correct about what direction the country should be heading in, but again, it’s good to know they can’t always make that decision for us. And that’s where we get to the bad parts for American democracy: what it means and how it functions.

There is a powerful contingent among the American elites, in the federal and state bureaucracies, and in the sprawling world of international and national non-governmental organizations who believe that their strategic interests, plans for your children, novel concepts of fairness and justice, and opinions on morality, science, gender, and sex are the proper “democratic beliefs.” In this framework, opposition to their agenda is “anti-democratic.”

You see this method of thinking all across the United States, the Anglosphere, and the European Union. The United Nations is a particularly egregious offender. Like it or not, an overarching message since January 2020 has been that the experts don’t care what you think – and further, the experts will tell you what you think. As an exercise, next time you hear someone complaining about Trump’s “assault on democracy,” replace the word “democracy” with “the elite agenda” or “the bureaucracy.” There you’ll have it.

Harris’ nomination was the epitome of this and is both the reason the past four months have seen the worst of this rule-by-experts since COVID — and the second wound the Democratic Party has laid on American governance.

The Democratic Party faithful were not asked who their nominee would be — they were told. The experts knew better, and maybe they did? A primary would have been messy, and the money already raised needed to be protected, after all. The transition from President Joe Biden to his running mate might have been forced on the old man, but in public it would need to appear peaceful and seamless. The Democratic voters told whom they had picked, however, didn’t quite buy it.

Worse: It set a very undemocratic precedent. While it didn’t work out for Harris and the Democrats, we have now officially determined that you can replace a nominee without an election if it’s clear that the nominee is not going to win. That’s not great. It undermines the system and the trust, simultaneously.

Of course, few of the guilty parties are going to talk about that, if they even realize it at all. There will be no introspection, no autopsy. Harris will be blamed as the weak and lazy candidate she always was. Biden will be blamed as the fading and elderly, power-obsessed man he always was. But the people who put them there won’t look inward. After all: Everything they did, they did for their democracy. And you don’t want to be undemocratic, do you?

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It became abundantly clear in the early hours Wednesday that Donald Trump’s transition from America’s 45th to 47th president was going to be difficult for those liberals fed in recent months a constant diet of alarmist rhetoric and fascist accusations by the Democratic press.

Some Harris boosters have, however, managed to handle Trump’s landslide electoral victory better than others or, at the very least, than the vice president.

Just days after saying that “it’s not a stretch to call Donald Trump a fascist” and that it would be “Armageddon” were the Republican to win, former “Shark Tank” star and Harris booster Mark Cuban went online to wish Trump well.

“Congrats @realDonaldTrump,” tweeted Cuban. “You won fair and square. Congrats to @elonmusk as well. #Godspeed.”

‘Mark Cuban, a really dumb guy, who thinks he’s “hot stuff” but he’s absolutely nothing.’

While some commentators signaled appreciation for Cuban’s eagerness to congratulate the man he previously accused of fascistic tendencies, others seized upon Cuban’s tweet to mock the billionaire.

A handful of critics suggested, for instance, that Cuban’s recent suggestion on “The View” that Trump is never seen “around strong, intelligent women” helped mobilize women to vote for Kamala Harris’ opponent.

According to NBC News exit polls from 10 key states, 44% of American women voted for Republican candidates. The New York Post noted that reflects a two-point increase among women from the 2020 election.

Trump responded at the time, “Mark Cuban, a really dumb guy, who thinks he’s ‘hot stuff’ but he’s absolutely nothing, is now out there saying that I don’t surround myself with strong women. Actually, he is very wrong, I surround myself with the strongest of women – With the understanding that ALL women are great, whether strong or not strong.”

‘He won this one.’

Libs of TikTok replied to Cuban’s congratulatory message, “Thank you for your help with your closing comments about women!”

Another user wrote, “Couldn’t have done it without you.”

Unlike Cuban, Cenk Uygur, co-creator of “The Young Turks,” was initially not so gracious in defeat.

“Donald Trump is going to be the 47th president of the United States,” Uygur said in a flop sweat on his show.

“So buckle up. Brace for impact. We’re going to have four years of anarchy and chaos. My prediction, which is not a bold one, is they’re going to rob the place blind.”

“I’m not a big fan of the establishment, but they put some brakes in the car for Donald Trump, and he’s a guy who needed brakes,” continued Uygur. “Now there will be no brakes in the car. Steve Bannon is back. All the ghouls and goblins of the first administration that stayed through all of his corrupt and ridiculous demands are back. None of the people who had any sanity are back.”

Despite feverishly painting a picture of a nightmare situation under Trump, Uygur had a moment of clarity, stating, “We say that Donald Trump is unstable and unhinged, and I think that is true. But you know that old saying about how insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result? So how crazy are we if we just go back to the Joe Bidens, the Nancy Pelosis, the Chuck Schumers, the Kamala Harrises — the same — the Hillary Clintons — the same dumbass people who have been taking donor money, taking it and taking it, and delivering no results.”

Uygur later composed himself and tweeted, “Trump and MAGA – congratulations. I hate it and I think it’s huge mistake. But you won fair and square. Trump tried to steal the last election, but he won this one. And that’s also democracy. If the American people want him back in, that’s the final word! I believe in democracy.”

Just after 1:40 a.m. Wednesday, the Kamala’s Wins account on X tweeted, “BREAKING: The other team has more electoral votes.”

Unlike Cuban, Uygur, and the Harris booster account, neither the vice president nor her campaign have acknowledged Trump’s landslide victory as of midmorning on Wednesday — despite having spent years complaining about Trump doing the same in 2020.

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Anti-oil activists allegedly vandalized the United States Embassy in London in the early hours of the morning after Donald Trump was elected president.

The activists, posting a video around 5:25 a.m. Eastern Time, said they were inspired to desecrate the building because they are fighting against big governments that they believe are controlled by oil companies.

“US Embassy painted orange as we reject fascism,” the group wrote on its social media pages.

Quickly placing blame on Trump, the group called Just Stop Oil added climate change alarmism into its claim that the world is quickly spiraling into “fascism.”

“This morning the world wakes to find it has slipped further into fascism as well as climate breakdown. Trump’s win puts the lives of ordinary people at risk, everywhere,” the group began.

“The only real winner of today’s election is the corporate power that controls the major parties in both the US and UK.”

The group went on to claim that Western political systems have been bought out by “big oil” despite the world facing the “biggest challenge of our time.”

That challenge being climate change, of course.

‘Democracy is hijacked by corporate interests and billionaires.’

The group suggested acts of civil disobedience in order to minimize the effects of “climate breakdown” and the “social collapse that follows.”

“As long as democracy is hijacked by corporate interests and billionaires, it will fail to deliver the change people are crying out for. This will always leave the door open for fake populists like Trump to exploit the disaffection many feel,” the statement continued.

Just Stop Oil also called for “ordinary people” to organize and create change because no “political leaders” are going to save the planet.

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The activists also advocated for the disruption of “business-as-usual,” which in the past has amounted to blocking roadways, interrupting sporting events, and vandalizing artwork.

In fact, two members of the activist group were recently sentenced for throwing soup on a priceless painting. In 2022, Anna Holland and Phoebe Plummer threw tomato soup at “Sunflowers,” a Vincent van Gogh painting from 1888.

Just Stop Oil’s orange-paint protests have failed to garner public support no matter how often they are carried out. In fact, working-class people have countered the protesters with significant resistance in recent years.

Fed-up commuters have dragged protesters out of the streets by their hair and even off the top of trains to prevent further delays in their travel.

The U.S. Embassy in London was opened in 2018 and is the largest American embassy in Western Europe.

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CNN anchor Jake Tapper could not hide his astonishment when he learned that Vice President Kamala Harris badly underperformed compared to President Joe Biden four years ago.

Around 2 a.m. Wednesday morning — after Donald Trump had already won Pennsylvania and sealed his path to victory — Tapper sought to better understand why Harris lost, asking CNN chief national correspondent John King if Harris was overperforming in any areas of the country compared to Biden in 2020.

Harris’ dismal performance is raising an ironic question: Would Biden have been more competitive than Harris?

King then showed Tapper hard data showing that Harris was not outperforming Biden statewide in any state.

“Holy smokes!” Tapper reacted, according to a clip of their exchange. “Literally nothing?!”

“Literally nothing,” King confirmed.

Next, King showed Tapper counties where Harris had overperformed by 3% or more compared to Biden in 2020. At the time, only 58 counties in the entire country could be included in that tally.

Harris’ dismal performance is raising an ironic question: Would Biden have been more competitive than Harris?

For their part, Tapper and King believe he would not have been.

“I don’t want to be disrespectful to the president of the United States,” King began. “The vice president of the United States looks like she’s about to lose the presidential election. She was campaigning vigorously from the second she got the nomination until the votes counted today. Is there any evidence on the table that the president of the United States could do half of what she did?”

“No,” Tapper responded.

“A third of what she did?” King added.

“No,” Tapper affirmed.

Trump’s historic overperformance and a national red shift are two of the key reasons why he is headed back to the White House.

Trump, in fact, improved on his 2020 margins in more than 2,300 counties across America, while his margins decreased in fewer than 250, according to New York Times analysis.

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Republican candidate Tim Sheehy won the election for Montana’s U.S. Senate seat early Wednesday, defeating three-term Democratic incumbent Jon Tester.

Sheehy secured 53% of the vote while Tester earned only 45.2% of the vote, according to Politico.

Tester has served in the Senate for three terms since 2006, winning each election by slim margins. While Tester is a Democrat, Montana is known to be a ruby-red state that Trump-endorsed Sheehy had long been projected to win.

“THANK YOU, MONTANA!!” Sheehy said in a post on X. “We The People made our voices heard, we completed our mission, and now we will secure our children’s future and save America together!!”

Montana was one of the Senate races thought to guarantee Republicans an electoral edge to regain control of the Senate. So far, Republicans have flipped West Virginia and Ohio, securing the GOP’s Senate majority.

As Election Day approached, Tester and other vulnerable Democratic senators like Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Bob Casey of Pennsylvania made an effort to moderate their positions and distance themselves from the Democratic Party.

Tester’s campaign emphasized points of bipartisanship and even aired an ad called “Republicans for Tester” that featured legislative accomplishments that former President Donald Trump signed off on.

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Voters in South Dakota, Nebraska, and Florida decisively chose to protect the lives of the unborn, voting against abortion measures, according to the latest election results.

This election cycle, so-called abortion “rights” were on the ballot in seven other states, including Maryland, Colorado, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, Arizona, and New York.

‘Being pro-life is NOT a losing issue.’

South Dakota voters defeated Amendment G, which, if passed, would have legalized abortions in all situations in the first trimester of pregnancy. It, too, would have allowed the state to determine when to permit abortions during the second trimester but “only in ways that are reasonably related to the physical health of the pregnant woman.” Abortions in the third trimester could have been legalized as well when “necessary, in the medical judgment of the woman’s physician, to preserve the life and health of the pregnant woman.”

After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, South Dakota banned abortion except in situations in which it is necessary to preserve the mother’s life.

Pro-life voters won in a landslide, rejecting Amendment G with a 19-point margin. All but four South Dakota counties voted against the measure.

This election cycle, Nebraska had two abortion-related measures on the ballot, including the “Right to Abortion Initiative” and the “Protect Women and Children” initiative.

The first measure, Measure 439, aimed to amend the state’s constitution, enshrining the right to infanticide until viability or when deemed necessary to protect the mother’s health. The second measure intended to amend the state’s constitution to ban abortions after the first trimester, with exceptions for medical emergencies, sexual assault, and incest.

Nebraska voters rejected Measure 439, which sought to expand the legalization of abortion, and instead supported Measure 434, an initiative that enshrines the state’s existing 12-week abortion ban.

According to the Associated Press’ election results reporting, just over 51% of voters cast their ballots against the measure.

In Florida, voters defeated Amendment 4, which would have effectively legalized late-term abortions by amending the state’s constitution, Blaze News previously reported. The measure required 60% approval to pass but received just 57.1% of the vote.

BlazeTV’s Liz Wheeler stated, “Amendment 4 in Florida which would’ve legalized abortion til the moment of birth has FAILED.”

“Praise the Lord,” she continued. “This is in [sic] incredible victory … and also an incredible lesson for Republicans. Being pro-life is NOT a losing issue.”

President-elect Donald Trump secured victories in all three states where abortion measures were shot down.

While the pro-life movement had a few wins on Election Day, abortion amendments passed in several other states, including Arizona, Colorado, Maryland, Montana, and Nevada.

In Missouri, voters passed Amendment 3, which will create a constitutional right to abortion. However, it also will allow the legislature to regulate access to abortion past the first trimester.

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As Donald Trump cruised toward a dominant victory in the 2024 presidential election Tuesday night, Trump-hating MSNBC host Joy Reid exhibited a decided lack of joy and issued some whopper statements as things began slipping away for Democrat nominee Kamala Harris.

For starters, Reid pouted and just couldn’t comprehend Harris’ electoral demise — and actually stated that the vice president ran a “perfect campaign.”

‘This dumb woman doesn’t accomplish anything. She doesn’t create or build anything. She spreads delusions due to mental illness. NBC should fire her immediately.’

“If this is an audition for managing a complex organization like the United States, Kamala Harris has passed the audition flawlessly,” Reid stated. “This in many ways has been a perfect campaign — a brief, and she barely had any time to put it together. But just as a managerial matter, it’s been brilliantly done.”

During the same MSNBC election night broadcast, Reid also threw shade at “white women” for failing to come through for Harris in the battleground state of North Carolina — a crushing loss for the Democrat nominee.

“Black voters came through for Kamala Harris; white women voters did not,” Reid lamented. “That is what appears happened in that state.” She went on to say that the Harris campaign wasn’t able to “flip enough white women” even though women in North Carolina “lost their reproductive rights.”

Reid added, “That message obviously was not enough to get enough white women to vote for Vice President Harris, a fellow woman, this will be the second opportunity that white women in this country have had to change the way that they interact with the patriarchy.”

How are observers reacting?

As you might guess, a number of X users who watched Reid’s statements weren’t the least bit sympathetic to the MSBNC host.

In regard to Harris’ “perfect campaign”:

“The irony is Joy Reid actually believes this to be true,” one commenter said.”It’s so bad, they have to gaslight themselves at this point,” another user noted.”If she ran a perfect campaign she would have won,” another commenter reasoned.”They are so out of touch with reality it’s remarkable to watch,” another user stated. “Absolutely clueless.””The thing I don’t get is do they really think everyone else is so impressionable and stupid that they can just lie and make it true, or are they gaslighting themselves?” another commenter wondered.

In regard to Reid blaming “white women”:

“[Trump Derangement Syndrome] in full swing,” one commenter said.”For Joy Reid, it’s always about white people instead of people,” another user noticed. “She will never change that mindset.””This dumb woman doesn’t accomplish anything. She doesn’t create or build anything. She spreads delusions due to mental illness,” another commenter noted. “NBC should fire her immediately.””Joy Reid’s rant shows how desperate they are to shift blame,” another user wrote. “White women aren’t the problem; it’s the failed policies that don’t resonate.””Is she judging us by the color of our skin?” another commenter asked.

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President Donald Trump long cautioned supporters that they needed to turn out in such numbers that the election would be “too big to rig.” The American people obliged him, turning most of the map red and ensuring that the 45th president of the United States would become the country’s 47th president as well.

Not only is Trump expected to surpass 310 Electoral College votes, having won all seven key battleground states including the state where he was shot by a would-be assassin, he is also set to become the first Republican to win the popular vote in 20 years.

The liberal media, having made clear in advance that this was not the outcome they wanted, are not handling things well — especially not CNN talking head Van Jones.

Midway through what appeared to be a breakdown, Jones suggested that transvestic minors and illegal aliens are going to wake up scared and that black women are in for “a lot of hurt.”

CNN panelist David Urban, who served as senior adviser to Trump’s other successful presidential campaign, told Jones, “We need to recognize that over half of America feels very strongly about the things that Donald Trump feels strongly about: a secure border, the economy, crime. They might not like — he might not be a perfect messenger, but the message resonated.”

‘We’re not garbage.’

“Democracy is a luxury when you can’t pay your bills,” continued Urban, referring to the democracy-themed concern-mongering that Democrats leaned into in recent months.

Urban said that the multitudes of Americans who supported Trump are now sitting back, sneering at “the elite” and saying, “”We told you so. We’re not garbage. We’re hardworking people. We believe in these things,’ right? People don’t like to be talked down to.”

The Republican noted further that the coalition whose members found resonance with Trump’s message was racially and ethnically diverse.

According to CNN’s exit polls,

45% of Hispanic voters, 38% of Asian voters, 12% of black voters, 55% of white voters, and 53% of voters from other racial or ethnic groups cast ballots for Trump.
44% of Americans 18-44 voted for Trump, and 51% of Americans 45 or older did likewise.
60% of Catholics, 71% of Protestants, 19% of Jewish Americans, and 42% of Americans from other faiths voted for Trump.
64% of military veterans supported Trump. 49% of voters making less than $50,000 a year voted for Trump, while 48% voted for Harris.
54% of Americans with no college degree and 41% of Americans with a college degree voted for Trump.
54% of first-time voters cast ballots for Trump.
44% of voters from union households cast votes for Trump.

Rather than engage with Urban’s point about the diversity of the coalition behind Trump, Jones focused on the disappointment of certain voters that their racial identity would not be partially reflected in the person of the president:

There are African-American women who know a little bit about being talked down to and know a little bit about their economic dreams being crushed, who tried to dream a big dream over the past couple of months. And tonight they are trading a lot of hope for a lot of hurt. They were hoping that maybe this time, this time, one of their own could be seen as worthy. And once again they are facing rejection.

According to Jones, “it’s going to be harder than it should be tomorrow for [black women] to hold their heads up.”

‘Stooges will be stooges.’

The talking head suggested that extra to disappointed identitarians, Trump’s win is a “nightmare” for parents of cross-dressing youth and for foreign nationals violating American immigration law.

“If you are a parent of a trans kid, your child’s face was used as a springboard to power for somebody,” said Jones, intending his remarks as a barb against Trump, not the physicians who profit wildly off so-called “gender-affirming care” procedures on kids. “That doesn’t feel good.”

“There are going to be people tomorrow who are going to be handing clothes at the dry cleaners who don’t have papers,” continued Jones. “There are going to be people who are going to be cleaning your teeth tomorrow who don’t have papers, and they’re terrified tonight.”

The multimillionaire stressed that it’s “not the elite who are going to pay the price. It’s people who woke up this morning with a dream and are going to bed with a nightmare, and those people didn’t deserve to be respected and held and talked to. Those are the people going to pay the price for whatever Donald Trump decides to do.”

Molecular biologist Dr. Richard H. Ebright of Rutgers University later responded to Jones’ rant, “Stooges will be stooges. Especially the stupidest among them.”

Jones was far from the only talking head finding it difficult to cope after it became clear that Harris had no chance of eking out a win.

Cenk Uygur of the Young Turks, for instance, suffered a meltdown reminiscent of his response to Trump’s 2016 electoral victory, this time attacking Democrats for delivering “loss after loss after loss.”

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Nevadans not only helped re-elect President Donald Trump Tuesday but took a meaningful step toward bolstering the integrity of future elections in their state.

With 86% of the vote counted, Decision Desk HQ indicated that ballot Question 7 had received 73.5% of the vote in the Silver State, with only 26.5% of voters signaling opposition.

Question 7 effectively asked Nevadans whether they wanted to join the other 36 other states in the union that require or request ID to vote. Those voting by mail would have to provide the last four digits of their Nevada driver’s license number or Social Security number.

Presently, Nevada voters have to show identification only in rare situations, such as when registering to vote by mail after not previously voting in an election for federal office in the state.

‘This victory is a powerful message.’

Repair the Vote PAC, the campaign that pushed the initiative, argued that voter ID laws are essential because they prevent fraud, enhance public confidence, and protect democracy.

“Every citizen needs faith that the election process is fair and accurate. A big part of that is to verify the identity of every voter, just as companies verify the identity of the person getting on an aircraft, checking in at a hotel, or cashing a check at a bank. When voters lose faith in the process that drives elections, they also lose faith in the outcome and in the legitimacy of those declared the winners,” said the group.

A voter ID requirement would also be another check against noncitizen voting.

The rebuttal offered in the state’s ballot question guide suggested that a voter ID law would be a remedy to a nonexistent problem that would somehow be racist, reducing “turnout among underserved communities and communities of color, making it harder to have their voices heard at the ballot box.”

Now that Nevadans have delivered a clear answer to Question 7, it will appear once more on the ballot in the 2026 midterm election. If it is approved once again, the Nevada Constitution will be amended to require photo identification for voting.

Dave Gibbs, the chairman of Repair the Vote PAC, said in a statement obtained by the Nevada Current, “This victory is a powerful message from Nevadans who believe that secure elections and transparent voter identification strengthen our democracy.”

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Donald Trump has won Pennsylvania’s 19 Electoral College votes, all but ensuring his return to the White House.

When Fox News called the race at 1:20 a.m. ET, Trump led Kamala Harris by 3.4%, or more than 200,000 votes with 91% of the vote counted. That’s a significant improvement compared to 2020, when Trump lost Pennsylvania by about 1.2%.

With the election coming down to seven battleground states — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin — the eventual president-elect almost certainly needed to win the Keystone State. And now that Trump has accomplished that feat, the second time in the last three presidential elections, he is certainly headed back to the White House.

With victories in North Carolina, Georgia, and now Pennsylvania, Kamala Harris’ path to the White House is impossible. Even if she wins Arizona and Nevada, she will not reach 270 Electoral College votes.

Trump managed to win Pennsylvania because of strong early voting and improved margins compared to 2020. In other words, President Joe Biden outperformed Harris — and that benefited Trump.

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As with other states, Trump appears to be benefiting from a significant voter realignment in which more Hispanic and black voters are supporting a Republican for president. For example, Trump won Hispanic voters in Pennsylvania by a margin of 3-to-10 in 2020. Exit polls this year, however, showed he improved that margin to 4-in-10.

Voters, of course, view the economy as the most important issue — and with Democrats already in control of the White House, that’s bad news for Harris.

In Butler County, where an assassin nearly murdered Trump in July, Trump defeated Harris. He even flipped several counties that Biden won in 2020, including Erie County, Northampton County, and Centre County, where Penn State is located.

With Trump’s strong performance, Republican David McCormick is most likely going to defeat Sen. Bob Casey (D), flipping yet another Senate seat and helping bolster a Republican majority in the Senate. At the time of publication, McCormick led Casey by nearly 2%.

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Former President Donald Trump picked up another 10 electoral votes, securing a victory in Wisconsin.

The battleground race was called just before 2 a.m. ET on Wednesday morning with 88% of the votes counted, Fox News reported. Trump clinched a 4-point victory over Vice President Kamala Harris, turning the state red again.

Independent journalist Kyle Becker stated that the Democrats’ ‘”blue wall” is more like a blue picket fence.’

President Joe Biden narrowly won Wisconsin with just 49.4% of the vote in the prior presidential election. In 2016, Trump defeated his rival, former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, with only 47.8% of the vote.

On Tuesday afternoon, political commentators noted that the betting market in Wisconsin flipped in Trump’s favor. Around 10:00 p.m. ET on Election Day, Polymarket reported that Trump’s winning odds were 77% to Harris’ 27%.

Early voting stats in Milwaukee, a Democratic stronghold, also pointed toward a possible Trump victory, accounting for only 35% of the November 2020 total, Blaze News previously reported. Only 37% of registered voters in the state cast their votes early this election cycle.

In an Election Day hiccup, Milwaukee officials announced in the early morning that they would have to recount 31,000 ballots, citing human error.

According to a spokesperson for the Milwaukee Election Commission, the doors on its 13 ballot tabulators were not properly sealed. Officials noted that the error would delay reporting by a couple of hours. The decision to recount the ballots was “made in consultation with both Republican and Democratic officials,” MEC stated.

“This afternoon, Milwaukee Election Commission (MEC) leadership was alerted to an issue with the tabulator doors being fully in place,” MEC explained. “Each machine has a door that should have been locked and sealed. It appears some doors were not fully secured by senior election officials. The City of Milwaukee has no doubt regarding the integrity of the election.”

Heading into election night results, BlazeTV’s Sara Gonzales predicted that Trump would secure several swing states, including Wisconsin, Nevada, Georgia, and Pennsylvania.

Pointing to Wisconsin as an example, BlazeTV’s Liz Wheeler said, “We are witnessing a paradigm shift.”

“First, Hispanic men. Now black voters,” Wheeler wrote on X. “Shifting by huuuge margins to Trump. It’s… incredible.”

Independent journalist Kyle Becker stated that the Democrats’ “‘blue wall’ is more like a blue picket fence.”

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Former President Donald Trump was declared the winner of the 2024 presidential election by several news outlets early on Wednesday morning.

Supporters were waiting for the former president to issue an address at Mar-a-Lago in West Palm Beach, Florida, after winning several battleground states on his way to a likely victory. Among those were Georgia, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania while Michigan’s votes were still being counted.

Vice President Kamala Harris, on the other hand, left a large crowd at an election party at Howard University without giving a speech. It was reported previously that President Joe Biden would not be attending the party.

Fox News declared Trump the victor at about 1:50 a.m. ET. Trump had already won 247 electoral votes, according to a CNN projection, but he was ahead in several other very important battleground states.

Trump was photographed checking election results with his friends Elon Musk and Dana White.

Among those Kamala-Walz supporters who vehemently opposed Trump but accepted their defeat early on Election Night was entrepreneur Mark Cuban.

“Congrats @realDonaldTrump. You won fair and square. Congrats to @elonmusk as well,” he said on social media.

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