“Look what happened! Is this crazy?” President-elect Donald J. Trump exclaimed early Wednesday morning before exuberant fans in Palm Beach, Florida.
Trump’s beyond-epic triumph made him the first American to secure the White House, surrender it, and then recapture it since Grover Cleveland in 1892.
Republicans won the Senate with a majority of at least 53 seats and seem poised to retain the House.
Axios described Tuesday’s champion as “The most powerful Republican president of the modern era” and added: “Donald J. Trump has vanquished the Bushes, the Clintons, the Bidens, the Obamas — and the entire establishment of both parties.”
Wall Street investors stampeded onto the Trump Train on Wednesday and pushed the Dow Jones Industrial Average 1,508 points higher, to a record 43,749.
Congratulations to Trump for an enormous, monster victory, the parameters of which grow with each late ballot counted. No one can dismiss the Make America Great Again movement as a cult, a ruse, or the result of some Kremlin-authored algorithm. The facts have flattened the Left’s excuses, fantasies, and hoaxes:
• At this writing, Trump has won 295 Electoral College votes?. Democrat Vice President Kamala Harris took 226.
• Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin went Trump’s way. Ironically, vote tabulation continues glacially in the deserts of Arizona and Nevada. Trump’s leads there should carry him to 312 electoral votes.
• Trump is now the first Republican to win the popular vote since G.W. Bush in 2004. As of Friday, at 4:15 p.m., according to the Associated Press, Trump scored 73,590,230 votes (50.7%) or 4,318,557 over 69,271,673 votes (47.7%) for Harris.
• Trump also won a full majority, not a mere plurality, as did Bill Clinton in 1992 (43%) and 1996 (49.2%) and G.W. Bush in 2000 (47.9%).
• Trump improved in Democrat states that he lost in 2020:
New Mexico, up 5.1%
Connecticut: 6%
Illinois: 8.5%
Massachusetts: 8.6%
Maryland: 10.3%
New Jersey: 10.9%
New York: 11.6%
California: 12%
• In the Golden State counties of Butte, Nevada, Fresno, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Inyo, San Bernardino, and Orange, voters switched from Democrat in 2020 to Republican.
• In New York City, Trump boosted his 2020 showing by 10.83% on Manhattan, 12.57% in Brooklyn, 15.24% on Staten Island, 21.59% in Queens, and 21.96% in the Bronx. The New York Post called Trump’s Bronx and Queens totals “a staggering improvement in two of the most diverse places on the planet for a candidate decried by his opponents as a craven racist.” Nearby, Trump won suburban Nassau County (52% to 47%) — a GOP first since 1992.
• For a man whom the morally repugnant Left calls Adolf Hitler, Jr., Trump saw his Jewish support rise from 24% in 2016 to 30% in 2020 to 32% on Tuesday, according to 2024 Fox News Voter Analysis. Trump won 38% of the Jewish vote in Arizona, 42% in Nevada, and 46% in New York.
• Trump won 16% of the black vote, up from 8% in 2016 and 12% in 2020. Tuesday’s total included 9% of black women (matching 9% in 2020) and 24% of black men (up from 19%). Rural Anson County, North Carolina, is 40% black. It has backed the Republican nominee only twice since Reconstruction: Richard Milhous Nixon in 1972 and Trump in 2024.
• Among Hispanics, Trumped soared from 28% in 2016 to 32% in 2020 to 42% in 2024. Trump became the first Republican to take Cubanesque Miami-Dade County since 1988. Trump on Tuesday won 14 of 18 Texas counties abutting Mexico. He flipped Starr County, Texas by 16%. Newsweek calls it “America’s most Hispanic county,” with 97% in that demographic. Trump is the first Republican to win Starr since 1892 — the year Grover Cleveland took his second, non-consecutive term.
So much for Democrats’ bird-brained strategy of wooing American Hispanics by inviting illegal aliens who “look like them” to invade, impoverish, and terrorize this country.
• The alleged woman-hating Trump saw his female support grow from 41% in 2016 to 42% in 2020 to 46% this week. Are these pro-Trump women misogynists? Meanwhile, Harris scored only 43% of men’s ballots. Does she hate men?
Trump on Thursday named his buoyant campaign chief, Susie Wiles, as his new White House chief of staff. Wiles will become the first woman in that role. No Democrat president ever trusted women enough to appoint one of them to lead his team. Trump just did. What a misogynist!
While the Left whimpers, moans, weeps, chops off its hair, and launches an anti-sex strike, a few Democrats have sifted a sliver of self-awareness from the sands of defeat.
“Donald Trump has no greater friend than the far Left, which has managed to alienate historic numbers of Latinos, blacks, Asians, and Jews from the Democratic Party with absurdities like ‘Defund the Police’ or ‘From the River to the Sea’ or ‘Latinx,’” Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., wrote Wednesday via X.
“There is more to lose than there is to gain politically from pandering to a far left that is more representative of Twitter, Twitch, and TikTok than it is of the real world,” he continued. “The working class is not buying the ivory-towered nonsense that the far left is selling.”
Indeed, the American people shouted an ear-shattering, “HELL NO!” to the Democrats’ puerile program.
This election was a massive, peanut-allergy-like reaction against the Left’s entire product line: Border destruction, freebies for illegal aliens, sky-high prices for citizens, free-range shoplifters, Climatarianism, gas-stove bans, mandatory electric vehicles, racial fetishism, FBI-fueled censorship, lawfare, weaponized government, tampons in boys’ rooms, penises in girls’ locker rooms, child sexual mutilation, discarded parental rights, “saving” pet squirrels by killing them, pro-Hamas chaos, Iranian missiles fired at Israel, Houthi rockets igniting the Red Sea, a Chinese balloon spying on American military facilities, and a whole nauseating lot more.
The American people screamed a clear and convincing “Yes!” to Trump, Republicans, and their America First agenda: Reverence for the American Founding, a restored US-Mexico frontier, a complete southern-border wall, immediate expulsion of illegal-alien criminals, mass deportation of the other illegal aliens, hugs and opportunities for legal immigrants, permanent Trump tax cuts, No Tax on Tips, No Tax on Overtime, No Tax on Social Security benefits, fiscal sanity, a War on Government Waste, energy dominance, a red light for the Green New Deal, one-track justice, consequences for criminals, school choice, Death to DEI, color-neutral government, Transgenderism in the trash, Peace through Strength, an Israeli win in Gaza, more Abraham Accords, Ukraine at peace, Russia back in its borders, Iran back in a box, North Korea back in talks, China back in check, and America’s enemies on their backs.
Before advancing the policy agenda that he won a mandate to deliver, Trump began to harmonize the United States.
“We’re going to help our country heal,” Trump told his supporters in Palm Beach at 2:30 a.m. on Wednesday. “We will make America safe, strong, prosperous, powerful, and free again.”
“I’m asking every citizen all across our land to join me in this noble and righteous endeavor. It’s time to put the divisions of the past four years behind us. It’s time to unite…Success will bring us together.” The 45th and (soon) 47th President of the United States concluded: “This will truly be the golden age of America.”
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