There were apparently no broken water pipes, no 3 AM ballot drops, no other shenanigans so widespread and outlandish that they were able to undo what amounts to a small red wave.
Donald Trump has finally won a Presidential election beyond the margin of fraud. Final polls had Trump winning in all the swing states, and it looks like he won all seven: Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona, and Nevada. Sometimes Minnesota was included in the list of swing states, but Harris did manage to hold onto that (so I guess the Walz pick did accomplish something). It even looks like Trump will handily win the symbolic popular vote, the first Republican to do so since George W. Bush in 2004.
Republicans have retaken control of the Senate, knocking off Democratic incumbents in Ohio and Montana, picking up West Virginia from the retiring Joe Manchin, will likely pick up Pennsylvania, and currently hold a razor-thin edge in Nevada. Unlike 2016 and 2020, this year Trump had some modest coattails.
House control is still too close to call. Republicans have thus far flipped four House seats, while Democrats have flipped three.
In Texas election news, Ted Cruz was handily reelected over Democrat Colin Allred, Republicans gained one state senate seat and two state house seats. Republicans also swept Texas Court of Appeals races.
This was a very solid win for Trump, but not a GOP landslide on the order of 1984 or 1994. But it does show signs of being a realigning election, with Trump continuing to increase his shares of black and Hispanic voters, as well as working class voters of all stripes.
I should be ecstatic. Actually, I’m more tired and relieved, since it seems like I’ve been running flat out the last two weeks, so I’ll make this short.
Tomorrow we’ll examine whether Democrats have learned anything from this defeat, or if they’re even capable of learning…
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While I have no faith in the left’s ability to learn from their mistakes, good sportsmanship dictates they should get a few weeks to come to their senses before we recognize out loud what we already know quietly.
Will the seventeen states and the District of Columbia who have adopted the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) now honor it?
Will the ‘Yes On National Popular Vote’ organization implode?
The Houthis announced at 02:46 AM EST today that they are ceasing all hostilities in international waters.
I think they are too invested in their extreme leftist ideology.
NPVIC only goes into effect when 270 electoral college votes are at stake. They are still 61 shy.
Unfortunately, that doesn’t seem to be the case.
“Will the ‘Yes On National Popular Vote’ organization implode?”
Knowing them, they will not honor it, considering their track record. But it will not implode. Expect it to be trotted out again when it serves their purposes and under a different name.
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President Trump has an Augean Stables-level of work on his plate, but all of it is secondary to two things. The first is ensuring we get honest elections baked into the American election system. We won this one by divine intervention and we can’t always depend on that.
The second is not just a BALANCED BUDGET, it is a SURPLUS BUDGET so we can begin paying back some of our immense national debt. We spend more on debt service now than we do on defense. That MUST stop.
Re NVPIC: That’s just silly. Everyone who voted to approve it knows it only applies if the Democrat candidate wins the popular vote.
Can you imagine the media outcry if CA, OR, WA, CO, and NM all had to honor it and give their electoral votes to DJT when he lost yesterday in those states? The primal scream of “disenfranchised voters” would ring out, even though he won anyway so it’s symbolic only.
That symbolism would be the only reason to do it, to lay the groundwork for arguing in a later election that it isn’t a partisan trick. Which means they won’t do that, because it is.
Minnesotan conservative here.
We’re captive to the uber-woke population center of the Twin Cities, sadly, but Walz’s nomination galvanized the non-woke here to bring down the state support for Harris. In most years, we’d be very high in her column. This year, it was close.
Walz is truly a bad guy, a bad candidate, and someone to fear should he ever gain any power elsewhere. He could only be elected gov in the state that was the sole supporter of Mondale in 1984, the state that now sends Ilhan Omar to Washington.
I had a sobering thought yesterday: 1984’s Walter Mondale would literally be thrown out of the Democratic Party because his policies were far too conservative to be allowed by the woke…
Agree with Bobby B: concerning “Harris did manage to hold onto [Minnesota] (so I guess the Walz pick did accomplish something” . . . it would have been a bigger Harris win in MN if she had picked anyone other than Walz.
As the Founders recognized, direct democracies always fail when constituents realize they can vote themselves benefits at others’ expense. Their soluion was not to dilute democracy but to buffer this tendency by means of an Electoral College, devolved to an accounting fiction but critical nonetheless.
Fending off “popular vote” ignoramuses, we have long suggested a Constitutional Amendment placing Electoral Votes on a stable Country rather than State basis. This would not only prevent boss-ridden urban regimes from co-opting Statewide tallies, but force candidates to campaign in rural areas with broad-based popular interests at hand.
““Will the ‘Yes On National Popular Vote’ organization implode?”
Knowing them, they will not honor it, considering their track record. But it will not implode. Expect it to be trotted out again when it serves their purposes and under a different name.”
The NPVIC does not take effect until enough states with EVs adding to 270 have ratified it Not enough have ratified it, so there’s no changing of EVs.
Read it yourself, Article 4:
https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/bill-text
Let’s be clear. Trump indeed won beyond the margin of fraud, because the election wasn’t without fraud. We don’t know yet how many down ballot races were stolen, but we do know that electors and congressional seats were stolen by fraudulently counting illegal immigrants as “We the People”. That was only the start of it.
ELECTION REFORM!
-Gov’t issued photo ID mandatory, with bipartisan verification
-Paper ballots ONLY
-Bipartisan ballot form inspection/approval before voting begins
-Paper ballots counted by hand with bipartisan verification – NO COMPUTERS
-One day in-person voting only
-No drop boxes, no mail-in ballots
-Bipartisan election day polling station oversight
– All ballots counted on-premises, on election day
-Death penalty for election fraud
Actually, I suspect there were indications a scheme was beginning (‘russian bomb threats’) but the wheels fell off the op very quickly.
https://nexttobagend.blogspot.com/2024/11/sooo.html?m=1
Vote fraud is still massive.
Census fraud also plays a huge role.
If we’d had an honest election, Trump’s numbers would approach the blowout Reagan had.
Mail ballots disenfranchise the poor people who live in hoods where criminal gangs and Democrat machines are partners. The day the mail ballots arrive, gangbangers collect them. Liberals are thrilled about this. Because they never gave a damn about blacks, the poor, or working-class Americans. Just power.
mac says:
November 6, 2024 at 4:14 PM
“The second is not just a BALANCED BUDGET, it is a SURPLUS BUDGET so we can begin paying back some of our immense national debt. We spend more on debt service now than we do on defense. That MUST stop.”
Hiow about applying the tariff payments to the US Budget deficit? That, IMHO, will surely result in lessening the deficit year after year (together w/ the income tax, btw.)
Just my 2c worth of observations and feel free to refute or defend,