Among the many things we have to be thankful for this holiday season is that the law fare inquisitionists have been forced to stand down, sparing the rule of law from total evisceration by electing Donald Trump as the 47th president, the American people rendered their verdict on the weaponization and abuse of the justice system to criminalize the political opposition. The country rejected it resoundingly, and so special counsel Jack Smith has now dropped the two federal cases against President elect Trump. We should celebrate these victories over tyrannical Republic threatening persecutions, yet by the same token, we should recognize they were not unqualified wins for the country. In his motion to dismiss the so called January 6 case, Smith was not only wholly unrepentant for having brought the case, subjecting President Trump and the country to the sham and interfering in the election, but he left what many have categorized as a sword of Damocles hanging over Trump and with it the rule of law. Smith explained that he only dismissed the case because Trump was elected president, and the DOJ Office of Legal Counsel advised that the Constitution requires that this case be dismissed before the defendant is inaugurated. A President couldn’t be indicted, let alone prosecuted, or he would be unable to function under their rationale, Smith emphasized that his dismissal does not turn on the gravity of the crimes charged, the strength of the government’s proof or the merits of the prosecution, which the government stands fully behind. That is the Biden Harris DOJ fully affirms its unprecedented, rushed effort to prosecute the candidate the administration was running against, to saddle Trump with a case criminalizing his challenge of an election and holding him criminally liable for the events of January 6. This was a case, let’s not forget, based on a claim Trump incited an insurrection, a charge they never slapped on him in a riot that undermined congressional proceedings the President supported, and for which he had called for additional security after he had instructed supporters to peacefully and patriotically protest, and for which he faced novel charges that would have the effect of chilling constitutionally protected political activities. Not only did Jack Smith show no contrition, but he doubled down by dismissing the case without prejudice, suggesting that after a temporary immunity period Trump’s presidency, the case could be revived. In other words, Jack Smith and by extension, the Biden Harris DOJ are undeterred. They want to move full speed ahead with this witch hunt in just four short years, they further communicated this message in calling for the dismissal of the so called documents case, the one in which judge Eileen cannon had ruled that Jack Smith was unlawfully appointed and therefore that the case should be tossed. Smith dropped his appeal in that instance with respect to Donald Trump, for the same reason, he dropped the January 6 case that Trump was elected president, but Smith is continuing his appeal with respect to the two other defendants in that case, because unlike defendant Trump, no principle of temporary immunity applies to them, so he isn’t fully throwing in the towel. This is to say nothing of the fact that the trumped up Frankenstein’s monster of a case, the so called hush money case in New York, may also hang over Donald Trump like a sword of Damocles, persisting after his presidency, and that the Fulton County case, too has not fully died. In other words, these are as yet partial victories. The cases are collapsing, but they are not fully gone, and in fact, may only be temporarily impaired to make them lasting victories. The cases must not only be dismissed in their entirety without caveats, but action must be taken to ensure such law fare political warfare masquerading as legitimate legal inquiries never happens again. Innocent lives were ruined. Finances were destroyed, reputations sullied, psyches left shattered by the hyper politicized and weaponized law enforcement apparatus sicked on not just Trump or those in his orbit, but faithful Catholics, devoted parents and pro lifers. To rectify this, to at least partially rectify it, the incoming administration, with Congress’s help, should investigate and punish to the fullest extent of the law, if relevant, those who in pursuing these cases may have committed crimes or conspired to commit such crimes, including violating the rights of the targeted exactly what they claim their targets did. Criminal records ought to be expunged and restitution paid to the victims of the law Fader, Dragnet, the Trump administration, working hand in hand with Congress, may also have to enact laws harshly punishing such hyper politicization and weaponization to further deter any such future acts, if corrupt, if not criminal, offenses go unexposed and their perpetrators face no justice. It will guarantee future injustices to the detriment of every American protected by our justice system. The challenge for the Trump administration will be in doing what need be done to restore justice in this country, while not expending so much political capital, time and resources on those efforts, which will, of course, be savage by the media and fought to the nth degree in the courts, such that it diverts from the other critical elements of the agenda. It will require prudence and leadership to both rectify the wrongs done. And then have reconciliation on the back end so.

On November 21st, the United States and Israel strongly criticized the International Criminal Court (ICC) for issuing arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu 

and former Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant. 

The warrants unjustly accuse Netanyahu and Gallant of “crimes against humanity and war crimes” relating to Israel’s military operations in the Gaza Strip.

In a lame attempt to look balanced, the ICC also issued a warrant for Hamas leader Mohammed Deif, even though Israel says it killed that terrorist leader in July.

President Biden called the ICC’s action against Israeli leaders “outrageous” and said, “there is no equivalence — none — between Israel and Hamas. We will always stand with Israel against threats to its security,” Biden said.

House Speaker Mike Johnson called the ICC’s action “baseless and illegitimate” and said the court “has no authority over Israel or the United States.” 

The Speaker said, “Israel is fighting a just war for survival, and the ICC is attempting to equate Israeli officials to the evil terrorists who perpetrated the October 7th massacre.”

Hamas terrorists brutally murdered more than 1,200 Israeli citizens on that dark day in 2023 and took hundreds more hostage. 

Several Americans were also killed or taken hostage that day.

On June 4th, 2024, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 8282, the Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act, to impose sanctions on the ICC.  

Speaker Johnson called the House’s action a “necessary response” to the ICC’s “outrageous and unfounded claims of authority.”

In light of the ICC’s latest charges against Prime Minister Netanyahu and Israel’s former defense minister, 

Speaker Johnson says the U.S. Senate should vote immediately on the bipartisan legislation the House passed in June, 

and that President Biden should take clear steps to prevent these warrants from being enforced.

If Senate Majority Leader Schumer and President Biden do not act now, the Speaker said,

 “they will most assuredly invite future lawfare against Israel and the United States. We cannot afford to show weakness.” 

Congressman Michael Waltz of Florida, President-elect Trump’s designee to be National Security Advisor, said Israel had acted “lawfully” during the war in Gaza and declared, 

“You can expect a strong response to the antisemitic bias of the ICC & UN come January.”

Israel is an important ally to the United States and they deserve our support. 

America needs to show bipartisan resolve in standing against terrorist organizations like Hamas that brutally murder innocent people and pose a grave threat to peace in the Middle East and elsewhere.

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite times of the year, partially at a personal level. When I was young, we’d all get together up in Lewistown, Pennsylvania with my relatives, and we’d always have a big turkey. And very early on, I established that I got a turkey leg, and for me, back when I was 789, years of age, boy, that was amazing. And then paint relatives are a great cook. So whether you’re talking about pumpkin pie or apple pie, there’s a lot of good stuff, but Thanksgiving is about more than that. As you know, it’s a historic note, because Thanksgiving was celebrated by the pilgrims, who were so grateful that Native Americans had taught them how to farm the conditions we had in New England, which were very different than the conditions they’d faced in Europe. And it became a tradition. Thanksgiving Day proclamations were given by President Washington at the very founding of the country. They were given by President Lincoln. There’s a real sense that taking a day to say thanks, to recognize that all the good things we get from our Creator, we should be grateful, and we should, in fact, return thanks in prayer. This is a deep American tradition, and a good one. I think I also have to confess Thanksgiving became a day to watch football, and so, you know, we’d all get together, sit around, chat for a while, eat a huge meal, and alternate between falling asleep on the couch and watching the football game. Now we’ve had an election. We’re moving towards a new administration with new opportunities, I think, with a new level of economic growth, and I hope with a controlled border, safer streets and a less dangerous world, and we have a lot to give thanks for. As Americans, we have been endowed by God with a continent wide country with opportunities for people who come legally from everywhere in the world, and I hope that all of you will join me in saying thanks and in recognizing what a great gift we’ve been given to be Americans, to be free and have a chance to live a better future, and importantly, to give our children and grandchildren a chance to have a better future. So Happy Thanksgiving.

Joe Biden promised Donald Trump a peaceful transfer of power yet to witness the outgoing administration’s final moves on the world stage, this transfer looks anything but peaceful. Consider the administration’s parting shots with respect to the Russo Ukrainian war and Israel’s seven front war against Iran and its proxies, Trump has promised to bring the conflict in Ukraine to a swift close. President Vladimir Zelinsky said the war will end, quote, faster under Trump, more than half of Ukrainians want a quick negotiated end to the war, according to recent polling, Vladimir Putin is reportedly open to talking under the Trump one administration, the president dealt strongly with Russia to deter her while maintaining an open line of dialog with Putin, unlike under Biden and Obama, there was no invasion of Ukraine, yet, less than two months from a Trump administration determined to end the conflict and better positioned to deter Russian aggression going forward, Joe Biden seems to want to needlessly escalate the conflict, in addition to committing to throw billions more at what looks like at best, an apparent bloody stalemate and reversing policy to provide anti personnel mines to Ukraine. Biden also lifted restrictions permitting Ukraine to launch long range attack EMS, American tactical missiles into Russia. The spin is that these decisions weren’t dictated by the election and that this isn’t about escalating the war or boxing Trump into a policy he doesn’t want to pursue. But as the New York Times reported, quote, officials said they do not expect the shift with respect to the missiles to fundamentally alter the course of the war. So why authorize the strikes? Some officials the Times reported, quote, said they feared that Ukraine’s use of the missiles across the border could prompt Putin to retaliate with force against the United States and its coalition partners. And lo and behold, following the missile decision, Russia announced changes to its nuclear doctrine, lowering the threshold by which it would deploy nuclear weapons. The use of Western non nuclear rockets by the armed forces of Ukraine against Russia can prompt a nuclear response. ABC reported under the new doctrine, and under that modified doctrine, the report indicated Russia can launch a nuclear attack against a country, assisting a non nuclear country in aggression against Russia that critically threatens the country’s state integrity. That is, if you work alongside Ukraine in certain attacks, you’re going to be held responsible, according to Russia, Russia proceeded to fire an experimental intermediate range ballistic missile, a novel hypersonic one reportedly and one that was reportedly nuclear capable at Ukraine. Zelensky called this a clear and severe escalation in the scale and brutality of this war. This may well stymie President Trump’s coming attempts to bring it to a close. There’s zero indication this is about escalating to de escalate, particularly when you’re talking about a president that has no credibility here in Joe Biden making these moves. Instead, Russia seems to be indicating it is now at war with Britain due to its arming of Ukraine, Russia has threatened even a strike on an American missile base in Poland. Ukraine’s former top general says World War Three is already underway, while that war appears unwinnable for America backed Ukraine. At this point, our ally Israel is poised to decisively win the seven front war it faces from Iran and its proxies, but the lame duck Biden administration seems poised to prevent it from winning, thereby protecting Hamas Hezbollah and the monocracy that stands behind them. The Administration recently awarded $230 million in additional funding for purported humanitarian projects in Judea and Samaria and Gaza, aka material support to terror, since the jihadist groups operating in these areas under Arab control ultimately sees substantial percentages of these funds the Gaza terror state, of course, was built on quote, unquote, humanitarian support in the first place, the Biden administration was reportedly working with the Jew hating jackals at the UN to push a resolution forcing a cease fire in Gaza. It balked only when the terms were too outrageous for even it to go along with the language proposed unconditional cease fire, no hostage return, but almost immediately thereafter, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav gallant America’s allies claimed they would honor those warrants, limiting the ability of these men to travel on grounds that the ICC has cast them as war criminals, to be arrested. There is no way, zero chance This move takes place. Had the US not given the ICC active or minimally tacit approval, as Israeli sources have reported, America should could surely compel this Jew hating us, hating jihadi abetting kangaroo court to stand down. The Biden administration paved the way for these efforts, not only through its own efforts to slander and delegitimize a Netanyahu government it is sought to topple, but by removing the crippling sanctions the Trump administration had imposed on the ICC, keeping it in check and by not demanding that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer permit a vote on legislation to again send.

In the ICC that had passed the house back in June, American soldiers and our leaders may now find themselves targeted by the ICC based on this precedent. Biden is also working overtime to try and impose a cease fire in Israel that will allow Hezbollah to regroup when Israel has the monocracy, preeminent jihadist group on the ropes, put it all together in the Biden administration is provoking and privileging our enemies, making the world infinitely more volatile during what’s supposed to be the peaceful transition period. It sure seems like an effort to sabotage his successor and to the detriment of America and the free world. I.

Election integrity matters, and these elections are too close for us to sit weeks and weeks to determine who’s going to sit in our Senate, who’s going to sit in our house, and we know who’s sitting in the presidency. 

Well, during the past four years, Democrat candidates at every level have decried threats to democracy, and claimed that they were going to defend it. 

Well, however, Democrats in Pennsylvania have contradicted that claim by ignoring state law and defying a Supreme Court decision in that state on November the first the Pennsylvania Supreme Court reaffirmed that a state law requiring mail ballots to have hand written dates on the return envelope is constitutional. 

The Court made a similar ruling in September when Justice Kevin Dugard offered a stinging rebuke to a lower court and litigants who were attempting to change the rules of what counts as a legally cast ballot before the election. 

Despite the Supreme Court’s abundantly clear decision, four Pennsylvania counties defied the court and declared that they were going to count the ineligible ballots anyway. 

This action violates a decision by the US Supreme Court as well, because they ruled in 2000 that the US Constitution Equal Protection Clause requires that the rules for what counts as a vote be the same statewide 

Well, regarding Pennsylvania situation, Democrats were seeking to institute a practice in four strongly Democrat counties that wasn’t applied in the state’s other counties, the other 63 counties, 

Bucks County Commissioner Diane Ellis marseilla, she starkly defied the Pennsylvania and US Supreme Court by contending

 in quotes, I think we all know that precedents by a court doesn’t matter anymore in this country, and people violate laws anytime they want. End quote,

 this elect an official. This is an election that still had not determined who their senator was going to be. 

How dare her on November the 18th, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court reaffirmed their decision, saying that the boards of elections in the renegade counties shall comply with the prior rulings of this court, in which we have clarified end quote for such ballots

 in their November 1 ruling Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, oh. He was late to the party. He belatedly affirmed that the court’s orders was right, that Commissioner should not be in office anymore. 

Finally, he weighed in, the governor of the state weighed in as we all waited to see what our what our Senate would look like in terms of who’s going to be seating in the Pennsylvania seat. 

So here he comes late to the party, and then he says in quotes, any insinuation that our laws can be ignored or don’t matter do not matter is irresponsible and does damage to faith in our electoral process. 

You think, of course it does, and for her to even say something like that as an elected official, it should be blasted all over the news that she is fired governor, superior is right. 

The rule of law matters, and it should be respected by all parties. 

Our system of government depends upon it, and elections matter, and election integrity matters. If Democrats want to win elections, then make the case before the American people that the American people want. 

They rejected Democrats this past election because they reject their policy solutions, if we could call them solutions at all. 

This country rejected socialism. So Democrats need to go back to the drawing board and perhaps come up with some policy solutions that are consistent with the Constitution, and then win elections accordingly, not cheat you.

In the end, it wasn’t close, despite polls and algorithmic models that said the 2024 election was a jump ball that could go either way. Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris smoothly and comprehensively. Trump’s triumph sets American politics and the American right on a nationalist and populist course, Trump is the first person elected to non consecutive presidential terms in more than 120 years. He won every swing state, racking up a total of 312 Electoral College votes for the best showing by Republicans since 1988

he is the first Republican to win Nevada since George W Bush, and he is the first Republican since Ronald Reagan, to surmount the blue wall states of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania in two elections, Trump’s coalition has transformed. His 2016 victory was based on overwhelming support among white voters without college degrees. His 2024 coalition includes working class Americans of every race and ethnicity. Most significantly, Trump made major inroads with Hispanic voters. The Hispanic shift toward the GOP benefited Trump, not just in swing states such as Nevada and Pennsylvania. It also cut into democratic margins in blue strongholds such as Virginia and New Jersey, where Harris won, respectively, by a closer than anticipated, five and six points. This is not demographic drift. It is a restructuring of American politics happening in real time.

The voter participation declined since 2020 possibly due to a reduction in voting by mail. Turnout in 2024 was nevertheless the second highest in this century. The Fox News voter analysis showed that more voters identified as Republicans, 49% than as Democrats, 45%

party registration has not tilted Republican in a presidential year since Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal,

the Trump sweep had down ballot consequences as well. Republicans picked up four Senate seats, giving them control of the upper legislative chamber for the first time since 2020 and they will maintain control of the House of Representatives.

Nor is the Republican Party of 2024 the same as it was during Trump’s inauguration in 2017

the congressmen and senators in charge of the elected branches and the Cabinet Secretaries and agency directors atop the executive branch will be Trump’s Republicans. They will have little or no connection to the GOP of John McCain, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, Mitch, McConnell, Liz and Dick Cheney and other officials who have opposed, disagreed with or undermined The Once and Future president.

The basis for Trump’s majority is not trump the man. It is the change that the man represents. According to The Real Clear Politics average of polls, 63% of voters say that the nation is headed in the wrong direction in the 2024 exit poll, 73% of voters said that they felt dissatisfied or angry about the way things are going in the country today. 28% of those voters, moreover, said that they based their decision on a candidate’s ability to bring needed change. Trump won them by a 50 point margin.

What voters want is no secret. They seek to restore the conditions that prevailed when Trump was president at the onset of the COVID 19 pandemic in 2020,

economic growth with rising incomes and stable prices, a secure southern border and a world without wars in Ukraine and the Middle East.

Behind voters sentiment on topics such as the economy, immigration and foreign policy is a broader sense of disgust toward liberal elites. This intense antipathy begins with President Biden, but does not end with him. Biden’s approval rating in the exit poll was 40%

his approval ratings have been underwater Since 2021

his physical and mental decline has been apparent for some time, and was embarrassingly broadcast to the world during his June 27 debate with Trump,

and yet that decline remains taboo inside the mainstream media and Democratic machine.

Furthermore, while Biden’s mismanagement of the economy the border and the world has been obvious to voters for years, his incompetence has been downplayed or denied by the men and women who rely on the Democratic Party for access favors, jobs and funding, and when Biden withdrew from the presidential race to make way for Kamala Harris, no, no one within the Biden or Harris camp seems to have recognized that the Vice President ought to have separated herself from his legacy.

According to blueprint a democratic polling firm, the top reason swing voters chose Trump was that, quote Kamala Harris has focused more on cultural issues like transgender issues, rather than helping the middle class close. Quote, yet, swing voters had plenty of reasons to be disappointed. In fact.

Population, open borders, social disorder, political correctness, gender ideology, law fare conducted against the political opposition, anti semitism on campuses and in the streets and ongoing wars in Europe and the Middle East. This is the record that Biden and Harris asked America to extend for another four years.

America refused, and by doing so, America opened the curtain on a new and unknown political era in.

President Trump proved he could run a remarkably disciplined campaign, and the person really most responsible for that was Susie Wiles, the campaign manager, somebody who had worked for Ronald Reagan, had worked for Jack Kemp, had a long experience in politics. Now they’re in a situation where, with Susie Wiles as chief of staff, they’re going to try to apply the same disciplined, orderly structure to the White House into what they’re going to do. It’s important to realize that the America First policy institute actually has been out developing ideas and proposals. I think they have 600 executive orders already drafted. They have a whole series of proposals, including closing the border on the first day and really aggressively, dramatically cutting down illegal immigration. They have proposals for a very substantial tax cut, including eliminating taxes on tips, eliminating taxes on Social Security benefits. So they have a lot already planned, and they’ve been laying it all out there now, recruiting the administration, and their goal, with the help of the new Republican Senate, is going to be to get everybody lined up. So starting January 3, when the new Senate comes in, they’re going to have the hearings, get people out of committee and try to have every single cabinet officer ready to go to work on the 30. Let me start again.

Their goal is to have every single cabinet officer ready to go to work on january 20, as soon as the president sworn in. That would allow them to really have an opening 100 days that would resemble sort of what we did with the Contract with America back in 1995 they’re determined to take charge. They’re determined to dig out the bureaucracy, the interest groups, the lobbyists. They really do believe they have a mandate from the American people to really get Washington under control, to return power back home, to get the economy growing, to stop inflation and to defend America. Defend America from illegal immigration. Defend America from fentanyl and drug overdoses. Defend America from places like Iran, Russia and China. I think you’re going to see a very aggressive, very energetic administration that will have its act together, that will be disciplined and orderly and will, in a very methodical way, try to get America back to truly making America great again. I.

Permanent Washington is hysterical in the wake of Donald Trump’s victory, federal bureaucrats wrestle with fight or flight. Response to Trump election reads one headline, just as Department officials are terrified, according to another one, fearing they may be sidelined, fired or unable to resist, as they did during the President’s first term. Pentagon officials are reportedly preparing their response to orders to deploy active duty troops domestically and fire large swathes of purportedly apolitical staffers. Another dispatch reveals President Trump’s less conventional nominees who only put the Feds further on edge, as unhinged as the beltway’s response seems, one would be wrong to dismiss it as a temper tantrum from the Trump deranged instead, this teeth gnashing foreshadows the bloodiest political battle the Trump administration will face in its coming war to restore Americans control over our republic. First and foremost among the armies it will face is the administrative state, an unconstitutional fourth branch of government that has usurped and combined the powers of the other branches. That’s tyranny defined the bureaucrats believe they know better than us, and that therefore they must substitute their policy preferences for our own, who we vote for then won’t matter, because the policy predilections of the executive agencies in name only must prevail. This is the true threat to democracy, and it exploded into public view with the resistance during the Trump one administration, the Trump two administration was elected as the antidote to make radical, not incremental, changes in personnel and policy and make the people sovereign again. Our ruling regimes fear that Americans would self govern rather than remain subjects. Explains why the President faced impeachments, indictments and assassination attempts. The loudest How is against Trump today come from some of the institutions that have most dangerously broken the social contract with the public, namely, in the deep state, the DOJ led the law fare Inquisition against Trump and his confidants, Jan six protesters, pro lifers, practicing Catholics and engaged parents. It has effectively criminalized dissent from regime orthodoxy, a hyper politicized and weaponized DOJ something President Trump’s nominee for attorney general rep Matt Gaetz has both exposed and been targeted by himself, is the death knell of the rule of law and justice in this country. DOD is politicization at its highest levels is equally disturbing. It’s not just its wokeness and diminished standards that have eroded the lethality of our fighting forces, as Secretary of Defense nominee Pete hegseth has harped on, but as recent reporting suggests, we also face an apparent crisis of insubordination that invites enemies to test us. The insinuation in reporting, in a letter from outgoing defense secretary Lloyd Austin, is that unlawful orders, rather than simply disfavored policies, might be forthcoming and that the military would disobey them. Resistance efforts, of course, are likely to span far beyond these agencies as James shirk, one of Trump’s key civil service reform advisors during his first term, as detailed then bureaucrats government wide, commonly subverted the President’s policies through withholding information, refusing to implement policies, intentionally delaying our slow walking priorities, deliberately underperforming, leaking to Congress and the media, and outright insubordination. This is precisely why Trump and his transition have emphasized loyalty as perhaps the key criteria for candidates looking to serve in his second administration. The media frames this in bad faith, characterizing loyal staffers as toadies who will rubber stamp lawless acts. But loyalty means fidelity to the President’s agenda, dogged devotion to helping him execute the mandate for which we voted in the face of staunch opposition. This should be the bare minimum of what is required of personnel. It’s what every administration would expect of its staffers. What the media is implicitly saying, in referring to loyalty pejoratively, is that they want Trump to hire disloyal appointees who will subvert the duly elected president to prevent the American people from getting the policies we voted for. The fear in truth is that if Americans get what we want, the ruling class will lose its power, prerogatives and privileges. Every day the incoming Trump administration will face resistance from uni party congressmen, establishment judges, blue states, corporate media, popular cultural institutions and beyond. But the first point of friction will always be with the Leviathan administrative state. The task for the Trump administration then will be this, with limited appointees, political capital and time, and faced with a resistance that will engage in 1000 front war to nonetheless execute its agenda, the future of our Republic may well rest upon it

Democrats were shocked about the scope of their election defeat, and factions within the party are expressing conflicting opinions about what caused it. President Trump won all seven battleground states and the popular vote Republicans won four Senate seats to claim a majority, and House Republicans have retained their majority senator, Bernie Sanders. He believes the Democrat Party has abandoned the working class people, and says they failed to tackle wage inequality and costly health care. Post election polling by the Democrat Strategy Group blueprint found that the top reason that voters gave for not supporting Kamala Harris was that inflation was too high, and that, in particular, a problem for working class voters, was not addressed. However, nearly as many voters said that they didn’t support Harris because too many illegal immigrants cross the border under the Biden Harris administration, for swing voters who eventually chose Trump, their main objection to Harris was that she was focused more on cultural matters, like transgender issues, rather than helping the middle class. The number two concern of those Trump swing voters was inflation. Democrat Congressman Seth Moulton of Massachusetts, oh, he’s been vilified for saying that his party is out of step with the American people about transgender athletes competing in women’s sports. We’ve got to be able to have these debates. Moulton says, but instead, we have a wing of our party that shames us, that tries to cancel people who try to even bring up these difficult topics, and frankly, voters are shamed.

CNN host Fareed zakara, okay, he rebuked Democrats for misreading the public opinion on immigration, weaponizing the legal system against Trump and fixating on identity politics. Zakaria said that in that fixation on identity politics, end quote, largely came out of the urban academic bubble. End Quote, and it, end quote, alienated many mainstream voters. End Quote The CNN host cited the left’s insistence on using the term Latinx, even though it is not well received in the Latino community, there’s an irony in claiming to be so pro Latino by insisting that people use a term Latinx that only to discover that Latinos themselves think that the word is pretty weird. That’s what he was thinking. And said, the Trump campaign tapped into swing voters, alienation from Democrats, promotion of these trans issues and the overbearing nature of their cultural speech police. They have a speech police with and I’m telling you, the Trump campaign honed in on that, and they ran ads in which the narrator said, Kamala is for they them, President Trump is for you. Democrats need to make a course correction if they want to regain any type of support from the American people. President Trump and the Republicans, oh, they have an opportunity to steer the economy and social policy in a better direction, but they’re going to need to communicate and act in a manner that brings the American people along with them, to retain their trust this olive branch of mercy that the Republicans have received and now are in Washington, DC, to implement their agenda. Up next, that’s what we’re going to be watching. You.

Now Election Day was a win for Donald Trump and Republicans. President Trump won all of the seven swing states. He is the likely winner of the popular vote, and Republicans will control the House and the Senate in the coming Congress.

The bottom line is that election day was a Republican victory. But if we look behind the top line numbers, there are some sides that point to Republican strength and the building of a broader Republican coalition that is very positive for their future, and other signs that the victory did not go as far as might have been expected, particularly in Congress.

First, let’s look at the areas that were most focused on by pollsters in the media, the seven swing states and the national popular vote in 2020 Donald Trump lost the popular vote by 4.5 percentage points to Joe Biden. He lost six of the seven key swing states, all but North Carolina, but many of the swing states were very close, and Donald Trump performed better in all of the swing states than he did at the national popular level.

The popular vote in 2024

moved significantly toward Donald Trump from a 4.5 percentage point loss to a narrow win in the popular vote.

Did pollsters and media get this core story about the swing states and the popular vote wrong,

while the media broadly discounted Trump’s chances, the data were there in the polls to see this story, polls generally showed a much closer popular vote than in 2020

and in the seven states, Donald Trump seemed to hold a slight edge in the southern and southwestern swing states, while the three blue wall states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin were toss ups. The path for Kamala Harris lay in winning the three blue wall states, and thus a razor thin majority in the electoral college, while the path for Donald Trump was to win one of those blue wall states to clinch a victory.

In the end, Donald Trump performed a couple of points better than the public polling showed, winning the popular vote rather than losing it narrowly and winning all seven swing states, most of them by a couple of percentage points more than the polls showed. Arizona and Nevada moved toward Trump, even a bit more than that.

So in the areas that had the most focus and mattered the most for winning

Donald Trump performed a couple of points better than the public data showed.

But in another sense, Donald Trump and Republicans performed much better than anyone anticipated in states that were less consequential for the presidential outcome. Trump had many impressive gains compared to 2020 Donald Trump improved his performance by above or near 10 percentage points in Republican states like Texas and Florida. He had similarly large performance improvements in democratic states like New York and New Jersey, where Democrats still won, but by much less than in 2020

and some of the gains heralded what may be a new Republican coalition with working class Hispanics into a lesser extent, African Americans, moving towards Republicans

in Miami, Dade County, the share of the Republican vote in The Presidential election went from 34% in 2016

to 46% in 2020

to 55% in 2024

and along the Texas Mexico border, Trump won all but two of the heavily Hispanic and traditionally Democratic counties.

These large gains did not have a significant effect on the swing states that were key to victory, but if Republicans are able to replicate these gains in future elections, this may show a broader coalition that could contribute to future victories.

Finally, the Republican victory was less impressive in the gains in Congress they might have anticipated. Importantly, Republicans will control the Senate and the House, but a victory of this magnitude might have translated into much larger congressional victories

in the Senate. Republicans gained three seats in strongly Republican leaning states that they should have won. Donald Trump won West Virginia by 42 percentage points, Montana by 20 and Ohio by 11. So it was not a surprise that Republicans gained Senate seats in those states, but Donald Trump won all seven swing states, and Republicans lead narrowly in only one.

Of the five Senate seats up for grabs in those states, in Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin and Michigan, Republicans lost Senate seats by less than two percentage points, they will likely end up with 53 Senate seats where they might have had control up to 57 with a small shift in the vote in

Yeah, and in the house, the most likely outcome is the same small majority for Republicans that they held before the election.

All of the impressive gains in the country did not translate into a gain of seats

overall. Republicans won the most consequential elections, the presidency, House and Senate, and they won all seven swing states.

They showed impressive newfound strength with former Democratic groups such as Hispanics and African Americans, but they underperformed in Congress, leaving themselves with majorities, but narrow majorities to govern the.