by Jeff Childers
It was a legitimate miracle. President Trump’s comeback is, perhaps, the greatest comeback story in American politics. It might be the greatest comeback story of all time. As early as 10:30 p.m., just after decisive battleground state Pennsylvania broke for the former president, Fox News host Bret Baier mused that President-elect Donald J. Trump was “probably the biggest political phoenix-from-the-ashes that we have ever seen in the history of politics.” Indeed.
I was sound asleep when Brett offered his remarkable observation. But I suddenly woke around ten till three, startled by the distant sound of small arms fire. Pop! Pop! Pop! Adrenaline-filled, I got up, careful not to wake slumbering Michelle, and went outside. Hearing nothing but insects buzzing, and watching eerily lit clouds racing overhead, I realized I was now fully awake. Too late. So I flipped on Fox News.
Fox had just called the race for Trump. I had woken to celebratory gunfire.
Fox would be the only network to call the race for Trump till around 5:30am, after Wisconsin finally finished counting. Some corporate media stubbornly refused to declare Trump’s win until around 6:30, when the jig was clearly up. Enjoy this morning’s stunning New York Times website headline:
Only 270 electoral votes are required to win. It’s done. And it looks like Trump will have stormed all the swing states and ripped down the Democrat’s so-called “blue wall.” The far-left Washington Post, which wisely refrained from any endorsement, also ran a bold, memorable headline:
Pennsylvania clinched the deal. America —if not the entire world— owes a vast debt of gratitude to Scott Pressler, who moved to Pennsylvania this summer to organize the most effective voter registration drive in history. That’s how far ahead the GOP was looking, and the plan obviously worked.
For their part, the Democrats’ “Plan B” candidate pulled the plug around midnight. “You won’t hear from the vice president tonight,” campaign co-chair Cedric Richmond told the thinning Harris official watch-party crowd at about 12:45 a.m., in a somber statement lasting less than a minute and a half. “But you will hear from her tomorrow,” he offered lamely.
I can’t wait.
Kamala did not even match Biden’s 2020 numbers in any county. Let that sink in. Even the bluest counties in America voted for Kamala less enthusiastically in 2024 than they voted for Biden in 2020. Watch Jake Tapper’s shocked face after hearing that:
CLIP: CNN’s Jake Tapper finds out Kamala underperformed everywhere (0:18).
Jake Tapper exclaimed, “Holy smokes! Literally nothing? Literally not one county?” Correct. Literally not one county. It’s almost like Biden’s numbers were fake.
It is hard to overstate how substantially the Democrats were shellacked. They were beaten like red-headed stepchildren. They were worked over like unlicensed pet squirrels in New York. They cried harder than president Zelensky after nobody liked his victory plan.
See, it wasn’t just that Trump won.
Kamala still sits idled at 224 electoral votes; a puny figure that hasn’t shifted since early yesterday evening. With Michigan, Arizona, Nevada, and Alaska still in play, Trump retains a path to 300+ electoral votes, putting him in reach of a bona fide landslide. Various talking heads are predicting Republicans will enjoy a 55-seat majority in the Senate. The House remains in play, but it seems likely we’ll get that one too.
But even that wasn’t all.
Perhaps most importantly: President Donald J. Trump has won the popular vote, according to the latest projections. It’s been twenty years since a Republican has won the popular vote. The Democrats believed that a Republican majority was history, which is why they cry so much about the Electoral College.
The Democrats were wrong. The Conservative Counter-Revolution won the war and is starting mop-up operations.
Look at it this way: Democrats can’t claim the election was close. They can’t deny it was an artifact of the creaky old Electoral College. They can’t even deny it as undemocratic, since Trump won the popular vote. They can’t call it racist, since Trump claimed hispanics and black men in record numbers.
All of which adds up to: they can’t deny Trump’s mandate.
Ironically, during the campaign, corporate media relentlessly painted Trump as a revenge-fueled dictator for life, a Handmaid’s Tale Patriarch, a crass-talking lunatic thousand times worse than Adolph Hitler. So I guess that’s his mandate. That’s democracy!
Anything short of dictatorship, Trump pretty much enjoys a blank check.
I’m sure the Ministry of Propaganda wanted to leave the election calls open until the Democrats came through with their signature, “Oh, look what we just found in this Ryder truck… 15 boxes of mail in ballots. Let’s see who they voted for. Wow, they went 95% for Kamala!” miracles. That didn’t happen because, I think, the Musk forces were effective in casting a glaring light on all that bullshit.
I had worked 11.5 hours at a polling place; my first time. I got home around 9, showered, ate and watched the returns till about 11:30. I didn’t sleep worth a damn the night before, so I went to bed. I told my wife that if Trump was winning, those blue wall states wouldn’t be called till the middle of the night. If he is going to lose them, they won’t be called for a day or so. But, at 0600, I woke up and couldn’t go back to sleep wondering if that “miracle” had been executed. I got up to find Trump was, once again, President.
The only man since Roosevelt to win three terms.
I will be doing my part in aiding the left’s meltdown in my neighborhood by keeping my “Veterans for Trump” flag up for at least another week.