When news broke of his historic election victory of undeniable proportions, Donald Trump received a flood of calls from family and friends – including me – in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
I told the president that he and his victory were a metaphor for America: we never gave up; we never go back; We fight, we fight, we fight.
Their winding journey back to 1600 Penn is the kind of second chance few have known.
We discussed how he had reformed, diversified, and expanded the demographic and geographic reach of the Republican Party. And I ended by thanking him for the opportunity he had given me to serve this great nation.
As for the great man, it was clear that he felt humiliated to have been voted so resoundingly by the United States.
As news broke of his historic election victory of undeniable proportions, Donald Trump received a flood of calls from family and friends in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
He was energetic, despite the late hour. But above all, he was willing to return to work in the White House, ushering in a golden era for a more unified United States.
Of course, his detractors see red. So does the electoral map.
Every state except Delaware and Nebraska leaned toward Trump, even in Democratic strongholds that still sing the blues.
This choice came down to four demographic factors. Each of which favored him, not Kamala Harris.
A gender gap that it was nota racial realignment, the youth preferring the older candidate and a revolt of the working class against the elites.
In the end, there was no historic turnout of Democratic women as Kamala and so many misguided media outlets had promised.
If anything, we witnessed a reversal of the trend: Harris lost male voters by a staggering 13 percent to ‘Bro Show’ star Trump.
Meanwhile, the contender for first ‘female POTUS’ fared badly among women, winning by just 7 percent (five points less than Biden’s margin in 2020).
Abortion turned out not to be the miracle solution Harris had hoped for. This is a point made no more obviously than Democrats’ failure to mobilize Floridian women to vote against the state’s six-week ban.
Kamala also significantly underperformed among minority voters.
Black men tilted 25 percent in favor of Trump compared to 2020. Black women tilted 7 percent in his favor.
Meanwhile, Hispanic men swung in her favor by a whopping 18 percent.
Harris also did not impress young voters. She, like Nikki Haley, had become obsessed with Trump’s age, ignoring the fact that young people don’t care how old their president is, as long as they can afford everyday life, buy a house and invest in their future.
While 18- to 29-year-olds favored Biden by 25 percent in 2020, Kamala had a 5 percent margin on Tuesday night.
Finally, Kamala’s confident team had also opted to stoke the class divide.
They focused too much on college-educated people, especially in the suburbs around cities in swing states, at the expense of winning over (or even understanding and respecting) working-class people. This was costly: Non-college-educated white voters swung 5 points in favor of Trump as of 2020.
Those who snobbishly dismissed ‘MAGA’ as a base must now view it as a growing movement, a not-so-silent majority that looks more like America than a Republican electorate has ever looked like.
Trump has won states that President Obama won twice, such as Florida, Iowa, and Ohio, by larger (double-digit) margins. Meanwhile, Harris won Democratic states like Illinois, New Jersey and New Mexico by just single digits.
This choice came down to four demographic factors. Each of which favored him, not Kamala Harris. A gender gap that wasn’t, a racial realignment, youth preferring the older candidate and a working class revolt against the elites.
This is a repudiation of much of the mainstream media and also its pollsters, whose daily coverage and “data” have gone from biased to dangerous.
Trump is on track to receive more than 300 electoral votes, the first popular victory by a Republican in 20 years, a larger-than-expected margin in the Senate and potentially a trifecta with a slim majority in the House.
It’s pure domination.
Now that he and his transition team form a government, he does so with the mind and background of a successful businessman – and the experience (plus war wounds) of a former president.
In Susie Wiles, co-chair of this surprisingly successful 2024 campaign, our president-elect has chosen a White House Chief of Staff who understands him and his policy agenda. Note to Mark Cuban and his ilk: Trump hires on merit, and Wiles is undoubtedly a “strong, intelligent woman” who has demonstrated valuable leadership and management skills.
And then there’s the woman they defeated. In the end, Kamala Harris was just another Never Trumper. There is no contrast in policies. No vision. There is no reason to run. Just a primordial obsession with the destruction of one man and an endless loop of mockery and judgment for his followers.
She was helped by an adoring and agreeable mainstream media on social media, billions to spend, and a call to make history. However, it was Donald J. Trump who made history…again.
