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The Aftermath: A look at the results nationwide
November 6, 2024
Mike Huckabee
The people who’ve spent the past four years telling us that January 6th was the worst insurrection in history suddenly decided that election denial and rioting are now patriotic again. A bunch of Hamas-supporting morons in NYC demonstrated outside of Fox News in a futile attempt to disrupt the election coverage, and some Antifa idiots tried to riot in Seattle. But not only is there a new sheriff coming to DC, but there are police in Seattle again, and several thugs were quickly arrested. It’s not 2020 anymore: if they think they’re going to shut down America by throwing violent temper tantrums over losing an election, they might want to rethink that.
The proof that their radical moment has passed into history (hopefully along with wokeness, DEI and all the other idiocy of the past four years) was displayed well by an online video of a Harris supporter, yelling angry slogans into a megaphone and trying to gin up a protest all by himself as annoyed passerby ignored him completely.
Sadly, not all the elections went as I’d hoped, like Hung Cao’s Senate loss to the vapid Tim Kaine in Virginia. I hope Trump finds a spot for Cao in his Administration. And Californians cursed America by promoting Adam Schiff, the biggest liar in the House (imagine holding that title!) to the Senate, cementing California as one of the places that, as Nancy Pelosi put it, would vote for a glass of water with a (D) by its name. Of course, they also voted for Kamala, proving that they’ll even vote for an empty glass with a (D) by its name.
But maybe some Californians are finally starting to wake up a bit. They overwhelmingly passed Proposition 36, the Homelessness, Drug Addiction and Theft Reduction Act, to undo parts of the Soros-backed soft-on-crime Proposition 46 that’s caused many residents and businesses to flee the state.
And voters in L.A. threw out their criminal-coddling DA George Gascon by nearly a 2-1 margin.
Let’s hope that someday, the little light in their mental fridges finally comes on and they grasp the connection between voting for Democrats and their lives becoming intolerable.
Finally, I was gratified to see that despite the Democrats spending an estimated $570 million to push abortion-up-to-birth measures in Nebraska and Florida (outspending Republicans 15-1), both lost decisively. But pro-abortion measures did pass in other states, although most were blue states like New York and Colorado, where there were already few if any limits. I pray for the day to come when all Americans realize how horrific abortion is and stop trying to cover up the ugly truth with fuzzy euphemisms like “reproductive freedom” and dishonest slogans like “It’s my body.”
Well, that’s it for now. We’ll have more tomorrow as the news rolls in. Right now, we’re all going to go get some rest, and thank God for Elon Musk, McDonald’s, Joe Rogan, garbage trucks, Peanut the Squirrel and all of you who said, “Enough is enough” and voted accordingly.
The Aftermath: Kamala hides from supporters
November 6, 2024
Mike Huckabee
I hope and pray that Trump accomplishes all the things he says he will, which will be great for all Americans, who voted for him across all demographic lines despite the Democrats’ best efforts to divide and conquer us. As usual, Rush Limbaugh was right: The best thing for Republicans’ electoral fortunes is for Democrats to get into power for just a little while and remind people of how much damage they can do in a surprisingly short time.
I was disappointed that Kamala Harris remained on brand to the end, refusing to face the cameras or make a difficult speech. When it was obvious she had lost, a minion was sent out to tell her disappointed followers to go home and get some sleep. There was no unifying congratulatory call to Trump or gracious concession speech. Wags accused her of plagiarizing Hillary Clinton. There was some rumbling from the Dems’ lawfare brigade about the race not being over for days, but when you’re down by five million votes, that’s what meant by “beyond the margin of fraud.”
There were some suspicious incidents at polling places around the nation, but the RNC’s lawyers responded fast, and shut them down PDQ. Kudos to Lara Trump and Michael Whatley at the RNC for fighting back on that front.
I also hope that the Democrats will learn from this that Americans reject the savage and divisive politics of racial grievance and slandering opponents as Nazis and garbage, and will work with Trump to make things better for all Americans. Sadly, their initial reactions to losing don’t fill me with optimism.
Some “progressives” blasted the Dems for not running far enough to the left. Yep, that would’ve done it. One arrogant liberal who flaunts her Ph.D. on Twitter/X decreed that this election shows we’re ruled by stupid, uneducated people. She reminds me of the great comedian Brother Dave Gardner’s observation that “some people are ‘educated’ beyond their intelligence.” I suspect she’s confused “educated” with “indoctrinated.” She may think she’s sipping Chardonnay, but she’s really drinking the Kool-Aid.
CNN seemed to sniff disaster early on, so they refrained from too much gnashing of teeth and rending of garments, knowing that conservatives would post it on YouTube and laugh at them for years to come. But there was no such restraint among the lefty loons at MSNBC, where Joy Reid had the predictable meltdown, ranting that Florida is an extreme, right-wing fascist state, apparently because it’s capable of counting votes quickly and efficiently.
Reid and her ilk also claimed that there was voter suppression, despite the heavy turnout. One state they cited was Texas, so I’ll let my writer Pat Reeder, who lives in suburban Dallas, respond to that:
“Laura and I voted early, and we live in a racially-diverse, lower middle-class neighborhood (Note to the Gov: We need a raise.) Not a Kamala Harris ‘middle-class neighborhood,’ but a real one. The line stretched out the door but moved quickly, and it only took about 20 minutes. Both voters and poll workers were of various races. We all smiled at each other, talked politely, voted and left. I didn’t notice me or anyone else being suppressed, except we did all have to show our IDs. Everybody had one, though. Shocking.”
Leaders around the world sent congratulations to Trump, saying they were looking forward to a close and friendly working relationship. I imagine Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is especially relieved to know that Israel will once again have a firm ally in the White House.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/
That’s odd: I’d been assured by all the smartest people that other world leaders mocked and disrespected Trump.
Trump Wins
November 6, 2024
Mike Huckabee
Before I say anything else, please join me in giving thanks to God for blessing America, and giving us one more chance to return to our founding principles of respecting religious liberty, free speech, respect for life and the protection of innocent children.
Don’t expect any long, well-organized essays today, as my writers and I have been up all night following the election returns and need to get some rest. Today’s edition will be mostly bullet points and celebrations. And in the spirit of unity and good sportsmanship, let me say that I sincerely hope someone hid the Drain-o from Bette Midler.
Tuesday, Donald Trump made the greatest political comeback in American history, overcoming years of lawfare and vilification to become only the second person ever elected to non-consecutive Presidential terms (I’m waiting for Rachel Maddow to accuse him of plagiarizing Grover Cleveland.)
At this writing, the news networks have him at 277 Electoral College votes, but despite their stubborn refusal to call the rest of the states, he’s on track to carry all but Maine. Even the New York Times predicts that he’ll eventually win by a 312-226 landslide. He’s even on track to win the popular vote by about five million votes, which is astounding for a Republican. I wonder if all those blue states that hate the Electoral College and want to give their EC votes to the popular vote winner will give them to Trump? Or will that issue suddenly go away?
It proves what I’ve been telling you for the past few months: If our side just ignores the polls and votes, we determine who runs the government, not a bunch of condescending leftist elites. We all just have to show up at the polls and we win.
The media also show the GOP retaking the Senate with at least 51 seats, which seems sure to rise to 55 or more. There was some concern that the Democrats might have won the House, setting us up for at least two years of obstruction and groundless impeachment hearings, but as of now, it appears that the GOP will narrowly hold on to control both Houses of Congress and the White House.
Trump mowed down any number of precedents, earning far greater shares of votes from typically Democratic voting blocs than any Republican in decades, including voters under 30, blacks, young males and especially Hispanic males. For instance, Trump was the first Republican in 30 years to win heavily-Hispanic Miami-Dade County in Florida, and by 55%.
It was truly the “red wave” we failed to see in 2022. Maybe young voters just hadn’t yet figured out how badly they were getting hosed under Biden-Harris, but now, they get it. One of my favorite moments of the coverage came when an analyst on one of the liberal networks cut to a map of all the counties in the US where Harris did better than Biden – and there were none!
My favorite reality-denying headline came from CNN.com: “Trump’s edge over Harris rises to 270.” Uh, guys? 270 isn’t an “edge,” it’s the presidency.
Trump gave an excellent, unifying victory speech, surrounded by his family who were among the strongest members of his campaign team. Here’s video of it and a transcript:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/
He called MAGA “the greatest political movement of all time,” and said he believes what many have told him: that God spared his life for a reason. He went on:
“I want to thank the American people for the extraordinary honor of being elected your 47th president and your 45th president. And every citizen, I will fight for you, for your family and your future, every single day I will be fighting for you with every breath in my body, I will not rest until we have delivered the strong, safe and prosperous America that our children deserve and that you deserve. This will truly be the golden age of America, that's what we have to have.”
Strangely, he said nothing about setting up concentration camps for MSNBC anchors or any of the other things we were told he’d do as soon as he declared himself dictator for life. You know, all the stuff he forgot to do in his first term.
New York Times “Pulitzer Prize-winning economist” Paul Krugman will also be shocked to see how Wall Street is reacting to Trump’s election:
Let’s also give J.D. Vance credit for killing the Dems' momentum by destroying Tim Walz in the VP debate and being one of the best VP picks we’ve seen in decades. As for Walz, at least he’ll now have plenty of spare time to learn how to load a shotgun.
What a great night for America: Mike Huckabee | Newsline
November 6, 2024
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
(Sarcasm alert: Yes, it will be creeping in.)
With all the stories already appearing about vote irregularities --- ballot boxes set on fire, ballots falling off the back of a truck, a local RNC committeewoman arrested at a polling place, lawsuits to keep noncitizens on voter rolls, and much more --- wouldn’t it be helpful to get some reassurance from an expert that the election is secure? And not just any old expert, but the head of a government agency that specifically deals with election infrastructure (voting machines and the like)?
Bret Baier, on Wednesday’s edition of FOX NEWS “Special Report,” brought on a guest to offer this valuable reassurance. And this expert must know all about election security, because she’s the Biden-appointed director of CISA, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Administration. I feel so much better now after being reassured by her that the election is secure!
(Note: We’ve discussed CISA here a number of times. This is the agency for which the term “infrastructure” was expanded to include internet content, with an eye towards regulating online speech. Mike Benz, founder of Foundation for Freedom Online, has been all over it. If you’re not up to speed, the following is a must-read.)
Anyway, at the start of his segment, Bret acknowledged there are many people who are worried about election security, “and whether someone or some group or some country could interfere with the voting this year.” Then, he introduced CISA Director Jen Easterly.
When asked how she would respond to real concerns from voters about whether or not their votes counted, her answer should raise some big red flags for anyone caring about government and media censorship: “...Americans have been subjected to a firehose of disinformation. A lot of that is coming from our foreign adversaries: Iran, Russia, China. The fact is, our election infrastructure has never been more secure and resilient.”
Really? Never more secure? And there’s that word, “disinformation.” You know, like that Hunter Biden laptop story that was suppressed four years ago. They called that disinformation.
Easterly continued: “But why do I say that? Well, to prevent digital interference, voting machines are not connected to the internet. To prevent digital manipulation, over 97 percent paper ballots. And to guarantee no human manipulation, there are multiple layers of safeguards: physical access controls, cybersecurity controls in place to protect election infrastructure from compromise.”
Again, really? Voting machines aren’t connected to the internet and control both physical and cyber access to the infrastructure? That sounds great! The 2024 election seems to be amazingly secure.
She went on, smiling: “So no matter who you vote for, you should have confidence that your votes will be counted as cast.”
Easterly has been a ray of sunshine on this topic before. On October 2, she told the AP that “malicious actors, even if they tried, could not have an impact at scale such that there would be a material effect on the outcome of the election.” There was no chance at all. I’m so glad to know we can all stop worrying about this.
According to the AP, she said, “State and local officials have made so much progress in securing voting, ballot-counting and other infrastructure that the system is more robust than it has ever been.”
(Note: if you do go to the above AP “news” story, you will see that they manage to work in the editorial comment that Trump’s claims of election rigging are “false.” They have not been proven false.)
“Things will go wrong,” she told them. “There could be another storm. There could be a ransomware attack, a distributed denial of service attack. These disruptions will create effects, but they will not impact the ability and the votes being cast or those votes being counted.”
Wow, apparently they have some kind of magic wand that counts all the votes no matter what! I guess we didn’t have to “bank” our votes ahead of time after all! Kidding; don’t believe this. VOTE NOW.
Here’s another big red flag from the AP story: In late September, Democrat Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, who leads the Senate Intelligence Committee, wrote a letter to Easterly urging CISA to take further steps against “misinformation and disinformation,” including coordination with social media platforms to deal with “false claims.” Yes, they are still pushing this.
Easterly told the AP that her agency “does not monitor social media sites or attempt to moderate their content.” She said that “CISA does not censor. CISA has never censored. And allegations against CISA are riddled with factual inaccuracies.” Actually, CISA was sued by Republican-led states who alleged the agency had applied “unrelenting pressure” to force changes in content online. The case did not go forward, but that was only because SCOTUS ruled the states didn’t have “standing.”
She had more rock-solid reassurances for Baier, addressing the lack of uniformity of rules in the 50 states by saying, “The diverse and decentralized nature of our election infrastructure actually means that it is impossible for a bad actor to tamper with or to manipulate the voting infrastructure in a way that would have a material impact on the outcome of the Presidential election, certainly not without being detected.”
Don’t you feel better now?
Speaking of the security of voting machines --- and no doubt Bret couldn’t challenge his guest on that, given the settlement between FOX NEWS and Dominion Voting Systems --- Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson alleges there indeed is a glitch in some types of Dominion machines. Specifically, she cites the Dominion ICX Voter Assist Terminal, which she says has a problem if users try to split their ticket (vote for candidates of both parties). This is the machine designed to help people with disabilities.
Wish Bret could’ve asked Jen Easterly about that. More details here…
Also in Michigan, a Chinese student at the University of Michigan voted illegally but, according to state law, will have his vote counted anyway. Once it’s in the system, there’s apparently nothing that can be done.
The student is in trouble, facing charges of perjury and unlawful voting for allegedly signing an affidavit saying he was a U.S. citizen and voting in Ann Arbor. Still, the ballot counts, so some lawful voter in Michigan has been disenfranchised with a canceled-out vote. Here’s more about the case…
Yesterday, we discussed Democrat election attorney Marc Elias and his willingness to “go to the mattresses” if the returns on Election Night are not to his liking. Peter Schweizer has a new piece on this “Master of Political Dark Arts.”
“This guy is presented as the champion, the biggest protector of democracy, to the extent that Donald Trump is seen by so many as the biggest threat to democracy,” Schweizer says. But we find it incredibly ironic that in order to get wins for his clients and “save democracy,” he has to stand democracy on its head. There’s virtually nothing about Kamala’s ascent to the top of the Democrat ticket that is democratic. It’s not about democracy; Elias has said himself on his own website that his goal was to elect as many progressive Democrats as possible.
As reported in BREITBART NEWS, “Marc Elias is behind efforts to kick third-party candidate Cornel West off the ballots in several states, and simultaneously keep the libertarian candidate on the ballots. His law firm files state-level suits to allow unsecured ballot drop boxes, to extend deadlines for absentee ballot counting, and other efforts to increase the likelihood of Democratic victories.”
This Soros-funded attorney had Hillary Clinton as a client and was involved in the creation of the Steele “dossier.” Schweizer says that “Elias’s job is to manipulate the laws and the rules to skew them in a direction that benefits his clients.” He also is a master of picking at results, counting and re-counting until he gets his win. Even if Trump and other Republicans appear to have won in a landslide next Tuesday, Elias will be doing that, treating the initial results like a “red mirage” that he can make vanish in two weeks.
Lots of reports of vote irregularities are coming in, and it’s too soon to be able to verify them. We’d rather apply the “72-hour rule” and be right than to rush out with a story that isn’t accurate. (Of course, even if it’s perfectly accurate, the media will still slam it as “disinformation.”) But last week, Elon Musk established what he calls the Election Integrity Project on X as a way to report suspected irregularities. When we search for this online, what comes up is headline after headline from the likes of THE ATLANTIC, NPR, NBC, the usual propagandists, ripping into Musk for “spreading election security doubts,” promoting “misleading election claims,” and “aggressively sharing conspiracy theories and misinformation.”
You can bet CISA would love to see Elon shut down.