Trump Won! America Won! Freedom Won!

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By Robin Itzler

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Donald J. Trump didn’t just win re-election, he won a RESOUNDING mandate from the American people by winning both the electoral college and popular vote. George W. Bush was the last Republican to have done that – in 2004! Plus, Trump won all the swing states, and the Senate went Republican majority. As we go to print, we should keep the House, too. Just look at the coalition Trump/Vance put together: AMERICANS! The Associated Press (AP) reports that 48 states moved to the right to some degree!

The corrupt legacy media and insanely communist leaning cable networks (aka Democrat talking heads) are going bonkers – bring the popcorn!

This was not how Democrats planned their “palace coup” to end. In late July 2024, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and former President Barack Obama rudely pushed Biden out of the presidential race. Their goal was to hold a mini-primary at the convention. They wanted to anoint a candidate who had no connection to the disastrous Biden/Harris administration. It would still not have been fair to the millions of Democrats who voted for Biden in the primary, but at least it would have had an air of "democracy." Instead, Biden backstabbed the party and immediately endorsed Kamala Harris, his DEI vice president. (As everyone knows, Jill and Joe Biden despise Kamala Harris.)

By making Harris the candidate, it meant, the election would be a side-by-side comparison: four years under Trump/Pence compared to four years under Biden/Harris. Democrat powers (Pelosi, Schumer, Obama and others) knew this was not going to succeed once the joyful honeymoon period ended and Harris was forced to speak unscripted to reporters, but there was still "hope and joy” the biased pro-Democrat media would push Harris over the finish line. Maybe Harris would have had a chance had she picked the popular Pennsylvania (and Jewish) Governor Josh Shapiro to be her running mate. Instead, she went with the communist leaning Tim Walz, governor of Minnesota.

There were many other unique moments in the final weeks of the campaign that were critical to the Trump landslide victory: 

• Several assassination attempts on Trump. 
• Trump “working” at McDonald's. 
• Harris telling The View hosts she would have done nothing different oofrom Joe Biden. 
• Harris’s multiple word salad non answers to friendly interviewers. 
• Harris not appearing at the Alfred Smith Catholic fundraising dinner. 
• Someone at a Harris rally yelling “Jesus is Lord! Christ is King!” and Harris’s immediate response: “You’re at the wrong rally.” 
• Biden calling Republicans and Trump supporters "garbage." 
• Trump driving a garbage truck and wearing the safety vest at a rally. 
• Magnificent Madison Square Garden rally. 
• Exuberant rallies, etc.

And now, in a historic election that will be studied for decades to come, President-elect Donald Trump and Vice-President-elect J.D. Vance will Make America Great Again ... Again!

Here are some comments made during the final days of the campaign and immediately after Republican victory.

• Jimmy Failla – Fox News host; tweet “NOTHING could be funnier than Democrats calling Trump racist for 10 years and losing because black men voted for him. HILARIOUS.”

• Thomas Buckley – columnist; Substack “He’s better prepared, he has a better staff, and this time he understands that becoming president is not like buying a company.”

• Mitch McConnell – Senate Minority Leader; interview "The filibuster will stand. There won't be any new states admitted that give a partisan advantage to the other side. And we'll quit beating up on the Supreme Court every time we don't like a decision they make."

• Bill Ackman, Democrat Trump supporter, billionaire hedge manager; X/Twitter “When the story of this election is written, I expect it will be as much about how half of America woke up to the reality that they have been manipulated by the media. This should lead to an abandonment by many of the MSM as their primary source of information. It will push more people to @X, to podcasts and other empirical sources, and it will lead to a more informed public.”

• Gary Bauer, American Values “Trump not only prevailed, he also had coattails that swept a new Republican majority to power in the U.S. Senate. This critical victory means that Trump will be able to confirm more conservative judges to the courts. “Donald Trump’s reelection is a victory for conservative populism. He has remade the Grand Old Party, and the old Republican establishment has been humiliated. Not only is the left reeling, but the hidebound GOP old guard is also reeling.  “Here’s a depressing fact: There are seven living former Republican presidents, vice presidents, or GOP presidential and vice-presidential nominees. Only one of them supported Donald Trump. That was Sarah Palin – the vice presidential candidate the GOP establishment despised.”

• Lanny Davis; former special White House Counsel to President Bill Clinton“The Morning After: Lessons to Learn - and Not to Learn” “So now, after a sleepless night, here is my morning-after self-truth-telling. It’s time we liberal Democrats faced up to the truth: We have become the party of intolerance and shaming, and a lot of ordinary Americans who once reliably voted Democratic and shared our Franklin Roosevelt-era liberalism that viewed government as a force for good now look at us as out-of-touch elites. And worse, as controlling scolds.”

• Rob Schmitt—host of Rob Schmitt Tonight (Newsmax) “I really believe at this point you call Alvin Bragg, Leticia James and Jack Smith … surrogates for the Trump presidential campaign. They did as much as anybody to get him re-elected.”

• Quoth the Raven; Substack excerpt “The Dam Has Burst, The Floodgates of Liberty Just Opened” “Democrats have alienated a significant portion of the center-right, center, and center-left due to their pandering to the radical left and bizarre ideological positions. Meanwhile, the media has lost another huge segment of viewership and portion of the public trust. And the trust that has been eroded between the media and Democrats with the American public over the last four years will take a very, very long time to rebuild.”

• Ben Shapiro – political commentator; co-founder of The Daily Wire “You can argue against Trump; you can argue for him. But nobody can credibly argue in favor of Kamala Harris.”

President-elect Donald J. Trump – excerpts from his speech to supporters in Mar-a-Lago following his historic win "I’ll be fighting for you, and with every breath in my body. I will not rest until we deliver the strong, safe and prosperous America that our children deserve and that you deserve.” “It's time to put the divisions of the past four years behind us. It's time to unite ... success will bring us together.” "Many people have told me that God spared my life for a reason. And that reason was to save our country and to restore America to greatness. And now we are going to fulfill that mission together."