Trump Rides Red Wave to Total Victory!

The People have spoken, and Donald J. Trump will be given the chance to Make America Great Again once more!

In a resounding victory, Trump crushed Kamala Harris and will also likely return to the White House with a sizable Republican majority in the Senate to help him confirm nominees and move his legislative priorities, notably an extension of expiring tax cuts.

“America has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate,” Trump declared in a victory speech early Wednesday. Ending on a note of unity, Trump also said that “success is going to bring us together” as a country.

Vice President-elect JD Vance, who automatically becomes a leading candidate for the GOP presidential nomination in 2028, called Trump’s victory the “greatest comeback in the history of the United States of America.”

Trump also said he expected Republicans to win the House, although control of that chamber was still up in the air as the writing of this piece. If Democrats were to seize control of that chamber, which Republicans currently control 220-212, Republicans could be forced to moderate their agenda significantly.

Still, Trump’s sweeping victory Tuesday has big implications for many issues, including ones that Trump could potentially tackle without congressional action. Those include trade and immigration, as well as regulatory reform. Trump has threatened to raise tariffs across the board and to carry out mass deportations of illegal immigrants. He also could take steps to roll back some of the Biden administration’s regulatory actions at EPA and other agencies.

Trump ran up his numbers in rural areas while significantly expanding his support among Latinos, helping him defeat Vice President Kamala Harris in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and giving him significant leads in Nevada and Michigan as the vote count continued Wednesday morning.

“The enthusiasm for Trump in rural areas was real. … He’s doing better than he’d ever done before,” Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign manager, Jim Messina, said on MSNBC. “The Democrats have a real rural problem.”

The GOP was assured control of the Senate after Republican Bernie Moreno defeated Sherrod Brown in Ohio, and Republican Deb Fischer won her re-election race in Nebraska. Earlier in the night, Republicans flipped the West Virginia seat vacated by the retiring Joe Manchin.

Republicans claimed a 52nd seat when The Associated Press declared Wednesday morning that Republican Tim Sheehy had unseated Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont.

Republican challengers also were narrowly leading races against Democratic incumbents in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Nevada. 

In Wisconsin, Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin was narrowly leading Republican Eric Hovde with 97% of the vote counted.

In the House, numerous seats with significant agriculture districts were in play, and the incumbents were largely holding their own.

In an exception, Democrat Josh Riley unseated incumbent Rep. Marc Molinaro in New York’s 19th District. The race was one of the most expensive in the country.

Restoring American Greatness

“I said that many people have told me that God spared my life for a reason,” Trump told supporters in West Palm Beach. “And that reason was to save our country and to restore America to greatness, and now we are going to fulfill that mission together.”

And it wasn’t just divine intervention. Trump thanked an array of worldly supporters in his speech in Florida, including his family, advisers, and powerful friends such as billionaire donor Elon Musk and Ultimate Fighting Championship CEO Dana White.

“Most of all,” he said, “I want to thank the millions of hard-working Americans across the nation who have always been the heart and soul of this really great movement.”

And then, in the final moments of his speech, he turned to everyone else and vowed to bring the country together after a hostile and polarizing election that both sides had cast in existential terms.

“It is time to put the divisions of the past four years behind us. It is time to unite, and we are going to try,” Trump said. “We have to try.”

Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), said that Trump’s victory marks “the greatest political comeback in the history of the United States of America.”