November 6, 2024

Just now: The NYT observes that Trump has won.

 
It was the calling of Wisconsin that put him over the numerical line, chez NYT:
ADDED: I saw — at 6:03 Eastern — that the NYT called it at 6:03 because my son Chris texted me the image of that map above. It was funny that I — who'd been clicking around — got the NYT news from Chris, because last night he texted me that he was going to look away from the reporting of the returns. Going off to read last night, he said: "I predict I will find out the outcome of the election even if I try to avoid it."

95 comments:

Christopher B said...

AP called Wisconsin and the election for Trump about 30 minutes ago. He appears to be ahead in NV, MI, and AZ as well. I'm guessing they got the word from the Harris campaign that the post-election lawfare will be minimal.

Earnest Prole said...

How’s that lawfare workin out for ya?

Temujin said...

Wisconsin did it. Thank you, all.

Wilbur said...

Watching the post-mortems on MSNBC. Delicious.

Mike (MJB Wolf) said...

Thank you Wisconsin. Trump swept the Blue Wall. He took the popular vote. He proved that in fact you cannot beat someone running a "somebody" at least not when times are dire. Godspeed 47!

tim in vermont said...

Are they still looking for paths to victory in PA? LOL.

Biff said...

I love the balanced, reconciliatory tone the NYT is taking with its front page links:

TRUMP STORMS BACK
Stunning Return to Power After Dark and Defiant Campaign

His Win Opens a New Era of Uncertainty for the Nation
* Donald Trump played on fears of immigrants and economic anxieties to defeat Vice President Kamala Harris.
* He triumphed despite a criminal conviction, indictments, an assassin’s bullet, accusations of authoritarianism and an unprecedented switch of his opponent.


Pariah, Felon, President-Elect: How Trump Fought His Way Back to Power

America Hires a Strongman
This was a conquering of the nation not by force but with a permission slip. Now, America stands on the precipice of an authoritarian style of governance never before seen in its 248-year history.

Opinion
THE EDITORIAL BOARD
America Makes a Perilous Choice

How American democracy can endure through a second Trump presidency.

tim in vermont said...

"We’re all living in the manosphere now."

It was the "unfettered right to abortion" vs "please don't send me to get killed in a war" election.

Biff said...

Not a word about what Harris may or may not have done that led to this outcome. It's all on Trump.

Wilbur said...

The Most Reverend Al Sharpton just pronounced on MSNBC that Trump won because America is sexist and racist.
You go with that, brother.
Scarborough correctly points out that the Democratic Party and their policies are disconnected from the American people.
Where's that been for the last few years?

exhelodrvr1 said...

It wasn't just Trump that dodged a bullet this year - the whole world did!

tim in vermont said...

On the one hand, it's pretty funny, on the other, this a whole edition of a major newspaper that boils down to "snipers wanted." Now they are going to have to slant their news to make all of these predictions appear true, or they are going to become ridiculous.

rehajm said...
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Goldenpause said...

Trump won outside the margin of fraud. Apparently winning the popular vote is a nice touch. That should tone down the anti-electoral college rhetoric for awhile.

The Real Andrew said...

Could this be the year when the mainstream media finally lost its ability to influence a majority of Americans? And when podcasters like Rogan and platforms like Musk’s X became the dominant news model?

And can we finally put pollsters and celebrities out to pasture?

What an amazing turn of events. I honestly believe that Trump is the greatest political figure of my life time. Even surpassing Reagan. Godspeed to the man and his 2nd presidency.

Shouting Thomas said...

What a glorious victory! Thanks to the electorate for seeing through the lies, hoaxes, propaganda and lawfare.

Jim at said...

I had other things going on today, but I know now I should've saved every post - especially the one where the sanctimonious school marm demanded we look into our souls - upon Trump's inevitable loss.

She's since deleted EVERY comment.
Every. One.

We all saw it, Inga.

You claim your hobby is politics and current events.

May I suggest a new one? Maybe Arts and Crafts time during your stay at Winnebago?

rehajm said...

The mood at NYT is I for one welcome our new insect overlords...I hope they are frightened. I hope they have reason to. I'd like to see their credentials pulled as we hand them the video and print receipts...

Breezy said...

Such a dilemma for media - must disparage Trump but need him bigly for their clicks.

rehajm said...

I just walked outside to observe the sky brightening (and to put out the recycle bin). I am hundreds of miles from Metro DC but I thought I could smell the burn barrels and bleach bit from here.

This morning I am not in a forgiving mood.

I am hopeful the slow deliberate plodding of an effective government roots out the evil that is sulking this morning, though some of them are fleeing like Diddy has them on film. I am hopeful the political prisoners Democrats incarcerated will be freed before the inaugural lunch. I am willing to accept the chaos and danger of addressing the humanitarian mess the previous administration bestowed upon us at our expense.

I will gloat a bit at the losers this time. I will be grateful for the brave Americans who never wavered in the face of evil, with special recognition to those who switched sides..

Chris said...

God be praised!

Leland said...

I credit Meade for bringing Wisconsin home for Trump. Just think where we would be if Althouse didn’t bring Meade home.

rehajm said...

Now, America stands on the precipice of an authoritarian style of governance never before seen in its 248-year history

I'm rehajm and I approve this message. It won't save the guilty but it is a benevolent authoritarian style of governance, not the authoritarian menace the cartoon villains have been coking behind the scenes...

tim in vermont said...

If Inga was able to delete every comment, it kind of suggests that she was an operative with specialized software, after all.

gilbar said...

two words: Grover Clevland!

Nancy said...

I am SO ENJOYING the lamentation of their women, aka the comments section to Bret Stephen's column in the NYT. Zippidy doo dah!

Rusty said...

Thank God.

Jim at said...

If Inga was able to delete every comment, it kind of suggests that she was an operative with specialized software, after all.

Nope. I've gone back and deleted duplicates. It's author delete.

She spent at least 30 minutes - going through every thread - deleting every foolish, over-confident comment.

It's a chickenshit move, but can you blame her?

Rusty said...

Somebody go check on Inga. She may be trying to harm herself. Or harm Trump.

Captain BillieBob said...

I want to know where the 81 million votes for Biden went. Did all those voters die.........again?

Rusty said...

She did? That was a coward move. She won't be back for awhile.

tim in vermont said...

Sure, but it sounds like a royal PIA. Software would make it far easier. And she sure seemed to be following an official playbook. She made a lot of comments.

rehajm said...

...if you're puzzling over the electoral map this morning keep in mind there is a strong correlation between the places that flipped and the places the Democrats have been imbedding their human pawns for the upcoming census...

rehajm said...

I see we are answering the question that should have been but was never asked: Will Kamala accept the results of the election?

Todd said...

Now we get to see how much Trump learned from his first POTUS win to today. Does he go in with a flame-thrower and REALLY clean house or does he listen to the usual crowd of insiders, hanger-ons, and grifters? I know what I am hoping for but only time will tell.

BUMBLE BEE said...

Straighten Up and Fly Right!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrwEp7Ju5Fs

Wilbur said...

Deleting her comments also enables her to deny saying what she has said. I've seen it.

Danno said...

After Pennsylvania, all Trump needed was pretty-much sure-thing Alaska, so there's that. Wisconsin is gravy.

tim in vermont said...

Hey GOPe? Smell that smell? Smells like.... victory." You wouldn't be tasting it right now but for Donald John Trump.

Scott M said...

It's not over until the Scat Lady concedes.

tim in vermont said...

LOL. Ok, I'm done.

Ralph L said...

Sippican, one of Althouse's best early commenters, somehow deleted years of comments for an unknown reason. Maybe he was going into politics.

Christopher B said...

I don't expect that until 6 January 2025 (maybe I'll be surprised) but given the media cooperation with Harris I think it's significantly they aren't maintaining the fiction she has a path to 270.

Democratic Paychecks for Perks/ Dems for Demolition of Democracy/ fake-cares 4-U said...

Poor Inag. LOLOLOLOLOLOL

Enemy Within said...

This election was always about the Late, Great Hannibal Lecter.

rehajm said...

Senator Blutarsky...

Derve Swanson said...
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NorthOfTheOneOhOne aka Doug Emhoff's Pimp Hand said...

Historic election; Trump pulls off a rare split term, Biden saves Jimmy Carter from going down as the worst President ever and Hillary Clinton can take some small comfort in the fact that she's now no longer the worst Democrat candidate in history.

tim in vermont said...

Aren't you a Republican, Rich? Doesn't victory feel good? I know that you only disliked Trump because you were convinced he was going to cause Republicans to be repudiated and put out of power for a generation, or something like that? Or is that line of BS of yours "no longer operative."

Captain BillieBob said...

Enjoy the celebration but lets keep it short. There' work to be done if we are to get the country back on the right track. Close the boarder, drill baby drill, end the wars, deport the criminals, in person voting, voter ID, paper ballots, no sanctuary states or cities. Time to take out the trash. Let's GO!

TickTock said...

Prayers answered. Hope justified as a life choice.

gilbar said...

can someone (Inga? Mark? Lonejustice?) answer me Two questions?
1) WHY did the democrats oust Biden?
2) WHY did they replace Biden with Kammy?

wendybar said...

"It turns out that Americans really do not like “Green New Deal”–induced inflation, COVID lockdowns, mandatory vaccinations, open borders, skyrocketing violent crime, “woke” sermonizing, child mutilation, “transgender” madness, censorship, political persecution, bungled military withdrawals, or the prospect of nuclear war in Europe and the Middle East."

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/11/the_greatest_comeback_of_all_time.html

Christopher B said...

Nurse Wretched will be back as soon as the new DNC talking points are out.

Marcus Bressler said...

So, so very happy this morning.

Dixcus said...

They're looking for a few good snipers. Yes. Democrats aren't done trying to murder Donald Trump.

Dixcus said...

Apparently, the NYTimes doesn't understand that women like strong men. There's too much flouride in their water and not enough testosterone in their men.

Dixcus said...

I'm sexist and (according to them) racist. I will NEVER vote for a President of the United States who hails from Kenya or India.

Or a woman, unless Margaret Thatcher somehow comes back to life.

rastajenk said...

Joe said that? Wow

Dixcus said...

I'm just glad Jimmy Carter lived long enough to see TWO Trump Presidencies.

He should just die already.

tim in vermont said...

Like I said, this is going to give me gout:


Bill Kristol@BillKristol 13h
Looking at partial returns from a few counties in Indiana, take with as many grains of salt as you wish, but I see Harris consistently running a point or two ahead of Biden 2020.

Dixcus said...

Biden got 81 million votes (lol). Kamala was blowing every American in sight and only got 66 million.

Democrats can't win unless they have the entire country locked in their houses.

wild chicken said...

Lmao, Montana Republicans never had it so good. Nearly all swept into office on Trump's coattails. Ten years ago they couldn't buy a vote. What'll happen when he's not on the ballot?

mikee said...

I woke up this morning happy, nay, delighted, to have been wrong about the efficacy of the Dem's mail-in ballot harvesting. I'm out $100, and couldn't be happier with the results of my bet on Harris.

Democratic Paychecks for Perks/ Dems for Demolition of Democracy/ fake-cares 4-U said...

I-nag - kind of a red wave. LOL.

tim in vermont said...

She took all of her comments and packed them up in her little carpet bag, put it in the basket of her bicycle, and was last seen peddling off into a stormy sky, with the tail of a cute little squirrel coming out of a handlebar grip.

Mikey NTH said...

The media conceded. Hillary's glass ceiling remains for sale.

I Use Computers to Write Words said...

It's pretty funny that Inga went through and deleted all of her comments, but I also consider it a small act of archive vandalism. She so frequently commented that a large percentage of comment sections reference what she said, and now those conversations are hard to understand forever.

When Althouse links past posts, I like to flit through the comments—it's often more interesting than the comments of the present, because it puts me back in the mindspace of those times and conversations, which are less vivid in my mind now.

Mikey NTH said...

Backfired like all Acme products.

Gusty Winds said...

Biden = 81 Million Votes Harris = 63 Million Votes as of this morning. Where do we think the 18 million votes went? Fraud. They never really existed.

2020 Trump 74 Million - 2024 71 Million - Consistent.

Nancy said...

I love Jonathan Capehart's amazement that so many people supported a man who was impeached twice and inducted twice. Don't they understand that being accused proved he was guilty???

Aggie said...

It's going to be interesting, watching all the nervous fidgeting as Trump wanders in with a bright shiny flashlight, and demands the keys to the new Ministry of Truth institutions around the country. Watch for the screams of terror about censorship and conservative government overreach into the sacred territory of the beloved First Amendment.

Caroline said...

They still don’t get it. This was an epic fail of legacy media to cover the news. While they were focused on providing a safe space for their snowflake readers, the story of this race went largely unexamined. They were affirming the narrative, day in, day out, and continue to do so. They have no clue what voters were going through. No clue what the issues were, because they didn’t cover any issues.

Yancey Ward said...

RIP- once again.

tommyesq said...

Watching the news this morning, and discovered that Trump actually improved his percentage of Wisconsin and Michigan in 2020 and again in 2024. Odd that he still lost both in 2020 to Sleepy Joe.

tommyesq said...

Also, this election cycle, less people identified as democrats than as independents. Dems were only 32% of the electorate.

Yancey Ward said...

Kristol is a moron. You can only look at counties that have finished a count and all of those last night showed her consistently running 2-3 points behind Biden's margin.

Hassayamper said...

This victory belongs to Merrick Garland, Jack Smith, Judge Engoron, and the local prosecutors who orchestrated the most transparently political show trials in American history.

tommyesq said...

71 million so far - still a few states to be counted.

Hassayamper said...

Could this be the year when the mainstream media finally lost its ability to influence a majority of Americans? And when podcasters like Rogan and platforms like Musk’s X became the dominant news model?

Beyond all doubt. If you add the viewership of all the networks to the readership of the five biggest newspapers, Joe Rogan's audience beats them handily.

And citizen-journalists posting on X, backed up by the marvelous Community Notes feature, are now the definitive source of news for billions of people, easily circumventing the liars and censors and propagandists of government and the news media.

Rory said...

The Harris candidacy was based on a massive denial of civil rights - the Democrats' override of 15 million votes in the primaries. Anyone who ratified that denial - donated to her campaign, put out a lawn sign, knocked on doors - should face consequences.

Yancey Ward said...

Did Ingbat really delete all of her pre-election comments? If so, that is fucking hilarious!

planetgeo said...

Not only won the electoral vote but also the popular vote (even erasing the millions of illegals voting openly in California)! A total repudiation of the Democrats and a powerful mandate to Make America Great Again.

Now free ALL the J6 political prisoners and Godspeed!

Former Illinois resident said...

Mainstream media, the big city newspapers and the television channel news programs, will either resume neutral reporting, or be obsolete within the year. Rogan is the new kingmaker.

Whiskeybum said...

The deletions of her history in these pages feels a little bit like 1984, doesn’t it? That’s exactly where the Dems are trying to take us.

Enemy Within said...

Trump, in every sense of the word, won.

I’m sorry, that is the end of the story. Whatever story comes right after it is up to others to write.

But I’m not here to sugarcoat anything for you.

He will go to his grave a massive winner. That is not a value judgement.

planetgeo said...

Now I'm eagerly awaiting the delicious spectacle of watching which states that previously passed the law to convert ALL their electoral votes to whichever candidate won the popular vote. Please, God, let one of them be California.

Marc in Eugene said...

I hope the Bidens can find it in their hearts to allow Mrs Harris to accede to the presidency for about a week in January. This would have the additional grace of irritating Mrs Clinton and Mr and Mrs Obama.

Yancey Ward said...

I don't think Biden is going to do that if Harris really was part of the cabal that shoved him aside. Now, if she wasn't involved, he might do it.

Original Mike said...

"She's since deleted EVERY comment.
Every. One."


You're kidding? How much work must that have been?

Original Mike said...

Iowa, Iowa, Iowa! joins Russia, Russia, Russia!

PM said...

Thanks for that. Saves time.

One Fine Day said...

America Hating Inga's deletion of her comments confirms what I suspected - somewhere this year our original shriveled bint sold her identity here to a Dem social media machine who then had paid operatives posting as "Inga".

Maybe the original Inga will come back and enlighten us with her foolish comments some more. I hope not. Good riddance to trash.

William50 said...

-- Bette Midler threatens to drink Drano if Donald Trump wins Election 2024 --

Bottoms up!

Marc in Eugene said...

Nothing I've read makes me think that KH is clever enough to have been a 'mastermind' of the putative cabal; a patsy only, sure. Although on reflection I don't see how even in that case the Bidens would feel it to be in their interest to 'reward' her unless Mrs Clinton ('the first woman president') really was the chief strategist of the coup (or if they believe this). In any event, it is much more pleasant to speculate about such things this morning than to be looking ahead to a Harris presidency.