Three incredible ways the far-left media helped Trump win again

The results are in and former President Donald Trump didn’t just win the presidency. He defeated his archenemy, the media. You could see it in the hysteria as many leftist news outlets reported the numbers on election night. With each passing moment, they saw red in more and more parts of America. 

To paraphrase former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, “Never was so much pain owed by so many to so few.” Journalists ran the worst election in American history and were defeated by Trump and ordinary voters. Sure, Vice President Kamala Harris did her part with lame interviews, foolish sound bites and a refusal to even engage in conversation with major influencers like Joe Rogan. 

But the news media, who opposed Trump in 2016 and defeated him in 2020, came back with a vengeance in 2024. They screamed “fascist,” “Hitler,” “Nazi,” “garbage” and more at both Trump and his supporters. They hyped every negative story, every nasty soundbite and every pro-Harris poll, including one horribly wrong Iowa poll that came out just before the election. 

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Journalists whistled themselves past the graveyard of their decaying industry, ignoring, debating or downright bashing anyone who brought up the awful hurricane response, the border, crime, the economy, national security or the wars in Europe and the Mideast that didn’t exist when Trump was president. 

The news media turned one of the hallmarks of our democracy – the Fourth Estate – into a cottage industry for people who promote the most insane, far-left opinions. Ordinary Americans grew increasingly outraged and made their voices heard. 

Boy, did they. 

Americans voted for Trump because they noticed all the times the supposedly neutral press called Trump “fascist,” compared him to Hitler and more. They noticed when wealthy, elite journalists pretended that inflation wasn’t a problem and that people could somehow afford the massive spike in housing and food costs. Oh, and that claiming otherwise made ordinary voters stupid or worse.  

Voters saw ABC News host Martha Raddatz act like it didn’t matter when a violent foreign gang took over apartment buildings in Colorado because “the incidents were limited to a handful of apartment complexes.” What she meant was a handful of apartments where the poors live and ABC News staffers don’t.  

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The legacy media continued to lose respect. And it’s well-earned. A new Gallup study shows that fewer than a third of Americans hold a “great deal” or “fair amount” of faith in the media to report news properly. Americans have obviously been watching campaign coverage.  

And that was before they lost this election. What will they tell their readers and viewers now? We already saw how bad the press was during the first Trump term. It will be far worse this time. The press already lost. They think they have nothing else to lose 

We’ve seen repeated examples of journalists pretending anything they disagree with is either “misinformation” or “disinformation,” even if it turns out to be true. (The Hunter Biden laptop is only one example of many.)  

And when they don’t openly lie about the news, they rely on so-called fact-checks to misrepresent it. Like how ABC’s moderators only fact-checked former President Donald Trump during the debate with Vice President Kamala Harris . Or how they allowed President Joe Biden to repeatedly make false claims about Trump’s comments regarding the Charlottesville protests. 

What’s disturbing is all those aren’t the worst examples of the pathetic liberal press this election. Here they are, so you don’t forget: 

1. That’s real ‘garbage’ 

Which one is more important, a comedian making a joke about “garbage” or the president of the United States calling half the country “garbage?” If you’re the news media, you covered the first and covered up the second. And Biden’s comment came as he was stumping for Harris.  

The Washington Post tried to muddy the waters and claim what Biden did was unclear. “Did Biden call Trump supporters ‘garbage’? It comes down to an apostrophe.” Actually, it doesn’t. If Team Trump tried to doctor White House documents to pretend otherwise, the Post would have gone nuts. But when the current administration did it, nada. Even left-wing AP reported, “AP sources: White House altered record of Biden’s ‘garbage’ remarks despite stenographer concerns.”  

The comment was so bad that Harris had to distance herself from what Biden said. So, even Harris was more honest than the press. But with early voting already happening, most in the news media are incapable of giving Trump any talking points. Even when they’re true. 

Biden’s cognitive decline remains an enormous issue the major media don’t dare touch – even though he still has the nuclear codes and is still president. Just like they avoided it prior to the debate. But when Biden embarrassed himself against Trump, the press threw granddad from the train and the ticket.  

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Yet, journalists haven’t pushed to remove him from office. Because that would put Harris in the job and she would be connected to every stupid and awful thing this administration has done. Instead, they presented her as a change candidate even though she said she would do nothing different. 

It’s worth remembering that Biden’s mental fitness was an issue even heading into the last election, so he hid in his basement. After he won, his obvious failings got so bad that White House staffers had one person in an Easter Bunny costume move Biden away from inquiring reporters. And that was in April … 2022. 

Back in March, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough went on a classic rant claiming that Biden was at the top of his game. “Start your tape right now, because I’m about to tell you the truth. And f-you if you can’t handle the truth. This version of Biden intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever.” He wasn’t even laughed off the network. 

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One day, when D.C. reporters all write their books about the Biden years, they will all admit their stories of how out of it Biden was. But they refused to report those because they had to stop Orange Man Bad.  

Readers and journalists don’t care about political endorsements except when it undermines their sense that an outlet is on their team. Both were upset enough that the Los Angeles Times pulled its endorsement of Harris. But, they were ready to throw their Pumpkin Spice Lattes in protest when the Washington Post did it. 

The Post is in Democrat Central, or D.C., a place so leftist that Trump has gotten 4-5% there in the national election. Twice. So, when leftist readers and even-more leftist staff were unable to bash Trump one more time, they revolted. (The Post staff is revolting … write your own joke here ____________.) 

The rest of the news media threw a tantrum so bad that the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) even suggested the Post owner give the paper away: “Jeff Bezos Should Donate the Washington Post to a Charity.” The article called it “a bold, patriotic move” to give away the paper along with perhaps $100 million to cover about one year’s losses. CJR’s hope is that the 250,000 readers who quit over the controversy would return. 

What CJR failed to realize is that the Post is already a charity. It lost $77 million in 2023 alone. Even with those readers. 

New York Magazine’s Intelligencer summarized the news media’s campaign meltdown that led to these and countless other examples of bias. One network exec declared, “It’s going to change everything” if Trump wins. That idea is intolerable to newsies. “If half the country has decided that Trump is qualified to be president, that means they’re not reading any of this media, and we’ve lost this audience completely. A Trump victory means mainstream media is dead in its current form,” the exec concluded. 

Yep. He was right. DOA. Activists took over journalism and destroyed it. After all, Trump came back, maybe honest journalism will, too. But don’t bet on it. 

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Trump victory slams Democrats’ woke world view. Here’s what’s next

Donald Trump’s big election victory is a repudiation of the Democratic Party, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. There is no other way to see it. With over a 2 to 1 advantage in financial resources, the office of the vice presidency and the support of financial and political elites across the country, the fact that Donald Trump has won a convincing victory, in spite of a campaign that clearly got distracted in the last week, speaks volumes about the message the American electorate was sending in this election.

Put another way, voters want a new economic policy that emphasizes smaller government, deregulation and lower taxes. They want the wall completed and illegal immigration eliminated as much as possible. And they want the crime problem addressed fundamentally and systemically. 

The election results also suggest the limitations of the abortion issue as a motivating force. Put simply, the fact that the Democrats put virtually all their firepower behind the choice issue suggests the weakness of that appeal. 

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More generally, as a message to the Democratic Party , the return to the White House of a clearly flawed Donald Trump also represents a repudiation of Democratic woke policies. Whether it be on transgender issues, affirmative action or issues related to the role of parents and the traditional nuclear family as a central component of American life.

The Republican victory and the Senate election results, along with the very strong showing in the House, represent a message of change and rejection of the status quo.

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Put bluntly, the Democrats need to go through a reassessment of who they are, what they stand for and why they exist as a party, if they are to maximize their appeal going forward.

To be clear, a Republican victory, even one as surprisingly substantial as this one, is only half the message of these election results. The American people are looking for leadership. At home, on the economy and abroad in confronting our adversaries, whether it be in the Middle East or in Eastern and Central Europe. 

As a deeply divided country, it is frankly more important that we come together around our common values and common principles than is any other specific policy initiative or aspirational goal. 

It is my fervent hope that, given the strength of the Russia-China-Iran-North Korea axis, that both parties recognize the threat we are facing, which is profound and increasing, and unless our leaders come together to confront our challenges at home and abroad, the real loser will be American people, who deserve better than the polarization and campaign we have just witnessed. 

Rest assured, for our adversaries, this is the beginning of a new period. A dangerous period. The interregnum between an enfeebled Joe Biden and an energized and invigorated Donald Trump creates extraordinary risk to us and an opportunity for our adversaries. 

If there is one thing that is clear, it is that Donald Trump needs to reach out to Joe Biden and vice versa. Indeed, the best thing they both could do would be to agree to pardon one another and their families. Not because of the merits of the cases, but because our country deserves better. And the American people certainly deserve a lot better leadership than we have been getting.

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DANA PERINO: Election night 2024 is here and now America decides

We are living in a time of instant gratification —press a button to order dinner and it is delivered minutes later.

But we are in for a longer wait tonight.  

It will take time for us to find out who our next president will be.

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This is one of the few nights when Americans all get together to await the results — and the excitement and dread are palpable. 

This is the longest campaign in our history

But people don’t live in history. They live in the here and now. 

And they’re not looking at demographic trends or parsing the Federal Reserve’s report

They live by their monthly bills and by their hopes and dreams for their lives and their children’s and grandchildren’s future.

Many people feel misplaced and misunderstood. Seventy-four percent of America thinks we are moving in the wrong direction. That’s incredible — 74% of people barely agree on the color of the sky anymore. 

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When you add a major political realignment and a gigantic gender gap, you have a huge disconnect at a time when partisanship has seeped into every crevice of our country. 

At the same time, people are experiencing news and information in ways we don’t really fully understand. 

Take just about any guy’s Twitter feed vs any woman’s TikTok follows, and the viewpoints are starkly different. The impact of this is unknown. 

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But it’s not going back to the way it was when I made my sister Angie get up and change the channel on the television set.

We end the campaign with former President Trump more popular than he’s ever been. He withstood two assassination attempts. He’s campaigned tirelessly and ruthlessly. It may work.

Vice President Kamala Harris has campaigned cautiously and almost quietly, avoiding taking positions and answering questions and having inherited a situation where Democrats were abandoning President Biden at a rapid clip. And it may work.

Two very different approaches. The tightest election in memory. And soon, the polls will close, and we’ll know a lot more. Settle in and watch the show. 

Because tonight — America decides.

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ANDREW McCARTHY: Biden-Harris Justice Department tangles with red states on Election Day

We needn’t catalog the instances of politicization of law enforcement by the Biden-Harris Justice Department – the list is long and notorious. Nevertheless, if Congress has given the federal government jurisdiction to enforce a statutory crime, and if there is no constitutional infirmity in the statute, then no state may prevent the Justice Department from enforcing it in the state’s territory. Period.

Reportedly, Texas and Missouri have objected to the Justice Department’s dispatching of monitors to various election precincts in those states. Fox News’ David Spunt reports that the Texas dispute appears to have been resolved by agreement of the parties, while a Missouri federal judge (an appointee of former President Trump) has denied the state’s application for a restraining order against DOJ.

To my mind, it is reprehensible for DOJ to deploy monitors unless there are plausible grounds for a federal investigation. Again, this is a highly politicized Justice Department. It is not beneath Attorney General Merrick Garland and his radical leftist Civil Rights Division chief, Kirsten Clarke, to saber-rattle in red states in order to suggest that Republican-controlled state governments are violating the civil rights of minority voters, rather than to investigate based on actual evidence yielding a reasonable suspicion of illegality.

But that said, the states have no power to tell the federal government what it may investigate, and the states are barred by the Constitution’s supremacy clause from obstructing federal enforcement of possible offenses of federal law.

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In Section 241 of the federal penal code (to take the most salient example), Congress has made it a felony violation:

If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same[.]

This civil rights crime has been on the books since the post-Civil War era. It specifically targeted the Ku Klux Klan’s forcible oppression of Black Americans to prevent them from voting in the South.

Over time, as inevitably happens, the statute has been stretched by federal prosecutors. For example, Biden-Harris special counsel Jack Smith has invoked §241 to charge former President Donald Trump in the so-called J6 indictment, involving alleged conspiracies to corrupt the 2020 presidential election. The Justice Department’s theory is that, by challenging the popular election result in contested states, based on claims of voting irregularities that Smith alleges Trump knew were fraudulent, the former president conspired to injure Americans in those states in exercising their right to vote. 

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To my mind, Smith’s theory in the Trump case is overreach bordering on the absurd. Nonetheless, it makes for a useful example of the Justice Department’s interpretation of §241. Federal prosecutors see it as a broad mandate to protect voters from interference.

Of course, that doesn’t mean DOJ should use the civil rights laws as a pretext for investigating in the absence of hard proof. If the federal government has evidence of conspiracies to interfere with voting, it should be working cooperatively with law enforcement agencies in the affected states.

But for the moment, that is more a political dispute than a legal one. States have no authority to prevent DOJ from investigating potential violations of federal law; and no individual has a right to challenge Justice Department monitors unless and until that individual is charged with a crime based on flimsy evidence.

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There is an exception. Just as the states have no authority to prevent DOJ from conducting investigations, the federal government has no authority to interfere with the states’ administration of elections. Constitutionally speaking, such administration is principally a state responsibility.

As a result, if a state has evidence that DOJ monitors, in some material way, are impeding the state’s ability to ensure a free and fair election, or that DOJ is violating state law in a manner unnecessary to the good-faith enforcement of federal law, that state should ask the feds to stand down – and, if that doesn’t work, should ask a court to order the Justice Department to stand down.

There seems to have been a federal-state agreement, resolving the dispute in Texas . The Justice Department has agreed that its monitors will remain a respectful distance (over 100 feet) from polling and central count locations and will not interfere with voters as they attempt to exercise the franchise – although voters may speak with the federal monitors if they choose to do so. Texas has thus dropped its request for court intervention.

That is how such disputes should be resolved – although, again, DOJ should only be monitoring if there is a real reason for monitoring. Absent hard evidence of interference with voters, there is no reason to believe Texas and Missouri will not provide a fair election .

Still, for a state to prevail in court, there would have to be evidence of real federal interference in a state function. If a state’s real beef is that the mere presence of federal officials is offensive, that is not a valid legal complaint … though it may be a very valid political complaint.

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