It has been a real eye-opener to watch the left go from smug confidence that Kamala was preordained to be the 47th president of the United States to the depth of despair as Donald Trump racked up 312 electoral votes and a popular vote victory to become the first president since Grover Cleveland to be elected to non-consecutive terms.

Matthew Watkins @MWatkinsTrib
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Just an absolutely unreal graphic showing Trump's gains in Texas-Mexico border counties since 2016. Starr County, population 65,920 and 97% Latino, shifted 75 PERCENTAGE POINTS in Trump's direction. https://texastribune.org/2024/11/06/donald-trump-near-sweep-texas-border-counties/
10:58 PM · Nov 6, 2024

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Trump increased his support in 49 of 50 states.
4:42 PM · Nov 7, 2024 //

So, what caused this seismic shift? A sane person would say that the Democrats suffered from a spectacularly horrible candidate, a repulsive agenda for America, or both. But if you are a Democrat activist, you blame "right-wing media." //

Michael Tomasky, the neo-communist editor of The New Republic, has the same view. Trump won because right-wing media overpowered the truth. //

It's really hard to know where to start on this bullsh**. To a large degree, conservative media has emerged organically because we were shut out of mainstream media. It is very difficult to find anything more than a token center-right voice on any of the networks, major papers, or cultural magazines. The Atlantic fired the pseudo-conservative Kevin Williamson. The New York Times staff ran Bari Weiss off, even though she was only mildly conservative depending on the sunspot patterns. NBC fired Megyn Kelly. My old blog project, RedMaryland, had a deal to provide a mainstream conservative viewpoint to the Baltimore Sun's editorial page, we were booted thanks to a faux issue drummed up by Media Matters. Movies like Matt Walsh's "What is a Woman?" (see This May Be the Most Absurd, Telling Exchange in Matt Walsh's 'What Is a Woman?') and "Am I a Racist?" (see Matt Walsh's 'Am I Racist' Uses Major DEI Figures to Expose and Lampoon It As the Racist Grift It Is) get no media promotion. Leftist media continues to dominate ratings. //

The real question is, how can so much leftist media have so little impact on political discussions?

As Stephen Miller observed, Rogan is not conservative. Jordan Peters is not conservative. Our YouTube and Rumble channels rely on viewers, not George Soros or some other leftist billionaire, to survive. Here at RedState, if you don't read us, we don't get paid. //

What makes us different than the media owned by the left is that we deeply believe in what we write, and monied interests don't control us. Our writers and influencers are not a collection of paid-for twinks. The extremes to which the Biden administration went to silence us through coopting Meta and pre-Elon Musk Twitter gave us credibility that no leftist outlet will ever have because it demonstrated that the establishment feared our message. The authenticity of our message cuts through the clutter because it has the ring of truth.

The left can't compete because they don't have very many ideas, and those ideas they have cut against human freedom and autonomy. But if Kamala can drop a billion is leftist money on a losing election, those same donors can drop another building out another version of Air America radio network. //

Not Mao
8 hours ago
"...Let Trump Win" No. He earned it completely. No one "let" him do anything. He paid in blood, sweat, and tears. He reengaged old-fashioned politics, USA style. No one "let him win". He kicked their commie asses. He will continue to do so with the support of the American people. The sleeping giant has awakened again, Admiral Yamamoto. I'd sell any commie stock muy pronto. Next order of business is to take out the Chinese Communist Party of the People's Republic of China, the same way Ronald Reagan took out the Communist Party of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Chairman Xi and his minions are far too smart not to see what's coming. Their time of murderous totalitarian evil is ending, setting the Chinese people free and removing a huge malignant cancer from the planet. //

Captain Sweatpants
9 hours ago
Also, for all of the talk about Trump losing the popular vote before, everyone knows that is not what wins the election.

Trump has said that he never campaigned for the popular vote, he campaigned for the EV. Trump said he would win the popular vote if he campaigned for it.

Well, this time Trump campaigned for the popular vote. When Trump was doing campaigning in NYC and in states where he was way behind, that was what Trump was doing.

And, the media laughed at him. //

USA_Proud Sam F. Jackson's favorite wor
7 hours ago
One extremely beneficial side effect of Trump campaigning in 'Deep Blue areas' like NY, NJ, and the like, is the massive swing in Legislative districts across the entire state(s) towards the GOP. While US House incumbents are very hard to displace, as typically only 5-10% get removed from Office each election cycle, one of the biggest issue is for them to face strong opponents in Primary and General Election. Many Democrat incumbents face a lackluster GOP candidate, as no Strong one wants to spend over a year in a losing battle. I believe that the recent GOP gains can free up dozens of Conservative GOP members to 'take the plunge' and decide to run for US House against Democratic incumbents. The MSM general consensus that Legislative GOP candidates supporting Trump were damaging their campaign has been shown to be untrue, as exhibited by dozens of DEMOCRATIC legislators in October and up to Election Day putting on ads describing how they 'Voted with Trump'. //

Romeg Captain Sweatpants
6 hours ago edited
Donald Trump 'lost the popular vote' in 2020 due to the Democrat machines that control the vote counting process in EVERY SINGLE ONE of the LARGEST PRECINCTS in EVERY SINGLE ONE of the Swing States in which they are located and in which ALL of them contributed OUTRIGHT counterfeit ballots and the ballots of ineligible voters to the election totals.

ANYONE who actually believes that Joe Biden received 81,000,000 votes is either a total Democrat toady or dangerously delusional.

This time, however, due to the depth and breadth of Trump's MASSIVE victory in which he had gains in EVERY SINGLE STATE but Washington State was simply too big to rig. That fact, combined with more diligent control over the vote counting process made Trump's victory an inevitibility. //

Larry Arnold
6 hours ago
The Left had a Joe Rogan. It was Joe Rogan, until they chased him out of the Left and California.

He isn't the only one, by a long shot. Red State et al are full of former Democrats. And it's not just media; RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard spring to mind.

Heck, President Donald Trump was a Democrat until the Left chased him out of New York.