By Matt Mayer from The Patriot Mind Newsletter
Election 2024: Being So Right Never Felt So Good
Excerpts from Matt Mayer’s excellent article on the election results.
What an election night? On Monday night, I issued my predictions: Donald Trump would garner 306 Electoral Votes, Republicans would snag a 53-47 U.S. Senate majority, and Republicans would maintain the U.S. House with a 224-211 margin. As thing stand right now, Trump should hit 312 Electoral Votes (+6), Republicans will secure a 54-46 U.S. Senate majority (+1), and the U.S. House will settle within one or two seats from my prediction (-1). Not bad, right? Even more impressive is that I predicted over three years ago that what happened last night would happen.
#1: If you didn’t think the Bidens didn’t like Harris or how Joe was shoved out the door by the Democrat Elite, Jill’s decision to wear a Republican red dress to vote on Tuesday should have dispelled you from that belief. Jill never forgot nor forgave Harris for calling Joe a racist during the 2020 Democrat presidential primary. Pending Joe’s issuance of a pardon to Hunter, the Biden’s will be laughing all the back to Wilmington knowing that Joe is the ONLY Democrat who actually beat Trump. They’ll be able to argue for the history books that Joe would have done so again had he led the ticket on Election Day. For what it is worth, if I was Biden, I would end the federal prosecutions of Trump (see below) and implore the state prosecutors to follow suit, with the hope that Trump will pardon Hunter once he is sworn in so Joe doesn’t have to.
#2: Minnesota Governor Tim Walz proved to be a disastrous pick by Harris for her running mate. He is known for coining the “weird” term the Left used in the late Summer to describe Trump and J.D. Vance, but as the months rolled by it was clear that, among the candidates, he was by far the weirdest. From his goofy mannerisms to his bizarre past, from his verbal gaffes to his serial lying about his accomplishments, Walz repelled the voters he needed to attract. Not only did he do nothing to help Harris electorally with men, he actually hurt her. How do we know? Because even in his own state, Trump narrowed the margin of loss from -7.1% in 2020 to -4.2% in 2024.
#3: It is clear a majority of Americans view the media as a worthless enterprise. It also is clear how important Elon Musk’s buying Twitter was to allowing the Right to counter the massive in-kind contributions to the Left made by the media. Just having a tool in which there is an open market of ideas and speech allowing both sides to engage in their political activities was enough to drive the media farther into irrelevancy. As I’ve often said, imagine how many more elections the Right would win if the media treated both sides equally instead of giving the Left 85% positive coverage as it gave the Right 90% negative coverage.
#4: In the biggest surprise of the night, Trump won the popular vote, which a Republican has only done one other time since 1988. With his popular vote victory, Trump put to rest the Left’s incessant complaints about the Electoral College (for now). It also provides Trump with an unequivocal mandate to move on his agenda given a majority of Americans endorsed that agenda with their votes. Winning both the Electoral Vote and the popular vote should calm the waters a bit and end the Left’s plan to claim Trump is somehow an illegitimate president. Repugnant Representative Jamie Raskin should nix his plan to object to the certification of Trump’s win on January 6, 2025, as his only basis to do so now would be his own broken political antennae.
#7: Losers: Special Prosecutor Jack Smith tried his best to take down Trump via lawfare and failed spectacularly. He even went so far as to release documents in violation of Trump’s 4th and 6th Amendment rights to no avail. The U.S. Department of Justice stated today that it would fire Smith and end the federal cases against Trump before he is sworn in two-and-a-half months from now. I’ll be curios if any law firm or corporation hires long-time legal loser Smith. Next, former President Barack Obama tried to wield his influence with blacks only to show how irrelevant he has become to black Americans. Not only didn’t the “bros” show any interest in what he was selling, they gave Trump more support than any Republican since Richard Nixon. Similarly, despite white women making Oprah Winfrey a billionaire, she decided to inject herself fully into the election by insulting the majority of them with a fraudulent and disgusting lie that the 2024 election would be the last time Americans would get to vote if Trump won, as Trump would suspend voting forever. Not surprisingly, Oprah has no plans to sell her numerous estates in America and move abroad. She has become little more than a racialist scaremonger for the Left. Sorry Taylor Swift, looks like your legions of followers didn’t have any girlpower left to help Harris. Swift needs to adopt the Michael Jordan’s view on politics and focus on her music, not on virtue signaling to her left-coast friends. Obviously, another group of losers are the NeverTrumpers and Cheney family. These morons again went all in on supporting a candidate whose agenda was to do all of the anti-democratic things they accused Trump of wanting to do (i.e., pack the Supreme Court, end the filibuster, bring in new states, end of sovereignty, etc.). It was a Faustian bargain truly made in hell. Lastly, as noted in #3, the media is the biggest loser. When Jeff Bezos has to send a memo telling you you are irrelevant, you should probably listen, yet the media simply won’t.
#8: Much has been made about Trump’s desire to get payback against those who spent the last eight years unfairly attacking him via hoaxes, lawfare, and lies. I’ll leave to better angels the decision on how aggressive or forgiving Trump should be with those who used government to persecute him, but several people must be pursued for their actions lest such conduct occur again in the future. The first target must be U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for his act and omissions on the border and illegal immigrants. Because of his acts and omissions, Americans were assaulted, raped, maimed and murdered. He must be held accountable for what he did and failed to do. He should be pursued until put in jail or bankrupted. Next on the list should be General Mark Milley for his insubordination and treason over his failure to adhere to civilian control and the chain of command. America simply cannot have military leaders deciding who to respect and which commands to follow. Lastly, the Russia collusion hoax gang starting with Hillary Clinton and Jake Sullivan and going through the Mueller Report, including Jim Comey, James Clapper, John Brennan, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Susan Rice, Sally Yates, and Andrew Weissmann, must be held accountable for abusing their government power to improperly subvert and undermine Trump. If they pay no price, it will happen again.
LFC Comment by Brian Massie, A Watchman on the Wall
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