President Trump Wins The White House
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I'm Charles Payne. I'm Kat Timpf. I'm Stuart Vonney. And this is the Fox News Rundown. Wednesday, November 6th, 2024. I'm Dave Anthony. A former president is going back to the White House. Donald Trump. This will truly be the golden age of America. That's what we have to have.

This is a magnificent victory for the American people. And I'm Jessica Rosenthal. Republicans take the Senate. If everything goes the Republicans' way when all is said and done, 54-55 seat majority for Senate Republicans, which is not just a working majority, but it could give a new Trump administration the ability to get a whole lot done. And I'm Jimmy Fallon. I've got the final word on the Fox News Rundown. This hasn't happened.

In 132 years, a former president wins his old job back. Look what happened. Is this crazy? Former President Trump at about 2.30 this morning, Eastern, declaring victory. I want to thank the American people for the extraordinary honor of being elected your 47th president and your 45th president.

Celebrating at the Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, with his running mate J.D. Vance by his side. I appreciate you allowing me to join you on this incredible journey. I thank you for the trust that you placed in me.

And I think that we just witnessed the greatest political comeback in the history of the United States of America. With the Fox News decision desk projecting Donald Trump to defeat Vice President Harris, he is the first former president to lose re-election and then come back and win four years later since Grover Cleveland in 1892. I want to just...

Tell you what a great honor this is. I want to thank you. I will not let you down. America's future will be bigger, better, bolder, richer, safer and stronger than it has ever been before. And unlike 2016 and 2020, this Trump victory includes a lead in the popular vote, not just the Electoral College. They came from all quarters, union, non-union, African-American, Hispanic-American, Asian-American, Arab-American.

Muslim American. We had everybody and it was beautiful. It was a historic realignment, uniting citizens of all backgrounds around

A common core of common sense. Former President Trump did not mention his rival. We did not hear also from the vice president. She did not address her supporters gathered in Washington, D.C. Instead, the campaign says we will hear from Vice President Harris later today. Joining us now, Colin Reed, Republican strategist, co-founder of South and Hill Strategies. Good morning, Colin. This had to go better than just about any Trump supporter could have imagined.

Yeah. Good morning, Dave. That's for sure. And I think a lot of people thought maybe we wouldn't have a winner one way or another for some time. And those results, those expectations went out the window pretty quickly as well. Yeah. As we watched on election night, the results coming in, it did have a 2016 feeling to it when things were starting to break former President Trump's way. At what point did you believe that he was probably going to win this thing?

one of the early flashing signs dave was when the results started coming in from suburban parts of the country of places like loudoun county not that far from where i sit here in washington dc this is an area where president trump had historically not done well in the past and yet it's a place he needed to keep the margins down and he did just that so that was a really early sign that things were going to go his way because if if the democrats were unable to roll up a score in places like loudoun county

It was not a good sign of things to come for them. Yeah, you're talking Virginia. For a while, it was neck and neck. And there were people thinking that former President Trump would pull off an upset and win Virginia. He did not. It ended up going Harris's way. But the battleground states, they pretty much have all gone to former President Trump. We saw North Carolina sort of go first, right?

That's right. North Carolina went first. Georgia then went shortly thereafter, depending on the order. And then all eyes turned toward that blue wall because it's funny, Dave, this race ended the way it started for even going back to that June debate, which is vice president Harris had exactly one path back to the 270 electoral maps, uh, electoral votes she needed. And that was through that so-called blue wall. Uh,

All the other routes had been closed off and closed off even faster as the results started pouring in tonight. Yeah, and Wisconsin was the one that sealed it. When Fox called Wisconsin for former President Trump, it put him over the 270, projected for him that he needs to win another term in the White House. Wisconsin, he won that state in 2016, lost it in 2020. The same situation in Pennsylvania and the same situation in Georgia. What was it?

That led him back, do you think? That's the million dollar question, Dave. And we're going to have plenty of time to unpack that in the coming days. To me, the first thing that jumps out is just this hubris, this idea that the Democratic Party could just switch out their standard bearer, could just push Joe Biden off the cliff, metaphorically, that is, and just replace him with this candidate who had earned zero votes.

had never been on a ballot. And then for 107 days, which was the duration of her campaign, not hold one press conference, not take positions on key issues and just hope that there was going to be enough sort of momentum behind her based on how the mainstream media was portraying her and how her supporters were portraying her and that that would carry over the finish line. So that to me, I think will be a,

Item number one, which is why didn't President Biden get out of this race sooner when it was clear that he was not up for the job? And, of course, what was Vice President Harris's role in any sort of perceived cover up that that led to him staying in the race too long? Yeah. But, you know, that didn't get a lot of attention after he dropped out. There was talk about, well, we need to find out who knew about Biden's decline and investigate that. That didn't really get much traction as the race just turned to a focus on Trump versus Harris.

What do you think her biggest mistake was when you when you look at you talked about all this time that she had in this race from the time she became the replacement candidate through the convention? She didn't talk to the media, didn't do interviews, didn't really explain many positions. Was that her biggest mistake coming out of the gate?

Well, she had 107 days as the nominee of her party by all intents and purposes. And during those 107 days, she had a really tall task. Vice President Harris had to introduce herself to the American public, separate herself from a really unpopular administration, and then also allow and then explain the policies that she wanted to put forward and do all that all

against one of the most politically talented figures of her generation, Donald Trump. So it was a tall task, but in some ways it was like she didn't even try. She just wanted this election to be a referendum on President Trump as opposed to a reason to vote for her. And she thought that was the bet.

That was a bet her team made. It's not looking good right now, but hindsight is always 20-20. You know, one of the things that was talked about leading into this campaign and through the election night results, how the votes would break down. And when you look at Fox News voter analysis, former President Trump won among men, 54-44. Vice President Harris won among women. She had about an eight-point lead among women. But the gap in polls ahead of the election was bigger than that. Right. Yeah.

And the other issues that I think, Dave, in going through some of those Fox News voter analysis numbers were on the issues that mattered most to voters, i.e. the economy and immigration. Those issues broke so heavily in favor of President Trump that those are the things that were on people's mind as they cast their ballot, and those were the things where they felt as though he were the better choice.

And by virtue of her, look, she had to, she had a really tall task because 70% of the country thought we were going in the wrong path. And she is one half of the administration that's currently in charge. So that was always going to be tough when you're an incumbent sailing into those headwinds, but she just didn't do enough to separate herself from the status quo and or chart a new course forward. Yeah. It's so interesting because the,

there was a question a lot of people had is who is actually the change candidate in this election? She's the vice president of the current administration, and he's the president right before the Biden administration comes into power. So,

I guess in the end, the change candidate ended up being the 45th president. And there were big structural things going wrong in this country right now as far as voters were concerned. I mean, if you look back at the four years of the Biden presidency, you had the Afghanistan withdrawal, which people widely disapproved of. You had inflation hitting new highs, gas prices hitting new highs.

home mortgage rates going to new levels. These were all, this was all baggage that she had to carry into this election. And these were things that were by and large just overwhelmingly seen as things, as negatives. And it would have been a tough task under normal circumstances, let alone inheriting a campaign the way she had to. - Yeah, and when you break down the voters, the former president referenced it in his speech. He had this coalition of people, minorities, blue collar workers.

The analysis shows that 83 percent of the black vote went to Vice President Harris. Now, obviously, that's a large number. She won, you know, by a very large amount. But former President Trump getting 15 percent and among that, 24 percent of black men. Republicans don't get that in presidential elections, do they?

- No, and Trump leads a movement and it's really hard to stop political movement because you start to build, stitch together these coalitions that don't look like previous coalitions. And the one that came together behind President-elect Trump tonight was a very diverse group of people. And the other mistake, of course, the Democrats made down the stretch is rather than focus their attention on the candidate, on President Trump, the person they were trying to defeat, they extrapolated some of that anger toward his supporters. And we're gonna find out just how much that

a pile of garbage comment made by President Biden, how much that hurt. Because it's one thing to go after someone or target someone or criticize a candidate or someone's name is on the ballot. It's another to extend that criticism, extend that disdain to all the people who are supporting him or her. Yeah. And of course, we had the basket of deplorables with Hillary Clinton doing the same thing back in 2016. She said that, though, earlier in the campaign, you know, that comment had come

Millions and millions of Americans had already voted early. And that's even the case for the garbage comment with Puerto Rico that came from the Madison Square Garden Trump rally, which for a couple of days looked like that might hurt the Trump campaign until President Biden came out. And the kind of the script script got flipped on him. And Trump comes out in a garbage truck and the reflective workers, you know, vested the rally in Wisconsin. It was really quite, quite stunning to watch all of that. How much do you think that really matters?

was a factor in the vote? - Well, it all played into the sense that President Trump had momentum on his side when it mattered most. And momentum is a really hard thing to get in politics, and it's even harder to stop once you have it. The other thing that Republicans finally got right was this messaging on early votes.

If you're heading into Election Day yesterday, Dave, about 80 million votes had already been cast. And for context, 160 million in total were cast in 2020. So by the time Election Day started, half of the people had already banked their votes. And there was going to always be a question, does this mean that more people are voting early, as in more Republicans are voting early, or are Republicans cannibalizing their own vote?

Either way, Republicans finally getting the messaging right on early voting that it was here to stay and it was here for something that voters should use is going to be helpful to them, certainly last night and into the future as well. Former President Trump had two assassination attempts. One of them, of course, he had an ear bloodied in Butler, Pennsylvania, back in July. The other one was in Florida, thwarted by Secret Service at a golf course. So

Did that do you think that helped him at all to have have people? You know, he stood up at that first one with fight, fight, fight. Do you think that's months ago now? America loves a comeback story. And this this president has been through so much. When you think back over the last not only the last four or five months, but also the last four or five years. Think about it. He was impeached. He was investigated. He was indicted. He was convicted and he was shot at and he kept getting back up.

And that's something that a lot of people in this country resonate with because they're all going through their own challenges right now. And not to mention, Dave, he did all this. He steamrolled through a very talented field of competitors in the primaries without breaking a sweat. His nomination was never in doubt. And it just from start to finish, when the time he got into that race two Novembers ago to this point, we're sitting right now in time. It was just it was just one continual forward momentum. You know,

The Democrats all along, President Biden and then Vice President Harris, they said over and over again that he's a threat to democracy, that we can't allow him to be unchecked and be back for a second term. And they were fearful of what he would do. He would have an enemies list. Vice President Harris said that over and over again. You know, the January 6th riot happened. In the end, January 6th, as much as Democrats made that an issue, it did not stop him from coming back.

The problem with the Democrats' messaging is it relied on a sky is falling mentality. It relied on this idea that everything would go to hell if President Trump won. The issue with that is he'd already been president, and people remember the time he was president more fondly in many instances than where they're currently at for reasons such as inflation, immigration, foreign affairs, etc.

You name it. Life was easier. Life was not as complicated. It didn't seem everything didn't seem as expensive then. And people associate those past four years of the Trump presidency with some of those positive attributes. And it was difficult for them to wrap their arms around this idea that everything in the world would end if he won, which was in many ways of the lead vehicle of the Democrats messaging. Quickly, you're surprised it's over and people woke up with a result, right?

I'm not actually, Dave. I thought this would be closer than it was. So I'm surprised in that result. But I thought we'd have a winner pretty quickly, one way or another. Colin Reed, Republican strategist, co-founder of South and Hill Strategies. Thanks so much for joining us. Thank you, Dave. This episode is brought to you by Etsy. Oh. Hear that? Okay. Thank you. Etsy knows these aren't the sounds of holiday gifting. Well, not the ones you're hoping for. You want squeals of delight. Eww.

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I'm Emily Campagno, host of the Fox True Crime podcast. This week, I'm joined by Fox News senior correspondent Claudia Cowan, who covered the case at the time for a look back at the murder of Chandra Levy. Available now on Fox News podcast dot com. This is Jimmy Fallon with your Fox News commentary coming up. The presidential race was called perhaps earlier than many of us thought, but it was certainly not the only race. Tuesday night, voters had lots to decide upon. And now we're looking at the balance of power.

What will a future President Trump be working with in the way of a House and a Senate? I'm joined by Fox News Radio's Washington, D.C. correspondent, Jared Halpern, and Fox News Radio's political analyst, Josh Kraushauer. Josh, we know the Senate went...

to the Republicans pretty early Tuesday night that got established. It was called quickly. We got a race call early on out of West Virginia. We knew that was coming. Governor Jim Justice was going to take outgoing Democratic Senator Joe Manchin's seat. Then we got word Deb Fischer was going to hang on to her seat in Nebraska. The Republican incumbent there, that had been a bit of a risk. And then we got word that

Bernie Moreno, businessman in Ohio, was pushing Sherrod Brown out of his incumbency in Ohio. Sherrod Brown's been in that seat since 2006. He was in Congress since 1992. I mean, very significant win. What did we what do we make of now the balance of power in the Senate? It has officially shifted. Yeah, we were expecting a Republican majority given the map.

But boy, it looks like Republicans may be poised to run the table in so many of these big battleground Senate races called Ohio. Sherrod Brown, John Tester, Jess, as you just laid out, West Virginia is another pickup Joe Manchin seat. But but there could be.

Trump coattails in the blue wall states where Trump wins Pennsylvania, but Dave McCormick also leading Bob Casey in the Senate race there. You've got Wisconsin, Tammy Baldwin on the ropes against Eric Hovde. Same with Mike Rogers in the lead against Alyssa Slotkin. So you could, I mean, even in Nevada, the Senate race, which looked like a Democratic hold is now, you know,

a lot more close than a lot of us expected. So you could see, uh, if everything goes the Republicans way, when all of a sudden done 54, 55 seat majority for, for Senate Republicans, which is not just a working majority, but it's could give a new Trump administration, the ability to get a whole lot done and not have to worry about bruising confirmation fights. Uh,

in the new year. Jared, and this isn't over, we could see, like Josh said, there could be additional seats that go the way of some more Republicans. It's not going to necessarily be that many, but we could see... Talk to us about, I guess...

How a. Well, I mean, what I was going to say is Chad Pergram, our chief congressional correspondent, always says that it's about the math. It's about the math. And the math is a lot easier the more people you have. And so when you think about narrow majorities, you think about a governing coalition in the House and the Senate.

having just a one seat or a two seat margin in both chambers is really dicey, right? Because you do have members of your party who are going to step out on a number of issues, whether it's, you know, personal politics, whether it is regional for their district, for their state. And I'm reminded of the

major legislative accomplishment of the first Trump term, which was that tax bill. Recall that they used, which I don't want to get too much in the woods, but these budget reconciliation, it was a way to do it without the filibuster in the Senate, but the Senate wasn't what was in doubt. It became an issue with, are they going to have enough votes among Republicans to

in the House of Representatives because there were from high tax states, New York, New Jersey, other Republicans who didn't like some of the provisions as it related to some of the tax deductions that you could take from state income tax. I say that salt. Yes, I say that to say this is that that was a bigger majority than House Republicans have right now.

So if you see a similar majority in the House shaping up and those majority makers are in places like New York, are in places like California, those types of issues that President that a President Trump is going to want to push through on the economic side is hard. And so.

In many respects, having a one or two seat majority is not going to be enough for any president. And we've seen that play out in a number of ways. Look at President Biden, his inability to get things done through what became the Inflation Reduction Act, initially build back better. Joe Manchin, the outgoing Democratic senator for West Virginia, single handedly cut that in half.

Right. Single handedly cut that in half because they needed every single Democratic vote in their narrow majority. The vice president, Kamala Harris, actually cast a tie breaking vote. She doesn't have a tie to break if Manchin doesn't come on board. So it shows that the margin of the vote.

the margin that he will be working with in either the House or the Senate will play a great deal in what he is able to achieve, especially on the domestic front. And Josh, you were saying the Democrats are probably happy that the filibuster is still in place right now.

Oh, yeah. I mean, look, the Republicans will. A lot of these races are very close. We have not called them, but there looks like Trump 60 is probably out of reach. Oh, sure. But but 54, 55 is well, well within reach. And Trump.

literally had some coattails in Ohio and in these blue wall states where we still don't know who's going to win, but clearly the Senate candidates are running behind Trump, but his margin of victory could end up pulling them across the finish line. So we're not talking about just a narrow Senate majority for Republicans. Whatever the final number is, he's not going to have to worry so much about

uh, cabinet nominations. He'll have a, uh, he could lose some, some, some, some senators and still likely get a lot of his picks through and he'll be able to get a government, you know, which an agenda passed. Uh, we'll see what happens in the house, which contrary to what Trump said is still, uh, too close to call. We'll see where that lands at land lands up ends up. But, uh, um,

This is a real opportunity for Trump to really translate his populist instincts into a governing mandate. One more point I would make about that, especially as it relates to the Senate, is over the last several years, you have seen the House Republicans be much more MAGA-y, much more in line with the MAGA movement than Senate Republicans who tend to be kind of more what used to be mainstream traditional Republican Party, right? That...

if some of these races start tilting for the Republicans in these states, then,

Those are Republicans who are cut much more from a Trump MAGA cloth. That would make governing much easier in a Trump administration. Well, speaking of that, then who's who's going to be the new Senate majority leader? I'll tell you what I we heard Ryan Schmelz, our congressional correspondent in Washington, make the point earlier as well that if Trump weighs in on that race, that'll be ballgame over. Now, it is a secret ballot. You don't know which of your colleagues votes for you or against you unless they tell you.

But right now it is between John Thune, who is currently the number two. He would be the natural successor, but he has been critical at times of Donald Trump. You have John Cornyn, somebody who has been in Senate leadership before, longtime member of the Senate, has been able to kind of.

navigate the the the old school and new school kind of Republicans. And then you have Rick Scott, who is really the most MAGA of all of them. He right now is, I think, seen as more of the dark horse in that race. But again, if you see Donald Trump weigh in on that and say, I want

this person to lead the Senate Republican majority, that's going to go a long way. And so I would anticipate that over the next several days, anybody who wants that position, whether it's John Cornyn, John Thune or Rick Scott, probably gets on the phone a few times tomorrow, Lago and has some conversations about what the agenda might look like. All right, let's talk about the House before we go. We'll go just through some of the possibilities here.

Ken Calvert in California might lose his seat. Duarte could lose his seat in California 13. New York, we have two seats that look like the Republicans are in trouble. Mark Molinaro, Anthony Desposito.

David Schweikart and Juan Siskamani, they're struggling in Arizona. Looks like Michigan 8. Dan Kildee left that vacant. Looks like it might go to the Democrat there who was ahead of the Republican. It's not all flips to Democrats. Like we look at Pennsylvania right now.

District seven and eight held by Democrats. The Republican candidates are ahead. Josh, when you look at the Pennsylvania races and you see all these potential Republicans possibly losing their seats, but in Pennsylvania, it looks like they might hang on or that the Republicans actually might win rather. Yeah.

Is this just a tale of different states? Yeah, we're seeing a lot of cross currents in the results for the House so far. And it's still to be determined which party holds a narrow House majority. I mean, the Pennsylvania wins for the Republicans are very significant.

If they get confirmed, yes. If that ends up being, yeah, sorry. If that gets called in the GOP's direction. But California could be a problem for the Republicans. And New York, the Republicans have already lost two seats up in Syracuse.

and in the Hudson Valley. So it's a mixed bag when it comes to the House races. Republicans have a little bit of a five-seat cushion to play with, but it takes a long time for California to count their votes and to call races. So I think we'll probably have to wait a few days to see which party has the majority. I would say that with Trump winning the presidency, by the margin he

he looks to the popular vote margin. He looks to be accomplishing. It's probably a better, you'd probably rather be the Republicans than Democrats when it comes to the house majority, but it's going to be very, very close. If Pennsylvania is the, is the story of, of a, maybe a, a, a reddish tilt. Um, when you look at Juan Siskamani and David Schweikert, um, really battling to keep their seats in Arizona, which was the one state taken out of the tossup column and put into the lean R column ahead of, ahead of,

election day by our Fox News pollsters. How interesting is that if there's a real struggle between red and blue in the state of Arizona? Yeah, it is interesting because you're seeing in Arizona some of the classic affluent suburban districts. We've talked about Don Bacon in Omaha, too. And you've got Siskamani in Arizona. You've got Schweikert in the Scottsdale area. The

the one area where Democrats did okay were these affluent suburban areas that kind of make up the Democratic Party's base these days. And...

that wasn't enough for Kamala Harris, but it may be enough for a handful of these swing district Democratic candidates to win a handful of seats in states like Arizona, California, even the state of New York. Fox News Radio political analyst Josh Crosshour and Fox News Radio's Washington, D.C. correspondent Jared Halpern. Gentlemen, thanks for joining me on this election morning. Thanks, Jess.

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Subscribe to this podcast at Fox News Podcasts dot com. It's time for your Fox News commentary. Jimmy Fallon, what's on your mind? So Americans went to the polls yesterday to find out if Donald Trump would be our next president or Kamala Harris would be our last president. I kid. But in the interest of full disclosure, you should know that I'm not a huge fan of Kamala's. Most days when I hear her speak, I leave convinced that she only ran for president because it comes with a designated driver.

That being said, whether you're a Republican who supports Trump, a Democrat who supports Kamala, or a wackadoo who supports Jill Stein, the results of this election have profoundly different impacts on your mood. So I should remind everybody to act like you've been there before. Try not to rub it in too much if your side won. This is a raw moment for millions of Americans, and there are no participation trophies in politics. One party gets the inside of the White House. The other gets the outside. It's like getting divorced with a really bad lawyer.

But the truth is our country staying together, no matter how contentious these results are, because that's what we've always done through wars, terror attacks, divisive elections, you name it. Why? Because in the immortal words of Joe Biden, we hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women are go. Well, you know the thing.

Point being, Biden was a mess and this battle to replace him couldn't have gotten any messier. But today's a time to remember that regardless of how you voted, we're all teammates in this country. As the new president goes, we all go. And it's so easy to forget these hyper partisan times. But Republicans and Democrats are all getting dressed in the same locker room, literally, thanks to the Democrat policies that allow men to compete in women's sports. But

But seriously, if you want to help our team get back on the medal podium, just remember, we don't need more Republicans. We don't need more Democrats. We just need less jerks. So I'll leave you by quoting the British, since revolting from them is how we got into this mess in the first place.

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