November 6, 2024: Former President Trump Wins the 2024 Presidential Election. Recap of the Race to 270 and Answering Your Election Questions.
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Welcome back to Unbiased, your favorite source of unbiased news and legal analysis. Welcome back to Unbiased. Today is November 6th, and this is your daily news rundown. I have a couple of things to say to start this episode because I always want to keep it real with you. It'll take a few minutes, maybe three to five minutes, so if you don't care what I have to say, feel free to fast forward, but these are important messages. I think they're important messages, so please stick around and hear what I have to say.

I have always been truthful and honest with you, and it's going to stay that way. But sometimes that requires hard truths, right? And I've always said from the very beginning that listening to unbiased news almost guaranteed you'll hear something you don't want to hear. So first, I want to speak to those that voted for Harris because I have more to say there. And then I'll talk to those that voted for Trump.

To those that voted for Harris, the first thing I want to say is that my job got a lot harder last night. And I'll explain this, but I do not say that for sympathy. Please don't give me sympathy. I say that because right now, many of you don't want unbiased news. And that's just simply because unbiased news does not offer that thing that we as humans love and feed off of. And that is confirmation bias.

Right now, you probably just want your feelings validated. You want people to feel your pain with you. And that's perfectly okay. But I need you to understand that my unbiased methodology is not changing. And that means sometimes you are going to hear things you don't want to hear, probably even in today's episode. Just like you did last week, just like you did last year. The difference is, is that now, today...

you may have to try a little harder to receive those you know those facts and that information

The second truth I need to tell you is this. The media is scaring you and the media wants to scare you. Stop letting them. I am going to do an election Q&A in a little bit, but as I was reading through some of these questions, I honestly could not believe some of the things that people have heard through the media. And I'll just give you one example. So a lot of people were asking if Trump is going to take away the right to vote and never leave office.

I don't care if you love Trump. I don't care if you hate him. I don't care if you fall somewhere in the middle. He will not be taking away the right to vote and he will be out of office for good in four years. It's important. I'll dive into this more in the Q&A too, but it's important that you know we have a system in this country called checks and balances and it's in place to ensure that no branch of government goes unchecked and that includes the president.

This means that every action, whether it's an action by Congress, the president, a federal agency, or even the courts, is able to be checked by the other branches of government. So even if, let's just say hypothetically, Trump wanted to take away the right to vote and stay in office forever, which he doesn't want to do, just to be clear, but let's just say for purposes of the hypothetical, he could not do this without the Supreme Court and Congress getting on board and with

without a constitutional amendment since the constitution provides both term limits for the president and the right to vote. Related to this, okay, this is another hard truth,

If the House remains Republican controlled, which is still up in the air at this point, and now that the Senate is Republican controlled and the Supreme Court has a conservative majority and the president is a Republican president, the checks and balances system does work a little bit differently now than it would if you had a divided Congress or than it would have, let's say, like, or than it does currently under Biden's administration. Right. Right.

For the most part, everyone is on board with one another. But let me be very clear. That does not validate these outrageous claims that we're hearing by the media. And I'm just going to call them what they are. They are outrageous. Some of them are. Let me also be clear about this. If Harris had won this election, I would be saying the same exact thing about Fox News and other conservative networks. These networks, all of them,

have to be held to a higher standard, but they're not. And that's why I'm here. I am here to calm your nerves and reassure you that everything is not as crazy as the media makes it out to be. The media makes their money from polarization. So I'll tell you the hard truths when they need to be told, but please don't.

Please stop believing everything the media tells you. I am begging you. I have called out the media on both sides many times for blatant on-air lies. They deceive you. So if I ask you one thing as we navigate these next few weeks, months, and years, please take what you hear on the news with a grain of salt. Please don't believe everything that they say. And please, if something concerns you that you hear on the news, do your own research to validate or invalidate the claims.

Now, those that voted for Trump, I hope you celebrate your win because you deserve that just as all winners do. But after you celebrate, I want you to remember where you were four years ago and what you felt, assuming that you voted for Trump then too. Remember that sadness, that anger, that frustration, all those feelings that you felt, and then have empathy and compassion for the other side that lost this election.

Remember that there are a lot of good people on the other side that are feeling those exact feelings today that you felt just four years ago. Be kind to those people. As I said, win or lose, we are in this together. It's on us to keep this country together. Have conversations, hear them out, express your empathy, validate their feelings because you were there not too long ago too, and remind them that we have each other's back.

If you are a listener of this podcast, you are a rational and reasonable human being. So I trust that you are able to do this. And the last thing I will say, and this is for everyone, I have never

never cared what party you affiliate with or who you vote for. That did not change last night and that will not change going forward. I am here to help our country and that includes you regardless of your political affiliation. My ultimate goal is to bring this country together and heal what feels like an ever-growing divide. I see you, I care about you, and that is why I'm here.

So with all of that said, let's now get into this election episode. Starting with an election recap. Last night at 1.23 a.m., News Nation was the first network to project Donald Trump to be the next president of the United States after projecting him to win Pennsylvania. So let's do a quick recap of how we got there, because remember, the winner needed 270 electoral votes.

Any combination of states, so long as it adds up to 270. And remember from Monday's episode two, each state has a certain number of electoral votes determined by the amount of representation they have in Congress. So the more populated states have more electoral votes up for grabs than the less populated states.

The first calls were made around 7 p.m. Eastern time yesterday. Also keep in mind, just for timeline purposes, we're going to go off of the AP's calls, but NewsNation, as I said, did make a lot of calls ahead of many other networks. So just because I say, you know, the AP called X state at Y time doesn't mean that state hadn't already been called earlier by another network. We're just going to go with the AP's calls for consistency purposes.

Trump's start was winning 19 electoral votes between Indiana and Kentucky, 11 and 8 votes respectively. Harris's start was in Vermont, where she won 3 electoral votes. Then around 7.30, Trump won West Virginia, which added 4 votes, bringing him to a total of 23.

At 8 p.m., there were many more calls made on both sides. Trump got another 72 votes with Mississippi, Alabama, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Florida, and South Carolina. At this point, his total was 90. At the same time, Harris got an additional 32 votes.

Maryland, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. Her total became 35. Then around 830, they called a few more states. Trump won Arkansas with six votes, bringing him to 96. Harris got an additional 36 votes with New Jersey, Delaware, and Illinois, bringing her to 71. Between 9 and 10, they called another 10 states. Trump won another 88 votes, which included four of Nebraska's five votes.

South Dakota, North Dakota, Louisiana, Wyoming, Ohio, Texas, and Missouri. His total became 184. Harris won New York with 28 votes, bringing her total to 99. Between 10 and 11, Trump won another 28 votes with Montana, Utah, Kansas, and Iowa, bringing his total to 212. Harris won another 14 votes with Colorado and D.C. Her total was now 113.

At 11 p.m., Trump won Idaho, which brought him to 216. Harris won an additional 66 votes with California and Washington, bringing her to 178.

A little past 11 is when things started to ramp up. So at 1118, AP News called the first swing state, which was North Carolina. Trump won, bringing him to 232. So at this point, it was 232 to 178 Trump. Between 11 and midnight, Harris got another 26 votes with Oregon, New Mexico, and Virginia. She was now at 204. And then between midnight and 1 a.m., she got Hawaii as well as the second congressional district in Nebraska. So that brought her to 209.

At just before 1 a.m., AP News called the second swing state, which was Georgia. Trump won Georgia. His total was now 248. Keep in mind, News Nation around this time called Alaska as well, which brought his total to 251. And from there, he just needed Pennsylvania because Pennsylvania has 19 electoral votes. That would have brought him to exactly 270. So 1.23 a.m., News Nation, like I said, was the first to project Pennsylvania for Trump, which made him the projected president-elect.

It wasn't until about an hour later at 2.24 a.m. when the AP called Pennsylvania for Trump, and at that point, Trump was at 2.70 a.m.

A short while later at 2.45 a.m., Harris won Minnesota, which brought her to 2.24, and that's where she's at currently. Wisconsin was the next big swing state to be called. That was around 5.30 this morning, and that solidified Trump's win. So right now, depending on which count you look at, the electoral vote count is around 2.92 to 2.24, Trump over Harris. That was as of 3 p.m. Eastern time.

Around 1 a.m., Harris's campaign's co-chair came out to the crowd that was at Howard University, made an announcement that Harris would not be making a speech. And keep in mind, this was before Trump had reached 270, but it was pretty clear at this point where the race was headed. Trump took the stage in West Palm Beach, Florida around 2 a.m., spoke for about 20 minutes where he was joined by his family, J.D. Vance, Vance's wife, and some others like Dana White and some campaign staff.

If you didn't hear his speech, but you want to, I do have it linked in the sources section. So that was your little election night recap. And now we can move on to the Q&A. As always, you guys had a ton of questions, but I did my best to narrow them down to the most frequently asked.

Just for clarity purposes, I won't be answering any questions that I already answered on Monday. So if you're not sure about things like the Electoral College, how it works, why we have it, etc., go listen to Monday's episode after you're done with this one and you can find the answers to those questions there.

First question, Olivia asked, will Trump actually be able to change democracy? Quote, you will never have to vote again. End quote. I received a ton of questions about this comment that Trump made. So here's the context. And I will play some clips for you so that we can all understand where this where this is coming from. But Trump was speaking at a Christian summit where he told the attendees to go vote and that they would never need to vote again. And like I said, I'll play some clips for you so you can hear everything for yourself.

But after this summit and after he made these remarks, Democrats and left-leaning networks started saying that what Trump meant was that he was going to stay in office forever and there was never going to be a need to vote again. He, after that, went on Laura Ingraham on Fox News and talked about what he meant. But first, here's the clip when he made the actual remarks, and then we'll play what he has said since then. If you want...

To save America, get your friends, get your family, get everyone you know and vote. Vote early, vote absentee, vote on election day. I don't care how, but you have to get out and vote. And again, Christians, get out and vote just this time.

You won't have to do it anymore. Four more years. You know what? It'll be fixed. It'll be fine. You won't have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians. I love you, Christians. I'm a Christian. I love you. Get out. You got to get out and vote. In four years, you don't have to vote again. We'll have it fixed so good you're not going to have to vote.

So after that, Trump sat down with Laura Ingraham, like I said, on Fox News, and she asked him about his remarks. Here's what he said. It's being interpreted as you are not surprised to hear. No. By the left as well. They're never going to have another election. He's saying there's a... So can you even just respond to that? I said Christians...

I started off by saying, just so you understand, you never vote. Christians do not vote well. I'm saying go out. You must vote. November 5th is going to be the most important election in the history of our country. Whether you vote early or not, don't worry about the future. Vote on. You have to vote on November 5th. After that, you don't have to worry about voting anymore. I don't care because we're going to fix it. The country will be fixed.

And we won't even need your vote anymore because, frankly, we will have such love. If you don't want to vote anymore, that's okay. But you will leave office after four years. By the way, I did last time.

Now, for purposes of rounding out this conversation, let's say he did want to take away the right to vote and stay in office forever. Obviously, the videos just said, you know, he doesn't want to do that. This is just a hypothetical just to put your minds at ease. Both of these things, the right to vote and the presidential term limits are in the Constitution. What that means is that to change either of these things, these constitutional amendments would have to be repealed, specifically the 14th Amendment, 15th, 17th, 19th, 22nd, and 26th.

To repeal a constitutional amendment, a new amendment has to be passed. And to pass an amendment, it has to either be proposed by two-thirds of both the House and Senate or by a constitutional convention called by two-thirds of state legislatures.

That in and of itself is nearly impossible given the current political landscape. But even after that, after it's proposed, three-fourths of the states have to vote to ratify it before it becomes an amendment. So again, nearly impossible given the current landscape. The odds of any constitutional amendment being repealed is roughly the same as a person living to 80 years old being struck by lightning in their lifetime. In fact, in the history of this nation, only one amendment has ever been repealed, and that was the 18th

amendments prohibition on alcohol with the adoption of the 21st Amendment. So in short, even if Trump wanted to do away with the right to vote and do away with presidential term limits, he does not have unchecked authority to do so. And it would be nearly impossible to pass an amendment, multiple amendments, actually, because there's many that would need to be repealed.

Lucia asked, how are the election results not final yet? Well, there's a difference between calling a race and finalizing the results. The finalization takes a lot of time. States have to finish counting all of the ballots. They have to make sure they have all of the ballots before they're finalized. The election is called when enough votes have been recorded to where the outstanding number of votes cannot make up the gap between the candidates. But the outstanding votes still have to be counted before the results can actually be finalized.

And keep in mind, too, certain states like California and Nevada continue counting ballots for days after the election, just as long as those ballots are postmarked by Election Day. So even as we sit here right now, those states don't even have all of the votes in. We are going to take a quick break right here. When we come back, we have a lot more questions to get to.

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Welcome back. Let's continue on with the questions. Matt asked, if Republicans control the House and Senate, is there a possibility of an abortion ban? I'm not going to sugarcoat it. Anything is possible, but I will say it's not probable. Trump has said that he would not enact a federal abortion ban because his whole goal was to get the abortion issue to the states, and that's what he did, so it wouldn't make any sense to bring the issue back to the federal level. Believe him or not, I don't care. I'm just telling you what the facts are here.

With that said, if Congress really wanted to enact a federal abortion ban, they would, they could, right? They would have to pass a bill with a simple majority, which given the current makeup of Congress, I don't really believe they would even be able to do that if they wanted to, but let's assume that they did for purposes of the hypothetical.

Once they passed it, simple majority, it would go to the president. If Trump signed it, it would become law. If he stuck to his word and vetoed it, it would go back to Congress and they would have to override his veto with a two thirds vote in both the House and Senate, which again, I do not think is possible, probable given the current makeup of Congress. So is a federal abortion ban possible? Sure. Almost anything is. I'm not going to sugarcoat it, but I do not believe it's probable.

Harman asked, was the economy the number one issue for voters? And is that why the stock market is rallying? Yes, the economy was the top issue for voters pretty consistently across the polls. The stock market is rallying because investors are hopeful for the future economy.

Think of the health of the stock market as a predictor for what the future economy will look like. So right now, investors are putting their money into the market because they think in, say, six months time, the economy is going to be doing very well. And that is why the stock market's rallying right now.

Alyssa asked, why do they call the results for a state before all of the votes have been counted? Well, again, calls are made when the losing candidate has no path to victory in a state. In other words, when there are enough votes favoring one candidate and the numbers make it impossible for the other candidate to catch up because there just aren't enough outstanding votes.

the state can be called. So not all votes have to be in. Now, for some states, this even means that they can call the state as soon as the polls close. This typically happens in states where one political party has an established history of lopsided victories. We saw this happen in Kentucky last night, just as an example. But not all votes need to be counted to call a state.

Amanda asked, what will happen with the Department of Education? So first of all, getting rid of the Department of Education is not a new idea. Many people don't know this, actually. So Republicans have campaigned on getting rid of the Department of Education since it was created in 1979. Because as they argue, one, its existence violates the Constitution because the Constitution doesn't mention education. And two, because the Department of Education is what they call federal bloat.

Now, due to Biden's loan forgiveness and gender-related issues in schools, calls for getting rid of the DOE from Republicans have definitely increased.

Importantly, too, to this conversation, in the past, Trump actually wanted to merge the Department of Education and Department of Labor. So while he has been louder this time around about dismantling the DOE, it's unclear what he'll actually do once he takes office. Will he dismantle it? Will he merge it? We just don't know. There are, maybe he leaves it alone. We don't know. There's a ton of questions to be answered as far as where the responsibilities of the DOE would shift to if it was dismantled, how dismantling would work, who

would take over federal student loans. You know, there's a lot of unknowns. In all reality, the most probable outcome of dismantling the DOE would be shifting the oversight and responsibilities of the DOE to other already existing agencies. But again, we don't know a lot, and because we don't know a lot, and because there will likely be plenty of legal challenges, we should not expect anything to change with the DOE anytime soon.

Shane asked, as president, can he make all of his legal issues go away, both conviction and his pending legal cases?

Well, let me first say this. Never before has a president-elect also been a convicted felon. So all of this is uncharted territory. Now, he does have his sentencing coming up next month in his hush money case. But as I've said from the very beginning, he will not go to jail. There are too many legal and constitutional issues with that. He wouldn't have gone to jail if he weren't elected. He certainly won't go to jail now.

As far as pardoning himself, that is up in the air. The Supreme Court has never answered the question of whether a president can pardon himself. They may have to answer that question now, and Trump can certainly try to pardon himself. We just don't have that established precedent at this moment.

As far as his pending criminal cases, those are up in the air as well. He'll probably have to wait until January before he can actually do anything. But once he does take office, he will probably fire special counsel Jack Smith, which would then allow Trump's DOJ and Trump's attorney general to drop the charges against him and end those cases. And actually, I do think the DOJ is already considering dropping the charges and the cases, but we'll see. Those would be the classified documents case and the federal election interference case.

As for the Georgia election interference case, that case is on hold right now up on appeal. So it'll be up to the court to decide what to do with it at this point. So a lot of unknown, but hopefully that provides a little bit of clarity. Another Instagram user asked, what are the chances that a Supreme Court justice will need to be appointed in the next four years?

Anything is possible. Anything can happen at any time, right? I mean, Supreme Court justices serve life terms. So it would take one of the justices either passing away unexpectedly or stepping down slash retiring. Now, the two justices that are oldest are Justices Thomas and Sotomayor. Thomas is a conservative justice. Sotomayor is a liberal justice. So, you know, it's a matter of time before they can be

Thomas may retire within the next four years to give Trump an opportunity to put a younger justice on the bench, but I doubt Sotomayor would do the same. Sotomayor is a liberal justice and she does not want a conservative justice taking her spot. So if anything, it would be Justice Thomas retiring or something happening to a justice unexpectedly. But if neither of those things happen, there would be no reason for another appointment within the next four years.

Philip asked, what were the key deciding factors that led to Trump's outperformance in 2024 versus 2020? Well, we have to take a look at where the country is today versus 2020. And I'm solely speaking facts here and what analysts are saying now after the fact. Hindsight is always 2020. Speaking of 2020, let's talk about where we were then. We were at the

the height of the pandemic, essentially. A lot of people were scared. Many people were dying. People wanted change. The economy also had been great for the few years leading up to the pandemic. So people weren't really worried about the economy at that time. Immigration also wasn't what it is today. So the top issues for voters in 2020 were drastically different than what they were in this election.

Today, voters' top issues were those two things, the economy and immigration, abortion just behind those two. Trump, whether you like him or not, was the candidate that had a grasp on the economy and immigration. And yes, I know we can sit here and argue that he inherited the economy, it wasn't him, but we have to look at what the voters see and what the voters experienced and what the voters attribute to each candidate.

On top of that, the Democratic Party didn't have a chance to choose their strongest candidate. Well, they did, but, you know, by the time Biden dropped out, they didn't really have a lot of time. Harris didn't have the time to build a solid platform. In 2020, Biden was a strong Democratic candidate. People knew what Biden stood for.

The confidence was there. In this election, Harris was not as strong as Biden was in 2020, and she didn't give voters that same confidence that Biden did, in part because she had flip-flopped on different policies once she became the Democratic nominee and because she essentially took on Biden's policy book rather than providing her own. You know, so when you ask what were the key deciding factors that led to Trump's outperformance this year, those are the things that we have to look at.

L. Danielle asked, what does Trump plan to tackle first? When should we expect inflation to magically drop?

i want to be clear that inflation is down the latest index showed inflation at about 2.1 percent which is only 0.1 off from the fed's target and only 2.2 off from where inflation was under trump's administration inflation is drastically down from its relatively recent peak of 9.1 percent in june 2022 so inflation likely won't come down too much more what needs to come down are the prices consumer prices are still

high. And we don't know when exactly that will happen, but that's certainly on Trump's to-do list, among many other things. To answer your second question, which is what does Trump plan to tackle first, we actually heard from Trump's senior advisor today who said that on day one, Trump specifically plans to put his border policies back in place, those policies that he had in place that Biden then removed.

and get energy exploration going. And Trump himself said that he wants to get oil drilling going again on day one. You probably remember that now famous dictator quote where he said he would be a dictator on day one. He was asked what he meant by that. And he said, quote, we're closing the border and we're drilling, drilling, drilling. After that, I'm not a dictator.

But also keep in mind, too, that a lot of things require congressional approval, which can take time and not necessarily get accomplished on day one. So the border measures and energy exploration measures can likely be done via executive order, which he can sign and get started on on day one. But there's a lot that can't be done on day one. So we'll have to see how those things take shape.

Mads asked, if something happens to Trump before inauguration day, does Vance become president? This really depends on when something were to happen, if something happens. So December 17th is the day that electors will meet in their respective states to cast their votes for the president. And excuse my morbid language here, but if Trump were to either die or be incapacitated between

today and December 17th, there's actually no federally required process to follow. We have never had a president-elect die in that time frame, so it's just unclear what would happen. Now, if Trump were to die or be incapacitated at some point after the Electoral College meets on December 17th, but before inauguration, then Vance would be inaugurated. Aletha asked, is my right to IVF really at risk now?

I can only tell you what Trump has said and done, right? Let me play this clip for you, but a little context first. In the clip that you're about to hear, Trump was talking about the Alabama Supreme Court case that ruled frozen embryos created through IVF are considered to be children under state law. So he's describing a conversation he had with a Republican senator from Alabama in the wake of that decision. And here is what he said.

So I'm the mother of three small children, and I have many friends that have struggled with fertility issues over the years while trying to grow their families. And while they're pro-life, they're very concerned that the abortion bans will affect their ability to access IVF and other fertility treatments. So although abortion does lie with the states, what is your stance on that, and what would you say to those women? So I got a call from Katie Britt, a young woman.

Just a fantastically attractive person from Alabama. She's a senator.

And she called me up like emergency, emergency, because an Alabama judge had ruled that the IVF clinics were illegal and they have to be closed down. A judge ruled. And she said, friends of mine came up to me and they were, oh, they were so angry. I didn't even know they were going, you know, they were, it's fertilization. I didn't know they were even involved in it. Nobody talks about it. They don't talk about it. But now that they can't do it, she said, I was attacked.

In a certain way, I was attacked. And I said, explain IVF very quickly. And within about two minutes, I understood it. I said, no, no, we're totally in favor of IVF. I came out with a statement within an hour, a really powerful statement with some experts, really powerful. And we went totally in favor, the Republican Party, the whole party,

Alabama legislature a day later overturned, meaning approved it, overturned the judge essentially, approved it. And we really are the party for IVF. We want fertilization and it's all the way. And the Democrats tried to attack us on it. And we're out there on IVF even more than them. So we're totally in favor of it.

So that was the clip. And by the way, that statement he's referring to, he made on Truth Social and it reads, quote,

And as a final note, it's also important to note that both Republicans and Democrats have actually introduced legislation to federally protect the right to IVF, but both parties have issues with each other's legislation, so nothing has been passed.

The Republicans think the Democrats are going too far. The Democrats think the Republicans are not going far enough. But just to be clear, both parties have called for the federal protection of IVF. And since that Alabama lawsuit, the Alabama legislature has enacted state legislation protecting the right to IVF in the state.

Ashley asked, California resident here, why do all electoral votes go Democrat when 40% of votes are red? The answer here is simple. 48 states, including California, have a winner-takes-all system when it comes to the electoral college or electoral votes. Whoever wins that state, it doesn't matter if it's 60-40, 80-20, or 51-49. Whichever candidate wins that state, wins the popular vote, gets all votes.

all of the state's electoral votes. The exception here is Nebraska and Maine. Nebraska has five total electoral votes. Maine has four. Basically, the statewide winner of the popular vote gets two of those electoral votes, and then the rest are split up by congressional district. So

Trump won the statewide popular vote in Nebraska and two of the three congressional districts. Therefore, he got two for two electoral votes for the statewide vote and two for both of the congressional districts he won. Harris, on the other hand, did not win the statewide popular vote in Nebraska, but did win the popular vote in one of the three congressional districts. So she got one electoral vote from the state and then same procedure applies for Maine. But other than that, all states have a winner takes all system.

And finally, a user asked, if Trump is president, how worried should we be about Project 2025?

I'm going to point you to my July 9th and 10th episodes. July 9th, I did a full explainer episode on Project 2025. July 10th, I answered some of your questions about Project 2025. There is no point in regurgitating everything here, so I have included those links in the episode description as well as in the sources section of this episode. Please, if you're interested in learning about Project 2025, go listen to those episodes. They are very, very informative.

I got to what I could get to today. I'll try to answer more questions in tomorrow's episode. I hope this was a huge help for you. I hope you feel more informed now than you did 30-ish minutes ago. I'm thinking of you guys. I'm so happy you're here. I'm so happy we're together in this. And don't forget that it is on us to stick together. Have a great night and I will talk to you tomorrow.

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