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It's time for a victory dance, everybody.

I don't know if this is the best dance you've ever seen or I guess some of you were just listening.

But if Trump can dance, I can dance, we can all dance.

And we should because that was the greatest political comeback story of our lifetime. The biggest win for Republicans, certainly of my adult lifetime. And you'd have to go back to the early 80s to have anything comparable back in the Reagan years. This is amazing. I just want to hang out and talk to you about it for a little bit because, you know, last night

I was sitting here watching as the returns were coming in and I stayed up late like everybody

else.

And I've been very confident.

In fact, as you know, I've done podcasts here where I have said Donald Trump's going

to win.

Here's why he's going to win. Here's why he's going to win.

I've known he was going to win because he had to because we would be living in a different

country if he had lost and Kamala Harris was able to, with the phoniest, most dishonest campaign I've

ever seen, the least talented politician as the candidateiest, most dishonest campaign I've ever seen, the least talented politician as the

candidate for either party I've ever seen. She was able to beat Donald Trump, then what are we even doing?

This was a huge victory, and everybody should be very, very proud of themselves who had any role in it whatsoever.

And if that means you just voted for Trump, well, you're part of the victory celebration.

And the good news even for Democrats, as sad as they may be, is Donald Trump is better at this that Kamala Harris would have been.

It will be better for the country, objectively better for the United States of America to have Donald Trump as commander-in-chief than it would have to have Kamala Harris in that role.

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