Well, I want to thank you all very much. This is great. These are our friends. We have thousands of friends on this incredible movement.

This was a movement like nobody's ever seen before.

And frankly, this was, I believe, the greatest political movement of all time.

There's never been anything like this in this country.

In a sweeping victory, Donald Trump has once again been elected president of the United States.

The last time Trump ran for office, the results were so close, so contested,

that he refused to accept the outcome, which led to an attempted insurrection at the U.S.

Capitol. But this time around, there was no doubt. We overcame obstacles that nobody thought

possible, and it is now clear that we've achieved the most incredible political thing.

Look what happened. Is this crazy?

Trump made gains with virtually every demographic of voter, particularly young men, black,

and Latino voters, while campaigning largely on a platform of mass deportations, trade wars,

and retribution for his critics.

It's a platform that America has accepted.

At the time of this recording, Kamala Harris appears to have lost every single swing state

while underperforming President Biden's 2020 results in almost every county in America.

The Republican Party has won the Senate and appears to be on the brink of winning the House as well.

Jay Caspian King and Claire Malone, who've been covering the election for New Yorker.com, join us to discuss the fallout from last night.

You're listening to The Political Scene. I'm Tyler Fogg, and I'm a senior editor at The New Yorker.

Jay, Claire, thank you so much for coming on the show. Thanks for having us. Yeah, thanks.

It's 1 p.m. on Wednesday, November 6th. We're talking a few hours before Harris addresses the nation to

formally concede the election.

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