From WNYC Studios. I'm Brian Lerer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Wednesday, November 6th.

I know many of you are in shock. And of course, those of you who voted for Donald Trump

are celebrating. It's kind of the day

after election day in 2016 all over again, which many Democrats, especially women and black

Americans, Latino Americans, experience grief and fear and disillusionment with your fellow Americans.

Yes. But it's different in many ways, too. Reality is reality, and here's some

of it. This time, Trump won the popular vote. NBC's analysis is that Trump improved his

percentages in 90% of American counties. Republicans took a majority in the U.S. Senate.

The House is still too close to call.

Remember, Democrats had the Senate.

USA Today calls the presidential race not just a victory, but a realignment election.

It says, quote, in a major shift, Trump won Latino men, 54 to 44% over Harris, according to NBC exit polls,

after they backed President Joe Biden, 59% to 36% over Trump in 2020.

We'll come back to that stat.

And it says Trump won support from about 13% of black voters nationally and 45% of Latino voters,

citing CNN exit polls.

In the 2020 election, Trump won just 8% of black voters and 32% of Latino.

So I know that's a lot of numbers.

But think about those Latino numbers,

especially, 45 percent nationally, despite the mantra of mass deportation, aimed mostly at Latinos

crossing the border to seek asylum, and that Latino man number is a realignment one for the history books, assuming it's accurate from that NBC

exit poll. Trump lost Latino men to Biden by 23 points. This time he won Latino men outright

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