Donald J. Trump will be the 47th president of the United States of America following a decisive victory last night in the 2024 presidential race.

Also, he will have a Republican Senate in his corner, and we will know relatively soon if he will have a Republican House.

So today, let's talk about what happened, how, why, and what's next, especially amid the wildly different reactions to the news that we're seeing.

And for good measure, we're going to hit on how all this connects to the numerous ballot

measures we saw across the country. And so to start, I'll say last night, Donald Trump's victory

was historic. Four years after being voted out of office, Donald Trump became the second president

to ever win non-consecutive terms, and he's actually the first ever felon to be elected to the presidency. And this is we wait for all of the votes to get tallied because he may have actually also won the popular vote. Which of his

individual vote count holds, it will be the first time in two decades a Republicans won the popular

vote. And you know, last night, pretty early on, things were already not looking hot for Harris.

Right? And it started with the little things. Like we had talked about in the past, Virginia was a key state to look at. Because while she was always expected to win there, it was very important to see, you know, is her lead something

closer to Hillary Clinton or Biden. And unfortunately for her, it was Clinton numbers. We also

saw things like in Iowa where a pollster and Selser just kind of got slapped around. But she's been

considered one of the top pollsters in the country who is, or at least was famous for her accuracy, whether before the election, making the shocking prediction that Harris would beat Trump

by 3%.

But Trump, he ended up actually beating Harris by more than 13% with almost all the votes

counted as of recording, which was just so enormously off that Selsers now is saying that she's

reviewing the data to see where she went wrong.

And so based off of those, along with a few other bellwethers, it was not surprising to

see Trump absolutely dominate in the battleground states. The kind of final nail in the coffin being when the AP called Pennsylvania

for Trump about an hour and a half after it called Georgia for him. So after that, he only needed

three more electoral votes to win. And then he got more than that when the AP called Wisconsin

for him early this morning. The Trump then knocking down that final chunk of the blue wall and

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