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It's the Media Buzzmeter with Howard Kurtz.

I'm a little tired.

How are you?

So, I concluded about two weeks ago that Donald Trump was going to win this election.

Despite the extraordinary and relentless media assault on him, contrasted with the, you know, just

glowing, celebrity-fueled, positive coverage of Kamala Harris.

And part of my reasoning was when I had the Trump Tower sit down with the 45th president, soon to be the 47th president, second time I had an interview

this year. And he was on his game. You know, he defended his positions, whether it was about

January 6th, whether it was about the enemy within, dangerous than foreign adversaries which made a lot of

news whether it was about any stance that he had taken and he was he was he was he was cogent he was

even if you disagree with everything he said he was hitting the points that he wanted to hit.

And, you know, I pressed him pretty hard.

I don't think he had a great final two weeks of the campaign when his advisors obviously would

like him to have not been talking about say Arnold Palmer. I think

Kamala Harris had a pretty good last week of the campaign and she was, you know, sunny optimism,

united, helped the middle class, left people up and Trump's talk was pretty dark. But I didn't expect the breadth of this victory that he would, as I'm speaking to you,

beyond the verge of winning all of the seven battleground states, that he would win the

popular vote.

He's several million, but five million ahead.

Almost nobody was talking about that.

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