Heather Cox Richardson: 'These Results Were a Surprise to Everyone'

Thursday, November 07, 2024

Trump is a 78-year-old convicted felon who has been found liable for sexual assault and is currently under indictment in a number of jurisdictions. He refused to leave office peacefully when voters elected President Joe Biden in 2020, instead launching an unprecedented attack on the U.S. Capitol to stop the counting of electoral votes, and said during his campaign that he would be a "dictator" on his first day in office.

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White nationalist Nick Fuentes posted, "Your body, my choice. Forever," and gloated that men will now legally control women's bodies. His post got at least 22,000 "likes." Right-wing influencer Benny Johnson, previously funded by Russia, posted: "It is my honor to inform you that Project 2025 was real the whole time."

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Righties are just miserable people who want to burn everything down.

Just like the nooner.

Thanks, idiots. Why couldn't y'all just walk off a cliff and leave the rest of us alone?

#1 | Posted by jpw at 2024-11-07 10:09 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

That was rcade being tired of the antics of miserable piles of garbage known as Trumpers.

#3 | Posted by jpw at 2024-11-07 10:36 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Is the nooner gone now?

#4 | Posted by phesterOBoyle at 2024-11-07 10:45 AM | Reply

That was rcade being tired of the antics of miserable piles of garbage known as Trumpers.

Posted by jpw at 2024-11-07 10:36 AM | Reply

THIS!!!!!!!!!

#5 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2024-11-07 10:59 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

These results were not a surprise to everyone.

I've debated with Tony for months now that she was a trash candidate, and he and every die hard D stuffed their heads in the sand and shouted lalalalalalala.

This election was a rebuke on being told who they were going to accept. For a while I thought she'd win, but as it got closer it was slipping away quickly.

#6 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2024-11-07 11:13 AM | Reply

It was a binary choice, right?

People are more concerned about their own immediate bubble and their wallets than a lot of other things. A lot of people live in tough conditions and I get it - they think the altnerative to what has gone on the last four years is worth a shot.

Environment, women's rights, democracy even being a gentleman are all out the window. It's day to day survival.

Handling COVID probably cost Trump the first election. COVID actually wins him this election.

#8 | Posted by brass30 at 2024-11-07 11:26 AM | Reply

Surprise? How?

She ran a terrible campaign. I complained about it for the last two months.

She never focused any message on pocket book issues and refused to separate herself from Biden.

#9 | Posted by Sycophant at 2024-11-07 11:28 AM | Reply

" refused to separate herself from Biden.

#9 | POSTED BY SYCOPHANT AT 2024-11-07 11:28 AM | FLAG: "

I don't know how she could have gone about doing that.

#10 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-11-07 11:37 AM | Reply

"surprise to everyone"

no it wasn't...

I called it almost 2 weeks before...just ask the jerkface Hans about my prediction is you don't believe it.

......just as it came in.....except for a couple of hours later..

but that was because the leftist media kept holding off....as in the case of Georgia.

even with one pundit telling the panel..." the math no longer works for Harris"

I said it....potus by 11 est....change that to PST and I was spot on.

and also said,.... "it won't be close"

#11 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-11-07 11:58 AM | Reply

She never focused any message on pocket book issues and refused to separate herself from Biden.

#9 | Posted by Sycophant

yes....and she refused to do that on "the view" of all places.

delicious irony that she lost the race...in my opinion and opinion of many.... while talking to those.....well....I'll be nice..

while talking to those people.

#12 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-11-07 12:00 PM | Reply

Hey trumpers - why didn't dems "steal" this election if they have the power to do so?

Or are you finally ready to admit you lost in 2020 and trump has lied ever since?

Or are you going to say they can steal an election when they're not in power, but can't steal an election when they're in the white house and DOJ?

#217 | Posted by SpeakSoftly

#13 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-11-07 12:03 PM | Reply

Not to women it isn't. Defeating women running for high political office happens all over the world every day. Rare is the woman who wins.

Stop giving Trumpanzee and his flying monkeys too much credit. An old man came out of retirement and defeated him. The two elections he won were against two women in a world that rarely hires women for that kind of job and in a country that in all 47 elections has never elected one... not even once... except Kamala

Until she hands the keys to Vance she is where no woman has ever been.

People seem to forget just a couple of decades ago people threw a fit about Hillary Clinton doing a Barbara Walters interview wearing a pantsuit.

We're on pause... we're not going back.

Republicl0wns now have a party where they are waiting for the sock puppet president to die... and they know it.

#14 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2024-11-07 12:28 PM | Reply

It is only a surprise to so many liberals who refuse to accept reality. Steve Kerr illustrated it the best in his most recent statement when he sarcastically mantioned illegal immigrants raping citizens. He and other liberals only do that because they refuse to accept that illegal immigrants ARE raping and killing women, but since that doesn't jive with their "illegal immigrants are the best things ever and our country is doomed without them" mantra. I'm just hoping this election result wakes many of them up to reality. Not saying they have to like inconvenient truths but they really need to start governing them.

#15 | Posted by humtake at 2024-11-07 01:14 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Right-wing influencer Benny Johnson

He should be called paid Kremlin propagandist Benny Johnson, because he was one of the right-wing influencers to whom Russia secretly paid $10 million in a scheme that has resulted in multiple federal indictments.

#16 | Posted by rcade at 2024-11-07 01:17 PM | Reply

Hell, boys.... this country elected a black man with a Muslim name before they would elect a mere woman.

Being surprised by their abject misogynism is foolish at best.

#17 | Posted by Corky at 2024-11-07 01:19 PM | Reply

It is only a surprise to so many liberals who refuse to accept reality.

The reality is that undocumented immigrants commit far fewer crimes than U.S. citizens. They also commit far less vote fraud.

People who made the arduous trek here illegally to work and send money home are focused on working and sending money home, not committing crimes that would get them jailed or deported.

Don't pretend you care about reality. Trump spins lies all day long and you gobble them up like they were Hot Pockets.

#18 | Posted by rcade at 2024-11-07 01:22 PM | Reply

Hell, boys.... this country elected a black man with a Muslim name before they would elect a mere woman.

We're going to tell ourselves things like this about the election, and there will be some truth in them, but maybe we should be talking more about how hundreds of millions in dark money flooded the campaign from billionaires wanting to buy the presidency.

#19 | Posted by rcade at 2024-11-07 01:25 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

The reality is that undocumented immigrants commit far fewer crimes than U.S. citizens. They also commit far less vote fraud.

People who made the arduous trek here illegally to work and send money home are focused on working and sending money home, not committing crimes that would get them jailed or deported.

Don't pretend you care about reality. Trump spins lies all day long and you gobble them up like they were Hot Pockets.

Posted by rcade at 2024-11-07 01:22 PM | Reply

THIS so much this!!!!!!!!!!

#20 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2024-11-07 01:25 PM | Reply

#16 | Posted by rcade

gotta go with you on this one.

this guy....fired / rehired / and repeat...

--he has to have something on someone real powerful to justify his work "history"

#21 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-11-07 01:29 PM | Reply

t is only a surprise to so many liberals who refuse to accept reality.
#15 | Posted by humtake

Who won the 2020 election?

#22 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-11-07 01:30 PM | Reply

#19

And the results for billionaires is quick and impressive... record setting even.

drudge.com

#23 | Posted by Corky at 2024-11-07 01:50 PM | Reply

Kamala spent 1.4 billion. The Democrats didn't lack money. Have you considered it was the message and the messenger?

#24 | Posted by visitor_ at 2024-11-07 02:07 PM | Reply

Kamala spent 1.4 billion. The Democrats didn't lack money. Have you considered it was the message and the messenger?

#24 | Posted by visitor_

Yes the message was russian propaganda and the messengers were elon musk and joe rogan.

#25 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-11-07 02:12 PM | Reply

Have you considered it was the message and the messenger?

Yes. The message was, "Women need not apply".

#26 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-11-07 02:12 PM | Reply

What happened to the 15 million more votes tha Joe Biden got? Were they not real or are Democrats the party of misogyny?

#27 | Posted by visitor_ at 2024-11-07 02:23 PM | Reply

What happened to the 15 million more votes tha Joe Biden got? Were they not real or are Democrats the party of misogyny?

#27 | Posted by visitor_

What happened to democrats supposedly having the ability to rig elections?

#28 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-11-07 02:44 PM | Reply

what happened to the ability to answer a question?...

How about it Speak... why did Kamala's vote total go down so much from Joe's?

Could it be that it wasn't because she's black or a woman, and just that she didn't resonate with the base? Possibly because she couldn't articulate what her plan was?

#29 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2024-11-07 02:54 PM | Reply

How about it Speak... why did Kamala's vote total go down so much from Joe's?

Could it be that it wasn't because she's black or a woman, and just that she didn't resonate with the base? Possibly because she couldn't articulate what her plan was?

#29 | Posted by kwrx25

I guess she doesn't have the ability to rig elections like joe did right? Even though he wasn't in office in 2020. I guess once you're president you can't rig them anymore. Is that your theory?

#30 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-11-07 03:01 PM | Reply

What happened to the 15 million more votes tha Joe Biden got?

Nothing changed about voting machines between 2020 and 2024 but MAGA idiots think the vote totals this time are so accurate that it proves fraud occurred in 2020.

Have y'all considered that the different vote amounts for Biden and Harris are because a different number of people voted for each of them?

Even when Trump wins we have to answer stupid questions from his voters alleging fraud.

#31 | Posted by rcade at 2024-11-07 03:03 PM | Reply

I said nothing about rigged elections, never claimed 2020 was rigged, none of that...

The Dems problem in a nutshell... They have an echo chamber in the DNC, and just like Speak, they refuse to acknowledge that Kamala was a bad candidate and will instead talk about the patriarch, racism, this-ism, that-ism...

Joe got about 80m she got about 66m votes... without fever dreams about rigged elections and stolen votes... why did she get so many less?

#32 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2024-11-07 03:07 PM | Reply

you too Rcade... ?

We are not insinuating that Joe's number was artificially high. We are saying that Kamala was not a good candidate and Dems stayed home rather than vote for her.

Is the echo chamber you all are in so loud that you can't recognize she was just a bad candidate?

#33 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2024-11-07 03:11 PM | Reply