Tag: 47

  • What’s Next?

    What’s Next?

    The election is over and Donald Trump will be in the White House, the Republicans will have control of the Senate and are projected to have 221 seats of the 218 needed to control the House of Representatives. So, what’s next?

    I have already admitted surprise at the speed at which the race was called Tuesday night. Something else also surprised me; the lack of rioting and other violence when the call came. The only potential riot was in Portland, but between the police presence and a lack of participants, that never really amounted to anything more than a street party.

    That isn’t to say there won’t be any violence. I almost expect there to be rioting or some other anti-social disruptive behavior from the left come certification and Inauguration days. We’ll see I suppose.

    Between now and the inauguration Trump will spin up a transition team, make his choices for the political appointees and the like. As of now, there aren’t many indications of who is going to fill what cabinet positions. That said, you should expect RFK Jr, Elon Musk, Tulsi Gabbard and other high profile campaign surrogates to end up in the cabinet.

    Trump really needs to move on his agenda during the first 100 days. After that, the ‘resistance’ will be pushing back hard. The lawfare will restart and the bureaucratic inertia will kick in. I hope that he will go all Roman Legate and decimate the federal bureaucracy and salt the earth so it can’t grow back.

    I would be remiss if I didn’t mention the fact that his life is in even more danger than it has been all campaign. The non-stop rhetoric from the Dems has created a situation where unhinged, mentally ill libs think it’s their duty to try to kill Donald Trump. I just hope that the USSS is up to the task.

  • 45 is 47

    45 is 47

    I’m going to start this piece off with a bit of a mea culpa. I fully expected the results of the election to drag out until the weekend. I did not expect as many of the swing states to break for Trump as they did or as early as they did.

    Instead, around 0115, Pennsylvania was called for Trump and sealed the Electoral College numbers. As of this writing, just before noon on Wednesday, he also leads the National vote with 71,660,413 votes or 51% of the total.

    The dominoes started falling for Trump fairly early last night. He picked up Georgia shortly after the polls closed with North Carolina following close behind. The big pickup came with Pennsylvania, where Trump won by some 150,000 votes.

    Right now, Trump has 286 electoral votes of the 270 need to win with two states left to be decided.

    Arizona and Michigan have yet to be called. Trump is up by a bit more than a million votes in Arizona with 67% of precincts reporting. Michigan is a bit tighter. He leads there by 60k votes with 95% reporting.

    Those two states are window dressing however, as he already surpassed the 270 threshold.


    In other races, the Republicans took control of the Senate by picking up seats in Montana, West Virginia, and Ohio. There are four Senate races yet to be called, AZ, PA, NV and MI. Of the four, it looks like the R’s will pick up Pennsylvania; Repub Dave McCormick is up by 50k over incumbent Bob Casey with 92% in. The races in Nevada and Michigan are too close to call, with the Dem Slotkin up by 7k votes in MI and our boy Captain Sam Brown up by a couple of hundred over the incumbent Dem Jacky Rosen. That leaves us with Arizona. Kari Lake is down by nearly a million votes with 66% of precincts reporting.

    The House is too close to call at this point, but it’s looking like the Republicans will retain a slim margin in that chamber. DDHQ is predicting a 220-215 R majority.