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Susan Glasser: “Electing Donald J. Trump once could be dismissed as a fluke, an aberration, a terrible mistake—a consequential one, to be sure, yet still fundamentally an error.” “But America has now twice elected him as its President. It is a disastrous revelation about what the United States really is, as opposed to the country that so many hoped that it could be.” “His victory was a worst-case scenario—that a convicted felon, a chronic liar who mismanaged a deadly once-in-a-century pandemic, who tried to overturn the last election and unleashed a violent mob on the nation’s Capitol, who calls America ‘a garbage can for the world,’ and who threatens retribution against his political enemies could win—and yet, in the early morning hours of Wednesday, it happened.”

“Stock futures jumped and Treasury yields surged as Donald Trump inched toward victory in the presidential election, with investors piling into trades aligned with his policies on areas including tariffs, taxes, government borrowing and cryptocurrencies,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Shares of Trump Media & Technology, known as DJT, soared. The U.

Playbook; “It seemed unthinkable on Jan. 7, 2021. Now it’s reality.” “Donald Trump will retake the presidency after making sweeping gains in state after state, with group after group, slashing away at the margins that kept him from a second term four years ago. He declared victory in a raucous speech in West Palm Beach last night, where he hailed ‘the greatest political movement of all time’ — a boast that suddenly did not sound like unhinged hyperbole.” “Trump’s re-election — called by the AP and the major TV networks moments ago — constitutes arguably the biggest political comeback story in American history.

“Donald J. Trump has defeated Vice President Kamala Harris, riding a wave of anxiousness over inflation and illegal immigration to bring a strongman-style politics to the White House, and making him the first former president since Grover Cleveland to win a second term after a re-election defeat,” the New York Times reports. “Voters chose Mr.

Sen. Deb Fischer (R-NE) has won a third term, staving off a spirited and unexpectedly tough challenge from independent Dan Osborn and giving her party enough seats to take the majority, the New York Times reports.

“One trend is coming in clear across the more than 1,300 counties that have reported close to complete results already: Donald Trump is improving on his 2020 margins,” Politico reports. “While most of these counties aren’t in the battlegrounds, they reveal a consistent shift toward Trump. The early results encompass a range of heavily red, purple and even light blue counties.”