‘The View’ Stars Offer Despondent Reactions to Donald Trump’s Reelection (VIDEO)
On Wednesday’s (November 6) live show, the cohosts of The View had a lot of reflecting to do after the 2024 presidential election was called in favor of Donald Trump. Most of the panelists were dressed in black to match the funereal mood of the moment, but some still tried to offer optimism.
While on the verge of tears, Joy Behar said, “My takeaway is that the system worked. We live in a democracy. People spoke. This is what people wanted. I vehemently disagreed with the decision that the people made, but I feel very, very hopeful that we have a democratic system in this country. We should value it. We should love it. We should protest if the situation arises that we need to protest, which I’m sure it will. I’ve been through this before with [Richard] Nixon. It’s been very difficult. But boy oh boy do we have a country if we can keep it.”
.@JoyVBehar: “My takeaway is that the system worked. We live in a democracy. People spoke. This is what people wanted. I vehemently disagree with the decision Americans made, but I feel very, very hopeful that we have a democratic system in this country. We should value it.” pic.twitter.com/BII0NDSzhB
— The View (@TheView) November 6, 2024
Sara Haines added that while she was disappointed with the outcome, she vowed, “I’m not going to stop marching.”
.@SaraHaines: “When the person you voted for does not win, you do not say the system must be broken or that it was rigged. You say, it is what it is and you show up anyway.”
“I still feel that optimistic because I feel arm in arm with so many people who agree with me. I’m not… pic.twitter.com/MovrY8WzJu
— The View (@TheView) November 6, 2024
Meanwhile, Alyssa Farah Griffin also admitted it was not the result she voted for, but said, “We live in a democracy. I have my vote. Millions of people cast their votes… Tens of millions of Americans, our friends, our neighbors, our family members voted for Donald Trump. We disagree with them. I know we all do at this table, but they are good, decent people who are patriots and love this country, and I can’t speak to what drove them to the conclusion of being with him, but I think it’s a moment for us to listen to each other.” She went on to add that she’s heard rumblings of people who might be vying for jobs in the Trump administration and said there are some good people in that group.
.@alyssafarah: “I think we forget about rural America. I think the working class feels left behind. They feel like the powerful, the elite only care about them and their power. [Trump] spoke to them. We may not have liked his words, but they turned out for him.” pic.twitter.com/hFierJ1iJ3
— The View (@TheView) November 6, 2024
Sunny Hostin was positively shell-shocked. “I’m profoundly disturbed… I think that in 2016 we didn’t know what we would get from a Trump administration, but we know now, and we know now that he will have almost unfettered power,” she said, adding, “I don’t worry about my station in life. I worry about the working class. I worry about my mother, a retired teacher. I worry about our elderly and their Social Security and care. I worry about my children’s future, especially my daughter, who now has less rights than I had.” Hostin went on to demand that the “convicted felon box on employment applications better be taken off” in the wake of Trump’s election.
For Ana Navarro, who was on the ground at Kamala Harris’ election headquarters Tuesday night, she found the entire evening to be “very sad” but said, “But today, unlike Donald Trump and his followers, I acknowledge that he won. I hope for the best for our country, and I commit to our LGBTQ, our immigrants, to our elderly, to our young girls, to the women that we will not stop fighting.”
.@ananavarro: “Today, unlike Donald Trump and his followers, I acknowledge that he won. I hope for the best for our country. And I make a commitment to our LGBTQ, to our immigrants, to our elderly, to our young girls, to the women, that we will not stop fighting.” pic.twitter.com/iiyvqCchuM
— The View (@TheView) November 6, 2024
Whoopi Goldberg said that her insistence that viewers vote didn’t come with an instruction as to who to choose because “I wanted to make sure people exercise that right” that “too many people that I know died trying to vote.” She also praised Harris for pulling out a campaign in the space of just two months. She also insisted, “I’m still not going to say his name.”
#WhoopiGoldberg: “We’re still here. When I got out of the car today…I saw people living their lives, and that’s what we have to do. And when things get to be so bright that we see them, we gotta call them out.” pic.twitter.com/e4BamvrVpP
— The View (@TheView) November 6, 2024
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I remember when The View first came on. It was supposed to be a show that offered different viewpoints from ladies with DIFFERENT VIEWS.
I refuse to watch this show anymore because it’s become a leftist propaganda site.
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Agree, so bad it should be questioned about equal time per FCC rules.
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The FCC got rid of "equal time" rules over 40 years ago under Reagan.
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The network that thought this was ok gave Trump two free spots the next day. That must have cost a pretty penny during Sunday football. I saw them both
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Incorrect.
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Can’t handle their different views from yours?
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It is a vessel for the truth. The truth is what ever it is
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Exactly, Different Views. All of them. The View has certainly become One View, not The View. I haven't watched for years.
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When are they leaving the country?
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No other country wants them either.
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News flash. The tens of millions of folks that voted for Trump couldn’t care less what a table full of self absorbed liberals think. Get over your damned selves
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Those women on their have always been full of themselves. Whoopi flipping the bird. Oh that’s someone to look up too. And Harris just kept talking in circles
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I'm certain it's everyone else that's wrong. I don't know where you find an audience. Anyway, enjoy your 4 years of whining.
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4 years of whining if they last that long!
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Yes that is you whinny MAGA !
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I'm a celebrating MAGA! Your comment just proves your the whiner, because your candidate lost.
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They may whine... but I'm pretty sure they won't be storming the capitol building with zip ties and nooses.
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HAAAAAAAAAAAA! Your unending spewing of HATE got you nowhere!
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Troll
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GREAT COMEBACK!
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These View people are a sad group they don’t know what’s good for the working class their to busy with there blush jobs
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I wish I had a blush job. But I'm currently in a foundation job, hoping to move up to lip tint. 🤓
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I think Joy Behar doesn’t know the true nature of our governmental structure, which is Republican. That simply means wer have a “Republic,” and not a “Democracy!” The difference is that “majority rule” is limited by our Constitution.
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A republic is a representative democracy.
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Nope- a republic is a three branch government. A representative democracy is where representatives vote for the people. One branch, like the Senate in Ancient Rome.
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They don't understand the basics about our country, so it is no surprise that they believe whatever is the daily lie, or deliberate misinformation, that the right wing drowns them in constantly.
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Watching Sunny talk about fearing concentration camps and her daughter having "less rights" than she has was just...too much. Pure hysterical hyperbole. Also, someone needs to tell Joy Behar that the Democrat party of her childhood tenement upbringing is not the same Democrat party of today. That's what most Ds don't get - including most Boomer members of my family.
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No my older relatives Democrats would have never wanted unchecked illegal immigration! And our daughters have less rights with sororities forcing their daughters to have men in their houses and men competing on their teams stealing their awards and scholarship money! Older Democrats back in the day would never be on board with that! Something has gone off the rails.
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I think they all need to get over their loss and start rejoicing in what is yet to come. They will soon be embarrassed of all they've ever said, did, acted. That time will come. Let's all pray for our nation and our best President of the United States ever!
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Yes, we ALL need to take stock of where we are today, iin November 2024. Jot it down, and refer back to it again in October 2028, to see if we're better off then.
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AGREED!
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Just listen to yourself
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Better than Reagan?
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What will they talk about now!!! Time for them to go. Good riddance.
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I think Whoppie and Joy need to stick to their guns and LEAVE the country like they swore! I also think all these women need to be replaced they're too negative
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Time for witches to move to Canada like they promised their show is filled with hate and prejudice
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At least Stephen Colbert went back to mentioning him by name and also doing his voice which I look forward to for the next four years...
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I'd rather hear Colbert do the imitation as Mr. Orange-Face gets led off to jail, but yes, at least the late-nite shows will have plenty of fodder.
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Omg
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Send these ladies packing!!! Sunny whining about not having rights? Send her to China for awhile!
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Don't watch the view, don't care about the view, could care less if the view fell of the face of the earth. The witches with a "B" all feel their opinion is everyones opinion and their "view" is the only one that matters. Their bias is so one sided they have a melt down if anything is not to their flavor. What a sad bunch of individuals.
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The View needs to go off the air. They are negative & not good for the country.
Face it ladies Trump won.
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I think they are absolutely hate mongers. They encourage hatred and for Whoopie to refuse to state President Trumps name is a disgrace. I will never watch this show.
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Glad I have never watched the show.
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That show should be canceled or get a whole new panel equal men n women with own diff. Personal veiws. Will never watch that show horrible,one sided biggetry
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So they are calling for protests and marches again? That show needs to get taken off the air. When is Woopie leaving the country again?
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After all of the name calling and cheap shots against the republicans I am surprised they have the audacity to go back on the air and be humble. the sad part is these women spoke lies and untruths with no repercussions at all. I hope they get cancelled. this is not good television at all
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I can't wait till they shut down the view. These people leave the country with their horrible liberal b s good riddance
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The View should be renamed The Unview. Clean house because watching those women are out of touch as it gets. There is only ONE view there
And I have better things to watch than
that laughable show.
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I think these women are the most ignorant people in America
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They will be miserable for the next four years 😂😂😂.
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To Whoopi Goldberg, rather you say his name or not, he is still YOUR president. Get over it!
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The ladies are entitled to their opinions and views. Remember this is America and they have freedom of speech. So you people quit crying over how these ladies interpret things. You don't like them, what they say on their show then just stop watching.
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Freedom of Speech doesn’t mean we can’t criticize or laugh at them spouting their nonsense.
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That actually is freedom of speech. And the View will go away. No one watching
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Who cares what these spoiled liberals think! They do not speak for the slaves!
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Kamala was not liked and she was a weak candidate. No one mentions her problems with her staff over the last 3+ years. Biden was thinking about replacing her. The Dems did not talk to Biden soon enough about dropping out.
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I'm in Minnesota and a lot of folks here worried that if K were to be impeached, Walz would be in charge. He took MN. from a huge surplus down to nothing with his evil plans.
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good. the people have been unburdened by what "has been".
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It was Sunny Hostin's question in which VP Harris could not answer and it ultimately cost her the election.
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That and Kamala is just unlikable, unqualified, never had a plan except what her handlers told her to do.
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Please tell me what Trump’s plan is other than deporting immigrants! Be specific please!
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Standing up to Russia, Iran, North Korea and China.
Tariffs om imported goods and keeping American jobs.
Allowing fracking to resume.
Finishing the border wall and deporting the criminals and lunatics that Biden let in.
Ruining Obama's long term scheme.
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Standing up to those countries? hell, he’s best friends with those dictators. Along with ripping up the constitution, getting rid of the media that actually does tell the truth, taking out his list of enemies, and having them killed. Getting rid of the Board of Education. Picking Kennedy as his health Director. Having tariffs which will raise our taxes. Allowing thousands of women to no longer have control of their bodies, and whatever else which comes into his mentally deranged mind.
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What you don't know is that Putin is very very scared of Donald Trump. Putin only started the war with Ukraine because he knew that Bidumbass was a pushover.
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You better run and hide. Cuz he's coming after you!
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You don't know wtf you're talking about. Her plan was to help ALL the people, not just the wealthy few who want to protect their greedy ripoffs. Handlers? Donnyboy can't even go poddy by himself, let alone think rationally.
Basically, his handlers bamboozled ignorant voters into cutting off their noses to spite their faces.
If you think prices are high now-well, hang onIto your pocketsbooks.
It will be open season on consumers, with all restraints against unfair trade now poised for their turn on the chopping block. And of course, your dear leader will make sure he gets a piece of the action in return.
Then there is the small matter of who are our friends, and who are our enemies - Putin, Xi, Kim, and every wannabe dictator out there, are celebrating. And those who cherish democracy, here and abroad, are in mourning.
My only hope now for this country, is that, just like in other conquered peoples in the past, there will arise an underground of Robin Hoods, who will harass the overlords, and protect the needy.
And if you don't think you are needy, because you have a good paying job, or a decent retirement income, including Social Security, under drump's policies, watch those disappear. Just like in poor countries elsewhere, you will see beggars lining our city streets, starving and ill, because they can't afford food or care, and there will be no food stamps or Medicaid provided by the government, because the rich won't pay taxes, and the poor will have no income to be taxed.
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Harris couldn’t pull off what her handlers wanted, whether on TV and wearing the earring receivers, or anywhere else where she needed a cohesive sentence, but couldn’t put one together.
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She also called white women uneducated. What is up with that.
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Tariffs don't raise taxes. Prices may increase if they are passed onto the consumer. Tariffs are necessary to compete with foreign manufacturers that are subsidized by their government. You obviously don't understand how the economy works so put down the selfie stick and learn something.
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you don't shoot someone that you don't respect.
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no you forgot joy Reid and rachel maddow
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DEI shall DIE
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they are actually happy cuz now they have something to cry about.
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you fool. they will now discuss how women are in chains and woopie and sunny are in concentration camps. our country is totally 100% racist, and Donald Trump is a h!tler. low-key tho they are happy he won so they can have something to complain about.
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#noviewsfortheview
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92% of her staff quit because she is so annoying to work with.
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oh they WILL
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"there is not a thing that comes to mind" basically the harris campaign slogo. she doesn't talk in circles she is just a broken record. "the significance of the passage of time"
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wokism has infiltrated the heads of rational people
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they secretly love the election results because the can complain about something. MSNBC too.
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three branches. legislative. judicial. executive. Boom.
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"and to the republic for which it stands"
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the word Republic is literally in the pledge of allegiance.
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he is doing it now...
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The working class need to put gas in our cars, food on our table, and worry about paying our bills. You sit there without a care in the world in your delusions not worrying about money.
Trump is not taking any womens rights away. She was DEI and not fit for the job!
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Maybe this toxic quartet could concentrate on having a good fun show again instead of a divisive left wing extremist flake show. Why cant we have any fun shows anymore? Unite.
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Suck it up buttercups
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I guess we'll just have to wait for a couple years to see if people have made the right or the wrong decision.
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Maybe these ladies of the View can open their eyes and ears as to what the majority of Americans are feeling and why they voted for President Trump. Get out of your bubble!
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Haha, good one! Yeah, the BEST person who knows the MOST about everyday middle-class Americans is the guy who was born in a mansion, sent to private schools, given millions of dollars by his father when he grew up, and lives in gold-plated building. The man probably never knew a middle-class person... until he was denying them housing or refusing to pay their small businesses for services rendered.
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I think these women are despicable.
I will never watch this ridiculous show.
Sad that the ungodly has a platform to prove who they really are.
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And that wasn't hateful? I feel you are all pointing the finger at the wrong people. If you all have a mirror near by take a long hard look. This is not unity these are the words of the people that divide this nation. Stop pointing fingers and join together to reunite this country. Whether Democrat or Republican we love this country so lets start acting like it.
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When will you realize that THEY were lying about him? We all have....
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I hope your name tells the truth, and you are going to take your hatred and leave true Americans alone! The vile rhetoric comes from people like you!
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Hope they had enough tissues. What a joke
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3 months, Whoopi... Not 2.
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I am happy that Donald Trump won. I am even happier that he can PISS OFF the DUMO RATS that appear daily on the View. So when will whoopdeedoodud be FIRED for her hate comments about MY PRESIDENT, MR. TRUMP?
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But I guess you think a man who forces himself on women and committed adultery not on just one wife, but all three wives, plus had sex with a porn actress, has no morals, never prays to god or even attended church, but is likeable is qualified as the becon of morality for President.
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Please remember how/when to use/spell their, they’re, there.
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Trump is a spoiled baby and i am dumbfounded how anyone could vote for him.
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At least he has America's best interests at heart which is far better than BO's puppets.
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Everyone is thinking that the election is over. It is not over. Many many states still have to count mill in ballots Pennsylvania alone has 2 million mail in ballots and that’s not counting absentee ballots that still need to be counted. This man did not win the election yet stop celebrating because it might be shocking to you after everything is
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Harris is not going to be president. It is over. Trump trumped Harris. Numbers do not lie. Trump is President.
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Harris has already conceded. She gave the win to Trump. She couldn't win even if the rest of the votes all voted for her. It all boils down to the electoral college votes. Trump was the first one to get 270. He got there first which means he wins. But the votes are still coming in it's quite possible he could get as many as 300 Electoral College votes.
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