NEWS AND OPINION:

“We congratulate President Donald Trump on his victory in the 2024 Presidential Election. The defeat of Vice President Harris represents a clear rejection of the extreme abortion agenda that she placed at the center of her campaign,” said Jeanne Mancini, president of March for Life.

“Despite well-funded attempts at spinning a contrary narrative, 7 in 10 Americans desire significant limits on abortion. The Harris/Walz platform – supporting abortion at any stage, even after a baby can feel pain and survive outside the womb, for any reason, and at taxpayers’ expense – is simply too extreme. The American people have shown they will not stand for this,” Ms. Mancini said in a written statement shared with Inside the Beltway.

“We are also grateful to see a strong pro-life majority elected to the Senate, and a positive outlook in the House of Representatives. The next Congress now has a mandate to protect our tiniest citizens and to work toward a culture of life that values every human being. We look forward to working with these elected officials to protect our most vulnerable and ensure that all mothers are supported,” Ms. Mancini added.

“When President Trump assumes office in January, we urge him to swiftly undo the disastrously radical pro-abortion policies of the Biden-Harris Administration and take bold and courageous steps to further protect our country’s most vulnerable,” she said.

The 2025 March for Life in the nation’s capital is Jan. 24. Find information at marchforlife.org.

THE GRUDGING MEDIA

The reelection of Donald Trump was subject to much interpretation in the news media in the day after his victory Tuesday. Here are a few of the many headlines that emerged in the aftermath.

“Donald Trump’s revenge” (The New Yorker); “Donald Trump has won — and American democracy is now in grave danger” (Vox); “Donald Trump wins big and fast” (The Economist); “What does Trump’s 2024 election win mean for global markets?” (Reuters); “Trump wins the White House is political comeback rooted in appeals to frustrated voters” (The Associated Press); “Trump win leaves Russia jubilant and Europe putting on a brave face” (The Washington Post); “We need to be ready for a new world: Scientists globally react to Trump election” (Nature); and “The real reason Harris and the Democrats lost to Trump” (The New York Times).

FOXIFIED

In the week of Oct. 28-Nov. 3, Fox News led the cable competition in prime-time and daytime viewing hours, according to Nielsen Media Research, drawing an average audience of 2.7 million viewers in prime time and 1.7 million viewers throughout the day.

“The Five” was the most popular program of all, earning an average daily audience of 3.8 million viewers, followed by “Jesse Watters Primetime” (3.5 million viewers), “The Ingraham Angle” (3 million), and “Hannity” (2.9 million).

Late-night host Greg Gutfeld continues to best the network competition with an average daily audience of 3 million viewers, compared with “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” on CBS (2 million), ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” (1.6 million) and NBC’s “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” (1.1 million).

Daytime programming on Fox also scored, most notably “Outnumbered” (2.2 million viewers), “The Faulkner Focus” (2.1 million) and “America’s Newsroom With Dana Perino and Bill Hemmer” (1.9 million).

A NOTEWORTHY RECAP

Donald Trump’s election victory was declared in the early hours of Wednesday. That moment continues to interest and energize many observers. Here’s one of them.

“Wow. Wow. The Red Wave arrived, two years behind schedule,” writes Jim Geraghty, a National Review columnist.

“You know who’s really hurting this morning? The Grover Cleveland fanbase. Not quite so special anymore. Donald Trump is the same man he was yesterday — same flaws, same obsessions, same temperament. But for today, conservatives can salute him as the man who dealt the Democrats the single most painful butt-kicking since George H. W. Bush beat Michael Dukakis in 1988,” Mr. Geraghty said in a column published Wednesday.

“Yes, Trump’s victory in 2016 was more surprising, and Democratic overconfidence was comparable to the Bush victories of 2000 and 2004. But Democrats will be having PTSD about Election Night 2024 for years to come,” he said.

“The mainstream media’s coverage of American politics is often so indistinguishable from cheerleading for the Democratic Party that Democrats never actually have a good, reliable, realistic sense of how they’re doing,” Mr. Geraghty said.

“Democrats believed that progressivism was still popular — and the traditional midterm backlash of 2018 convinced them that Trump had proven to be so unpopular, they could move as far to the left as they wanted, and the electorate would still always pick them over Trump and his MAGA candidates. They thought wrong,” he later wrote.

‘Progressivism, liberalism, woke-ism — they will never be the same. They won’t wither away completely. But the Democrats just learned the hardest of hard lessons: The electorate — not just straight white males — doesn’t want their brand of deeply divisive identity politics, deliberate conflation of legal immigration and illegal immigration, policies that reflexively recommend and enact permanent bodily changes for teenagers questioning their gender identity, and basically the entire agenda of the 2019 Kamala Harris presidential campaign,” Mr. Geraghty said.

POLL DU JOUR

• 64% of U.S. adults say there is more crime in the U.S. now than there was in the past.

• 90% of Republicans, 67% of independents and 29% of Democrats agree; 64% of men and 64% of women also agree.

• 4% say there is the same amount of crime now as there was in the past.

• 4% of Republicans, 3% of independents and 6% of Democrats agree; 4% of men and 4% of women also agree.

• 29% overall say there is less crime in the U.S. now than there was in the past.

• 5% of Republicans, 26% of independents and 60% of Democrats agree; 28% of men and 29% of women also agree.

• 4% are undecided about the issue.

• 1% of Republicans, 4% of independents and 6% of Democrats agree; 4% of men and 3% of women also agree.

SOURCE: A Gallup Poll of 1,023 U.S. adults conducted by phone Oct. 1-12 and released Oct. 29.

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