After the election, Newsmax no longer had to keep up the paper-thin pretense that all the pro-Trump and anti-Harris content it published beforehand did not constitute a corporate endorsement of Trump — given that Christopher Ruddy founded Newsmax to be a loyal right-wing shill, that claim was never believable. The first order of business on election night, of course, was to pat itself on the back. Solange Reyner wrote:
Newsmax projected Donald Trump the winner of the presidency, the first network to do so.
Newsmax made the projection at 1:23 a.m. ET, beating all major news networks.
The projection came minutes after Newsmax called the state of Pennsylvania for Trump.
The Pennsylvania win gave him the magic 270 electoral votes, making him the 47th President of the United States.
From there, it was Trump-fluffing and liberal-bashing:
- Trump Declares Victory: ‘God Spared My Life for a Reason’
- Campaign Official: Harris Will Not Address Supporters
- Hungary PM Orban Predicts ‘Beautiful Victory’ for Trump
- Trump 1st Republican in 20 Years to Win Popular Vote
- Matt Schlapp to Newsmax: Trump Popular Vote Win ‘Amazing Development’
- Wall Street Celebrates Trump’s Return to White House
A couple of Newsmax columnists had some biased insta-analysis to share, this time without the ridiculous “editor’s note” about it serving as a Newsmax endorsement of Trump. MIchael Dorstewitz wrote:
After all the counting was done, the decider of yesterday’s presidential election came down to which candidate instilled the most enthusiasm in the electorate, the most confidence in the future — former, now newly re-elected President Donald Trump, or Vice President Kamala Harris.
Accordingly, Trump handily won the Electoral College and will more-than-likely win the popular vote — possibly even by a landslide — in what has been described as the greatest political comeback in American history.
[…]We’ve experienced four years under Trump, and nearly four years under Biden-Harris, and the differences are stark. To mention just a few issues:
- Under Trump inflation was minor; under Biden-Harris the cost of everything has skyrocketed — fuel, groceries, housing — everything.
- Under Trump U.S. borders were reasonably secure; under Biden-Harris they’re open to bad actors that include rapists, murderers, and terrorists from nearly every country.
- Under Trump the world was safe, and the Abraham Accords kept Israel at peace; under Biden-Harris we have war in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, and China is saber-rattling in the Far East.
- Under Trump women were safe in their restrooms, locker rooms and in athletics; under Biden-Harris girls and women are denied their safe, private places, and they’re forced to compete against biological males in sports.
Given their records, which candidate instilled confidence among voters?
Which candidate promoted enthusiasm?
Ralph Benko wrote later that day:
An even bigger story than Donald Trump’s 2024 reelection: The right is (mostly) winning the war for the hearts and minds of the American people.
Few conservatives have noticed.
Last Sunday, the (center) left’s flagship newspaper, The New York Times, raised the white flag of surrender in the most valuable piece of media real estate in the world: The New York Times, Sunday edition, page 1, above the fold.
[…]We have not yet won the war. The left, however, admits that it is losing battle after battle.
Benko then claimed: “One of the strangest phenomena of our era is the failure of the right, today, to celebrate our victories. That used to be different.” His first example of that was the Japanese surrender at the end of World War II — which was an American victory, not just “the right.”