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November 7, 2024

Thursday Short Cuts

Notable quotables from the AP, Joe Scarborough, Sunny Hostin, Victor Davis Hanson, and more.

Non Compos Mentis

“[Donald Trump’s] victory validates his bare-knuckles approach to politics. He attacked his Democratic rival, Kamala Harris, in deeply personal — often misogynistic and racist — terms as he pushed an apocalyptic picture of a country overrun by violent migrants. The coarse rhetoric, paired with an image of hypermasculinity, resonated with angry voters — particularly men — in a deeply polarized nation.” —Associated Press

“Democrats need to be mature, and they need to be honest. And they need to say, ‘Yes, there is misogyny.’ But it’s not just misogyny from white men. It’s misogyny from Hispanic men. It’s misogyny from black men … who do not want a woman leading them. Might be race issues with Hispanics — they don’t want a black woman as president of the United States.” —MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough

“It had nothing to do with policy. I think this was a referendum of cultural resentment in this country.” —"The View" co-host Sunny Hostin

“[Kamala Harris] ran a flawless campaign.” —Sunny Hostin

The BIG Lies

“I’m profoundly disturbed that the 14th Amendment of the Constitution did not prevent someone who participated in an insurrection from becoming president of the United States.” —Sunny Hostin

“I remember my father telling me many, many years ago that I was the first person in his family to enjoy full civil rights. And now I have less civil rights than I had when he told me that.” —Sunny Hostin

“We know now that [Trump] will have almost unfettered power.” —Sunny Hostin

“The president of the United States has nothing to do with the price of bacon or eggs or any of it.” —CBS News’s Margaret Brennan

Belly Laugh of the Day

“I want to end by thanking Joe Biden for having given us four years of decency, a moral compass, legislative accomplishments that help Americans, and having gotten us out of COVID.” —"The View" co-host Ana Navarro

A Blind Squirrel Finds a Nut

“It’s time for us to just be honest. This version of the Democratic Party is arrogant and patronizing, taking minority voters for granted and treating them like children. Well, maybe minority voters aren’t into that.” —Washington Post columnist Shadi Hamid

For the Record

“The left … does not know whether to blame Joe [Biden] for not getting out earlier, or to claim their July coup was now a mistake and they would have been better off with a candidate cognitively challenged by dementia rather than one by innate inability.” —Victor Davis Hanson

“Kamala Harris and her party sought to re-shape American institutions in ways the public rejected. In fact, her decision to say little about policy (other than abortion) made her the stealth candidate. People want to know what a president stands for and where he (or she) plans to lead the country. Harris failed to articulate that message. Trump did.” —Cal Thomas

“[Democrats] seemed to think that Americans wouldn’t mind that they had pretended Joe Biden was ‘sharp as a tack,’ that they actually orchestrated a behind-the-scenes switcheroo, that the party that portrayed itself as the nation’s answer to fascism nominated its standard-bearer without consulting a single voter.” —Peter Savodnik

“Democrats will blame everyone and everything — except themselves who sought to drive down the American people’s throat the most radical and absurd agenda of the last two centuries that ruined the economy, exploded our border, made moonscapes of our big cities, destroyed women’s sports, set the world abroad afire, weaponized the courts and the bureaucracies, and sought to tear the country in two.” —Victor Davis Hanson

“Democrats know — but will do nothing about the fact — they have become the party of the upscale professionals and rich, and the subsidized poor. They have alienated the entire middle class — white, black, Hispanic — and ceding it to the new Republican populist-nationalist party.” —Victor Davis Hanson

“I’m interpreting the results tonight as the revenge of just the regular old working-class American, the anonymous American who has been crushed, insulted, condescended to. They’re not garbage. They’re not Nazis. They’re just regular people who get up and go to work every day and are trying to make a better life for their kids, and they feel like they have been told to just shut up when they have complained about the things that are hurting them in their own lives.” —CNN political commentator Scott Jennings

“Leftists had best understand that no amount of entertainment elitists are going to soothe the tribulations everyday Americans are facing.” —Allen West

“The polls — with the exception once again of AltasIntel, Trafalgar, and Rasmussen — were off, and way off in the Senate races. The pollsters’ reputation is again in full reverse and now back to their nadir of 2020 and 2016. Many shamelessly warped their data in the last two weeks to gin up Harris momentum, fund-raising, and voter turnout. And to no avail.” —Victor Davis Hanson

“Roughly ten minutes ago, the ‘end of the filibuster’ movement suddenly went silent. In the morning, the rights of the minority will suddenly become the cause célèbre of Washington. At the same time, the push to expand the Supreme Court fell silent as pundits and politicians embraced the nine-member court as sacrosanct.” —constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley

Upright

“The Trump-Vance team must build a solid team of constitutional conservatives who will immediately begin carrying out the policies to restore American economic, energy, national, domestic, border security, and foreign affairs.” —Allen West

And Last…

“Good news for Kamala supporters… They’ll finally be able to cite an accomplishment of hers… Certifying Trump’s re-election.” —Tim Young

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