security detail's outside watching to see if the motorcade arrives from mar-a-lago. i did get a video from someone at the mar-a-lago party a short while ago, and folks there were jubilant and cheering and clapping. they had fox news on the screen, they were watching as we were calling states and more races for the former president. the excitement here is climbing every minute, and people here are anxiously awaiting to see if the former president shows up here tonight and perhaps gives a victory speech. back to you. bret: aishah, thanks. martha: thank you very much. head back there if the former president trump is about to take the stand and speak there. so we're going to keep a close eye on that. 1 a.m. in new york. polls have just closed in alaska. the fox news decision desk says it is too a early to call. trump has a lead in our fox news voter analysis, so we will get

you back to alaska when we have a little more data to report there. bret: and there you see, 248-216, the electoral college map. we are waiting on the blue wall which could be a red wall. you just heard from darren shaw, and i think that data and the way he laid it out there and their decision making really kind of lifts the curtain to how these guys operate based on our fox news voter analysis which, again, was to 120,000 voters that a rolling poll and then the raw vote total that they came in. alex hoff is in pennsylvania. we'll check in on the ground there. alexandria. >> reporter: hey, good to be with you. yeah, the crowd here in bucks county, they are excited by some trends they are seeing, not necessarily expecting the results tonight, pennsylvania's result. the count is historically slow, it took four days in 2020, but the commonwealth secretary because believe it's going to be faster this time. new technology, more training

will come into all of this. now, looking at philadelphia, both the trump and the harris campaigns saying they're outperforming, but team trump feels this could be good news for them because there are pockets of support inside of south philadelphia, northeast philadelphia, and there is a saying that goes that republicans can gauge how well they are doing in the state by how much they are losing philadelphia by. simply if it i cuts into the margin that democrats need here in bucks county. heir seeing themselves on the screen right now. it means a lot. if he were to win county, bucks county, that would be the first time a republican presidential candidate has taken this county since 1988, and these suburbs of philadelphia, this is what pushed biden over the edge in 2020. harris needs to do well in these counties if she stands to have a chance of taking this state, guys. bret: alex, thanks. martha: thank you. so let's go to bill and see -- or what are you cooking up over there, or bill?

>> i was just looking at new york. we heard so much about msg and the comic, the puerto rican joke? trump, you know, new york's his home, right? now living many florida, mar-a-lago, but just look at this. i'm going to go ahead and use the slide bar, and okay, eight years ago when he was running against hillary clinton,-the his margin in new york, all right? 37.5 compared to almost 59 for hillary clinton and then existence joe biden it was or, what, oh, my gosh, it was -- [laughter] it was three-tenths of a point, all right? and now we come to 2020 the and see the numbers on the board here. that's a pretty decent performance. and we're just getting some insight on new york city. he did well over 40% of the vote here in new york as well. one thing i was checking out here, guys, this is the number, right? if the path to 270. i guess in theory right now if he were to close out, you know, you're at 248, if he were to close out pennsylvania and even

though alaska has rank choice voting, which could take a while the to post the number here, nonetheless, that would put him right at the number of 2700. even around the blue wall, that's possible. that goes back to the argument that we've been talking about for some time now that trump had more paths to the oval office than harris did. let's go check on pennsylvania one more time here, and we'll -- see, okay, holding steady the at 3.5. 90% of the estimated vote out there. not reporting here. in michigan, you know, the blue wall, 6.3, so that number is stuck a little bit here. estimated maybe 40 percent of the vote still missing there in michigan. and wisconsin, you know, maybe we get some more numbers in. 85% of the vote in here and, you know, trump's holding on to this 4.22 advantage in wisconsin. and wisconsin, they take a lot of pride in what they do, they want the get the vote out

quickly. maybe milwaukee notwithstanding, but the rest are of the state, that's their idea. so we could get that in maybe a little more as we go into, what,2 a.m., are we going until 2 a.m. or 3? what are we doing here. >>? the. [laughter] arizona -- what's that? bret: just keep going. >> okay, you got it. this is nevada. so we're starting to get our first numbers in from nevada. for any of the nerds and geeks out there deep in the weeds about the early voting, you been watching nevada. and nevada's been a pretty good marker there for republicans. this is a quick count here now saying 75% of the vote is in, and trump's got a firm lead at 3.4 points, roughly just a tad under 35,000 votes. clark county, las vegas, 70% of the votes in the silver state here all come from nevada. let's see what's happening right now, okay? harris, just a tick over 50.2 with 80%. i want to go comparison sake eight years ago. why not, right? in nevada, i don't know what this number is, or we'll find

out together, okay? so hillary clinton did 2 points better than kamala harris, and joe biden, okay, did even better, you know? 3.5 over what kamala harris is putting up right now. so it appears, it appears if you're in the trump camp, that's a pretty good number right now, just shy of 51% in nevada if early on. here's karl rove's favorite place in the world, right, karl? right now a point -- it's close, right? .22 points. you know, what happened with biden? was it close? yeah, pretty close. but biden won the county. so in all likelihood, trump's got a chance to flip this if it holds up right now. super slim and more votes to come in, but nevada is looking good too. now you start to wonder, you know, how high does this number go on the electoral college? bret: yeah. new york times' needle is greater at a 9995% and likely te

popular vote. let's go out to vegas. jeff paul is live in las vegas. jeff, what's happening? >> reporter: well, a lot of excitement here and optimism at the sam brown watch party. he is, of course, the republican candidate trying to unseat the democratic incumbent senator, jackie rosen. and just a few moments ago when bill was talking about nevada, you heard a lot of cheers here from the crowd at the sam brown watch party just knowing some of those initial numbers. it took nearly three hours the final finally get some of those numbers. we're hoping to get another batch in theing hours, but nevada has an interesting law where with you can vote is right up until the 7:00 hour, and if you're in line, they'll let you vote. and in order to release those results, they wait until the very last person in line votes. that person, it took two hours and 48 minutes, so still a very long night ahead of us. for the folks here at the sam

brown watch party, a lot of optimism in the air. bret: all right. jeff paul in las vegas, thanks. martha: so our panel is still with us, and we have some new folks that are here as well. kevin mccarthy is joining us, karl rove is back, juan williams is here. great to have all of you with us. kevin mccarthy, let me start with you. give us an update on what you -- your overall take on the night so far and maybe drill down on some of what you're seeing in these house situations as well. >> the senate, republicans did an extraordinary job. they surpassed all a expectations. president trump is on his way. and i think president trump is going to help the republicans hold the house, but it's going to be very narrow, maybe even narrower than we have now. bret: but with you think they can do it. >> yeah. it may be exactly the same or maybe smaller. look at the two seats, watch pennsylvania 7 and 8. i think we're going to pick those both up. you said north carolina 1. we're probably going to lose that by 1 point.

did an extraordinary job is. then you look at maine, we're ahead there. but we have some encouple bent withs that have fallen -- incumbents who have fallen in new york. but don't read the california numbers yet because it's just the first part coming in. we're going to have to wait some time to see. arizona, we have got a couple of incumbents in trouble. bacon's coming back in omaha. if we hold the house, the credit goes to president trump. but it also fundamentally means something different. you can do reconciliation when it comes the tax reform. so you don't need 6 600 votes -- 600 votes in the senate. -- 60 votes. he's going to get the cabinet that he wants. the other thing that's going to the happen is you're not going to have a hakeem jeffries who's going to try to impeach him. so america's going to to see the ability to govern. and if republicans take this moment in time to not play games and focus on the issues, they can grow it the next time. otherwise it's going to be very competitive. breath if breath but, juan

williams, if it's as big as we think it could be with -- we obviously haven't made those calls, but the pathway for her to win is getting narrower -- is it not a mandate? and hakeem jeffries and the thought of impeaching with what we're seeing tonight seems like wouldn't be the right move. >> well, i think the democrats are -- well, disspiritted at this moment, and i think that the likelihood, as we pointed out, is that trump will be the president. and i think that, for me, talking to people like darren and political professionals that, no one anticipated the size of this mandate, as you call it. i think that there is even recriminations now among democrats as to biden and whether biden should have dropped out earlier or biden should have stayed. would a white male have done better? obviously, trump has defeated two women and now a black woman.

so there's all these questions. but the to my mind, it seems to me incredible that a guy who led an insurrection existence the united states government is going -- potentially now, you know, like a phoenix going back into the oval office. it's unbelievable. bret: brit? >> well, you have to consider the fact, juan, that a lot of people didn't think that was an insurrection. they a thought it was a riot, but not an insurrection. had they thought it was really an insurrection, i don't think he could have won. exaggerations about that day -- >> i don't know. i'm not exaggerating. >> -- the alleged threat to democracy is peace -- a piece of what happened. >> again, i'm giving you my perspective -- >> and i'm giving you mine. >> right. and i listen to you as my friend. [laughter] but what i saw was not only a riot in terms of the violence, but a correct action intended to stop certification of a presidential election -- bret: understood. and we've talked a lot about it finish. >> that's why i said that. clearly, i'm not trying to hype

anything. bret: the campaign ran a lot of ads about it, talked a lot about it and half the country now, juan, is going the say that is not what i care about. i care about my economy. i care about immigration -- >> now, see, that's where we differ. i'm not sold on this idea that, oh, it was the cost of eggs. i worry that it wassing, oh, i'm not voting for this woman. bret: no, that's not what we see in our data. >> well, here's the thing, where do you see that? a moment ago darren was out here and he said, in fact, not only did the bro strategy work9 and the bro strategy largely worked along lines of white men, but that the bro strategy the also had some impact in terms of latino and black men who came along and gave higher -- bret: all right, karl, weigh in. martha: i just want to make one more point. i spoke to jack brewer this week, and here's what he said if trump wins. he said he won because black men felt that democrats and elites

put immigrants before us. your thoughts on that. >> i just think that that's possible. i don't know that for a fact. i think there are tensions between racial groups, and people might feel that. obviously, there are going to -- you can exploit and exacerbate those tensions to the point where you can politically benefit from it. to do i think that's reason -- do i think that's the reason he won? no. i think the reason he won is you looked at that a bro strategy and the white male turnout and white grievance politics that he has used to great success in this country -- bret: karl -- >> i think he's trailing among, trailing his prior 2020 the numbers with whites. enter well, or you know what? i think that the bro -- >> hispanics and black males. >> it's not sufficient the make up -- >> look, look, look, i just think it is extremely today to suggest that a black men are somehow prejudiced because they

vote for a white candidate who says i want to make certain that everybody has an opportunity to succeed in our great economy. i want you to be more process pows, and i will do things that will make it possible for you to make a better life. that is an appeal to their best instincts. he did not go out and say vote for me because i'm not a woman. he didn't say vote for me because i'm a white man. that would not have attracted hose votes. they thought he was a strong, effective leader, and they thought he would do something about the issues they care the most about which is an economy in which they think they get the short stick, inflation which has designate mated their purchasing power and illegal immigration which has affected their communities deeply. to suggest that somehow black men are race it because they supported a white man is just too far, juan. >> you're disor the toing my comments -- >> no, i -- >> wait, karl, happening on. bret: hold on, hold on. >> all right, hold on. we're not saying most black men

did not vote for donald trump. i never said anything like that. that's just not true -- >> you suggested it's only a quarter of black men. >> no. i'm saying to you that in terms of many bro -- this bro strategy for white males, the whole notion of i'med bad, i talk about men in the most disparaging way, there's some men when just said, you know what? i give in, i want to be in on that. i want to be a bad ass guy, and i think they like trump's image and the character -- >> i think they supported him in spite of that, not because of it. bret: harold ford jr., weigh in here. >> okay. i tend the agree with juan about january 6th. i'm surprised by the fact that the country got over that as quickly as as we seemingly did which speaks to the political comeback. i've said earlier i think that the fact that some of these issues around the economy and the border were not addressed more forthrightly, i think, had an impact. that being said, we're going to have some analysis around this and around whether or not the

driving up support amongst men, what was behind that, how did it work, did the gender gap with women work, did black women, white women, hispanic women, we'll saw an opportunity to dig into sham of those. but i don't interpret what juan is saying any more than that. bret: all right. more to talk about here. martha: there's a lot more coming up as election night moves on at 1:15 on the east coast. we continue to get more vote in. we will be able to make some calls when that vote is in in full. our coverage continues next. stay with us. ♪ ♪

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that. obviously, when he shows up there, we will take you there live. are. bret: well, these guys had two make america great hat -- more if march i saw that! breath breath as we look now at what we have, pennsylvania, is this call, ladies and gentlemen? we are now projecting that donald j. trump will win the state to of pennsylvania. former president donald j. trump will win the state of pennsylvania and thereby he is on his way to becoming the 47th president of the united states. if with this, the path for vice president harris has narrowed, and there's really no path going forward. it's vanished. this is historic. everything was about pennsylvania. everything from the beginning was about pennsylvania. now former president trump will win the state of pennsylvania,

and we can make that call, the 19 electoral votes. that puts him at 26 the 7 -- 267. not officially over the 270, but the path that it takes to get to 270, he is well on his way to becoming the 47th president of the united states if in what is going to be the biggest political phoenix prosecute ashes story -- from the ashes story that we have ever seen ever. i mean, i'm going to say it's more than grover cleveland -- >> 18ing 922. martha: i don't think -- grover cleveland was not the summit of a russia investigation, two the impeachments, two assassination if attempts, 99 1 indictments, convictions, and this is almost nothing that hasn't been thrown at this former president. and his tenacity in wanting to go back and roughen again

when -- run again which he announced immediately after he won in 2020, this is a huge, historic moment in the united states of america as the former president, trump, is closing in with just a few electoral votes away now from clinching 270 as pennsylvania is called for donald trump. bret: we're looking live, 1:211 a.m. in the morning at trump headquarters and the cheers coming up. we're told the former president is there as well as j.d. vance, senator j.d. vance. they are getting ready to hear from former president donald trump, again, at 26 the 7 not there yet -- 267, but looking at where the society is in wisconsin -- vote is in wisconsin, in michigan, in nevada and arizona, there is no path, brit hume, for vice president harris. and just 30,000 feet, what this means. >> well, i'm old enough to

remember when richard nixon was declared dead in 1962,, remember the famous speech you won't have nixon to kick around anymore. no one could imagine that he could have come back in 1968 and been elected president. that was a hell of a comeback. this, to my eye ors, was a man who was facing many more slings and arrows than nixon had been at that time. this surmounts that. this is an extraordinary comeback. bret: dana. >> he campaigned so energetically, ruthlessly, fiercely and with more joy than kamala harris. and it was so clear that joe biden was not going to be able to to go the distance. if joe biden were still on the ticket tonight, who knows what tonight missouri might have even looked like. that he has been able to accomplish this is nothing sort of -- short of astonishing. and also i think about susie whiles, his campaign manager, very quiet, does not like the

limelight. all of those people who worked so hard and is stuck by trump, they were called every name in the book including hitler and nazis, and they came through. the other thing that's on my mind is, you know, last night at her closing rally, oprah winfrey said that if donald trump is elected again, basically you can just write america off, like, america's just going the fall apart. that's obviously not true although i'll be surprised tomorrow if there's a big line at jfk of hollywood celebrities leaving the country as they said they were going to. this is the greatest country, and there will be so many opportunities for lots of deal making. i think president trump will be -- he has a huge to-to do list. biden and harris have left a mess. his to closing argument was she broke it, i fix it. and she talked about having a to-do list, he's got a big to-do list. but he thrives on it, and you saw that through the whole

campaign. martha: he is enthusiastic, i think, about doing the job of being president, harold, and it is just an absolutely remarkablu wrote this as a movie script, people would say -- >> never happen. martha: concern this would never happen in the united states of america. >> i've said this before, he's the single greatest political athlete i've ever seen, and tonight he proved why. there were moments in the campaign where i thought he would -- he said and did some things that i didn't quite understand, that i thought maybe detracted from that. but tonight obviously proves that. two, he also a ran a traditionah voters on issues. he talked about the things that mattered most to voters. democrats said he didn't talk about them in the most full-throated or wholesome way, the most comprehensive way, but he connected with voters. i would urge my party tonight if, indeed, i think he's almost at 270. we'll declare it here shortly once alaska comes in, don't write off the american people. let us not be critical of people

of voting for president trump. he did something we didn't do in this campaign. mr. wonderful said it earlier, it may give us an opportunity as a party to revamp and perhaps we should think about that. don't write off the people, the american people, percent decision they made this evening -- for the decision they made this evening. bret: charlie hurt, he will be the 47th president of the united states after everything that we saw in this election. it's hard to understand how some in the mainstream media a are going to take this, because it was so over the top one way that they thought it was done. there was a landslide prediction from a lot in the media that she was going to have the landslide. it looks like he's going to have the landslide tonight. >> yeah. it's truly, truly remarkable. you know, the revolution rolls on. and this is not just, you know, a victory for the white house tonight, but also, you know,

this is the end of the old republican party. which, of course, donald trump took on -- that was the first thing that he did, the very first thing that he did in 20 the saw was take on the old republican party. he has completely reshaped it. the republican party is no longer, you know, doesn't stand for a lot of things that it stood for before. he has made it a far more middle class, working class, a far more practical party, a far -- i think probably a far more durable party. and he's figured out how to win with that. and you can't help but think that with this victory, in four years from now he's going to have the mantel that he can hand to the next republican. so i don't know how republicans ever go back to the old party that they were. but it is truly extraordinary, and it is all by the for the of one guy, one man who had the fortitude, the strength, the vision, the refusal to accept

anything, you know, all of the experts counting him out, and he just kept on -- >> charlie, it would have been one thing for him to come back from a single defeat to be elected again. >> yeah. >> but when you think about it, he came back from a series of them. his party lost mt. mud term -- in the midterm -- >> 2018. >> they lost in 2018, they lost the presidential election in 2020, and they had a major disappointment in 2022 which one might have thought after all that that the party wouldn't turn the him again. and yet, you know, in the face of that plus all the things martha enumerated, the the indictments, all the trouble, for him to come back is really quite -- >> and think about how ox toic he was after -- toxic he was after a, say, january 6th. and then you're looking at races now in states where donald trump very well may drag republicans, and he's overperforming in a lot of places fellow republicans.

martha: you know, it really doee parallels to to 1980, mark penn, when you look at jimmy carter. we had hostages in iran, we have hostages in gaza right now, very high inflation and a malaise in many ways in the country that the i think these people who have been called a lot of names have had enough of. your, what is your impression of what this means tonight? >> well, i think this means a lot to a lot of people. i think the working class are looking for a renewal of american jobs. i think people are looking for a border that is sane and an immigration system that works. i think a lot of people over in the middle east are looking for iran to pull back in the face of a president whom they fear. and, you know, i think it's going to be incumbent on the democratic people to understand that the people have spoken and to dissemble and dismantle this lawfare system that they have built up here which is going to raise a whole series of

questions that are going to have to banswered now. but they can ott not say that they are better -- cannot say that they are better than donald trump and recreate a system that does not recognize that he won. the people have spoken, and he is going to be the 47th president. bret: we haven't talked about foreign policy a lot, but imagine the saudis, you know, making a normalization deal with israel in the face of a new president here -- >> i'm going there tomorrow night. bret: imagine a ukraine deal. kevin o'leary, what is, what is the market going to do? >> they're going to love this. what's happened here is the system self-corrected. when you try and break the american model, it picks itself. fixes itself. and i think people should give credit within the democratic party, donald trump saved them tonight too because they're going to have to take a spatula to these policies and bring it back to the center over the next puryears. and in -- four years. and in a way, reset. we a talked about this earlier,

but he saved entrepreneurship. he saved the entire model of the s&p 500 because taxing 20% higher was a really bad idea, and it self-corrected. capital, and this is why i'm gettingen a plane tomorrow, i intentionally didn't leave until tomorrow night so i could go to yes peeve ya, abu dab abu dhabi,ly yacht and say it's321 corporate taxes, 100% not going to change. that is very important for people like me that bring capital back to this country. it fixed itself. it fixed s itself. and i think that's why america works. it has worked for 200 years. when it gets too crazy, it fixes itself. and whether you love trump or you hate him, every democrat owes him a thank you very much, mr. president. bret: by the way, as the markets were moving, bitcoin went up exponentially. >> yes. i'm long bitcoin. bret: are you?

martha: good for you. speaking of bitcoin. i'm also struck by just calling pennsylvania here, dana, trump embraced elon musk in an enormous way. a lot of people, a lot of stories were written that said he was going to blow it in pennsylvania, that his -- the people who were working on his outreach teams didn't know what they were doing. he's going to -- >> a lot of criticism. remember the million dollar giveaway for registered voters. salena zito, somebody who we've had on the show many times and she knows that area very well, she said the people of that region love somebody who can, is a big think ther, who wants to -- thinker, who wants to create jobs, who is looking into the future and they can get behind that. and they love somebody who can really lead. and leadership takes courage. and you have to be willing to make decisions where you are going to be criticized. i think this is one of the problems that kamala harris has always had. she doesn't want the take a

position on anything. we haven't even talked about how in california the law to basically make shoplifting illegal again -- bret: prop. 36. >> -- passed overwhelmingly, and gascon, our friend, d.a. in los angeles, lost by 222 votes. -- 22 vets -- votes. 22 points, thank you. she wouldn't even take a position on that. 75% of the people in california wanted it gone, and you can't take a position to be with them? bret: not only that, you were part of prop 47 which changed the law the other way when you were many office. >> right. so not wanting to take a position and not willing to be criticized is a problem if you want to be a leader at that a level. >> she had that affliction in 200. why didn't her own party say you're not the right candidate. i mean, run a process -- >> well, they did. they ran her out of town before any votes were cast in 2019 -- >> the same problem she had here

hit her in '24. >> she's the same person. >> it's not all her fault. they put her in a race that she, well, we now know couldn't win. >> in fairness to democrats, i realized we shouldn't be taxing unrealized capital gains, but we produce more oil, more therapeutics over the past three years, so i hear you. democrats are not wad for the economy. some things that she proposed that i'm with you on. but, look, we're a great country, and we're going to continue to be great. i trust and hope and believe that -- >> your party will be great again. you can thank donald trump for that. >> no, but he inherited an economy also that was in pretty good shape. i don't want to quarrel about that. going forward, i agree with you, i want the the country to be great, and i hope that both of the parties can work together, and i salute president trump tonight, what a great win. i agree in this regard, my party's got to are reimagine and re-- >> your party needs work. bret: listen, i wrote about this, the unity and past presidents and past losers and winners and what they said.

this is a big speech, brit, for former president trump as he gets ready to deliver this in front of a crowd, he's obviously taken the slings and arrow es and everything that's been said, the fascism, all of the things we've talked about tonight. but this moment is actually a moment to reach out. >> it's an opportunity if he chooses to do that, but it's also 1:30 in the morning, so you've got to wonder how many people are around to hear -- bret: to oh, they're there -- martha: a lot of people are still up. >> the question is, how much of the national tv audience. bret: i bet they're still in. martha: i think back to the moment in iowa, and we asked him about all of this revenge stuff and that he was going to want retribution, and this is what everyone heard. and there were times when he had language that matched that, but he said he wanted success to be his revenge. and that he wanted a successful america. and i would imagine that we're going to the hear something

along those lines tonight, but we'll see. >> bret, you quoted one of those great old republican presidentses, h.w. bush, who said a campaign is a disagreement, and an election is the decision. and decisions clear the way for harmony and peace. you know -- bret: listen, there are a lot of thanksgiving tables that people are still going the hard feelings after this election, more than any other election -- >> i have one of them. [laughter] bret: passing the brussel sprouts is not going to be as easy at thanksgiving dinner, but this is a chance to move if forward, brit. go ahead. >> one thing that can happen here and happened to biden, in my view, we had every reason to believe he would be sort of moderate, deal-making guy that he was when he was in the senate. yes, he's always followed sort of the drift of his party, but he worked across the aisle. we thought that would probably be the kind of president he was, and then something happened. trump went to georgia and made a mess of those two senate races

down there, and democrats ended up with control of the to to which point old biden started getting sugar blums dancing in his head -- [laughter] and went after a very aggressiv- bret: there were articles about how he was going to be the next fdr. >> he was going to out- obama:, remember that? in my view, he would have been -- if the republican had maintained control of the senate, first thing that wouldn't have happened was all that wild inflation that led -- spending that led to a big part of inflation. and biden and the country would have been better off because of it. there's always a danger in overreading your mandate. one wonders if trump will be sober-minded about his. >> i think that happened to biden early on. he said he was going to be return to norms, and the historians said, no, you could be bigger than fd are r. fine, i'll spend all the money, it caused inflation, and they end up with this result. martha: he had said this looks like new president, trump, if he

gets to 270 -- bret: he will with alaska -- maria: yea -- martha: yes, exactly. has a moment to bring about the unity that people expected after the last election. of course, we would be kidding ourselves to think that there won't be a tremendous response to this, tremendous backlash in a lot of corners of the country. bret: so, listen, he's going to get there because alaska's going to be republican, but we're not done as far as calling states. there could be even more states that who go trump's way. this could be a massive landslide just by what we're looking at in the polls. fox news decision desk can now project vice president harris will win minnesota, and her running mate, tim walz, serves as the state's governor there. that takes it up to 26 the 7-226. but, again, donald j. trump will be 47th president of the united states. more democracy '24 special coverage next. ♪ ♪

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obviously, as soon as that gets under way. tbraid key trimble is in michigan, let's get a quick update just outside of detroit. hi, grady. >> reporter: yeah. people are getting a little bit fired here, but the call for pennsylvania was a jolt of electricity through this room at the michigan gop watch party, and the crowd started chanting usa, they started chanting trump, trump, trump as it now appears he will be the 47th president of the united states. now in addition to trump and the call for him in pennsylvania, they're also excited about the possibility that michigan could be the state that tips him over that magic 270 number. we're also a following a very close senate race here in michigan, and they're feeling very confident about that as well. republican candidate mike rogers looks like he could cruise to victory9 with the help of former president trump. democratic candidate elissa slot

kinks she went to out her crowd around 12:30 and it would them to to go home and go to sleep where here they extended this ballroom venue all through the night if they had to, and now it looks like the crowd is fired up as they await former president trump taking the stage. bret: okay, grady, thank you. it is really important to point out how big the coattails could be tonight. think about bear -- bernie moreno in ohio, dead in the water against sherrod brown, he wins. we have right now at this hour, as a grady mentioned, mike rogers in michigan is up. looks like he is getting closer. we haven't made a call there yet. hovde in wisconsin, leading right now. sam brown in nevada is closing in on jackie rosen. we're talking about historic numbers here if all of these dominoes fall. you're talking about a senate that could be 54-46, 55-45.

that wasn't in the cards. martha: not at all. bret: that wasn't on anybody's bingo card when you came into election night. martha: but these candidates have fought really strong races and closed in a a very strong way and, in fact, many of them were pulling into +5, +6 in just over the last three weeks, so it is a fascinating part of this story. hopefully, or we'll be able to call some more of those soon. bret: former house speaker kevin mccarthy says with these coattails, you could see the house going republican as well. let's go back out to trace gallagher on the west coast with his panel. hey, trace. >> thank you. we've got steve hilton, joad key armour, kaylee mcghee white and vi january know -- gianno caldwell. kayly mcgee white was struck by the concept that, again, trump was undercounted. >> this is the third condition sective polling miss in a

presidential cycle for donald trump. and we really need to be asking ourself to, why do they keep getting it wrong? at this point, it is a choice. back in 2016 you could argue that you were blind ceded, you -- blindsided, you didn't expect it. you cannot say that anymore. this was predictable from the very start, and i think the reason they keep getting it wrong is they still done understand the average trump vote vote -- voter. for a long time, for the past decade or so, democrats in power can't think they needed to, and even worse, they didn't want to. they didn't want to have to stoop down to understand the concerns over immigration, over the economy. and guess what? the american people sent a very clear message tonight that to you better start paying attention, and you better start paying attention soon. >> we heard a lot of words, demographic. i don't know how many times we heard it, steve hilton, but, gianno, you talk about black male voters, we heard it again and again tonight, and you think

it's worth talking about. >> i think this is a historic night. black men will now, those who voted for trump, will be counted as those who saved america from further decline. kamala harris has tried her best to create these accents that you better anchor, union member, all these things she's done, even going on open. a rah winfrey's talk show or whatever that was to say, oh, i'll pull out my gun and shoot someone that tries the to come into my house. it's become nonsensical to the point that i don't know if we're looking at madea runs for president or not. i mean, this is outstanding, what has happened from the if black male perspective, and i hope the republican party takes note. >> yeah. and you talk about young males and younger voters, jodi around her. you're a law professor at southern california. are you surprised when you see these voter analysis numbers, the young voters came out heavy for donald trump? >> yeah. well, young voters can sniff out a fraud. they can sniff out something who's chameleon-like, she

changes her position according to the prevailing winds. they didn't like that. many across the country, young students, said for me a red line also is mass atrocities, is collective punishment, is what i see going on in the middle east, and i see us as complicit in. they were saying, you know, i'm just not that enthusiastic. >> yeah. 15 seconds for you, steve. >> i just think when i see this unfold, trace, it is just a massive victim -- >> we've got to jump back. sorry, guys, we've got trump coming out. bret: trace, thank you. the fox news decision desk can now officially project that a donald trump will become the 47th president of the united states. martha: the former president's comeback will be complete with a win in wisconsin, a state that he narrowly lost four years ago. he is now the second president in u.s. history to win monoconsecutive terms, the first was grover cleveland in the late

1800s. senator j.d. vance will become the 50th vice president of the united states. voters expressed deep frustration with the with biden administration and former president trump and the future president trump overperformed in urban areas, particularly with men if proving that the strategy that they doubled and tripled down on over the course of the last few months absolutely succeeded and brought him back to the white house. bret: if 47th president of the united states, former president now defeats vice president kamala harris who entered this race just over 100 days ago. and for democrats, they were projecting the possibility of running the table with battleground states. david fluff must have -- david plouffe if with the harris campaign suggested that just yesterday. now it is possible that donald trump runs the table with these states and builds on a big, landslide electoral inwin.

we don't know where the popular vote is going to finish out, but we do know that he will be going back to the white house with and with him, brit hume, will be a lot of changes because he will have been there once and know what he wants to do. >> he often accounts for the fact that he had so much turn over by the fact that he didn't know washington and he was new to this realm that he had come to win presidency in. and he promises in that now he knows. new he knows whom he wants to hire, the kind of people he wants around him. a lot of people are saying that means a lot of experienced people will be ruled out, season and maybe they will. it's going to be interesting to see the kind of people he reaches out for in the days and weeks ahead as he builds his administration. bret: kayleigh mcenany, you've been a part of the last administration, you've seen all -- you can see the joy on all these people's faces.

think about the angst and the, you know, all this campaign has been through. and now there is the prospect of creating what you want to create in a second administration. your thoughts 30,000 feet of this win. >> indictments, two assassination attempts, an unlikely come from behind victory, and history is made tonight. this is a huge moment particularly because this is a tectonic shift of the republican party. if all of this exit polling is true, you now have black voters, latino voters, young voters coming in a way we haven't seen the party come in in a very long way, and that's due to former president, soon to be current president trump. and as we wait for him to come out, i remember having a conversation with ivanka trump in 202016 about his remarks -- 2016. before he went out, he had speech aspeech b. speech a was a more boisterous, trumpian speech p. speech b was full of unity, and he looked up,

ivanka said, saw the faces of crying hillary voters, he said he wanted to heal the nation, and the first words he said were in appreciation for hillary clinton, for her service to our country. and he said now it is time for america to bind the wounds of division. and he said we are a party of all races, creeds and religions. that is more true tonight than it was eight years ago, and i fully expect president trump right now is maybe ripping up that more boisterous speech and preparing to unite the country. bret: it's an amazing message. >> i hope kayleigh's right. we'll get to see here in a minute. trey gowdy said the other day one of the things you hope also they're a little more prepared this time. they've got a great transition team, and they're going to need it, and i hope there are a lot of people who want to be helpful. >> yeah. i think his transition team has done a wonderful job vetting potential candidates, and to kayleigh's point, i think a liberated donald trump -- he's never going to be on the ballot

again. this is his last term. harold, i think he will surprise his detractors. i think he will be not anything like what his detractor to haves have described him now that he has been liberated. if i'm wrong, you can hold me to that. >> i hope you're right. >> i think he's going to shock his detractors. martha: he has said the assassination attempts had an impact on him. we saw him in many ways return to the very rough and tumble style that we've seen in donald trump towards the end of this, but now he will take the stage tonight as the next president of the united states. and he will not be able to run again. >> yeah. martha: and i think that is another liberating factor potentially for president trump. katie? >> never underestimate the power of unfinished business. this is a president who has caught light anyone in a bottle -- lightning in a bottle twice, and he now has a maga mandate. he'll have a senate that he can use to push through his cabinet

appointees who can work with him on legislation, who can potentially replace a number of justices on the supreme court -- martha: he can build a wall. [laughter] >> he can build a wall. he has a working group in washington d.c. we'll see what happens with the house, but with he's been working very hard on his transition. he talks about the lessons he learned the first time in the white house, so this is a mandate tonight for him. and i think he should get a lot of credit for doing the work on the ground going to these states to pull these senate candidates across the line with him. bret: brit, what do you think the analysis is going to be? there's going to be a lot of time to digest all of in this. of we'll focus now on what the president, incoming president is going to say. what do you think the analysis is going to be on the democratic party and what went wrong there? >> i think it's going to be agonizing. i think it's going to take a little while for consensus to form about what the party needs to do next, what it did wrong

this time. and it'll be grudging at first. one can certainly imagine, you know, if the party were smart and shrewd political voices were heeded that there'd be some major changes in the agenda, in their approach. and you to think of the issue sets that they've tried to run on against this man that failed, they need to reconsider all of that. i think it'll take a while. now, our colle and friend mark halperin if who's been very astute this particular cycle, he thinks there's going to be blood in the streets and people are going to be hysterical. i hope not. but it could happen. bret: dana? >> i am really looking forward to reading some of the stories probably with a lot of anonymous sources amongst democrats with the recriminations, and it's going to be and furious. and you will have people saying

joe biden should have dropped out -- not dropped out, but saying he was not running for re-election and either endorsed her or said let there be a primary. and dr. jill biden, there will be thoughts about her. and i wonder how chilly that white house is going to be for the next 90 days as they try to figure it out. bret: and let me just say that as vice president of the united states, kamala harris will certify the election results on january 6th. martha: a lot of irony in that moment. harold, your thoughts. >> this is how our country is organized. it's a great education, i think, for people who have very high as passions in this race. there are democrats who were fervently for joe biden. he performed poorly during the debate, and the party switched to kamala harris. there was genuine excitement, i think, built over a period of time. and some of that excitement was an aversion, almost a dislike and a disdain for donald trump.

but i hope it's a moment that we can all a grow from, because if we don't, in a selfish, partisan way, democrats won't progress, and i don't think you can fly and soar as a great country unless you have both wings working out. and president trump tonight, i'm going to be interested in that tone, kayleigh. i was reminded of your words, reminded of what you said as you shared it. i remembered that story. i hope and pray for the country tonight that president trump, when has every right to be joyful, every right to celebrate, will give a speech with that tone tonight that in many ways could help him do all the things -- >> what does this mean for the never trumpers? and the lincoln project people and bill kristol and people like that who seem to abandon everything they previously believed in order to oppose trump?

bret: kellyanne? [laughter] >> we'll get to the never trumpers, soon enough and the hundreds of millions of collars wasted on them. donald trump won this on policy and personality. he is talking about energy independence, manufacturing, an economy where everybody is working, no new foreign wars, getting out of the entang thingments we currently have, respecting and resourcing law enforcement, border patrol,, military. and, by way, friends, we don't get those policies without that personality. what did we hear during the republican primaries? i want donald trump's policies put his personally. good luck with that. you don't get this strength and resolve and toughness. you don't get those policies without that. i want to say this. it's on this phone that huma abedin placed a call 2:30 on november 9th 2016, and on the other line was secretary clinton to concede the race to the donald trump. i handed it to to him, and i said to vice president mike

pence, make sure hillary actually concedes. she kid. president trump was grateful the them ooh too they came to a lunch at the capitol, the obamas and the clintons were there, i saw it myself, and the washington post said let's impeach him at noon. melania wrote about this in her book. harold, i hear you. aye got to tell you, hi if friend, i think it starts with your party and not mine. >> fair enough. >> they had this guy in a courtroom. he's not an indoor cat, i get it. they had him in the courtroom. they had him impeached. they had him -- and whether people think that was justified or not, now is a good time to respect the will of the people. the will of the people. >> i agree. i'm just saying be a gracious winner -- >> he is. >> that was my only point -- >> i heard a gracious winner today when i talked to the him. he's known for a while, i wrote a piece saying he's going to have a narrow landslide. i think he's felt that for a

while, but he wanted to go and earn it. >> and i think the people around him have to be gracious too -- >> well, that's different -- [laughter] that's a different question. bret: well, we can always hope. once more, i just want to say how much money was spent on this election, $15.9 billion with a b. >> wow. bret: if you spent $22,000 a day for -- it was 16 times what has been spent on every race, the presidency, the whole deal. $16 billion. and here we are. >> what is that, a check you can write to for -- >> bret: about $50. [laughter] martha: every presidential race has a medium. you know, you go back to television, cable. >> yeah. martha: this was in some ways a podcast experience of a campaign. and those are free to go on podcasts, and and you wonder how much of that money really needed to be spent when there's a lot of ways to reach people.

but i think it's really interesting and something we'll be talking about a lot in terms of the reach of these endorse -- bret: i'm struck by the final, the final ads where he -- martha: they were excellent. bret: -- they talked about ending with the assassination attempt in having fist in the air, the iconic image in the fight, fight, fight and it worked. >> toughest son of a gun i ever saw. whatever you think of the guy, you have to admire that. the adversity he has faced in everything we have seen in other presidencies and political figures going through all kinds of trouble. they pale in comparison to what he has been through. maybe it is time for his enemies to stop it. >> the energy he has is truly amazing. he is the energize