might be the former president. we've got eyes outside. a security detail is 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 short while ago. folks are jubilant and cheering and clapping. they had fox news on the screen watching as we were calling states and more races the former president. the excitement is climbing every minute and people who are anxiously awaiting to see if the former president shows up here tonight. and perhaps gives a victory speech. back to you. >> martha: thank you very much. we'll head back there as former president trump is about to take the stand and speak there. we'll keep a close eye on that. 1:00 a.m. in new york. the polls have just closed in alaska.

the fox news decision desk says it is too early to call. trump has the lead in our fox news voter analysis, so we'll get you back to alaska when we have a little more data to report there. >> bret: 248-216, the electoral college map. we are waiting on the blue wall which could be a read well. you just heard from daron shaw and i think that data and the way he laid it out there, and their decision-making, really lift the curtain to have these guys operate based on our fox news voter analysis which again was 120,000 voters, and the raw vote total that came in. alex hoff is in pennsylvania. we will check in on the ground there. >> could be with you. the crowd here in bucks county are excited by some trends they are seeing, not necessarily expecting the result tonight. pennsylvania's result, the count is historically slow.

it took four days in 2020 but they believe it's going be faster this time. new technology, more trading coming into all of this. looking at philadelphia, both the trump and the various campaigns saying they are outperforming, but team trump feels this could be good 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. it simply cuts into the margin that democrats need. here in bucks county they see themselves on the screen right now. it means a lot. if he were to win bucks county, that would be the first time a republican presidential candidate has taken this county since 1988, and the suburbs of philadelphia, this is what pushed biden over the edge in 2020. harris needs to do well in these counties and she stand to have a chance of taking the state, g

guys. bret, martha? >> bret: alex, thanks. >> martha: let's go to bill and see, what are you cooking up over there, bill? >> bill: we heard so much about msg and the insult comic about the puerto rican joke. trump, new york is his home. not living in florida, mar-a-lago. i'm going to go ahead and use the slide bar. eight years ago, running against hillary clinton, this is his margin in new york. 37.5 compared almost 15 for hillary clinton. and against joe biden, it was three tenths of a point, and now we come to 2020 and see the numbers on the board here. that's a pretty decent performance. we are getting some insight in new york city. he did well over 40% of the vote here in new york, as well. one thing i was checking out, guys, this is the number. the path to 270. i guess in theory right now if

you were to close out your 248, if you were to close out pennsylvania, even though alaska has ranked choice voting, which could take a while to post a number here, nonetheless that would put him at the number 270. even around the blue while it is possible. that goes back to the argument that we've been talking about for some time now, that trump had more pads to the oval office than harris did. let's go check on pennsylvania one more time here, and we will see, holding steady at 3.5. 90% of the estimated vote out there. in michigan, the blue wall is 6.3. that number stuck a little bit here. estimated somewhere, maybe 40% of the vote still missing in michigan and wisconsin. maybe we get some more numbers in. 85% of the vote in here, and trump is holding onto the 4.2 advantage in wisconsin.

and wisconsin, they take a lot of pride in what they do. they want to get the vote out quickly. maybe milking outstanding but the rest of the state. that is their idea. so we could get that in maybe a little more as a going to the 2:00 a.m. hour. 2:00 a.m. or 3:00? what are we doing here? what's that cannot just keep going? okay, you got it. this is nevada. we are starting to get our first numbers in from nevada. for any of the nerds and geeks out there that have been deep in the weeds but early voting, even watching nevada and it's been a pretty good marker for republicans. this is a quick count here. 75% of the vote is in. and trump has a firm lead at 3.4 points. just a tad under 35,000 votes. just a tick over 50.2 with 80%.

i don't know what this number is. we'll find out together. so hillary clinton did two points better than kamala kamala harris, then joe biden. okay. he did even better. 3.5 over what kamala harris is putting up right now. so it appears if you are in the trump camp it's a pretty good number right now, just shy of 51% in nevada early on. here is karl rove's favorite place in the world. right? it is close, 0.2 points. what happened with biden? was a close? pretty close. but biden won at the county. in all likelihood he has a chance to flip this if it holds up right now. super slim and more vote to come in. but nevada is looking good, too. now you start to wonder, how high does this number go on the

electoral college? steel in "the new york times" needle is now greater than 95%. likely to win the popular vote is what they had. let's go out to vegas. jeff paul is live in las vegas. >> a lot of excitement and optimism at the sam brown watch party. he's of course the republican candidate trying to unseat the democratic incumbent senator jacky rosen. 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 to finally get some of those numbers. we are hoping to get another batch in the coming hours, but nevada has an interesting law where you can vote right up until the 7:00 hour, and if you are in line, they will let you vote. and in order to release those results, they wait until the very last person in line votes. that person took two hours and

48 minutes, so still a very long night ahead of us. but for the folks at the sam brown watch party, a lot of optimism in the air. >> bret: jeff paul in las vegas, thanks. >> martha: our panel is still with us, and we have some new folks that are here, as well. kevin mccarthy is joining us. karl rove's back. let me start with you. give us an update on your overall take on the night so far and maybe drill down on what you're seeing in these situations, as well. speak of the senate republicans did an extraordinary job. they surpassed all 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. >> but you think they can do it? >> look at the very beginning the night. pennsylvania 7 and 8.

i think you're going to pick those both up. north carolina won. we are probably going to lose by one point. california is just in now but don't read those numbers yet. we are going to have to wait some time to see. we have a couple incumbents, bacon is coming back in omaha. if we hold the house, if this is a trifecta, the credit goes to president trump but it also fundamentally mean something different. you can do reconciliation when it comes to tax reform. so you don't need 60 votes in the senate. having the senate as large as he has come he's going to get the cabinet that he wants. the other thing it's going to happen is you and i could have hakeem jeffries to try to impeach him every single week. america is going to see the ability to govern. 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. >> bret: juan williams, if it is as big as we think it could be, we are vc hasn't made these calls yet, but it is trending that way and the pathway for her to win is getting narrower and narrower. isn't it not a mandate? hakeem jeffries and the thought of impeaching with what we are seeing tonight seems like it wouldn't be the right move. >> i think that democrats are dispirited at this moment and that the likelihood, as we pointed out, is that trump will be the president. for me, talking to people like darren and political professionals, no one anticipated the size of this mandate, as you call it. i think there is even recrimination now among democrats as to biden and whether biden should have dropped out earlier or if biden should have stayed.

would a white mail have done better? obviously trump has defeated two women and now a black woman. so there's all these questions. but to my mind it seems to me incredible that a guy who let to lead an extr insurrection againe united states government, going back into the oval office. it's unbelievable. >> you have to consider the fact that a lot of people didn't think that was an insurrection. they thought it was a riot but not in insurrection. had they thought it was an insurrection, i don't think he could have won. there's exaggerations about that day. about the alleged threat to democracy. >> and give you my perspective. >> and i'm giving you mind. >> i listen to you as my friend. but i'm going to tell you what i saw, not only in terms of the violence but a direct action intended to stop certification of a presidential election. >> bret: understood, and we

talked a lot about it. >> that's what i said that. i'm not trying to hype anything. >> bret: the campaign ran a lot of ads about and talked a lot about it, and half the country now is going to say that is not what i care about. >> are not sold on this idea that it was the cost of eggs. i'm worried that it's, i'm not voting for this woman or this black women. >> bret: that's not what we see in our data. >> that's the thing, where do you see that? a moment ago darren was out here and he said not only did the bro strategy work, and it largely worked along the lines of white men, but that the bro strategy also had impact in terms of latino and black men who came along and gave higher percentages. >> bret: all right, weigh in. >> just one more point. i spoke to jack brewer this week, and here's what he said. if trump wins, he says he won

because black men felt that democrats and elites put immigrants before us. your thoughts on that? >> i just think 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 you can exploit those tensions and exacerbate them to the point where you can politically benefit. do i think that is the reason he won? no. i think the reason he won is you look at that bro strategy and the white male turnout and white grievance politics that he has used two great success in this country. >> i think he is trailing his prior 2020 numbers with whites. >> hispanics and black males. >> it is not sufficient to have this kind of --

>> i think it is extremely odd to suggest that 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 prosperous and i will do things that will make it possible for you to make a better life. that is an appeal to the best instinct. vote for me because i'm a white man? that would not have attracted those notes. they've got attracted because they thought he was a strong, effective leader, and they get the short stick. inflation, which has decimated their personal power and illegal immigration which has affected the community steeply. to suggest that somehow black men are racist because they supported a white man is just too far. >> you are distorting my comments.

hold on. we are 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. i'm saying to you, and terms of this borough strategy for white males, the whole notion of i'm bad, talk about women in the most disparaging way, there are some men who say, i want to be in on that. i want to be a badass guy, and i think they like trump's image. >> i think they supported him in spite of that, not because of it. we offered to make their life better. >> harold ford? >> i tend to agree with juan about generally six. i'm surprised the country got over that as quick as they did, which speaks to the political comeback. i said earlier the fact that some of these issues around the economy and the border would not address more forthright had an

impact. that being said, we are going to have some analysis around this and whether or not the driving up support amongst men, what was behind that, how it worked, because the gender gap with women -- we still don't know those numbers. we have an opportunity to dig into some of those things. i don't interpret what juan is saying any more than that. >> bret: more to talk about here. >> martha: as election night moves on the east coast, we tend to get more vote and we will be able to make calls when a vote is in full. our coverage continues next. stay with us. ♪ ♪

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headquarters where there are a few thousand people who have gathered for this evening. we will keep a close eye on that and he shows up there. we will take you there live. spewing those guys had two make america great hats on. when in front, one in back. as we look now at what we have, pennsylvania, is this a call, ladies and gentlemen? we are now projecting that donald j. trump will win the state of pennsylvania. former president donald j. trump will win the state of pennsylvania, and thereby is on his way to becoming the 47th president of the united states. with this, the path for vice president harris has narrowed and there is really no path going forward. it has vanished. this is historic.

everything was about pennsylvania. everything from the beginning was about pennsylvania. former president trump will win the state of pennsylvania and we can make that call. 19 electoral votes. that puts him at 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. in what is going to be the biggest political phoenix from the ashes story that we have ever seen, ever. i'm going to say it is more than grover cleveland. >> in 1892. >> grover cleveland was not the subject of a russia investigation russia investigation, two impeachments, two and assassination attempts. >> indictments. >> 991 indictments, convictions, and there is almost nothing that hasn't been thrown at this former president and his

tenacity and wanting to go back and run again, which he announced immediately after he lost 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 donald trump. >> bret: looking live, 1:21 a.m. in the morning at trump headquarters, the cheers coming up. we are told the former president is there as well as j.d. vance. they are getting ready to hear from former president donald trump again. at 267, not there yet, but looking at where the vote is in wisconsin, in michigan, where the vote is in nevada, and in arizona. there is no path for

vice president harris, and just 30,000 feet, what this means. >> i'm old enough to remember when richard nixon was declared dead in 1962. the famous speech, "we don't have nixon to kick around anymore." nobody could imagine after that failed race for governor that he could have come back in 1968. that was a hell of a comeback. this to my eye was a man faces many more slings and arrows then nixon had been at that time. this remounts that. this is an extremely comeback. >> bret: dana? >> he campaigned so energetically, ruthlessly, fiercely, and with more joy than kamala harris. it was so clear that joe biden was not going to be able to go the distance. if joe biden were still on the ticket tonight, who knows what tonight might even look like. he has been able to accomplish this, nothing short of astonishing and amazing. and also i think about susie

wiles, his campaign manager. very quiet, does not like the limelight. all of those people who worked so hard and stuck by trump no matter what was said about him. they were called every name in the book including hitler and nazis and they came through. everything on my mind, last night at her closing rally, oprah winfrey said that if donald trump is elected again -- basically, you can just write america off. america is just going to fall apart. that's obviously not true although i'll be surprised tomorrow if there isn't a big line at jfk of hollywood celebrities leaving the country as a said they were going to. this is the greatest country and there will be so many opportunities for lots of dealmaking. i think president trump will be in the mood but he has a huge to-do list. biden and harris left a mess. his closing argument was, she broke it, i will fix it. she talked about having a to-do list, he's got a big to-do list,

but he thrives on it. he saw that through the whole campaign. >> he's enthusiastic about doing the job of being president, harold, and it is just an absolutely remarkable -- i think if you wrote this as a movie script people would say this would never happen in the united states of america. >> i've said this before, he is the single must political athlete i've ever seen. he proves why there were moments in the campaign where he said some things and did some things that i didn't quite understand, that i thought maybe detracted from that. tonight obviously proves that, too. he also ran a traditional campaign and connected with voters on issue. he talked about the things that mattered most, and he didn't talk about in the most full-throated or wholesome way, or in the most comprehensive way, but he connected with voters. i would urge my party tonight, if indeed -- i think he's almost at 270 and we will declare it shortly once alaska comes in.

don't write off the american people. let us not be critical of people for voting for president trump. he did something we didn't do in this campaign. we have to reestablish, this may give us an opportunity as a party to revamp and perhaps we should think about that. but don't write off the people, the american people, 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 is hard to understand how some in the mainstream media are going to take this, because it was so over the top one way, they thought it was done. there was a landslide prediction from a lot in the media that she was going to have a landslide. it looks like he's going to have a landslide tonight. >> yeah, it is truly remarkable. the revolution rolls on. and this is not just a victory

for the white house tonight, but also this is the end of the old republican party, which of course donald trump took on. that was the first thing he did, the very first thing he did in 2015 was take on the old republican party. he's completely reshaped the republican party. the republican party is no longer -- doesn't stand for a lot of things it stood for before. he's made it far more middle class, working class, far more practical a party, probably a far more durable party, and he has figured out how to win with that. you can't help but think with this victory in four years from now he's going to have the mantle 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 force of

one guy, one man who had the fortitude, strength, division, the refusal to accept anything. all the experts counting them out, and he just kept on fighting and fighting. >> it would have been one thing for him to come back from a single defeat to be elected again. but when you think about it, he came back from a series of them. his party lost in the midterm. >> 2018. >> they lost the presidential election in 2020 and they had a major disappointment in 2022, which one might have thought after all that the party wouldn't turn to him again. and yet, in the face of that, plus all the things martha enumerated, the indictments at all the other trouble he had, for them to come back from that is really quite striking. >> and think about how toxic he was after january 6th. and you're looking at races now in states where donald trump very well may drag republicans,

and he is over performing in a lot of places fellow republicans. >> i think there are parallels to him 1980. 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 i think these people have been called a lot of names have had enough of. what is your impression of what this means tonight? >> 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. look, i think it is going to be incumbent on the democratic party to understand that the people have spoken, and to disassemble and dismantle

this lawfare, the system they have built up, which is going to raise a whole series of questions that are going to be answered now. but we can't say that they are better than donald trump and recreate a system that does not recognize that he won and 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 making a normalization deal with israel in the face of a new president here. kevin o'leary, what is the market going to do in the wake of this? >> what has happened here is the system self corrected. when you try and break the american model, it fixes itself, and i think people should give credit within the democratic party. donald trump saved them tonight, too. they're going to have to take a spatula to these policies and bring it back to the center over

the next four years. in a way, we set. we talked about this earlier, but he saved on your mentorship. he saved the entire model of the s&p 500. because taxing 20% higher was a really bad idea. and it self corrected. this is why i'm getting on a plane. i intentionally didn't leave until tomorrow night so i could go to geneva, abu dhabi, go to riyadh and say it is 20% corporate taxes, 100% not going to change. that is very important for people like me to bring capital back to this country. it fixed itself. it fixed itself, and i think that is why america works. it has worked for 200 years. when it gets too crazy, it fixes itself. whether you love trump or you hate him, every democrat owes him a thank you very much, mr. president. >> bret: by the way, as all these election markets were moving, bitcoin went up

exponentially. >> yes, i have bitcoin. >> speaking of bitcoin i'm also struck by calling pennsylvania here, dana. trump embraced elon musk and a lot of stories were written that said he was going to blow it in pennsylvania, that the people working on his outreach teams didn't know what they were going going. >> and a lot of criticism. the million-dollar giveaway for for registered voters. somebody that we follow and have had on the show many times, she knows that area very well. she said the people of that region love somebody he was a big thinker, who wants to create jobs, who is looking into the future and they can get behind that. they love somebody who can really lead, and leadership takes courage. 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 does want to take a position on anything. we haven't even talked about how in california the law to basically make shoplifting illegal again passed overwhelmingly, and our friend the ta in los angeles lost by 22 votes. this is in california. so it's everywhere. and today's -- thank you. she wouldn't even take a position on that. 75% of them in california wanted it gone, and you can't take a position to be with them? >> bret: not only that, you are part of prop 47 that changed to allow the other way when you were in office. >> not wanting to take a position and be willing to be criticized is a problem, if you want to be a leader at that message. >> they ran out of town before any votes were cast into a 19.

>> hit her here. the same problem she had in 2020. >> she's the same person. >> it's not her fault. they put her in a race that we now know couldn't win. >> in fairness to democrats, i agree with you on unrealized capital gains. we produce more west to wealth and with therapeutics. so i hear you, democrats are not bad for the economy. some things that i'm with you on. we are going to continue to be great, and i trust and hope and believe that the party will be great again. >> you can thank donald trump for that. >> he inherited an economy also that was in pretty good shape. i don't want to quarrel about that. going forward, i want the country to be great and i hope that both the parties can work together to try and do that. i salute president trump tonight. what a great win. i agree with you in this regard. my party has got to reimagine and reinvent itself going forward.

>> past presidents and past losers and winners and what they've said, this is a big speech for former president trump as he gets ready to deliver this in front of a crowd. he's obviously taken the slings and arrows and everything that's been said, the fascism, all the things we talk about tonight. but this moment is actually a moment to reach out. >> is an opportunity for to do that but it's also 1:30 in the morning. so you've got to wonder how many people are there to hear it. >> bret: oh, they are there. >> a lot of people are still. >> the question is how much the national tv audience is. >> at the beginning of this -- bless you. we asked him about all of this revenge stuff, and that he was going to want retribution. this is what everyone heard, and there were times when he had language that match that. but he said he wanted success to be his revenge, that he wanted a

successful america. and i would imagine we are going to hear something along those lines tonight, but we'll see. >> you quoted one of those presidency set a campaign is a disagreement and an election is a decision. and decisions clear the way for harmony and peace. >> bret: there are a lot of thanksgiving tables that people are still going to have hard feelings after this election more than any other election. passing the brussels sprouts is not going to be as easy. this is a chance to move forward. go ahead. >> one thing that can happen here, biden was elected, we had every reason to believe he would be the sort of moderate dealmaking guy. he's always followed the drift of his party, so he worked across the aisle with many senators and republican friends and so on.

then something happened. trump went to georgia and made a mess of the senate races down there. at which point biden started getting historical sugar plums dancing in his head and went out for a very aggressive agenda. >> i'm sure there were articles about fdr. >> and that he went out-obama obama. remember that? 's republicans maintain control of the senate, that wild spending that led to the inflation, a big part of the inflation. and by then the country would have been better off because there's always a danger in the mandate. one wonders if -- >> i think that happened to biden. he said he's going to return to norms and historians came in and said you could be bigger than fdr. so he says fine, i'll spend all the money, then they cause inflation and end up with this

result. >> it looks like if you get to 270, which we expect he will fairly shortly -- >> bret: with alaska. >> exactly. he has a moment to bring about the unity that people expected after the last election. of course we would be kidding ourselves to think they will not be a tremendous response to this, in all corners of the country. >> are not done as far as calling states. there could be more states that go this way. this could be a massive landslide just by what we are looking at on the polls. fox news decision desk canal project vice president harris will win minnesota and a running mate, tim walz, serves as the state's governor there. that takes it up to 267-226. again, donald j. trump will be the 47th president of the united states. more democracy 24 special coverage next.

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united states. he will be 45 and 47, and we are waiting for him to join the room or we will take you there. in the meantime grady trimble is in michigan. let's get a quick update outside detroit. >> people are getting tired but this jolt of electricity, and the crowd started chanting "usa," they started chanting "trump, trump, trump," as it appears he will be the 47th president of the united states. in addition to trump and the call for him in pennsylvania, there are also excited about the possibility that michigan could be the state that tips him over that magic 270 number. we are also following a very close senate race here in michigan and they are feeling very confident about that, as well. republican candidate mike rogers, it looks like he could cruise to victory with the help

of former president trump. democratic candidate elissa slotkin went out to her crowd at her watch party at around 12:30 tonight and told them to go home and go to sleep, we are here they this ballroom then you all through the night, if they had to, and now it looks like the crowd is fired up as they wait former president trump taking the stage. >> bret: okay, grady, thank you. it's really important to point out how big the coat tails could be tonight. think about bernie moreno in ohio. right now at this hour, as grady mentioned, mike rogers in michigan is up. it looks like he's getting closer. we haven't made a call there yet. in wisconsin, leading right now. sam brown in nevada is closing in on jacky rosen.

we are talking about historic numbers here all these dominoes fall. you're talking about a senate that could be 54-46, 55-45. that wasn't in the cards. it wasn't on anybody's bingo card when you came into election night. >> but these candidates have all thought really strong races and they have all closed in a very strong way, and in fact many of them were sort of pulling into plus five, plus six, in just over the last three weeks. so it is a fascinating part of the story. hopefully will be able to call more of those soon. >> bret: former house house spr kevin mccarthy says we could see the house going republican, as well. and it would be part of this, as well. let's go back out to trace gallagher on the west coast with his panel. hey, trace. >> thank you. we have our panel. steven hilton, jody armour, kaylee mcghee white, and gianno caldwell. you're talking to your panel and we are talking to ours.

kaylee mcghee white was struck by the whole concept that, again, trump was under-counted. >> this is the third consecutive pulling miss for donald trump, and we need to be asking ourselves why they keep getting it wrong. at this point it is a choice. back in 2016 you could argue that you are blindsided, you didn't expect it, and you cannot say that anymore. this was predictable from the very start. i think the reason they keep getting it wrong is because they still don't understand the average trump photo. they cannot wrap their heads around why so many people support him. it is because, for a long time, for the past decade or so, democrats in power didn't think they needed to create 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. guess what? the american people sent a very clear message tonight that you have to start paying attention and you better start paying attention soon. >> i don't know how many words we heard demographic, but you

talked about black male voters. you think it's worth talking about. >> i think this is a historic night. black men, those who voted for trump will be counted as those who helped save america for the decline. kamala harris has tried her best to create these accents. "you better think a union member!" all the things he's done to try to appeal to this community, even going on oprah winfrey's talk show, whatever that was, to say i'll pull out my gun and shoot someone who tries to come into my house. this has become nonsensical to the point that i don't know, if we are looking at "madea runs for president" or not. i hope the republican party takes note. >> you talk about young males and younger voters. jody armour, you are a law professor at the university of southern california. you know what young people argued into. are you surprised when you see these voter analysis numbers? the young voters cannot have it

for donald trump. >> young voters can sniff out a fraud. they can sniff out somebody who is chameleon-like. they change their position according to the prevailing winds. many across the country, young student said the red line is mass atrocities, collective punishment, what i see going on in the middle east. so they're saying, i'm not going to get out there. >> i've got 15 seconds for you, steve. >> when i see this unfold, it's a mess victory. >> sorry, guys. back to you. we got trump coming out. >> bret: trace, thank you. the fox news decision desk and desk cannot officially project that donald trump will become the 47th president of the united states. >> martha: the former president come back 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

nonconsecutive 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 express deep frustration with the biden administration, and former president trump and the future president trump over performed in urban areas, particularly with men, proving the strategy that they doubled and tripled down on over the course of the last few months absolutely succeeded and brought him to the white house. you and the 47th president of the united states. for democrats, they were projecting the possibility of running the table with battleground states. david plus with democratic campaign suggested that just yesterday. now it is possible that donald trump runs the table with

the states and builds on a big landslide electoral win. 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, and with him, brit hume, will be a lot of changes pay because he will have been there once and will know what he wants to do. >> he counts for the fact that he had so much turnover in his term as president, by the fact that he was new to this realm that he will come to win the presidency in, and he promises that now he knows. now he knows whom he wants to hire, he knows what kind of people he wants to have around him. a lot of people were saying that means a lot of very experienced people around washington will be ruled out, and 80 they will pray bit will be very interesting to see the people he reaches out to and reaches out for in the days and weeks ahead as he builds this it administration. >> bret: we are joined by kayleigh mcenany, trey gowdy, and katie pavlich. you've been part of the last

administration. you have seen -- you can see the joy on all these people's faces. think about the angst and all this campaign has been through. >> and 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. for the exit polling is true, you now have black voters, latino voters, young voters coming in a way we haven't seen the party bringing in a very long time, and that is due to former president and now seem to be current president trump. i just want to say this as we wait for him to come out, i remember having a conversation with ivanka trump in 2016 about his remarks. before he went out to give those remarks, he had speech a and

speech b. speech a was a more boisterous trumpian speech, and the other was a speech will be unity. he saw the faces of crying hillary voters, ripped up the boisterous speech and said he wanted to heal the nation. the first when he said were in appreciation taylor clinton and her service to our country, and then he said now it's time for america to bind the wounds of division. he said we are a poly of all races, creeds, and religions. it's more true tonight that it was eight years ago. i fully expect president trump right now as maybe ripping up that more boisterous speech and preparing to unite the country. >> bret: it's an amazing message. >> i hope kayleigh is right. and we will see in a minute. trey gowdy said something that one of the things you hope also, that they are little more prepared this time. they got a great transition team and they going to need it, and i hope a lot of people want to go and be helpful. >> i think his transition team has done a wonderful job that

attain potential candidates. to kayleigh's point, i think a liberated donald trump that she's not going to be on about again. this is his last term. i think he will surprise his detractors. i think he will be not anything like what his detractors have described him as being. now that he is liberated. if i'm wrong, you can hold me to that. >> i hope you're right. >> i think a liberated donald trump is going to shock his detractors. >> he has said the assassination attempts had an impact on him. we saw him in many ways returned to the very rough-and-tumble style that we have seen and donald trump toward 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. i think that is another liberating factor potentially for president trump. >> never underestimate the power of unfinished business. this is a president who has caught lighting at a bottle twice, and the second time around he now has a maga

mandate, a senate he can use to push through his appointees and work with on legislation and potentially replace a number of justices on the supreme court. he can build the wall. he has a working group in washington, d.c. we will see what happens with the house, but he's also been working very hard on his transition, to get the right people around him. he talks about the lessons he's 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 and going to the states to police senate candidates across the line with him. >> bret: brit, lady think the analysis is going to be? there will be a lot of time to digest a lot of this. we are focused on with the incoming president is going to say. what do you think the analysis is going to be on the democratic party? and what went wrong? >> i think it is going to be agonizing. i think it'll take a little

while for consensus to form about what the party needs to do next or what it did wrong this time. it'll be grudging at first. one can certainly imagine, if the party were smart and shrewd political voices were heated, that they would be some major changes in their agenda and their approach. you think of the issues that they try to run against, that failed, they reconsider all that. i think it'll take a while. our colleague and friend mark halperin, who has been very astute this particular cycle, he thinks people are going to be hysterical. i hope not. it could happen. >> i am really looking forward to reading some of these stories. probably with a lot of anonymous

sources amongst democrats with the recriminations, and it's going to be fast and furious. you have people saying that joe biden said he is not running for reelection on the day after that midterm in 2022. in 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: as vice president of the united states, kamala harris will certify the election results on january 6th. >> a lot of irony in that moment, harold. >> this is how our country is organized. it's a great education for people who have high passions in this race. democrats who were fervently for joe biden, he performed poorly during a debate some of it was

almost a dislike and a disdain for donald trump. but i hope it is a moment we can all grow from. if we don't, democrats want progress and i don't think you can fly and so is a great country unless you have both wings working together. president trump -- and then going to be interested in that tone. i was reminded of your words, reminded of what you said as you shared it. i remembered that story and i hope and pray for the country tonight that president trump, who has every right to be joyful, every right to celebrate, will give a speech with that tone tonight to that in many ways could help him do all the things that he campaigned on. >> what does this mean for the never-trumpers and the lincoln project people and people like that? who never previously believed in

donald trump. >> we will get the never-trumpers soon enough in the hundreds of millions of dollars wasted on them. donald trump won this on policy and personality. i don't want to be remiss here. he's talking about energy independence. manufacturing. an economy where everybody is working. no new foreign wars, getting out of the entanglements we currently have. respecting and resourcing law enforcement. border patrol, military. by the way, friends, we don't get those policies without that personality. what did we hear during their havoc in primaries? i want donald trump's policies, not his personality. good luck with that. you don't get the strength and resolve and toughness. you don't get those policies without that. it's on this phone at 2:30 a.m. on november 9th, 2016. on the other line with secretary clinton to concede the race to donald trump. i handed it to him and i said,

make sure hillary actually concedes. she did. and president trump was gracious to them, too. he came to the luncheon at the capitol. i was there to see it myself. and then something just changed. "the washington post" said let's impeach him at noon. 2 minutes after he's inaugurated. it was written about in the book. harold, i hope everybody can unify but i got to tell you, i think it starts with your party and not mine. they had this guy in a courtroom. he's not an indoor cat, i get it. they had them in the courtroom. they had him impeached. whether people think that was justified or not, now is the time to respect the will of the people. >> i'm just saying be a gracious winner. it was my only point. >> he's known for a while and i wrote a piece on foxnews.com

on october 11th saying he's been having a narrow landslide. i think he has felt that for a while, but he wanted to go and earn it. >> the people around him have to be gracious. because that's a different wish. >> bret: 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. if you spent a thousand dollars a day with 2,740 years, that would be a billion dollars. 16 times that, what has been spent on every race, presidency, the whole deal. $16 billion. and here we are. >> i check you can write to every american? >> every presidential race has a medium. you go back to television, cable. this was in some ways a podcast experience of the campaign, and

those are free, to gone pod podcasts. i don't know how much of that money need to be spent when there's a lot of ways to reach people. it's interesting and something will be talking about a lot in terms of the reach of these endorsements. >> bret: the final ads where -- >> they were excellent. >> bret: they talked about making america great again, but then ending with the assassination attempt and that assist in the air, the iconic image, and the "site, site, site." >> warrior president. >> b >> toughest son of a can we ever saw. that's the last note we see in that ad. whatever you think of the guy, you have to admire that. the adversity that he's faced, everything we have seen in other presidencies and other political figures who have gone through all kinds of trouble, they pale in comparison to what he has been put through. maybe it is time for his enemies to stop it. >> bret: not only that, but the energy h