hour, it was not avnet, 48-48, it has been called for donald j. trump. making him one state closer to picking up those seven swing states we still await two remaining swing states, but he 5 electoral votes this hour. also of note, in the house of representatives, we have three individuals, round republican, to democrats, who have secured their seats, one is john james,p happened this hour, the seventh district, and one house pickup happened, tom barrett in michigan. house speaker mike johnson telling me this, we are tracking all outstanding races. i am confident we are going to keep the house majority. that's house speaker mike johnson. we will track it on fox news and we will report when we have news as to where the house of our present is will go. thanks to everyone. now here is "america reports." ♪ ♪

>> we need to take this moment as republicans and not waste it. it should be about addition, not subtraction. welcoming more people into the party. >> we are going to find that he attracted a coalition of people unlike a republican has attracted for many, many years. >> every single state in this country went more red except nebraska and delaware this morning. that's just unbelievable. >> this is a real political realignment and it is a tectonic shift. the democrats failed policies and their radicalization, whether it is defund the police, woke dei agenda in our schools, that is not with the vast majority of the american people are. >> john: an unprecedented campaign concludes with donald trump once again becoming president-elect. just moments ago, the fox news decision desk can project the president electron will, in addition to everything he has got so far, claimant michigan and compete his sweep of the bap

recapturing the white house aftr a strong performance in all the battleground states, could potentially see him win all seven of them, though two remain uncalled at this point. hello, i'm john roberts. much did you sleep? >> sandra: are going to say, it's like we slept. >> john: your voter analysis was fascinating. >> sandra: what a historic night. sandra smith, welcome everyone, this is between nine. the cover of "the new york post," he has done it again. trump holds off with a win. sweeping the southeast, it flipping pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin, and georgia, holding onto north carolina. >> john: both still being counted in nevada and arizona but right now trump is leading in all of those states. they are also still counting in michigan even though we have called it. now the nation waits to hear from vice president harris for the first time since her defeat. that will be just a few hours from now. >> sandra: we have fox team coverage for you. kim strassel is here, jacqui heinrich has the latest

from harris campaign. >> john: we begin with the blue ginning west palm beach, florida, where trump deliver his victory speech early this morning. bill, got to be feeling pretty good at the trump campaign. >> john, they are feeling fantastic and right now republicans are hoping they can pull off the whole trifecta. they have already won the white house, they have already won the senate, now they are hoping they can maintain control of the u.s. house of are presented as, which is still too close to call. just a short time ago, mitch mcconnell said he congratulates donald trump for running what he calls a sharper operation and for flipping control of the senate. take a listen. >> i had really hoped i would be able to head over to my successor, the majority. i've been the majority leader, i've been the minority leader. the majority is a lot better. >> and this was trump at his watch party last night here in west palm beach. the race was called for trump just before 2:00 in the morning. the tipping point was when he

won the battleground state of pennsylvania just a short time before that he had picked up georgia and north carolina, and now it appears he is set to win even more battleground states. you guys just made the call on michigan. it's possible he may do a clean sweep of all the battleground states. the rnc chairman says trump simple he outworked kamala harris, relying on regular people, not celebrities or singers. >> on top of everything, you have to remember donald trump. he was the guy that was out there talking directly to every american family, every voter, in everyone of these battleground states. nobody worked harder than donald trump to connect directly to the voters about the issues that they cared about. >> and john, as you are well aware, it is very significant that republicans have flipped control of the senate and will be taking control of the senate. it is going to make it a whole lot easier for donald trump to get his appointments in his cabinet positions confirmed, senate confirmed, that would include things like dhs

secretary and i.c.e. director, given his plans for mass deportations. we will send it back to you. >> john: yeah, there still a lot of legislation he would need a 60-vote threshold, and he likely won't get anywhere near that, so we will see how the future progresses. bill melugin for us. bill, thank you. sandra? >> sandra: john, thank you. we are waiting eyes president harris, meanwhile, her first remarks after her defeat to trump. the harris campaign rang to figure out how she lost so decisively. white house jacqui heinrich is live in washington, d.c. we look forward to what she will say at 4:00, jackie, what does the harris campaign been saying to democrats? >> well, sandra, they actually haven't told any of their own surrogates anything, including what to tell their donors, or even how to understand what happened last night. we don't know what the vice president is going to say this afternoon, aside from conceding this election, because some sources are admitting to me

right now the democrat party is soul-searching. as one person put it, the democratic party has no leader right now, period, because they cast joe biden, the sitting president, side, and the candidate that they installed lost really big. not only was the party very far out of touch with the majority of the electorate on big issues like immigration and the eco economy, but their strategy of telling people not to believe their lying eyes just simply did not work. a few sources are beginning to acknowledge to me that the democratic party sort of living within this liberal media echo chamber confirmed internal biases that ended up giving a skewed perception of reality. part of the autopsy right now is probing whether or not they would have fared better if joe biden had stayed in the race. listen. >> i think it's hard to look back and talk about what could've or might've or should've been. president biden is a very strong legislative record of bipartisan

accomplishments, but we are going to have to sit down as a democratic party and look hard at why that didn't compel more folks to come out and vote for a democratic candidates, both in the senate and in our presidential candidate and vice president harris. >> now one harris surrogate told me that all the headlines we have been watching for the last several weeks were also being read within her circles, and people were raising the alarm. for instance, but her failure to clear the articulate her policy positions, and focusing so much on threats to democracy. >> one thing that i think she knows was a mistake was to say on "the view" that she couldn't think of a sink think she would do differently from the biden administration. that was an opener for her to show americans she is going to get tough on the border, she is going to take drastic measures to bring down inflation. that was her chance. >> the question now is how long did the campaign know that she

was going to lose this election? as we pointed out on monday, over the weekend, they were not sending many positive signals when that early voting data was coming in, and so internally there is someone there about whether or not they were all just sort of blinded by hope, and how long they knew that her chances were very slim, and why that wasn't shared more widely within the democratic party circles and the circles within the campaign. sandra? >> sandra: a lot to dig into there. jacqui heinrich, thank you very much. john. >> president biden: >> john: kim strassel, opinion columnist for "the wall street journal" and a fox news contributor. kim, as we think of where the harris campaign went wrong, where they just punching above their weight, or was it some thing else? here's what you wrote on halloween, quote, democrats trash talk the voters, deplorable to garbage, contempt doesn't seem to be a winning message. so the trump coalition was working americans, hispanic voters, bl black voters, busines owners, democrats, harris,

biden, were ridiculing them, intimating at some point that they were even nazi supporters and they said oh, yeah, watch this? >> [laughs] watch this. absolutely. look, i still believe it was her biggest tactical error to end her campaign by calling him a fascist, and in essence tarring all of his potential, would-be supporters, first of all because she wasn't reaching anyone that hadn't already a that decision that they were going to vote for her on those grounds in the first place. what voters wanted to hear about was the issues, and this is with the real risk for democrats as they soared out this mess. you just ran that clip of chris coons and its are markable he's like oh, look, joe biden has this amazing record, we just somehow didn't connect, that's not the problem. the problem was a progressive agenda that was adopted by barack obama, turbocharged by biden-harris that directly linkr

chaos, interest rates, you name it, and the american people wanted a change from that. they need to sit down and look at their ideas, which are not resonating with the public. >> sandra: not resonating with the public. did they even speak to the american public? the case could be made that donald trump, in all the days leading up to election day, he spent so much of his time and his energy in his campaign speaking directly to the american people. it was almost like kamala harris, when it came to say the economy, for example, it was kind of like i know what's best, just believe me. check my website. i got a plan. she never really fully articulated that plan to the american voter who is struggling through in most battleground states prices up 20% under her administration. >> yeah, absolutely. you know, i think jacqui heinrich just made a really good point, that these folks, as they were looking around the campaign, what they were doing was hiding from their agenda, they didn't want to talk about it, the late-breaking

voters out there that broke for donald trump, hugely voted for him, those were the ones that carried the most about economy and inflation, and she was out there waxing on about opportunities, she ducked all of the hard questions, and that's another thing, americans didn't believe democrats, in the end. she ran away from a number of these policy positions, but they could see her on record and her decision to not fully articulate an agenda led them to believe that they would have a continuation of the same. they are going to have to really dig deep and make a decision about whether or not they are willing to change course, not just on by the way too economic issues but we are seeing out there that cultural issues hurt them a lot, as well. >> john: a big part of trump's victories and battlegrounds was a black male voters. fox news voter analysis found about them come among black men, harris got 74% of the vote, trup got 24% of the vote. that group of voters had been

repeatedly scolded, first by barack obama, and then by michelle obama, who said, "your rage does not exist in a vacuum. if we don't get this election right, your wife, your daughter, your mother, we as women will become collateral damage for your rage." the message that they were putting out there, the obamas, was if you don't suck it up and vote democrat, you are going to be held responsible for every bad thing that happens to your family. and how do you think black men responded to that? >> well, i think we saw how they responded to it. and this was another big tactic democrats had at the end, which was to essentially, as you say, shame voters into voting for democrats because apparently that was the only moral position to take. you had michelle obama suggesting that if you didn't vote for kamala harris you didn't care about women. i.e., you are a misogynist. you have barack obama out there telling black men that he thought really the reason they weren't voting for kamala harris

was they weren't feeling having a woman in the white house, suggesting if they didn't vote for her they were sexist. he had mark cuban out there suggesting that women that were surrounding donald trump, none of them were very bright or had much of a backbone. these are not the ways to encourage americans to vote for you by essentially vote shame in them. >> sandra: i want to finish up with these words from the former president, as we see that video of him taking the stage last night, i'm being delivered. listen. >> we are going to fix everything about our country -- [cheers and applause] we made history for a reason tonight. i hope that you are going to be looking back someday and say that was one of the truly important moments of my life, when i voted for this group of people, beyond the president, this group of great people. america has given us an

unprecedented and powerful mandate. >> sandra: so now time to get to work, right? kimberly, because, you know, he's identified a lot of the problems, sky-high prices still out there, you know, and open border, and there is going to be a lot of work to do. final thought? >> well, he makes a good point there, which is that the margin of his victory is such that he did help pull some of these other candidates over the finish line, may be a few more in the senate even, we have yet to see some of those races. and that's another consequence of this for democrats, but there is a lot of work ahead, sandra and john, those numbers are going to be good for him in terms of getting a cabinet confirmed and everything, but think about the mountains a regulation that biden has put on the economy, the tax bill is coming up this next year. he's going to need those numbers, and maybe some more if they want to get across a bold agenda. >> john: all right, kimberley strassel, great to catch up with you and get your

thoughts. appreciate it. thank you. >> you, too. >> john: well, that was quite a night. >> sandra: i was saying to the team earlier, around 7:00 looking through the fox news voter analysis and there was these stories that were happening early on -- >> john: started to notice trends -- >> sandra: absolutely, the black vote down in georgia, for example, where she was significantly underperforming with the black vote from georgia. and we started to see that happen early in the evening, and it became a national story, as well, and there was a very notable, significant shift from the minority vote in this country, away from democrats, to the republican candidate. we saw it with the hispanic vote, as well. >> john: they just did not resonate with so many voting groups across this country, and that's why it looks like donald trump is on pace to take everyone of those seven battleground states. that's her markable. >> sandra: it is incredible. a historic moment, for sure. president-elect donald trump making history with this win. larry kudlow is excited to join us today. can you imagine? he says it is part of a growing

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♪ ♪ >> john: back to the breaking news. the blue wall fully crumbled last night. president-elect trump adding michigan two's victories of pennsylvania and wisconsin just a little while ago and a senatep read, as well.

grady trimble in michigan with more, a big night for the former president, grady. >> it was, john, and it would be significant if the republican senate candidate mike rogers were to flip the senate seat here because it has been 30 years since republican won a senate seat in michigan. right now rogers' campaign tells us it is heating with caution and that this senate race could be the closest in michigan in decades, if not ever, so here's where things stand right now. at the moment, just under 99% of the votes are in, and democratic congresswoman alyssa slotkin has a slight lead, by about 18,000 votes, so this race truly could come down to that 1% of the vote that is still outstanding. i had a chance to speak with mike rogers the day before the election and he told me he was feeling good, if president trump, president-elect trump, won michigan, that he too would win his senate race, but

from the data we have seen so far it seems that trump has outperformed rogers, which suggests there could have been some split ticket voting or full sin michigan who voted in the presidential race but didn't cast a vote in that senate race. as far as the issues in michigan, top issue by far the economy, according to our fox news voter analysis, but here in the detroit suburbs, there is another issue that dominated, and that's the war in the middle east. for michigan voters who listed that as their single most important issue, 58% of them sided with trump, and here in dearborn specifically, this is a city that president biden won in 2020 with 74% of the vote. as of right now with the unofficial totals in from dearborn, president-elect trump won this city, and that's because the trump campaign has been targeting arab americans unhappy with the biden-harris administration's handling of the middle east, and it seems to

have paid off big time here in michigan, as we said, john, we are still awaiting the results from that senate race, and if it is within 2,000 votes, that would trigger an automatic recount. could be here in michigan for a while. >> john: all right, put down roots there, maybe look into some real estate. grady trimble for us. grady, thank you. now this. >> we went from middle-class to straight broke. i had to come back to work and work a full-time job on top with my husband. >> definitely policy, and i also voted for him all three times, and it's always been based on policy for me. >> all americans had to realize at this point that this election was a clear mandate for change. >> sandra: voters there speaking out about what drove them to the polls, as president-elect donald trump stays on track to sweep all seven battlegrounds, in a decisive electoral victory. katie pavlich is here to dig in what we have seen in our fox news voter -- and what we were seeing all night that really told the story of this election. i think you were the last person

on set last night. >> one of them. many people, it was a late night. here we are. >> sandra: you wouldn't know looking at katie. when you showed up today and we looked back at the analysis last night, i said, what do you want to focus on? what really tells the story of what happened last night and what is still happening today? you said race was a big part of this, and the change in the electorate and the change in which they voted, especially, i don't know, the hispanic voter, i mean, this was a sizable shift to the republican candidate in this race. >> a huge switch. also saw it with black voters. a huge difference in the way the campaigns conducted, the style of what they wanted to talk about. trump campaign was very focused on the economy. the harris campaign made this assumption that identity politics would take them over the finish line, didn't offer any kind of substantive policy measures on the economy. >> sandra: because he ran this number up, while she got the most support, he ran this number up way beyond the benchmark that biden won with. >> she had a very difficult time

on tethering herself from the biden-harris policies of the past four years. among all of these democrat groups, focus on the economy. keep in mind, these are the same groups at the white house was telling for three years inflation wasn't happening, that it was transitory, just had to basically deal with it. that did not player well for them. >> sandra: got into a position where he was doubling support with black male voters. i mean, just an incredible change there. all right, also, beyond race, also looking at the women vote. you said this was something you were really watching closely last night. what's the story? >> the narrative going into election night was women would carry kamala harris across the finish line, voting on the issue of abortion. well, there were certainly some women who were registered democrats who voted on the issue, a single-issue voter, but the data is showing that donald trump actually won over a number of suburban women in the suburbs in the places where they are concerned about inflation, going to the grocery store, paying the bills, and that suburban women actually went for

trump rather than for kamala harris. >> sandra: the campaign was looking to run this number way up. there were some surprises with some of those rural voters, as well. but you listened to the one woman on the ground this woman, that they were interviewing, she said, i've had to take on a second job just to pay for the high prices. that affects that road. all right, one other thing on this category i wanted to look at, voters under age 30. the youth vote. wow. there was a huge run up in the score for donald trump here, with the under 30 crowd. >> so the youth vote is always something that is allusive to campaigns. they talk a lot to youth voters and about youth voters but it is not guaranteed they are going to show up, they did show up for the polls but again the assumption from democrats was that they would show up for the left-wing of the party, of the ticket. they actually showed up in droves for donald trump in higher numbers. now you can attribute that to a number of tactics they use. donald trump went on a lot of these podcasts that younger people listen to, kamala harris dodged those interviews. but they also did reach out, in

a lot of ways, in policy positions from kamala harris, trent to court those voters. clearly it didn't work. >> sandra: one of our first pieces of data was looking at the important issues facing the country for voters. the economy. jobs. this was by an overwhelming majority for voters, the biggest concern. immigration still double digits, but democrats spent so much time on abortion. >> this was their whole gamble with the women. women ended up voting on economy and jobs, immigration, public safety, also included in the immigration number, just looking at the crime we are seeing all over the country and cities with illegal immigration. also these two numbers blow up an assumption from democrats that hispanics are voting on the immigration issue in favor of more open borders and amnesty when they are voting actually for more border control and stronger enforcement of current laws, and of course this economic number encompasses everyone inside the country. >> sandra: american hispanic voters are in favor of legal

immigration. katie, thank you so much. >> great to see you. >> sandra: john, back to you. >> john: sandra, control of the house up for grabs. can republicans secure a trifecta? chairman of the committee is here to answer that question, plus this. >> immigration has been a terrible issue for democrats. i don't know who they thought they were playing to when they let millions of people come cruising through the border. not sure they were playing to anything that was smart here in terms of an open border, that is what it is, an open border. >> sandra: this border crisis becoming a fatal flaw for democrats this election. we need -- leading to a result we have not seen in more than a century. lawrence jones reacts to that coming up. ♪ ♪ the next president of the united states is...

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>> sandra: president-elect trump winning north carolina for the third time, and by his widest margin yet. north carolina congressman richard hudson is standing by to weigh in. but first let's get to jonathan serrie, live in raleigh for us. jonathan, what impact did helene have on the turn out there? >> hi, sandra. well, conventional wisdom suggested it would suppress voter turnout. instead the opposite happened. a record 5.7 million north carolinians cast ballots, and what surprised many is the heavy voter turnout in the western part of the state that was hard-hit during hurricane helene. when you talk with folks there about how they feel about the federal disaster response, their opinion falls largely along party lines, and what helped the trump campaign is other than the blue dots of boone and asheville, western north carolina is reliably republican. statewide, kitchen table issues were at the top of voters minds.

>> it always bothers me that any particular group, the amount of melanin in your skin or gender is determining your policies. it goes back to the issues that matter, the economy, the economy, the economy. >> but this battleground state has a tradition of electing governors and presidents from opposite parties. such was the case last night. democrat josh stein will become north carolina's first jewish governor. >> if i didn't earn your vote in this election, i hope to earn your trust by working hard for you as your governor. >> stein defeated republican mark robinson in that race. robinson currently serves as north carolina's lieutenant governor, and he says he will spend the rest of his term trying to help the people of western north carolina recover. sandra? >> sandra: live from raleigh, jonathan serrie, thank you. >> john: to the touch green, north carolina congressman

richard hudson come also chairman of the republic national committee, win back control of the house. i found this pretty interesting. donald trump flipped the state back after winning it in 2016, losing it in 2020. if you take a look at the results in some of the big democratic counties here, like week county, where raleigh is, the triangle area, the numbers for kamala harris aren't much different than they were four years ago, not that much different for donald trump either, same thing here in charlotte. the numbers aren't identical but they are very, very close, and then out here in buncombe county it is pretty much the same thing. if those numbers in the big democratic area didn't change a whole lot, if her turnout wasn't really suppressed, how was it that donald trump managed to take the state back this year? >> well, i think president donald trump did a great job of turning out the vote in north carolina. you mentioned earlier western north carolina, there was a concerted effort, many folks

displaced, had an opportunity to vote, credit to president trump, he first of all connected with the voters on the issues that matter to them, the cost of things, inflation's impact on their families, crime, particularly caused by the open border. these issues resonated with the voters of north carolina, and they did a very good job of turning out there vote. >> john: what i found fascinating was this whole area here, the western part of north carolina that got hit so badly, as you pointed out, by hurricane helene. there was a lot of voter turnout here. how did they manage to do that? >> well, we make sure there were voting places, in some cases entire towns were washed away, and so there was a big effort to make sure there were accessible voting locations. there was a lot of voter contact by the trump campaign and the republican party to make sure people have the right information, they knew where they could go to vote, and it paid off. >> john: let's go to where the rubber meets the road for you, the house races. here is where we are right now. republican's have 200 seats,

democrats 180, 218 seats needed for the majority. here is where we are coming out of last night. for democrats, picked up three seats. the republicans picked up four seats. so that's a net gain of plus one for the republicans. how are you going to get back the majority? because speaker johnson says he's quite confident that it will happen and our fox news voter analysis shows that republicans do have a slight lead now. >> i'm confident republicans are going to hold the house majority. i think the speaker is exact a right, and i think frankly we can thank president trump for the incredible turnout. i think he was a net positive everywhere across the country for republicans. but speaker johnson did a tremendous job, he raised over $300 million for our team. $27 million direct for the rnc see. came in with no political operation, to build from scratch, peter johnson put us on his back and carried us to the promised land. we are going to hold the house. we were able to net three seat

pickup in north carolina, flipped to seats in pennsylvania, and we were able to flip an open seat in michigan held by the democrats, as we look forward, there's a number of races in california, in particular, where we are still counting votes, but optimistic. may be a few days, but we like where we are and we feel like we're deftly going to hold the house majority. >> john: all right, let me close with a quick question. if you do indeed get carried to the promised land and maintain control of the house, you have control of the senate, you have control of the presidency, you have that trifecta. the american people are going to expect that you are going to get things done. so what do you say to the american people? >> i will say the cavalry is on the way. the american people are ready for change. they are sick and tired of the policies of the biden-harris administration. they are sick of things costing too much, sick of this open border and the crime and the fentanyl that come along with it, and president trump and congress were ready to work with him. we are going to turn this around and you are going to see a lot

of hard work. there are many of these issues that shouldn't be partisan. hopefully we get democrats to work with us. >> john: if you win back control of the house, we will hold you to account on that. congressman, good to talk to you and thank you so much. >> thank you come appreciate it. >> sandra: already appointed three justices to the supreme court with another four years in office. will president-elect trump have a chance to appoint more? that is a big question. jonathan turley, we will put it to him. >> john: plus the balance of power in the senate shifting to republicans after major wins across the united states. how big will their new majority be? >> america won last night. we should be so proud of our country. we rejected the extremism of kamala harris and tim walz, and we renewed our commitment to make this country a center-right country where we work for the working people of this country.

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♪ ♪ >> john: all right, he fox news alert now. from peter doocy we learned that kamala harris just completed a phone call with president-elect donald trump to concede the election, to congratulate him on winning. apparently she discussed the importance of a peaceful transfer of power and being president for all americans. she is going to be delivering remarks at howard university 4:00 this afternoon, so we will hear more from her there. and here is where the sleep deprivation kicks in. all morning i have been mixing up pennsylvania and north carolina, and i did it again there with the chairman of the nrcc. i said trump won back north, come he wanted when he 16, 2020, twitty 24. every time i have gone to hit north carolina i hit pennsylvania. >> sandra: that's interesting. >> john: stuck in my brain.

>> sandra: the next hour and 15 minutes is going to be fun, watching nascar. >> john: a pile up in turn three, everything goes squarely. >> sandra: this is a moment we have been waiting for. last night we did not see or hear from vice president kamala harris, but we have now gotten word through peter doocy, not the white house, that she has indeed called the president-elect. now next we will see and hear at 4:00 for her to deliver her message. >> john: carry that live. >> sandra: present electron returns office for a second term, it's possible he could have the chance to replace one or more on the supreme court after three in his first term. jonathan turley is a fox news contributor and has a joy of answering our questions that we hope makes sense. set this up for us. what is at stake here and what could the next four years look like? >> for the supreme court, those

nine citizens were probably glued to their tvs because for one thing the supreme court dodged a bullet in that you had democratic senators saying they wanted to pack the court. one of them said that kamala harris was in support of that plan. that would have really been devastating to the court. but now you also have a little more breathing room. for justices like clarence thomas, who is getting older, justice alito, they have a safe harbor. back where they can get a replacement who will be in their jurisprudential views. my guess is one or both of them could very well use that. this is a margin that would guarantee that type of transition. the other big change, of course, is many of the things they have done over the last few years are now going to be cemented. the issue of abortion will remain with the states. gun rights will remain robustly defended. so will religious freedom cases. so you're not going to have a

change for at least a decade or so, very likely, in the makeup of the court as being more conservative. that also means there is good to be a generation of americans that are going to grow up with issues like abortion being decided by citizens in each individual state. >> john: so there has also been talk that sonia sotomayor should step down. the talk has not been coming from her, it has been coming from other people. i assume that she's not going to likely entertain retirement anytime soon. >> well, terry things happened around 2:30 a.m. last night, one was the end the filibuster movement suddenly went silent on the left, and also the dump sotomayor movement, which was coming from the left, encouraging her to retire, is also suddenly silent. this is a four-year period, so justice sotomayor will have to make her decision. look, i supported her when the left was trying to give her the boot off the court. she's healthy. she's riding some of the most

powerful opinions of her career. i don't see any reason why she would retire. so most of the eyes on the court are looking at clarence thomas, who is the older member of the court, and also possibly alito. many justices will wait for a safe harbor period so their legacy is protected. >> john: thomas 76, alito 74. by supreme court standards, they are spring chickens. i mean, maybe they want to do some thing else. >> that's right. the thing is, they are both doing very well, intellectually as sharp as they have always been. thomas is more active in oral arguments than he has ever been in his career. there is no real burning need. there is a period of two years, a grace period where justice can make this move. when you're two years before the next election, that's the redline. and so if they are going to make this move, they have to think about doing it in the next year or so. >> sandra: that's great information and some thing to look for. while i put this up on the screen from our fox news boat

analysis, jonathan, this is where voters stood in our survey on the supreme court. we asked do you approve or disapprove on the way the supreme court is handling its job? those that somewhat approve 33%, those that strongly approve 17%, safe to say this is, you know, about even, although there is more who say they strongly disapprove and strongly somewhat disapprove. >> well, 50% either approve or somewhat approve. that is astronomically higher than congress. one of the things i say to members of congress who want to pack the court is that your institution is about as popular as ebola, so saying, my gosh, the court has lost some of that support, the court is still ranked up there with one of the more popular institutions, so i think these justices want to return to normalcy. they really did not want to get involved in this election. you could see that in the decisions they were making. they wanted that cup to pass

from their lips. i think they will be very happy with this. the terrible thing is that a stable democracy broke out last night, so legal analysts were barely seam, and that's a very sad thing. but the good thing is we didn't have legal problems. if you see me it is like seeing your cardiologist. [laughter] so democracy was stronger. and i ate a lot of stuff in the green room. >> sandra: it was great seeing you. >> john: a lot of articles. >> i did write a lot of columns. >> john: less sleep than me. >> zero sleep. >> sandra: having sat down with justice gorsuch on a couple of occasions, thinking about a viewing party for the supreme court, he always says we are all friends, we all have lunch together -- >> yeah. the view outside the court is so fascinating. they like each other. >> john: thank you, professor. get some sleep tonight. now this. >> going forward, the democrats have a real rural problem and they have real communication

challenges to a whole bunch of groups, including young voters and latinos. >> john: democrats across the country asking themselves some hard questions today as the harris campaign starts to point fingers on what went wrong. harris national finance committemember lindy lee has got some strong thoughts about that. she is coming up.

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>> john: all right, so we learned a little while ago through peter doocy at the white house that vice president kamala harris made a phone call to president-elect trump to congratulate him on his win and to concede the election to him. for a little more on the color behind all of this let's go to peter doocy on the lawn at 1600 pennsylvania. peter? >> john, something brand-new is the vice president for the first time has confirmed that she will, in her role as the president of the senate, vote to certify trump's win in january as the electoral college votes. something else, and we are trying to, "the washington post" has a memo that got sent from the campaign cochair jen o'malley dillon and part of it describes these election result, the way you would normally hears of a loved one. she says, i'll leave you with this, losing is unfathomably painful. it is hard. this will take a long time to

process. but they are teasing us ahead now in this memo, too. the howard remarks we expect at 4:00, it will be the first time the vice president harris speaks. we don't expect any kind of social media or direct to camera anything from her, and we are going to throw it back to you for the breaking news, john peered. >> john: peter, think you so much. appreciate it. watching this afternoon for clock. >> sandra: fox news decision desk can now project democrat input, incumbent senator tammy bolden will maintain her wisconsin seat, defeating republican businessmen eric hovde who we had on this program, he was feeling pretty optimistic, obviously pretty thin margin there, but that race just called him a senate race in wisconsin. >> john: got to be some tickets putting going on there because donald trump projected to win wisconsin, tammy baldwin maintains her seat, a more than a few people voted for him at the top of the ticket and her in the undercard. >> sandra: there was some

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