Exit polls showed Vice President Kamala Harris managed to win majorities of Latino, black, and Asian voters in the 2024 race, but the numbers also revealed Donald Trump made gains among the key minority groups as he marched to victory and secured a second White House term. Latinos swung more in Trump’s direction, giving him a bump of about 10 percentage points in “Hispanic-majority counties” compared to four years ago when Joe Biden won the presidential election, The New York Times reported. Harris still managed to get a slight majority of their vote, but she got dinged on the economy. University of Houston political science professor Jeronimo Cortina told Axios: “Latinos were saying, ‘I don’t care what Trump says. I want to be able to pay the bills. I want to be able to send my kid to college. I want to pay the mortgage, to afford a new car.'” Trump even managed to be the first Republican to win the most Hispanic county in the United States in more than a century: Starr County, Texas — which is about 97% Latino and is situated along the southern border with Mexico — went Trump’s way. According to the Associated Press, Trump did slightly better with black voters. The outlet reported roughly 8 in 10 black voters supported Harris — a drop from the roughly 9 in 10 black voters who supported Biden — while Trump doubled his support among young black men. “This election cycle, the fact that Black men have begun to be more vocal … We are willing to explore other political alternatives,” Darius Jones, founder and president of the National Black Empowerment Council, told POLITICO. “I think it’s something which, in the long run, is going to be advantageous to our community.” The New York Times reported that majority-black counties in the swing state of Georgia — in particular: Hancock, Talbot, and Jefferson Counties — “shifted toward” Trump. He even flipped Baldwin County, which has a population that is 42% black, for the first time in 20 years. An exit poll from NBC News showed Trump also gained about 5 percentage points among Asian Americans, who make up the fastest-growing racial group of eligible voters in the United States, though Harris won 54% of their votes. MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+ In Michigan, Trump won Dearborn and made “significant gains” in Hamtramck — two cities with the largest percentage of Arab Americans in the U.S. — as many expressed discontent with Middle East conflicts and the economy, per the Detroit Free Press. Jill Stein, a Green Party candidate, won more than 18% of the vote in Dearborn. And it appears a larger share of New York’s large Jewish population backed Trump this time around. Fox News’ voter analysis — conducted in partnership with the AP — found 46% of Jewish voters in the blue state backed Trump while Harris got 54% support. In 2020, Trump got 37% support from Jewish voters in New York and Biden received 63%. Newsweek highlighted one small bright spot for Harris: marginal growth among college-educated white voters as CNN’s exit polling showed Harris won 52% of their vote compared to 45% for Trump. Four years ago, Biden got 51% of their vote while Trump received 48%. Trump won 57% of white voters — the largest racial voting bloc — in 2024 and 58% in 2020.

The results of the 2024 election show that the American people rejected far-left transgender ideology and the candidate who embraced these radical positions. Though Kamala Harris tried to distance herself from her past support for tax-payer transgender surgeries for illegal immigrants and federal prisoners, Donald Trump and his campaign effectively used her remarks to show the American people how out of touch she was on this topic. The Trump campaign zeroed in on the Left’s embrace of transgenderism, pouring millions into television ads that warned: “Kamala is for they/them. President Trump is for you.” Those ads didn’t have to do much heavy lifting: they quoted Kamala herself. “Surgery, for prisoners, every transgender inmate in the prison system would have access,” the ad quotes the vice president saying. Kamala is for they/them. President Trump is for you. pic.twitter.com/Yk1KBgMH4f — Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) September 20, 2024 Those efforts were wildly successful. Even before the election, the ad’s success prompted a slew of legacy media stories on the Trump campaign’s strategy to use “anti-transgender” messaging, and how effective that strategy was. Trump advisors told The Daily Wire that the messaging was reaching women, specifically suburban women, the same population that Democrats were targeting with aggressive abortion messaging. The Wall Street Journal predicted trans-identifying males in women’s sports would be the 2024 sleeper issue. Activists like Terry Schilling and Penny Nance insisted that the Left had gone too far — and that women were going to go to the polls to vote against gender ideology. According to Democratic testing results reviewed by the New York Times before the election, the “Kamala is for they/them” ad was both the Trump campaign’s most viewed and most effective ad.  The Trump campaign aired the ad across the nation, including during football games. One viewer in particular was impressed: popular podcast host Charlamagne Tha God, who saw the ad while watching football. “Kamala supports taxpayer funded sex change surgeries for prisoners!” he exclaimed as he discussed the topic on air. “HELL NO I don’t want my taxpayer dollars going to that.” The Trump campaign used that line as well, pushing out another ad that cites Charlamagne Tha God and his co-host condemning the far-left position. According to analysis by Harris’s top super PAC, Future Forward, the Charlamagne ad ended up being one of the Trump team’s most effective 30-second ads, the New York Times reported. The publication reports that the Charlamagne ad “shifted the race 2.7 percentage points in Mr. Trump’s favor after viewers watched it.” (Photo by Jason Mendez/Getty Images for ReedPop) Trump messaged throughout his campaign that Harris and the Democrats were pushing dangerous ideology that Americans didn’t want. He argued repeatedly that the far-left policies the Democratic Party embraced were “crazy.” His assertions were based on polling, both internal and external, as The Daily Wire previously reported, showing that Americans don’t want these radical transgender policies.  These leftist activists and lawmakers, as Trump put it, are “crazy.”  “The sickos who are pushing sexual content in kindergartens, or providing puberty blockers to young children who have no idea what a puberty blocker is,” he said in 2022, drawing laughs from the crowd. “Neither do I, by the way. Neither do most of the people in the audience, as you smile.” NEW: I spent the last few weeks speaking with activists and operatives close to Trump world about how his messaging on trans issues has evolved since 2020. It’s the 2024 sleeper issue, I’m told — and Trump has paid attention. https://t.co/esxULndsYU — Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) October 30, 2024 “Democrats want to have a debate about something that’s been totally obvious since the beginning of time,” Donald Trump Jr. told The Daily Wire last month. “But thankfully, common sense Americans know that boys play with boys and girls play with girls.” In addition to his messaging on the campaign trail, Trump’s campaign platform promised to “cut federal funding for any school pushing critical race theory, radical gender ideology, and other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content on our children.” The platform also promised to “keep men out of women’s sports.” That messaging, and the messaging of Republican candidates across the country, caused at least three major Democrats to reverse their stances on men in women’s sports in the days ahead of the election, in Texas, Alaska, and Pennsylvania. The Trump campaign ads on transgender issues were not only very effective with moderate suburban women, but also with black and Latino men, The New York Times reported. Even former President Bill Clinton reportedly pushed Harris’s campaign to deny that they supported such radical stances. “We have to answer it and say we won’t do it,” he told an associate, the Times reported. The publication reports that the Harris campaign told Clinton that the Trump trans ads were not really having an impact, and Clinton did not end up talking about the issue publicly. Meanwhile, the Harris campaign was aware that they did, in fact, need to address these very effective attacks. The New York Times reports that the campaign debated internally, created ad responses, tested them, and found that they would not do well. So. they never ran the ads. In the early hours of the morning on Wednesday, Trump took the stage in West Palm Beach to speak as the next president of the United States. “The Democrats attaching themselves to the gender ideology bandwagon may be the stupidest thing the party has done in decades,” said Jay Richards, the director of the DeVos Center for Life, Religion, and Family at the Heritage Foundation. “The American public — left, right, and center — grows more opposed to it by the day. But the Biden administration and DNC spent four years pushing it into the nook and cranny of every government agency.” Trump could have “played it safe” and avoided the topic, Richards said. “Instead, he made gender madness a centerpiece of his campaign, especially in the closing weeks,” he argued. “It should now be obvious that embracing gender ideology is not just bad policy that leads to toxic medicine. It’s a huge political liability. Let’s hope some Democrats have learned their lesson. If not, then they’re giving Republicans a giant club to clobber them with.” American Principles Project President Terry Schilling, whose organization poured over $18 million into ads highlighting Democratic extremism on this topic, argues it was Democrats themselves who dug their own grave. “It’s the culture, stupid. Yes, the economic messaging and environment helped. Yes, the Democrats’ embrace of lawlessness helped. But those things were there in 2020 and 2022,” Schilling argued. “Democrats transed children in school and insisted on taxpayer-funded sex change procedures,” he said. “They put men in women’s sports and private spaces. They put tampons in boys’ bathrooms. They classified parents as domestic terrorists. They put 72-year-old grandmas in jail for praying at abortion clinics. They lost the Catholic vote in the key swing states by enormous margins — all due to their cultural extremism. It might have been ‘the economy, stupid’ in the 1990s, but in 2024 it was obviously the culture. Stupid.”

Joy Behar lost it during Thursday’s broadcast of “The View,” claiming that because Republicans had put up big wins in the White House and the Senate — and also appeared poised to hold control of the House — that the “checks and balances” written into the United States Constitution had failed. Behar joined her cohosts on the ABC midday talk show for a second full broadcast of meltdowns and hand-wringing following now-President Elect Donald Trump’s decisive victory at the polls on Tuesday. It was cohost Sara Haines who began the discussion with praise for Vice President Kamala Harris and her concession speech, despite the fact that Harris — like former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton before her — had refused to address her supporters on Election Night and had instead waited until more than 14 hours later. “She’s even inspiring in defeat,” Haines suggested that, if the roles had been reversed, Trump would not have conceded and raved about Harris’ concession speech. “Like, the things she said about we don’t stop fighting.” WATCH: Joy Behar rages at the red wave: "We lost the Senate, the Supreme Court, the executive branch, the House is on the verge of going to him. It's pathetic! There are no checks and balances."She bashes America for not electing the "completely intelligent qualified woman." pic.twitter.com/WDHil6EVew — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) November 7, 2024 “I’d like to be positive, but today I don’t — yesterday I felt better. Maybe it was the Valium,” a visibly dejected Behar complained, prompting laughs from the audience. “But today I feel like we lost the Senate, the Supreme Court, the Executive Branch, the House is on the verge of going to him. It’s pathetic! There are no checks and balances!” MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+ “A completely intelligent, qualified woman lost to a guy who’s simulating sex with a microphone,” she complained. “I mean, come on, America.” Behar joins many others in legacy media who have openly struggled with Harris’ resounding loss. The majority have blamed racism, sexism, “misinformation,” and billionaire Elon Musk — but none have raised the possibility that Harris or her policies might be unpopular, nor have they reflected on any role they themselves might have played in the way the election unfolded.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) celebrated his victory and President-Elect Donald Trump’s victory against Rep. Colin Allred (D-TX) this week by calling the drubbing Republicans handed Democrats an “a** kicking.” Cruz made the remarks on his “Verdict” podcast with co-host Ben Ferguson after his 9-point victory this week. “Last night, as you noted, we won by nearly 10 points,” Cruz said. “We won by a million votes. I mean, it was an extraordinary victory. It was a victory across the board and one of the amazing outcomes was what happened in South Texas, and what happened with Hispanics.” “And NBC News is reporting that I won Hispanics statewide by six points,” he continued. “That is a big, big deal. You want to talk about a transformation. And we saw South Texas counties, and a region of the state that has been bright blue for 100 years is rapidly, rapidly turning red. We had major victories throughout South Texas to win Hispanics statewide by six points is transformational.” Cruz noted that everything from the Biden-Harris administration’s record was “a train wreck.” “There’s a reason Kamala never talked about anything they’ve done,” he said. “She ran as the change candidate, because she sure as heck couldn’t run on her record. And you know what the American people said? To hell with that, we want change.” “Now, whether Congress goes along is a different question, because the Democrats are still going to have enough votes in the Senate to filibuster legislation and it will be interesting to see if congressional Democrats have learned anything from this a** kicking,” he continued. “Let’s be clear, that’s what this election was, it was an a** kicking across the board.” LISTEN: Democrats are desperate to blame Joe Biden or Kamala Harris for their massive loss. They should really be blaming themselves. The entire party advocated for an agenda that was horrible for America and was radically out-of-touch with voters.https://t.co/L00Q3j73j4 pic.twitter.com/ezPMj9o2GO — Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) November 7, 2024

More than 40 monkeys escaped from a bio-medical research lab in Beaufort County, South Carolina, on Wednesday afternoon after a caretaker accidentally failed to secure a door at an enclosure, allowing the primates to escape. In a public service announcement on Thursday from the Yemassee Police Department, it said the police received an alert from Alpha Genesis Primate Research facility “regarding the escape of numerous Rhesus Macaque primates from their enclosures,” and police have warned citizens to lock their doors and windows. “The number has since been confirmed to be 43,” the announcement read. “The primates are described as very young females weighing approximately 6-7lbs, the animals have never been used for testing due to their young age and size.” “A spokesperson from Alpha Genesis can confirm that these animals are too young to carry disease,” the statement added. “The Yemassee Police Department, in collaboration with Alpha Genesis, have initiated search teams to help locate the escaped primates. Alpha Genesis currently have eyes on the primates and are working to entice them with food.” “Residents are strongly advised to keep doors and windows secured to prevent these animals from entering homes,” police said in the statement. “If you spot any of the escaped animals, please contact 911 immediately and refrain from approaching them.” Police Searching for 40 Escaped Monkeys After Mass Breakout from South Carolina Research Facility https://t.co/7NSNXkj58z — People (@people) November 7, 2024 Greg Westergaard, CEO of Alpha Genesis, told CBS News that the monkey escape is “frustrating” and he is “hoping for a happy ending” with the primates returning of their own volition. “It’s really like follow-the-leader,” Westergaard added. “You see one go and the others go. It was a group of 50 and 7 stayed behind and 43 bolted out the door.” MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+ “The public is advised to avoid the area as these animals are described at skittish and any additional noise or movement could hinder their safe capture,” the public service announcement read. According to the Alpha Genesis facility website, it said that the lab breeds monkeys and provides “nonhuman primate products and bio-research services,” with a client base across the globe. Past clinical trials include research on progressive brain disorders, according to the Outsourcing Pharma website. Related: Monkeys Steal Baby Boy, Kill Him By Throwing Him Off Roof

Thursday’s broadcast of “The View” on ABC News quickly spun out of control and into the second day in a row of televised post-election group therapy and coping for the hosts of the show. The segment began with cohost Sara Haines praising Vice President Kamala Harris for her “inspiring” concession speech — which she did not make on Election Night and waited some 14 hours to deliver — and devolved almost immediately when Joy Behar claimed President-Elect Donald Trump’s win was proof that America’s checks and balances no longer worked. “This country missed out on [Kamala’s] leadership. This country missed out on the leadership of moving forward, not going back, the leadership of someone that was trying to unify this country,” Sunny Hostin led off. WATCH: Alyssa Farah Griffin suggests Democrats need to do a postmortem and blame Biden: "Why didn't Biden give her six months or a year to run…there are some macro issues here." pic.twitter.com/5MiuEYqUpr — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) November 7, 2024 Alyssa Farah Griffin, who self-identifies as a Republican despite admitting she voted for Harris, was the first to acknowledge that the Democratic Party may have made a few missteps — and she asked whether President Joe Biden, who was effectively ousted from the party’s ticket in late July — should have bowed out sooner. “Why didn’t Biden give her six months or a year to run…there are some macro issues here,” she said. MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+ Hostin pushed back, saying that Republicans — who won the Senate in addition to the White House — needed to do some reflecting. When Griffin pointed out that Republicans had swept the nation, Hostin protested, “They won but they’re morally bankrupt.” WATCH: Hostin, who's uber-wealthy, claims if Americans feel like things are too expensive and they can't make ends meet, they fell for "misinformation." pic.twitter.com/rR707kw31o — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) November 7, 2024 Hostin then addressed Americans’ concerns about the economy by suggesting that if they couldn’t afford things, it was because they’d fallen for “misinformation.” Things only got crazier from there, as Hostin reverted to blaming “misogyny and sexism” for Harris’ loss among Latino voters. WATCH: Wanting to talk about "the real stuff," multi-millionaire, Whoopi Goldberg declares "your pocketbook's bad not because of the did anything, not because the economy is bad" but because "the folks that own the groceries are pigs!" pic.twitter.com/xoKkKIMtao — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) November 7, 2024 Whoopi Goldberg weighed in then, saying, “Your pocketbook’s bad not because of — the Bidens did anything, not because the economy is bad … the folks that own the groceries are pigs!” Goldberg wrapped up the segment by complaining that the United States sent a “terrible message” to children by electing Trump.

Three people have been arrested and charged in relation to the death of former One Direction member Liam Payne following his fatal fall from the balcony of his hotel room in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on October 16. He was 31. On Thursday, Sky News reported that the three in custody face charges of “abandonment of a person followed by death and the supply of narcotics” in connection to Payne’s death last month. No other details about the arrests have been released at the time of this report. Payne’s partial autopsy reportedly showed that the singer had “multiple substances in his system” including something called “pink cocaine” when he fell three stories at the CasaSur Palermo Hotel where his body was found in the hotel courtyard, sources told ABC News. Pink cocaine is described as a mix of several drugs including methamphetamine, ketamine, MDMA, and others. The toxicology report also reportedly found crack, cocaine, and benzodiazepine. Paraphernalia used to ingest drugs were also found, the sources said. Payne’s body will remain in the country until the autopsy is finished. BREAKING: Three arrested in connection with death of Liam Payne https://t.co/PAiZ4D1jU3 ? Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube pic.twitter.com/oYT2DUAs8X — Sky News (@SkyNews) November 7, 2024 Details have recently been released about multiple 911 calls made by the hotel staff minutes before the singer’s shocking fatal fall. Local reports revealed that staff was very worried about Payne’s mental state after reportedly noticing that the English singer appeared to be under the influence before emergency crews responded to his fall, People magazine noted. MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+ According to a translation of La Nacion of the transcript of the call, the staff made it clear they needed help “urgently” — though they didn’t use his name in the call. The Associated Press reported that the hotel manager told the 911 operator about “a guest who is overwhelmed with drugs and alcohol. … He’s destroying the entire room and, well, we need you to send someone, please.” A BBC transcript stated that the staff said the person had been “trashing the entire room” before his death. In a second call, a member of the hotel staff said they worried the guest’s “life may be in danger” because he was “in a room with a balcony. We’re a little afraid that he …” the BBC reported. The 911 operator assured the manager that emergency crews were on the way, per the outlet. The cause of death is currently listed as “multiple trauma” and “internal and external bleeding,” the Associated Press reported.  The British celebrity got his break in the music industry after appearing on “The X Factor” in 2008. He returned to the reality competition show two years later along with Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson, and Zayn Malik, the singers who would become the popular band One Direction. The band split up in 2016, with members deciding to take off on solo careers. If you are having thoughts of suicide, call or text 988 to reach the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline or go to SpeakingOfSuicide.com/resources for a list of additional resources. Related: Liam Payne, Former One Direction Member, Dead At 31

Former advisor — first to former President Barack Obama and then to Vice President Kamala Harris — David Plouffe deleted his X (formerly Twitter) account after predicting her victory and taking a swipe at former President Joe Biden. Following former President Donald Trump’s stunning victory on Wednesday against the VP, Plouffe took to social media and wrote, “It was a privilege to spend the last 100 days with @KamalaHarris and the amazing staff led by @jomalleydillon who left it all on the field for their country,” the New York Post reported. “We dug out of a deep hole but not enough,” he added, before he deleted his X account on Thursday. “A devastating loss. Thanks for being in the arena, all of you.” On Tuesday night, CNN spoke to Plouffe, who predicted that Harris was going to sweep all seven of the battleground states in the 2024 election: Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, and North Carolina. In the end, it was Trump who ended up sweeping all seven. In the clip on X, Plouffe said they had prepared for the race to be “super close,” but that he was feeling good about their chances and claimed that undecided were turning their way. Harris campaign advisor David Plouffe appears to delete his X account after taking a dig at Biden. “We dug out of a deep hole but not enough. A devastating loss.” pic.twitter.com/tTtH5fJmyF — Julianna Frieman (@JuliannaFrieman) November 7, 2024 He also said that they were “closing strong” in Pennsylvania, and that they had a “credible pathway to all seven states … to go into Kamala’s column. But we believe they are all going to be close.” Plouffe was the manager for Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign which resulted in him winning the White House for the first time. In a statement to POLITICO, Harris’ campaign advisor said he was “Just taking a break as part of reimmersion into life and out of the campaign bunker,” the Post noted. One aide to Harris after the election told POLITICO, “We ran the best campaign we could, considering Joe Biden was president. Joe Biden is the singular reason Kamala Harris and Democrats lost tonight.” After Plouffe’s dig at Biden, one source connected to the president said that “Joe Biden is the President of the United States and won without [Plouffe]. He successfully beat Donald Trump — something [Plouffe] never did,” Fox News reported. The source also labeled Plouffe a “sanctimonious a**” and bashed the advisor’s “unproductive” social media post.  Related: Former Obama Campaign Manager Sounds Alarm On Biden: ‘Defcon 1 Moment’