Out of all the post-election reactions shared on social media in the last 72 hours, perhaps the most grating and eye-roll-inducing are the women sobbing about how a majority of America could have possibly voted “against our daughters.”

“How am I going to tell my daughter that America voted for her rights to be taken away?” sobbed one woman on Instagram. Others crooned about voting “for their daughters” on Election Day, presumably meaning they voted for pro-abortion candidates and ballot initiatives.

Before I explain why I’m grateful for this election “for my daughters” specifically, it needs to be said that these types of posts using children to fight in political culture wars need to stop. Whether it’s your own children, or others’, just stop. Kids under 18 need to be protected, not used by their parents or anyone else as a shield to hide behind or a cudgel to push an adult’s policy preference. But since the “for my daughters” crowd is out in full force this week, I would like to thank all the men and women, but specifically the men, who voted for Donald Trump and “for my daughters.”

Courting the Manosphere

There was a lot of pressure on men this election to “show up for women.” From Barack Obama lecturing “the brothers” to Kamala Harris’ step-daughter demanding men “step up and show they actually support us,” Democrats knew how unappealing and unlikeable their candidate was to men, and they hoped men could be guilted

The 2020 presidential election was marred by irregularities, insecure election practices, and last-minute rule changes that, as election integrity activists have since pointed out, benefitted Democrat Joe Biden. As The Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway put it in her bestseller, the election was “Rigged.”

But four years later, President-elect Donald Trump won in a landslide in part because Republicans and conservatives mobilized like never before to build a massive election integrity network focused on ensuring free and fair elections. 

Take 2020 for example. Republican observers “were either kept out, or allowed inside but kept too far away from the counting to see what was happening” at the Philadelphia Convention Center, as explained by my colleague Beth Brelje.

But following reports on Tuesday that Republican poll watchers were being “turned away” in Philadelphia, York, Westmoreland, Allegheny, Lehigh, Cambria, Wyoming, and Lackawanna counties, the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) was on top of it.

RNC Chairman Michael Whatley said in a post on X that the committee “deployed our roving attorneys, engaged with local officials, and can now report that all Republican poll watchers have been let into the building.”

Similar action was taken in Milwaukee after the “Milwaukee Elections Commission announced over the weekend that certain voting precincts may be limited to only one Republican and one Democrat poll watcher on Election Day,” as the RNC wrote in a Monday statement. The RNC noted that the city’s elections commission “not disclosed which precincts” would be affected. The RNC filed suit, and Milwaukee responded by affirming

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Republican Dave McCormick flipped Pennsylvania’s long-held Democrat U.S. Senate seat in an upset that will remove Sen. Bob Casey Jr. from office. But the results are so close there will be a recount.

Casey has held the seat since 2007 and was seeking a fourth six-year term.

The McCormick campaign released a statement on Thursday afternoon noting the close race.

“McCormick is up 30,679 votes with more to come, as ruby red Cambria County is still outstanding. While votes continue to be counted, any way you slice it, Dave McCormick will be the next United States Senator from Pennsylvania,” Elizabeth Gregory, McCormick’s communications director, said in the statement. (As of publication, McCormick led Casey by nearly 32,000 votes).

Cambria County was slow to count ballots because the county had a technical problem on Election Day. Vote scanners could not read the ballots, and it took hours to figure out a solution. Many ballots were cast on paper and had to be counted by hand.

Sen. Bob Casey has not tapped out. The margin between the candidates is .48 percent, and Pennsylvania law triggers an automatic recount when the results are .5 percent or less.

There are more ballots to be counted before the election is certified. Overseas voters have until Nov. 12 to return their ballots and be counted. This year, 37,642 overseas voters requested ballots to vote in Pennsylvania according to Department of State data.

Maddy McDaniel, Casey’s communications director,