In the early hours of Wednesday morning, legacy news networks were already sliding toward 2016 levels of melting down about the increasingly definite prospect of a presidential victory by Donald J. Trump. For them, Harris’ stinging defeat is personal — because it’s just as much a defeat for them as it is for her.

The corporate media industrial complex has spent Donald Trump’s entire political career trying to destroy him. Hand-in-hand with triple-letter government agencies and Democrats, they ran a hoax painting Trump as a Russian stooge based on ridiculous rumors commissioned by his opponent’s campaign in 2016. They continued to spread the lie for the duration of his presidency, awarding each other Pulitzers for it. And they’ve only ramped up their efforts since then.

The problem they’re reckoning with tonight is this: those efforts didn’t work. They’re no longer able to control Americans by controlling their information intake, because their credibility is farther deep-sixed than the Clinton family’s enemies list.

A TV executive anonymously fretted last week that “If half the country has decided that Trump is qualified to be president, that means they’re not reading any of this media, and we’ve lost this audience completely. A Trump victory means mainstream media is dead in its current form.”

Even before the election results were in, that was true of the corporate press. Jeff Bezos knew it when he reportedly ordered The Washington Post to withhold an endorsement of Harris. But now, they can’t avoid it.

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Republicans are projected to win back control of the U.S. Senate following Tuesday’s 2024 general election.

As of this article’s publication, the GOP has secured at least 51 seats to create a governing majority in the upper chamber. This will give Republicans a Senate majority for the first time since 2020.

In addition to winning races in traditional GOP states such as Texas and Florida, Republicans made several pick-ups in seats currently occupied by Democrats.

In Ohio, Republican Bernie Moreno defeated incumbent Democrat Sen. Sherrod Brown to win one of the Buckeye State’s Senate seats. Brown has held the seat since 2007.

Republicans also experienced a pick-up in West Virginia, where GOP Gov. Jim Justice handily beat Democrat Glenn Elliott to fill the seat of retiring Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin.

Several highly contested races have yet to be called as of 2:00 a.m. on Wednesday, according to The New York Times.

Preliminary election results show Republican Tim Sheehy leading incumbent Democrat Sen. Jon Tester by roughly 4.5 points. Wisconsin’s Senate matchup showed similar margins, in which Republican Eric Hovde leads incumbent Democrat Sen. Tammy Baldwin by roughly 2.5 points, according to The New York Times.

Nevada’s contest produced tighter margins, with incumbent Democrat Sen. Jacky Rosen trailing Republican Sam Brown by less than 1 point with 77 percent of votes tabulated, according to early results. In Pennsylvania, Republican Dave McCormick leads incumbent Democrat Sen. Bob Casey by 1.3 points with 94 percent of the vote in.

Former President Donald Trump has won the state of Georgia by more than one hundred thousand votes.

The Associated Press called the race for Trump in the early hours of Wednesday morning, with Trump receiving 2,640,803 votes compared to Vice President Kamala Harris’ 2,513,864 votes.

President Joe Biden won the state in 2020 by 11,779 votes or 0.23 percent.

Trump saw his biggest leads in Cherokee, Forsyth, Hall, and Paulding counties, while Harris saw large turnout from Fulton and DeKalb counties.

Election data expert Mark Davis tells The Federalist that Trump’s victory is the result of a combination of factors.

“Trump’s Georgia victory is also a victory for the election integrity movement, and we have a long list of people to thank for that, especially in the General Assembly,” Davis said. “But we cannot and will not rest. We have more to do to ensure free and fair elections Georgia voters can have confidence in.”

The comeback comes despite Democrats’ last-minute election shenanigans and lawfare efforts against the State Election Board (SEB), which passed a series of rules aimed at ensuring accurate election results.

The Georgia Supreme Court stepped in on Monday after a judge ruled that Democrat-run Cobb County must accept thousands of absentee ballots that were slated to arrive after Election Day.

Cobb County was also one of four Democrat-led counties, alongside Fulton, DeKalb, and Gwinnett counties, that extended their in-person drop-off hours for absentee ballots this weekend without having directly informed Republican leaders. Republican leaders told