Democrats and the media tried to make the election all about Donald Trump and January 6.
That plan backfired.
And Donald Trump’s win forced Democrats to make this major choice.
House Speaker Mike Johnson addresses January 6
Donald Trump’s smashing victory in the 2024 election put the spotlight on the Democrats’ ugly reaction to defeat.
Democrats denied the results of every election Republicans won in the 21st century.
In 2000, Democrats tried to game the system and run recount after recount only in Democrat strongholds to try and win Florida.
Every single count showed George W. Bush beating Al Gore.
When the Supreme Court put a stop to this chicanery, Democrats cried foul and falsely claimed that the court installed Bush as President.
In 2004, Democrats baselessly invented a dangerous conspiracy theory that voting machines in Ohio flipped votes from John Kerry to Bush.
And, finally, in 2016 Democrats fabricated the Russia collusion hoax out of whole cloth to try and overturn the results of the election.
Now that Donald Trump is the President-elect, the prospect of how Congress will handle his victory and certification on January 6 remains.
Will the Democrats stage another protest of election denialism?
House Speaker Mike Johnson assured reporters there wouldn’t be any funny business.
“All this hyperbole and madness about, ‘Oh, they’re going to try to unwind the election.’ None of that is true. None of it. President Trump mentioned that we had a ‘secret’ while he was in Madison Square Garden and the secret is our telephone town halls. It’s not some ulterior motive. The media went crazy over that,” Johnson stated.
Johnson said the media and the Democrat Party invented a controversy about Republicans not certifying a potential Kamala Harris – one that never materialized – to try and scare suburban swing voters into voting for the Democrats.
“There’s just too much emotion, too much misinformation out there. Everybody needs to calm down, let’s do our civic duty, let’s have an American election and then it’ll be certified,” Johnson added.
Donald Trump routed Kamala Harris, sweeping all seven battleground states and became only the second Republican to win the popular vote since 1988.
Johnson correctly predicted that Trump’s win would be too overwhelming for anyone to question and that the House of Representatives would easily certify Trump’s win on January 6.
“I think it’s going to be too big to rig, I think President Donald Trump is going to win today, and I think we’re going to win the Senate and the House, so we’re excited,” Johnson concluded.
Republicans won at least four Senate seats to capture a minimum of a 53 seat Senate majority.
Votes are still getting counted in the states, but Republicans are on track to keep the majority in the House.
Donald Trump will take office next year with a united government where he will exert greater power and influence over Congress and regulatory agencies than in his first term in office.
The GOP is now the party of Trump as exit polls showed Trump winning 45 percent of the Hispanic vote and 25 percent of the black male vote in states like Georgia and it’s now a multi-ethnic working-class conservative party.
It’s also seen as the party of fun, a new one for Republicans, as young men under 30 voted heavily for Trump over Kamala by 18 points, a 27-point swing from how he did in 2020 against Joe Biden.
