The Biggest Loser? After Tuesday, it’s not just the title of the long-running reality TV weight-loss show anymore.
The biggest loser of the Nov. 5 elections, undeniably, was Vice President Kamala Harris. Despite raising and spending a staggering $1 billion in campaign cash and having the sycophantic support of the Hollywood glitterati, the now-lame-duck vice president was decisively defeated in her bid for promotion to the presidency.
Voters ensured she wouldn’t become the latest example of 1970s bestselling author Lawrence Peter’s “Peter Principle” theorem that people get promoted in a hierarchy until they reach a level at which they are no longer competent. Voters on Tuesday apparently concluded Harris had reached that point four years ago and resoundingly voted not to make that mistake again.
Harris demonstrated “Peter Principle”-level incompetence with her very first independent executive decision; namely, the choice of loopy leftist Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her vice presidential running mate.
Walz, a self-described “knucklehead,” brought to the Democratic ticket the frumpiness of George Costanza combined with the charisma of Elmer Fudd.
But while Harris and Walz were the biggest losers, they were far from the only big losers Tuesday night.
In no particular order, here are some of the many others who lost bigly:
Sen. Chuck Schumer: Voters demoted the New York Democrat from Senate majority leader to minority leader by kicking (at least) three longtime liberal Democratic senators—in Montana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania—to the curb. (Republicans also picked up an open Senate seat in West Virginia.)
Once and future President Donald Trump makes a joke about Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., (right) at the annual Alfred E. Smith Foundation charity fundraising dinner on Oct. 17 in New York City. Schumer was not amused. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
Suddenly, but not surprisingly, abolishing the Senate filibuster is no longer a Democratic talking point. Talk of also abolishing the Electoral College has likewise gone away postelection, after the once and future President Donald Trump also won the popular vote in a nearly 5 million-vote landslide.
Liz Cheney: The Trump-hating former Republican congresswoman—resoundingly repudiated by Wyoming voters in 2022 after she cast her lot with Democrats on the kangaroo court Jan. 6 committee—campaigned extensively for Harris. Cheney’s dream of being tapped as defense secretary in a Harris administration is now kaput.
The “Blue Wall”: Even Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin couldn’t save Harris’ train wreck of a candidacy.
Political lawfare: Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith; New York state Attorney General Letitia James; Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis; and Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg will now have to find someone not named Trump to prosecute.
Hollywood: Cher and Barbra Streisand, Alec Baldwin and Robert De Niro, Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar, et al., your flight to Canada is now boarding at Gate 3. Make them one-way tickets, please.
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MSNBC: Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, Joy Reid and Rachel Maddow, Nicolle Wallace and Stephanie Ruhle, et al., see: Hollywood (above).
TV’s late-night “comics”: Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, and Seth Meyers have replaced comedy monologues with leftist political rants. In the process, they’ve lost large swaths of their audiences. Johnny Carson, who poked good-natured fun at both sides, is rolling over in his grave.
“60 Minutes”: With its unapologetically dishonest editing of its interview with Harris to make her look more coherent than she really is, the long-running CBS newsmagazine show shredded what was left of its credibility. Ditto ABC’s David Muir and Linsey Davis and CBS’ Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan with their biased, one-sided “fact-checking” during the presidential and vice presidential debates.
The Lincoln Project: How much longer will these money-grubbing, nominally Republican grifters be able to perpetuate their multimillion-dollar anti-Trump con?
The Left’s exploitation of the gender gap: Harris had a much larger gender gap among men than Trump had among women: 13 points vs. 7 points, respectively.
Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferers: Do they not realize (or care) just how non compos mentis they appear in their hysterical anti-Trump TikTok video rants? (Libs of TikTok founder Chaya Raichik surely hopes not.)
“Doonesbury” and cartoonist Garry Trudeau: The Patient Zero of Trump Derangement Syndrome, Trudeau in his painfully unfunny Sunday-only comic strip bashed Trump nearly every week for months leading up to the election. Not surprisingly, his Nov. 10 comic strip doesn’t mention Trump’s landslide victory at all, much less concede his failure to affect the outcome.
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Hitler: Democrats’ predictable quadrennial vilification of their GOP presidential opponents with the “Hitler” epithet—which dates back 60 years to Barry Goldwater in 1964—has lost whatever impact it might have once had. Think “the boy who cried wolf.” No one other than the aforementioned Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferers believes it anymore.
