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TOP OF THE DAY by Howard Polskin

Nov. 6, 2024

Greetings! The American people have spoken. This is who we are…If there’s a slim ray of sunlight in the  election outcome, it’s likely there will be a peaceful transfer of power come Inauguration Day. Remember the good old days when we used to take that for granted?…Homepage headline from the right this morning: Breitbart’s Trump Towers…Can’t say the election results surprised me.  Since the Veep debate between J.D. Vance, and Tim Walz, I felt a vibe shift toward Team Trump from Kamala & crew. And I feared correctly that Trump’s increasingly incendiary language and coarse gestures the last month created an unusual opportunity for him to appeal to hard-to-reach young male voters…I spent the bulk of last night surfing between CNN and MSNBC. Enough with Steve Kornacki’s shtick and I’m off the MSNBC data geek for at least the rest of the month.  Amazon Prime’s election coverage featuring Brian Williams was shockingly poor.  I’m a long-time Williams fan, but he seemed rusty and off his game. The newscast’s digital  backdrop inexplicably made it look like Williams at times was anchoring from some lonely country road, adjacent to a cornfield…As of 10:45 a.m. EST today, Trump has been silent on Truth Social about the election results…Stormy Daniels and Michael Cohen were among the notable guest commentators for the UK’s Channel 4 election night coverage. If I were Daniels  and Cohen, I’d keep a much lower profile for the next four years…One of the many sad parts of Trump’s second presidential victory, is that he’s likely to be remembered as a major transformative figure in our nation’s history, rather than an early 21st century political aberration…An unusually warm November sun shines today on TheRighting’s global headquarters here in NYC, but it’s nonetheless a very dark day….If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting.  Howard