Donald Trump has been elected president again, this time by a wide margin. Americans have strongly rebuked Democratic nominee Kamala Harris, President Joe Biden and their progressive ideas.

Voters have spoken loud and clear. Will the Democratic Party listen to what a majority of voters said?

Four years after Republicans lost the presidency, President-elect Trump, Vice President-elect JD Vance and more than 72 million Americans harnessed a "red wave" that knocked down the "blue wall" and swept the GOP back into the White House and back to control of the Senate − with perhaps control of the House yet to come.

Trump is even leading the popular vote by about 4.8 million ballots as of Wednesday.

Trump didn't just win, he won decisively, dispelling any concerns about contentious legal fights over the vote. The race was called less than 12 hours after polls began to close in the Eastern time zone.

In Texas, where I live, Trump flipped Starr County, which has voted for Democrats since way before I was born, 1982. He also managed to flip Miami-Dade County in Florida, a county that's been blue since 1988.

I'm stunned. I spent the past six months buried in slogans and predictions that Biden would be a second-term president, until he wasn't.

Then it was Harris, whose joy and hope would save the nation from the billionaire-turned-convict Trump, whose presence on the ballot was a supposed threat to democracy.

What a difference a day makes.

Trump has not just won, but won, well, bigly, as the kids say.

But this isn't a joking matter: Trump's lopsided victory − and........

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