Cardi B and More React as Donald Trump Declares Win

November 6, 2024 E Jazz Reporter

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Donald Trump has declared victory in the 2024 U.S. Presidential election.

Cardi B speaks during a campaign rally for Democratic presidential nominee, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris at the Wisconsin State Fair Park Exposition Center on November 1, 2024 in West Allis, Wisconsin.

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Donald Trump has declared victory in the 2024 U.S. Presidential election, after the Associated Press and other major news outlets called the presidential race in his favor.

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Addressing his supporters from his campaign’s watch party in Florida, Trump said, “Every citizen, I will fight for you, for your family and your future.” He added he was going to make people “very happy” and “very proud” of their vote.

“We have a country that needs help, and it needs help very badly,” Trump said. “We’re going to fix our borders. We’re going to fix everything about our country.”

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At the time of his speech, Trump had 267 of the 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House and is leading in several key races, including Michigan and Wisconsin. The count continues.

Meanwhile, the Harris campaign announced that the Vice President would not immediately deliver a speech and supporters were seen leaving her election night watch party.

While some celebrated, many in Hollywood and the music industry were stunned — including Bette Midler, who quoted journalist and essayist H.L. Mencken in one of the night’s most scathing responses.

“When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental…The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people.”

The quote continues, “On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”

Cardi B kept it short but direct as Trump’s lead grew throughout the evening: “We need a Hail Mary,” she tweeted, clearly shaken by the turn of events after endorsing Kamala Harris. On Instagram, she went a step further, posting to her Story, “I hate y’all bad.”

Cardi posted again on Wednesday morning (Nov. 6), directly addressing Harris, writing, “No matter what they’ve said to bring you down or belittle your fun for presidency they can never say you didnt run your race with honesty and with integrity!” The rapper added that she’s proud of the Vice President, noting that nobody has ever made her change her mind and thanking the VP for being an “example… for being empowered… [and] being a real example of what the American dream should be!”

Marc Rebillet posted on X, “F— DONALD TRUMP.”

After claiming that he turned down a $3 million check to appear to Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally last week, 50 Cent — who had supported Trump in his failed 2020 re-election bid, only to change his mind — was once again on the Trump train in the wake of Tuesday’s victory. “I don’t care how the fight goes, I’m leaving with the winner s–t,” he wrote.

Singer Ethel Cain typed out a lengthy response to Trump’s win as well, in which the singer wrote that, “the problem is that America has beaten down its people for decades and gotten them weak and desperate and now promises a way out, a way to transcend and rise above, through selling out their fellow man.”

Calling out an “embarrassingly large chunk of white men” who she said are “just straight up Nazis” who she said will vote/align themselves with “anything for a taste of power and control that makes them feel a little less helpless,” Cain lamented that she feels “everybody is so incredibly hateful. We are a loveless, disrespectful nation.”

While Cain said “it’s not even about Trump,” she did note that if you did vote for the twice impeached former and future President, “I hope peace never finds you.”

Trump supporter Lil Pump posted a selfie in which he wore a MAGA hat — with Trump on TV in the background, writing, “They put him in jail try to assassinate him and he’s still here and became president that’s a fu–ing warrior MAGA. I lost a lot of friends over this, but don’t come back over on this side because now Trump won and your dumbass was on the other side.”

Trump would be the first former president to return to power since Grover Cleveland regained the White House in the 1892 election. He also stands to be the first person convicted of a felony to be elected president and, at 78, he will be the oldest person at the outset of a presidential term.

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