As the dust settles on the 2024 election, the Regime Media is beginning to take inventory of the massive loss that it took. There may be reflection, but no introspection, as Jon Karl proves on ABC This Week.

Watch the show's opening editorial in its entirety:

ABC THIS WEEK

11/10/24

9:01 AM

Good morning. Welcome to This Week In just 71 days, Donald Trump will be sworn in again as President of the United States. His comeback victory, unlike anything we have ever seen in American history. Just take a look at the final results. With Arizona now projected for Trump, he locks in a sweeping victory in every single battleground state, and Trump did more than that. He made big gains with young voters and with Latinos, doing better among Hispanic voters than any Republican presidential candidate since the first exit polls were conducted in 1976. He even did better among women than when he ran against Joe Biden. He also made significant gains in some of the most Democratic places in the country, doing better in places like Brooklyn, New Jersey, and Chicago. And in deep blue California, Donald Trump is on track to do better than any Republican in two decades- and he was running against a Californian! California voters also rejected liberal policies on taxes, rent control, and crime. They voted overwhelmingly to approve Proposition 36, which imposes tougher penalties for shoplifting and drug possession. Both the mayor of San Francisco and the liberal district attorney in Los Angeles were voted out. A rejection of liberal policies, particularly on crime in some of the most liberal jurisdictions in the United States. Regardless of what you think about the outcome, whether you are happy about it or fearful, this week was a victory for democracy. Turnout was near record high and when the votes were counted, the losing candidate didn't cry foul or make false allegations of election fraud or try to overturn the will of the voters. She gave a gracious concession speech, and the outgoing president promised to ensure a smooth and peaceful transfer of power, with Biden and Trump scheduled to meet at The White House on Wednesday. Democracy worked, even if it brought us a President Elect who many argued is a threat to democracy. Now the question turns to what the man who tried to overturn a democratic election four years ago will do with his mandate. 

Had Kamala Harris won the election, particularly in such a resounding manner, would George Stephanopoulos have deferred the post-election to his co-hosts? You and I both know the answer is an emphatic no, and that Jon Karl definitely drew the short straw for this assignment.

So it is that this week’s broadcast begins, as did many shows throughout the 2024 electoral cycle, with a lengthy, overwrought editorial. This one, while slightly different in substance, is the same as the others both in tone and tenor.

After years of howling to viewers about Donald Trump being an existential threat to democracy thus attempting to make the choice for them, the American public listened to those arguments and chose otherwise. Donald Trump is the duly elected president. Once again. Despite four years of media caterwauling, grotesque bias, and promotion of lawfare and government censorship.

If you listen closely, you can hear the bits of crow stuck in Karl’s throat as he reads these words off of the teleprompter. But Karl couldn’t let it go without getting one last shot in. 

More than likely, this wasn’t so much a monologue as it was a workshopping of the introduction to Karl’s fourth book about Trump. The election is over, but the obsession remains.