Fox News, Jon Stewart and 'The View' react to Trump's victory

Jon Stewart tries to find the bright side of the 2024 general election.

The host of “The Daily Show” went live for election night on Tuesday and tried to find “all the little glasses half full” as former President Donald Trump continued to back away from Vice President Kamala Harris.

He pointed to Harris’ victory in Washington, D.C. (“by vote, not by insurrection”) and Maryland Democrat Angela Alsobrooks, who became the first black candidate elected to represent the state in the Senate, as small victories .

“We’re obviously sorting through the results to find some you like,” Stewart said hesitantly. “Because you were nice enough to come here. And I’m just gonna come over here and (power) over you?’

Late Tuesday, Stewart reflected on what the next day would look like if (now when) Trump secured the presidency.

“We’re going to make it look like this is the final end of our civilization,” he said. “Here’s the thing: We’re all going to have to wake up tomorrow morning and work really hard to bring the world to the place we want it to be.”

He also looked to the future.

“I promise you this is not the end,” he continued. “And we have to regroup, and we have to keep fighting and keep working day in and day out to create a better society for our children, for this world, for this country that we know is possible. It is possible.”

Here are more TV reactions to the election and Trump’s victory.

‘The View’ Hosts Sunny Hostin and Whoopi Goldberg React to Trump’s Win: ‘Disturbed’

The View’s co-hosts — including Republican Alyssa Farah Griffin, who announced she would vote for Harris — expressed sadness, disappointment and hope in the wake of the election results.

Griffin said Trump’s victory was not “the outcome I wanted,” but said the people who voted for him are still “good, decent people who are patriots and love this country.”

She then called on people to “lower the temperature, the name-calling, the demonizing,” and work to understand each other.

“I always thought he could win,” she said. “I didn’t expect it to be so resonant. And I think we can learn lessons from it. I think we’re forgetting rural America, I think the working class feels abandoned… He spoke to them. Maybe didn’t like his words, but they stood out for him.”

Sunny Hostin shared her concerns about the working class, the future of social security, healthcare for the elderly, ‘mass deportations’ and ‘internment camps’.

“I worry about the future of my children, especially my daughter, who now has fewer rights than me,” Hostin said. “I remember my father telling me many, many years ago that I was the first person in his family to enjoy full civil rights. And now I have fewer civil rights than when he told me that.”

Hostin attributed Harris’s loss to “a referendum of cultural resentment in this country.”

Ana Navarro, who was at Harris campaign headquarters in Washington when the results came in, said she had “no regrets” about supporting Harris.

“I worked extremely hard to elect the first Black Asian female president. History has slipped through our fingers again,” she said. “I worked very hard to ensure that Donald Trump would not become president. But today, unlike Donald Trump and his followers, I recognize that he won. I hope for the best for our country.”

She told LGBTQ Americans, immigrants, older citizens and women: “We will not stop fighting.”

Co-host Whoopi Goldberg, who promised some time ago never to pronounce Trump’s name, kept her promise.

“(Harris) did this in two months. Anyone can always say she should have done this, she should have done this. She was everywhere, she talked to everyone and people didn’t come out,” she said. “I don’t know why and it doesn’t even matter. He’s going to be president now. And I’m still not going to say his name.”

MSNBC’s Joy Reid blames white female voters for Harris’ loss in North Carolina

“The ReidOut” host and MSNBC correspondent Joy Reid was among the experts who shared Tuesday night’s results.

As MSNBC commentators discussed Harris’ loss in the battleground state of North Carolina, Reid stated the reason for the loss.

“I think we need to be candid about why. Black voters showed up for Kamala Harris, white women voters did not,” she said. “It’s a state where women lost their reproductive rights, where there was a very heavy push to get women to focus on not putting back in the White House the person responsible for taking away those rights.”

She added, “That message clearly wasn’t enough to get enough white women to vote for Vice President Harris, a fellow woman.”

Fox News: Trump rose like a phoenix from the ashes

Fox News commentators were already preparing for a Trump victory on Tuesday evening.

During the network’s election coverage, host Bret Baier called the Republican candidate “the greatest political phoenix from the ashes” in political history.

Commentator Ben Domenech said it was the “most incredible political comeback we’ve seen since 1968,” likely comparing Trump’s victory to Richard Nixon’s turbulent road to victory in the late 1960s.

Anchor Laura Ingraham went a step further: “I think it’s not just the greatest political comeback of all time… it will be the greatest comeback in history.”

CNN’s Van Jones gets emotional over ‘nightmare’ election results: ‘A lot of pain’

Early Wednesday, political analyst Van Jones spoke candidly on CNN about the election results, saying, “People woke up this morning with a big dream. They’re going to wake up tomorrow to a nightmare.”

Jones said that after Harris’s loss, black women “faced rejection” after looking forward to a black woman reaching the White House. They “have been trying to dream a big dream for the past few months. Tonight they are trading a lot of hope for a lot of pain,” he said, choking up.

The attorney and author also expressed sadness about transgender children and immigrants living in the U.S. illegally.

“If you are a parent of a transgender child, your child’s face was used as a springboard to power for someone,” he said of Trump. “That doesn’t feel good. There will be people tomorrow who will hand over clothes at the dry cleaners to people who don’t have papers. There will be people tomorrow who brush your teeth, who don’t have papers. And they’re terrified tonight.”

Jones dismissed suggestions that “liberal elites” would “get their comeuppance” during a second Trump term.

“It’s not the elites who are going to pay the price,” Jones continued. “These are the people who woke up this morning with a dream and went to bed with a nightmare. Those people will pay the price for whatever Donald Trump decides to do.”

CNN commentator Scott Jennings: Trump victory is ‘revenge on the working class’

CNN commentator and USA TODAY columnist Scott Jennings interpreted Trump’s victory as “the revenge of just the regular old working-class American,” he said on the network Tuesday night.

The political strategist attributed this group as “the faceless American who is crushed, offended and condescending. They are not trash. They’re not Nazis. They’re just regular people who get up every day and go to work and try to build a better life for their children.”

Jennings also pointed out that Trump won the popular vote for “the first time for a Republican since 2004.”

Trump’s victory is “a mandate to do what you said you were going to do: get the economy going again for the regular working class, fix immigration, try to get crime under control, try to end the chaos in the world reduce,” he said. said.