Tigger and Albs will love this. From the telegraph, posted rather than linked, because I got shouted at last time for it being behind a paywall.
"The Left-wing media has described Donald Trump’s victory as the “darkest dawn” for America in an outpouring of incredulity.
As the scale of Trump’s electoral triumph became clear, Left-leaning commentators began to vent their dismay on televison and social media.
Krishnan Guru-Murthy, the Channel 4 presenter, apologised for his guest Emily Maitlis’s on-air behaviour during election coverage as the inevitability of Kamala Harris’s defeat became clear.
He said he would “tell Emily off” as she had “started swearing” during the broadcast.
Writing in the i newspaper, commentator Ian Dunt declared that the election result was America’s “darkest dawn” and left a “taste of despair”.
Rory Stewart, who presents The Rest is Politics podcast, wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that it was “heartbreaking” that Trump had been elected president.
The former Tory MP had proclaimed that Harris would win with ease and claimed to have bet heavily on that result, only to be left deflated during live coverage of the election.
A dejected Mr Stewart said that he “got it totally wrong” but claimed: “I think I was wrong because I’m [an] optimist. I hate the idea of being right pessimistically.”
The Guardian newspaper sent out a notification as the result was put beyond doubt, branding Trump’s victory as the “first for a convicted criminal”.
Katharine Viner, The Guardian’s editor-in-chief, sought to reassure readers following the news of Trump’s victory. In an editorial, she wrote that the paper would “stand up to four more years of Donald Trump”, and that the election was an “extraordinary, devastating moment in the history of the United States”."
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