B. LEADINGOBVIOUS, ELECTIONS EDITOR

IT’S COMPLICATED, BUT if you’re willing to put in the hard yards, go the extra mile, push the envelope out and think outside the box, then you can work it out – Trump beat Harris because he got more votes.

Yes, it’s difficult to believe and hard to absorb, but there’s really no other way to explain the victory of the orange one. More Americans voted for him than Kamala Harris.

The American electorate preferred the felon to the prosecutor; the white, wasp businessman to the black woman; the former president to the current vice president; the billionaire to the moderately affluent; the Republican to the Democrat. There you have it.