Dan Schnur

When new polls offer daily reminders of the extraordinarily tight margins between the candidates, nervous Democrats can’t help but think that maybe Shapiro would have been a smarter choice.

As is often the case, Donald Trump is attracting much more attention in the closing days of the campaign, as his speeches become angrier, more explicit, and more anatomically specific. But it is the change in tone in Kamala Harris' public statements that may have a greater impact on the election's outcome.

It will be months and possibly years before we understand the regional and global impact of his contemptible disregard for human life.

Gage Skidmore/ Flickr From the Center Kamala Harris began her political career with a daring, even brazen, maneuver in which she

We won't know the outcome of this year's presidential election until tomorrow night at the earliest, and possibly not for days or weeks to come. But it's never too early to start laying blame for a losing campaign, so this seems like a good time to start blaming those responsible for both Kamala Harris' and Donald Trump's defeats.

I hope we will know who our next president is by the time you read this column.

Books will be written about how Trump, who was running far behind Ron DeSantis in his own party's polling two years ago, managed to achieve both such an extraordinary comeback and monumental victory. After every election, there are mountains of polling data through which to sift. But in the first days after this year's voting concluded, there are three especially striking findings that stand out about how this may have happened.

Even those who may have predicted Donald Trump's victory over Kamala Harris could not have forecast the size and scope of his triumph.

So let's take a look back at the events of November 5 and attempt to answer some of the questions that the Democrats are now facing:

Gaetz and Kennedy must go.