The Biggest Winners and Losers of Election 2024
Suzy Weiss
November 7, 2024
Prediction markets, Beyoncé, Peter Thiel, fiat currency, bros with podcasts, Jen Aniston, weed, and Tims. Who came out on top and who is licking their wounds?
The biggest winners on election night, of course, were Donald J. Trump and J.D. Vance. But there are plenty of other honorable mentions coming out of Tuesday’s victory. Read our rundown of the winners and losers of the race below, and chime in with your own in the comments.
Losers:
Wife Guys: You have to give it to Doug Emhoff—he emailed me every single day. “My wife is a badass,” read the subject line of one. “Happy birthday, honey,” read another and a third said, “On our 10th wedding anniversary, I got to watch Kamala make history as she accepted the Democratic nomination for president of the United States.” Got it. Tim Walz is another wife guy, though his proverbial wife in this case was Kamala, and all of them came up short when it came to defining a new kind of nontoxic, unthreatened, unburdened masculinity.
