Fox News late Tuesday projected President Donald Trump, actually the 45th president of the United States, will become the nation’s 47th president, too, come January.

The tabulation of numbers was still catching up but when Pennsylvania was projected to go to Trump in the 2024 election Tuesday night, it put his Electoral College total at 266, just a whisper from the 270 needed for victory and history, as the second president ever to win a second term, not consecutive to his first.

Minutes later, Wisconsin was added to Trump’s list, giving him 277 Electoral College votes.

And while counting continued, he was leading in several other states with a couple dozen more votes. Taking all would make his victory a landslide.

It’s true that no election is over until the actual certification process is finished, and 2020 taught Americans they should never assume that a drop-box loaded with ballots all for one candidate can’t appear.

But the color-coded presidential election display maps on America’s networks Tuesday night held a spot of Democrat blue in the northeast corner, a strip of blue along the West Coast, and a couple of blue spots (Colorado and Illinois) in the middle.

The rest of it essentially was red, as Donald Trump collected leads of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of votes, in the few remaining uncalled states.

Harris had only 214 Electoral College votes, even after cashing in the key states of New York and California, and appeared headed toward defeat.

Just a few years earlier, that map would have been mostly blue, but not because Harris would have been winning, but because until 2000, it was the Republican party that often was represented by blue on such maps.

If the state results end up as the trends indicated it will present an interesting scenario for Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Calif., who has promised he will not let Trump become president because he, Raskin, has determined that Trump is an “insurrectionist” and therefore ineligible.

But depriving millions of American voters – Trump had more than 67 million to Harris’ 62 million before the end of the counting – of their choice for president could be called an “insurrection?”

After 2 a.m. at West Palm Beach, Florida, where the Trump campaign gathered, the now president-elect said, “Thank you very much” before his campaign crowd broke into a “U.S.A.” chant.

“This was a movement like nobody’s ever seen before… I believe it was the greatest political movement of all time.”