Most pollsters and election watchers had forecasted a close Presidential tussle between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris holding that it was “too close to call” and some even terming the bitterly fought election as “a dead heat”. We, however, did not hedge our bets and unequivocally maintained that “aab ki baar Trump sarkar”, i.e., Donald Trump is likely to win. These views about the certainty of Trump’s victory were shared with a large section of the Indian Press in the evening of November 5, 2024, at a time when the elections were still on in the USA and were prominently featured in several leading publications. Hence this is not a case of looking at things in hindsight or being wiser after the event. Accordingly, there was no surprise there, not for us anyway.