As Election Night returns turned against Republicans, scenes from watch parties across the country showed supporters praying, consoling one another and drifting out early as the losses mounted.

At Ken Paxton's "victory party," the crowd dwindled until a group of white men huddled together, arms around each other, praying. Before long they appeared unable to keep watching and turned off the Fox News feed.

In the northern U.S., Vivek Ramaswamy's crowd emptied out like a fire drill as it became clear he would suffer the predicted loss. One video showed a young white man in a suit screaming obscenities as the tallies came in while Michael Jackson's "Beat It" played loudly, his friend's face falling into his hands as he rubbed his eyes.

Fox News itself struggled. Just after the South Carolina Senate race was called for Democrat Annie Andrews, host Sean Hannity looked "on the verge of tears," one person described. Asked to respond, he called it "brutal," saying Graham had been "asked to serve" and did her part but had not even mourned her brother — a circumstance he cited, along with her inexperience, in explaining the loss.

At the Paxton event, one woman "wailed when Talarico face came on screen," reported The Sun's Harry Cole.

Elsewhere, Laura Jedeed kept a running thread on BlueSky documenting what she was hearing on Real American Voices, the pro-Trump streaming news network.

As polls were closing, Steve Bannon was claiming things were "looking great" for the GOP. Instead of actual polling, exit poll numbers or turnout figures, the network leaned on Kalshi betting markets to support its outlook. Commentators noted that Kalshi had flipped from blue to red in Iowa, Alaska, Kansas, Michigan, Ohio, Maine and Texas within ten minutes of one another — a sign, they claimed. Jedeed said Bannon made his guest explain Kalshi several times so that his audience could "understand" that it "is a great source for predictions" — which, she added, it is not. Bannon would find out why as the hours moved on.

"We're fully in the 'everything is fine' section of tonight's program," Jedeed wrote at about 7:25 p.m. EST. "Texas is fine. Virginia is fine. Kentucky is fine. Maine is fine. Ken Paxton is fine because the huge Hispanic early voting turnout all voted for Paxton."

"There are indicators that things are not, however going very well," she added. "Every time Steve Bannon calls on somebody to go over the actual statistics, they sound like they're sweating through their vocal cords. It is hilarious."

Then John Ossoff's race was called. She said the network turned to how tight the Florida races were looking, including the race for governor. While former Rep. David Jolly lost on Tuesday, all of the House seats that Republicans redrew to try to eliminate Democrats failed to do so.

Word soon arrived that the Latino vote had abandoned the GOP, and Jedeed said the hosts spent several moments speculating on "why that might be." The group's answer was gas prices.

"The Bannonite wing wants you to know that the Republicans are losing Hispanic votes and the votes of young men because they are mad about gas prices," she wrote. "They are definitely not mad about the deportations or anything like that. It's the economy. Once the Iran War ends, everything will be fine."

At some point, Real American Voices stopped listing election results at all as it searched for "good news." The network "still can't really find any good news to report," Jedeed said, adding that its hosts "just keep repeating that it's all because of the economy and the Iran war and we can get these voters back. It's OK, it's OK, it's OK."

By 9:48 p.m., Jedeed reported, "Steve Bannon sounds straight up suicidal."