Only one national race counts in Colorado with Tuesday’s election, and that is Donald Trump’s victory over Kamala Harris for president. Vice President Harris won here but lost in Pennsylvania. Women here who yearned to have the first woman president shouldn’t feel too bad. President-elect Trump says he will protect us whether we like it or not.

However, it’s unclear if he’ll protect all women. Liz Cheney may find nine rifles pointed at her. Nancy Pelosi could end up in jail along with Hillary Clinton. It will be interesting to see if the nation’s birthrate goes up under the tutelage of JD Vance. A number of school districts in the state could benefit from that boost as they need children to fill their buildings.

Along those lines, with Trump’s dissolution of the federal Department of Education, states can finally walk away from the onerous standardized testing programs undertaken by Republican and Democratic administrations. That will be a boon to students tired of weeks of test prep.

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On the other hand, Title I and Title IX supports for low-income children and girls’ scholastics and athletics may disappear. In that case, parents won’t have to worry about boys transitioning to girls competing in girls’ sports because there may not be girls’ sports to compete in. Girls didn’t have competitive school sports before 1972 when Congress passed Title IX under the Nixon administration.

Soon our jails and prisons will be emptied of U.S. Capitol invaders but re-filled with criminal immigrants who apparently caught a pass from the Biden administration. Then there are all the other border crossers, legal or illegal, children, women and men, who will at least theoretically get tossed who knows where out of the United States. That action will support the busing industry.

On the downside, that immigrant toss-out effort will make office buildings across the nation less mopped, roofs across the nation un-repaired, houses unpainted, gardens un-weeded, crops unpicked, ditches un-dug, roads un-surfaced, sheep and cattle un-herded, meat unpacked, elderly un-cared for, children un-nannied, and windshields un-wiped. But at least we’ll learn whether ditching immigrant workers lowers unemployment rates or raises wages for landscape workers, roofers, nannies and custodial staff.

We’ll also learn soon enough whether Trump’s tariff experiment, based on his excellent business acumen, will improve employment numbers across the nation while lowering inflation. Billionaires will no doubt be pleased with Trump’s tax policies and the oil-and-gas industry will experience great relief over his de-regulation of carbon and methane emissions. Mar-a-Lago will no doubt survive rains, winds and floods from climate change, but will the rest of Florida?

There will be no rush on his part to change Affordable Care Act health care policy. That’s always been a concept rather than a reality. It’s a safe bet Dr. Anthony Fauci won’t be asked back to work at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. But if anti-vaxxer Robert Kennedy Jr. is put in charge of public health, we can assume measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox will make a comeback in elementary school classrooms across the nation. Let’s hope polio vaccinations continue because anyone over 75 will remember how vicious those polio epidemics could be.

On the international front, Ukraine can pack up its military and welcome the Russians in. Trump’s pro-Russia policies will probably have the added effect of aiding Israel as the armaments currently directed to Ukraine can be diverted to the Middle East. Gazans and the West Bankers will have no leverage under Trump. They will have to move to Jordan or Egypt, if those nations will have them, if they want to survive. But Israel is also in turmoil as riots broke out on our election night. It’s a crazy world out there.

It’s hard to tell how far international instability will extend. One of Trump’s claims for success is there were no wars under his watch. He will inherit at least two wars in parts of the world that have lived in conflict for centuries. He says we can expect peace soon.

Trump’s policies toward western Europe appear in sync with Britain’s Brexit decision. He wants none of Europe’s snoot. Europe will have its hands full trying to figure out what to do about Ukraine and NATO. Russia’s Putin won as big a victory as Trump. That triumph should turn those now-deceased cold war warriors over in their graves.

Colorado’s voters obviously went in a different direction from the nation’s ultimate decision with Harris winning by about 300,000 votes. She built a 12-point spread. U.S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo apparently won her election in CD-8, a tiny counter-punch to Trump’s national thumping of Democrats. Adam Frisch, the well-funded Democratic candidate in CD-3, couldn’t pull out a victory over Republican Jeff Hurd. Eastern Colorado flipped Trump’s vote here with about a 12-point victory for Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert in her new district.

Nothing much changed in the composition of our state legislature, as expected. For Colorado’s Democrats who thought Harris would win, it’s a hollow evening. For Colorado’s Republicans, nothing has changed and everything has.

Paula Noonan owns Colorado Capitol Watch, the state’s premier legislature tracking platform.