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President Donald Trump has been projected to win North Carolina, securing its crucial 16 electoral votes.
North Carolina has been a hotly contested state in recent presidential races. In the 2020 election, Trump won North Carolina with 50% of the vote to Biden’s 49%, a margin of just 1.3 percentage points. (Map) President Donald Trump has secured projected victories in Idaho, Iowa, and Kansas.
Ever since the debate between Ted Cruz and Colin Allred last month in the Senate race, the GOP mantra has been "keep Texas Texas." Cruz himself has used it in ads, and TV spots featuring Governor Greg Abbott use the slogan to go after Allred as well.
It turned into official government policy today. The Department of Justice dispatched federal monitors to polls in 27 states, including Texas -- until late yesterday. Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the DoJ and forced them to withdraw their observers to at least 100 feet outside of voting locations. That turns them from 'monitors' to spectators:
Paxton argued that no federal statute authorizes federal agents
Incumbent Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) will remain in his Senate seat after a challenge from three-term Rep. Colin Allred (D-TX), Fox News projected.
The Senate race was called around 9:30 p.m. with nearly 60 percent of the votes counted, showing Cruz leading Allred 52.3 percent to 45.7 percent. The contest was one of the nation’s most expensive and closely watched Senate races, with both candidates raising more than $160 million combined. Cruz first won his Senate seat in 2012 against former state Rep. Paul Sadler by nearly 16 points. He won his reelection more narrowly in 2018 by 2.6 points against former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX).
According to projections from Decision Desk HQ, the Republican party has gained control of the US Senate.
The first flip occurred pretty early in the night, with former West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, a Republican, winning that seat, which was open after the retirement of Sen. Joe Manchin. Now, DDHQ projects that entrepreneur Bernie Moreno has won the U.S. Senate election in Ohio. Moreno addressed supporters just after 11 PM Eastern, saying (in part): "Today starts a new wave. We talked about wanting a red wave; I think what we have tonight is a red, white, and blue wave. Because what we need
Breaking: Trump Wins Georgia
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Former President Donald Trump won Georgia's election on Tuesday night and the state's 16 Electoral College votes along with it. Trump won 51.2% to Kamala Harris' 48%. This result came with record-setting vote totals throughout the Peach State.
As everyone predicted throughout the election season, the race was tight, with about 150,000 votes separating the two candidates. Also unsurprisingly, the metro Atlanta area went primarily for Harris, while more rural areas broke for Trump. One of the most interesting trends is how well Trump performed in majority-black counties in South Georgia. Despite problems in metro Atlanta's mostly Democrat counties, late vote counts didn't give Harris the edge she hoped for.
Former President Trump has won the state of Georgia, Decision Desk HQ projects, flipping the crucial battleground back into his column after narrowly losing the state four years ago.
Georgia was one of the most valuable battlegrounds with its 16 electoral votes, and both candidates had spent time there in the closing days of the campaign. Polls had shown a tight race leading up to Election Day. The former president put to rest a long-simmering feud with Gov. Brian Kemp (R) over the summer, pleasing Republicans who viewed Kemp’s political operation as potentially pivotal to winning the state in November.
Through the first three hours of CBS’s election night coverage, things were looking promising for Republicans and former President Trump, based solely on the reactions of the assembled liberal journalists, who seethed over Donald Trump as a “dark” figure spewing “lies about criminal migrants” and it being “factually untrue” they’re “pouring through our border” and ready to stir up “violence in the streets” of Pennsylvania if he doesn’t win the Keystone State.
The network also maintained a somber mood as they fretted over the fact that life prevailed in Florida with a state amendment to the constitution expanding abortion having failed.
It started early with longtime CBS analyst/host John Dickerson huffing
Former president Donald Trump appears to be winning over union households in Ohio, according to early data from CNN's exit polls.
Ohio, once a premier battleground state, has shifted toward Republicans in recent election cycles. But Democrats were hoping that incumbent Senator Sherrod Brown could fend off a challenge from Republican Bernie Moreno in the Buckeye state. CNN had called the presidential race for Trump in Ohio, but the Senate race remained uncalled as of 10:30 p.m. ET.
CNN's exit poll shows Trump performing well among households with a union member. Organized labor has long been a key component of the Democratic coalition,
CNN host Chris Wallace admitted Tuesday that Vice President Kamala Harris needs a “miracle” to pull off an Election Day victory, given the voter sentiment measured in exit polls.
“I got to say, I think that with the present conditions in the country – I mean, in conventional terms, it would be a miracle that Kamala Harris could win with that kind of headwind,” Wallace said, referring to the network’s exit poll showing voters are dissatisfied with the current state of the country by a 3-to-1 margin. The veteran journalist noted CNN’s exit polls showed voters giving Democratic President Biden
AP Exit Poll: Voters In Pennsylvania,
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The economy may play even a bigger role in several key battleground states than in the rest of the nation.
Thirty-nine percent of voters say the economy is the top issue facing the country in this election, according to the AP VoteCast exit poll, making it the top issue.
In four of the battleground states, however, even larger shares of voters say it is the top issue.
In Georgia, 44 percent say the economy is the top issue. In Pennsylvania, 43 percent of voters name the economy as the top issue.
In North Carolina, the share naming the economy as the top issue is 42 percent. In Michigan, 41 percent.
A majority of voters are either “dissatisfied” or “angry” about the way things are going in the United States currently, an exit poll from CNN revealed.
The first batch of exit polling released ahead of any polls closing could bode well for former President Donald Trump and poorly for Vice President Kamala Harris, as 72 percent of voters say they are either “dissatisfied” or “angry” about the way things are going in the U.S., with President Joe Biden and Harris at the helm.
For even further perspective, those figures are worse than the RealClearPolitics average showing an average of 69.6 percent saying America is on the wrong track.
Republican Kelly Ayotte is the projected winner in the New Hampshire governor race against Democrat Joyce Craig.
Fox News called the race for Ayotte early on Tuesday night with roughly 39 percent of the vote counted. As of this writing, Ayotte holds the lead over Craig 50.13 percent versus 47.86 percent – 157,017 to 149,929. While Kelly Ayotte is expected to win her statewide race, the presidential race has not yet been called.
Republicans flipped the governor’s mansion in Puerto Rico on Election Day, as Congresswoman Jenniffer González-Colón (R-PR) emerged victorious despite a week of controversy about a comedian’s joke at a Donald Trump rally. González-Colón is currently Puerto Rico’s “Resident Commissioner,” who sits in the U.S. House of Representatives but does not vote. Elected in 2016, she was the first woman to serve in that role.
She won while facing headwinds in the final days of the campaign as a result of comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s joke at Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City on October 27. Hinchcliffe, one of the first warmup acts in a six-hour program
Florida’s Miami-Dade County has turned red for the first time in three decades for a presidential election as votes continue pouring in.
County Commissioner for District 6 Kevin Marino Cabrera made the historic announcement on Tuesday evening as Americans await the election results.
“Miami-Dade supports President Trump and declares, ‘Kamala, you’re FIRED!’ For the first time in over 30 years, Miami-Dade County has turned red in a presidential election,” his news release stated: “Over the past eight years, we’ve narrowed the voter registration gap with Democrats from around 200,000 to less than 35,000. In 2016, Clinton carried Miami-Dade by 30 points and Biden by 7 in 2020, but today, Trump won decisively,”
Latino men are backing former President Donald Trump over Vice President Kamala Harris by a significant margin, according to an NBC News Exit Poll.
The poll, published at 8:05 p.m. on Election Day, revealed that male Latino voters have cast ballots for Trump at 54 percent compared to 44% for Harris — a major swing compared to the 2020 election, in which they backed President Joe Biden over Trump by 59 percent to 36 percent: Latino women have also voted for Harris less than they voted for Biden
After a year of most prognosticators predicting that Amendments 3 and 4 would pass in Florida, they have now officially gone down in flames. For the uninitiated, the former was meant to legalize weed while the latter would have essentially legalized abortion until birth.
Gov. Ron DeSantis made it his chief mission this cycle to ensure those amendments failed, and with everything stacked against him, he has succeeded. As of this writing, 86 percent of precincts have reported, with just the blood-red panhandle left to report; Amendment 4 is only sitting at 57.4 percent, while Amendment 3 has just 55.6 percent. Both needed to hit 60 percent
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Vice President Harris has won Virginia, maintaining Democrats’ control of the state at the presidential level despite some Republican inroads in recent years, according to a projection from Decision Desk HQ.
Polls in the run-up to Election Day showed Harris leading Trump by a comfortable margin. According to The Hill’s Decision Desk HQ average, Harris led Trump in the state 49.3 percent to 45.1 percent ahead of the election. The state has been seen as a reliable state for Democrats at the presidential level for 20 years. But Republicans have seen some victories in recent years, most notably Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s (R) win in 2021.
Breaking: Democrat Angela Alsobrooks Defeats
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As expected, Democrat Prince George's County Executive Angela Alsobrooks has easily dispatched former two-term Republican Governor Larry Hogan to keep Maryland's senate seat in the Democrats' column. While Hogan is expected to beat Donald Trump's performance in the state. When the race was called, Hogan trailed Alsobrooks by 4.5 points while Trump was being blown out by 27.8 points.
The race has never been close in the polls, and it wasn't much of a surprise as Maryland hasn't elected a Republican to the US Senate since 1980. Despite the unfavorable political terrain, the GOP establishment held hope that Hogan could convert the popularity that gave
The left likes to call Donald Trump the candidate crass, Hitler, a bloviator, and orange. He's been mocked, ridiculed, impeached on contrived charges, accused, arrested, perp-walked, fingerprinted, and shot. He didn't go through all that for his health. Donald Trump, no matter what you think of him, did it for his country.
He's serious when he says, "They're not coming after me, they're coming for you, and I'm just standing in the way."
Donald Trump the human has always been larger than life. He's an original, but he's shown deep love of country, shown us his open heart, and displayed perseverance
Former President Trump won North Carolina, keeping the state red despite Democrats’ efforts to flip it, according to a projection from Decision Desk HQ.
Trump won North Carolina in 2020, when he became the fourth Republican ever to carry the state without winning the presidency. He also won it in 2016, beating former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. North Carolina comes with the prize of 16 electoral votes. Trump faced questions over North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson (R), who was in a closely watched race because of numerous controversies surrounding his candidacy. A wide range of inflammatory comments Robinson had made in the past were revealed in September, but he stayed
CLEVELAND — Republican Donald Trump is projected to win Ohio in the 2024 presidential election, marking his third consecutive victory in the increasingly reddening swing state.
Trump leads Vice President Kamala Harris, 1,862,142 votes (54.3%) to 1,541,101 (44.9%) with 58% of precincts reporting, bringing him 17 electoral votes closer to the 270 he needs to win back the White House, the Associated Press reports. That puts him ahead of his previous winning margins in the state, where he bested Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden by 8 points apiece in 2016 and 2020, respectively.
Multiple CNN journalists proved to the world that they were living in a liberal political silo Tuesday night, as they could not give a reason to explain why Georgia independent voters would swing 20 points from 2020 to now back former President Trump. CNN political director David Chalian described the independent voter swing as “the story of these exit polls.” He noted that that voting bloc make up a larger percentage this go around than they did in 2020 when President Biden won, but now the shoe was on the other foot in the state: They make up 31 percent of the electorate. That is a slightly larger share
The Fox News Decision Desk projected that incumbent Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz will defeat his Democratic opponent Rep. Colin Allred on Tuesday, and win a third term in the U.S. Senate.
Cruz won his last re-election effort in 2018, beating Democratic challenger Beto O’Rourke.
Cruz has represented the Lone Star State in the upper chamber of Congress since 2013. Allred represents Texas’ 32nd Congressional District in the House.
Cruz is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School. He previously clerked for Chief Justice William Rehnquist and was solicitor general of Texas. Cruz argued nine cases before the Supreme Court.
Texas voters went for Donald Trump on Tuesday, according to The Associated Press, giving the Republican nominee the state’s 40 electoral votes and continuing its streak of going red in every presidential election since it went for Jimmy Carter in 1976.
Neither candidate has yet reached the 270 electoral votes necessary to clinch the race.
Gov. Greg Abbott celebrated Trump's victory.
"Congratulations to President Donald Trump on his overwhelming victory in Texas," Abbott said in a statement. "Texans know who will slash inflation, secure our southern border, unleash American energy and crack down on violent crime -- and that's Donald Trump. Texans rejected Kamala Harris'
President Donald Trump scored 25 percent of the black male vote in Georgia this election, a Fox News Channel exit poll shows.
According to the exit poll, Trump won a quarter of black men in Georgia, while Vice President Kamala Harris took 73 percent of their support — down from President Joe Biden’s 87 percent support among black men in Georgia.
This indicates a 13-point swing away from the Democrat candidate for president compared to four years prior.Similarly, among black women in Georgia, Trump won nine percent to Harris’s 89 percent. Four years prior, Biden took 95 percent of this demographic. This indicates that Harris is running behind Biden
A Looming Political Earthquake
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If it weren’t for the election season swamping news coverage, odds are more people would be talking about the revelation that, to quote a Bloomberg headline, “The World Bank Somehow Lost Track of at Least $24 Billion.” In fact, that may understate the reality: the World Bank’s “accounting gap” could be as big as $41 billion. The missing funds in question were for “climate finance” projects, “financed by taxpayer dollars from its member countries, the biggest being the US.”
Donald Trump was the projected winner of Florida's 30 Electoral votes Tuesday night, marking his third-straight victory in the Sunshine State.
Trump, who carried the state by a whisker in 2016 and then by a much larger 3.5% share in 2020, appeared to be ahead of Democrat Kamala Harris by more than 10 % with over 75% of the vote counted.
The win for the Republican nominee solidifies Florida's new reputation as a GOP stronghold.
Once considered the ultimate swing state that twice supported Democrat Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012, Florida now appears to be fully red.
A deep-red county in Pennsylvania will be extending its voting deadline to 10:00 p.m. eastern following a software malfunction that prevented voters from scanning completed ballots. The county’s court of common pleas ordered that Cambria County’s voting deadline will be extended two hours after county solicitor Ronald Repak filed an emergency petition due to the voting issues Tuesday morning, the Pennsylvania Department of State announced. Repak told a local NBC affiliate that Cambria County’s board of election sent IT specialists to handle the software issue and will take “any necessary action” to make sure all votes are cast. He assured
Popular Gov. Jim Justice (R) rolled to an easy victory to pick up retiring Sen. Joe Manchin’s (I) seat in West Virginia, marking the first time Republicans have won the seat since the 1950s.
He defeated little-known Democratic challenger Glenn Elliott, the mayor of Wheeling.
Democratic leaders in Washington privately conceded months ago that Republicans would capture the seat.
Justice’s win likely gives Republicans control of at least 50 Senate seats unless independent candidate Dan Osborn can pull off an upset over Sen. Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) in Nebraska or Rep. Colin Allred (D) can shock Sen. Ted Cruz (R) in the Texas Senate race.
Wisconsin Democratic Party Chairman Ben Wikler predicted that if it appears that former President Donald Trump is winning his state, it will be a temporary "red mirage."
Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are battling for the state's 10 electoral votes on Tuesday. Wikler appeared on MSNBC to make the argument that once the results start pouring in and Trump looks to be in the lead, it is not to be believed.
Early exit polls are showing that most Americans are not happy with the status quo in the country.
Roughly three-quarters of the US electorate holds a negative view of the way things are going in the US today, according to the initial results of CNN’s national exit poll of voters in this year’s presidential election.
Only about one-quarter call themselves enthusiastic or satisfied with the state of the nation, with more than 4 in 10 dissatisfied and roughly 3 in 10 saying they’re angry.
But voters remain generally optimistic, with more than 6 in 10 saying that America’s best days are in the future
Disney’s Hocus Pocus 2 star Bette Midler appears to be coping poorly on Election Day, suggesting drinking Drano in the event that former President Donald Trump wins.
Bette Midler posted a photo to X showing a bottle of Drano clog remover with a Post-It sticker reading “Trump Wins.” Next to it is a bottle of what looks to be Korbel champagne, with a sticker reading “Kamala Wins.” (X) Bette Midler has spent a great deal of 2024 lashing out against Trump and his supporters on social media.
Kamala Harris has been caught in an embarrassing Election Day gaffe after flipping her cell around to the cameras while 'on the phone with a voter' - to reveal she was seemingly not on a call at all.
'Have you voted already?' a beaming Harris said on the phone. She paused as though listening, before exclaiming: 'You did, thank you!'
The Vice President then turned her phone screen around to adoring supporters at the Democrat party's Washington DC headquarters, who applauded and cheered.
But viewers at home were lightening quick to point out that her phone appeared to show the camera app and not a phone call.
'Kamala just pretended to talk
Veteran lefty political analyst Van Jones said he is “nervous” about Vice President Kamala Harris’ chances at the polls Tuesday — after her campaign focused on out-of-touch celebrity endorsements.
Jones, a former special adviser to President Barack Obama, said Harris’ “star-studded” campaign events in the days leading up to the election felt eerily similar to the final days of Hillary Clinton’s failed White House bid in 2016.
The political analyst admitted he was skeptical that her final swing-state push, which has featured celebs like Katy Perry, Lady Gaga and Oprah Winfrey, will actually convince working-class people to vote blue.
The most iconic image of the 2024 campaign came from the Butler Farm Show Grounds in Pennsylvania on July 13. An assassin had just fired multiple shots at President Trump, wounding him in the ear. Secret Service agents scrambled to shield the president, while counter-snipers neutralized the shooter. As members of his security detail began to briskly move him from the stage where he was speaking, President Trump asked them to stop so that he could reassure supporters he was alive and well. With blood streaked across his face and pooling near one side of his mouth, he stretched a closed fist toward a blue sky
Here’s The Latest Evidence Kamala’s
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We were presented with a new glimpse into the mind of a Muslim-American voter in Michigan on Tuesday and it does not bode well for Vice President Kamala Harris.
In the final stretches of her campaign, Harris hosted neocon Liz Cheney at several events throughout the Midwest to win over moderate, “Never-Trump” Republicans living in the suburbs of battleground states. However, we have a slight clue, courtesy of the Muslim mayor of Dearborn Heights, Michigan, that her strategy may have backfired and alienated another important demographic: Muslims and Americans with relatives in Lebanon or Palestine.
President Joe Biden will not attend the election night watch party of his vice president and current Democrat nominee, Kamala Harris.
Biden will be watching the results just two miles away, in what appears to be the latest snub between the president and Harris.
“Tonight, the president and First Lady will watch election results in the White House residence with longtime aides and senior White House staff,” a White House official told the Washington Examiner. “The president will receive regular updates on the state of races across the country.”
At first it seems like a filibuster. Of course J.D. Vance knows the price of a gallon of milk, he insists.
'I do. I think. Right now?' he says, sitting beside wife Usha on his campaign jet, nicknamed Trump Force Two.
'I know the answer to this question very well. Are we talking about organic? Are we talking about the DC area... the Ohio area? Because at Kroger, the price of a gallon of milk, my guess is about $3.60 a gallon. Check, check if that's right.' A swift fact check ensues as staffers fiddle with phones, looking up the price at the Vance's nearest store.
The answer comes back: $3.29,
If Democrats had their way, Donald Trump wouldn’t be anywhere near the presidency again. So wrote MSNBC’s Hayes Brown on the eve of the 2024 election’s final day. But Trump is near the presidency — perhaps by decisive margins — and Democrats are apoplectic.
The “biggest contributor to the unease that millions of Americans have felt as Election Day approaches,” Brown wrote, is “that there is any tension about the outcome at all. The 2024 election should not be anywhere near as close as it appears, not with Trump’s name on the ballot for the third straight election.”
The U.S. Capitol Visitors Center was closed Tuesday afternoon, after Capitol Police arrested a man during their security screening process who was carrying a torch and flare gun.
“Our officers just arrested a man who was stopped during our screening process at the Capitol Visitor Center (CVC),” the Capitol Police wrote in a statement online.
“The man smelled like fuel, had a torch & a flare gun. The CVC is closed for tours for the day, while we investigate,” the Capitol Police continued. “We will provide more information when we can.”
Capitol Police did not release any additional information. Congress is not in session, but the House
Patriotic leaders around the world are wishing President Donald Trump well for his reelection today. While Nigel Farage is in Pennsylvania, reporting for GB News, Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán teamed up with former leftist German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder on the weekend to root for Trump, as did Dutch leader Geert Wilders and Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro.
While most sitting Presidents and Prime Ministers must remain silent on US elections for diplomatic reasons, it is understood that world leaders like Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu and Argentina’s Javier Milei are hoping for a Trump victory today. “Milei silently bets on Trump’s victory and dreams of a Republican visit
WEST PALM BEACH — Elon Musk will be by Donald Trump’s side tonight as the election results come in, a person familiar with the matter confirmed to The Post. The richest man in the world will likely be with Trump at both Mar-a-Lago and the Palm Beach Convention Center, with the former president expected to greet supporters at the latter location at some point this evening.
Musk joined Trump at the Oct. 5 rally in Butler, Pa., where the Republican nominee symbolically completed an event that was interrupted by an assassination attempt July 13.
I'm serious. MSNBC's bitter, über-racist, TDS-riddled host Joy Reid went so off the rails during her opening editorial on the Monday night episode of "The ReidOut" that she was truly hilarious. Venomous as can be, Reid spewed delusional bile about former President Donald Trump that no sane and rational person believes, beginning with the same old references to "fascism" and "Hitler," and ending with cataclysmic predictions of what will happen if Trump wins. Again, truly hilarious.
Refusing to allow facts, data, logic, or history to get in her way, Reid began (emphasis, mine)
The Republican Party in Guam flipped the legislature for the first time in nearly 16 years, according to exit polls and unofficial election results.
In a post on Facebook, KUAM News posted an exit poll from the University of Guam in which “300 votes were collected from students.” The exit poll from the university found that out of 300 responses, the race to represent Guam’s At-Large Congressional District between Republican Del. James Moyan and Democratic candidate Ginger Cruz was essentially tied “right down the middle,” with a “difference” of three voters “between the two.”
As the presidential race captures most of the spotlight, control of Congress remains a key factor in determining the new president’s ability to pursue their agenda. According to the last round of polls before the election, Republicans seem poised to regain a Senate majority, while the battle for the House remains highly competitive.
The Senate is expected to switch to Republican control because the West Virginia Senate seat is a foregone conclusion, and Montana’s Senate seat is very likely a pickup for Republicans. Currently, GOP challenger Tim Sheehy leads incumbent Sen. Jon Tester by 7.7 points in the RCP Average for Montana.
Barring any other change,
CNN political analyst Marc Lotter issued a strong warning to the Democrats regarding early voting numbers: They're not looking good for Kamala Harris in the battleground states.
Early voting, typically dominated by Democrat voters, has seen a surge for former President Donald Trump in some of these tightly contested vitally important states. On the flip side, they've also seen a drop off in enthusiasm for the Harris-Walz ticket.
Lotter, who previously served as Press Secretary to Vice President Mike Pence, delivered a little bit of that harsh reality to a panel of experts on CNN.
"The math doesn't work,"
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Democrats in several polling locations in Pennsylvania reportedly tried to prevent Republican poll watchers from entering the building on Election Day.
The issue came to light on Tuesday morning when an X user named Linda A. Kerns announced that “FOUR of our Court appointed election workers were kicked out and told they can’t work.” Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Michael Whatley, in a post on X, acknowledged learning about the issue, noting that it also happened in other locations in Pennsylvania. “We deployed our roving attorneys, engaged with local officials, and can now report that all Republican poll watchers have been let into the building,” he wrote.
Election Day is here, and Trump’s campaign is brimming with confidence, fueled by a combination of strong internal polling and encouraging early voting trends.
According to veteran political analyst Mark Halperin, Trump’s team's confidence has been “extremely high” ever since Kamala Harris became the Democratic nominee. Halperin notes that the Trump camp’s confidence is more robust today than it was in 2020 or 2016.
So, where’s this confidence coming from?
For starters, Halperin points out that Trump’s internal polling paints a very favorable picture. Trump’s campaign doesn’t believe that Kamala Harris has effectively reassured voters
Mark Fisher, one of the co-founders of a Black Lives Matter (BLM) chapter in Rhode Island, told the New York Post this week that he is voting for former President Donald Trump.
“I definitely will not be supporting Kamala Harris,” Fisher said in the interview. “If she ever got anywhere close to power, it would be a disaster for this country.”
Fisher added that it’s the “definition of insanity” that black people continue to support the Democratic Party. Fisher explained that he regrets voting for Biden in the 2020 election.
“We’ve just been blindly loyal to the Democratic Party for no reason,” he explained.
Even when interviewers agree to not talk shop, Kamala Harris still can’t handle a normal conversation.
Kareem Rahma is an Egyptian immigrant who hosts a popular “internet talk show” which features a variety of guests, ranging from unknown artists to the occasional celebrity, on the New York subway system. As a profile of Rahma published at The New York Times yesterday describes the venture:
The premise of ‘Subway Takes’ is simple. Rahma, wearing a signature, oversized suit and sporty sunglasses, rides the train with a guest who offers, and then must defend, an unusual or provocative viewpoint.
It's almost like Democrat movers and shakers are resigned to the probability that Tuesday's presidential election results will turn out very well for former President Donald Trump and not so much for Vice President Kamala Harris.
Former Obama official David Axelrod might be a veteran Democrat hack, but every once in a while, the chief strategist of Barack Obama's two successful presidential campaigns can also be publicly honest. Such was the case when "Axe" told CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday that there's "zero enthusiasm on the ground for Kamala Harris in demographics that [she] most needs." "They have all said the same thing," told the glum panel.
The recent controversy regarding Donald Trump’s criticism of Liz Cheney as a warhawk who has never faced the dangers of the wars she embraces has synthesized an issue that may be opaque to non-veterans: the extreme resentment many veterans of the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) feel toward Kamala Harris and the Democrat Party.
Harris and the Democrats have created a perfect storm of veteran disdain in that they have succeeded in uniting three once-inapposite groups behind Harris: the neocons who started the GWOT, the media and Democrats who undermined the veterans’ GWOT missions, and the generals who failed again and again and again
Georgia Supreme Court Rules Democrat-Led
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The Georgia Supreme Court ruled on Monday that Democrat-run Cobb County cannot accept thousands of absentee ballots that arrive after the Election Day deadline.
Cobb County announced on Thursday that as of Oct. 30, “more than 3,000 absentee ballots requested by last Friday’s deadline had not been mailed.”
Cobb County Board of Elections Chairwoman Tori Silas said that the county was “taking every possible step to get these ballots to the voters who requested them” but that the county was “unprepared for the surge in requests and lacked the necessary equipment to process the ballots quickly.”
Swing state Wisconsin’s most notorious elections clerk repeatedly failed to follow election integrity laws. Now, on the eve of Election Day, the state’s elections regulator is ordering Green Bay Clerk Celestine Jeffreys to comply.
The Wisconsin Elections Commission sent a letter to Jeffreys late last week after finally dealing with a complaint filed by the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) on behalf of Green Bay residents.
According to the complaint, the clerk did not comply with procedures for auditing voters who registered to vote at their polling places on Election Day for 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023 elections.
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First votes of Election Day cast in Dixville
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Voting was officially underway on Election Day as six registered voters in the small town of Dixville Notch, New Hampshire cast their ballots just after midnight.
The results were too close to call, as the half dozen voters were split three-to-three between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.
It's actually a sharp swing from 2020, when Joe Biden swept all five who voted against Trump. Voting was officially underway on Election Day as six registered voters in the small town of Dixville Notch, New Hampshire cast their ballots just after midnight.
The results were too close to call, as the half dozen voters were split three-to-three between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.
On the eve of Election Day, the liberal ladies of ABC’s The View were so confident in Vice President Kamala Harris that they spent a good portion of it begging Republicans to vote Democratic. They even trotted out rejected former Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney to try to appeal to them. Moderator Whoopi Goldberg even floated their guest as the next attorney general of the United States, and possibly the director of the FBI or CIA.
Since facts don’t matter to ABC and they needed Harris to win the election, Sunny Hostin pushed the already debunked hoax the liberal media cooked up last week claiming former President Trump
Former President Donald Trump selected Grand Rapids, Michigan, for one last rally on Monday to conclude his 2024 presidential campaign.
Grand Rapids is a historic location for Trump. It is where he finished both his 2016 and 2020 campaigns, rallying supporters late into the evening.November 4, 2024, was no exception. Trump arrived in Grand Rapids late in the evening with supporters packed into an arena and patiently waiting for his final appearance.
Trump delivered his classic entrance with a red tie, navy blue suit, and Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA,” proudly standing tall for his supporters to get a glimpse of him. “USA, USA, USA,” the crowd chanted.
We’ve become accustomed to Democratic Party operatives thinly disguised as journalists smearing, slurring, slamming, and lying about Republican candidates. They don’t want voters to know the truth. They’re not objective purveyors of the facts but rather political players who want to have the power to pick the winners of every election.
Some years ago, while at the University of California, Los Angeles, economics professor Timothy Groseclose wrote a book that showed Democratic candidates start their campaigns with significant leads over their GOP candidates due to media preference.
In “Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind,”
In a stunning video brought to public attention by National Review, Brian Lozenski, a leading authority on critical race theory who is Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s most important education adviser, calls explicitly for the “overthrow” of America.
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Critical race theory, the ideology injected by the woke Left into schools across the country, holds that America is “systemically racist,” that racism is in our DNA. The implications of this belief are clear enough to anyone interested in reasoning them out.
Lozenski isn’t a marginal figure; he is a nationally known activist and academic and the foremost authority on “ethnic studies” in Minnesota.
The Case for Trump
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The key factors to evaluate anyone running for political office are the record, the current pledges, claims by adversaries, the motivation for running, the campaign, and above all the individual.
We first begin with President Trump.
The economic boom under Trump led to historic growth and record-low unemployment across demographics. America gained seven million new jobs causing the unemployment rate to be 3.5%, the lowest in a half-century.
Inflation and the price of fuel were under control. For the first time in nearly 70 years, America become a net energy exporter.
The industrial and farming heartland was revived. 1.2 million manufacturing and construction jobs were created.
Hunter Biden has apparently found some popularity as a Hollywood party guest ahead of his sentencing next month in two cases.
Spies said that the convicted first son, 54, was at a party in Los Angeles last week grousing about his mounting legal bills and his infamous Ukraine scandal.
Said an insider of the A-list gathering: “Hunter Biden was trying to explain his history and problems to guests at a party in LA.”
The source said Hunter was telling guests that, “‘I have $18 million in legal bills, and… my cases hanging over my head.’ He also talked a lot about his Ukraine and Russia connections saying, ‘all these stories were set-ups.'”
Happy Election Day, to those who celebrate. I have to start this piece by saying that if you haven't yet voted, please stop reading immediately, go to your polling place, and vote.
Over the last few weeks I've had alternating feelings of hope and dread when thinking about this day - wanting it to get here and be over with, but dreading the possibility that we could end up with President Cackles. Whatever happens, though, we'll get through it together - but I am fairly optimistic that we'll end up returning Donald Trump to the White House.
Here at RedState, we'll be covering all of the developments, all day long,
With the clock ticking down to Election Day, Democrats are reportedly panicking over abysmally low voter turnout, especially in crucial battleground states. Leaked data reveals a troubling gap in urban voter participation—traditionally a Democrat stronghold—that could spell disaster for Kamala Harris’s campaign and the party at large.
With President Trump’s campaign outpacing Democrat efforts in absentee ballots and early voting, the data paints a troubling picture for Democrats.
According to the leaked memo from Tim Saler, Chief Data Consultant for the Republican National Committee, Democrats are facing a staggering deficit in urban turnout across battleground states.
It's a contest between federal might and a state's right as we head into the waning hours of the 2024 election. The Department of Justice announced that it would be sending lawyers out to 86 polling locations in 27 states to monitor them on Tuesday. But some of those states are pushing back, including Missouri, which filed suit against the DOJ on Monday challenging the feds' right to have monitors in place. Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft on Monday filed a lawsuit against the Justice Department in an attempt to prevent federal officials from monitoring polling locations in St. Louis on Election Day.
It's hard to believe that we're just a few hours away from it officially being Election Day, but yes, we've finally made it to that point.
In North Carolina, there has been a distinct buzz in the air on the Republican/conservative side since early voting started on October 17th, with GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump's push for Republicans to take advantage of early voting spurring early vote numbers for the party not seen in previous election cycles. The difference was pronounced enough that it caused a full-blown panic for the Harris-Walz campaign, which was aware from past elections that early voting has typically been the strong suit for Democrats, not Republicans.
Megyn Kelly appeared at Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Pittsburgh, Pa., on Monday, revealing to the crowd that she’s backing the Republican ex-president because of the Democrats’ handling of illegal immigration and transgender policies.
Kelly listed instances of illegal migrants accused of killing young Americans like Georgia college student Laken Riley, 22, and 12-year-old Texan Jocelyn Nungaray as she blamed Vice President Kamala Harris for opening up the southern border “by choice.”
Today the country votes to elect the 47th president of the United States. Whether you cast a ballot for Donald Trump or Kamala Harris, there is a long line of winners and losers behind them, which means there’s no shortage of trivia from the 231 years of the highest office in the land.
How much do you know about the highest office in the land? Take our quiz to find out! Take our quiz to see how much you know about the weird pets, multiple wives and odd White House meals of former Commanders in Chief.
“My message to Americans tonight is simple: we do not have to live this way. We do not have to settle for weakness, incompetence, decline, and decay,” the Republican nominee told supporters in Pittsburgh, Pa., in the penultimate speech of his 720-day-long campaign.
“With your vote tomorrow, we can fix every single problem our country faces — and lead America, and indeed the world, to new heights of glory,” Trump declared.
“We’ll help the world – a lot of people think we’re isolationists, we’re not – but we want the world to appreciate what we’re doing. They have to appreciate that we’re helping them,” he noted.
"Hezbollah's model is the same as the North Korean model: tunnels in which hundreds of combatants, fully equipped, can pass stealthily and rapidly underground. In our opinion, Hezbollah's 'Land of the Tunnels' project is much larger than the Hamas 'metro' project in the Gaza Strip." — Alma Research and Education Center, July 2021.
These tunnels facilitate the movement of heavy equipment, missiles and fighters, and even allow missiles to be launched from within.
Built beneath the border between Lebanon and Syria, these tunnels allow Hezbollah's smuggling unit and the Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard's Quds Force to transport ammunition, supplies and fighters under the border.
The FBI has set up a command center in Washington DC where they are monitoring the USA election and prepared to respond to any issues they deem as threats to the new democracy they control. I wonder what Washington DC process generated the authority, within this operation.
The USPS, Secret Service, Dept of Homeland Security, Federal Communications Commission and the Dept of Justice are all participating partners with the FBI as established within the Washington DC field office command center.
Check out the videos. The mostly female agents sit around watch cable TV news, and respond to what exactly?
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A US Postal Service worker allegedly tossed about 300 mailers in support of New Jersey Republican Rep. Tom Kean, Jr., into a dumpster outside a Pennsylvania supermarket two weeks ago — and the caught-on-camera incident may have cost her the job.
A security company worker watched as the unidentified woman — who was clad in a USPS uniform — pulled her Toyota Prius up next to a Shop-Rite dumpster in Brodheadsville, Pennsylvania, took several bins out of her trunk and chucked them in, according to the New Jersey Globe.
Video game billionaire and “lifelong” Democrat Mark Pincus declared on Sunday he’s pulling the lever for Donald Trump after seeing “too much” over the past year.
Pincus, who founded video game behemoth Zynga, threw his support behind the GOP nominee over Vice President Kamala Harris even though he previously donated a cool $1 million to President Biden’s then-reelection campaign.
“I am voting for Trump,” he wrote on social media. “I have been a lifelong Dem, supporting the past 4 presidential campaigns at $1m each … This past year I have seen too much.”
These days, criminals have no fear. Lenient plea deals and a widespread hesitation to pursue justice create a sense of immunity for even our worst offenders.
And there should be no mystery as to how we got here.
For nearly a decade, there’s been a coordinated and systematic attempt to reshape the American justice system — to create a world where a small subgroup of criminals have more rights and protections than the rest of us.
Nearly ten years ago, billionaire financier George Soros first channeled millions into local district attorney campaigns across the country.
Biden-Harris Administration Surreptitiously
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On September 22, unnoticed by most Americans, the Biden-Harris administration adopted the United Nations Pact for the Future to transform global governance, which introduces the foundations of a world government. There was no debate, no media coverage, no press releases, and no interviews about the Biden-Harris administration's surrender of United States sovereignty to the UN.
Americans were apparently not supposed to find out. These agreements usher in a dystopian future, where the UN -- an active supporter of terrorism and arguably the world's most corrupt international entity... in partnership with the unelected and unaccountable World Economic Forum,
Trump urges supporters to ‘show up’
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Former President Donald Trump urged supporters to show up and vote for him in his final rally hours before polls open on Election Day.
The Republican nominee closed out the last day of campaigning with a fourth and final rally in Grand Rapid, Michigan that stretched into the early morning hours of Tuesday.
“This has been an incredible journey. It’s very sad in a way, because you know, we’ve done all these and this is the last one,” Trump said at the Van Andel Arena. “But here’s the good news, all we were doing is putting ourselves in a position to win, which we can do tomorrow easily if we show up.”
On Monday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “The Record,” Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz reacted to 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris running ads with different messages on Israel aimed at different groups by stating that Harris “basically is saying there are fine people on both sides of what happened on October 7.”
Dershowitz said, “Well, she basically is saying there are fine people on both sides of what happened on October 7. She has praised some of the protesters who have called Israel’s response genocide. It’s like saying there are fine people on the side of 9/11. No, there aren’t."
Tens of thousands of striking Boeing machinists voted Monday to ratify a new contract, ending their seven-week work stoppage.
In a statement, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers union said its members approved to ratify the contract by 59%. Workers can return to work as early as the first shift Wednesday, it said.
"Working people know what it's like when a company overreaches and takes away more than is fair," Jon Holden, president of IAM District 751, and Brandon Bryant, president of IAM District W24, said in a joint statement.
"Through this strike and the resulting victory, frontline workers at Boeing have done their part to begin rebalancing
The Fat Lady has not sung yet, and it’s not over till it’s over, but Donald Trump stands a very good chance of being reelected as president of the United States on Tuesday.
If he succeeds in winning back his old job, he will pick up the phone the first day and call… the president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum. And it won’t just be to chit-chat and trade niceties—Trump said he will inform her that he will immediately impose massive tariffs unless she does her part to stop the flow of illegal immigrants and drugs into the U.S.
'I haven't met her, and I'm going to inform her
If Vice President Kamala Harris loses the election, several Democrat officials believe that President Joe Biden will be to blame, a new Politico Playbook report revealed.
After speaking with Democrat insiders, the outlet stated, “If Harris loses, it’ll be because… she took the reins too late.”
“Already, most Democratic officials we’ve spoken to agree: If anyone should get the blame for a Trump win, it’s Biden,” Washington, DC, correspondents Rachel Bade and Eugene Daniels wrote Monday.
According to the Democrats they spoke to, Biden’s long-held commitment to running at 81 years old despite his obviously faltering mental health and low approval rating cost Harris
A Trump campaign memo released Monday said Democrats are facing a “massive turnout deficit” in every single battleground state, with former President Donald Trump and Republicans outperforming past elections in absentee ballots and early votes cast. Meanwhile, it said there is an uptick in rural turnout.
The memo, from Grassroots Targeting’s chief data consultant Tim Saler, said:
With Early Voting closed and Election Day on the horizon, Democrats are facing a massive turnout deficit. In every single battleground state, we see President Trump and Republicans outperforming elections past in absentee ballots and early votes cast.
We are a night away from Election Day and the early vote totals show Pennsylvania Democrats are nowhere near as enthused as they were in 2020. Republican enthusiasm to vote early is, however, matching 2020 levels.
According to the latest numbers dropped by the state of Pennsylvania, 997,450 Democrats have voted early compared to 578,546 Republicans. That gives Democrats a vote lead of 409,904.
That might sound great for Democrats, but it’s not.
In 2020, we are told Joe Biden defeated former President Trump by 1.2 points or roughly 81,000 votes in Pennsylvania
Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump have tied with three votes each in the tiny New Hampshire township of Dixville Notch, kicking off Election Day in one of the first places in the country to report its presidential preference.
The unincorporated township, located along the US-Canada border in New Hampshire’s northern tip, opened and closed its poll just after midnight ET in a tradition that dates back to 1960. Four Republicans and two undeclared voters participated.
While Dixville Notch isn’t always predictive of the eventual winner – or even the state’s pick – its annual production, despite a dwindling population,