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President-elect Donald Trump has an “overwhelming” mandate from the American people, Karoline Leavitt, spokeswoman for the Trump transition team, said during an appearance on Breitbart News Saturday.
“The mandate is overwhelming,” Leavitt said, describing Trump’s win as a “resounding victory” from “all demog“You look at the map of red versus blue. I mean, essentially the entire country went red, except for, of course, the coastal elites in California,” she said, noting that not only did Trump win over traditionally blue areas, but he also won the popular vote, sucking even more wind out of the left, which often complains about the electoral college after GOP victories
President-elect Trump has officially won Arizona, avenging his 2020 election loss in the crucial swing state.
The race in Arizona was called by the Associated Press on Saturday evening.
With Arizona, Trump has secured 11 more electoral votes, and has won 312 electoral votes in total.
His opponent, Vice President Harris, only garnered 226 electoral votes.Trump’s Arizona pick-up ends the battle for swing states in the 2024 presidential election.
In addition to Arizona, he picked up electoral votes in North Carolina, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada, Georgia and Pennsylvania.
President Biden won the state of Arizona by less than one-half of 1% in the 2020 election
Catherine, Princess of Wales, attended the annual Festival of Remembrance at Royal Albert Hall in London on Saturday, marking two months to the day since she announced she was “cancer-free.”
The festival is the first of two events this weekend in the UK to honor those who died in war and conflict, and includes personal testimonies, storytelling and music performances presented before an audience of Armed Forces families.
Kate, 42, looked happy and healthy as she spoke with guests alongside her husband, Prince William, 42.
Kate, 42, looked happy and healthy as she spoke with guests alongside her husband, Prince William, 42. (Photos) The festival is the first of two events this weekend
Star 49ers defensive end Nick Bosa was fined $11,255 by the NFL for crashing a postgame, on-field interview while wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat on Oct. 27, according to multiple reports.
Bosa donned the hat following San Francisco’s “Sunday Night Football” victory less than two weeks before the 2024 election, showing his support for Donald Trump, who ended up defeating Vice President Kamala Harris to become the country’s President-elect.
Per multiple reports, the hat violated Rule 5, section 4, article 8 of the NFL rulebook, which reads: “Throughout the period on game-day that a player is visible to the stadium and television audience (including in pregame warm-ups,
Exclusive: I wore a MAGA hat to America's
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Eight years ago, there wasn't a soul brave enough to wear a MAGA hat through the streets of Manhattan, where liberals openly sobbed after Trump's shock election win.
But it's a new day in America.
Trump is back, bold and more popular than ever.And in the lefty safe haven of Manhattan, support for him is higher than ever.
With the wind of his election win propping our sails, the Daily Mail team ventured out in Greenwich Village to test his newfound popularity.
I was the guinea pig of choice - anointed with a bright red MAGA hat, I bravely took on the task.
The result was surprising to say the least.
I have been following Scientific American’s steady decline, both in terms of its handling of science and its actual support of policies helpful to this nation. (snip) One of the primary reasons this descent into madness has accelerated is that the editor-in-chief, Laura Helmuth, has allowed pseudoscience and narratives to flow unfiltered with little if any restraint. (snip) Once the magnitude of the Trump win became apparent, Helmuth lost all sense of professional decorum and scientific objectivity, and had herself a spectacular social media meltdown.
President-elect Donald Trump made history this week after pulling off one the biggest political comebacks, as well a big congratulations to Republicans gaining the Senate and presumably the House. As to no surprise, Democrats are furious. Not only did Trump win the election, but he gained momentum in every single group and demographic while Vice President Kamala Harris didn’t even come close.
Now, left-wing media pundits are trying to figure out how to drown out Trump— much like they have for the past eight years since he first stepped into the political spotlight.
George Clooney feels he is being used as a ‘scapegoat’ in the furious blame game over who could have cost Kamala Harris the election – and will now take a step back from politics.
The Hollywood star, 63, threw his support behind Harris after penning a blistering op-ed on why Joe Biden would cost the Democrats the win if he didn’t abandon his campaign, but it still wasn’t enough to prevent an historic victory for Donald Trump.
Clooney has since been criticized by Democrats for his influence during the election, with some claiming Harris' loss was his fault.
The Harris-Walz campaign raised a staggering amount of money during this election cycle. Over a billion dollars. While it would be easy to admire such an impressive feat, it really does speak to the fact that she couldn't buy her way into the White House. The Trump campaign raised less, spent less, and still won big.In fact, the Harris-Walz campaign didn't just lose, but they ended up in serious debt. Politico's California bureau chief Christopher Cadelago reported earlier this week that the campaign is as much as $20 million in the red. (X) One of the biggest expenses was the concerts
A shady Democratic attorney who once loudly attacked President-elect Trump’s refusal to accept the 2020 presidential results is now at the heart of a desperate legal effort to snatch Pennsylvania’s Senate race away from its rightful winner — Republican Dave McCormick, campaign insiders say.
Marc Elias, a longtime Democratic election attorney and dirty trickster, is attempting to force the Pennsylvania Senate race into a recount, even though it was called for McCormick by the Associated Press on Thursday, with even the state’s most liberal news outlets echoing the call since.
Despite the race being called, incumbent Democratic Sen. Bob Casey has refused to concede —
The Covid years were tough, and now they’re finally ending. In two weeks, I’ll have a health book coming out that in part explains the story of why the lockdowns were so devastating. At the same time, Trump’s election gives hope to aggressively address the issues outlined in the pages.
Former President Donald Trump hit a grand slam Tuesday. Republicans finally reclaimed the Senate and the White House four years after America’s deadly lockdowns coincided with a year of political turmoil and ended in a riot at the Capitol.
The race for the majority in the House of Representatives is on with each party vying for power and key races yet to be called.
As of Saturday, Republicans held 212 seats and Democrats held 200. A party needs 218 seats for a majority.
The path to victory for a Democratic majority in the House is narrowing, with the party needing to sweep the most contested races to win power. Many undeclared seats are in the western U.S. or in swing districts, including Arizona, Washington, Oregon, California, Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa, Louisiana, Ohio, Maryland, New York, Maine and Alaska.
Exclusive — Senator-Elect Bernie Moreno:
We Have a ‘Mandate’ to Implement America
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We Have a ‘Mandate’ to Implement America
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Republicans have a “mandate” to implement former President-elect Donald Trump’s America First agenda, Senator-elect Bernie Moreno of Ohio said during an appearance on Breitbart News Saturday days after his victory.
Moreno, a businessman whom Trump endorsed, walked through his victory, praising his team and noting that Trump’s victory was “decisive.” “JD Vance’s support was obviously incredibly important. It was a team effort. We feel really good, but now we’ve got a mandate for the American people to actually implement the agenda that we know
The 2020 presidential election was marred by irregularities, insecure election practices, and last-minute rule changes that, as election integrity activists have since pointed out, benefitted Democrat Joe Biden. As The Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway put it in her bestseller, the election was “Rigged.”
But four years later, President-elect Donald Trump won in a landslide in part because Republicans and conservatives mobilized like never before to build a massive election integrity network focused on ensuring free and fair elections.
Take 2020 for example. Republican observers “were either kept out, or allowed inside but kept too far away from the counting to see what was happening
As divided as America may be, this election showed there’s one thing most Americans agree on: Only U.S. citizens should vote in U.S. elections.
Voters this week in eight states — Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Wisconsin — overwhelmingly approved constitutional amendment ballot questions seeking to ensure noncitizens cannot vote in state and local elections. Foreign nationals are already barred from voting in federal elections.
“We’re so often told about how divided we are in the United States, but on Tuesday we had Republicans, Democrats and independents come together in overwhelming numbers declaring that only citizens would be able to vote” in elections,
‘Shut It Down’: Vivek Ramaswamy Talks
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To Tucker About ‘Mega Reorganization’
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Former 2024 Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy spoke to political commentator and Daily Caller Co-Founder Tucker Carlson about the “mega reorganization” of federal bureaucracy in an interview released Friday.
President-elect Donald Trump swept all seven battleground states, won the popular vote and achieved a Republican majority in the Senate. Ramaswamy detailed how the incoming administration could eliminate and separate federal agencies from Washington, D.C. to make systemic change.
President-elect Donald Trump teased Democrats on Saturday after they spent tons of money and incurred debt trying to defeat him in the recent election.
“I am very surprised that the Democrats, who fought a hard and valiant fight in the 2020 Presidential Election, raising a record amount of money, didn’t have lots of $’s left over,” Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social:Now they are being squeezed by vendors and others. Whatever we can do to help them during this difficult period, I would strongly recommend we, as a Party and for the sake of desperately needed UNITY, do. We have a lot of money left over
All information provided to the Office of the President comes from the “six ways from Sunday” group.
The Presidential Daily Briefing is constructed by the “six ways from Sunday” group.
The DNI position is legislatively the most powerful position in the IC, yet that authority has never been exploited thanks to a DC silo system in the control of the “six ways from Sunday” group.
Barack Obama quickly learned the risks within the “six ways from Sunday” silo process. Obama subverted the “six ways from Sunday” control mechanisms brilliantly, he just ignored it and gave the info to everybody.
President Trump is vulnerable to a DC silo system that self-preserves and that
Trump announces former WH officials Nikki
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President-elect Donald Trump revealed Saturday night that he will not ask South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley or former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to join his administration.
Trump said on his Truth Social that Haley, who ripped him when she ran against him for the GOP nomination, and Pompeo, who some supporters criticized for not backing Trump strongly enough, will not be invited to join him when he re-enters the White House in January 2025.
“I will not be inviting former Ambassador Nikki Haley, or former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, to join the Trump Administration, which is currently in formation,” Trump posted.
On Thursday night, President-elect Donald Trump announced that he had selected Susie Wiles as his Chief of Staff for his incoming administration, making her the first woman to hold such a role. While one might think that such prominence would only be celebrated, POLITICO has put out some rather interesting posts about Wiles, which they ended up having to delete.When it comes to a Friday post that has since been deleted, Karoline Leavitt, the National Press Secretary for the Trump-Vance campaign, called out the outlet for how POLITICO "hates Trump so much, they ignore [Wiles'] accomplishments," even bringing up the idea that she's an "enemy of democracy,"
The Federal Emergency Management Agency supervisor accused of ordering her subordinates to skip Florida homes with Trump campaign signs has been fired.
Marn’i Washington was sacked for telling disaster relief workers in Lake Placid, Fla., to “not go to homes with yard signs supporting President-elect Trump,” FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell said Saturday.
“This is a clear violation of FEMA’s core values and principles to help people regardless of their political affiliation,” she said, adding, “This employee has been terminated and we have referred the matter to the Office of Special Counsel.
“I will continue to do everything I can to make sure this never happens again.
After backlash for questioning the results of the 2024 election, one talking head’s excuse hardly helped his case.
As many Democratic Party voters remained incredulous that referring to large swaths of the American populous as “Nazis” and “garbage” hadn’t been a winning message for Vice President Kamala Harris, many who’d knocked concerns over election integrity in the past were singing a different tune since former President Donald Trump had been named the victor.
SiriusXM host Dean Obeidallah, known for fearmongering over the GOP leader and asserting he’d attempt “to illegally overthrow” the outcome of the 2020 election, sang an entirely different tune on Friday.
President-elect Trump was on track to win 400 electoral votes in a head-to-head race against President Biden, according to the White House’s own internal polls.
The news was revealed by Jon Favreau, a one-time speechwriter for former President Obama who now hosts the liberal Pod Save America podcast.
“Then we find out when the Biden campaign becomes the Harris campaign, that the Biden campaign’s own internal polling at the time when they were telling us he was the strongest candidate, showed that Donald Trump was going to win 400 electoral votes,” Favreau said.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said election season “would have been different” if the Democrat Party had held a real primary process after President Joe Biden abandoned his reelection bid and immediately endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, backtracking on her previous statements that they had actually held an “open primary.”
The former U.S. House speaker, who said in mid-October that she had not spoken to Biden since she pushed him to drop out of the race in July, said on the New York Times‘ November 9 episode of The Interview podcast, “Had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race.”
WATCH: 'Incredibly Triggered' Joy Reid
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Calls for Democrats to Shun Trump-Supporting
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In this episode of "Get a Grip!"...
So here's the thing. I decided to stop writing about every Democrat meltdown I saw following President-elect Donald Trump's crushing win over Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday. But telling Democrats to shun their Trump-supporting family members during the holidays is truly appalling. So I made an exception.
MSNBC's race-obsessed host Joy Reid on Friday night's episode of "The ReidOut" did exactly the above, and as unconscionable as her admonition was, Reid's delusional reasoning couldn't have been more hypocritical and full of blind hatred.
Unsurprisingly, Reid's guest, Yale psychiatrist and "mental health expert" Dr. Amanda Calhoun, couldn't have agreed more fervently.
The Justice Department is reportedly narrowing its focus on prosecuting the most “egregious” offenders involved in the Jan. 6, 2021 protest at the U.S. Capitol building.
Of particular concern are those who committed felony assaults on law enforcement officers, according to an NBC News report. This development comes after President-elect Donald Trump won the presidential election and prepares to take office in early 2025.
The primary reason for the Justice Department’s tighter focus is likely the possibility that Trump will pardon or commute the sentences of many of those who were arrested and are facing prosecution over Jan. 6. His victory has sparked optimism among the defendants and those supporting them.
Chaos As Thousands of Immigrants
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and Protesters March in New York to Protest
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Reports are emerging that a protest march of immigrants and other disgruntled New Yorkers is erupting in Manhattan. The protesters are carrying signs that accuse President-elect Donald Trump of being racist, fascist, sexist, anti-gay, and anti-trans. They are also protesting against mass deportation and "systematic oppression": [Tweet, video] (Snip) Many of the protesters are immigrants and are holding signs that say "No to anti-immigrant laws." [Tweet, video]
The protesters seem to think that they can protest the election of the lawfully elected 47th president of our country. They are making it clear that although Trump won in a landslide victory,
What Will Kamala Harris Do Now?
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The 2024 election is over, the last few races are being decided, and for the most part, only the recriminations remain. The Harris/Walz campaign tried everything from "brat" and "joy" to calling Donald Trump a fascist and a Nazi, and they failed. They didn't just fail, they failed catastrophically, losing not only the presidential election by a wide margin in the electoral vote and the total vote count, but they also lost more Senate seats to the Republicans and, it looks like, control of the House of Representatives as well. President-elect Donald Trump will enter office with a clear and undeniable mandate, and with a friendly Congress.
John Frankenheimer directed a movie called Seven Days in May in the 1960s, starring Kirk Douglas as a military officer who uncovers a coup against the president of the United States by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who signed a deeply unpopular nuclear disarmament treaty. That’s a movie. In 2024, the Pentagon brass plotted to countermand President-elect Donald J. Trump’s orders. If we’re going by the Left’s rules here, this is an insurrection. It’s a military coup. What’s worse is that these anti-Trump meetings were held in secret and then got leaked to the media
The nation's educational landscape faces a potential transformation as Donald Trump prepares to return to the White House with ambitious plans for systemic changes. According to ABC News, Trump's Agenda47 campaign outlines comprehensive reforms, including the elimination of the Department of Education, implementation of nationwide school choice, and significant changes to curriculum content. The proposed changes would affect multiple aspects of America's educational system, from kindergarten through higher education. Trump's vision encompasses major shifts in federal oversight, teacher certification, and curriculum standards. The plan represents a fundamental reimagining of how education is delivered and managed across the United States.
I'm sure you've enjoyed seeing liberal news networks meltdown about Trump's victory this week, but there was another meltdown on CNN this week that wasn't about the election, at least not directly, that is worth watching. This one was over males playing women's sports.
It all started when Jay Michaelson, a rabbi and author of "God vs. Gay: The Religious Case For Equality," was lamenting the effectiveness of the Trump campaign's "anti-trans" ads. "Those ads were for the base, right?" he asked. "That was to motivate the base to get out there. And that base, that sort of that MAGA base and the sort of, I would call Christian nationalist base,
Within days of Donald Trump being elected as the 47th President of the United States of America, things are changing fast in the Middle East, and there are new developments in the conflict between Israel and Gaza that could expedite a resolution of the war.
Qatar has been a critical player in the past year by facilitating hostage negotiations but also by harboring the Hamas leaders who have resided in their country even before the war, living in luxury off of millions of dollars of aid money given by the UN and UNWRA.
Now, after over a year of playing soft politics with Biden, the Qataris want out.
Donald J. Trump’s victory in the electoral competition for the Presidency of the United States of America constitutes a historic moment in the dramatic events of the present and marks a formidable setback for the criminal plan of the New World Order. I express my warmest congratulations to President Trump, while I thank Our Lord for having prevented the United States and the Western world from definitively falling into the tentacles of the deep state and globalist tyranny. The battle against the subversive elite of psychopathic criminals who hold the West hostage is not over; it now begins.
"He's really bad being Hitler," my son mused in a text this morning about the following story.
President-elect Donald Trump, in a Saturday post to Truth Social, offered the help the Democrat Party pay off the campaign debt of Vice President Kamala Harris.
I find that somewhat profound, given the vile bilge and abject lies about the now-president-elect that were parroted throughout the bitterly-fought 2024 presidential campaign. From "Hitler" to "fascist" to "racist" to "white supremacist," the baseless attacks against Trump were never-ending.
Yet, here's Trump's offer (emphasis, mine):
I am very surprised that the Democrats, who fought a hard and valiant fight
The White House announced that President-elect Donald Trump will be meeting with President Joe Biden at the White House on Wednesday at 11:00 a.m.
Earlier this week, Biden called Trump to congratulate him on his election victory. He had promised he would work to ensure a smooth transition of power between the current and future administrations. Biden had also shared that he planned to attend Trump’s presidential inauguration. When Biden won in 2020, Trump refused to concede the election and the two never met at the White House prior to Biden taking office.
The 2024 presidential election was called for Trump on Wednesday morning and he’s secured 301 electoral votes
Just like we witnessed in the 2022 Arizona election, election officials are openly changing the ballot totals remaining to be counted without explanation.
In 2022, Democrats swept the state-wide elections despite Republicans having the strongest set of candidates in recent history.
Kari Lake was so impressive and polished that she made a name for herself nationally prior to the race. But on election day, Maricopa County officials sent the wrong-sized paper to the precincts, essentially shutting down voting across the metro areas but especially in deep-red districts. Democrats were somehow able to pick up over 50% of the votes that day
President-elect Trump could put more money in Americans’ pockets with a raft of tax code changes, insiders and experts said.
On the campaign trail Trump repeatedly promised to slash taxes on tips and social security benefits, and suggested the total elimination of income taxes with the hope or replacing the revenue with tariffs.
With the signature tax cuts of Trump’s first term set to expire in 2025, and the high likelihood Republicans will have full control of Congress, extending and even expanding tax changes are high on his agenda.
Chief among the wish-list items of an expanded tax cut program would be lowering corporate tax rates.
FEMA official Marn’i Washington ordered her staff to avoid assisting homes with Trump flags in their yards following the aftermath of a recent hurricane in Florida. Marn’i wanted them to suffer for their support for Donald Trump.
A whistleblower came forward with text messages revealing FEMA official Marn’i Washington ordered relief workers to purposely skip over homes in Florida displaying Trump signs in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton.
According to internal messages obtained by The Daily Wire, FEMA discriminated against Trump supporters in need of help in the aftermath of the most recent hurricanes
Barack Obama and his wife Michelle have been slammed by his biographer for 'talking down' to voters in 'tone-deaf and clueless' preaching that harmed Kamala Harris' ill-fated presidential campaign. The effect was so bad that – combined with Donald Trump's victory – it is likely to reduce the 44th president's political relevance to 'Bill Clinton levels', David Garrow said in an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com. (Snip) He predicted that the Obamas will now largely vanish from the political scene to hang out with celebrities on Martha's Vineyard'. Garrow said Tuesday's electoral rout has left Obama, 63, 'nervous' about the impact Trump could
Notice How Calm it is?…
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Do you notice the absence of all the things that were proclaimed as destined to happen by the Moonbats?
No riots, no mayhem, no burning crisis and mass protests; essentially quiet.(map)What we discover during this phase is that an unstable leftist population of 0.1% is not being stirred up by the Intelligence Community and the ideological leftist media who support them. Both the IC and their media are frozen.
There is that phase in every abusive relationship when the abuser has run out of manipulation that works. They realize their victims are numb to their efforts; things get quiet.
Following the election of President Donald J Trump, an interesting report surfaces today about Qatar, Hamas (Muslim Brotherhood) and Egypt.Qatar is asking Hamas leadership to leave the country:
(J Post) – Qatar has reportedly clarified to the terrorist group Hamas, “You are not welcome here,” KAN reported on Friday, citing a source familiar with the matter. This development has reportedly been underway in recent days, three sources told KAN. One source told KAN that this is due to pressure from the US.
According to the report, Qatar had previously explained that Hamas’s leadership in the country was meant to facilitate dialogue during hostage negotiation efforts.
EU Commission President Congratulates
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President Trump, Proposes Additional Purchases
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Responding to reporters’ questions, today President of the European Union commission Ursula von der Leyen congratulated Donald Trump then immediately began the framework to explain EU background discussions in economic terms. “We still get a lot of [liquified natural gas] from Russia, and why not replace it by American LNG, which is cheaper for us and brings down our energy prices,” said Ursula von der Leyen.
The EU realizes the seismic shift that is upon them as a result of the U.S. election. Everything from the Ukraine-Russia war; the economics of energy which President Trump will use in negotiations for peace;
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said that while President-Elect Donald Trump “talks like a fascist,” “If he talks about Arnold Palmer’s dick” or swears or “says something that everybody thinks, like there are shithole countries,” he’s not going to get upset over it like he did, “because that is deranged.”
Maher began by saying that the “most important thing to say” about the election is that the reason why things are peaceful is because Democrats believe in conceding elections and they’re the party that lost, while Republicans wouldn’t have accepted defeat.
He added, “I also just want to say, to my friends on the right…
Nov. 5 wasn’t just a great night for America — it was a great night for law and order.
LA voters, sick of the massive damage that woke DA George Gascón (once a Soros darling now abandoned by his benefactor) has done their city, handed him a crushing defeat.
Gascón eliminated cash bail and effectively legalized many low-level crimes, bringing a countywide 8% crime spike from 2019 to 2023, and an exodus of experienced prosecutors.
In a just world, Donald Trump would have won the Nobel Peace Prize for securing the historic Abraham Accords peace agreements of 2020. So too, in a just world, would A-list Hollywood studios now be bidding for the rights to produce the film adaptation of the single greatest comeback story in American history: Donald Trump, the once and future president.
Trump's electoral landslide this week is one for the history books. His myriad foes illegitimately spied on his 2016 campaign. They fabricated a "Russia collusion" narrative out of whole cloth, then spent years "investigating" it. They impeached him twice. They prosecuted him across four separate jurisdictions, 91 criminal counts in total.
Let them cry it out.
Liberals in deep-blue New York City shocked and disturbed by President-elect Donald Trump’s election victory are flooding shrinks’ inboxes looking for appointments.
“It’s a perfect storm for New York therapists,” said Manhattan psychologist Chloe Carmichael, who estimated she’s received a 15% spike in inquiries from patients. “It’s a repeat of 2016, where a lot of people feel really scared and traumatized and angry.”
Ella Emhoff appears to be losing her mind over her stepmother’s loss to Donald Trump in the presidential election.
Emhoff, 25, was photographed sobbing on the sidelines while Vice President Harris delivered her concession speech at Howard University on Wednesday.
Less than 24 hours later, the lefty activist daughter of second gentleman Doug Emhoff posted one of the unflattering images of her crying during the speech to her Instagram story, along with the caption, “Truly no words. We are all going to get through this. It just f–king hurts like a #@#$ right now and that’s ok.
Amid the stunning revelation that Kamala Harris’ unsuccessful presidential campaign ended up $20 million in the red, despite raising $1 billion from donors, a new report has found that the rock concerts that her campaign staged on the night before the election — featuring Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, and others — collectively cost around that same amount, up to $20 million. Now vendors and others who worked on those concerts, which were meant to persuade “low-propensity voters” to turn out for Harris, are reportedly facing the prospect of unpaid invoices.
During this election, many of us on both sides were obsessed with polls, betting markets, rally sizes, and any sort of tea leaves we could read to gauge where this election stood. In my extensive coverage of the polls this year, one thing that stood out was how the left refused to accept the results of polling that didn't tell them what they wanted to hear. This happens on both sides, but from what I could see, if people on the right thought a poll was suspicious, they would look at the crosstabs and tell you why it was wrong.
On Day One, President Trump must take immediate action to protect migrant children by completely overhauling the Office of Refugee Resettlement within the Department of Health and Human Services. The current catastrophe has resulted in thousands upon thousands of children vanishing into the unknown, many into the hands of traffickers. The true number remains unknown as the government has lost track of so many of these vulnerable souls. Those in the current administration who have deliberately weakened or eliminated crucial sponsor vetting procedures must be removed. The safety of vulnerable children cannot be sacrificed for administrative expediency.
Jon Favreau, a host of the political podcast “Pod Save America,” said during Friday’s episode that President Biden’s internal polling showed that President-elect Trump would win “400 electoral votes.”
“Then we find out when the Biden campaign becomes the Harris campaign, that the Biden campaign’s own internal polling at the time when they were telling us he was the strongest candidate, showed that Donald Trump was going to win 400 electoral votes,” Favreau said on the podcast in comments highlighted by Mediaite.
Out of a sense of morbid curiosity, we decided to venture over to the Bulwark, the opinion site founded by alleged conservative Bill Kristol with the single mission of providing readers a daily dose of anti-Trump vitriol.
We wondered if perhaps the folks at Bulwark were celebrating because Donald Trump’s victory means that their reason for existing just got extended another four years. Had Trump lost, their pretense of being a conservative “bulwark” would have shattered.
They aren’t celebrating.
Instead, Trump’s overwhelming victory against overwhelming odds has them struggling to think straight.
The 2024 landmark election has concluded with a resounding victory for the Grand Old Party. With the newly acquired Republican majority in Congress and Donald Trump as President-elect, the United States is facing a pivotal moment that promises to bring long-awaited changes.
Interference Anxiety
In the months and days leading up to the election, the outcome was far from certain. Polls showed a dead heat between Trump and Harris, with only a marginal difference, and even prominent pundits were unable to predict a winner. Having experienced election interference controversies in 2016 and 2020,
Things are moving quickly after President-elect Donald Trump's win on Tuesday in the general election. One of the issues that voters said was one of the major reasons they pulled the lever in the ballot box for him, and not Vice President Kamala Harris, is immigration. In a piece Thursday, my colleague Ward Clark outlined the agenda items that Trump has promised to tackle on day one of the new administration. Among those, of course, is not only beginning deporting the illegals already in the country but securing the porous southern border with Mexico.
One of the best things about Kamala Harris losing is that now, Tim Walz can slink back to Minnesota and we won't have to deal with him on the national stage into the future. He's truly a hard individual to take, from gesticulations to falsehoods. At Kamala's concession speech on Wednesday, Walz appeared close to crying. In the final analysis, in a campaign full of failure and bad choices, picking Tim Walz may have been one of her worst choices. She didn't choose a guy who was allegedly more moderate like Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, who might have helped her win PA. She did choose Walz,
Trump plans to withdraw US from Paris
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President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team has prepared executive orders and proclamations that would withdraw the US from the Paris climate agreement and open up western lands for drilling and mining, according to a report.
Trump’s energy and environment transition team – tasked with drafting these actions – includes his former Department of the Interior Secretary David Bernhardt and former Environmental Protection Agency administrator Andrew Wheeler, the New York Times reported on Friday.
Trump, 78, pulled the US out of the Paris accord early in his first term,
Bill Maher slammed the Democratic party as “losers” and urged them to “look in the mirror” following Kamala Harris’ presidential election loss to President-elect Donald Trump.
Maher, who once predicted that Harris would win the election, revealed that he “did not vote for the winner,” but accepted the election results — unlike his late-night counterparts earlier in the week.
“We had an election,” Maher said during his “Real Time” monologue on HBO Friday night. “I did not vote for the winner, we’ll see what the winners do now. They won, now they have reality they have to deal with. We’ll see what they do.” (Photo)
At times like this, it’s tempting to gloat, but conservatives must be gracious winners. We must be courteous to our defeated opponents even though they would not have shown us the same respect had Kamala Harris won. We must resist the temptation to revel in their misery.
With cordiality and sophistication in mind, I’ll use the most dignified analogy I can think of in describing what Democrats are going through at this very moment. When I was in fifth grade, some kid pooped himself while doing pull-ups in gym class. He was mortified. I’ll never forget the look on his face. For more than 30 years after that moment,
Vice President Kamala Harris faced quite the loss as a result of Tuesday's election, with Democrats also losing the Senate and likely the House. Naturally, the blame game has started, and with Harris being installed as the nominee just three and a half months before Election Day — after President Joe Biden was forced out by his fellow Democrats — that's no doubt come into the conversation. The Biden and Harris teams have taken to blaming each other, as a Friday morning report from Axios revealed.
Democrats bet big on “reproductive rights” this election cycle, with Planned Parenthood even offering free abortions near their national convention. But the strategy didn’t pay off. Not only was abortion a flop with the electorate, it was Republicans—not Democrats—who pushed the winning women’s-rights issue: fighting the encroachment of biological men into women’s spaces and sports. “We will get. . . transgender insanity the hell out of our schools, and we will keep men out of women’s sports,” Donald Trump said to roaring applause at his Madison Square Garden rally a week before the election.
Barack Obama and his wife Michelle have been slammed by his biographer for 'talking down' to voters in 'tone-deaf and clueless' preaching that harmed Kamala Harris' ill-fated presidential campaign.
The effect was so bad that – combined with Donald Trump's victory – it is likely to reduce the 44th president's political relevance to 'Bill Clinton levels', David Garrow said in an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com.
'People do not want to be talked down to, no matter who they are,' the 71-year-old Pulitzer Prize winner said.
Over the last quarter century, progressives argued that we should decriminalize drugs, stop enforcing laws against nonviolent crimes, and radically reduce the number of people in prison. This softer approach to crime, addiction, and homelessness was demonstrably more effective and compassionate than tougher models, they said. Hundreds of articles, books, documentaries, TV segments, and fact sheets all buttressed this worldview.
We all needed more empathy for those committing crimes, more empathy for drug dealers, the activists said, and soon the politicians did, too. In that frenzy of compassion, it wasn’t the criminals who were demonized, but the victims.
Markets in China tumbled on Friday, dismayed by a disappointing stimulus package from Beijing and fear that President-elect Donald Trump will restore high tariffs on Chinese exports.
Factories in China are reportedly surging production to pump goods into the supply chain before Trump takes office. Chinese investors were expecting a major stimulus commitment from the government after Trump won the U.S. election on Tuesday, but all they got on Friday was a relatively weak $1.4 trillion five-year plan that was mostly focused on reducing the huge debt load of China’s local governments.
The election of Republican Kelly Ayotte as New Hampshire’s governor means 13 women will serve as a state’s chief executive next year, breaking the record of 12 set after the 2022 elections.
Governors hold powerful sway in American politics, shaping state policy and often using the experience and profile gained to launch campaigns for higher offices.
“It matters to have women in those roles to normalize the image of women in political leadership and even more specifically in executive leadership, where they’re the sole leader, not just a member of a team,” said Kelly Dittmar, director of research at the Rutgers Center for American Women and Politics.
Elections often tell you less about the winners than the losers. Victory has many fathers, as the saying goes, but defeat shows you exactly what went wrong.
Pennsylvania’s 2024 results offer a master class in Democratic collapse: while Trump edged out Kamala Harris by 2 points in the presidential race, Republicans romped to victory in every down-ballot statewide contest.
Dave McCormick pulled out a narrow victory over three-term Senator Bob Casey; Dave Sunday trounced Eugene DePasquale by 5 points in the attorney general race; and incumbent Tim DeFoor beat Malcolm Kenyatta by an even wider margin for auditor general.
A part of me wonders if Joe Biden was more cogent than he let on in public. It’s not exactly like that classic SNL skit with Phil Hartman, who played an aloof Ronald Reagan in front of the cameras but a commanding political force behind the scenes around the time Iran-Contra was in the news. For sure, he’s lost more than a step, but this seems to be a tale of the ultimate political revenge. Three sources close to Harris are expressing concern that Harris’ path to victory may be too narrow to overcome.
Former Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger (IL) said he has “no fear” about president-elect Trump’s second term in office .
“Can I be clear about something? I have absolutely no fear of Trump. Honest to God,” the anti-Trump Republican posted on Instagram Threads.
“This narrative that his opponents are intimidated is what MAGA wants to believe. No, we are REINVIGORATED,” he added.
Kinzinger has been known for his critical comments about Trump and notably served on the House Committee designated to review the January 6 Capitol insurrection.
As the former president returns to office, he has threatened to use military force on those who are openly against his decisions.
Of all the excesses of the four-year Trump interregnum that was the Biden-Harris administration, none was worse than the left’s use of our legal system to exact political retribution and “send a message” to those who dared oppose progressive extremism. It had all the markings of totalitarian behavior, but now it’s going down in flames.
The idea of America as a nation ruled by laws, not by the biases and whims of political powers, has been central to our country’s identity and stability since its very founding. It’s what makes our country unique in the world.
Donald Trump needed to “win big.” So he needed to listen to his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, according to the Wall Street Journal.
She took on the thankless job of outmaneuvering the dirty tricks of her opponents in her new role as co-chairman of the Republican National Committee. “We don’t have one day of voting, we don’t have paper ballots, we don’t have voter ID everywhere,” she said pointing out the reality of winning on a new playing field. “We have to play the hand we’re dealt.”
Democrats are worried America elected former President Donald Trump at his worst. Republicans are celebrating that Trump is at his best.
Eight years after the Manhattan real estate mogul and reality television star shocked the world with a triumphant victory over Hillary Clinton, Trump will reclaim the White House as a veteran politician with a full term behind him. “Figures who once hoped to act as stabilizing forces — including a string of chiefs of staff, defense secretaries, a national security adviser, a national intelligence adviser and an attorney general — have abandoned Trump, leaving behind recriminations about his character and abilities,” CNN reported.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., pointed the finger at President Biden for not dropping out of the race earlier in an election post-mortem with The New York Times on Thursday. Pelosi told host Lulu Garcia-Navarro on the Times' "The Interview" podcast, "Had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race." As the former speaker told it, "The anticipation was that, if the president were to step aside, that there would be an open primary." Pelosi had been a key player in pushing Biden out after his infamous debate performance.
Elon Succeeded Where FEMA Failed
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Robby Starbuck, a right-wing activist who loves to troll the left, lives on a 12-acre farm in Tennessee, about four hours from the area that Hurricane Helene ravaged last week. After the storm hit southern Appalachia, a friend told him that hurricane victims were struggling to connect with the outside world.
“So many people were worried that their family members might have died and they couldn’t get in touch,” Starbuck told The Free Press. The hurricane has been the worst since Katrina in 2005, with 230 deaths so far, and damages estimated between $30 billion and $47 billion.
Kamala Harris is so finished that she is already being erased from memory.
A mural of Harris that was painted on the side of a building in Atlanta, Georgia has already been painted over. This confirms that despite all the hype from Democrats and media that Harris was another Obama, the hype was all completely manufactured. Totally fake.
In four years, when Democrats begin announcing that they’re running for president, Harris will probably not be one of them.
The Latin Times reported:
A Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) supervisor told disaster relief workers in Florida to “avoid homes” with signs supporting President-elect Donald Trump, the agency confirmed Friday.
The FEMA official — Marn’i Washington — conveyed her edict both verbally and in a Microsoft Teams chat used by relief workers canvassing Lake Placid homes ravaged by Hurricane Milton last month, according to the Daily Wire.
“Avoid homes advertising Trump,” Washington wrote in a “best practices” memo to employees.
The order was the second bullet point in a list instructing workers to not go “anywhere alone,” practice “de-escalation,” stay hydrated and to “follow the rules.”
It took less than a day following Donald Trump’s decisive victory November 5 for Democrats to start talking about their plans to hamstring his incoming administration. There’s little Trump can do about third parties seeking to undermine his presidency aside from vigorously responding to them, and we can rest assured that he and his team will do just that. But efforts to derail Trump’s mandate aren’t limited to politicians in Albany or Sacramento. There are thousands of Biden administration appointees currently working in the Executive Branch, and Trump can and should get rid of every single one of them on January 20.
David McCormick filed a lawsuit challenging at least 15,000 provisional ballots in Philadelphia in the Pennsylvania Senate race, hours after claiming victory over Democratic Senator Bob Casey.
McCormick, a Republican, held a slight lead over Casey in the battleground state's Senate election on Friday. McCormick's campaign has declared victory, but Casey has not conceded the race, as Democrats note there are still some outstanding ballots, and the race may end up within the threshold for an automatic recount. The Associated Press projected McCormick as the winner, with 97 percent of the vote counted. [SNIP] On Friday, McCormick's campaign filed a legal challenge to 15,000 to 20,000 provisional ballots in Philadelphia.
Judge rules New York can’t use ‘antiquated,
unconstitutional’ law to block migrant
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New York City can’t use an unconstitutional, two-century-old “anti-pauper” law to block the state of Texas from offering migrants free bus rides to the city from the southern border, a state judge has ruled.
The court on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit brought by Mayor Eric Adams in January against charter bus companies contracted by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. It sought to bar them from knowingly dropping off “needy persons,” citing an 1817 state law that criminalized bringing an indigent person into the state “for the purpose of making him a public charge.”
Justice Mary Rosado said in a sternly worded decision that the law is unconstitutional for several reasons.
Sarah Palin made it quite clear who she wants to serve as Donald Trump's health secretary, showcasing a muscle-laden photo of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on her Instagram story.
Palin, a conservative and Trump ally, posted the photo of Kennedy alongside a picture of Rachel Levine, the first transgender Assistant Secretary for Health.
The photo was captioned '#winning' alongside a photo of Trump smiling and was set to the classic jock jam 'Tag Team (Whoop There it Is)' with a graphic noting 'Department of Health 2021' vs. 'Department of Health 2025.'
Vice President-elect JD Vance gave his son Ewan’s Cub Scout Troop a tour of the United States Capitol on Friday, according to several sources.
Joe Khalil, a Washington Correspondent with NewsNation, wrote in a post on X that a spokesperson for Sen. Vance (R-OH) confirmed that Vance was “back in Washington and back at the Capitol” and was leading a tour for his son’s Boy Scout troop. (X) Reese Gorman, a political reporter with NOTUS, also wrote that a source had confirmed that Vance was in the District of Columbia “giving his son’s Cub Scout Troop a tour of the US Capitol.”
MSNBC’s Reid: Trump Will Deport Legal
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MSNBC host Joy Reid said Friday on her show “The ReidOut” that President-elect Donald Trump will deport legal immigrants if they are “brown.”
Reid said, “They have now gotten people of color to fight each other and not pay attention to each other and create a hate among groups of color so that when they do start hurting people and taking people out and putting people in camps. Now we have a Hutu Tutsi world where people don’t care. When they start hurting undocumented people, the other people in the country including other people of color won’t care.”
Ezra Klein: This Too Shall Pass
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Republicans are celebrating this week and Democrats are going through various stages of despair and disbelief, wondering what to do next. Over at the NY Times, Ezra Klein has a reminder which seems written for an audience of dejected Democrats but which is probably something Republicans should think about as well.
There are really two messages, the first one is that the Obama coalition is dead and won't be coming back. Whatever glue once held that group of progressives and minorities together just blew up. Instead of a black candidate winning as Obama did in 2008, we had a black candidate losing. Instead of uniform rallying together