CNN host Michael Smerconish said in a recent interview he believes that the media's "constant browbeating" of Trump supporters was the top reason for the President-elect's victory.
President-elect Donald Trump has laid out an ambitious agenda that he has promised will go into effect on Jan. 20, the day he will be sworn into office for his second term.
President-elect Donald Trump’s recipe for victory in Tuesday’s election was built on his ability to improve his support from 2020 with several different demographic groups, exit polls show.
President-elect Trump celebrated his election win at a UFC championship fight in New York late Saturday. Trump “walked out to a roaring standing ovation” ahead of the pay-per-view event, The Associated Press noted. UFC’s account on the social platform X posted a photo and video of Trump with organization’s CEO, Dana White, a supporter of…
President-elect Trump’s White House victory set his legal cases on a downward spiral, but his allies who have faced prosecution or other legal trouble are not yet in the clear. Dozens of Trump aides, associates and backers — including top officials in his first administration — have faced criminal charges tied to efforts to keep…
The cryptocurrency industry’s leading super PACs plowed $131 million into congressional races in this cycle to help elect dozens of pro-crypto lawmakers to Congress, while individual billionaires with crypto interests spent millions to help return Donald Trump to the White House.
Key cabinet picks -- including Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, Tulsi Gabbard and Robert Kennedy Jr. -- joined President-elect Trump at UFC 309 at the Madison Square Garden.
The Detroit News issued an editorial urging the Senate to reject President-elect Trump’s nominations of Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) as attorney general and Fox News host Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense. “The Republican-controlled Senate should establish its intention to vigorously fulfill its advise and consent role, and its independence from the administration, by rejecting…
Kamala Harris' presidential campaign, which is $20 million in debt, spent $2.6 million on private jets in October, according to Federal Election Commission filings.
President-elect Trump is set to visit New York City on Saturday for the UFC heavyweight championship at Madison Square Garden. The event will be Trump’s first visit back to the arena since his highly publicized and controversial October rally. The event, which featured speakers including Melania Trump and billionaire Elon Musk, sparked controversy after comedian Tony…
Donald Trump has begun selecting people to fill top administration jobs in Washington upon returning to the Oval Office in January. Trump beat Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.
CNN host Michael Smerconish said in a recent interview he believes that the media's "constant browbeating" of Trump supporters was the top reason for the President-elect's victory.
Calls from Republicans are intensifying for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) to pick President-elect Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump to replace his secretary of State pick, Marco Rubio, in the Senate. On Thursday, Florida Sen. Rick Scott (R) said he hopes Trump picks his daughter-in-law, echoing his colleagues Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Katie Britt (R-Ala.).…
Republican Nick Begich has ousted incumbent Democrat Rep. Mary Peltola to win Alaska’s lone House seat, Decision Desk HQ projects. That marks 220 seats for Republicans, surpassing the 218 needed to control the chamber. A little over two years after Peltola flipped the red state’s at-large congressional district into Democratic control, Republicans coalesced behind Begich to help boost…
Mark Penn, who served as an adviser to the Clintons from 1995 to 2008 and now runs the Harris Poll, agreed that the “politics of demonization” from Democrats toward President-elect Trump on the campaign trail did not work. “I think that they went way over the top here — Hitler, fascist, picking up on these things…
President-elect Donald Trump is set to make his return to Madison Square Garden on Saturday night, visiting the New York City landmark arena for an Ultimate Fighting Championship event.
As the dust settles from Vice President Kamala Harris’ defeat at the hands of President-elect Donald Trump, Democrats are already jockeying to emerge as the party’s next leader — looking to shape the opposition response to Trump’s second term and position themselves in the party’s 2028 presidential primary.
Rep. Adam B. Schiff is accustomed to the limelight on Sunday talk shows and on the House floor. In the Senate, the Burbank Democrat will carry a new title: freshman.
President-elect Trump is rounding out his administration with Cabinet picks, but there are several GOP senators whose votes could prove decisive in rejecting some nominations.
Progressives are at odds with one another over how to hone their message to voters after losing the White House again to President-elect Trump. There’s little disagreement that things need to change. Democrats’ most recent electoral strategy has been rendered ineffective, delivering Trump back to Washington with his party’s full control of Congress. But there’s…
President-elect Trump is spoiling for a fight as he chooses the members of his incoming administration. Provocative picks from Trump keep coming. The four most prominent so far are former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) for attorney general, former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) for director of National Intelligence, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for secretary of Health…
One-time rising Republican Party rising star Kelly Ayotte is back, after her convincing victory last week to succeed Chris Sununu as New Hampshire governor. Her take on Trump's White House win, and more
Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., announced he is joining the race for New Jersey governor and stated the need to "stand up to" President-elect Donald Trump in his campaign video.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said he is looking forward to working with President-elect Trump and he hopes his administration sticks to his promise of capping credit card interest rates.
President-elect Donald Trump and Republicans say they have a mandate to govern. A key swing county in Nevada voted 3-1 Friday to certify the election results, months after it initially refused to sign off on the primary results. One woman warned commissioners that “President Trump will be coming for you” if they certified the vote.
President-elect Donald Trump announced that he is selecting Karoline Leavitt, his campaign's national press secretary, to serve as White House press secretary.
Pollster Nate Silver said he has “a lot of sympathy” for Vice President Harris after her loss to President-elect Trump because President Biden “did her no favors” before or after he dropped out of the presidential race this summer. “He gave her tough assignments — the border, perhaps Democrats’ worst issue, and voting rights, an…
There are still eight uncalled House races that will determine the size of the GOP majority in Congress after President-elect Trump won a second term in office.
Election certification meetings on Friday in Nevada's two most populous counties were roiled by voting conspiracies while local officials in the state's rural counties quietly approved election results that favored President-elect Donald Trump. Friday was the deadline for counties in the battleground state to finalize election results. All 17 counties met the deadline to forward election results for final approval later this month by Democratic Secretary of State of Cisco Aguilar and the Nevada Supreme Court.
The Associated Press projects that Democrat Rep. Jared Golden will win re-election in Maine's 2nd Congressional District, a red-leaning district in an overall blue state, by defeating GOP challenger Austin Theriault.
Democratic Rep. Jared Golden won reelection to Congress through Maine’s ranked choice system on Friday. It’s the third time in four elections in the hotly contested district that Golden won after votes were retabulated because first choices failed to produce a majority for any candidate. This time it was Republican challenger Austin Theriault who came out behind.
Joe Rogan suggested that President Biden was so angry at his own party for having him step down that he was actually happy about Trump's victory over his own Vice President.
President-elect Donald Trump announced that he plans to select North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum as the nominee to be the secretary of the Department of the Interior.
About two-thirds of the House GOP majority taking office next year joined Congress in 2017 or later. They only know a world where Trump has been a leader of their party.
Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore broke his silence about the 2024 election on Wednesday, claiming Americans are “not a good people" for re-electing Donald Trump.
President-elect Trump has tapped Karoline Leavitt, the top spokesperson for his 2024 campaign, to be his White House press secretary when he takes office in January. “Karoline Leavitt did a phenomenal job as the National Press Secretary on my Historic Campaign, and I am pleased to announce she will serve as White House Press Secretary,”…
President-elect Donald Trump reached into his inner circle on Friday and chose his transition spokesperson, Karoline Leavitt, as his White House press secretary, putting a 27-year-old firebrand in position to aggressively defend him. Leavitt has endeared herself to Trump by her ardent defense of him in news interviews and her take-no-prisoners style, Trump advisers said. The job of the White House press secretary typically is to help inform the American people about presidential activities without betraying the confidence of the boss.
Scientific American editor-in-chief Laura Helmuth is stepping down after she shared several profanity-filled postings about Donald Trump's election win on social media.
With President Joe Biden soon leaving the White House, Democratic National Committee members are already readying for a fight to reorder the primary contests in the next presidential election.
