Rep. Michelle Steel (R-Calif.) has conceded defeat in her reelection bid against Democrat Derek Tran to represent California’s 45th Congressional District. Steel’s race is one of two that Decision Desk HQ, which partners with The Hill, hasn’t called yet, but Tran declared victory Monday. The apparent win for Tran is a flip for Democrats that…
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.
As President Joe Biden's term comes to an end, social media users are falsely claiming that his administration spent billions of dollars on the construction of just a handful of electric vehicle charging stations. Multiple high-profile figures, including sitting members of Congress, have promoted the claims. The claims misrepresent funding set aside by the 2021 Infrastructure and Jobs Act, also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, for a national network of publicly available electric vehicle chargers.
Harris campaign senior adviser David Plouffe said that Vice President Kamala Harris' loss was due to a difficult political situation, especially in the battleground states.
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) vetoed a bill Tuesday that would strip power away from incoming Democratic officials in favor of Republican officials and the GOP-controlled Legislature. Cooper issued the veto after both houses of the Legislature approved it last week to condemnation from critics, who complained the legislation was unveiled shortly before it…
David Plouffe, a senior adviser to the Harris campaign, said it’s difficult for his party to win the swing states, in his first postmortem interview since President-elect Trump’s victory earlier this month. In an interview on Crooked Media’s “Pod Save America,” hosted by former Obama aides, Plouffe joined his 2024 campaign colleagues to reflect on…
President-elect Trump has asked New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) to drop her multimillion-dollar civil fraud case against him, citing a need to “cure” partisan divisions following Trump’s election victory. D. John Sauer, an appellate attorney whom Trump tapped for solicitor general, in Tuesday’s letter framed dropping the case as “necessary for the health of our…
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Vice President Harris’s running mate, called on supporters to find a way to heal after the Democratic ticket lost the election to President-elect Trump earlier this month. “I hope all of you take care of yourselves, take care of your families, find the place in your community to heal both yourselves…
Vice President Harris attempted to share some optimism with her supporters while addressing her Election Day loss to President-elect Trump on Tuesday, advising them to hold on to their “power.” “I just have to remind you: Don’t you ever let anybody take your power from you. You have the same power that you did before…
For the Young family in rural Sunbury, Ohio, activism begins at home. The conservative Catholic family chooses to live their anti-abortion beliefs through adoption, foster-parenting and raising their children to believe in the sanctity of life. The night before this year's presidential election, Erin and Mike Young gathered their children, Lucas, 8, Gianna, 7, and Isaac, 5, around a bonfire near their farmhouse to pray for Donald Trump as “the pro-life candidate.”
The single exception was in Two Bridges at the end of the historic Lower East Side, on a block that once served as home to Soviet spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, and has been a landing spot for Jewish, Italian and, more recently, Chinese immigrants. A native New Yorker, Trump's victory in a voting district in the borough of Manhattan - a Democratic stronghold - was his first since he started running for president in 2016.
California 2026 governor candidates rush to campaign on Trump including candidate Tony Thurmond and Rob Bonta, who has not declared but is considered a top hopeful.
The media has criticized President-elect Donald Trump for nominating people he expects will support him, such as Pam Bondi, but presidents including Joe Biden have done the same thing.
The drubbing Democrats took in Pennsylvania in this year's election has prompted predictable vows to rebound, but it has also sowed doubts about whether Pennsylvania might be leaving the ranks of up-for-grabs swing states for a right-leaning existence more like Ohio's. The introspection over voters' rejection of Democrats comes amid growing speculation about Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro as a contender for the party’s 2028 presidential nomination. Widely expected to seek reelection in the 2026 mid-terms, Shapiro was considered a rising star in the party even before he garnered heavy national attention for making Vice President Kamala Harris' shortlist of candidates for running mates.
President-elect Trump plans to nominate businessman John Phelan as the next head of the Navy. “John will be a tremendous force for our Naval Servicemembers, and a steadfast leader in advancing my America First vision,” Trump wrote in a Tuesday night post on Truth Social. “He will put the business of the U.S. Navy above…
President-elect Trump announced on Tuesday night that Vince Haley, his campaign speechwriter, will be the next chief of the Domestic Policy Council (DPC). “As Director of the Domestic Policy Council, Vince will help make life better for ALL Americans, and unify our Country through SUCCESS. Together, we will defeat Inflation, rapidly bring down Prices, secure…
Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio criticized the Democratic Party and Vice President Kamala Harris after their resounding loss in the 2024 election.
A brief campaign born in a political firestorm weeks before the party’s national convention. A political press that held Kamala Harris to a higher standard than Donald Trump. A hurricane that “f**ked up” two weeks of campaigning.
Former Republican National Committee (RNC) Chair Michael Steele compared President-elect Trump’s return to the White House to opening “Pandora’s box of hell” on Tuesday. “He can’t be an American president. He has to be a Putin president. He has to be an Orbán president. And that’s not what America’s about. So, we have to decide…
Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday thanked supporters during a virtual call and vowed that the "fight's not over" in her first remarks since conceding defeat to President-elect Donald Trump three weeks ago. "That fight's still in us, and it burns strong," Harris later added. The grassroots call came immediately after Harris held a call with her campaign's finance committee.
Republicans are smelling blood in New Jersey’s gubernatorial race next year following an unexpectedly close result in the presidential election. Vice President Harris only carried the Garden State by about 6 points over President-elect Trump, the closest Republicans have come to winning the state’s electoral votes in three decades. This came after another closer-than-expected result…
The states that saw the most active attacks against election certification two years ago certified the results of this year’s races without controversy this week, prompting the Arizona secretary of state to proclaim that “election denialism” is a thing of the past. Certification proceeded normally this year in part because Donald Trump won the presidential race, quieting his supporters after he had spent the campaign making unsubstantiated claims that he could lose only through widespread cheating. The statewide certification votes Tuesday in Nevada and New Mexico follow a vote Monday to certify the results in Arizona.
Kamala Harris' top campaign aides claimed that Donald Trump's sit-down with Joe Rogan got in the way of them scheduling an interview with the podcast host.
President-elect Trump’s legal strategy of delay is paying off, with his election victory changing the trajectory of his four criminal prosecutions. Special counsel Jack Smith on Monday moved to dismiss his two cases against Trump, and the former president’s team believes his state cases must similarly be tossed as he prepares to return to the…
Vice President Kamala Harris's campaign leadership team spoke publicly for the first time about the more controversial decisions made during her campaign, on the podcast "Pod Save America." Here are four main takeaways from the episode.
The leaders of Kamala Harris' presidential campaign insist they simply didn't have enough time to execute a winning strategy against Donald Trump, pointing to “ferocious" political headwinds that were ultimately too much to overcome in the 107-day period after President Joe Biden stepped aside. Harris' leadership team, speaking on the “Pod Save America” podcast that aired on Tuesday, defended strategic decisions over the campaign's closing days, some of which have faced scrutiny in the weeks since Trump's decisive victory. Specifically, they defended Harris' outreach to Republican voters, her unwillingness to distance herself from Biden, her silence on Trump's attacks on her transgender policies and her inability to schedule an interview with popular podcaster Joe Rogan.
Vice President Harris “wasn’t willing” to publicly break with President Biden during her 2024 presidential run, and wanted to avoid the negative news cycles that doing so would have triggered, according to her campaign’s senior adviser. On the campaign trail, Harris defended her reluctance to publicly criticize the incumbent president, saying she was following a…
"The View" co-host Sunny Hostin falsely stated that President-elect Donald Trump never talked about the high price of eggs during his presidential campaign this year.
Former Trump White House attorney Ty Cobb said Monday that President-elect Trump and his allies don’t have a “legitimate way” of going after special counsel Jack Smith’s team. The comments came hours after Smith announced that he is seeking dismissal of Trump’s election subversion and classified documents cases based on the long-standing view that a sitting president…
Vice President Harris received more votes for president than some Democratic alternatives would have, despite her loss, according to a new poll from SAY24 and YouGov. The polling found 46 percent of registered voters saying the vice president received their vote, while 48 percent said the same of President-elect Trump. In comparison, the poll found…
Democrats have been been slow to update their mythology to the Trump-era political realignment, leading many to continue leaning on truisms that may no longer be true.
Florida state Sen. Randy Fine (R) announced his run for Rep. Mike Waltz’s (R-Fla.) congressional seat this week following President-elect Trump’s endorsement. “I’m proud to announce that I’m going to be running for for the 6th Congressional District of the state of Florida,” Fine told Fox News on Tuesday. “Whether it’s fighting inflation to make…
New Jersey's and Virginia's off-year gubernatorial elections in 2025 offer them their first chances to get off the mat. Both states have become reliably blue in federal races, but President-elect Donald Trump narrowed his margins in each state, and Democrats are unable to take anything for granted as they undergo a postelection reckoning over their national brand. New Jerseyans haven't granted one party more than eight straight years in the governor's mansion in over five decades, and Republican Glenn Youngkin rode into Richmond just three years ago.
President-elect Trump’s transition team conducted an internal review of consulting agreements involving allegations that one of his longtime advisers was seeking payment to promote those interested in jobs in a future Trump administration. Multiple outlets, including The Associated Press and The New York Times, reported the review concluded that Boris Epshteyn asked for payment to…
President-elect Trump attacked The New York Times early Tuesday, asking the outlet to apologize for its coverage of him, which he called “so wrong.” “Will the failing New York Times apologize to its readers for getting years of “Trump” coverage so wrong,” Trump wrote Tuesday morning on Truth Social. “They write such phony ‘junk,’ knowing…
Sen.-elect Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) called special counsel Jack Smith’s decision to dismiss President-elect Trump’s election subversion and classified documents cases a “serious mistake.” “I think this is a serious mistake by the department,” Schiff told MSNBC’s Jen Psaki, saying that while Smith sought to dismiss the cases without prejudice — meaning they can be brought…
Wall Street's debate over what parts of Donald Trump's proposed policies will actually be enacted in 2025 have led to a choppy few weeks of trading action.
After Democrats underperformed nationally and in Texas, the McAllen Democrat had some sharp commentary for his party and said he won't be taking their advice.
New York Judge Juan Merchan faces a choice of freezing President-elect Trump’s hush money case in place until he leaves the White House or tossing it entirely, underscoring how Trump’s election win has changed the dynamic of his legal travails. Legal experts agree Trump’s election victory changes the trajectory of the prosecution and dooms the…
