The move by President-elect Trump to tap several House Republicans to fill positions in his Cabinet and beyond has set off a fresh round of special elections next year to replace them. Trump chose Reps. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.) and Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) to be his national security adviser and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations,…
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.
The California Legislature commenced a special session called by Gov. Newsom mean to "Trump proof" the state, but some leaders urged focus on economic issues facing residents, such as the cost of living.
Minnesota Republicans filed a lawsuit Monday to try to force a rerun of a state House race where the incumbent Democrat won by 14 votes — but in which investigators concluded that election workers probably destroyed 20 valid absentee ballots after failing to count them. It's a race that could determine the balance of power in the Minnesota House, where leaders from both parties are working out the details of a power-sharing agreement that currently presumes a 67-67 tie when the Legislature convenes next month. A Republican victory in a special election could shift that balance to a two-vote, 68-66 GOP majority.
The field of contenders bidding to steer the Democratic National Committee in the wake of the party's very disappointing results in last month's elections keeps growing.
The Harris campaign is coming under fire for continuing to request donations from supporters weeks after former President Trump was elected to a second term.
President Joe Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter deepened an entanglement of politics and the rule of law that has tarnished faith in American justice and is almost certain to worsen in Donald Trump’s second term.
North Carolina Gov.-elect Josh Stein (D) said Vice President Harris lost the presidential race against President-elect Trump because she “ran out of time,” calling it a “short, abbreviated campaign.” During an appearance on ABC News’s “This Week,” Stein said Harris “worked hard” but noted the “tough national mood as evidenced by the fact that Trump…
Ben Wikler, chair of the Democratic Party in Wisconsin, said Sunday he has joined the race to lead the national party after an election that swept Donald Trump and Republicans to power in Washington. “In Wisconsin, we’ve built a permanent campaign,” Wikler said in his candidacy announcement. Since losing control of the White House, the Senate and the House, Democrats are looking for new leadership to tackle the nation's problems with the additional challenge of confronting four more years of a Trump presidency.
Massad Boulos, the father-in-law of Donald Trump's daughter Tiffany Trump, met repeatedly with Arab American and Muslim leaders during the election campaign.
After prevailing in a state that went for Republican Donald Trump, Democratic Gov.-elect Josh Stein said that his service as North Carolina's attorney general gave voters confidence and called the Tar Heel state a "bright spot" for Democrats on election night. Stein told ABC's "This Week" co-anchor Jonathan Karl that Kamala Harris ran a "strong campaign," but was hindered by a condensed timeline and "tough national mood." "It was an unfortunate night for Democrats across this country, but North Carolina was a bright spot," Stein said.
Democrats are asking what went wrong and where they go from here, as President-elect Trump prepares to take office in January. The dust may be beginning to settle from Vice President Harris’s loss, but the questions for a party that has lost control of every branch of government have only grown sharper. Every aspect of…
Wisconsin Democratic Party Chair Ben Wikler launched his bid for chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) on Sunday, joining a growing field of candidates seeking to lead the party forward after widespread losses on Election Day last month. Wikler made the announcement on CNN’s “Inside Politics.” “I’m running for chair of the Democratic National…
A sensational and troubled past often dogged Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s presidential run, but didn't prevent him from landing a Cabinet appointment from his new ally, President-elect Donald Trump.
Virginia’s upcoming gubernatorial race is poised to make history in 2025, with two women likely to lead the Republican and Democratic tickets. Lieutenant Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears (R) and Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) are the clear front-runners in their respective parties, with Republicans and Democrats largely falling in line behind them. If Earle-Sears and Spanberger each…
New York state Sen. James Skoufis announced his long-shot bid for chairman of the Democratic National Committee on X on Saturday. Skoufis, who paints himself as an outsider, underdog and part of a new generation, said he intends to point to his successful record in his district that favors President-elect Donald Trump. Skoufis, who has served in the New York legislature since 2013, joins the field with Martin O'Malley, the former Maryland governor who has served as commissioner of the Social Security Administration since December 2023, and Ken Martin, a vice chairman of the DNC who also leads the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party.
Democrats are looking to the governors of blue states as both a line of defense against the incoming Trump administration and a promising bench for the party in 2028. Governors are seen as leading the charge of Democratic resistance as the GOP gets ready to take control of Congress and the White House next year:…
Call Her Daddy podcast host and influencer Alex Cooper responded to criticism after she spoke with Vice President Kamala Harris an interview during the campaign.
Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) suggested Friday that President-elect Trump won the 2024 election over Vice President Harris, in part, because he shared his true vision, “however twisted and unconscionable,” for the country. The “American people voted for Trump because he articulated a vision, however twisted and unconscionable, for solving their problems and addressing their fears,”…
New York State Sen. James Skoufis (D) launched his run to chair the Democratic National Committee (DNC) on Saturday, in a bid to “rebuild” the party following widespread losses on Election Night earlier this month. “In speaking with a lot of DNC members and the broader Democratic Party, we are looking for a fresh perspective,”…
Progressive media personality Cenk Uygur signaled optimism following President-elect Trump’s win in the 2024 presidential election, saying his enemy was “the establishment,” which was “defeated.” “I’ve been trying to figure out why I’m more optimistic now than I was before the election, even though I was so against the guy who won,” Uygur wrote Friday…
President-elect Donald Trump named campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt as his pick for press secretary during his second administration.
A former Trump Treasury official warned the Republican party Friday not to “underestimate” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), citing her accessibility to voters through social media and the congresswoman’s “grassroots support.” “She was an early adopter of social media… so she’s connecting directly to voters,” Monica Crowley, a former public affairs official in the Treasury Department…
Former Biden White House aide Meghan Hays said the Harris-Walz campaign is unfairly pinning blame on the media for its loss in the presidential election. Hays, who served as White House director of of message planning from January 2021 until August 2022, was responding to remarks from Harris campaign Chair Jen O’Malley Dillon on the…
President-elect Donald Trump says Americans have given him a 'mandate' to enact sweeping change. But his share of the popular vote might be less than 50%.
Democratic senators are privately acknowledging their party committed “political malpractice” by bungling the issue of border security, which they view as a driving factor behind President-elect Trump’s sweeping victory and their loss of four Senate seats. Democratic senators had a long and intense conversation about what went wrong in this year’s election during a recent…
Democrats are licking their wounds after Vice President Harris’s defeat to President-elect Trump, but already are looking toward who might lead their party in a 2028 presidential contest. It’s a fight that looks wide open. The certainty is that Trump himself will not be on the ballot, since the Constitution limits him to two terms.…
President-elect Trump’s emphatic promise of new tariffs is sharpening the debate over how he will handle the economy. It’s likely the single most important domestic issue of his second term. Trump is poised to enjoy almost perfect timing in taking the reins of an economy on the rise. Inflation has tapered all the way down…
Political betting markets do not end after an election, with several platforms already allowing betting on everything future elections to President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, the new chair of the Republican Governors Association, aims to build on the momentum of the 2024 elections and looks ahead to the next gubernatorial showdowns.
President-elect Trump joined his first podcast in 2022 with the Nelk Boys, ahead of joining dozens of podcasts and earning support through an initiative called Send the Vote.
Fox News co-host Kayleigh McEnany argued that Vice President Harris’s campaign is playing the “victim card” in the aftermath of her loss to President-elect Trump in the 2024 presidential election. While hosting Fox News’s “Jesse Watters Primetime” on Wednesday night, McEnany pushed back on the various analyses Harris’s campaign aides shared this week for why…
A majority of voters in the U.S. say they believe President-elect Trump will issue pardons to those who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, when he returns to the White House, according to a new poll. In the survey, released Wednesday by Politico/Morning Consult, 40 percent of registered voters said in light of Trump’s…
National political correspondent Maggie Haberman weighed in on the relationship between President-elect Trump and billionaire Elon Musk on Wednesday, indicating that because of its uniqueness, the partnership could “last for quite some time.” Asked by CNN’s John Berman where she sees the relationship going, Haberman suggested that despite criticism, the two seem to still be…
Donald Trump posted notable gains in Orange County during the election, but it was not enough to win the increasingly purple county that has become a suburban battleground between Republicans and Democrats — and a reflection of the demographic political realignment unfolding across the nation.
President-elect Trump is enjoying a honeymoon period in the wake of his election victory, largely staying out of the spotlight as positive developments have piled up. Trump has quickly put together a Cabinet for his incoming administration, has seen his legal problems dissolve and has benefited from a bump in polling since winning a second…
