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’s attorneys laid out their arguments for why his criminal conviction in New York should be dismissed entirely in a new court filing made public Tuesday in which they cited Hunter Biden’s pardon earlier this week. Since he won the election, Trump has pushed for tossing the jury’s 34-count guilty verdict that stems from…
Iowa officials on Tuesday sued the Biden administration for access to information on the citizenship status of more than 2,000 registered voters they had questioned in the weeks leading up to the 2024 election. The complaint details a back and forth with the federal government after state election officials checked voter rolls against a list of people who identified themselves as noncitizens with the state's Department of Transportation. The vast majority of the 2,176 names had subsequently registered to vote or voted, meaning that some of those people could have become naturalized citizens in the lapsed time.
Ohio's top elections official has rejected a Republican challenge over the legal residency of one of the state's Democratic members of Congress. Secretary of State Frank LaRose made the decision late last week, saying the complainant brought by a political activist did not provide “clear and convincing” proof that Rep. Emilia Sykes had relocated from Akron to her husband's home in Columbus. The decision was left to LaRose after the Summit County Board of Elections tied 2-2 along party lines on Oct. 24 on whether the challenge should be taken up.
Ken Martin, chair of the Minnesota Democratic-Farm-Labor Party (DFL) and a candidate for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair, argued the party must be willing to “recenter” its agenda after it suffered a string of defeats during last month’s elections. “For the first time in modern history, the perceptions that Americans have of the two…
Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Jaime Harrison minimized his party’s losses up and down the ballot in November and argued Democrats have a “robust” foundation to build on, going into President-elect Trump’s second term in the White House and the subsequent election cycle. Harrison, who decided not to seek reelection for the top DNC post, wrote in…
Sen. Alex Padilla (Calif.), a Democratic member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said President-elect Trump’s nomination of Kash Patel to head the FBI is as “offensive” as his derailed choice of former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) to head the Justice Department. Padilla made it clear in an interview on “Inside with Jen Psaki” that he…
Sen.-elect Adam B. Schiff doesn't want to talk about President-elect Donald Trump. He wants to talk about fixing the intractable economic problems that led many voters to back Trump's return.
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,…
Democrat senators will hold a vote on Tuesday to fill their leadership positions in the chamber after the GOP secured control in the Senate for the next congress.
President Elect Donald Trump named Kash Patel to potentially lead the FBI. The nomination would require Trump to fire current Director Christopher Wray, whom he named to the post in his first term.
Hollywood actress Jenifer Lewis railed against Black and Latino men who voted for Trump, accusing them of misogyny and self-hatred on "The Stephen A. Smith" 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…
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