Vice President-elect JD Vance and Republican committees asked the Supreme Court to overturn federal limits that restrict political parties from coordinating spending with candidates on the grounds that they violate the First Amendment. Limits on contributions to candidates are much lower than they are to party committees such as the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC)…
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.
At glittering ballrooms in the Mideast this weekend, discussions of the wars and chaos gripping the region gave way to one central question: What's going to happen when U.S. President-elect Donald Trump takes office next month? Summits in both Bahrain and Qatar, neighboring Persian Gulf autocracies with a long history of a brothers' rivalry, saw Trump discussed in open sessions, hushed chatter and pull-aside meetings among politicians, diplomats and uniformed military officers. Israel's conduct in the wars, sparked by Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel that killed 1,200 people and saw 250 others taken hostage, enraged the wider Arab world.
Vice President Kamala Harris’ defunct presidential campaign had just $1.8 million in its account on November 25, according to the new filings with federal regulators, having virtually emptied its massive war chest of more than $1 billion.
Elon Musk poured more than $20 million into a mysterious super PAC at the end of 2024, part of more than $250 million he spent overall to boost Donald Trump.
Venture capitalist David Sacks has been tapped to serve as President-elect Trump’s White House czar for artificial intelligence (AI) and cryptocurrency, taking on a newly created role to lead the administration’s policy on the two technologies. “David will focus on making America the clear global leader in both areas,” Trump wrote in a post Thursday…
Tesla and X CEO Elon Musk spent over a quarter of a billion dollars to help get President-elect Donald Trump back in the White House, according to newly released campaign finance records. The billionaire tech mogul spent over $270 million of his own money through two super PACs that promoted Trump's candidacy and other Republicans, including one that appeared to refer to deceased liberal Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, according to filings released Thursday night by the Federal Election Commission.
Tech billionaire Elon Musk spent at least $250 million to help propel President-elect Trump back into the White House, the latest reports filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) show. Throughout the 2024 election cycle, the Tesla and SpaceX executive donated nearly $239 million, including in-kind contributions, to America PAC, his super PAC that backed…
Joe Biden and his senior aides are discussing the idea of issuing preemptive pardons for those whom President-elect Donald Trump has scorned in recent years as he has hinted about plans for retribution, two sources familiar with the discussions confirmed.
Democratic strategist James Carville called President Biden the “most tragic figure in modern American politics,” criticizing the president for his decision to wait until so close to Election Day to remove himself from the presidential race. Carville blamed the historic dropout for Vice President Harris’s loss. “The different scenario would be, if he would have…
Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Jaime Harrison, whose four-year tenure expires at the end of the year, urged Democrats to push back against calls to abandon “identity politics.” Harrison drew on his own identity as a Black man as he delivered remarks to state Democratic chairs in Arizona on Thursday. “When I wake up in…
Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) called Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) a “crock” after the progressive senator said Democrats abandoned the working class, as the party grapples with President-elect Trump’s November victory. “What a crock. What an absolute crock,” Huffman told Politico’s Playbook. “[President] Joe Biden and Democrats did more for the working class in the last four…
Former First Lady Melania Trump spoke about her husband's election victory, her transition to White House life, and the influence her son Barron has on his dad.
TikTok signals it will appeal after a federal court sided with the Justice Department and upheld a law to force its sale or ban it. But Donald Trump could offer a way out.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) criticized Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) for suggesting it is not Republican senators’ responsibility to vet President-elect Trump’s nominations for positions in his Cabinet and senior administration roles. “That is one of the most ridiculous statements I have ever seen or heard,” Blumenthal told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins in an interview Thursday night.…
Elon Musk plowed at least $260 million into efforts to send Donald Trump back to the White House, new filings show – a massive infusion that makes him one of the largest single political underwriters of a presidential campaign and underscores the outsized influence of the world’s wealthiest person on this year’s election.
Elon Musk was the sole funder of a super PAC formed less than a month before the election that focused on advertising intended to convince voters that Donald Trump 's stance on abortion was akin to that of late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. A group titled RBG PAC, formed in mid-October, received a single contribution of $20.5 million from an entity entitled “Elon Musk Revocable Trust” a week later, according to federal campaign finance reports filed this week. Because of the short timeline between the donation and Thursday's reporting deadline, Musk's affiliation with the group — which he did not talk about publicly — wasn't revealed until the filings became public.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), Vice President Harris’s running mate, reflected on the Democratic Party’s loss in the presidential election, saying he was “a little surprised” by the outcome. “It felt like at the rallies, at the things I was going to, the shops I was going in, that the momentum was going our way,”…
After receiving Fox Nation's "Patriot of the Year Award" Thursday night, President-elect Donald Trump spoke about recent conversations with the leaders of Canada and Mexico, promised a review of U.S. elections and repeated his campaign promise to deport undocumented immigrants. It was one of the few TV appearances Trump has made since winning the Nov. 5 election. Regarding his meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last week, Trump boasted, "And as you know, I spoke with Canada and Justin came flying right in because we talked about 25% tariffs -- that's just the beginning."
CHICAGO — In his first public remarks since last month’s election, former President Barack Obama on Thursday largely avoided direct mention of Donald Trump’s presidential victory and instead focused on the need for bridge-building and accommodation among a public whose sharp divisions have been sown in the Trump era. “You see, it’s easy to give democracy lip service when it delivers the ...
The Biden administration and lawmakers in Congress are raising alarm over Russian interference in presidential elections in Romania, a NATO ally that borders Ukraine and the Black Sea. Romania’s security council declassified intelligence this week that a Russian-backed online influence campaign promoted the election of the ultranationalist and Moscow-friendly candidate Călin Georgescu, who went from…
Louisiana Treasurer John Fleming, a Republican and appointee of Donald Trump's during his first term as president, has announced that he will run for U.S. Senate in the hopes of unseating current member Bill Cassidy, also a Republican, who is up for reelection in 2026. In a news release Wednesday, Fleming said that U.S. Sen. Cassidy “has failed the people of Louisiana.”
Arizona Republican lawmakers ask for an investigation into Pima County recorder Gabriella Cazares-Kelly's handling of 2024 election citing three different reasons.
The Nevada Democratic Party called on the candidates for Democratic National Committee chair and other party officials to elevate diverse and working-class battleground states ahead of the Association of State Democratic Committees meeting this week. In a memo obtained by The Hill, Nevada Democratic Party Chair Daniele Monroe-Moreno said Democrats need to elevate states like…
Rep. John Duarte (R-Calif.) lost his House seat in what was the last uncalled congressional race of the 2024 cycle, giving Democrats a pickup going into the new year, Decision Desk HQ has projected. Duarte’s loss to Democrat Adam Gray, a former state Assembly member, sets the total number of seats each party won at…
Louisiana State Treasurer John Fleming announced he would challenge GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy, who voted to convict Trump after his 2021 impeachment trial.
U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is set to testify before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Thursday morning, just weeks after President-elect Trump won a second term in the White House and as the holiday season begins. The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) released its post-election analysis report earlier this week, outlining the…
National political correspondent Maggie Haberman weighed in on the controversy around President-elect Trump’s pick to lead the Pentagon, suggesting he isn’t making “a ton” of calls on Pete Hegseth’s behalf because the future of his nomination looks uncertain. Haberman, in an interview Wednesday evening on CNN’s “The Source” with Kaitlan Collins, pointed to the sexual…
Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird and Secretary of State Paul Pate sued the Biden administration on Tuesday for access to citizenship status information of more than 2,000 registered voters.
The Biden administration is working closely with at least eight U.S. telecommunications providers that have been breached by Chinese hackers as part of a broad global spying campaign.
Democrats and Republicans agreed on at least one thing before November’s election: California would play a central role in determining control of the U.S. House. Democrat Adam Gray's come-from-behind victory over Republican Rep. John Duarte in a Central Valley farm-belt district Tuesday — the final House contest decided this year — gave Democrats their third pick-up of a GOP-held seat in the state, a small victory in a tough year for Democrats nationally.
President-elect Trump’s nomination of Pete Hegseth to be secretary of Defense was listing badly but had not yet capsized on Wednesday evening. Hegseth stuck several notes of defiance, penning a Wall Street Journal op-ed and appearing on conservative commentator Megyn Kelly’s radio show vowing to fight on. But the Journal had, only hours before, carried a report…
Even with their success, this election revealed a challenge for Republicans going forward: The “Trump coalition” and the “GOP coalition” are not quite the same.
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, a longtime Democrat, says he will run for Michigan governor as an independent in 2026. “It’s clear to me that there are a lot of people in this country who are tired of both parties and tired of the system," Duggan said in an interview Tuesday. Duggan, 66, is credited by many for leading Detroit after it emerged from bankruptcy to become a thriving, more vibrant city.
The Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) and MoveOn.org’s executive director endorsed Wisconsin Democratic Party chair Ben Wikler for Democratic National Committee chair on Wednesday. The Hill was the first outlet to report on the two endorsements. “Ben is an organizer and he has built the most successful state party in America with the results to…
Republican Austin Theriault on Wednesday ended a recount in his congressional race in Maine and conceded to Democratic U.S. Rep. Jared Golden, bringing to an end the closely watched contest a month after Election Day. Theriault decided to end the recount before its completion after early results did not show a significant change in the outcome after Golden won by 2,706 votes using the state’s ranked choice voting.
