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.
Time magazine contested Donald Trump’s claims about undocumented immigrants, a link between vaccines and autism, and gender-transition regret in a sprawling fact-check published alongside its Person of the Year interview. The president-elect was awarded the magazine’s Person of the Year title—which has gone to influential figures as disparate as Taylor Swift and Joseph Stalin—for the second time, having also won it in 2016. Trump proudly attended the award ceremony at the New York Stock Exchange
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said Democrats are in “the fight of our lives” following President-elect Trump’s victory in the 2024 election. “We’re not gonna change our values,” Raskin said on “All in with Chris Hayes” on Wednesday. “We’re not gonna abandon American constitutional democracy because we lost an election by … 1 and a half…
The president-elect has stayed out of year-end fights in the waning days of the Biden administration, but is fighting for his nominees and the ambitious party-line policy push next year.
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, said it has donated $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration fund. The donation comes just weeks after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg met with Trump privately at Mar-a-Lago. A Meta spokesperson confirmed the offering Thursday.
A resident of liberal haven San Francisco, long-time Trump ally Harmeet Dhillon built her brand on culture-war battles over trans rights and pandemic restrictions.
How Kamala Harris’ campaign burned through more than $1.4 billion in 15 weeks dominated the storyline of the vice president’s devastating loss to Donald Trump on Nov. 5.
While a majority of American voters questioned in a new Fox News poll say they are hopeful about the re-election of former President Donald Trump, they are divided when it comes to the nominees who will likely serve in his upcoming second administration.
President-elect Trump has been named Time magazine’s 2024 “Person of the Year.” The legacy news magazine announced the decision Thursday morning. In a feature announcing the magazine’s honoree, Time noted that the president-elect is now the “world’s most powerful man.” “Trump’s political rebirth is unparalleled in American history,” the feature reads. “His first term ended…
North Carolina Republican lawmakers voted to override a gubernatorial veto of a bill that strips the state's incoming Democratic officials of key powers.
As President-elect Trump and his transition team steer his cabinet nominees through the landmines of the Senate confirmation process, top MAGA allies are lending a hand by putting pressure on GOP lawmakers who aren't fully on board.
President-elect Donald Trump announced that he wants ally Kari Lake to serve as the next director of the Voice of America, a federal network that's part of the U.S.
President-elect Trump announced he is tapping Kari Lake, a former news anchor and staunch supporter of him, to head the government-funded news outlet Voice of America. “I am pleased to announce that Kari Lake will serve as our next Director of the Voice of America,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post Wednesday night. Lake…
North Carolina's elections board dismissed formal protests Wednesday by several Republican candidates who trailed narrowly in their races last month and had questioned well over 60,000 ballots cast this fall. The board voted in favor of denying the protests of GOP Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin, who after a recent statewide machine recount trailed Associate Justice Allison Riggs by 734 votes from over 5.5 million ballots cast.
More than half of voters are “hopeful” going into President-elect Trump’s second term in the White House, according to a poll released on Wednesday. The new Fox News survey found that around 54 percent of voters feel “hopeful” following Trump’s win over Vice President Harris in the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Some 45 percent of…
North Carolina lawmakers on Wednesday enacted a law over the governor's veto that would diminish the powers afforded to his successor and other other Democratic statewide winners in the Nov. 5 elections. In a 72-46 vote, the Republican-dominated House overrode Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper's veto a week after the GOP-controlled Senate voted to do the same. More than 150 people gathered on the third floor — more than the House gallery could seat.
North Carolina's election board voted to reject a Republican challenge to throw out 60,000 ballots in a state Supreme Court race that the Democrat leads.
Anita Dunn, a former senior adviser to President Biden, was critical of the timing and way in which the president pardoned his son, but backed the ultimate decision to do so. “I absolutely think that Hunter deserves a pardon here but I disagree on the timing, the argument and sort of the rationale,” she said…
Former President Clinton said he is open to having a conversation with President Biden about a potential preemptive pardon for his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Bill Clinton joined “The View” on Wednesday, where he was discussing President-elect Trump taking office early next year and the threat of him going after political enemies…
Heritage Action, the advocacy arm of the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation, is working to pressure GOP senators from nine states to support President-elect Trump’s Cabinet picks. The group is launching a $150,000 digital ad campaign that will run from Wednesday to Dec. 31. Ads will run in Alaska, Maine, Louisiana, Iowa, North Carolina, Kentucky,…
Republicans called foul on Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Democrats for trying to push through a nominee that would have kept the National Labor Relations Board Democratic-controlled, preventing President-elect Trump from naming the new chair.
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan’s decision to run as an independent candidate in the Michigan gubernatorial race may throw a wrench in Democrats’ plans to hold on to the office in 2026. Duggan, who has been a Democrat throughout his career, became the first major candidate to enter the race last week and took most observers…
Former President Bill Clinton, during an appearance on ABC's "The View" on Wednesday, indicated he hopes President Joe Biden will not preemptively pardon people who could be targeted by the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump, including Clinton's wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. President Biden and his senior aides have been discussing possible preemptive pardons for people who might be targeted by the new Trump administration, according to a source close to the president.
A new exit poll of battleground state voters found that President-elect Trump’s economic message broke through demographic barriers, building a national coalition that Vice President Harris was unable to match. The poll, commissioned by Way to Win, a pro-Democratic electoral strategy group, oversampled Black, Latino and Asian-American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) voters in Arizona, Georgia,…
It has jumped more than 33% this year, outperforming the benchmark S&P 500 and blue-chip Dow, as technology megacaps including Nvidia, Microsoft and Apple add more heft to the index with their relentless surge. The index hit 19,000 points for the first time in early November, when Donald Trump secured victory in the U.S. presidential election and his Republican Party swept both houses of Congress. U.S. equities have since been supported by hopes that Trump's policies on tax cuts and looser regulation could support Big Tech firms, and the Federal Reserve's monetary easing could keep the U.S. economy humming.
Most Americans expect President-elect Donald Trump to do a good job upon his return to the White House next month (54%), and a majority approves of how he’s handling the presidential transition so far (55%), according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS.
Disgraced former Democrat Congressman Anthony Weiner, whose once-promising career was seemingly destroyed by sexting scandals, is eyeing a political comeback.
While most of Washington is obsessed with either the reality show that is President-elect Donald Trump's transition or the hand-wringing and blame-gaming over Democrats' election loss, a potentially critical political storyline is brewing in Michigan.
President Biden is reportedly mulling issuing blanket pardons to President-elect Donald Trump's political antagonists ahead of his exit from the Oval Office.
President-elect Trump’s poaching of a number of high-profile Florida officials to serve in his second administration is creating openings for a new slate of leaders in the Sunshine State. Trump nomination of Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (R) will give Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) the opportunity to appoint a replacement who will serve until 2026. Meanwhile,…
President-elect Trump named Kimberly Guilfoyle as ambassador to Greece in his upcoming administration. Guilfoyle is a former Fox News personality and has been a staple of the Trump family for years since she previously was in a relationship with Donald Trump Jr. The two reportedly have broken up. “For many years, Kimberly has been a…
A pressure campaign from allies of Donald Trump toward Senate Republican skeptics of some of his Cabinet picks appears to be starting to pay off in a sign of the president-elect's anticipated sway once he enters the Oval Office next month.
Former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner has filed to run for a seat on the New York City Council, launching a potential political comeback after his once-promising career was destroyed by sexting scandals and later a criminal conviction for having illicit online contact with a child. Campaign finance records list a campaign committee that was set up on Friday for Weiner called Weiner 25, in addition to listing him as a candidate for a council seat in lower Manhattan. In a phone conversation Tuesday with The Associated Press, Weiner, a Democrat, said he is “still exploring” whether to actually campaign for the office.
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