Vice President Kamala Harris addressed the nation from Howard University, her alma mater, publicly conceding defeat in the presidential election to Donald Trump.
After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the federal right to abortion in its 2022 Dobbs decision, abortion emerged as a key issue in the 2024 election.
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Less than 24 hours after Donald Trump was elected the 47th president of the United States, social media users began pushing two conflicting narratives to suggest election fraud, one that revived false claims by Trump that the 2020 vote was stolen from him and the other questioning how Vice President Kamala Harris could have received so many fewer votes in 2024 than President Joe Biden in 2020. CLAIM: President Joe Biden won approximately 20 million more votes in the 2020 election than Vice President Kamala Harris earned in the 2024 race, proving either that Trump has cheated his way to a second term or that there was widespread fraud four years ago.
Donald J. Trump, the once and now future president, capped an improbable political comeback by defeating Vice President Kamala Harris on promises to turbocharge the economy and deport undocumented immigrants by the millions.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) said being chosen as Vice President Harris’s running mate and campaigning with her over the last several months was the “honor and privilege” of his life. In a statement posted Wednesday after Harris conceded the election to President-elect Trump, Walz thanked the vice president for choosing him. “Thank you Vice…
Republicans are eyeing maintaining their current House majority and expanding their newfound Senate majority after Donald Trump's victory in the presidential race.
Republicans won control of the White House and the Senate. Now all eyes are turning to the House, Democrats' last line of defense to stop President-elect Donald Trump and his agenda.
Justice Department officials have been evaluating how to wind down the two federal criminal cases against President-elect Donald Trump before he takes office, two people familiar with the matter tell NBC News.
Democrats spent billions of dollars warning American voters that Donald Trump posed an imminent threat to democracy, that his economic policies would benefit only his wealthy friends, that he was literally a fascist. “I think there needs to be a cleaning of the house, there needs to be a new generation of leaders that emerge,” said Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., among the few Democrats with presidential ambitions to address the party’s future on Wednesday. With votes still being counted, Trump was on track to become the first Republican in two decades to win the popular vote, although the scope of his Electoral College victory was likely to fall short of President Barack Obama’s 2008 performance in which he won 365 electoral votes.
Former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. discussed his hopes for reforming the FDA in a second Trump administration following the 2024 election.
Eric Trump, one of President-elect Trump’s adult sons, said Wednesday that his father will go down as one of the most “remarkable candidates” in history. He joined Fox News’s Laura Ingraham 24 hours after polls began to close across the country to celebrate his father’s election victory. “I think the media and this whole process…
For many Democratic voters, Vice President Kamala Harris' loss to Donald Trump was disappointing but not surprising, they said in interviews, agreeing that their party hadn't done enough to talk about the economy and lamenting lingering racism and sexism.
Former President Trump has won the election in key swing states such as Georgia and Pennsylvania, and is projected to win the necessary 270 Electoral College votes, while Republicans have taken back the Senate majority.
Democrat Eugene Vindman won Virginia’s most competitive congressional race Wednesday, defeating his opponent in a blow to the GOP’s hopes of flipping the open House seat. In Virginia’s 7th District, Vindman defeated Republican Derrick Anderson by a close margin after conservatives targeted the House seat. Democratic U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger, the district’s three-term incumbent, decided to run for governor in 2025 — presenting an opening in the battleground district.
Vice President Kamala Harris won a slim majority of votes cast by Latinos, but Trump reached, and possibly bested a historic high set by former President George W. Bush.
Former first lady Melania Trump vowed that the incoming Trump administration will “safeguard the heart of our republic” and push the country forward. “The majority of Americans have entrusted us with this important responsibility,” she said in a Wednesday post on the social platform X. “We will safeguard the heart of our republic — freedom. I…
Conservative author David Frum announced Wednesday that he has left the Republican Party following President-elect Trump’s victory in the 2024 presidential election. “De-registered as a Republican today,” Frum, a staff writer at The Atlantic, wrote on the social platform X on Wednesday. Frum, a former speechwriter for then-President George W. Bush, has held on to…
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders issued a scathing statement on what he called the Democratic Party's "disastrous" campaign after Vice President Kamala Harris lost the presidential election to former President Donald Trump. The independent, who caucuses with Democrats, said it "should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them."
Catholic voters across the country swung massively towards former President Trump in the 2024 election, contributing to his surprise blowout victory on election night.
Fox News Digital spoke with voters about their reaction to President-elect Donald Trump's victory and the issues that got them to the polls this cycle.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) called on Democrats to press ahead and take “opportunities to fight back” despite President-elect Trump’s triumph in the 2024 U.S. presidential election against Vice President Harris. “Right now, Donald Trump won an election, and the consequences will be real and devastating, but I’m reminding myself and you that on the road…
President Joe Biden spoke to former President Donald Trump on the phone Wednesday to congratulate him on winning the presidency, the White House said in a statement. "President Biden expressed his commitment to ensuring a smooth transition and emphasized the importance of working to bring the country together," the White House said. Biden invited Trump to meet with him at the White House, the statement said.
President-elect Trump’s performance among Latino and Hispanic voters offered one of the brightest spots for Republicans on Election Day, as the former president made inroads with the critical voting bloc. Despite the backlash Trump received for a rally featuring a comedian making racist jokes about Puerto Rico and Latinos, the former president appeared to grow…
Former President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama congratulated President-elect Trump on his election victory and urged the country to have “good faith and grace.” “In a country as big and diverse as ours, we won’t always see eye-to-eye on everything. But progress requires us to extend good faith and grace — even to people…
Democrats spent the immediate aftermath of election night on Wednesday looking for answers. In the early hours of what one called a “bloodbath,” they repeatedly questioned how President-elect Trump and Republicans beat them for a second time. And who, they wondered, was responsible for such a stunning defeat? For the most part, they did not direct…
Democrat Josh Riley won in New York’s 19th Congressional District, according to Decision Desk HQ, defeating incumbent Rep. Marc Molinaro (R-N.Y.) in a massive victory for Democrats and their quest to take control of the House. Riley’s win came in his second match-up against Molinaro: The two New Yorkers squared off for the district’s House…
Donald Trump ran a campaign centered on hypermasculinity, actively courting young men in particular with interviews on popular male-centric podcasts. Prominent surrogates from billionaire Elon Musk to Charlie Kirk, founder of the conservative youth organization Turning Point, called on men to vote in large numbers to counter Harris’ expected strength among women. Men were more likely than women to support President-elect Trump, the survey showed.
Trump supporters rushed to share their favorite memes on social media Wednesday after President Trump was declared the winner of the 2024 presidential election.
Abortion access issues were on the ballot in several states Tuesday night, and nearly all of them won. But abortion was not enough to win Vice President Kamala Harris the presidency.
Celebrity chef José Andrés shared a message after the presidential election, saying that the country “will be fine.” “We had republican and democrat presidents since I arrived 32 years ago…we will be fine USA will be fine,” Andrés told Washingtonian magazine in a text. Andrés, the famed restaurateur and founder of the emergency food relief nonprofit World…
Nathan Hochman defeated George Gascón in the race for Los Angeles County district attorney, unseating an incumbent known as the godfather of progressive prosecutors. Hochman, a former federal prosecutor, calls himself a “hard middle” candidate who would reject both mass incarceration and the “public safety failure” of Gascón’s tenure the past four years. Hochman previously ran unsuccessfully for California attorney general as a Republican, but he was an independent in this race and describes himself as a lifelong centrist.
North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein was elected governor on Tuesday, defeating Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson and maintaining Democratic leadership of the chief executive’s office in a state where Republicans have recently controlled the legislature and appeals courts. Stein, a Harvard-trained lawyer, former state senator and the state’s chief law enforcement officer since 2017, will succeed fellow Democrat Roy Cooper, who was term-limited from seeking reelection. Robinson's campaign was greatly hampered by a damning report in September that he had posted messages on an online pornography website, including that he was a “black NAZI."
Vice President Kamala Harris offered an uplifting, positive charge to her supporters as she conceded the 2024 presidential election, acknowledging the stinging loss while committing to a peaceful transfer of power and vowing to “fight.”
One day after former President Trump swept the battleground states to win back the White House, Vice President Kamala Harris conceded the election in an address at Washington, D.C.'s Howard University.
