Former GOP presidential primary candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said “uniting the country” is a top priority for President-elect Trump. “I think he cares about uniting the country. I think that is Donald Trump’s number one focus,” Ramaswamy said Sunday on ABC News’s “This Week” with the outlet’s Jonathan Karl. “And I do think we have to…
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Americans heard starkly different messages about Donald Trump and Kamala Harris in the final days of the 2024 election, according to The Breakthrough, a CNN polling project that tracked what average Americans actually heard, read and saw about the presidential nominees throughout the general election campaign.
Former GOP presidential primary candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said “uniting the country” is a top priority for President-elect Trump. “I think he cares about uniting the country. I think that is Donald Trump’s number one focus,” Ramaswamy said Sunday on ABC News’s “This Week” with the outlet’s Jonathan Karl. “And I do think we have to…
Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) said Sunday that President-elect Trump has “no enemies list” after Trump made headlines for referring to his opponents as “the enemy within.” “For the American people who have been listening to these lies from the Democratic left, I will tell you, this is not something that Donald Trump has ever spoken…
In the aftermath of Kamala Harris' failed bid for president, Charlamagne Tha God called for unity and pointed to voters' economic frustrations and concerns over safety as decisive in Donald Trump's victory. "I know it feels like the divided states of America over the last several years, but it is still the United States of America," said the influential radio host who supported Harris. Harris joined Charlamagne for an audio town hall in October, where she discussed how her economic plan would boost Black communities and cast a Donald Trump presidency in dark terms.
Republican pollster Frank Luntz told ABC News’s Jonathan Karl on Sunday that the person who “told” Vice President Harris to focus on former President Trump during her presidential campaign “committed political malpractice.” “We all know what Trump is,” Luntz said on “This Week.” “We experienced him for four years. Whoever told her to focus on…
Democratic strategist James Carville argued during a recent interview that the Harris campaign could be reduced to the vice president's failure to differentiate herself from Biden.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Vice President Harris did her “very best” in the presidential election and called on the Democratic Party to look both inward and forward. Sanders joined CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday morning, where host Dana Bash asked for the senator’s thoughts about President Biden and whether he should have…
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) stood by the statement he released after the presidential election that was critical of the Democratic Party, arguing the working class has a reason to be angry. Sanders joined CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday morning to discuss the election aftermath. While praising President Biden’s efforts for the working class,…
President-elect Donald Trump won across the map — improving on Republican margins nearly everywhere and delivering on his promises to win over more non-White voters on his way to defeating Vice President Kamala Harris.
Over 40% of Californians voted for Trump, marking his highest GOP support in the state since 2004, despite conservative emigration and strong Democratic leanings.
Americans in an array of states sent a message to the incoming Trump administration and other elected officials: They won't give up autonomy over their bodies.
Former President Trump cemented Florida’s status as a deep-red state on Tuesday, flipping multiple counties up and down the state. Miami-Dade County saw a Republican win at the presidential level for the first time in 36 years, while the greater Tampa area also went red. Trump also flipped Jacksonville’s Duval County and large swaths of…
President-elect Trump’s resounding victory last week threatens to further isolate his few remaining GOP critics on Capitol Hill. The shrinking group of Republicans who have bucked the president-elect underscores Trump’s dominance over the party and raises questions about how this GOP faction will navigate the new political reality in Washington. Only a handful of vocal Trump skeptics will remain in the…
Republican U.S. Rep. Eli Crane won reelection in a Republican-leaning congressional district covering vast swaths of rural Arizona. Crane faced a spirited challenge from Democrat Jonathan Nez, the former Navajo Nation president, in the 2nd District race. Nez was vying to become the first Native American to represent Arizona in Congress.
Nikki Haley, who ran against President-elect Trump, that she wishes him "great success" after he publicly said that she would not be invited to participate in his cabinet.
Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen has won re-election in Nevada, NBC News projects, defeating Republican Sam Brown and holding on to an important seat for her party.
The Associated Press has declared that Trump has won the Arizona presidential race, which had 11 electoral votes at stake in a state where illegal immigration was a top issue.
Democrat April McClain Delaney narrowly won a U.S. House seat in Maryland’s most competitive congressional races that came to focus on reproductive rights and the economy. The state’s sprawling 6th Congressional District covers a wide swath of rural Maryland as well as more affluent liberal suburbs of Washington, D.C. The close race wasn’t called until Saturday, four days after Election Day. McClain Delaney, who declared victory Friday, said in a statement that she is “deeply honored and humbled” by the trust the voters have placed in her.
Former Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler will co-chair President-elect Trump’s inaugural committee alongside Steve Witkoff, Trump’s campaign announced Saturday. The Republican leader said the committee will “honor” his victory in the 2024 election. “The Trump Vance Inaugural Committee will honor this magnificent victory in a celebration of the American People and our nation,” Trump said in…
The Washington Post Editorial Board slammed Vice President Harris and her campaign for covering up President Biden's cognitive decline, alleging that's one of the reasons she lost.
First-term Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez won reelection Saturday in southwestern Washington state’s closely watched 3rd Congressional District, surviving a rematch with Republican Joe Kent. Two years ago, Gluesenkamp Perez, who owns an auto-repair shop with her husband, came out of nowhere to win the seat, which hadn’t been in Democratic hands for over a decade.
WASHINGTON/REHOBOTH BEACH, Delaware (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump will meet on Wednesday at the White House on Biden's invitation, a White House spokesperson said on Saturday. Trump will take office on Jan. 20 after defeating current Vice President Kamala Harris in the Nov. 5 presidential election. "At President Biden’s invitation, President Biden and President-elect Trump will meet in the Oval Office on Wednesday," Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement.
Donald Trump will return to the White House accompanied by a crew of longtime friends and aides as well as newfound, splashy allies. The Republican president-elect has barely begun naming key figures in his administration, but he has kept a rotation of associates with him on and off the campaign trail in recent weeks who joined him on stage early Wednesday as he declared victory. For the second time, Trump has won the White House with a woman steering his campaign.
Democratic governors are signaling their willingness to defy the new Trump administration, vowing to protect freedoms in their states and to wage legal and political battle if the president-elect follows through with controversial proposals. California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said the Golden State is “ready to fight” and called a special section of the state…
Tezlyn Figaro, a former campaign adviser to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), said “there was never a chance in hell” that Vice President Harris would win the presidential election, putting blame on President Biden’s late dropout announcement and big-money consultants. “There was never a chance in hell that VP Harris was going to have a shot…
Republicans are eyeing a trifecta, hoping to keep control of the House after capturing the majority in the Senate and taking over the White House following President-elect Trump’s decisive win over Vice President Harris in the 2024 presidential election. On the other side, Democrats started debating what went wrong in the contest and who might…
Kristin Soltis Anderson, an election pollster, cited the accuracy of professionals in the polling industry during a Saturday appearance on CNN’s “The Chris Wallace Show.” “I come today to defend my industry, the polling industry. After this election, I know there are many Americans who feel surprised that Donald Trump swept all seven battleground states,”…
Americans told the Democratic Party this week that the economy, even beyond inflation, isn’t working for them, thrusting party leaders into a scramble for a new economic strategy that can reverse the losses of working-class voters. The country’s decisive swing toward President-elect Donald Trump reflects not just dissatisfaction with the recent run-up in prices but also deeper fears about slipping financial security. Americans are saving less than they were before the pandemic, and they are fall
President-elect Trump is set to meet President Biden at the White House next week following his decisive election victory over Vice President Harris. The event will take place Wednesday morning at 11 a.m. EST, the White House announced Saturday in a statement. Traditionally, the visit is meant to signify a peaceful transfer of power between…
A ranked-choice voting tabulation aimed at determining the winner of a key congressional race in Maine will start on Tuesday with scanning of ballots into a computer at a centralized location, with a goal of having results by week's end, the state's top election official said Saturday. Democratic U.S. Rep. Jared Golden already said he won the election in Maine's 2nd Congressional District but the secretary of state said neither Golden nor Republican Austin Theriault surpassed 50% of first-place votes on Election Day, necessitating the shipment of ballots to the state capital for an additional voting round.
DNC National Finance Committee member Lindy Li spoke to Fox News Channel this weekend about several factors that doomed Vice President Kamala Harris' "disaster" campaign.
Democratic National Committee (DNC) official Lindy Li called Vice President Harris’s bid for the White House a “$1 billion disaster” following her loss to President-elect Trump in the 2024 presidential election. “The truth is this is just an end epic disaster, this is a $1 billion disaster,” Li, a DNC National Finance Committee member, said…
