Republican senators are gearing up for the possibility of primary challenges ahead of the 2026 midterms as they seek to navigate the new political environment of a second Trump administration. Taking out a sitting senator in a primary would be no easy task, but some in the right flank of the party have flirted with…
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 Donald Trump was upbeat at his first postelection news conference Monday, saying there was a big difference from when he took office in 2016: Some of his former adversaries are now being nice to him.
President-elect Trump sought to thread a needle during his Monday press conference at Mar-a-Lago, pushing back at suggestions that his incoming administration would be dangerously radical, even as he avoided any whiff of actual backsliding. The version of Trump who appeared before reporters at his Florida resort was — at times — tonally different from…
President-elect Donald Trump on Monday held a wide-ranging news conference in which he said he would preserve access to the polio vaccine but equivocated on other vaccines, pledged to look at bringing down the costs of pharmaceuticals and expressed doubts that his daughter-in-law might be Florida's next senator. Trump held forth for over an hour, the first time he took questions from reporters since winning the election. The event harkens back to his long-winding news conferences from his first term and is a stark contrast from President Joe Biden, who doesn't often take questions from reporters.
The outgoing Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Jessica Rosenworcel condemned President-elect Trump’s threat to punish broadcast networks that he says are not fair to him. “The FCC has no business threatening to take away broadcast licenses because the president does not like the content or coverage on a network,” Rosenworcel said on the most recent…
President-elect Trump says he doesn't think Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will name his daughter-in-law Lara Trump to succeed Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida in the Senate.
Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., on Sunday blasted those who have promised to fund primary challenges against Republican Senators who oppose President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet picks,calling them 'political opportunists.'
A campaign aide to Vice President Harris accused tech billionaire Elon Musk of throttling content on his social platform X ahead of the 2024 election to benefit President-elect Trump. Harris deputy campaign manager Rob Flaherty, in an interview with Semafor, argued that Musk purchasing X, formerly known as Twitter, was “a problem” for Democrats in…
Kamala Harris' deputy campaign manager said during a recent interview that Democrats were "losing hold of culture" as Americans turned more towards podcasts ahead of the electinon.
March for Our Lives co-founder David Hogg announced he is running for Democratic National Committee vice chair on Monday in a bid to change the status quo within the party following its general election losses last month. In an interview with The Hill, Hogg, 24, cited Democrats’ losing ground with young voters in November as…
America’s new rulers are putting on a show of intent and unity as Donald Trump turns from his so-far-successful rescue of Pete Hegseth to three more of his provocative Cabinet choices.
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris delivered remarks at the Democratic National Committee's holiday reception in Washington, D.C., on Sunday. Both Biden and Harris thanked party members for all that they did for Harris' presidential campaign effort and Biden's presidency over the past four years.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will be seeking to ease any skepticism over his confirmation this week as he begins meetings with Senate Republicans over his nomination to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Kennedy is among the highest-profile names that Trump has rolled out for his Cabinet, which has also featured battles…
Sen. Mitt Romney, a frequent Donald Trump critic who will soon retire from Congress, stood by his criticism of the president-elect’s character but said Trump and his MAGA movement now define the Republican Party.
Republican senators are gearing up for the possibility of primary challenges ahead of the 2026 midterms as they seek to navigate the new political environment of a second Trump administration. Taking out a sitting senator in a primary would be no easy task, but some in the right flank of the party have flirted with…
Ann Selzer hit back at the backlash she's received over the results of her Iowa poll that found Kamala Harris winning the state, and said she was "mystified" by the allegations.
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) predicted Vice President-elect Vance will be the Republican Party’s 2028 presidential nominee. Romney joined CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday for his congressional exit interview, where host Jake Tapper asked him about a post-Trump Republican Party. “Oh, MAGA is the Republican Party, and Donald Trump is the Republican Party today,”…
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) argued that the American public “can’t complain” if President-elect Trump does what he said he would do during the campaign. “Donald Trump won. He won overwhelmingly. He said what he was going to do, and that’s what he’s doing,” Romney said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “I mean, people…
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) suggested that the Republican Party ended up with a razor-thin majority in the upcoming Senate term because the GOP “took our eye off the ball.” “We took our eye off the ball … We should have 56, 57 Republican senators. But things were done the wrong way in a lot of…
Democrats are not planning an all-hands resistance to President-elect Trump. At least not in 2016 style, when lawmakers, activists, volunteers and millions of angry voters mounted a party-wide effort to curb his newfound influence in Washington. Where so much was once unprecedented, Trump is now familiar. Ahead of January 2025, the lack of a unified…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday named his social media platform CEO Devin Nunes to lead an intelligence advisory panel and said his former intelligence chief Richard Grenell would run "special missions" in places such as U.S. adversaries Venezuela and North Korea. "Ric will work in some of the hottest spots around the World, including Venezuela and North Korea," Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. Trump did not name any other specific countries such as Iran in his post naming Grenell as the "Presidential Envoy for Special Missions."
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz expressed frustration in a recent interview that middle-class voters chose billionaire Donald Trump over him and Vice President Kamala Harris.
Nearly three dozen President-elect Donald Trump’s picks to serve in his incoming administration donated to his campaign or to the deep-pocketed outside groups that worked to elect him, a CNN analysis of federal campaign records shows.
President-elect Donald Trump tapped Harmeet Dhillon, a Republican lawyer known for championing conservative causes and the Republican national committeewoman for California, to lead the U.S.
The next battle for the House will be fought mostly in districts that Trump carried, giving Republicans hope they can buck historical midterm trends in two years.
Florida CFO Jimmy Patronis, the Trump-backed House candidate running to replace former Rep. Matt Gaetz, wants gold and silver to be legal tender in Florida.
A top pollster to Vice President Kamala Harris says the Democrats need a new playbook to politically confront Donald Trump as he returns to the White House, and that they should focus on high prices.
President-elect Trump won't be on the ballot in the 2026 midterms, but RNC chair Michael Whatley says that Trump will play a "significant" role in supporting GOP candidates
President-elect Trump was hosted at East Palestine by Sen. JD Vance shortly after the derailment disaster, which Steven Cheung agreed was when his trajectory to victory began.
With Mitt Romney set to exit the U.S. Senate, Washington will be without one of its strongest conservative critics of Donald Trump when the president retakes the White House in the new year. At a final news conference Friday in Salt Lake City, the retiring senator reflected on his two-decade political career, which included the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, a term as Massachusetts governor and several skirmishes with Trump loyalists in Congress. In what could be his final jab at Trump, Romney reiterated his concerns about the incoming president's character and “relaxed relationship with the truth.”
President-elect Trump’s attorneys condemned Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s (D) suggested alternatives to dismissing Trump’s hush money criminal conviction, going as far to call one of them “unhinged” and “absurd” Friday. It remains unclear if New York Judge Juan Merchan will consider the new filing, as he previously wrote he would only accept one written…
Vice President Harris will travel to Maryland next week to deliver a speech focused on young leaders and the role they must play in the coming years during the Trump administration, a White House official said Friday. Harris, who lost November’s election to President-elect Trump, will give remarks in nearby Prince George’s County to an…
Former cable news host Don Lemon slammed Time magazine’s decision to name President-elect Trump as its 2024 “Person of the Year.” “They could’ve done it to someone who actually stood for democracy, who stands for democracy in the country,” Lemon said on his podcast “The Don Lemon Show.” “Just because you are elected president of the…
