President-elect Trump faced the media at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Tuesday, the day after Congress had certified his victory in November’s election. The press conference came 13 days before Trump will be inaugurated, at which point he will become the only president since Grover Cleveland in the late 19th century to serve nonconsecutive terms.…
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.
This story was originally published by CalMatters. The Los Angeles County wildfires triggered a rant from President-elect Donald Trump, who blamed Gov. Gavin Newsom for depriving Southern California of water. Trump today repeated a claim he has made in the past, that state efforts “to protect an essentially worthless fish called a smelt” have caused pain […]
North Carolina's Supreme Court blocked the election results for one of its own seats as Republican Jefferson Griffin challenges Democrat Allison Riggs's lead.
Virginia Democrats preserved their Statehouse majority on Tuesday in the first test of voters’ energy since President-elect Donald Trump’s win in November, which left many party members across the country reckoning with their losses in federal elections. Tuesday’s races were the first official elections in Virginia since November’s presidential contest. Democrats now have a narrow 21-19 edge in the state Senate and a 51-49 lead in the House of Delegates, preserving their majorities in both chambers during Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s last year in office.
Democrats held onto their narrow majorities in Virginia's legislature as they won two of three special elections on Tuesday in the first ballot box showdowns of 2025, which were seen as a gauge of voter sentiment following Trump's White House victory
Virginia Democrats will hold on to their narrow majorities in the state Legislature after winning special elections Tuesday in two seats in a county that shifted toward President-elect Donald Trump last year, the Associated Press projects.
Republican Luther Cifers defeated Democrat Jack Trammell in the special election for the state Senate’s 10th District on Tuesday, according to Decision Desk HQ, maintaining Republicans’ grip on the Richmond-area district. The seat was previously held by Rep. John McGuire (R-Va.), who was elected to Congress last month. Cifers’s win is not unexpected given the…
Democrat JJ Singh has defeated Republican Ram Venkatachalam in the special election for the Virginia state House’s 26th District, according to Decision Desk HQ. The seat was formerly held by Del. Kannan Srinivasan (D), who ran in the special election for the state Senate’s 32nd District. Singh’s win was widely expected given the blue lean…
Virginia Del. Kannan Srinivasan (D) has defeated Republican Tumay Harding in the special election to fill the seat representing the state Senate’s 32nd District, according to Decision Desk HQ. The win ensures that Democrats will maintain their majority in the state Senate. The seat was previously held by Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-Va.), who was elected…
President-elect Trump faced the media at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Tuesday, the day after Congress had certified his victory in November’s election. The press conference came 13 days before Trump will be inaugurated, at which point he will become the only president since Grover Cleveland in the late 19th century to serve nonconsecutive terms.…
North Carolina's highest court blocked on Tuesday the certification of a November election result for one of its own seats so it can review legal arguments by a trailing candidate who contends over 60,000 ballots that were cast shouldn't be counted. The decision by the Republican-dominated state Supreme Court to issue the temporary stay is a setback for Democratic Associate Justice Allison Riggs. Election results show Riggs ahead of GOP challenger Jefferson Griffin by just 734 votes from over 5.5 million ballots cast.
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) announced on Tuesday their decision to represent an Iowa pollster entangled in a lawsuit with President-elect Trump stemming from a November poll from renowned pollster Ann Selzer that showed him losing to Vice President Harris. “Trump’s lawsuit, brought under an Iowa law against ‘consumer fraud,’ violates long-standing…
Sen. Richard Blumenthal declared that the political battle is just starting after certification of President-elect Donald Trump's 2024 election victory.
President-elect Trump on Tuesday declared interest rates are too high even as he decried still-elevated inflation, setting up renewed tensions with the central bank chair who resisted pressure cut rates during his first term. “We are inheriting a difficult situation from the outgoing administration, and they’re trying everything they can to make it more difficult.…
The Georgia Republican Party has booted longtime President-elect Trump critic former Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan (R), who backed Vice President Harris’s 2024 bid for the White House. A resolution from the Georgia GOP’s State Executive Committee featured in a Tuesday release from the party stated the former lieutenant governor “is hereby expelled from the Georgia…
Pence took to X, formerly Twitter, to share his praise to Congress and VP Harris for the peaceful transfer of power concerning Trump's election certification.
Former Vice President Mike Pence called it "particularly admirable" for Vice President Kamala Harris to preside over the certification of the presidential contest in which she was defeated
The Georgia Republican Party’s State Executive Committee has voted to expel former GOP Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan from being associated with the party over his alleged disloyalty.
As Kamala Harris presides over a joint session of Congress to certify her loss to Donald Trump, she will be focused on ensuring a peaceful transfer of power.
Supporters of impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol have adopted some of the symbols and slogans associated with President-elect Donald Trump.
It was routine — and that was the point. Congress certified President-elect Trump’s election victory in a smooth and relatively brief ceremony Monday. The normalcy of the occasion was a juxtapositional reminder of the events of four years before, when a mob laid siege to the Capitol, coming ominously close to keeping Trump in power…
Edmundo González Urrutia, the Venezuelan opposition leader who claimed to have beaten current President Nicolás Maduro in an election in July, met with President Biden on Monday.
Congress certified President-elect Donald Trump’s 2024 election victory, exactly four years after he stirred up a mob that attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Vice President Kamala Harris presided over a joint session of Congress on Monday, certifying the results of the 2024 election in which she lost to Donald Trump.
Judge Juan Merchan has denied Donald Trump’s request to postpone his Friday sentencing for his hush money conviction, the judge said in a filing Monday.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Monday lost a bid to put off his sentencing on Friday for his criminal conviction stemming from hush money paid to a porn star. Citing both presidential immunity and the demands of Trump's impending Jan. 20 inauguration, his lawyers on Monday morning said Justice Juan Merchan's intention not to penalize Trump was "of no moment." "Presidential immunity violations cannot be ignored in favor of a rushed pre-inauguration sentencing," the lawyers wrote in a court filing.
The New York judge who oversaw President-elect Trump’s criminal trial last spring declined his request to pause Friday’s sentencing, setting up a last-minute appellate battle as he seeks to stave off the proceeding. Trump could still attempt to have an appeals court step in as his attorneys argue Judge Juan Merchan was wrong to reject…
Congress’s move Monday to certify Donald Trump’s presidential victory marked the return of a mundane ceremony that will be remembered mostly for what it was not: the rampage of four years ago, when a violent mob stormed the U.S. Capitol in a failed effort to overturn Trump’s defeat. Those events of Jan. 6, 2021 —…
The Manhattan district attorney’s office said Monday it opposes any suspension of President-elect Trump’s Jan. 10 sentencing on his New York criminal conviction ahead of his return to the White House. Prosecutor Matthew Colangelo argued in a new court filing that Trump’s intention to appeal decisions by Judge Juan Merchan allowing the conviction to stand…
Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) on Monday touted the endorsements of current and former Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) members in his Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair bid. “I am honored to announce that former Secretary Marcia Fudge, Rep. Bennie Thompson, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, and [CBC Institute] Board Member Lacy Johnson have endorsed our campaign…
Late on a day of chaos and blood on January 6, 2021, it was unimaginable that Donald Trump — who summoned a mob to Washington and told the crowd to “fight like hell” — would get anywhere near the presidency again.
Former Vice President Mike Pence, who had to be evacuated four years ago Monday as rioters stormed the Capitol, welcomed “the return of order and civility” as Congress moved to certify President-elect Trump’s 2024 victory. “The peaceful transfer of power is the hallmark of our democracy and today, members of both parties in the House…
Incoming Trump White House chief of staff Susie Wiles pledged no tolerance for "drama" or "backbiting" in his second term during a rare interview published Monday.
President-elect Trump pitched the idea of a “merged” United States and Canada after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his resignation, noting there would be no tariffs if the two countries were one. “If Canada merged with the U.S., there would no Tariffs, taxes would go way down, and they would be TOTALLY SECURE from…
Congress on Monday certified President-elect Trump’s electoral victory, officially cementing his win over Vice President Harris ahead of his inauguration with no objections from any lawmakers as a tally of states was read on the House floor. Trump captured the presidency with 312 electoral votes to Harris’s 226 — a total that was confirmed during…
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau resigned Monday, ahead of general elections later this year in which the ruling Liberal Party is polling badly and amid tensions with President-elect Trump, who has threatened steep tariffs on the country over border policies. “I intend to resign as party leader, as prime minister,” Trudeau said. “Last night, I…
Susie Wiles, President-elect Trump’s incoming White House chief of staff, said there won’t be any “backbiting” or “drama” tolerated in the next administration. “I don’t welcome people who want to work solo or be a star,” Wiles, who was Trump’s campaign co-chair and is a veteran political consultant, said in an interview with Axios. “My team…
Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday is set to do what only two other vice presidents in recent history have done - preside over her defeat in the White House election.
Congress is gathering for a joint session to certify the results of the 2024 election, the final step before President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration on Jan. 20, after some major changes to security for the ceremony and the law that dictates how it's carried out. Before 2021, the Congress' constitutionally mandated responsibilities to count electoral certifications from the states and certify the results on Jan. 6 often passed in less than an hour with little notice from the public. Washington, D.C., is under heightened security -- not only for the certification of the vote, but also for the state funeral of former President Jimmy Carter at the end of this week and Trump's inauguration in two weeks.
President-elect Trump’s political comeback is set to be sealed Monday as Congress certifies his election victory, a full 180-degree turn from four years ago, when he sat stewing in the White House as his supporters violently stormed the Capitol. Trump has spent the past four years seeking to rewrite the events of Jan. 6, 2021,…
