Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., won the post of Senate majority leader on Wednesday on the second round of voting.
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Trump Announces Senior White House Staff
President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday announced his selection of four key advisors to serve in the White House as senior staff.
Read MoreClimate Scientists Say Lines Between Science and Advocacy Are Being Blurred and Bias Normalized
Three climate researchers took to the pages of Nature to argue that objectivity in climate science is problematic, as it gets in the way of their political advocacy, which they argue is too important to deny. Therefore, the values of objectivity in scientific research, the authors argue, should be reconsidered.
Read MorePresident-Elect Trump Brings Deportation Chiefs into White House, Away from Entrenched Agencies
President-elect Donald Trump’s nods for immigration and border-related posts appear to suggest he plans to keep the major-decision making on those issues within the White House rather than in offices of executive branch agencies filled with career government employees. Trump has vowed to pursue the mass deportation of illegal aliens from the country, beginning on his first day. He has cited President Dwight Eisenhower’s “Operation Wetback” as precedent for such an undertaking.
Read MoreCommentary: Uniparty Establishment War on MAHA Heats Up
by Brian Robertson “Trump really could empower RFK Jr. to wreck public health” proclaims the headline in Vox. “RFK Jr. Wants to Reshape US Health Policy. Good Luck With That” mocks a banner in Wired. Likewise, the Wall Street Journal joined the frenzy, noting that “industry, doctors, and their supporters in Congress probably will…
Read MoreCommentary: Trump Expanded His Base Because He Kept it Real
There are a lot of post-mortems on the election at the moment. Many who predicted a Kamala Harris victory are now trying to explain how Donald Trump was elected. Their ability to analyze the data ex ante was clearly flawed, but humility and objectivity have not been journalistic virtues for a long time.
Read MoreMassachusetts U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton: Democrats ‘Will Continue To Lose’ if They Keep Canceling People over Opposing Men in Women’s Sports
Democratic Massachusetts Rep. Seth Moulton said Tuesday that his party will continue to lose elections if they attempt to cancel people for publicly stating that biological men should not compete in women’s sports.
Read MoreEx-FEMA Supervisor Says Not Helping Trump Supporters with Disaster Relief Is Not ‘Isolated’ Event
Marn’i Washington, the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) supervisor fired for not helping supporters of President-elect Donald Trump, said Tuesday that this occurrence was not an “isolated” incident.
Read MoreTrump Builds No-Nonsense Team as Pollster Predicts He Could Rival Reagan’s Legacy in Second Term
by John Solomon Donald Trump sent an unmistakable message with his first few personnel choices for his second term, dispatching to the halls of power players like Elise Stefanik, Tom Homan, Lee Zeldin and Stephen Miller who take a no-nonsense approach to their jobs and will focus on everyday…
Read MoreJudge Merchan Delays Decision on Whether to Dismiss Trump Guilty Verdict in ‘Hush Money’ Case
Judge Juan Merchan on Tuesday agreed to delay issuing a decision on whether to toss out President-elect Donald Trump’s guilty verdict on state charges of falsifying business records until Nov. 19.
Read MoreKamala’s Campaign Is Still Aggressively Shaking Down Supporters for Cash
Even after her loss on Nov. 5, Vice President Kamala Harris’ election campaign is still hounding donors for money.
Harris’ campaign has bombarded supporters with fundraising messages following her election day defeat, with the most recent being sent out Sunday night, according to emails obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Each email claims, using slightly different language, that the “Harris Fight Fund” is collecting donations to fund legal efforts and recount initiatives to help Democrats in close congressional races.
Read MoreTrump Expected to Pick Stephen Miller for Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy: Report
President-elect Donald Trump is expected to select Stephen Miller for White House deputy chief of staff for policy, according to reports.
Read MoreTrump Chooses GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik as U.S. Ambassador to UN
President-elect Donald Trump has picked Republican New York Rep. Elise Stefanik for the role of the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (UN).
Read MoreACLU Pledges to Block Trump Administration Actions on LGBT, Abortion, and Immigration
The far-left American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) issued a statement vowing to block the incoming Trump Administration on as many policies as possible, including abortion, the LGBT agenda, and immigration.
As Fox News reports, ACLU’s executive director Anthony Romero published an open letter on the organization’s website, admitting that “we know that a second Trump administration will be even more aggressive and effective than it was before.”
Read MoreCommentary: Making America Safe Again Will Be Donald Trump’s Highest Priority as President
In my opinion, the most important of all of Donald Trump’s promises during the 2024 presidential campaign was to “make America safe again” by restoring American leadership and peace through strength.
This is because Joe Biden will leave Trump with grave national security challenges around the world. U.S. weakness under Biden, Biden’s frivolous foreign policy that designated climate change as the top U.S. national security threat, and major foreign policy failures have caused U.S. and global security to seriously deteriorate since 2021.
Read MoreSan Francisco Mayor London Breed Unseated by First-Time Public Office Candidate
Democratic San Francisco Mayor London Breed lost her reelection race to philanthropist and Levi Strauss heir Daniel Lurie, according to multiple reports.
Read MoreMichigan House Flips Republican, Ending Trifecta of Democratic Control
Republicans have taken back control of the Michigan House, flipping the chamber they lost in 2022 and ending Democrats’ governing trifecta.
Republicans will likely work to change the series of Democrat pieces of legislation implemented over the past two years, such as repealing Michigan’s Right To Work law, passing gun safety restrictions, handing out corporate subsidies in efforts to boost electric vehicle manufacturing and adoption in the state, and allowing state regulators to override local zoning laws and public choice to expand green energy projects across the state.
Read MoreCommentary: The Great Electoral Landside of 2024 and Its Consequences for Democrats
While there are a few close states not officially yet called, Trump is on his way to what we called several weeks ago, something close to a 312 – 226 Electoral College vote victory. He’s swept all seven swing states. He made New Hampshire and Virginia competitive, expanding his electoral map and forcing Democrats to spend resources in the race’s waning days. Best of all, he won a resounding popular vote victory, the final numbers of which will come in the days to come.
Read MoreVictor Davis Hanson Commentary: Harris Was Always Doomed
The presidential race was not unpredictable, as the now once again discredited polls swore to us.
Instead, the great Trump comeback victory was clear by the last weeks of the campaign.
Read MoreTrump Announces Co-Campaign Chief Susie Wiles as His White House Chief of Staff
President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday announced his first staffing position for his second administration, placing his co-campaign manager Susie Wiles as his White House Chief of Staff.
Read MoreFrom Mnuchin to Musk: The Key Figures Who Could Shape a Second Trump Administration
Former President Donald Trump’s historic comeback marked the culmination of not just his own efforts, but those of his many surrogates and allies who will likely join him in the White House.
Read MoreCommentary: Trump Completes Greatest Comeback in Political History
Against all odds, former President Donald Trump was reelected on Nov. 5, ousting Vice President Kamala Harris, winning the popular vote for the GOP for the first time since 2004, decisively winning the Electoral College and reclaiming the U.S. Senate, all as only the second former president to win reelection after Grover Cleveland did it in 1892 with non-consecutive terms in what can only be described as the greatest political comeback in American history.
Trump dodged bullets, prosecutions, convictions, censorship and overcame the historic incumbency advantage — first term incumbent parties usually win about two-thirds of the time, but not this time — able to capitalize on inflation outpacing incomes, wages and earnings for too long during the Biden-Harris administration as Americans paid the price at the grocery store and gas pump, more than 8 million illegal border crossings by illegal aliens who Trump promised to deport and endless foreign wars that threaten to spark a wider conflict or even nuclear war.
Read MoreAnalysis: Republicans Flip Senate, Eye More Gains
Voters handed control of the U.S. Senate to Republicans Tuesday, although the contests in several battleground states won by Donald Trump were still too close to call Wednesday morning.
Read MoreTrump’s Improbable Comeback Also Engineered a Significant Exodus from Democrat Party
Donald Trump pulled off the most improbable comeback in American political history Tuesday night, securing a likely return trip to the White House by beating back a relentless tide of media, Big Tech and Democrat opposition that stretched from the courthouse to the social media sphere.
Read MoreDonald Trump Projected Winner of 2024 Presidential Election
Former President Donald Trump will be the 47th President of the United States after being projected to win 270 votes in the Electoral College by Fox News, Newsmax, DecisionDesk HQ, and NewsNation just after midnight on November 6, making him the President-elect of the United States. He will serve alongside Senator JD Vance, who was elected to serve as vice president.
Read MoreCommentary: Trump’s Highlighter Is the Color of American Greatness
The thing that Democrats, Republican NeverTrumpers, and their media cohorts hate most about Trump has nothing to do with his rhetoric, policies, morals, or personality. Rather, they despise Trump’s highlighter. They respected Obama’s pen and phone, but when Trump first wielded his brazenly bright, blondish-orange highlighter on the 2016 primary trail — shining a politically incorrect light on issues like immigration and international trade policies — it terrified them.
Read MoreTrump Outperforms 2020, But Most Swing States Remain Uncalled
Former President Donald Trump has outperformed his 2020 margins in every major swing state, though most of the key battlegrounds remained uncalled as of Wednesday morning.
Read More‘The End of the Narrative’: 2024 Could Be the Final Turning Point for Legacy Media, Pollsters Say
In the sultry days of summer 2020 as Donald Trump contemplated a second term, his aides engaged in a quiet conversation with members of the emerging digital media about an audacious idea.
Read MoreVirginia A.G. Miyares Concerned over Potential Foreign Money Seeping into U.S. Election via ActBlue
Virginia GOP Attorney General Jason Miyares said this week that he is worried about the potential influence of foreign money impacting U.S. elections through the Democratic online fund-raising platform ActBlue that he is investigating.
Read MoreAnalysis: Rogan’s Interview of Donald Trump Outperforms Harris Appearance on 60 Minutes 40 Million to 5.7 Million
by Rick Manning The 2024 election may very well be viewed similarly to the 1960 presidential election in terms of what matters in influencing voters. The 1960 presidential election between John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon featured the first ever televised presidential debate was viewed on 66.4 million…
Read MorePro-Life Group Spends Record Amount Fighting Dem ‘Extremism’ on Abortion Ahead of Election
Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America (SBA) has reached millions of critical voters in key swing states to deny Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and other pro-abortion candidates the vote on Tuesday, Nov. 5.
The group has reached over 10 million voters in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Montana, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin combating lies about pro-life laws and warning of pro-abortion Democrats’ “extreme” stance, according to SBA’s 2024 election report first obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. SBA has invested over $92 million into the efforts in the 2024 election, compared to $56 million in 2020.
Read MoreCommentary: America’s Adversaries Are Rooting for Kamala Harris
Although America’s ferociously anti-Trump media refuses to admit it, there is a powerful group of people who cannot vote in the U.S. presidential election but are rooting for Kamala Harris to win: the leaders of China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, terrorist groups, and other U.S. adversaries.
America’s adversaries took full advantage over the past three years of a sharp decline in American global influence and deterrence. This resulted in new wars and massive terrorist attacks, including Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a surge in provocations and threats by China against Taiwan and in the South China Sea, the October 7, 2023, Hamas massacre against Israel, a new 7-front war against Israel, a dangerous increase in Iran’s sponsorship of terrorism and major gains in its nuclear weapons program, a huge increase in North Korean missile tests, 11 million illegal migrants crossing our southern border, and other threats.
Read MoreWhite House Press Office Doctored Transcript of Joe Biden Calling Trump Supporters ‘Garbage’ over Stenographer’s Objections
The White House press office altered the official transcript of Joe Biden insulting Trump supporters over the objections of the White House stenographer, according to two government officials, and an email obtained by the Associated Press. House Republicans have launched an investigation into the matter, saying the White House may have violated the Presidential Records Act of 1978.
Biden caused an uproar on Tuesday when he described Trump supporters as “garbage” during in a campaign Zoom call with Latino voters.
Read MoreCommentary: Once Joyful Harris Now Goes the Full McCarthy (Never Go ‘Full McCarthy’)
In the last two weeks, Kamala Harris has been trying to revive her stagnant campaign by smearing Trump as being Hitlerian and a fascist. She claims Trump is planning to put his enemies in encampments.
Read MoreCommentary: Tim Walz’s Progressive Education Policies Could Doom Harris
Donald Trump currently holds a razor-thin 0.6 percent lead over Kamala Harris in the RealClearPolitics Polling Average for Pennsylvania. With this key swing state potentially deciding the outcome of the Electoral College, Democrats can only wonder how different the polls might look if Pennsylvania’s popular governor, Josh Shapiro – once considered a frontrunner for Harris’ VP pick – were on the ticket instead of Tim Walz.
Read More‘They Just Want To Be Left The Hell Alone:’ JD Vance Tells Joe Rogan He and Trump Could Win ‘Normal Gay Guy Vote’
Republican Sen. JD Vance of Ohio said during a Thursday interview with podcaster Joe Rogan that he and former President Donald Trump could win the “normal gay guy” vote.
Read MoreSoros-Backed D.A. Trying to Pull Elon Musk Off Campaign Trail, Legal Expert Says
George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley said Thursday that Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner’s suit against Tesla CEO Elon Musk was “transparently political.”
Read MoreFrom ‘Deplorables’ to ‘Nazis’ to ‘Garbage,’ Democrats Embrace Insults, Intolerance in the Trump Era
Since former President Donald Trump’s first presidential run in 2016, his opponents have thrown an endless series of derogatory terms toward him and supporters. But while some terms attracted scandal eight years ago and even energized the Trump base, the Democrats’ penchant for smearing MAGA supporters and other dissident groups has become a central part of their messaging as Trump appears poised to make a return to the White House.
Read MoreCongress to Subpoena ActBlue as Feds Confirm Suspicious Activity Tied to Democrat Fundraising
House investigators prepared Wednesday to subpoena the Democrat donations platform ActBlue in a rapidly expanding probe into possible illicit foreign funding in the 2024 election after the Treasury Department confirmed to Congress its money laundering detection system has generated hundreds of suspicious activity reports related to the online fund-raising giant.
The dramatic developments were communicated to House members and ActBlue itself in a series of memos this week obtained by Just the News that reaffirmed that lawmakers fear foreign adversaries like China, Iran, Venezuela and Russia may be routing illicit foreign money into Democratic coffers by using the names of unsuspecting American donors.
Read MoreGOP Lawmakers Urge Biden Admin to Investigate Dem Rep. with Deep China Ties
Republican lawmakers called on the Biden administration to launch an investigation into a Chinese civic association linked to a New York Democratic congresswoman on Wednesday, according to a letter exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Reps. Jim Banks of Indiana, Carlos Gimenez of Florida, Robert Wittman of Virginia and Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik of New York urged Secretary of State Antony Blinken to designate the New York-based Henan Association Of Eastern America (HAEA) as a “foreign mission,” citing “its recently reported leading role in Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-led influence operations against American officials,” according to the letter. The lawmakers also asked Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate HAEA’s current and former leaders, including New York Democratic Rep. Grace Meng, who was listed as the group’s “deputy chairwoman” before she launched her congressional campaign in 2012.
Read MoreMedical Schools Are Politicizing Health Care, Putting Lives ‘On the Line,’ Watchdog Warns
The report “Activism Instead of Anatomy” from Do No Harm states that diversity, equity, and inclusion politics are crowding out scientific medical education at many schools across the country.
“If medical schools are short-changing rigorous training in science for the political indoctrination of future doctors, there are real consequences. Lives are on the line,” author and senior fellow Jay Greene wrote.
Read MoreCommentary: The Cool Kids Are Voting for Trump
It is hard for highly ideological people, including me, to understand undecided voters. But some of it seems to come down to the “cool” factor. Cool candidates win and uncool candidates do not.
Read MoreAnalysis: Republicans Surpass Democrats in Early Voting in Georgia, Arizona, Nevada and North Carolina
Republicans appear to have flipped the script on the 2020 election, which featured Democrats winning the election narrowly in Georgia, Arizona and Wisconsin by banking early votes that former President Donald Trump was unable to overcome with Election Day turnout, this time outpacing Democrats with early and mail-in votes combined in Georgia, Arizona, Nevada and North Carolina, NBC News reports.
Read MoreKarl Rove Breaks Down Scenario Where Trump Would Only Need Pennsylvania, Georgia or Michigan to Win
Fox News’ Karl Rove said Tuesday that Republican nominee Donald Trump only needs to win one state between Pennsylvania, Georgia or Michigan in order to become president-elect.
Trump would win 252 electoral votes if he wins the battleground state of Arizona, Nevada, and North Carolina on Election Night, which would only require the former president to win either Pennsylvania, Michigan or Georgia in order to secure the 270 electoral votes needed to win, Fox News host Bill Hemmer pointed out. Rove said Trump can afford to lose some of the key battleground states and still come out “over the top” in such a close race.
Read MoreWith Bannon’s Release from Prison, Trump Campaign Regains Key Voice on Election Eve
With the presidential election fast approaching, one of Donald Trump’s most supportive media personalities, Steve Bannon, is set to return to the fold as a wildcard in the final week of voting.
Read MoreConservative Podcaster, Former Trump Political Adviser Steve Bannon Released from Prison
Conservative podcaster and former Trump political adviser Steve Bannon was released from prison Tuesday morning.
Read MoreCommentary: The Real Threat to American Democracy
Heading into Election Day, we hear constantly that the presidential candidates are mortal threats to American democracy. Anxieties about Donald Trump’s role in the Jan. 6, 2021, rampage at the U.S. Capitol and his declaration that he would act as “dictator for a day” are countered by Elon Musk’s warning that if Harris wins, “this will be the last election,” or alarms that Harris’ designs on overhauling the Supreme Court will lead to an end to the rule the law.
The very idea that our republic’s future hangs on the outcome of a single presidential contest, however, reveals the deeper, unacknowledged, underlying danger: a Congress incapable of performing its constitutional duties as our country’s lawmaking body and the guarantor of our representative democracy.
Read MoreBiden DOJ Fights Election Integrity Efforts with Lawsuits Across the Country Ahead of Election Day
The Biden administration’s Department of Justice is suing states and towns across the country in an effort to thwart election integrity measures ahead of the presidential election, resulting in pushback from election integrity advocates.
Read MoreTrump Packs Madison Square Garden in Blue State Push, Unveils New Family-Friendly Tax Break
Rising in the polls and exuding confidence, Republican Donald Trump filled New York City‘s iconic Madison Square Garden with cheering MAGA supporters Sunday night in an historic effort to compete in blue territories and sweep control of the White House and Congress just 10 days from now.
Read MoreTrump Tells Rogan He’ll Use Tariffs to Eliminate Income Tax, Make America ‘Rich’ in Three-Hour Landmark Interview
Former President Donald Trump said he would seek to use tariffs to potentially eliminate the income tax in a lengthy interview with podcaster Joe Rogan released Friday night.
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