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On Thursday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY) stated that voters “were looking at the short-term situation of their immediate lives and not looking at the long-term ramifications of what a second Trump administration would do, particularly for them,” and inflation was caused by the pandemic “after Barack Obama gave Donald Trump a good economy.” And “the next president will be inheriting a good economy.”

Travis Kelce ruffled some feathers with his post-presidential election message. Taking to Instagram on Wednesday, the Chiefs tight shared a collage of photos featuring his teammates commemorating Kansas City’s 30-24 win over the Buccaneers in overtime on “Monday Night Football.” “Arrowhead at night 🏟️🔥🔥,” Kelce wrote, including a pair of fire emojis. Some felt Kelce’s post was ill-timed after former president Donald Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris to become the 47th president of the United States in Tuesday’s election. “Trav I love you but pls read the room,” someone wrote in the comments.

A fired worker at a computer repair store shot his former boss in a broad daylight attack on the Upper West Side Thursday – then escaped through subway tunnels and briefly hid under a train, according to sources and local store owners. The irate shooter blasted the 47-year-old victim once in the shoulder and once in the leg at West 69th Street and Columbus Avenue around 9:20 a.m., police said. The two worked together at the nearby Lincoln Business Machines Incorporated, sources said — and the gunman was a remote worker who had been fired shortly before the shooting, several...

A clearly dejected Rosie O’Donnell is pushing for the abolishment of the Electoral College following President-elect Donald Trump’s resounding win over Kamala Harris — neglecting to mention the fact that Trump won both the electoral and popular votes on Tuesday. Rosie O’Donnell — whose long-standing Trump rivalry goes back years, if not decades — posted a TikTok video following Trump’s victory. Suffering from what appeared to be the flu, the former talkshow host was in a somber mood but managed to keep it together until part way through the video, when she called the Electoral College “racist. “And how ’bout...

President Donald Trump has a wicked sense of humor that he's had throughout his life, and that was much in evidence during the campaign. We saw it particularly with two humorous moves in response to his political opponents. After Joe Biden called millions of Trump supporters "garbage," Trump climbed into a garbage truck with an orange vest and had a few things to say about that.

President Joe Biden (D) is working to choke an oil and gas lease sale in Alaska in the final months of his tenure in the White House. On Wednesday, his administration moved to “narrow the scope” of the sale in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the Washington Post reported. The action comes just after former President Donald Trump won a stunning election victory on Tuesday. The Post report noted the president-elect has said he will boost drilling in the area. In 2017, Trump “signed a tax bill mandating at least two lease sales in the refuge’s 1.6 million-acre coastal plain...

On the day after Election Day, comedian and former late-night TV host Jay Leno insisted that the election of Donald Trump on Tuesday was a “great day for democracy.” Appearing Wednesday on the CBS daytime show, The Talk, the 74-year-old star and famed car collector was pleased that the election was “fair and honest.” “The nice thing about this election is, it was fair, it was honest,” the former Tonight Show host said. While insisting he was not really a Trump fan, he added, “but that’s OK, it’s the president of the United States – let’s all get together, thank...

Trump Media & Technology DJT shares were tumbling Thursday. It’s tough to see this particular “Trump trade” lasting now that the U.S. election is over. The Truth Social parent, which trades under the ticker DJT and is majority owned by President-elect Donald Trump, dropped 14% to $31.10. The benchmark S&P 500 SPX rose 0.4%.

San Francisco Mayor London Breed, the first black woman elected to the job, is facing defeat after early returns showed Levi’s heir Daniel Lurie with a commanding lead in the 2024 election. Politico reported: Early returns show her trailing far behind Daniel Lurie, a Levi Strauss heir and nonprofit founder, who far outspent the incumbent using his personal wealth and blamed Breed for the city’s problems with homelessness, brazen theft and drug overdoses. He leads with 56 percent of the vote using the city’s ranked-choice voting system, while Breed has 44 percent. It’s a dismal showing for Breed, a moderate...

The 2024 presidential election may have been Donald Trump’s best yet. While white evangelicals’ strong support for the former president didn’t budge, he made sizable gains among Catholic and Hispanic voters ... 58 percent of Catholics voted for Trump over Harris this time.. In 2016, Trump won 17 percent of Hispanics. By 2020, 32 percent....this year...Trump won 45 percent while Harris won 53 percent. Trump was also able to win among Hispanic men for the first time... White evangelicals’ margin of support for Trump stayed at 81 percent, exit polls found.... White evangelicals supported George W. Bush in 2004 by...

Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign fell $20 million in debt during the final week of her campaign, according to several sources. Christopher Cadelago, the California bureau chief for Politico wrote in a post on X that Harris’s campaign had “ended with at least $20 million in debt,” according to two sources familiar with the situation. “Harris raised over $1 billion and had $118 million in the bank as of Oct. 16,” Cadelago added in his post. https://x.com/ccadelago/status/1854342667251187795 A Kamala campaign staffer confirmed to Breitbart News that the reports that Harris’s campaign was “$20 million” in debt “is real,” adding that...

In the wake of Donald Trump’s remarkable victory, Vivek Ramaswamy, a rising star in the Republican Party, has provided a compelling reason for his success: the former President is “an American badass.” In a recent statement, Ramaswamy celebrated Trump’s triumph, explaining that while many in the media misjudged the 45th President, his resilience and self-belief were key to his comeback. Trump isn’t an ideologue or a policy wonk,” Ramaswamy said. “He’s an American badass. They tried to disqualify him, imprison him, and even kill him twice – none of it worked. They underestimated him, and by extension, they underestimated the...

Barack and Michelle Obama blamed Donald Trump’s historic victory on the pandemic and the economy in a statement released Wednesday. The pandemic hit early in the final year of Trump’s presidency, but the Biden Department of Health and Human Services declared the emergency’s end on May 11, 2023 – long after most Americans had returned to normal life. “America has been through a lot over the last few years — from a historic pandemic and price hikes resulting from the pandemic, to rapid change and the feeling a lot of folks have that, no matter how hard they work, treading...

He feels berned by the Dems. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) unleashed a blistering takedown of the Democratic Party in the wake of its dramatic spate of losses on Election Day. “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,” the Democratic socialist said in a fiery statement on X. “First, it was the white working class, and now it is Latino and Black workers as well. While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And...

US stocks surged to record highs on Wednesday as investors digested Donald Trump's victory in the US presidential election over Kamala Harris. The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 3.5%, or about 1,500 points to close at a record and post its best day since 2022. The benchmark S&P 500 moved up roughly 2.5% to surpass the 5,900 level, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite rose about 2.9%, also clinching a new record. Outside of the presidential election, Republicans have also flipped the Senate. Control of the House of Representatives remains unclear (and likely will for days or weeks). Trump's policies had...

Terry Bradshaw's family hasn't been shy about where it stands politically. The legendary NFL quarterback has made it clear where he stands politically over the years. Bradshaw, 76, grew up in Louisiana and starred in the NFL for the Pittsburgh Steelers, winning four Super Bowls. The Hall of Fame quarterback now works for FOX as an NFL analyst on the pregame and postgame shows. Bradshaw, who has been taking heat for his performances this season, doesn't seem to have any plans on retiring. Bradshaw, meanwhile, has made it clear that he considers himself to be an independent voter. However, his...

San Francisco 49ers defensive end Nick Bosa made waves two weeks ago when he crashed teammate Brock Purdy's postgame interview on Sunday Night Football wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat. Asked by reporters after the game if he wanted to discuss his endorsement of Donald Trump, Bosa declined. The 2022 NFL Defensive Player of the Year could still possibly face a fine from the league for violating its policy against making political statements, but when approached by reporters today following Trump's election victory Tuesday, Bosa was not sweating that possibility. “It was well worth it," Bosa said about potentially...

It may take a while for analysts to fully quantify the factors that led to Donald Trump being elected the 47th President of the United States on Tuesday. But former All-Pro quarterback Boomer Esiason believes that one person was the "biggest" factor to his win. An "X-factor" if you will. On Wednesday's edition of Boomer & Gio, Esiason stated that the "biggest mover" that Trump had in the entire election was Elon Musk due to Musk's ownership of X and aggressive use of the platform to magnify Trump's messaging. While Esiason wouldn't make a judgment whether the information was accurate...

Jacob Rostovsky, the CEO of the local non-profit Queer Works, has been indicted on 53 felony counts in a fraud scheme surrounding a universal basic income pilot program in Palm Springs, the Riverside County District Attorney's office announced. District Attorney Mike Hestrin said a jury returned a 53-count indictment against Rostovsky on Tuesday. Rostovsky, 33, was indicted on a variety of charges including fraudulent claims, grand theft, misappropriation of public funds, insurance fraud, perjury, and money laundering, according to the DA's office. The indictment includes an aggravated white-collar crime enhancement due to the significant economic loss of the scheme. Rostovsky...

Hundreds of people in Miami took to the iconic Calle Ocho, the heart of Little Havana, to celebrate former President and now President-elect Donald Trump’s victory on Tuesday night, waving American and Cuban flags and dancing in the streets. The former president is the projected winner of the 2024 presidential race, and he defeated Vice President Kamala Harris with a significant victory in the state of Florida. Trump reportedly won nearly 55 percent of the vote in Florida, according to counts at press time. Local media reported that Trump is the first Republican to win Miami-Dade County since 1988, leaning...