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Two House Democrats have been ousted by their Republican challengers in Pennsylvania, bolstering the GOP’s chances of defending its slim majority as it inches closer to the 218-seat threshold. Republican candidate Ryan Mackenzie defeated three-term incumbent Rep. Susan Wild (D-PA) in Pennsylvania’s 7th Congressional District, securing a big win for Republicans. Mackenzie defeated Wild with 50.7% of the vote with more than 95% of ballots counted so far. The Associated Press called the race at 1:44 p.m. on Thursday. Machu Picchu: Entry Ticket www.getyourguide.com Machu Picchu: Entry Ticket Ad The race quickly became one of the most competitive in the...

The recriminations are flying, as Barack Obama’s and Joe Biden’s forces go to war over who’s more to blame for Democrats’ humiliating defeat Tuesday. So long as the left is pointing fingers, let it direct a big, fat digit at the outfit that played the biggest role in losing it this election: the U.S. media. That isn’t the conventional wisdom, which holds that the press’s naked shilling for Democratic candidates amounts to an in-kind campaign contribution. And no doubt the media’s ceaseless attacks on Donald Trump and Republicans did help round up some undecided voters. Yet the boosterism for Kamala...

Another day of vote counting in Arizona has added tens of thousands of votes to the tally, but there remain hundreds of thousands of ballots left to count — including nearly half a million in Maricopa County. Officials there are still working their way through advance votes that arrived in October. The races for president and U.S. Senate will remain too early to call for at least another day. 2024 ARIZ. GENERAL PRESIDENT 76% of votes counted CANDIDATE VOTES PCT. Donald Trump GOP 1,385,868 52.5% Kamala Harris DEM 1,230,651 46.6% Chase Oliver LIB 12,316 0.5% Jill Stein GRN 12,198 0.5%...

"Democratic strategist says her party has lost ‘common sense’ and the ability to speak to ‘normal people’. by Juliann Ventura 11/07/24 02:41 PM ET Roginsky continued, using the way the party addresses certain groups of voters as examples. “When we are too afraid to say that, ‘Hey, college kids, if you’re trashing a campus of Columbia University because you aren’t happy about some sort of policy and you’re taking over a university and you’re trashing it and preventing other students from learning that that is unacceptable.’ But we’re so worried about alienating one or another cohort in our coalition that...

A fierce ally of President-elect Donald Trump warned Thursday that the new administration will have no patience for New York Attorney General Letitia James if she weaponizes the legal system against the 47th president. “I dare you to try to continue your lawfare against President Trump in his second term,” Mike Davis, the founder of the Article III Project, an advocacy group that pushes for the nominations of conservative judges, said during an appearance on “The Benny Show” podcast. “Listen here, sweetheart,” Davis continued, addressing James. “We’re not messing around this time and we will put your fat a– in...

Current Time 0:02 / Duration 1:24 Newsweek Supreme Court Justice's Security Shooting Raises Eyebrows 0 View on Watch View on Watch Following President-elect Donald Trump's victory, calls have resurfaced for Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to retire to prevent Trump from potentially filling another court vacancy. Sotomayor, who was appointed by President Barack Obama in 2009, is the first Latina and the third woman to serve on the Supreme Court. At 70, she is the oldest Democrat-appointed justice on the Court which has a 6-3 conservative supermajority. In light of Trump winning the 2024 presidential election over Vice President Kamala...

Kamala Harris delivered a concession speech at Howard University in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, several hours after media outlets called her decisive 2024 loss to now-President-Elect Donald Trump. “My heart is full today,” Harris said to her supporters. “Full of gratitude for the trust you have placed in me, full of love for our country, and full of resolve.” “The outcome of this election is not what we wanted,” she said, “not what we fought for, not what we voted for.” “Hear me when I say,” the failed Democratic nominee added, “the light of America’s promise will always burn bright...

Republican Dave McCormick will be the next senator from the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, even as networks refuse to call the race and incumbent Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) refuses to concede. McCormick declared victory Thursday afternoon. “McCormick is up 30,679 votes with more to come, as ruby red Cambria County is still outstanding,” McCormick campaign communications director Elizabeth Gregory said in a statement. “While votes continue to be counted, any way you slice it, Dave McCormick will be the next United States Senator from Pennsylvania.” With more than 95% of the vote in, McCormick had 3,337,473 votes to Casey’s 3,306,240 —...

Republican senators are calling on Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) to concede Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate race to Republican Dave McCormick. McCormick currently leads Casey by 30,679 votes, 3,336,691 to 3,306,012, with 95 percent of the vote reported, the New York Times’ election results show as of 1:07 p.m. Eastern. While the Associated Press has yet to call the race, Republicans led by Senate Minority Whip John Thune (R-SD) are calling on Casey to acknowledge a McCormick victory. “Pennsylvania’s going to come home, Joe,” Thune told CNBC’s Squawk Box on Thursday. “I hope that they will call that soon, they should, and...

Democratic veteran strategist James Carville discussed the results of the 2024 White House race Thursday, calling President-elect Trump’s decisive victory “depressing.” “I have to reevaluate,” Carville said in a video released by Politicon. “I’m sure I’ll come up with something to make me feel good again, but right now, today, it’s hard. I’ll be honest with you.” “And the hardest thing is that I look across this country and tens of millions of people fell for this s‑‑‑, and it’s depressing,” he added. Carville, who served as a senior adviser to former President Clinton, predicted late last month that Vice...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is poised to become the “leader of the resistance” to President-elect Donald Trump as he finishes his second and final term in office, and sets his sights on a possible presidential run in 2028.That’s the view of Republican strategist Rob Stutzman, a former aide to California’s last Republican governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, who endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris.The San Francisco Chronicle reported:“He gets not only a lifeline to his career that was facing a dead end, but he will be able to position himself as the leader of the resistance,” Stutzman said.Harris’ loss means Newsom will...

Failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris admitted on Wednesday that she knew every single attack she launched against President-Elect Donald Trump and his presidency was a bald-faced lie. More than twelve hours after Trump delivered a stunning blow to the regime and swept both the popular vote and Electoral College, Harris took the stage at Howard University to begrudgingly concede. She could have conceded in the wee hours of the morning, but that would have required showing up when it mattered — something she clearly doesn’t do (see her disastrous handling of Afghanistan). But it wasn’t her hollow speech about “unity”...

With Kamala Harris having conceded the election to Donald Trump, and with Trump having won the popular vote, will Democrats stop their assault on Trump and the American people? Not likely. 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...

Harris’s campaign was crippled by her ties to unpopular policies, Biden administration failures, authenticity issues, and a contentious nomination process. 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. The Republicans had made massive gains in voter registrations since 2020, when Trump had lost the Electoral College by only a few thousand strategically placed votes. Republicans began to master the transition to non-Election Day balloting—first engineered by the left in 2020 under the pretext of COVID. They not...

CNN's Scott Jennings reacted to President Donald Trump's election victory early on Wednesday, telling the CNN panel that voters stood up and said "enough."SCOTT JENNINGS, CNN: I'm interpreting the results tonight as the revenge of just the regular old working class American, the anonymous American who has been crushed, insulted, condescended to. They're not garbage. They're not Nazis. They're just regular people who get up and go to work every day and are trying to make a better life for their kids, and they feel like they have been told to just shut up when they have complained about the...

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will find it harder to maneuver in 2025 after Republicans took control of the state House. The GOP win forces the Democrat to negotiate or be relegated to lame-duck status her last two years in Lansing. Republicans entered Tuesday’s election with a 56-54 disadvantage. After controlling the lower chamber for the better part of four decades, they lost the House in 2022. Two years later, they’ve retaken it, winning three of the four races they targeted. ... Our hard-fought victory reaffirms that the people of Michigan want leaders who put them first, uphold the rule of...

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...

A furious former Biden staffer has blamed Kamala Harris and the Democratic party for their electoral loss.MSNBC's Symone Sanders-Townsend appeared on Morning Joe on Wednesday to discuss president-elect Donald Trump's landslide electoral win.The former advisor to president Biden and Harris said ousting Biden from the election was one of the reasons Harris lost the election.'The people that said Joe Biden was the problem… Where's my camera?' Sanders-Townsend said, 'I will just note that it is probably not the best idea that Democrats orchestrated a stab fest, a proverbial stabbing in the front of the sitting president of the United States...

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...

Democrats’ dream of blocking a Republican governing trifecta is dwindling down to a handful of West Coast races, as California’s large cache of still-untallied ballots and its notoriously slow count now take center stage in the national political drama. The party had long seen the nation’s two blue bulwarks — New York and California — as the decisive staging ground for its quest to retake the House majority. In the Empire State, it flipped two GOP-held seats, a rare bright spot in an otherwise nightmarish election night for Democrats. But after Republicans ousted two Pennsylvania Democratic incumbents, the GOP appears...