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The writing was on the wall for Trump’s landslide victory in the 2024 election well before Tuesday night, how is it then, so many people wound up surprised? How could so many people wind up shocked when the most likely outcome, and what had been the most likely outcome for the entire election cycle, came to pass on Tuesday? How could so many people, honestly believe that Harris, or any democrat, had any prayer at victory in the 2024 election? The indicators were all agains the democrats this cycle from the beginning. The Biden/Harris administration has been, by any objective...

Rosen takes lead after major overnight Clark mail dump, seems on way to victory pending remaining mail. Nye will help Brown, but probably not enough to win. Gabby Birenbaum @birenbomb · 2h 🚨Clark mail dump overnight of 48,084 votes🚨 Rosen netted 14,887 votes, beating Brown by an over two-to-one margin in this dump (Rosen +31) and taking the lead

Australia’s ambassador to the US has deleted comments he had previously made online about Donald Trump, criticising him as “destructive” and a “traitor to the West”. Kevin Rudd, a former prime minister, said his remarks did not reflect the view of the government and he was “looking forward” to working with the president-elect. Dr Rudd, who scrubbed his social media days before Mr Trump’s election victory, wanted to “eliminate the possibility of such comments being misconstrued,” his office said. The ambassador became the latest in a list of high-profile figures to distance themselves from disparaging remarks made about Mr Trump...

Exit poll results showed 79% of Jewish voters backing Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday, compared with 21% who said they’d voted for the Republican, former President Donald Trump. More responses are still being added to the poll, which was conducted by a consortium of national media outlets, and the results could change. If the current split holds, it would represent yet another election cycle in which Republican claims that Jews would flock to their candidate because of Israel or antisemitism did not pan out.Edison Research, which conducts the poll for the consortium, surveyed voters in 10 states: Arizona,...

Former Democratic Senator turned MSNBC political analyst Claire McCaskill twice wiped away tears while reacting live on-air to Kamala Harris' concession speech Wednesday. "I'm so proud," McCaskill said, her voice breaking, when asked for her thoughts by host Nicolle Wallace during Deadline: White House. Composing herself, she continues: "I'm so proud of her. I don't think people realize how hard it is to get to where she was. As a woman, getting elected DA, it's not easy guys." McCaskill, who represented Missouri from 2007 to 2019, outlined her admiration for Harris's political career and that the vice president had been...

A white woman was filmed being arrested for a hate crime after she allegedly assaulted two Hispanic women for supporting Donald Trump. The 82-year-old woman, who has not been named, was arrested on Tuesday in suburban Seattle after she allegedly approached MAGA voters Gina Powell and Mary Jennings to ask them why they would support Trump, given the color of their skin. 'I approached her, and I said I want to know why you're voting for Trump. That's the only thing. And. And I said because you're brown-skinned,' the octogenarian told police, according to KOMO News. The woman has not...

Donald Trump's dominant victory in this week's US presidential election has left politicians, captains of industry and military chiefs the world over scrambling to calibrate their approaches ahead of his return to office. -snip- A recent Wall Street Journal report citing three sources 'close to the president-elect' claimed that Trump's transition office is considering one proposal that would prevent Kyiv from joining NATO for at least 20 years in exchange for lucrative arms deals. In the meantime, the conflict would be halted by the implementation of a large demilitarised zone (DMZ) that would effectively freeze the fighting in place and...

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...

The movie The Fall of Minneapolis clearly shows that Floyd George overdosed, probably on fentanyl, on his own responsibility. Officer Chavin was wrongly convicted. Anyone watching the movie at https://www.thefallofminneapolis.com/ can clearly see the truth, that Derek Chauvin did not murder Floyd George. Officer Chauvin was stabbed 22 times in prison. President Trump, please pardon Officer Derek Chauvin as one of your first official acts.

Jimmy Kimmel got choked up during the opening monologue of his late-night show, telling his audience it was "terrible" that Donald Trump beat Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election. The comedian came out onstage Wednesday evening for "Jimmy Kimmel Live" one day after Trump beat Harris at the polls, delivering a somber speech that nearly made Jimmy cry. Jimmy said it was a "terrible night for women, for children, for hundreds of thousands of hard-working immigrants," briefly pausing to fight back tears. He went on to say it was a terrible night for poor people, seniors, the middle class,...

STILLWATER, Okla. - Oklahoma State head coach Mike Gundy apologized after he sharply criticized fans during his weekly press conference. He posted on social media on election night saying that was not his intent, but the situation has been the talk of campus all week. Students on campus said the comments are disappointing, especially because expectations for this season were so high. Oklahoma State junior Zachary Berger covers the football team for the student-produced O'Colly TV. He said this season has been one to forget for the Pokes and the recent comments made by Gundy are discouraging. "You feel like...

Former White House press secretary turned MSNBC host Jen Psaki went on an unhinged tirade about former President Donald Trump when he defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election. After MSBC called the race for Trump, Psaki said, “For so many of you watching right now, that news is, to say the least, a lot to digest; I understand that personally.” That’s not all. “After he lost four years ago, he refused to accept the outcome and incited a violent insurrection in our nation’s capital. He’s campaigned while facing criminal indictments related to his efforts to overturn the...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Dozens of Russian drones targeted Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, in an eight-hour nighttime attack, authorities said Thursday as Russia kept up its relentless pounding of Ukraine after almost 1,000 days of war. Lone Russian drones and also swarms of drones entered Ukrainian airspace from various directions and at a variety of altitudes, officials said, in what was an apparent attempt to stretch air defense systems and unnerve city residents. Ukrainian air defenses “neutralized” three dozen drones, but falling debris caused damage to a hospital as well as residential and office buildings in Kyiv, local authorities said....

A majority of Latino men, big gains among Asian voters and black men — and a lot more members of Gen Z. That’s how Donald Trump built a diverse coalition that propelled the former president to an electoral blowout on Tuesday — adding nearly 9 million more votes than he won in 2016. Vice President Kamala Harris’s loss was marked by her campaign hemorrhaging long-held Democratic support from groups that have been stalwart Democratic supporters for generations, according to exit polls by Edison Research. *** Veteran pollster Henry Olsen told The Post that under Trump’s leadership the GOP had been...

Cops are warning residents in rural South Carolina to shut their doors and windows after at least 43 monkeys escaped from a bio-research lab. The rhesus macaques slipped out of an Alpha Genesis facility in Yemassee — which is just off I-95 in the south of the state — on Wednesday night. “We want to assure the community that there is no health risk associated with these animals,” the Yemassee Police Department said. Residents are being told not to approach the loose monkeys and instead call 911 and report the sighting. It’s unclear how the primates managed to break out.

Potential Trump AG Mike Davis made a horrifyingly violent threat to take revenge. Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/POOL ============================================================== Potential Trump cabinet appointees are trying to get into the president-elect’s good graces in disturbing ways. Mike Davis, a right-wing activist considered a leading candidate for Trump’s attorney general, on Wednesday threatened to (legally) “drag their dead political bodies through the streets” and burn them, referring to enemies of Trump and the right. ============================================================= The violent threat came after Davis appeared to blame Democrats for the assassination attempts on Trump. Davis, a former clerk for Justice Neil Gorsuch who calls himself “Trump’s...

No hometown glory here. Democratic vice presidential candidate Gov. Tim Walz didn’t just lose the overall election to Donald Trump — he even lost his home county to him, too. President-elect Trump’s overwhelmingly win saw him net 49.6% of the vote in Minnesota’s Blue Earth County, where Walz’s family lived for 20 years before he was elected governor. Walz’s running mate, Vice President Kamala Harris, fell short with about 48.3% of the vote. That is a reversal from 2020, when now-President Biden handily won the county with 51% of the vote to Trump’s 46.5%, according to POLITICO. Walz was born...

VIDEOThe DNC must be DEMANDING a refund from their INEFFECTIVE paid shill Harry J. Sisson right about now. The apple cheeked paid DNC shill Sisson only succeeded in ALIENATING male voters with his antics such as dancing around in a motel room like a prancing idiot with a fellow paid DNC shill who should also be forced to make a refund to the DNC. To make matters worse, paid DNC shill Sisson shortly after announcing the DEFEAT of Kamala made a complete shmuck of himself by going out in the street and alienating MAGA supporters as you can see in...

How did this happen? That’s the question every Democrat should be asking today....... Instead, talk to people who voted for Trump. We haven’t done nearly enough of that. Instead, we have too often assumed that Trump voters are racist, sexist, transphobic or just stupid. I mean, what else could bring someone to vote for him? That’s what we need to find out. But if our opening gambit is that they’re morally or cognitively warped, we never will. When Trump won the first time, in 2016, I organized a conversation between students at the University of Pennsylvania — where I teach...

Nearly two years ago, I wrote that Democratic prosecutors’ lawfare campaign against Donald Trump would make the 2024 election the single largest jury decision in history. Now that the verdict is in, the question is whether prosecutors will continue their unrelenting campaign against the president-elect and his companies. The answer is that it may not matter. The election reflected a certain gag sensation for a public fed a relentless diet of panic and identity politics for eight years. The 2024 election will come to be viewed as one of the biggest political and cultural shifts in our history. It was...