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As Donald Trump celebrated his election night win at Mar-a-Lago, you did not have to look far to find those that helped propel him to victory. Mingling among the well-heeled guests were Trump's high-flying female aides who make up his glamorous inner circle. So just who are all the president's women?

A Florida county with the largest Puerto Rican community in the U.S. flipped red for Donald Trump for the first time in two decades. The Trump-Vance ticket received 56.1 percent of the vote in Osceola County, Florida in Tuesday's election. The area just south of Orlando is deeply blue and has a 56 percent Hispanic population with the largest subset being of Puerto Rican descent. Many Democrats thought Trump would underperform with Hispanic voters – especially Puerto Ricans – after a comedian at his Madison Square Garden rally compared the U.S. territory to a 'floating island of garbage.'

Sorry, haven't posted before, only commented so this may not be the way to go about it. I have seen the voting bar chart comparisons from about 2012 to current and also the election result comparisons of Obama, Trump and Biden as to the number of votes, electoral votes, counties won, house seats won, but failed to save a copy of them. If anyone has saved those two comparisons, could they please re-post them to this thread? Thank you!

Hollywood star Michael Douglas has admitted albeit grudgingly that Republicans under President-elect Donald Trump are now the “party of the people” while Democrats are now seen as “elitist.” The Wall Street actor appeared Friday on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, where the episode revolved almost entirely on Trump’s stunning victory over Kamala Harris. Michael Douglas, who is a longtime supporter of Democrat candidates, was clearly upset over Trump’s win.

As Kamala Harris reels in shock from her brutal defeat to Donald Trump, a voter shift has emerged that perhaps stings the Democratic candidate the most. Young Gen Z women, widely considered Harris' safest demographic, turned their backs on the Democrats in droves to support Donald Trump. Exit polling from AP reveals 40 percent of women under 30 voted for Trump - a seven-point jump on 2020. The youngest of them, aged 18 to 24, fled Harris in greater numbers with Trump gaining 11 points on his contest with Joe Biden.

Meghan McCain mercilessly tore into Kari Lake as a 'loser' after projections show her failing in her bid for the U.S. Senate. While the Arizona Senate race has not officially been called, Decision Desk HQ has Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) winning against the Republican candidate. In response, McCain posted to X a meme of Lake at the wheel of a vehicle and the message: 'Get in loser, we're going losering.'

In the northwestern Turkish town of Mudurnu, a peculiar and ghostly sight awaits those who venture a few kilometers south...Imagine stumbling upon a town of hundreds of Disney-inspired mini-palaces, complete with turrets and over-the-top glamorous towers. Burj Al Babas was intended to be a luxurious urban development, boasting 732 French-inspired châteaus.However, economic challenges halted construction at 583 homes, leaving the landscape dotted with abandoned castles that were supposed to redefine opulence in the Middle East...Sarot Group, the ambitious project developer, envisioned a community where Mediterranean climate and European aesthetics converged nestled in a massive valley at the base of Turkey’s...

Just like we witnessed in the 2022 Arizona election, election officials are openly changing the ballot totals remaining to be counted without explanation. In 2022, Democrats swept the state-wide elections despite Republicans having the strongest set of candidates in recent history. Kari Lake was so impressive and polished that she made a name for herself nationally prior to the race. But on election day, Maricopa County officials sent the wrong-sized paper to the precincts, essentially shutting down voting across the metro areas but especially in deep-red districts. Democrats were somehow able to pick up over 50% of the votes that...

Millions of voters who backed Joe Biden in 2020 apparently did not support Vice President Kamala Harris in this year's election. Harris suffered a heavy loss to Donald Trump in the 2024 race, with the Republican on course to win the popular vote and sweep all seven of the key swing states. At the time of writing, with many more votes still to be counted, Harris has 69 million votes, more than 12 million below the 81.2 million votes Biden had in 2020. Trump is currently at 72.6 million, less than 2 million away from the 74.2 million votes the...

In post-election remarks, a remarkably upbeat President Biden took his Party's loss a lot better than many of his fellow Democrats, saying "we accept the choice the country made. You can't love your country only when you win. You can't love your neighbor only when you agree. Something I hope we can do, no matter who you voted for, is to see each other, not as adversaries, but as fellow travelers on the road of life." "Looking at the election returns we see that Vice-President Kamala Harris got 10 million fewer votes than I did," Biden boasted. "There wasn't a...

Following Donald Trump’s landslide victory, shocked commentators echo 2016 concerns, while emerging economic and geopolitical shifts suggest stability under his leadership. What a difference a week makes. Last week, I reiterated the prediction I had been making since at least July: the polls were wrong. Kamala Harris was going to lose, and Donald Trump would win by a landslide. His campaign, I said, would be like George Patton’s Third Army racing across France in 1944. All that elicited a certain amount of scoffing, of varying degrees of politeness, from the commentariat and assorted grumblers. The actual results of the election—the...

Rumors are swirling that Representative Thomas Massie (R., Ky.) is under consideration to be secretary of agriculture in the incoming Trump administration. A committed libertarian such as Massie would be a good person to lead perhaps our most socialistic government department. Trump’s first agriculture secretary, former Georgia governor Sonny Perdue, was a more status quo pick. Massie, or someone like him, would be a positive sign that Trump intends to keep his promise to shake up the federal bureaucracy and reduce the power that Washington, D.C., holds in American life.

The Democratic Party spent a staggering $500 billion on five key Senate races that they ended up losing by massive margins. According to campaign filings obtained by The Daily Caller, Democratic campaigns and associated organizations spent a staggering $495 million on Senate races in Texas, Montana, Ohio, Florida and Missouri, all of which they lost by around four points The most expensive of these five races was in Ohio, where incumbent Senator Sherrod Brown was handily defeat by Trump-backed Republican Bernie Moreno. Around $194 million was allocated to this race, which brown lost by around four points.

After five days of nearly non-stop snowfall, Colorado faced its largest November snowstorm in decades. The snow stopped falling on Saturday after overnight blizzard-like conditions dumped several feet of snow on the mountains and the plains. Sarah Horbacewicz has the latest.

A Minnesota dad who ranted against President-elect Donald Trump online shot and killed his wife, ex-partner, and his two sons before turning the gun on himself, according to authorities. The shooter, 46-year-old Anthony Nephew, had a “pattern of mental health issues,” Duluth Police Chief Mike Ceynowa said on Friday — one day after authorities found five people dead inside two homes in the city. Authorities found Anthony Nephew’s ex-partner Erin Abramson, 47, and their son, Jacob Nephew, 15, dead from apparent gunshot wounds inside their home Thursday afternoon, police said.

Donald Trump's 2024 election victory is fueling claims of fraud on both sides of the political divide. His right-wing supporters claim the outcome vindicates their debunked claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him. To a smaller degree, those on the left are circulating their own baseless claims casting doubt on this year's results. The election denial movement Trump inspired has spent the past four years building an infrastructure and community around false claims that 2020 was rigged. This year, it invested heavily in raising similar alarms that voting would again be compromised — only for those claims to...

During the afternoon of Sunday, at 1:49 p.m. in Chile, a strong earthquake of magnitude 6.8 was registered near the municipality of Bartolomé Masó, in the province of Granma, Cuba. According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), its epicenter was about 40 kilometers south of Bartolomé Masó at a depth of only 12.8 km. Around 12.50 a magnitude 5.9 tremor was felt, with only 14 km deep.

I am now an Arizona State Senator-elect.

President-elect Donald Trump's team has shut down a former adviser's claim that the Trump administration's priority for Ukraine would be on establishing peace and not restoring territory lost to Russia, including Crimea. Bryan Lanza, a Republican strategist who worked on Trump's presidential campaign and is not involved with the transition, said in an interview that the incoming Trump administration would be asking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for a "realistic vision for peace." "If President Zelensky comes to the table and says, well we can only have peace if we have Crimea, he shows to us that he's not serious. Crimea...

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tore into Sen. Bernie Sanders who had derided the Democratic Party and its alleged issues with the working class that ultimately failed to support Vice President Kamala Harris in her bid for the White House. In a scathing letter to his former party a day after the election, Sanders blasted the Dems for “abandoning” the working class and seemingly acting surprised they didn’t show up at the polling booths. “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,”...