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Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) said he wishes someone could have told President Trump “how math works” before touting his administration’s successes 11 months into his second term at the White House. “Somebody must have showed him some, like, abysmal poll numbers and said, ‘You better get out there in front of the American people and explain to them why these poll numbers shouldn’t be in the toilet,'” Kelly said late Wednesday on “The Briefing with Jen Psaki” on MS NOW, formerly MSNBC. “So, and then — and then I wish somebody would tell him how math works,” Kelly continued. “You...

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 just under 68 million votes, more than 13 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...

President Joe Biden appeared in high spirits as he addressed the nation following President-elect Trump’s landslide victory. “We accept the choice the country made,” Biden said Thursday in the Rose Garden. “I’ve said many times 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, to see each other, not as adversaries,” he continued. Biden also encouraged Americans to bring down the temperature of rhetoric. In the final weeks of the campaign, Harris called Trump a threat to democracy and...