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President-elect Donald Trump pulled off an electoral map feat no candidate has achieved in four decades: capturing all seven key swing states that have become pivotal to securing a White House victory. Trump prevailed in Arizona, Nevada, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia and North Carolina — the first presidential candidate of either party to do so since Ronald Reagan’s historic 1984 reelection landslide victory against Walter Mondale, in which the Republican won 49 states. The seven pivotal swing states have vacillated wildly since 2016, when Trump defeated then-opponent Hillary Clinton in all but Nevada.

ALL CASES AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP MUST EITHER BE DROPPED BY PROSECUTORS OR DISMISSED BY THE RELEVANT COURTS For half a century, it has been the position of Democrat and Republican administrations, that the DOJ cannot indict a sitting president. This position has been justified for a myriad of reasons, all of which come down to the fact, that the president is the head of the executive branch, and unelected prosecutors, juries, and judges cannot exercise a power that makes it impossible for a president to carry out his constitutional duties while defending his liberty and reputation in a courtroom. To...

CNN's Jake Tapper was left stunned after preliminary analysis showed that Kamala Harris failed to convincingly outperform Joe Biden across any state. The Vice President not only lost to Donald Trump, but appears to have unperformed across the board compared to Joe Biden in the 2020 election. Analysis by CNN at around 2am (ET) Wednesday revealed that Harris failed to out perform her boss by three percent in any state. The stark statistics prompted shock from Tapper after he was presented with a map illustrating the dismal performance. 'Holy smokes,' Tapper exclaimed. 'Literally nothing?' The analyst went on to explain...

CNN host Jake Tapper was stunned by a shocking exit poll Tuesday showing former President Donald Trump substantially leading Vice President Kamala Harris among independent voters in Georgia. “Independent voters — they make up 31% of the electorate” there, CNN political analyst David Chalian noted, before revealing that Trump is “winning them by 11 points” in the swing state of Georgia. CNN’s exit poll found Trump garnering the support of 54% of the Peach State’s independents, compared to Harris’ 43% backing. Chalian pointed out that in the 2020 election, Joe Biden won Georgia independents by a 9-point margin, indicating a...

I guess you can't fix stupid. Why would anyone vote for a hack, who publicly had a married boyfriend and paid him from taxpayer money? Something's very wrong with that.

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (is that his real name or is it a stage name?) reported Tuesday that bomb threats originating from Russia temporarily disrupted voting at two polling places in Union City. Were these Russian would-be bombers Democrat Russians or Republican Russians or independent Russians? Has Vladimir Putin claimed responsibility as a new front in his war against Volodymyr Zelensky? (This has got to be a stage name. What a clown!) Were excessive amounts of vodka involved? Or is this yet another PR disaster which we can blame on Bud Light?

As American voters head into Election Day 2024, a chorus of polling experts agreed that the presidential race between Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris is neck-and-neck with no clear favorite. Shortly after midnight on Tuesday, statistician Nate Silver unveiled his Silver Bulletin’s final forecast model, showing each major party candidate essentially has a 50% shot of becoming the nation’s 47th president. “We ran 80,000 simulations tonight,” Silver wrote on X (formerly Twitter). “Harris won in 40,012.” Harrris “did not win in 39,988 simulations (49.985%),” Silver and co-author Eli McKown-Dawson explained in their final Silver...

Six months ago, Georgia College and State University celebrated its recent graduate Nicholas Wimbish for managing a voting precinct at the Jones County Senior Center. He had earned an "Election Administration Certificate" through exhaustive polling, voting administrative work and classes on the U.S. Constitution, election laws, policymaking, democracy and Southern politics, the school said. Now Wimbish is facing 25 years in prison for "mailing a bomb threat, conveying false information about a bomb threat, mailing a threatening letter, and making false statements to the FBI" related to his work as a Jones County poll worker, the Justice Department announced Monday....

CHEROKEE COUNTY, Ga. — The wife of a prominent Atlanta attorney accused of killing her husband and burning his body has been found guilty on all counts. A jury convicted Melody Farris in the 2018 death of her husband in Cherokee County. Last week, defense attorneys claimed that there was not enough evidence in this case to convict Melody Farris, but the jury felt otherwise. In 2018, the body of Gary Farris was found in a wooded area behind a house on Purcell Lane. After months of testing, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation determined Farris was killed by a gunshot.

Another huge win in Georgia! The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday reversed a lower court’s decision and blocked Democrat-run Cobb County from counting 3,000 absentee ballots after Election Day. As previously reported, a judge ruled on Friday that Cobb County Georgia voters who received absentee ballots late can accept them until November 8, three days after the election. At least 1,000 of the absentee ballots sent out late last week in Cobb County went to out-of-state voters. The Republican National Committee (RNC) appealed the judge’s decision and the Georgia Supreme Court sided with them and blocked Cobb County from counting...

HUGE LEGAL VICTORY IN GEORGIA! The Georgia Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Republican National Committee and the Georgia Republican Party that no election office can extend voting to accept ballots after Election Day! Thank you to GOP, ChairmanWhatley, LaraLeaTrump, RNCVoteProtect, and our incredible legal team.. .... GOP wins case against deep-blue Cobb County, Georgia, which wanted to accept 3,000 mail-in votes after the Election Day deadline. RNC Chair Whatley: "We just got word that we WON the case. Election Day is Election Day."

Media are openly preparing to slander anything former President Donald Trump says about irregularities in the 2024 election with the asinine smear of “election denial.” But if the 2024 election is anything like the 2020 election, Democrat partisans are trying to tilt the scales in their favor. Demanding that Trump and his supporters renounce all claims that the 2020 election was somehow “rigged” or “stolen” has become a de rigeur “gotcha” tactic for corporate media figures grilling Trump and his supporters. **snip** Rigged Election: The problem is that Trump may not have lost a free and fair election in 2020....

Four Democrat-led counties in Georgia extended the in-person drop-off hours for absentee ballots this weekend. But some local Republican leaders expressed frustration with the abrupt change, telling The Federalist they were never directly informed about the last-minute changes and as a result these drop-off locations were unsupervised by GOP observers for hours. Fulton County announced Friday that “four election offices around Fulton County will be opened throughout the weekend to accommodate voters seeking to hand-return their absentee ballots.” Fulton County Republican Party Chairwoman Stephanie Endres told The Federalist the guidance came from Fulton County Director of Registration and Elections Nadine...

Senator Raphael Warnock (D-GA) said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that this was a “change election,” in which voters want to “turn the page.” Host Kristen Welker said, “Let’s start off by talking about the results of our latest poll. Senator, 66% of voters believe the country is on the wrong track. As you know, historically, incumbent parties don’t win re-election when the number is that high. Do you believe that Vice President Harris should have distanced herself more from President Biden and sooner?”

From Michael Whatley, GOP Chair: Democrat officials in Georgia are playing fast and loose with election law. Fulton, Cobb, DeKalb, and Gwinnett counties decided at the last minute to accept ballots over the weekend — which disregards the law. They have also failed to let our poll observers in to watch the process. The Secretary of State has issued guidance to allow Republican poll watchers in but local officials REFUSE. Our election integrity operation has filed a lawsuit. Georgia voters demand that the state and courts ensure that these reckless counties administer fair, transparent, and secure elections. Anything less undermines...

Update on Georgia — working with the SOS and AG, we have been able to confirm that our observers WILL be allowed in the room while these ballots are being processed. Additionally, in Gwinette County, they have decided to abandon this last-minute, unapproved ballot intake and have shut down completely. BIG victory!

The RNC filed a lawsuit on Saturday after four Georgia counties extended their election office hours and decided to accept absentee ballots over the weekend in violation of state law. Fulton, Cobb, DeKalb and Gwinnett counties are refusing to allow Republican poll watchers in to observe the process, according to the Republican National Committee. “This is a blatant violation of Georgia law . . . which states ‘all drop boxes shall be closed when the advance voting period ends,’” the Georgia Republican Party said in a statement on Friday. “To make matters worse, the four election office locations are situated...

BREAKING: Outrage is ensuing after Fulton County, Georgia is reportedly not allowing poll watchers to observe "special" weekend operations in the deep-blue area. Elections official: "There are NO WATCHERS approved for ballot drop off! Do not let them in."

Released Thursday after being arrested more than two years agoRapper Young Thug is a free man after pleading guilty to gang, drug and gun charges. About two and a half years after he was arrested on the charges in a sprawling gang and racketeering indictment, Young Thug was released from custody Thursday evening. It was a remarkable development in a trial that's dragged on and been plagued by problems. Jury selection at the Fulton County courthouse in Atlanta began in January 2023 and took nearly 10 months. Prosecutors had called dozens of witnesses since opening statements last November in the...

With polls showing Vice President Harris and former President Trump locked in a dead heat as the 2024 race for the White House enters its final hours, the fate of the nation will turn on seven battleground states. These swing states have a combined 93 electoral votes. Some are longtime pillars of the so-called Democratic “blue wall,” which Trump demolished in 2016. Others are staples of the Republican coalition President Biden clawed away in 2020. With no pandemic, there will be fewer mail-in ballots this year — which could yield a winner much sooner than in 2020, when the race...