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A new book claims that Kamala Harris was stunned by her loss on election night 2024. She actually expected to win the race. Like many people on the left, she apparently believed the faulty polling that suggested she was ahead of Trump. Of course, we all know how that worked out in the end. It’s fun to imagine the reaction from people in her inner circle when it became obvious that Trump was running away with the win. FOX News reports: Harris was ‘completely shocked’ by defeat, believed she could’ve won with more time, author says

Democrats are acutely aware of their political problems.On Sunday, for example, Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado told Kristen Welker on “Meet the Press”:The Democratic Party has lost touch with working people in our country, at a time when 50 years of trickle-down economics has meant that most Americans feel like, no matter how hard they work, their kids are not going to live a life better than the life they led.The Democratic Party brand, Bennet continued,is really problematic. And I think that it is a brand, with all respect to my colleague from California, that is associated with New York...

Top aides to former President Joe Biden warned donors that replacing him atop the ticket with his handpicked vice president would be a big “mistake,” according to excerpts of a forthcoming book previewed Thursday by The Guardian. Excerpts published from the book, “Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House,” show Biden aides and allies “aggressively” advised top Democrat donors to not jettison the then-president in favor of then-Vice President Kamala Harris as Biden fought for his political survival in the summer of 2024. The book, written by NBC News’ Jonathan Allen and The Hill’s Amie Parnes, catalogues behind-the-scenes...

Leftist groups that are suing to block President Donald Trump from fulfilling his promises to the American people can’t take the idea that the administration refuses to roll over and play dead. Twenty-two leftist pressure groups—sorry, “civil rights organizations”—released a statement warning that Trump’s “dangerous assault on the legal profession and the rule of law” represents a threat to “the viability of our democracy.” That’s rich. It’s particularly rich coming from the side that got lawyers disbarred and prosecuted for merely representing their clients in challenging the results of the 2020 presidential election. (Oh, did you think we’d just forget...

CPH:DOX, the internationally-renowned nonfiction film festival in Copenhagen, is confronting a dramatically altered geopolitical order, one that threatens the values of freedom of expression upon which the documentary field is founded. The theme of this year's festival, decided several months ago, centers on "the state of human rights, civil liberties, and the international rule of law," festival artistic director Niklas Engstrøm tells Deadline. "We thought it would be very, very timely. I think it became even more timely than we had prepared ourselves for with what is happening right now with the U.S. [Trump] administration de facto trying to change...

Ezra Klein suggested that Democratic assumptions about youth support have proven 'completely false' amid President Donald Trump's return to power New York Times columnist Ezra Klein spoke with a Democratic pollster Tuesday about how the dream of an ascendant Democratic majority is imploding as younger voters, especially White men, flee the party. Klein interviewed David Shor, the head of data science at Blue Rose Research, a Democratic polling firm, for his podcast in an episode titled "Democrats Need to Face Why Trump Won." When Klein and Shor reviewed numerous charts, including one headlined, "2024 Democratic Support by Age – Split...