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President Trump on Friday said he wasn’t expecting Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and Susan Collins (Maine) to vote against his controversial nominee for secretary of Defense, Army veteran and former Fox News host Pete Hegseth. “I was very surprised that Collins and Murkowski would do that,” Trump said. The president also nodded to the yes vote from Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to advance Hegseth’s nomination, saying he is “always a no vote. Was Mitch a no vote? How about Mitch?” McConnell voted to advance Hegseth’s confirmation. “Let’s see what happens,” the president said. The Senate voted largely along party...

Representative Chip Roy (R-TX) said Tuesday on Fox Business Network’s “Varney & Co.” that Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) did not have the votes to keep the position. Roy said, “I remain undecided, as do a number of my colleagues because we saw so many of the failures last year that we are concerned about that might limit or inhibit our ability to advance the president’s agenda.” He continued, “We violated the 72-hour rule twice, which means we didn’t have time to read a bill. We had to have Elon and Vivek and the president and JD come in to kill...

The election is a month in the rear-view mirror, but all the votes have yet to be counted, and Democrats are still picking up seats with mysterious improvements in their ballot counts. It's a mystery wrapped up in an enigma. A sixth grader could get the votes counted in some of these elections in less time than it takes California to tabulate the ballots, and in places like Minnesota we are still finding out about ballots that mysteriously disappeared into trash cans, with the result being that a Democrat flipped a state legislative seat. 20 ballots weren't counted in a...

The presidential election of 2024 was three weeks ago, but as of Tuesday morning, New Jersey has still counted only 91% of the votes that were cast (or something) there. California and Oregon have only gotten around to counting 93%. And so, several times a day, the popular vote totals for Donald Trump and Kamala Harris continue to be adjusted. Trump still has a comfortable lead, but Harris has (surprise, surprise) been steadily narrowing that lead. On what is quaintly still referred to as Election Day, Trump’s popular vote lead was about 4.5 million; now it’s down to 2.4 million...

‘The thing missing was clearly the most important thing.’On Nov. 12, the Fulton County Board of Registration and Election (FCBRE) certified the results of the 2024 election. Except no one knows with certainty if the results were actually accurate because crucial data was withheld, according to a member of the board.President-elect Donald Trump won the Peach State but lost Fulton County to Vice President Kamala Harris by 240,097 votes. The results were then certified on Nov. 12, but board members, who are considered the superintendents of elections, weren’t given access to all the requested election-related documentation, FCBRE member Julie Adams...

Florida has officially certified the 2024 election results, showing President-elect Donald Trump received 1.4 million more votes in the Sunshine State than Vice President Kamala Harris. “While other states are still counting votes, I had the honor of certifying Florida’s elections this morning,” Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis said on Tuesday, sharing a brief video of him signing the documents. “Congrats to @RealDonaldTrump, @SenRickScott, and all of Florida’s newly elected lawmakers!” he exclaimed. According to the final results, the Trump-Vance ticket garnered 56.09 percent of the vote — 13.1 percent higher than Harris-Walz’s 42.99 percent. Trump-Vance received 6,110,125 votes,...

As is inevitable in any losing presidential effort, a lot of the fingers being pointed at Democratic culprits are aimed at the Harris-Walz campaign, with a big negative assist from the former Biden-Harris campaign that was terminated in July. Some critics think Kamala Harris failed sufficiently to “pivot to the center” when the Trump campaign was pounding her as “radical communist”; others believe she erred by failing to go hard-core lefty populist. Still others seem to be certain she should have junked her billion-dollar ad blitz and instead appeared on a few dozen podcasts. The reality is that while the...

Currently at 74,339,5272020 was 74,225,926There are 5 million+ votes still out, large majority of them in CA.

the disparity in the vote tally from 2020 to 2024. Preliminary counts show President-elect Donald Trump with almost as many votes as he got in 2020, against Joe Biden. Trump appears to have 73.3 million votes now; in 2020, he won 74.2 million. But Kamala Harris appears to have won about 12 million fewer votes than Biden did against Trump in 2020. Biden won 81.2 million votes in 2020; Harris so far has 69 million votes. ... the results prove that the 2020 election really was rigged. Harris’ vote total this time, they note, was in line with the totals...

Another day of vote counting in Arizona has added tens of thousands of votes to the tally, but there remain hundreds of thousands of ballots left to count — including nearly half a million in Maricopa County. Officials there are still working their way through advance votes that arrived in October. The races for president and U.S. Senate will remain too early to call for at least another day. 2024 ARIZ. GENERAL PRESIDENT 76% of votes counted CANDIDATE VOTES PCT. Donald Trump GOP 1,385,868 52.5% Kamala Harris DEM 1,230,651 46.6% Chase Oliver LIB 12,316 0.5% Jill Stein GRN 12,198 0.5%...

States with less than 95% of the vote counted at the moment as reported on RCP: California 58% Arizona 65% Utah 66% Washington 66% Alaska 71% Oregon 73% Mississipi 77% Colorado 79% Maryland 82% Hawaii 87% Nevada 90% New Jersey 91% Maine 92% Illinois 92% Connecticut 93% Montana 93% Massachusetts 94% DC 94% New York 94%

NBC News warned that Americans would face a delay in the presidential election results as “Nevada will take a week to count all their votes.” “So, she wins North Carolina, we could be living here in Nevada waiting and waiting and waiting,” NBC News’s Chuck Todd said. “And, if you remember, Nevada will take a week to count all their votes.” Todd added that “more ballots” would come in.

In Pennsylvania, Gov. Josh Shapiro was admonished by a judge for sending uniformed police officers to impede Republicans trying to cast early ballots. GOP State Committeewoman Val Biancaniello asserted that "the police were violating the law by telling these voters to go home." So they arrested her. Her lawyer Linda Kerns said "state law says no voter should be told to go home. If they get in line before the posted closing time, each voter must be permitted to request, fill out, and return their mail ballot." The judge ordered that early voting be extended to 5 pm Friday, November...

Hollywood star Julia Roberts has narrated a new Kamala Harris commercial that is encouraging women to intentionally deceive their Trump-supporting husbands by secretly voting for the Harris-Walz ticket — in effect, canceling out their husbands’ votes. The new commercial shows a white suburban woman voting for Kamala Harris as her Trump-supporting husband — who is portrayed as obnoxious and vaguely sexist — watches from afar. “Remember, what happens in the booth stays in the booth,” Roberts says.

Americans have already cast 30 million votes in the first weeks of early voting, according to the University of Florida’s Election Lab. The number of early votes suggests Americans are highly motivated to cast their ballot before Election Day, which saves the Trump and Harris campaigns time and money. Swing state early voting data, which is more valuable than polling, appears to be benefiting former President Donald Trump thus far. More on Trump’s preliminary lead is here. Republicans took the lead in cumulative early voting in North Carolina and continued to hold it for a couple of days. The lead...

Donald Trump’s campaign has expressed cautious optimism about the Republican nominee’s chances of becoming the 47th president, with early voting numbers indicating the former chief executive is on course to defeat Vice President Kamala Harris. While officials have insisted that “anything can happen” and that it is “too early to declare victory,” the initial returns from key states look better for the 78-year-old than both the 2016 and 2020 elections. “Overall, both nationally and in battleground states, we are seeing strong returns for Republicans so far,” a Trump campaign adviser said on a surrogate call Wednesday. “From where we’re sitting...

Today, we know that in 2020, Joe Biden received all of the military and overseas votes in Fulton County, Georgia. All 900 ballots counted in Fulton County went for Joe Biden. ALL 900 MILITARY BALLOTS IN FULTON COUNTY WENT TO JOE BIDEN! We also know today that the election workers who secretly counted ballots in the State Farm Center late at night on election night were counting the overseas or UOCAVA ballots. In December 2020, Rudy Giuliani and Attorney Jacki Pick told a Georgia Senate committee that 93% of the military ballots in Georgia went for Joe Biden. Although this...

New polling of eight battlegrounds shows Donald Trump on the verge of completing a political comeback the cynics said was impossible after the 2020 election. But he’s not quite there, per the Redfield & Wilton survey of 8,533 likely voters in the octet of battlegrounds, though the state-level data are encouraging. Trump leads by 3 points in Arizona, 49% to 46%. He’s up by 4 in Florida, 49% to 45%. In Georgia, the ex-prez leads 48% to 47%. Nevada shows another 1-point lead: 47% to 46%. And it’s 48% to 45% for Trump in North Carolina. This gets him to...

Michelle Obama's get out the vote organization is attempting to fire up the Democrat base for Kamala Harris just days after husband Barack hit the campaign trail for the vice president. The former first lady, who often stays out of public campaigning, is trying to excite liberals with concerts and other events featuring well-known Democrat supporters through When We All Vote's Party at the Polls program. Each event is in one of the key seven swing states that most experts believe will decide the race between Harris and Donald Trump. Much of When We All Vote's work culminates is a...

“This is going to be huge”, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage predicts as the first results of Britain’s intense night of election results begins. The first seats for Britain’s next Parliament have been declared and while they have all undeniably been Labour stronghold areas that the party was expected to win, one object of surprise has been a repeated story of Nigel Farage’s Reform Party coming in second every time. While there is no escaping Britain’s electoral system, where the number of votes any given party gets nationally very rarely — if ever — is reflected in the actual power...