In a little less than three months, Donald Trump will be sworn in as president. His chief campaign promise to crack down on undocumented immigrants is top of mind as he prepares to return to office. “There is no price tag,” Trump told NBC News on Thursday, speaking about his …
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President-elect Donald Trump named Susie Wiles, a veteran in Florida politics who has directed his campaign for the last four years, as White House chief of staff. Wiles, who has played one of the most powerful roles in national politics and steered Trump’s operation into victory, will be the first …
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Donald Trump has won the election, and Republicans are now comfortable openly admitting that Project 2025 was the plan all along. The draconian policy package prepared by the Heritage Foundation in preparation for a second Trump administration was so extremist that in the final months of the campaign, the former …
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Vice President Kamala Harris called Donald Trump on Wednesday afternoon to concede and congratulate him on winning the 2024 presidential election. Harris discussed the “importance of a peaceful transfer of power and being a president for all Americans,” according to CNN. Trump declared victory to his supporters in Palm Beach, …
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Republicans won big up and down the ballot in the 2024 election, and so did a key group of supporters: billionaire oligarchs who invested their immense wealth and resources in a red wave. No one, of course, gloated more than Elon Musk, a top surrogate for president-elect Donald Trump and …
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WASHINGTON D.C. — Standing on a stage in front of Frederick Douglass Memorial Hall on the campus of Howard University, her alma mater, Kamala Harris told a courtyard filled with her young supporters she was ending her bid for president. “The outcome of this election is not what we wanted, …
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Mark Robinson, the North Carolina Republican whose extensive history of bigotry was shocking even for a Donald Trump-endorsed politician, lost his gubernatorial race to Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein on Tuesday. Stein led Robinson by nearly 30 points as early results came in on Tuesday, enough for Fox News, NBC …
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Vice President Kamala Harris’ home state of California is on track to reject a ballot measure that would ban forced labor in state prisons. Proposition 6 was an effort to ban slavery by creating voluntary work programs with a focus on rehabilitation. As of Wednesday evening, Proposition 6 was trailing …
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The winning streak has come to an end. For the first time since the Supreme Court ended a federal right to abortion in 2022, voters have rejected a ballot measure seeking to enshrine the right to an abortion in a state constitution — even as a solid majority of Floridians …
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Former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama congratulated Donald Trump and J.D. Vance after their victory, while sending a message of hope and resilience to Americans. “In a country as big and diverse as ours, we won’t always see eye-to-eye on everything. But progress requires us to …
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