The Democrats' shellacking at the polls this week has triggered a feisty battle between the ideological wings of the party about what went wrong — and who bears the blame.
Some liberals say the party didn't tack far enough to the left to animate the base. Many centrists say it tacked too far to the left and scared away moderate voters in key battleground states. And Democratic leaders are now faced with the difficulty of working to ease the tensions and ally the feuding factions in order to form a unified front against President-elect Trump as he prepares to enter the White House for his second term. |
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Control of the House has yet to be determined, as a number of critical races remain too close to call, leaving lawmakers — and voters — waiting to see which party will hold the majority next year. The sprint to 218 seats, however, is nearing the final stretch, after a handful of additional races were called in the days following election night. |
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Donald Trump outperformed expectations for his third straight presidential election, which will surely raise more questions about pollsters' ability to gauge where elections stand.
Trump pulled off a sweep of the main battleground states over Vice President Harris in the election Tuesday, and appears set to win the popular vote even as polls showed a neck-and-neck race throughout much of the campaign. He also made considerable inroads in comfortably blue states, losing some of them by smaller margins that Republicans have previously. |
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President-elect Trump is expected to deploy his trademark mix of belligerent threats and friendly relations with some of the world's dictators as he seeks to break up the deepening partnerships between U.S. adversaries China, Russia, Iran and North Korea.
Whether that coheres into an effective policy — given Trump's impulsive approach to global relations and contrasting views among his likely advisers — remains an open question. |
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President-elect Trump took aim at longtime foe California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) over his decision to call a special legislative session next month to "safeguard" the Golden State's policies ahead of Trump's return to the White House in January. "He is using the term 'Trump-Proof' as a way of stopping all of the GREAT things that can be done to 'Make California Great Again,' but I just overwhelmingly won the Election," Trump wrote on Truth Social on Friday. "People are being forced to leave due to his, & other's, INSANE POLICY DECISIONS." |
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President-elect Trump's past moves and rhetoric on student loans are leaving a dismal outlook for advocates who are now focusing their attention on getting President Biden to act quickly on forgiveness before his time is up. Trump has made it clear he will not be continuing the mass student debt relief Biden has given borrowers and may even try to reverse some of the proposals by the current administration. |
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"The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart said President-elect Trump's win this week feels different than when he won in 2016, during his latest podcast episode of "The Weekly Show." "This feels different, because it is a democratic victory," he said on the episode that aired Friday. "I feel like we were prepared for all scenarios and in each one of those scenarios it was, how is Donald Trump going to finagle his way back into the [White House]? How is he going to use undemocratic principles? What measure of intimidation and underhanded [shenanigans] will this man use to worm his way back into the Oval Office? |
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Jon Favreau, a host of the political podcast "Pod Save America," said during Friday's episode that President Biden's internal polling showed that President-elect Trump would win "400 electoral votes." "Then we find out when the Biden campaign becomes the Harris campaign, that the Biden campaign's own internal polling at the time when they were telling us he was the strongest candidate, showed that Donald Trump was going to win 400 electoral votes," Favreau said on the podcast in comments highlighted by Mediaite. |
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Pennsylvania Republican Senate candidate David McCormick filed two lawsuits challenging provisional ballots in Philadelphia, signaling he is prepared to take his fight to the Supreme Court. McCormick declared victory after The Associated Press projected Thursday that he beat incumbent Sen. Bob Casey (D) in the key race. Decision Desk HQ, The Hill's election data partner, has not yet called the race. |
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BY ZACH SCHONFELD AND REBECCA BEITSCH |
The Justice Department on Friday revealed an alleged Iranian plot to kill President-elect Trump during his campaign this fall. A newly unsealed criminal complaint reveals that Farhad Shakeri, 51, who is charged with murder-for-hire, allegedly told FBI agents an Iranian official tasked him in September with assassinating Trump. |
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OPINION | There is little mystery about why Donald Trump won the election this week. After billions of dollars in campaign spending by the two major-party candidates, it mostly came down to the price of a loaf of bread. According to exit polls, two-thirds of voters were unhappy with the economy, and 69 percent voted for Trump. |
OPINION | Having fired Donald Trump in 2020, U.S. voters did an about-face Tuesday and sent him back to the White House. It was a remarkable political rebound, but one that owed as much to the Democratic Party's weakness as it did to Trump's strengths. Despite heavily outspending her opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris carried not one battleground state in failing to reassemble the solid anti-Trump majority of four years ago. She also lagged behind Joe Biden's 2020 performance with key Democratic-leaning groups: young voters, Hispanics, Blacks and even women. |
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BY MARK LANDLER, MATINA STEVIS-GRIDNEFF AND MARC SANTORA
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When Prime Minister Keir Starmer met Donald J. Trump at Trump Tower for dinner on Sept. 26, it was part of a British charm offensive to nurture a relationship between a left-wing leader and a right-wing potential president. So when Mr. Trump turned to Mr. Starmer before parting and told him, "We are friends," according to a person involved in the evening, it did not go unnoticed.
Whether they stay friends is anybody's guess.
For months leading up to Mr. Trump's political comeback — and in the heady days since his victory was confirmed — foreign leaders have rushed, once again, to ingratiate themselves with him. Their emissaries have cultivated people in Mr. Trump's orbit or with think tanks expected to be influential in setting policies for a second Trump administration. |
BY LARA SELIGMAN, NANCY A. YOUSSEF AND GORDON LUBOLD |
A Biden administration push to send billions of dollars of military equipment to Ukraine before it leaves office is facing major logistical hurdles and is raising concern that the transfers will deplete already-stretched U.S. stockpiles, officials said.
The impediments underscore how much Donald Trump's election has disrupted the U.S.-led campaign to aid Ukraine, which has suffered severe battlefield setbacks in its war against Russia and is now grappling with the future of the Western arms pipeline that has enabled it to keep fighting. |
Fed up with high prices and unimpressed with an economy that by just about any measure is a healthy one, Americans demanded change when they voted for president.
They could get it.
President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to topple many of the Biden administration's economic policies. Trump campaigned on promises to impose huge tariffs on foreign goods, slash taxes on individuals and busines |
Vice President Harris grabbed headlines for her campaign's fluent use of TikTok to reach millions of potential voters on social media. But it didn't translate to victory at the polls.
Harris inherited the Democratic nomination just 107 days before the general election, but her campaign seemingly struck gold early on with a few weeks of viral fame on TikTok, the short-form video app that could be banned in the United States as soon as January. Videos referencing Harris's now-famous coconut speech and supercuts of the vice president set to Charli XCX songs flooded the zone, as an online army of professional and amateur creators made content promoting her.
But Harris's early hype and continued success on TikTok didn't tip the scales on Election Day, and strategists on both sides of the aisle want to know why. |
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