Election 2024 live: Trump wins Arizona to complete clean sweep of swing states

Long-time favorite four-letter-word ‘f***’ has crept more steadily in recent decades into media, society, slang and even politics.

As many Americans (and global citizens) exclaimed it around the US presidential race and results, a new edition of lexicographer Jesse Sheidlower’s The F-Word has been published. He shares some ‘f****ing’ factoids with Sheila Flynn:

In 2016, one day after the emergence of the infamous Access Hollywood tape, Donald Trump declared: “Nobody has more respect for women than I do. Nobody.”

The shock revelation followed a string of more than a dozen women accusing him of sexual misconduct.

Such things didn’t deter voters then. And they didn’t deter them again in 2024. Kelly Rissman has more:

Implementing loyalists to executive branch positions, forcing local and state law enforcement agencies to comply with mass deportation and taking a confrontational approach to relations with China are all policies promoted by the America First Policy Institute, a right-wing think tank with influence over Donald Trump.

Ariana Baio breaks it down:

Ella Emhoff has shared her emotional response to stepmom Kamala Harris’s loss to Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential race.

The vice president’s 25-year-old stepdaughter was seen to be visibly distraught on November 6 as she watched her stepmom take the stage to deliver her concession speech at Howard University.

Like many others seen among the sea of Harris supporters, Emhoff was photographed crying at the side of the stage.

Two days later, the fashion mogul expressed her emotional exhaustion on her Substack “Soft Pins,” recounting all the feelings she had gone through since the election results were announced.

“Ooof… What. A. Week,” she started.

“I feel like we all need this extra this week. I know we are all feeling a lot of emotions right now. That’s normal, and it would be weird if we weren’t. I know I’ve gone through about 10 cycles of sadness, rage, and stress—and that was just this morning,” Emhoff continued.

Susie Wiles, the newly appointed chief of staff to the second Trump White House, reportedly made a series of demands before she would accept the high-profile role in the president-elect’s upcoming administration.

Wiles, 66, described by Trump himself as the “ice maiden” and considered to be one of the most significant influences on his third campaign, was appointed to the top job on Thursday.

Historically, the Chief of Staff is the first appointee named by the president-elect and is charged with overseeing all policy and day-to-day White House affairs.

But, according to a source close to both Wiles and Trump, the former campaign manager had sought assurances from the president-elect prior to taking the role.

The source said that Wiles wanted confirmation that she would have more authority than her predecessors in controlling access to the Oval Office, before accepting the job.

With President Joe Biden on the way out and President-elect Donald Trump about to take office, both Republicans and Democrats are considering whether or not they should push for Supreme Court justices to retire to benefit their parties.

Biden has a little more than two months before he leaves office, prompting Democrats to wonder if they should increase pressure on Justice Sonia Sotomayor, 70, to retire, according to Politico.

In the meantime, Republicans are already thinking about who could replace Justice Clarence Thomas, 76, and Justice Samuel Alito, 74, when Trump takes office, the National Review reported.

The 2024 presidential election completely upended many people’s expectations. After Democrats booted Joe Biden from the top of their ticket to put Kamala Harris in place, she lost all seven of the major battleground states.

And now, as Republicans plan to drag Democrats’ “political dead bodies through the streets and burn them,” and Democrats deal with a reckoning, a few trends have emerged that continue to baffle some onlookers.

Here are five major shocks of the 2024 presidential election — and why they might have happened.

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Joe Germanotta, Lady Gaga’s father, declared his new political stance in 2020 when he endorsed Donald Trump for president.

At the time, the “Poker Face” singer, whose real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, was very vocal about her support of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.

“I came out as a Republican on FOX & Friends, ever since then, you know, it’s been a little dicey at home,” he confessed on November 6. “But you know, (we’ll) get past it.”

Germanotta admitted he thinks of himself as an “open-minded Republican” who actively supports the LGBTQ community.

“People need to understand that even though I’m a Republican and I have Republican conservative attitudes, that doesn’t mean I don’t support the LGBTQ community, or drag as a form of artistry,” he said before noting how drag artists perform at his Manhattan restaurant, Joanne Trattoria, every week.