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

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Donald Trump praises ‘ice maiden’ Susie Wiles after historic election win

Donald Trump has officially clinched Arizona, the final state to be called in the 2024 election, handing the Republican a clean sweep of all seven swing states.

The result brings Trump’s final electoral vote total to 312, compared to Kamala Harris’s 226.

Trump earlier announced that two of his former cabinet members – former UN ambassador Nikki Haley and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo – would not be invited to serve in his administration this time around.

Trump announced the decision on Truth Social on Saturday evening, days after announcing that Susie Wiles, his campaign manager, would serve as chief of staff.

With results still coming in from the election, control of the House is still up for grabs, but Republicans already reclaimed control of the Senate.

Three Senate Republicans are vying to replace Mitch McConnell as the chamber’s leader: John Cornyn, John Thune, and Rick Scott. The election will be held November 13.

Earlier Saturday, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre announced President Joe Biden and Trump would meet at the White House this week, setting in motion transition plans between the administrations of the two longstanding political enemies.

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The f-word is having a heyday around the US election. This lexicographer has researched it for decades

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:

F*** – it’s a new book about the f-word

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

Mike Bedigan10 November 2024 16:00

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‘No one cares’: Trump accusers feel his election win will prevent assault victims from coming forward

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:

Mike Bedigan10 November 2024 15:30

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Watch: Labour ‘unlikely’ to accept Farage’s ‘interlocutor’ Trump offer, says treasury secretary

Labour ‘unlikely’ to accept Farage’s ‘interlocutor’ Trump offer, says treasury secretary

Mike Bedigan10 November 2024 15:00

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The right-wing organization in Trump’s ear replacing the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025

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:

The right-wing agenda replacing Project 2025

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

Mike Bedigan10 November 2024 14:30

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Ella Emhoff shares emotional response to stepmom Kamala Harris’s election loss: ‘What. A. Week.’

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.

Kaleigh Werner 10 November 2024 14:00

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Susie Wiles’s demands for accepting top Trump White House role revealed

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.

Mike Bedigan10 November 2024 13:00

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Democrats and Republicans consider pushing older justices to retire

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.

Ariana Baio10 November 2024 12:00

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Black people across the US are receiving racist texts

Black people across the US are receiving racist texts

Ariana Baio10 November 2024 11:00

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The five most shocking results from the election

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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Eric Garcia10 November 2024 10:00

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Lady Gaga’s dad says their relationship has been ‘dicey’ since he ‘came out as a Republican’

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.

Kaleigh Werner10 November 2024 08:00

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