President-elect Donald Trump has begun preparing for the Oval Office by naming Susie Wiles as his new White House chief of staff.
The Republicans are expected to retain control of the House, likely handing the GOP a trifecta as they’re set to take back the Senate, possibly handing Trump full control of the levers of power in Washington.
Wiles spearheaded Trump’s successful 2024 campaign and is the first of many appointees who will help to push his agenda, which includes the mass deportation of illegal immigrants, more trade tariffs and extended tax cuts.
The Republican also looks to be on course to win Nevada as he nears the completion of an astonishing clean sweep of the swing states, with only Arizona still to declare.
Trump shared several late-night election victory posts on Truth Social on Thursday – his first since his return to power was confirmed early on Wednesday morning.
The wave of posts included an Electoral College map, newspaper front pages recounting his triumph over Democrat Kamala Harris and a photo of a MAGA cap-clad Trump with the caption: “Get ready for the Golden Age.”
Trump says he has ‘no intention’ of selling shares in Truth Social
Trump took to Truth Social on Friday to say that he has “no intention” of selling shares in his social media company.
“There are fake, untrue, and probably illegal rumors and/or statements made by, perhaps, market manipulators or short sellers, that I am interested in selling shares of Truth,” he wrote. “THOSE RUMORS OR STATEMENTS ARE FALSE. I HAVE NO INTENTION OF SELLING!”
He added: “I hereby request that the people who have set off these fake rumors or statements, and who may have done so in the past, be immediately investigated by the appropriate authorities. Truth is an important part of our historic win, and I deeply believe in it. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
Gustaf Kilander8 November 2024 17:10
Tim Walz’s daughter sends angry message to Trump after father and Harris’ failed election bid
Hope Walz stated America “does not deserve Kamala Harris” as she shared her thoughts on President-elect Donald Trump’s historic win.
In a video posted on TikTok on Thursday (7 November), she said: “That woman should go live her best life wherever she wants, doing whatever she wants, because we don’t deserve her at this point.
“These people have to live in their own skin, as in JD Vance and Donald Trump have to be JD Vance and Donald Trump and that is not a punishment I’d wish upon anybody but those two individuals.”
Lucy Leeson8 November 2024 17:00
Why celebrity endorsements don’t work as Clooney, Taylor, Beyonce and Oprah fail to win it for Harris
A stream of A-listers from Hollywood and the music world all threw their weight behind the Democrat during the bitterly-fought campaign, in the hope that their millions of supporters and followers would move the needle.
But not even the endorsement of Swift seemed to make any difference. Nor did the backing of Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, or Ariana Grande. Harrison Ford warned of the threat to democracy to no avail.
Gustaf Kilander8 November 2024 16:40
Money in politics research nonprofit lays off employees because of financial difficulties
Gustaf Kilander8 November 2024 16:20
Republican lawsuit challenging Philadelphia provisional ballots thrown out
The lawsuit of Republican Pennsylvania Senate candidate Dave McCormick challenging provisional ballots in Philadelphia has been thrown out.
It’s a win for incumbent Democrat Bob Casey as he tries to catch up to McCormick.
The Associated Press has called the race for the Republican but Casey hasn’t conceded while he waits for thousands of ballots to be counted, including military/overseas and contested provisional ballots.
Alex Woodward8 November 2024 16:00
WATCH: Democrats are a ‘smarty-pants, suburban, college-educated party’ says Obama senior adviser
Gustaf Kilander8 November 2024 15:40
He may be capable of random cruelty and stupidity, but Trump is no Nazi dictator
Everybody knows who won. The result clearly and unambiguously represented the will of the American people. Unfortunately, the American people have clearly and unambiguously chosen antagonism. They have voted for their own division. While Trump won the popular vote and the electoral college there is still a large part of the country who is appalled by their choice.
Stephen Marche8 November 2024 15:20
MTG insists Trump victory proves she’s not a fringe extremist: ‘I am ‘mainstream America’
Elected to the House in 2020, Greene has made a name for herself as a conspiracy theorist backing the QAnon movement and farcically claiming that wildfires in California were caused by a “Jewish space laser.”
Gustaf Kilander8 November 2024 15:00
Ann Selzer explains why her very wrong Iowa poll may have helped Trump
The pundit’s much-watched Iowa poll, which showed Kamala Harris heading into Election Day with a surprise three-point lead, was one of numerous 2024 election forecasts that ultimately failed to predict the result.
In a post-mortem on Thursday, Selzer explained how she’s thinking through the discrepancy between what actually happened and what was forecast in the Des Moines Register/Mediacom survey of voting intentions in the Hawkeye State.
Josh Marcus has the story.
Joe Sommerlad8 November 2024 14:40
The Handmaid’s Tale soars 400 places to third on bestseller charts after Trump win
Margaret Atwood’s novel from 1985, recently filmed as a prestige TV series with Elisabeth Moss, presents a near-future dystopian society in which women are reared for the sole purpose of bearing children.
Sales of the book are now reportedly spiking in response to Trump’s election, as copies of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four were said to have done in reaction to his first term.
Joe Sommerlad8 November 2024 14:20