2024 Elections

Senate Republicans on Wednesday chose their next majority leader to replace Sen. Mitch McConnell and brought to a close an intense pressure campaign from President-elect Donald Trump's MAGA allies.

Sen. John Thune (R-SD) claimed the powerful position during a closed-door meeting that brought a contentious battle between Trump's supporters and long-standing conservative lawmakers to a close.

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman predicts that Donald Trump will take credit for all of President Joe Biden's economic successes over the past four years — and anticipates that the President-elect's fans have no idea of the damage his policies could cause.

Krugman began a conversation with The New Republic's Greg Sargent by saying that Americans don't understand how essential immigrants are to the U.S. economy.

A swarm of "non-political sycophants" is buzzing around President-elect Donald Trump's Florida resort and they are hoping influencer status will secure them White House responsibilities — and infuriating transition team insiders, according to a new report.

Among them are an influencer who called herself a "QAnon spokesperson," an influencer who called for the executions of former President Barack Obama, and an influencer who called for all press briefings to be held in Palm Beach, Politico reported Wednesday.

Alina Habba, an attorney and adviser to Donald Trump, lashed out at the "family members" of Judge Juan Merchan despite a gag order in the New York hush-money case.

As Trump was speaking in Washington D.C. for the first time since being re-elected, Habba launched an attack on Merchan's family during an appearance on Fox News Wednesday.

John Judis and Ruy Teixeira, two political scientists who have been highly critical of the Democratic Party's shift leftward on cultural issues in recent years, nonetheless think that Republicans may be getting ahead of themselves with a talk of a "political realignment."

While acknowledging President-elect Donald Trump's impressive win in the 2024 race, Judis and Teixeira write in the New York Times that the coalition of voters whom Trump assembled this year may not be as durable in the years ahead.

Russia made an audacious public attempt to blackmail the incoming U.S. president, according to a military expert.

Vladimir Putin and his ministers are already trying to mess with Donald Trump's head when Kremlin intelligence chief Nikolai Patrushev claimed in an interview that Trump had "relied on certain forces" to win a second term in the White House and warned that he had "corresponding obligations" that he was "obliged to fulfill," wrote Slate columnist Fred Kaplan.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough raised questions about Donald Trump's surprising choice for secretary of defense.

The president-elect caught many inside and outside his orbit off guard by tapping the Fox News host, who served in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay with the National Guard, and the "Morning Joe" host questioned the conservative broadcaster's qualifications for the job as civilian leader of the U.S. military.

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The battle over who will lead the Democrats through the incoming Trump administration as the party’s next chair is being described as a "pivotal moment” that will come with “significant consequences," according to a new report.

It will also offer some of the "first clues about how the Democratic Party intends to emerge from the wilderness and regain power in the midterms,” Politico reported Tuesday night, which added that the sometimes little-watched contest “has become an urgent battle for the direction of the party in the aftermath of last week’s election.”