2024 Elections

President-elect Donald Trump's imminent ascent to the White House is already making it more difficult for Americans to buy homes, an economic analyst says.

Home loan interest rates have seen a steep uptick to a 6.8 percent average for 30-year fixed mortgages as the bonds market prepares for Trump's economic policies, CNN business reporter Matt Egan said Thursday.

Donald Trump's Truth Social platform may have its future as a viable — yet money-losing — site impacted now that the former president is headed back to the Oval Office, according to an analyst.

The media forum where he has regaled his hardcore MAGA fans since he was booted from Twitter after the Jan. 6 insurrection has little reason to continue existing now that he will have the White House bully pulpit from which to address the nation, make bold announcements and attack his enemies, according to Alex Kirshner of Slate.

Wisconsin Senate candidate Eric Hovde is still refusing to concede his loss to Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and blaming a third-party candidate for siphoning off the votes he needed to win.

America First candidate Thomas Leager netted almost the exact vote total as the Hovde's loss margin, and the Republican accused Democrats of propping up the former gun rights lobbyist's long-shot campaign, reported NOTUS.

President-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly vowed to pardon the violent criminals who attacked the United States Capitol on his behalf on January 6th, 2021, and Bloomberg reports that this is causing real concern among many legal experts about the safety of various people involved in their trials.

Louis Manzo, a former Justice Department lawyer who helped prosecute members of the Oath Keepers militia, tells Bloomberg that he is worried about pardoned MAGA rioters posing what Bloomberg describes as "immediate fears for safety" of judges, lawyers, and witnesses who put them behind bars.

Violent rhetoric from a right-wing lawyer who could be the nation's next attorney general represents the most terrifying sign that President-elect Donald Trump's administration could deliver a fatal blow to democracy, a former federal prosecutor said Thursday.

Former U.S. Attorney Harry Litman told MSNBC host Ana Cabrera he was deeply concerned by Mike Davis' X comments suggesting he wanted to prosecute special counsel Jack Smith and, with unspecified opponents, "to drag their dead political bodies through the streets, burn them, and throw them off the wall."

A Republican strategist expressed concern about some of the names floated as candidates for top jobs in the next Donald Trump administration.

Elon Musk has suggested himself to oversee a newly created Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, an allusion to the circa 2013 meme, to cut $2 trillion from the federal budget, and Trump has mused about putting vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in charge of public health, and GOP strategist Doug Heye told CNN he was hopeful that the president elect would make better choices.

During an appearance on MSNBC more than 24 hours after Donald Trump was declared the winner of the 2024 presidential election, Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) stated Democrats would work with the president-elect on any legitimate proposals but added it is hard to take the convicted ex-president seriously.

Speaking with host Ana Navarro, the Californian was asked, "Did voters hand Trump and the Republican party a sweeping mandate?"

"Well, I respect the will of the people certainly," he replied. "I'm not going to respect the will of a weasel in Donald Trump; somebody who doesn't understand these same voters don't want government-mandated abortions. They don't want a sweep-up and round-up of anyone who looks like an immigrant in this country. They don't want us to walk away from our obligation to defend Ukraine."

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"There's a lot we can work on together on if he wants to be serious, if he wants to have security at the border and address the workforce crisis," he continued. "With immigration you'll find more Democrats than not who want to be there with him."

He then warned, "If he wants to carry out grievances against his political enemies, he's looking at the tallest fence in the post right now as to the effort that will fence in any of his corruption or political grievance campaigns."

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If former President Donald Trump mastered the "art of the deal," then the wealthy buddies about to enter the White House with him have mastered the art of speaking power to truth, a Washington Post analyst argues.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Elon Musk earned dark praise from Philip Bump on Thursday for convincing a swath of American people that efforts to combat dangerous misinformation represent an attack on the First Amendment.