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Several private prison stocks have been skyrocketing since Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election. Trump has vowed mass deportations, and his campaign spokesperson on Wednesday said "millions" would be deported on day one.

"One HUGE winner from Trump's win: Private prison companies GEO Group Inc. and CoreCivic Inc.," observed Bloomberg News reporter Steven Dennis on Wednesday. "Their stocks, which could benefit from Trump's plans for rounding up millions of immigrants, rocketed higher today 41% and 29% respectively."

A stand-up comedian clashed with a Republican strategist Thursday night in a heated debate on CNN over the Biden administration's handling of Abbey Gate in Afghanistan.

Comedian Pete Dominick blasted a clip of Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA), a veteran, saying the Biden administration was "out of touch with America."

Kamala Harris squandered the many chances she had on the campaign trail to distance herself from the unpopular incumbent president who she replaced on the Democratic ticket, and that calculation likely contributed to her bruising election night loss, a Washington Post columnist said Thursday.

“I think we will be litigating this and relitigating this for many years to come,” Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell told CNN’s Abby Phillip Thursday during an appearance on “NewsNight.”

Much of the post-election analysis centers on what Democrats might have done better in messaging, organizing, or holding onto blocs of voters that seemed to splinter away.

A less-discussed issue Democrats need to look hard at, wrote Matt Bai for The Washington Post, is how dependent the party has become on Washington, D.C. for its talent pool.

Donald Trump's outspoken ally and pillow-peddler Mike Lindell vowed to root out election fraud following the Nov. 5 election, even after Trump won what Lindell called "the greatest election in history."

Lindell — no stranger to conspiracy theories, including that the 2020 election was fraught with fraud — told fellow Trump ally Steve Bannon that even though the country saw the "greatest election in history" on Nov. 5, there's more work to do in the "next few years here to get our country back."

A Democratic congressman's surprise that the Latino vote failed to overwhelming support Vice President Kamala Harris and instead helped propel former President Donald Trump to a second term spurred a CNN host to question how he got it “so wrong.”

The moment came Thursday, two days after voters sent Trump back to the White House, when CNN’s Jake Tapper grilled Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) on his early predictions that Harris would win the critical voting bloc with large support.

One of Donald Trump's responses to special counsel Robert Mueller's appointment to investigate the Russian involvement in the 2016 election was to lash out at those he perceived as enemies against him.

One example was ordering an invasive IRS audit for former FBI officials Andrew McCabe and Jim Comey. Several lawyers on the Mueller team were also investigated and forced to fund their own costly legal defense funds.

Part of the post-mortem conversation about the 2024 election surrounds slippage in Latino men voting to support Democratic candidates. At least one Republican strategist told CNN this gives the party the mandate to start delivering on promises made by Donald Trump, even if that means deporting their families.

"When you look at the mandate and the sheer numbers, it is going to be [about] doing what you said you're going to do, which is let's focus on the economy and getting some of these ridiculous regulations peeled back. Let's focus on the extenders that are going to expire, so we can have an agenda and focus on immigration," said Machalagh Carr, former chief of staff to ex-Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).

Fox News' senior White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich hammered press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre about messaging from Democrats over the past several months that America would suffer if Donald Trump were reelected.

"This administration messaged to millions of Americans that they're going to wake up the day after the election if Trump won and have their rights stripped away, that democracy would crumble and the president today said we're going to be okay," said Heinrich.

Criminal defense attorney Eric Faddis told NewsNation he was surprised to see former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani holding a press conference just minutes after appearing in federal court for failing to turn over his valuables to two former Georgia election workers.

After appearing in federal court on Thursday, Giuliani ranted that Hunter Biden was connected to the defamation case brought by Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea "Shaye" Moss. A judge has ordered the former mayor to turn over much of his property to the women after he failed to pay the $148 million judgment.

CNN's Jim Acosta confronted Republican National Hispanic Assembly Vice Chair Luis Figueroa on Thursday about President-elect Donald Trump's plans for mass deportation.

During a panel discussion about Trump significantly increasing support from Latino voters in 2024, Acosta asked Figeuroa about past mass deportation programs that swept up both undocumented immigrants and American citizens.

Donald Trump is set to be sentenced in New York on Nov. 26, and legal analysts wonder how Judge Juan Merchan will proceed.

Just a few weeks ago, one group of legal experts on the "Jack" podcast suggested that Merchan could issue a jail sentence but suspend it until Trump leaves office.