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The message being sent to Democratic Party leadership in the hours after voters propelled Donald Trump to a second White House term has been clear, a political reporter said on CNN: “Burn it all down.”

The bleak message to party leaders soul-searching after Tuesday night’s bruising defeat came Friday evening during a discussion on CNN’s “The Situation Room” revolving around Nancy Pelosi’s statement in which she blamed Biden for not bowing out of the race sooner.

A man has been arrested for threatening Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL), Politico reported Friday.

“I am deeply worried about Congressional member security and the significant lack thereof when we are in the district,” wrote Moskowitz in a social media post disclosing the incident. “Regardless of our political affiliations or differences, we all have families we want to keep safe.”

Three firebrand Republican senators will chair major committees when the chamber returns in January, according to a report.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) will chair the chamber's Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, CNN reported. He's already the ranking member of that committee.

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace welcomed foreign policy experts on her Friday show to discuss the future of international relations in the era of Donald Trump. Among the comments was that Trump doesn't even know what a "strongman" is.

She showed a clip of Trump talking about some of the authoritarian leaders he admires.

Former President Donald Trump proclaimed Friday that he has "no intention of selling" his shares in Truth Social, the online platform he created as a Twitter clone, and any rumors to the contrary are "false." Much like his former hotel in Washington, D.C. that he owned going into his first presidential term, this poses enormous corruption issues for his second, New York Times reporter Russ Buettner told CNN's Jake Tapper.

The problem, Buettner said, is Trump once again has a private backchannel through which anyone wanting to curry favor with him can spend money — and it's even more blatant this time, he added, because the entire business as it exists doesn't seem to have any legitimate purpose.

Donald Trump's critics on both the left and the right were hoping that Election Night 2024 would bring a repudiation of the former president.

Instead, Trump's detractors — from Democratic strategist James Carville to author Mary Trump (his niece) to conservative attorney George Conway — were horrified when Trump enjoyed a decisive victory over Vice President Kamala Harris despite awaiting sentencing on 34 criminal charges and promising to rule like an autocrat if given a second term.

According to investigations director Miranda Green at Floodlights News, if there's one thing that the right does exceptionally well, it's disseminating misinformation, disinformation, and propaganda.

The Metric network of a "pink-slime news operation" delivered far-right-framed information while lifting up "the voices of right-leaning think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and SBA Pro-Life," she said.

Much finger-pointing and theorizing has exploded among both pundits and within the Democratic Party following Vice President Kamala Harris' failure to win the 2024 presidential election — but there's one aspect that's hardly been mentioned, and yet everyone has at the back of their mind, wrote Alexandra Petri for The Washington Post.

In a blistering, satirical column, she outlined an issue that has become a real problem for Democrats: the constant, inescapable string of text messages and emails from the Harris campaign and associated PACs begging for money but saying nothing worthwhile. It's something even running mate Tim Walz joked about in his campaign farewell speech on Friday.

One of Donald Trump's oldest allies is warning him about MAGA charlatans who will try to infiltrate his administration.

Writing on his website, Roger Stone sent a message to those building out the new Trump administration to be mindful of those who were quick to abandon him — and throw him under the bus.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz followed the path of Vice President Kamala Harris in delivering an impassioned concession speech Friday, where he acknowledged the Democratic tickets’ bruising election night defeat while injecting his own brand of humor that he became known for on the campaign trail.

“I don’t know about you, but I’ve had a week,” Walz said as he opened his first public remarks since it became clear Donald Trump would return to the White House. "It's good to be home," he told the crowd in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

The Pentagon is bracing for "major upheaval" ahead of President-elect Donald Trump's second term, according to CNN, with officials already holding informal talks about how the Defense Department will respond if Trump orders it to deploy active-duty military troops on his own citizens and makes good on promises to boot large swaths of workers.

Trump insinuated during his campaign he could use the military as a law enforcement mechanism to carry out his plan for mass deportations, and that he would replace government workers with loyalists.

A member of Donald Trump's inner circle has set up a site to crowdsource MAGA on who President Donald Trump should appoint to his next Cabinet, Mother Jones reported on Friday.

Ally Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been central to building the site, according to the report.

Vice President Kamala Harris tried to buck up the spirits of dejected staffers in a post-election call this week — but it left many angry and even further disillusioned.

Axios reported the call with team members came after Harris delivered a powerful concession speech Wednesday, emphasizing her commitment to the peaceful transition of power in contrast to the January 6 plot four years previously.