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Trump and Harris square off again — as favorites for Time magazine's Person of the Year

President-elect Donald Trump, fresh off beating Vice President Kamala Harris in the presidential election, is favored to defeat her a second time — in Time Person of the Year.

Editors at Time magazine each year name a person or people who "wielded the most influence in the previous 12 months." Past winners include Elon Musk, climate activist Greta Thunberg, Trump — who won in 2016 — and even Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin.

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Kamala Harris eyes re-run for White House: report

Vice President Kamala Harris is eyeing a potential second attempt at taking the White House, according to a report Monday.

Politico claimed the Democratic nominee who was soundly beaten by President-elect Donald Trump is considering returning to the campaign trail in 2028.

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Bait-and-switch ad campaign carefully planned to trigger potential Harris voters: study

With 25 focus groups and $45 million, political advisors to X owner Elon Musk pitted people against each other to cause a rift in the Democratic party and depress turnout for Vice President Kamala Harris' 2024 campaign, according to a report Friday.

The Washington Post sorted through a social media ad campaign that reporters spotted in Michigan in September. The newspaper uncovered what it called a manipulation effort that resulted in protest votes and pulled down Democratic excitement.

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'Ineffective and hollow': Columnist claims Beyonce endorsement hurt Harris' chances

A political columnist is blaming President-elect Donald Trump's Election Day victory on celebrity endorsements — including Beyoncé's.

Slate editor Hillary Frey on Wednesday issued a condemnation of Vice President Kamala Harris' celebrity endorsements — and took a subtle jab at Beyonce in particular in an off-hand reference to the superstar's nickname.

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'Worst-case scenario': Trump's niece says Democrats are doing her 'uncle's work for him'

At a time when Democrats should be unifying against Donald Trump, some are throwing each other under the bus, according to the former and incoming president's family member.

Mary Trump, Trump's niece and a trained psychologist, supported Vice President Kamala Harris over her own uncle. Now, she's targeting the Democrats who are blaming Harris for the massive loss.

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'Pivotal moment': Democrats offer 'first clues' about role with 'significant consequences'

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.”

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Key gripe Trump aimed at Harris set to get worse with his presidency: experts

During his 2024 campaign, Donald Trump blamed Democrats, the Biden Administration and Vice President Kamala Harris for — among many other things — the high cost of housing.

Inflation was a prominent theme in Trump's campaign, including housing costs.

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'Look in the mirror': Mary Trump unloads on media as she examines why uncle won

President-elect Donald Trump's niece, psychologist Mary Trump, took a hatchet to pundits Monday, broadly blaming Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign loss on an insufficient focus on working-class issues, an idea pushed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), or that she focused too heavily on social justice issues.

If you listen to pundits, wrote Mary Trump in her latest email blast — specifically calling out Morning Joe's Mika Brzezinski and The New York Times' Maureen Dowd — you would be under the impression "Democrats lost touch with the working class because they talked too much about transgender rights. It was Joe Biden’s fault. It was Kamala Harris’ fault. But apparently the bleak permanence of American racism and misogyny, the almost unimpeded rise of fascism, and a system so broken the Republican Party actually nominated, and America elected, an insurrectionist in direct violation of Article 3 of the 14th Amendment had nothing at all to do with the dark turn we’ve taken."

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'Scratching their heads': Trump claims Harris campaign made a 'big mistake'

Donald Trump joined in on the election analysis Sunday by weighing in on how he thinks Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign made a "big mistake."

Trump, who defeated Harris by sweeping all seven battleground states, took to Truth Social over the weekend to offer his perspective on what was the vice president's downfall.

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'Whoa!' CNN conservative stunned over proposal to transfer power to Harris

A former aide to Vice President Kamala Harris got a reaction out of CNN's resident conservative on Sunday morning when he suggested President Joe Biden turn over the reins of power to his old boss before Donald Trump is sworn in again.

During the panel segment at the end of CNN's "State of the Union," host Dana Bash asked ex-Harris communications director Jamal Simmons what to look for now that the election has been settled.

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'Biggest change in our political world': Expert says 'key' election factor being ignored

Most people analyzing the 2024 election results are ignoring a "key factor," a news expert said on Saturday.

Steven Waldman, chair of the Rebuild Local News Coalition, wrote a piece for Politico over the weekend in which he argues that most post-election "post-mortems" are ignoring a "key factor" in how people vote.

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CNN undercuts Trump's 'landslide' boast – and adds a warning

Boasts by Donald Trump and his allies that he was swept back into office in a "landslide" does not hold up under scrutiny based upon an analysis by CNN's Zachary Wolf who also noted that the numbers suggest there are warning signs on the horizon in the 2026 midterms.

In his column, Wolf wrote that the former president may claim he was the recipient of a stunning wave of voters last Tuesday, but recent history reveals he didn't even come close.

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'That last part is just stupid': Michael Steele pours cold water on Dem election fears

As part of the ongoing, and seemingly endless, postmortem on Vice President Kamala Harris' loss to Donald Trump, the co-hosts on MSNBC's "The Weekend" attempted to tackle the finger-point at voting groups for not showing up and questions over running women and people of color for office.

According to co-Host Symone Sanders Townsend, she has spent years working in Democratic politics, "when there were usually, the people at the top were men and they were all white men and then over the course of years it has changed."

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