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'Thank you George Clooney': Trump win spurs scorn for movie star who demanded Biden quit

Democratic voters would like a quick word with movie star George Clooney.

Clooney, the movie star whose New York Times editorial heralded the ouster of President Joe Biden from the 2024 presidential race, was the subject of some frustration after former President Donald Trump secured the nation's highest office.

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Kamala Harris campaign rejected offer to spend millions to mobilize Black voters: report

Kamala Harris' campaign rejected an offer in late summer to mobilize undecided Black voters in key swing states, according to a post-election report.

The Congressional Black Caucus pitched the $10 million plan in September to persuade and turn out Black voters, a demographic that Donald Trump made significant improvements with on the way to winning a second term as president, and two sources familiar with the matter told Politico the proposal was rejected.

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'At least Kari Lake lost': Leaders rush to offer motivation amid election anxiety

As Americans wake up to a new world with another Donald Trump administration on the horizon, there is a lot of fear, anxiety, blame, and rage percolating through social media. Between those, however, are some small victories, compassion and motivation for those who desperately need it.

When Trump allegedly attempted to bribe Ukraine, Alexander Vindman was one of those who purportedly heard it on the call. He became one of the people who was willing to come forward and sound the alarm about that incident. As a result, he was sent out of the National Security Council back to the Army. Despite not being involved, Vindman's twin brother, Eugene, was also shoved out.

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'That is wrong': MSNBC's Joe Scarborough cuts off panelist who was disparaging Harris

A rare dispute between MSNBC "Morning Joe" regulars broke out on MSNBC on Wednesday morning as co-host Joe Scarborough loudly cut off branding expert Donnie Deutsch when he attempted to claim Vice President Kamala Harris didn't connect with voters.

As part of the autopsy of the failed campaign to keep convicted felon Donald Trump out of the White House, Deutsch claimed of Harris, "I think in the most simplistic advertising format of all time: problem, solution. I think the other thing that happened is what I will just call the passion quadrant. This is, I'm talking mostly centrists, this is where the Democrats are really fractured."

"There were so many people that were passionately for Trump and passionately against Trump," he continued. "I'm talking about the voters that go back between Biden and Trump and Obama and Reagan. Then you had passionate against Trump and you didn't have as much passion for her. You never heard people go, 'Oh, I love her. it just ––."

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"Hold on, I have to stop you there, because that is wrong," Scarborough exclaimed

"Okay, then I'm wrong, Deutsch backtracked.

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'This is why Harris lost': Ex-right-wing media insider pinpoints Democrats' fatal mistake

Matthew Sheffield, a former right-wing media insider, believes that Democrats have been making a massive mistake when it comes to waging information wars.

Writing on X, formerly Twitter, Sheffield explains that the Democrats have flat-out failed to create a media ecosystem that functions in the same way that right-wing media does by creating what he describes as a "partisan ecosystem" whose sole goal is to constantly reinforce negative partisanship among voters.

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'How crazy that sounds!': Shouting erupts on CNN as Trump surrogate makes demand of Harris

Trump surrogate Scott Jennings on Wednesday demanded that Vice President Kamala Harris retract her accusation that former President Donald Trump is a "fascist."

Given that Harris is likely to concede defeat to the former president later on Wednesday, Jennings thought that she should take time to say that she really didn't mean to call Trump a fascist.

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'Not just misogyny from white men': MSNBC's Morning Joe slams voters who rejected Harris

The morning after Donald Trump won a historic second term as president despite being a convicted felon and found guilty of sexual assault and defamation, MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Rev. Al Sharpton teamed up to blast non-white male voters who voted against Vice President Kamala Harris.

As part of the postmortem of the election, Scarborough was quick to note polls that showed the VP did poorly with white men –– as was expected –– but also with voters who were expected to fall in behind her but voted for the former president instead.

"Kamala Harris is a woman of color in an interracial marriage running as a woman to be the head of state," Sharpton began. "That is something a lot of Americans are not ready to deal with. How we move that forward, we need to face it and deal with it and I hope we do it in a way that shows that we will be more mature than when they lost [in 2020]. There will be no January 6 insurrection from our side. It must be the maturing of America."

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"I will just say, Rev, really quickly, too, Democrats need to be mature and they need to be honest," host Scarborough interjected. "And they need to say, yes, there is misogyny but it's not just misogyny from white me. It's misogyny from Hispanic men."

"Right," Sharpton agreed.

"It's misogyny from Black men, things we have all been talking about, who do not want a woman leading them. Might be race issues with Hispanics, they don't want a Black woman as president of the United States. You know, the Democratic party, I've always found when you're sitting around talking, they love to just sort of balkanize everybody into separate groups, and say, 'Oh, white people don't like women and Black people.' No. We've talked about this before: a lot of Hispanic voters have problems with Black candidates."

"And with other Hispanics!" Sharpton exclaimed. "You've got some that don't like each other. And some of the most misogynist things I heard going the get out the vote tour came from Black men. So you're absolutely right, it's not simplistic and we have to have real honest conversations about it."

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'I'm gonna finish my sentence': CNN panelists clash over Trump's appeal to Black men

Former Democratic lawmaker Bakari Sellers and GOP operative Shermichael Singleton clashed on CNN over the Republican Party's efforts to win over Black men voters.

The conservative Singleton credited the GOP's outreach efforts for Donald Trump's election win, saying Republicans promised to "put men back to work," but Sellers disagreed.

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'A lot of people believed that': Dem lawmaker singles out how Trump sealed the deal

As part of the post-mortem following Donald Trump's victory over Vice President Kamala Harris to become the 47th president of the United States, one Democrat appeared on MSNBC early Wednesday morning to point to what he believes helped the former president return to the Oval Office.

Sitting down with MSNBC host Jen Psaki, Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX), the lawmaker was asked, "You're the only person sitting here who's run for office and won. All this data, all these exit polls, all the margins surprising and disappointing to some, what are your big takeaways on what we know so far?"

"I think Trump helped that along, right?" he replied. "If he has a superpower, it's marketing. In every single speech over the last few years, he would say we had the greatest economy, we had the greatest economy and I think a lot of people really believed that in the end."

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"And they remember those times more fondly probably than they were, right, and compared that to high inflation over the last couple of years," he added. "So there's that. It's an extraordinary comeback, I don't know if we can I call it the greatest American comeback."

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Joe Biden blamed for Donald Trump's re-election win

Joe Biden is ultimately to blame for Donald Trump's election win, according to an analysis.

The president who defeated Trump in 2020 should have stepped down after one term, according to Daily Beast special correspondent Michael Daly, rather than attempt to run for re-election at 81 years old.

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Lauren Boebert raises eyebrows with comment pushing to secure Trump's 'third term'

GOP U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, who won a House seat on Tuesday in a Colorado district to which she moved halfway through her term, called on fellow Republicans to "rally behind President Trump to secure his third term."

Boebert sailed to victory alongside Trump, who was removed from office in 2020 but elected again after defeating Vice President Kamala Harris.

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Donald Trump reelected as president of the U.S.

Donald Trump has become the first convicted felon to be elected U.S. president, according to CNN which called the 2024 presidential election early Wednesday morning.

Trump, the Republican nominee who faced four historic criminal indictments in the fallout from his first administration, defeated former prosecutor Vice President Kamala Harris, according to predictions from Decision Desk HQ and CNN.

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'I don't know how that happened': Senior Dems saw writing on wall in Pennsylvania

Senior Pennsylvania Democrats had all but given up on Vice President Kamala Harris winning the state hours before it was called for Donald Trump Wednesday.

“We're getting beat in a lot of places,” Philadelphia Democratic Party Chair Bob Brady exclusively told Raw Story. “We may make it up to the Biden margins, but I don't know whether that'd be enough to win the state.”

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