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The consensus among pollsters is that President-elect Donald Trump's victory in the 2024 election was largely due to voters trusting him more on economic issues. One union leader who campaigned for Vice President Kamala Harris is now weighing in on why he thinks Harris failed to convince voters that she was best suited to oversee the economy.

In a thread posted to X (formerly Twitter), Jimmy Williams — who is general president of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT) — lamented that a second Trump term would be "disastrous for my members." He wrote that he traveled across multiple Rust Belt states lobbying his union's 140,000-plus members to get behind Harris in the months before Election Day, and got a keen understanding of why her message failed to penetrate to blue-collar workers.

The former chair of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission would like to advise former President Donald Trump on which energy regulation employees can be laid off as part of a widespread MAGA restructuring of the civil service, Politico reported Thursday.

“For the @realDonaldTrump transition team - it [sic] you want schedule F insight on who to keep and who to remove @ferc please DM me,” wrote Neil Chatterjee on X.

Election night enthusiasm for former President Donald Trump felt by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) apparently wasn’t shared by other members of his family.

In a moment now going viral on TikTok, Cruz’s 16-year-old daughter can be seen visibly reacting to her conservative father’s praise of the president-elect during his victory speech in Texas on Tuesday night.

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.

A former litigator and justice correspondent at The Nation slammed Democrats on Thursday night who he said seemingly campaigned on the platform that Donald Trump was a threat to democracy — but "don't believe it."

Elie Mystal took to X on Thursday night to weigh in on the election, specifically the "lessons" Democrats must take away from the election.

Democrats were blitzed all around the country by the GOP with ads attacking them on transgender rights. It was a particularly dominant theme in Texas, and the Trump campaign has said it was one of the more effective parts of their final push. This has left some analysts wondering whether Democrats should not so outspokenly advocate for transgender rights going forward.

This is a trap, warned Perry Bacon Jr. in an analysis for The Washington Post — and Democrats should look at the actual data before throwing a vulnerable part of their coalition overboard, at a time they are already facing persecution, threats, and high rates of suicide.

Donald Trump’s first major staff pick as president-elect – tapping his campaign manager to be the next White House chief of staff – apparently came with certain conditions before accepting the high-level job.

Trump announced earlier in the day that Susie Wiles would join the administration as the first-ever female chief of staff in U.S. history. But before agreeing to the role, Wiles expressed to Trump concerns over who he would make himself available to in the Oval Office, CNN reported.

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.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) proclaimed on the far-right Real America's Voice platform Thursday that the results of the election prove she's not an extremist — and that much of America thinks just like her.

This comes amid speculation, and suggestions among Donald Trump allies, that Greene could be given a Cabinet role or some other high-ranking position in the incoming administration.

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.

Donald Trump's reported short-listers to head up the Central Intelligence Agency would be a national security time bomb waiting to happen, former Naval War College professor and anti-Trump conservative commentator Tom Nichols wrote Thursday on X.

Trump is said to have two particular names vying for Trump's nomination to be CIA director: Kash Patel and Ric Grenell.

President-elect Donald Trump has announced his pick for White House chief of staff.

Trump said in a statement that Susie Wiles, who helped propel his campaign to victory over Vice President Kamala Harris, will be the next chief of staff.