Mark Mitchell, the self-taught pollster for Rasmussen Reports, has a little but revealing secret to tell about his mysterious business. “It’s not rocket science,” said the Wharton School graduate and retired nuclear Navy officer who just completed his first presidential cycle with the best Election Day record in the industry. Mitchell is an outlier in […]
Three lawyers who have played key roles in defending President-elect Donald Trump and his allies in the criminal investigations against them are reportedly under consideration for his White House counsel. Attorneys David Warrington, the general counsel for the Trump campaign, Stanley Woodward, a defense lawyer who has defended many Trump allies in court, and Mike […]
The scramble to join the new Trump administration is on. Several of those who worked in the 45th administration are planning to return to the 47th, most in different roles. Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is said to be angling for defense but is facing questions about his record of achievements and support for […]
In October, weeks before the 2024 election, the word was out: Vice President Kamala Harris had fundraised north of $1 billion. The haul, the New York Times reported upon breaking the news, was historic because of the short period of time, just three months, that it flooded in. It was ultimately no use. On Tuesday, […]
Gas prices across the nation dropped on Friday, with the national average price for regular gas falling to $3.099 per gallon. After several days of increases at the pumps, Friday’s price was a larger than 2-cent decrease from a week ago, when a gallon of regular gas was $3.122. Overall, gas prices have trended downward […]
As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to assume office, the clock has started for his choice to name the next attorney general. The role of the next attorney general under the 47th president will significantly influence the administration’s legal direction and his relationship with the Department of Justice, an agency under President Joe Biden that has […]
In the early morning after the Nov. 5 presidential election, off-hours trading of futures contracts tied to American stock exchanges surged. They did so largely on the news that Donald Trump, the United States’s 45th president, would also be its 47th. That news started an expected rally on Wall Street as well, during normal trading […]
Once again, world events predicted a Donald Trump White House win. In 2016, the United Kingdom’s Brexit vote for the nation to exit the European Union was a harbinger of populist national attitudes espoused by Trump and embraced by many Americans. Trump that year won the presidency in his first bid for public office by […]
In the days leading up to the 2024 presidential election, Democrats were worried that Donald Trump would declare victory prematurely based on early returns. “We are sadly ready if he does, and if we know that he is actually manipulating the press and attempting to manipulate the consensus of the American people … we are […]
On the campaign trail, President-elect Donald Trump promised wholesale change for the nation. It will begin even before his Jan. 20 inauguration with complete turnover in Ohio’s Senate delegation. Republican Sen.-elect Bernie Moreno on Nov. 5 beat Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), a populist liberal icon. Brown was first elected to the Senate in 2006 after […]
