Several celebrities who once endorsed and stumped for Vice President Kamala Harris reacted to the news that she’d lost Tuesday’s election. Harris underperformed President Joe Biden’s turnout from 2020 in every county nationwide. This came as a shock to the celebrities who encouraged their fans to vote for the vice president. Some of these stars […]
While the battle for the House is expected to carry on for days as all ballots are counted, Republicans are poised to sweep a majority of the eight Democratic-controlled districts won by President-elect Donald Trump in 2020. As of Wednesday afternoon, only three of those seats have been called. Several of the eight Trump-won districts […]
Michigan’s open Senate seat will stay in Democratic hands after Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) defeated Republican Mike Rogers in one of the most competitive races of the 2024 cycle. Slotkin won by a thin margin, securing 48.6% of the vote compared to Rogers’s 48.3%, according to the Associated Press. Her victory, called Wednesday afternoon, continues […]
U.S. Border Patrol agents reacted ecstatically to news that President-elect Donald Trump will return to the White House after defeating Vice President Kamala Harris. “We have hope. We can take care of our country and our citizens. Do what we took an oath to do. Bring pride back to our agency,” a senior Border Patrol agent in Texas […]
(The Center Square) – Republicans in the Wisconsin legislature will have fewer votes, but they will stay in control in the new year. Democrats flipped two Senate seats in Tuesday’s election. Republican Joan Ballweg lost in her newly redrawn district in central Wisconsin, and Republican Duey Stroebel lost in his new district in the WOW […]
(The Center Square) – A half-cent sales tax for the transportation funding in Maricopa County seems likely to pass. Proposition 479 is leading with 60.18% of the vote, compared with 39.82% voting against the ballot measure as of Wednesday afternoon. When looking more closely, over 730,000 people have backed the proposition so far, but there […]
(The Center Square) – Third District Congressman Rep. Derrick Van Orden defeated Rebecca Cooke in a race that was called late Wednesday morning by multiple outlets. Van Orden, the Republican incumbent, had 51.35% of the vote with 211,696 to Cooke’s 48.65% with 200,556 votes in the district that includes Eau Claire and areas south of […]
(The Center Square) – A church in the mountains of eastern Tennessee is rebuilding after Hurricane Helene’s flood waters ripped away parts of the building. The main sanctuary is mostly intact. Recovery, now in the sixth week, remains a journey. Volunteers had to dig out Riverview Baptist Church in Erwin and fully gut the building […]
(The Center Square) – With the state’s notoriously cold winter just around the corner, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has joined a group of governors now demanding that grid operator PJM Interconnection take steps to address its record-high electricity rates. Pritzker recently joined Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore […]
Black voters in battleground states such as Wisconsin did not turn out in droves for Vice President Kamala Harris, as Democrats had hoped, but instead helped President-elect Donald Trump clinch a second White House term. The key voting bloc was needed to secure a win for Harris in a race in which polls in every swing […]
