Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) defended his seat in New York’s 17th Congressional District, beating back a challenge from former Rep. Mondaire Jones and keeping Republicans’ hopes of maintaining their slim House majority alive. Lawler defeated Jones with 57% of the vote with 94% ballots counted so far. The Associated Press called the race shortly after […]
WEST PALM BEACH, Florida — The presidential contest between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump was once seen as a coin-toss election, but instead, Trump dominated in several battleground states as Harris floundered. Trump maintained his Electoral College and popular vote lead over Harris after winning three key states, North Carolina, Georgia, […]
Former President Donald Trump celebrated declared victory over Vice President Kamala Harris at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, early Wednesday morning. Read the speech in full below: *** Well, I want to thank you all very much. This is great. These are our friends. We have thousands of friends […]
CNN’s Van Jones claimed supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris are going to sleep “with a nightmare” after Election Day amid her projected loss to Donald Trump. Harris’s campaign announced that she would not speak at her Election Day watch party and instead will wait until Wednesday morning. It comes as the swing states of […]
The Washington Examiner’s Kaylee McGhee White argued the 2024 election offers an opportunity for reflection for the Democratic Party, suggesting it needs to “pay attention” to the voters. White assessed that Trump’s victory in the 2024 election cycle comes after the “third consecutive polling miss” in a presidential election for the former president, and suggested […]
Billionaire Mark Cuban congratulated former President Donald Trump on his victory in the 2024 presidential election, writing that Trump won the contest “fair and square.” Ahead of Election Day, Cuban had campaigned for Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential bid, which she launched after President Joe Biden dropped his reelection bid. Early-Wednesday morning, Pennsylvania was won […]
Voters in South Dakota rejected a proposition to establish a constitutional right to abortion, becoming the second state to vote “no” on an abortion rights referendum following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in 2022. Constitutional Amendment G needed a simple majority to pass, but the vote against the amendment led by […]
Indicted Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) has won an 11th term as congressman for a border district in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, defeating his Republican challenger, Navy veteran Jay Furman. The embattled 10-term lawmaker managed to fight off a GOP candidate to continue representing the South Texas region but could face greater challenges as […]
Voters in Florida rejected a bill on Tuesday that would have legalized recreational marijuana in the state. Florida’s Amendment 3 would have legalized recreational marijuana use in the state for people who were at least 21 years old. It also would have permitted people to have three ounces of the drug in their possession without […]
Californians on Tuesday overwhelmingly voted for Proposition 36, a ballot measure that strengthens penalties for people who have repeatedly been convicted of shoplifting or caught using and dealing hard drugs like fentanyl, a synthetic opioid. The measure also gives judges the authority to order people with multiple drug charges into rehab and undoes some of the changes […]
