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    Victor Davis Hanson: Trump Inherited Biden’s Inflation—and Paid the Political Price
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Sami Winc: [Vice President] JD Vance has come out to state that the defeat of the Republicans was due to—he said the economy…
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    Trump Stands Firm on No Amnesty After Controversial Interview
    President Donald Trump vowed there would be no deal for amnesty in the next two years, a day after he signaled an openness to working with Democrats on the issue. “We have a very strong deportation policy. There is no amnesty,” Trump said at an impromptu White House press conference Monday. Accompanying Trump at the…
    Fred Lucas
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    Victor Davis Hanson: The Collapse of America’s Melting Pot
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal.  I’d like to review some matters of immigration, starting with illegal immigration. No one thought a…
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    EXCLUSIVE: Telework Numbers Collapse After Trump’s In-Office Mandate
    Summary The number of federal employees who telework fell by nearly three-quarters in fiscal 2025, the year President Donald Trump ordered the government back to the office, according to an Office of Personnel Management report sent to Congress on Monday and obtained exclusively by the Daily Signal. The report provides the clearest insight yet into how…
    Reagan Reese
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    Immigration Hawks Warn Trump’s Amnesty Talk Will Unlock Border Catastrophe
    After President Donald Trump said he’d work with Democrats on a deal to give some aliens legal status, conservative immigration hawks fear the move will inspire caravans of border crossers.  “You’re rewarding people for illegally entering,” Todd Bensman, former senior adviser to border czar Tom Homan, told the Daily Signal. “The message that it sends to…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    EXCLUSIVE: How Trump Is Fighting Drug ’10 Times More Potent Than Fentanyl’
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—President Donald Trump’s drug czar says she is working with the Chinese government to keep cychlorphine, a drug “10 times more potent than fentanyl,” off the streets. Cychlorphine has killed an estimated 140 Americans since it entered the United States in 2025, including 53 deaths in Tennessee alone. The actual number…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    GOP Insiders Look Past Trump’s Kingmaking Toward 2028
    A week ago, Vice President JD Vance looked like the probable heir apparent to President Donald Trump. After Tuesday’s midterm losses, some in his party think he’ll have plenty of competition in the upcoming presidential race.   The defeats have shaken the assumption that Trump will be able to hand-pick his successor, according to interviews…
    Reagan Reese
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    Blue Wave Embarrasses Leftist Claiming Trump Would End Elections
    We had a midterm election in which the Democrats and the Left were wildly successful. There is one way in which this makes some of them look either deeply stupid or dishonest. Many of them who rejoice now tried to claim there wouldn’t be any more elections if Donald Trump won in 2024, or that…
    Tim Graham
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    Trump Defiant Amid Concerns AI Tipped Voters Toward Democrats
    President Donald Trump reinforced his support for artificial intelligence Friday, even as polling indicates that concerns about the technology weighed heavily on voters in the midterm elections. “As President, I am 100% in favor of Super Intelligence (SI), and will work with the many States in the U.S. that want to become RICH by having…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Victor Davis Hanson: Trump’s Second Term—the Counterrevolution Explained
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. This video was recorded before Tuesday’s midterm elections. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal. In an earlier video, I talked a little…
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    Scramble for Power Breaks Out on Capitol Hill
    With Republicans headed into the minority in both chambers, candidates for leadership are earnestly making their cases while GOP staffers quietly size them up.  The race opened early Wednesday as House Speaker Mike Johnson told his staff he would not run for minority leader, a source familiar with the decision told the Daily Signal. Within…
    Reagan Reese
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    Trump Says ‘Election Is Over’ in Alaska as Other Races Remain Uncalled
    Two Senate races remained undecided Thursday as lawyers requested ballots be preserved in one race while President Donald Trump demanded the other race be called. In Alaska, Democrat former Rep. Mary Peltola led Republican Sen. Dan S. Sullivan by fewer than 700 votes Thursday morning with 70% of the vote in, according to Decision Desk;…
    Fred Lucas
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    Victor Davis Hanson: What Trump Must Do After the Midterm Losses
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Victor Davis Hanson: I will say something, though, also about the midterms very quickly. Yes, what can he do now and what can…
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    Referendum or Turnout Problem? GOP Insiders Split Over Who’s to Blame for Midterm Losses
    Republicans lost Congress on Tuesday because voters felt the administration and the GOP stopped caring about them, several insiders told the Daily Signal. “This is a middle finger,” one former senior administration official said of the midterm election results. “I think it comes down to affordability and the war, and Americans feeling like the administration…
    Reagan Reese
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    Victor Davis Hanson: America Faces a Radical New Political Reality
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal. I’m speaking late on midterm night, and it looks like this blue wave materialized in the…
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    Gender Madness and the Midterms
    Summary As the saying goes, politics is downstream of culture. But the opposite can also be true. We should keep this in mind when thinking about the path forward in the battle against gender madness. It wasn’t too long ago that Americans were flooded with pronouns in signature lines, rainbow flags outside churches, and a…
    Jennifer Galardi
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    Victor Davis Hanson: Why Midterm Losses Won’t Stop Trump
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. This episode was recorded before Tuesday night’s election results. Jack Fowler: Well, Victor, as much as people are consumed with domestic elections, we…
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    Voters Punish GOP Over Economy, but Democrats May Still Have a Problem, Exit Polls Find
    Summary Voters were more dissatisfied with the state of the economy in 2026 than they were in 2024, according to exit polling. While punishing the party in power was the antidote to that on Tuesday, most voters said they didn’t necessarily trust Democrats to handle key issues more than Republicans, as both parties had low…
    Fred Lucas
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    Why Voters Backed Democrats in Midterm Blowout
    About three-quarters of voters said the Iran war was a crucial factor in which candidate they supported in the 2026 midterm elections, according to an NBC exit poll. Among the 74% of voters who said the Iran war was a crucial factor, 62% voted Democrat and 35% voted Republican. President Donald Trump’s operation in Iran…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Trump’s Explanation for Midterm Blue Wave
    President Donald Trump blamed the candidates and the Iran war for the massive Republican losses in the 2026 midterm elections.  “They didn’t like the candidates, and some of the candidates that I endorsed fought me, and they didn’t like it,” he said in a late-night Fox Business interview. “This MAGA base is incredible, the most…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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