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    Leftist Protests Aside, Polls Show Americans Support Trump Cabinet Picks, Transition
    The leftist media are describing President-elect Donald Trump’s second-term Cabinet picks and transition as a “fascist” onslaught, but the American people disagree. That’s according to a number of new polls from a range of ideological vantage points. From liberal-leaning Morning Consult (its operations director, for example, was a Hillary Rodham Clinton 2016 staffer and 2020…
    Carrie Sheffield
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    In Linda McMahon, Trump Makes Strong Pick for Education Secretary
    Various polls show a majority of Americans support President-elect Donald Trump in his Cabinet picks and transition back to the White House.  One strong choice for the Cabinet is Linda McMahon, nominated by Trump for secretary of the Department of Education.  Although McMahon rose to prominence in the world of pro wrestling as cofounder of…
    Carrie Sheffield
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    How a Trump Nominee Protected Consciences of Pro-Life Doctors, Organizations
    President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is the reason the government doesn’t give money to entities that discriminate against pro-life health care providers. In 2005, then-Rep. David Weldon, R-Fla., first proposed the Weldon Amendment, which prohibits Department of Health and Human Services funds from going to entities…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Jack Smith Drops Trump Election Case
    Special counsel Jack Smith filed a motion Monday in D.C. District Court to drop the Jan. 6 case against President-elect Donald Trump with Judge Tanya Chutkan.  “As a result of the election held on November 5, 2024, the defendant, Donald J. Trump, will be inaugurated as President on January 20, 2025,” Smith’s motion said. “It…
    Fred Lucas
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    This Trump Pick Can Silently Strangle the Deep State
    The Office of Management and Budget is a less well-known entity within the executive branch, but few are as critical for ensuring the implementation of the president’s agenda. President-elect Donald Trump has once again placed that awesome responsibility in Russ Vought’s hands. The previous Trump OMB director will return to the White House, where he…
    Bradley Devlin
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    How Trump Can Bring Peace, Stabilize Middle East
    Earlier this month, after almost four years of the Biden-Harris administration’s weakness, Americans voted overwhelmingly for the return of former President Donald Trump’s determined leadership. Nowhere is that leadership needed more than in the Middle East, where the aftershocks of Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel continue to reverberate—not only in the region but here at home. Trump left office in…
    Victoria Coates
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    Pro-Trump Influencers Are Disrupting Political Media
    President-elect Donald Trump‘s victory in the 2024 presidential election proved that a candidate could win without catering to the legacy media. In the weeks before Election Day, Trump shunned CBS News’ “60 Minutes” and other corporate media outlets in favor of modern-day influencers like Joe Rogan, Theo Von, and Logan Paul. Megyn Kelly, whose show…
    Robert B. Bluey
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    Democrats: Trump = Hitler? Never Mind!
    “No one has ever been as dangerous to this country as Donald Trump,” retired Army Gen. Mark A. Milley told Bob Woodward. The former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff appears in the legendary Washington Post associate editor’s new book "War," released on Oct. 15. Milley described Trump as “fascist to the core” and added: “Now I realize he’s a total fascist. He is the most dangerous person…
    Deroy Murdock
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    The Trump Counterrevolution Is a Return to Sanity
    We are witnessing a historic counterrevolution after President Donald Trump’s victory, far different from his first election in 2016. The orthodox and the supposed scripted future are now suspect. And they are likely to be dethroned—from the trivial to the existential. Critics claim Trump has no mandate to stage such a counterrevolution. They argue that…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Trump Approval Rating Tops 50%, Thanks to Younger Voters, Hispanics 
    Over half of registered voters approve of how President-elect Donald Trump is doing, with Hispanic and younger voters driving his increased popularity, according to a new poll.   Of the 52% who approve of Trump, 31% said they “strongly approve” and 21% said they “somewhat approve,” according to the survey commissioned by Napolitan News Service. …
    Ann Moreno
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    Study: Christian Voters Responsible for Trump Victory
    In the wake of President-elect Donald Trump’s historic electoral victory earlier this month, media pundits and talking heads have focused on his significant gains among traditionally Democratic voting blocs, such as young voters and both black and Hispanic men. But a new study is suggesting that it was Christian voters who were the decisive factor…
    S.A. McCarthy
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    How Trump Reverses the Destruction Biden’s Pro-Illegal Immigration Ideologues Wrought: The BorderLine
    President-elect Donald Trump is now picking his Cabinet and appointing key executive officers. Nowhere will these picks be more important than in keeping his promise to the American people to secure the border and reestablish the rule of law in immigration matters. Many Americans have heard of Alexander the Great, the Macedonian warrior-king who conquered…
    Simon Hankinson
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    BREAKING: Trump Names Another Attorney General After Matt Gaetz’s Withdrawal
    President-elect Donald Trump wasted little time in naming another attorney general Thursday after former Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida withdrew his nomination earlier in the day. Trump nominated Pam Bondi, a former Florida attorney general and prosecutor for nearly 20 years. “I am proud to announce former Attorney General of the Great State of Florida,…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    EXCLUSIVE: Nonprofit Laid Out Road Map for Prosecuting Trump Supporters, and Arizona’s AG Seems to Have Followed It
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A nonprofit drafted a plan to prosecute backers of Donald Trump under Arizona law nearly a year before the state’s Democrat attorney general secured 18 indictments related to Trump’s 2020 campaign. One of the nonprofit’s founders is a former Obama White House staffer who authored books targeting Trump. The organization, the…
    Fred Lucas
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    Lesson of Pennsylvania: Biden 2020 Was the Fluke, Not Trump in 2016
    President-elect Donald Trump’s win two weeks ago in Pennsylvania was always right in front of you if you were objectively listening to the concerns of the people and the data showing the most important, but misread trend of all: The Republican Party had now become the party of work. In interview after interview, waitresses, welders,…
    Salena Zito
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    Trump Responds to Laken Riley Murder Conviction
    Jose Antonio Ibarra has been found guilty of murdering Georgia nursing student Laken Riley. Ibarra, 26, is an illegal alien from Venezuela. He waived his right to a jury, leaving his fate in the hands of Superior Court Judge H. Patrick Haggard, who sentenced Ibarra Wednesday to life in prison without parole. Haggard found Ibarra…
    Virginia Allen | Kristen Eichamer
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    4 Key Takeaways From FEMA Head’s Testimony After Supervisor Told Staff to Avoid Houses With Trump Signs
    House Republicans pressed Deanne Criswell, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, about bias at FEMA after a supervisor directed staff to avoid helping Florida residents with signs supporting Donald Trump. A FEMA supervisor, Marn’i Washington, told workers in a message to “avoid homes advertising Trump” as they canvassed Lake Placid, Florida, to identify residents…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Getting New Leadership Confirmed Quickly for Next Trump Admin
    The new Republican majority in the 119th Congress has to prove its worth, beginning with how it handles President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees. Trump should give Republican senators a chance to do so, but be ready to take action if they fail to carry out their sworn duty to quickly and efficiently give him the…
    Hans von Spakovsky | Thomas Jipping
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    Democrats Once Gave Trump’s New Border Czar an Award for Mass Deportation of Illegal Aliens
    The gnashing of teeth and tearing of hair have begun. Trump-haters in newsrooms are sounding the alarm about the anticipated separation of families under “Operation Aurora,” the mass-deportation of illegal aliens that president-elect Donald Trump promises and which 58% of Americans support, according to an Oct. 16 Marquette University survey. “If Trump gets his way,…
    Deroy Murdock
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    Election Deniers? Same Left-Wing Group That Tried to Kick Trump Off Ballot Now Demands Recount
    The same left-leaning nonprofit advocacy group that unsuccessfully attempted to disqualify Donald Trump from the November ballot in several states is now calling for a recount of the votes, alleging a mass breach of voting systems.  The organization, Free Speech for People, recently publicized a Nov. 13 letter it sent to Vice President Kamala Harris…
    Fred Lucas
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