Political Commentary & Opinion
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Pennsylvania’s Perry Ekes Out Win for 7th Term
Republican Rep. Scott Perry staved off a stiff challenge from Democrat Janelle Stelson in a U.S. House race in Pennsylvania to win a seventh term. On Wednesday afternoon, The Hill/Decision Desk HQ called the race for Perry. With 99% of the vote reporting, Perry leads Stelson by more than 6,000 votes with more than 400,000 votes…Christina Lewis -
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Foreign Leaders React to Trump’s Imminent Return to Presidency
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Following President-elect Donald Trump’s sweeping victory in the U.S. presidential election on Tuesday, several leaders from countries around the world offered their responses—some more congratulatory in nature than others. Trump made a historic comeback from his loss in 2020 and swept the electoral vote by at least a 277-224 Electoral College margin—with several states…Jake Smith -
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Kamala Harris Concedes, but Tells Supporters Not to Give Up the ‘Fight’
After skipping out on speaking to supporters Tuesday night, Vice President Kamala Harris delivered her concession speech at Howard University on Wednesday afternoon. The sitting vice president, thrown into the race without a primary some 100 days before the election after President Joe Biden’s withdrawal, told supporters not to despair but continue “the fight that…Bradley Devlin -
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The Media Are Egotistical Exaggerators and Liars
The 2024 presidential campaign is ending pretty much where it began: loathing the never-ending presence of Donald Trump. On the day before the election, The New York Times’ front page displayed a gaudy editorial (badly disguised as “News Analysis”) under the title “Torrent of Lies Redefines Political Norms.” Doesn’t that sound like a hard-charging rerun…Tim Graham -
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Trump’s Triumph Represents Wholesale Repudiation of the Establishment
WEST PALM BEACH, Florida—Donald John Trump, the 45th U.S. president, will soon become the 47th president, after he was projected to win not just the 270 Electoral College votes needed to return to the White House but also the national popular vote. His humiliation of the political elite is now complete. The conservative Fox News channel was…Philip Wegmann -
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Trump’s Huge Gains With Black Men Demonstrate Power of His Populist Party Realignment
Former President Donald Trump really is building a multiracial populist coalition that is remaking American politics. Of all the trends on Tuesday night that stand out, one of the most remarkable ones is the shift in the black vote to the right. The shift was especially pronounced with black men. Trump appears to have made significant inroads with…Jarrett Stepman -
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States OK Constitutional Amendments Banning Noncitizen Voting
Voters in eight states on Tuesday considered constitutional amendments to ban noncitizens from voting. Measures were on the ballot in Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Wisconsin, and were projected to pass as of 2 a.m., Fox News reported. Bloomberg and The Associated Press reported shortly before 9 p.m. that Amendment…Fred Lucas -
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‘Stay Strong Hill Country’: One Volunteer’s Perspective on the Devastation in North Carolina After Hurricane Helene
Beside a lonely road in Boone, North Carolina, Styrofoam stood, balanced on cardboard and weighed down by a rock. Scrawled on it in faded black, yellow, and orange markers read the message, “I thank the good Lord for all the people at Samaritan’s Purse.” Weeks after Hurricane Helene ripped through the area, helicopters circled above,…Audrey Streb -
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Badger State Blues: Why Wisconsin Families Can’t Afford the American Dream
McDonald’s has been in the headlines recently, but fewer and fewer Americans can afford to eat at the classic hamburger chain. Perhaps the best summary of Bidenflation, soaring inflation under the Biden-Harris administration, can be found in the wisdom of Craig Ervin, a welder in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Ervin told me: “I used to go…Andrew Weiss -
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A Kamala Harris Victory Means Green New Deal Lawfare
Expect Kamala Harris’ Justice Department to wage Green New Deal lawfare if she is elected president on Nov. 5. As with every last issue pertaining to this election, Harris has not said much about the substance of her climate policy. But a review of her record suggests she’d be amenable to unleashing the Justice Department…Jason Isaac -
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Cancel Culture Comes for Kids: Nanny Network Won’t Work With Heritage Foundation
Imagine if Trump hotels required parents to show proof of past Republican votes before allowing those parents to use the hotel’s child care services. No doubt there’d be an outcry over the weaponization of children, of using them as pawns to strong-arm a political vision. Doesn’t every child—regardless of what her parents believe—deserve to be…Katrina Trinko -
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P’Nut Story Is Fauci-ism in a Nutshell
The death of a squirrel has somehow intruded on the news cycle in the relentless last days of a presidential election. Last week, the New York state government seized P’Nut the pet squirrel and a pet raccoon named Fred from owners Mark and Daniela Longo in Pine City, New York, in what was reportedly a…Jarrett Stepman -
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Musk’s $1M Giveaways Allowed to Continue
Tech mogul Elon Musk’s America PAC faced legal scrutiny for offering financial incentives for voters to sign a petition supporting the First and Second Amendments. Some saw the legal challenge in Philadelphia as a partisan double-standard against Musk, and on Monday, a municipal judge there rejected the local district attorney’s call for halting the giveaways….Christina Lewis -
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The New Kennedy-Nixon Moment: Why Politicians Must Master Podcasts to Win
Jeff Bezos is right. Americans do not trust the news media, but he misunderstands why. Americans are tired of talking heads and the opinions of editorialists masquerading as journalists. But this should not be confused with declining interest in news or politics; viewers are simply moving to channels where they can get an unfiltered view…Stephen Aaron -
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‘DEFAMATORY’: Swing-State Newspaper Issues Embarrassing Correction After Branding Conservative a ‘Hate Group’
D.A. King, an immigration enforcement activist whose defamation lawsuit against the Southern Poverty Law Center is proceeding in court, sent a legal demand letter to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, requesting a correction when the newspaper called his organization an "anti-immigration hate group." The newspaper, which skews liberal, issued a correction Friday and admitted King's legal victory…Tyler O’Neil -
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These 2 Battleground Counties May Choose Our Next President
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.—In battleground Michigan, two swing counties may determine which presidential candidate will clinch the state's 15 Electoral College votes. Oakland and Kent counties have undergone major demographic changes over the past two decades. Both used to be Republican strongholds, but growth in the Detroit suburbs and the city of Grand Rapids turned the…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
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The Final Choice: Civilizational Arson Versus Civilizational Sanity
Every four years, we hear a refrain that the presidential election before us is the “most important election of our lifetimes.” This line is reflexively repeated by pundits, talkers, and thinkers on both sides of the American political divide, and that repetition always engenders a great deal of backlash. We are reliably informed that our…Josh Hammer -
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‘I’m Scared Sh–less.’ Why Women’s March Protesters Say They ‘Won’t Go Back’
“We can’t go back to Donald Trump,” Julie Drizin told The Daily Signal on Saturday at the “We Won’t Go Back”-themed Women’s March in Washington, D.C. Sporting a “RESIST” pin on her right side, a “FEMINIST AF” and transgender flag pin on her right side, and holding a Trump baby balloon, Drizin added, “We can’t…Virginia Allen -
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The British Submarine Problem and What It Means to US Security
British Royal Navy attack submarines are tasked with monitoring Russian submarine movements in the North Atlantic and serve as one of the first lines of Russian deterrence that profoundly benefits the United States. Such monitoring is especially critical to U.S. national security because Russia boasts a robust submarine force that has exercised heightened submarine activity…Sydney Hudson -
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Harris Is Ending Her Campaign With Lies and Smears
In the last two weeks, Vice President Kamala Harris has been trying to revive her stagnant campaign by smearing former President Donald Trump as being Hitlerian and a fascist. She claims Trump is planning to put his enemies in encampments. Yet in the modern era, it was not Trump who put large numbers of U.S….Victor Davis Hanson