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Shocked by Donald Trump’s sweeping victory, Democrats are playing the blame game, and Joe Biden is the scapegoat. Democrats who knew Biden was well past his prime in 2020, and who concealed his frailty all the way until June, now say he was “selfish” to run for reelection. Yet Biden was the only Democrat capable…
PITTSBURGH—Walking out of the Allegheny County Republican election night event at a local luxury hotel, the young men waiting to valet my car got into a discussion with me about the just-announced election results. All four men were in their 30s. Two were white, one was black, and the other Hispanic. As I traditionally do,…
Two days after the election, a federal court in Texas ruled against President Joe Biden’s latest unauthorized scheme to subvert immigration law: “parole in place” for illegal aliens who are the spouses of U.S. citizens. In a 73-page decision, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas upheld a challenge by 16 states…
The following is an excerpt from Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts' new book, “Dawn's Early Light: Taking Back Washington to Save America," released Nov. 12. Have you ever driven through a blizzard in Wyoming? Your field of vision doesn’t extend more than twenty feet. There are only the storm and the road, except for the…
If you think university students are learning to be adults in the real world, think again. Professors at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, decided to baby their students—and themselves—in the wake of Donald Trump’s second presidential victory by canceling in-person classes due to the stress the presidential election may have wrought. That’s right, Virginia. Your…
Inflation has pulverized Americans’ finances over the last four years, and a new study shows that’s especially true for the nation’s seniors, whose retirement accounts have been walloped. The losses have been so severe that would-be retirees need to work an extra six years on average before they can hang up their work boots—and they can blame…
North Carolina can’t catch a break under the Biden-Harris administration. The federal government’s appalling response to Hurricane Helene almost surely cost lives, adding insult to the injury of the inflation that has been crushing Tar Heel State residents for 3 1/2 years. In fact, prices there have risen even faster than the national average. The 40-year-high…
There were many reasons that President-elect Donald Trump won in such a resounding victory this week: inflation, the bewildering open border policy, the Afghanistan withdrawal humiliation, the world on fire, etc. But let’s not forget one of the top ones: This was a resounding defeat of wokeism. Voters have rejected wokeism—defined here as an unhealthy obsession with viewing all of…
If the 2024 presidential contest proved anything, it’s that the mass media no longer drive the national conversation. They can no longer stoke fear and outrage in average voters. They can no longer prop up terrible candidates. And, like him or not, President-elect Donald Trump‘s success with black, Hispanic and Jewish voters, if exit polls…
Last Thursday, following President-elect Donald Trump’s extraordinary victory over Kamala Harris, President Joe Biden addressed the nation. His message was simple: “Setbacks are unavoidable, but giving up is unforgivable,” and he concluded by saying, “May God protect our troops.” Unfortunately for Biden, however, many people in his party have given up on fighting for America…
President-elect Donald Trump won 46% of the Hispanic vote in the 2024 presidential election, a record for any Republican presidential candidate in recent history, according to Reuters. Trump did not have success with Hispanic voters because of “anything conservatives did,” but rather “things that the Left has done,” according to Mike Gonzalez, author of “A…
Donald Trump. He’s back. After the most dramatic election cycle in modern American history, Trump won a sweeping victory, moving every single state in America in his direction from 2020. He didn’t just sweep the swing states. He lost New Jersey by only five points. He won Miami-Dade County in Florida—the first Republican presidential candidate…
On the night of the election, a member of the Trump team called me about an hour after polls had begun to close to tell me they saw signs of a win. A few hours later, a friend close to the Harris team called to tell me senior members of the campaign had begun advising…
It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times. Seriously, it was the worst of times! How could a half-black, half-Asian, comparatively young woman lose so handily to a straight white male?! Hasn’t Donald Trump learned that he’s the recipient of a veritable mountain of privilege? In the name of justice, he…
“Congratulations President-elect Donald Trump on your historic election,” British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer posted on X at 3:21 a.m. ET Wednesday. The best that can be said about this tepid concession is that Starmer got his concession in before Kamala Harris did. Make no mistake. This is not the result Britain’s Labour Party wanted. Starmer’s party…
In a just world, Donald Trump would have won the Nobel Peace Prize for securing the historic Abraham Accords peace agreements of 2020. So too, in a just world, would A-list Hollywood studios now be bidding for the rights to produce the film adaptation of the single greatest comeback story in American history: Donald Trump,…
Eight years ago, Sean Spicer was preparing for life as President-elect Donald Trump‘s first White House press secretary. Today, he’s a successful host of his own independent show, one of the many disrupting the media landscape. Spicer joins today’s interview edition of “The Daily Signal Podcast” to reveal how independent media transformed the 2024 election…
“Look what happened! Is this crazy?” President-elect Donald J. Trump exclaimed early Wednesday morning before exuberant fans in Palm Beach, Florida. Trump’s beyond-epic triumph made him the first American to secure the White House, surrender it, and then recapture it since Grover Cleveland in 1892. Republicans won the Senate with a majority of at least 53 seats and seem poised to retain the…
The presidential race was not unpredictable, as the now once again discredited polls swore to us. The Republicans had made massive gains in voter registration since 2020, when Donald Trump lost the Electoral College by only a few thousand strategically placed votes. Republicans began to master the transition to non-Election Day balloting—first engineered by the…
My beautiful home state of California has become synonymous with dysfunction, homelessness, drug use, and criminality. But during Tuesday’s election, Golden State voters said they’ve had enough of rampant crime. By an overwhelming margin, voters passed Proposition 36, a measure that will increase penalties for property crime, illicit drug use, and retail theft. By the…