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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…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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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…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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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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    Victor Davis Hanson: The Left Tried to Bury Trump. Instead, It Fueled His Greatest Comeback.
    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 haven’t talked much about my latest book that came out Sept. 8, roughly seven weeks…
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    Greenland Parliament Ratifies Security Deal Agreed With Trump
    Summary COPENHAGEN, Nov. 3 (Reuters)—Greenland’s parliament on Tuesday ratified the Arctic island’s security agreement struck earlier this year with U.S. President Donald Trump, although some opposition party members questioned the deal’s economic value. The United States, Denmark, and Greenland in September signed the agreement, aimed at ending tensions after Trump’s repeated threats to take control of…
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    Trump Ends Billions of Military Aid to Major US Ally
    President Donald Trump said the U.S. will no longer provide $4 billion in yearly aid to Israel starting in 2027. “You can consider it barter. You can consider military aid or cash. Look, we give them $4 billion of things and money, and they don’t need it,” he said in a Fox News interview. “And I…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Trump’s Midterm Travel Runs Circles Around Obama, Biden
    President Donald Trump has held more than 30 events from Oct. 1 to Election Day as part of his “midterm blitz,” far exceeding the travel of his Democrat predecessors. Trump has held 30 events in 20 states in 32 days. From Oct. 1 to Nov. 1, he visited Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Florida (twice), Georgia (twice),…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Victor Davis Hanson: Trump’s Economy Hits 3.4% Growth—Where Did All the Doomsayers Go?
    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: [President Donald] Trump had a constitution to weather all of that onslaught against him, and we’re just seeing that constitution reveal itself…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    ‘A Little Bit of Apple Pie’: Trump’s Final Pitch to Voters
    Summary Election Day is tomorrow, and President Donald Trump just made his final pitch before the midterms at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, asking voters to keep Congress “nice” and “strong.” He spent the first 15 minutes of his Monday afternoon address talking about his renovations to Washington, D.C.  “I’m thrilled to announce the official…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Victor Davis Hanson: The Final Countdown to the Midterms
    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 want to talk about the impending midterms. Conventional wisdom six months ago was that the…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    President Trump: Cheerleader-in-Chief 
    In 2014, President Barack Obama, during the last midterm of his presidency, was 53 years old. He did seven rallies, four of which took place in October. In 2022, President Joe Biden, during his only midterm election, was 79 years old. He largely avoided traditional rallies. President Donald Trump, during the last midterm of his…
    Larry Elder
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