House Republicans are scheduled to elect a leadership team Wednesday that is expected to be little changed from their current one — thanks to the Trump-powered GOP sweep that appears likely to keep them in charge of the House for another two years. Republicans are expected to nominate Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., an ally of President-elect Donald Trump, to continue in the top job in the 119th Congress. Johnson and his fellow Republicans have declared victory in last week’s House elections, though several competitive races remain outstanding and NBC News has yet not projected which party will control the chamber. Johnson will…
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President-elect Donald Trump will return to Washington on Wednesday — entering the White House for the first time since he was voted out of office — to meet with President Joe Biden for a ceremony meant to signal the peaceful transfer of power. Trump did not offer to Biden the same meeting in 2020, as he refused to concede the election results and worked to delay Biden’s taking office. Vice President Kamala Harris conceded defeat last Wednesday before a crowd of supporters in Washington after Trump won a decisive victory. One unanswered question is whether Vice President-elect JD Vance will…
Republicans have reclaimed control of the White House and the Senate. Now all eyes are turning to the House of Representatives, which Democrats see as their last line of defense to stop President-elect Donald Trump and his agenda. The fight for the majority comes with enormous stakes. Will Trump wield a Republican trifecta that’s expected to support his agenda and his demands? Or will he face a House run by Democrats who would serve as a check on his legislative agenda and wield subpoena power to investigate his administration? With many competitive races still not called, NBC News has not yet projected which party…
Faced with a sweeping rejection by American voters, Kamala Harris conceded the presidential election to Donald Trump on Wednesday and encouraged supporters to continue fighting for their vision of the country. The Democratic vice president said the battle would continue “in the voting booth, in the courts and in the public square.” “Sometimes the fight takes a while,” she said at Howard University, her alma mater, where she had hoped to make a victory speech after the election. “That doesn’t mean we won’t win.” Harris’ decisive defeat shattered hopes that she could rescue Democrats’ chances after President Joe Biden’s reelection effort stalled and she…
Republican Donald Trump was elected the 47th president of the United States on Wednesday, an extraordinary comeback for a former president who refused to accept defeat four years ago, sparked a violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, was convicted of felony charges and survived two assassination attempts. With a win in Wisconsin, Trump cleared the 270 electoral votes needed to clinch the presidency. Republicans reclaimed control of the Senate, picking up seats in West Virginia and Ohio. Top House races are focused in New York and California, where Democrats are trying to claw back some of the 10 or so…
Donald Trump won Pennsylvania early Wednesday, putting him just four electoral votes shy of defeating Kamala Harris to win the White House. A win in Alaska or any of the outstanding battleground states — Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona or Nevada — would send the Republican former president back to the Oval Office. Pennsylvania, a part of the once-reliable Democratic stronghold known as the “blue wall” with Michigan and Wisconsin, was carried by Trump when he first won the White House in 2016 and then flipped back to Democrats in 2020. Trump also flipped Georgia, which had voted for Democrats four years…
Vice President Kamala Harris will not be speaking as election night went into Wednesday morning, according to Harris Campaign co-chair Cedric Richmond, who took the stage at a Harris watch party at Howard University. Vice President Kamala Harris will address the nation later Wednesday as votes continue to be counted and Election Day concludes without a winner, her campaign co-chair Cedric Richmond told a thinning crowd gathered at her watch party at Howard University after midnight. Photos show partygoers thinning out and Harris supporters crying as results continued to come in. The mood at Howard University had dampened over the…
In a sign of how distrust of the federal government has permeated Republican politics in the Trump era, GOP officials in three red states have tried to block the Justice Department from engaging in its decades-long practice of sending observers into polling places. Two of the states, Missouri and Texas, have asked federal judges to intervene, but overnight those judges declined to do so. Texas ultimately reached an agreement with the Justice Department resolving the issue. Officials in Florida, Texas and Missouri said in recent days they would not allow DOJ monitors to do what they have been doing for almost 60…
Former President Donald Trump on Monday vowed to propel the US into a new “golden age” in his final appeal to voters ahead of Election Day. “My message to Americans tonight is simple: we do not have to live this way. We do not have to settle for weakness, incompetence, decline, and decay,” the Republican nominee told supporters in Pittsburgh, Pa., in the penultimate speech of his 720-day-long campaign. “With your vote tomorrow, we can fix every single problem our country faces — and lead America, and indeed the world, to new heights of glory,” Trump declared. “We’ll help the world…
The day before Election Day, 17-year-old girl Carmen Hernandez held a cardboard sign with the Puerto Rican flag outside Trump’s rally in Reading, Pennsylvania, a city that is two-thirds Hispanic. “What you call trash is our treasure,” the sign read. While Trump’s campaign had quickly distanced itself from a comic’s slam on Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage,” Kamala Harris’ campaign and other Democrats spent the last hours of the 2024 campaign in the nation’s largest battleground state linking him to the joke. Harris devoted much of her final full day on the campaign trail to reaching Latino…