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In the end, Kamala Harris was the wrong candidate with the wrong message at the wrong time. President-elect Donald Trump won the greatest comeback in American political history – bigger than Richard Nixon’s 1968 victory – by surviving two assassination attempts, a media that was shamelessly in the tank for Harris and a majority of voters who appeared tired of being labeled “deplorables” and “garbage” by a condescending elite. Trump has transformed the Republican Party from an image of a mostly white, big corporation- loving, country club, rich guy’s party, to a more racially diverse, working man’s party that the Democratic Party used to be. Trump peeled away a significant number of Black and Latino voters to win. He even did well in deep Blue New York City. Harris flogged abortion as her only issue and Democrats, according to one estimate, spent half a billion dollars on TV ads claiming Trump would sign a national abortion ban. Voters apparently saw through the lie. Significantly, a Florida constitutional amendment that would have barred the government from involvement in the procedure to the point of denying parents the right to know about their daughter’s abortion, failed, as did a measure that would have legalized marijuana and made the state its chief dispenser. In his relatively short (for him) victory speech, Trump said: “America has given us a mandate.” So, it seems with Republicans winning the S enate and likely to keep their House majority. Trump said his first act as president would be to “seal borders.” He also promised to “pay down debt.” He called his win “a massive victory of democracy,” a slap at The Washington Post’s slogan “Democracy Dies in Darkness.” Not on Tuesday. It beamed in brightness as a record number of Americans voted. Trump said it is “time to put the divisions of the last four years behind us.” One hopes that wish comes true. It can start with a promise to cease name-calling. Both sides must make that promise and keep it. Policy is paramount and success will bring more unity than disparaging fellow Americans. What might be another step in building some sort of unity is for President Biden to issue pardons to his son, Hunter, and to Donald Trump and for all cases against Trump to be dropped, including the New York political conviction of Trump on 34 trumped-up felony charges. This would allow the next president to focus on what concerns most Americans and the issues on which he ran, including inflation, grocery and gas prices, immigration and the border. What Republicans have rightly called “lawfare” in which someone (usually a Republican) is indicted as a political act must also end. A new attorney general who puts the law ahead of political retribution will go a long way toward achieving that goal and restoring public confidence in the justice system. The contentiousness and bitterness of the last four years must end if the United States is to make progress and dig itself out of the dark hole we have been in. Kamala Harris and her party sought to re-shape American institutions in ways the public rejected. In fact, her decision to say little about policy (other than abortion) made her the stealth candidate. People want to know what a president stands for and where he (or she) plans to lead the country. Harris failed to articulate that message. Trump did. Given the results, it was not an overstatement (unusual for Trump) for him to say the election was “the day the American people regained control of their country.” It was nice to see him give credit where credit was due, and not heap praise on himself. A little humility, combined with policy successes, will go a long way toward making his second term a victory for all Americans. Readers may email Cal Thomas at tcaeditors@tribpub.com. Look for Cal Thomas’ latest book “A Watchman in the Night: What I’ve Seen Over 50 Years Reporting on America" (HumanixBooks).

Democratic strategist James Carville revealed the exact moment that he believes Vice President Kamala Harris lost the 2024 presidential election. Speaking to Tim Miller on "The Bulwark Podcast" on Saturday, Carville said Kamala's campaign was doomed after she froze up during an interview on "The View."'That’s the money question. That's the one you want. ... And you freeze!'"I think if this campaign is reducible to one moment, we are in a 65% wrong-track country," Carville said. "The country wants something different. And she’s asked, as is so often the case, in a friendly audience, on 'The View.'" Carville noted that one question asked by "The View" host Sunny Hostin derailed the Harris campaign. "But when we go back, and history unearths this, it’s going to be right there on ‘The View.’ And I think her name was Sunny Hostin ... asked the question, and that’s the most devastating answer you could imagine,” Carville said. Carville stated, "'How would you be different than Biden?' That’s the one question that you exist to answer, all right? That is it. That’s the money question. That's the one you want. That’s the one that everybody wants to know the answer to. And you freeze! You literally freeze and say, ‘Well, I can’t think of anything.’"As "Blaze News Tonight" previously reported, Harris responded to the question by saying: “There is not a thing that comes to mind. I’ve been a part of most of the decisions that have had impact, the work that we have done."Carville claimed that the Democrats had a "united party" because Harris was endorsed by former Republican Vice President Dick Cheney and Democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York. Carville added, "By the way, she had every advantage. We had a united party, from Dick Cheney to AOC, everybody was, whatever you want to do is fine."Carville said that Harris had more resources than President-elect Donald Trump but stressed that “since the dawn of time,” no amount of resources or technology has overcome the lack of a reason to vote for a political candidate.“We had more people on the ground," Carville continued. "We had more volunteers. We had more money, all right? We had more surrogates, but we didn’t have a reason."“You cannot not have a reason and beat it with technology, or beat it with volunteers, or do that,” Carville continued. “The overall message here, Tim: A reason, and she didn’t give us a reason.”Carville also slammed President Joe Biden for staying in the race for so long. “If we would have had this process, we’d have had gone through it, and we would have had this mega level of talent that exists, and all of these people would have been different. It would have been energetic. It would have created a sense of real excitement,” Carville stated. "Biden, he just blocked all that from happening."Carville blasted the Democrats for their messaging."If the country wants something different, you try to give the country something different," he said. "We are just not going to give in to them. But maybe the odiousness of [President-elect] Trump combined with the Dobbs decision, we can overcome it. Well, we didn’t overcome it." Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Spirit Airlines said that a plane attempting to land in Haiti was diverted to the Dominican Republican after it was hit by gunfire and one person was injured. 'We have suspended our service at Port-au-Prince (PAP) and Cap-Haitien (CAP) pending further evaluation.' The budget airline said Flight 951 had departed on Monday from Fort Lauderdale and was to land at the Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, but it instead landed in Santiago after being struck several times by gunfire. One of the bullets grazed a flight attendant, who sustained minor injuries. The plane also sustained damage consistent with gunfire, according to the airline. None of the passengers were injured, and the flight attendant was evaluated by medical personnel. Other flights into Haiti were grounded. "The safety of our Guests and Team Members is our top priority, and we have suspended our service at Port-au-Prince (PAP) and Cap-Haitien (CAP) pending further evaluation," read a statement from the airline. Haiti has been rocked by a civil war after the government fell and violent criminal gangs battled for control of the island nation. Haitian refugees absorbed into the U.S. became an emotional talking point in the November election as President-elect Donald Trump criticized the lax immigration policies of the Biden administration. Images and video of the damage to the plane can be viewed at the New York Post channel on YouTube. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

As Donald Trump prepares to take his place as president of the United States for the second time, liberals are freaking out. And rightfully so, as their rejection of common sense on a policy level is about to come to an end. Trump calls this a “mandate to bring common sense back to the country,” which he plans to kick off by making the border safe and secure and initiating mass deportations of illegal immigrants who squeezed through the border when it was open. Trump even called New York City Mayor Eric Adams, and while the details of their conversation are unknown, Adams has reportedly already revoked illegal immigrants' food cards. “He’s just racking up W’s,” Sara Gonzales of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered” comments. “He’s not even in office yet.” But that’s not all. Almost immediately after Trump’s win, Hamas called for a ceasefire. “Hamas just saw that he won and Hamas was like, ‘All right, OK, ceasefire, we give, oh s**t, we don’t want to deal with Donald Trump,’” Gonzales says, adding, “The same thing happened with the Ukraine-Russia war.” “Just the day after his landslide victory, Putin congratulated Donald Trump,” she continues, “He said Donald Trump’s remarks on ending the war deserved attention. Because finally, we have a president who’s talking about ending the war rather than continuing it and just funneling our money until they don’t need it anymore.” It’s not just Trump’s eagerness to solve the problems the Biden-Harris administration created that’s impressive but how quickly he’s making changes despite not being in office yet. “He hasn’t been in office for almost four years, he hasn’t set foot back in the White House yet, and he’s already elevated the first woman to chief of staff, he’s making mass deportation a top priority, he’s warning against the weaponization of the DOJ, and he’s already begun the process of ending wars on multiple fronts,” Gonzales explains. “I’m sure you guys can tell in my eyes, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel,” she continues, adding, “We’re not living in total darkness anymore. The demons have been put on notice.” Want more from Sara Gonzales?To enjoy more of Sara's no-holds-barred take to news and culture, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Leftists this holiday season should feel free to stay away from family and friends who voted for President-elect Donald Trump in order to take care of their "mental health," a Yale psychiatry resident told MSNBC host Joy Reid on Friday. Reid asked Dr. Amanda Calhoun, “How do you interact with people who you know voted for this? If you are an LGBTQ person and know someone in your family voted essentially against your rights, or you’re a woman knowing this man was calling people the B-word. [Vice President-elect] JD Vance was literally calling Kamala Harris 'the trash' and said we’re going to take out 'the trash.' I know a lot of black women were incredibly triggered by that." 'And if you feel like you need to establish boundaries with people, whether they're your family or not, I think you should very much be entitled to do so.' Reid continued, "And if you then meet somebody, and you know they voted for the people who called you trash, or if you’re Puerto Rican ... and you know someone voted that way, do you recommend just from a psychological standpoint being around them? We got the holidays coming up.” Calhoun replied that there is a "societal" expectation that "if somebody is your family that they are entitled to your time. And I think the answer is absolutely not. So if you are going to a situation where you have family members, where you have close friends who you know have voted in ways that are against you — like what you said, against your livelihood — and it's completely fine to not be around those people and to tell them why. You know, to say, 'I have a problem with the way that you voted because it went against my very livelihood, and I’m not gonna be around you this holiday. I need to take some space for me.'" Calhoun added that she doesn't believe anyone should be forced "to be around people just because they're your family. ... And if you feel like you need to establish boundaries with people, whether they're your family or not, I think you should very much be entitled to do so. And I think it may be essential for your mental health.” — (@) Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Dungeon crawlers have had a long and storied history with PC gaming, from titles like Akalabeth, Eye of the Beholder, or Dungeon Master to more modern offerings like Dark and Darker, Dungeonborne, and Legend of Grimrock. There are some truly unique twists on the genre out there too, and Dungeons of Blood and Dream is one of them. Even outside of its art style, which is already enough to set it apart, it brings in some neat roguelike elements that make this entirely its own thing, and it’s out now. Continue reading Dungeons of Blood and Dream is a new psychedelic RPG with the best art style MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best RPGs, Best roguelike games, Best horror games

A great game doesn’t need to be hundreds of hours long, and games like Firewatch have proved that. Campo Santo’s single-player adventure game is one of the all-time great compact games, with roughly five hours of brilliance on offer. However, the studio’s next game, In the Valley of Gods, may never come to light due to Valve’s acquisition of it. Well, here are six stunning seconds of what you could’ve won. Continue reading Valve dev shares extremely rare clip of a stunning shelved adventure game MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best single-player games, Best adventure games, Best story games

Valve has just dropped a new flavor of its acclaimed handheld, with the new white Steam Deck OLED transforming the previously all-black gaming device into a classy white and gray model. Despite being ostensibly the same device, but with a different colored shell, the result looks strikingly different from the original device, with the white heavily contrasting against the black screen. This isn’t the first white handheld, of course. The Asus ROG Ally is already available in white as standard, as are some other devices, but Valve doesn’t often venture outside the Model T Ford color scheme for the Steam Deck, and we love to see it. As we found in our Steam Deck OLED review, this device’s amazing screen, and use of SteamOS rather than Windows, makes it the best handheld gaming PC right now, even if other devices have more processing power available. Continue reading Valve just unveiled a white Steam Deck OLED, but you’ll need to order it quickly MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best graphics card, Best gaming PC, Best SSD for gaming