Republican businessman Dave McCormick has defeated incumbent Sen. Bob Casey Jr. (D-PA) to flip Pennsylvania’s Senate seat to red. The victory expands the GOP Senate majority to 53, flipping four seats in the 2024 election. “I am honored and excited to represent EVERY Pennsylvanian as our next Senator. We are so grateful. Thank you!” McCormick said Thursday evening. WATCH: I am honored and excited to represent EVERY Pennsylvanian as our next Senator. We are so grateful. Thank you! pic.twitter.com/aFvJcsB6sd — Dave McCormick (@DaveMcCormickPA) November 8, 2024 “The Associated Press (AP) called the race for McCormick, who was leading by a little more than 30,000 votes,” Fox News noted. However, the Democratic senator has yet to concede the race. “I have dedicated my life to making sure Pennsylvanians’ voices are heard, whether on the floor of the Senate or in a free and fair election. It has been made clear there are more than 100,000 votes still to be counted,” Casey Jr. said. “Pennsylvania is where our democratic process was born. We must allow that process to play out and ensure that every vote that is eligible to be counted will be counted. That is what Pennsylvania deserves,” he added. I have dedicated my life to making sure Pennsylvanians’ voices are heard, whether on the floor of the Senate or in a free and fair election. It has been made clear there are more than 100,000 votes still to be counted. Pennsylvania is where our democratic process was born. We… — Bob Casey Jr. (@Bob_Casey) November 8, 2024 From the Associated Press: Republican David McCormick has won Pennsylvania’s pivotal U.S. Senate seat, as the former CEO of the world’s largest hedge fund beat three-term Democratic Sen. Bob Casey in Tuesday’s election after accusing the incumbent of supporting policies that led to inflation, domestic turmoil and war. The victory pads Republicans’ majority in the Senate, which they wrested from Democratic control this week, and clocked in as the nation’s second-most expensive race while playing out alongside the presidential contest won by Republican Donald Trump in the nation’s premier battleground state. McCormick, 59, recaptured a GOP seat in Pennsylvania after Republicans lost one in 2022, paying off a bet that party brass made when they urged McCormick to run and consolidated support behind him. In an interview on Fox News shortly after The Associated Press called the race Thursday, the Trump-endorsed McCormick said “people want change.” Republican Dave McCormick flips Pennsylvania Senate seat, sends Democrat Bob Casey packing after three terms https://t.co/2QN5E1i4zt pic.twitter.com/xi4auYs9ff — New York Post (@nypost) November 7, 2024 BREAKING: PA Senate race has officially been called for Republican Dave McCormick who beat incumbent Democrat Bob Casey. Another Senate seat flipped from D to R! pic.twitter.com/oxuJ9vqrUK — Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 7, 2024 Per Fox News: McCormick’s 2024 campaign was his second attempt at gaining a seat in the U.S. Senate. He lost the Republican Senate primary in 2022 to celebrity Dr. Mehmet Oz. The West Point graduate told Fox News host Laura Ingraham he’s “honored” to serve the people of Pennsylvania. “I’m so excited. It’s a critical time for our country, and I’m honored to represent the great people of Pennsylvania — regardless of party, by the way, represent, you know, Democrats, Republicans, Independents,” he said. “My job is to represent every single one of them.” McCormick added that he believes there’s no “mathematical path” for Casey to win based on the outstanding votes. “I lost an election by 900 votes, so I know — I know you got to process it. I know Sen. Casey’s got to process this, and he’s been in elected office for 30 years. His family’s had a great history of public service, and so, you know, he’s going to have to find his way to the right answer,” he said. “But I think the math is indisputable, and I think that’s why the AP called it and why we’re confident moving forward to start preparing to be the next senator from Pennsylvania.”

One day after the Mayor of New York City reportedly had a phone call with President Trump during which Mayor Adams congratulated him on his win and vowed to work with Trump on the immigration crisis, the Mayor has announced that he is ending the New York City’s controversial program of giving free food vouchers to illegal immigrants. New York City Mayor Eric Adams announces that NYC will no longer be issuing vouchers to illegal immigrants. The decision came one day after Adams reportedly had a phone call with Trump. Donald Trump gets elected and everyone falls in line. pic.twitter.com/ZYDDAyY25D — Tucker Carlson Network Fan Account (@TCNetworkFans) November 8, 2024 NEW: Democrat New York City Mayor Eric Adams announces that NYC will no longer be issuing vouchers to illegal immigrants. Remarkable. Trump gets elected and everyone falls in line. The decision came one day after Adams reportedly had a phone call with Trump. “As we move… pic.twitter.com/gI8HyJiqdg — Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) November 8, 2024 A New York City Hall spokesperson issued a statement earlier today, according to a CBS News report, in which the city’s “immediate response cards” program was detailed to be ending after this year, during which time the city would transition back to food delivery services that had been used prior to the current voucher program. In a statement Thursday, a City Hall spokesperson said: “Through the immediate response cards pilot program, we were able to reduce food waste, redirect millions of dollars to our local economy, and provide more culturally relevant food to more than 2,600 migrant families in our care. As we move towards more competitive contracting for asylum seeker programs, we have chosen not to renew the emergency contract for this pilot program once the one-year term concludes. For over two years, we have provided care to more than 222,000 migrants while saving $2 billion in asylum seeker-related costs. Thanks to our resettlement efforts, intensive case management, and national-leading Asylum Application Help Center, more than 160,000 migrants have left our shelter system and taken their next steps towards self-sufficiency. We will continue to implement and learn from innovative pilot programs like the immediate response cards program as we care for hundreds of new arrivals every week.” The migrant families enrolled in the program will continue to receive debit cards through the end of the year. After that, the city will transition back to food delivery services for migrants. NEW: Democrat New York City Mayor Eric Adams announces that NYC will no longer be issuing vouchers to illegal immigrants. Remarkable. Trump gets elected and everyone falls in line. The decision came one day after Adams reportedly had a phone call with Trump. “As we move… pic.twitter.com/gI8HyJiqdg — Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) November 8, 2024 According to the New York Daily News story on MSN.com, Mayor Adams talked to President Trump yesterday and discussed working together with President Trump.  Coupled with the fact that, though the Mayor obviously endorsed Kamala Harris’ bid for President, he refrained from attacking President Trump during the election, it seems as though Mayor Adams may have read the handwriting on the wall before other democrats, and may have been ready to face the reality of a Trump Presidency. Mayor Adams spoke to President-elect Donald Trump Wednesday about working together to address “issues in the city,” Adams said, without going into specifics or disclosing whether they discussed the prospect of mass deportations or Adams’ pending criminal case. “I communicated with the president yesterday to state that there are many issues here in the city that we want to work together with the administration to address,” the mayor said at an unrelated press conference Thursday, naming infrastructure as one of the topics. Adams also said he’s confident he’ll be able to find “common ground” with Trump on public safety. During his campaign for the White House, Trump highlighted crime in cities such as New York in criticizing Democrats’ approach to safety. “I look forward to coordinating with any and everyone to keep this great city safe,” Adams said. While neither Mayor Adams nor President Trump have disclosed the details of the call, including whether or not they discussed the controversial “free food for illegals” voucher program, it stands to reason that Mayor Adams’ stated intention to work with President Trump (rather than against, as Gavin Newsom has sworn to do), would likely produce exactly this turn of events — particularly if President Trump requested the ending of the program which he has previously called into question. The Mayor did defend the voucher program, according to a report in the New York Times, yet the refusal to renew the emergency contract with Mobility Capital Finance for the voucher program speaks volumes — even if the Mayor did not give up the details. The pilot program came under fire from the moment it was announced in February, with critics concerned that the cards could be misused and questioning whether it was fair to give preferential treatment to migrants over others in need. Mayor Eric Adams has defended it, arguing that the program would bring down the costs of feeding migrants and give them a wider array of healthier options at supermarkets and bodegas. But his administration has decided not to renew the one-year contract, which had been given to Mobility Capital Finance, known as MoCaFi, on a no-bid emergency basis. The city’s Department of Investigation is investigating the contract with MoCaFi, The New York Daily News reported in October. In explaining the city’s decision on Thursday, Mr. Adams made no mention of the investigation. He said that given the city’s “constant decrease in our population” of migrants, there was no need to renew an emergency contract. “It was an emergency, and now we’re moving in another direction,” he said on WABC-TV, adding that the program was successful. I can’t help but wonder if “another direction” as indicated by the Mayor is simply his politically strategic acquiescence to the new reality in which failed democratic policies are no longer simply propped up with more and more money, never receiving any pushback — because the Biden-Harris White House has been more than happy to provide the never-ending printing press to “create” those funds out of thin air; something that will quickly come to an end if President Trump makes good on even a third of his campaign promises. City Hall NYC. The NYC Mayor Eric Adams congratulates @realDonaldTrump and @JDVance for the win and states he’s looking forward to working with them to make NYC a better place . pic.twitter.com/eczHd4YSWj — Viral News NYC (@ViralNewsNYC) November 6, 2024 There is no proof that the end of the voucher program is directly related to the phone call between the Mayor and President Trump.  But if the “self-correcting” that seems to be occurring in many realms simply as a result of President Trump’s impending return to the White House is any indication — that’s all the proof I need.

Geert Wilders, the leader of the largest party in the Netherlands’ House of Representatives and a staunch supporter of Israel, released a statement after anti-Semites en masse viciously attacked Jews after a soccer match in Amsterdam. After President-elect Donald Trump won a decisive victory on Tuesday night, Wilders, who had endorsed Trump, wrote on X, “Patriots are winning elections all over the world. The liberal-leftish woke driven nihilists are full of disbelief and hate and unfit to give the people what they truly want: freedom and their own nation first, their own people first and most of all no more illegal immigration.” Patriots are winning elections all over the world. The liberal-leftish woke driven nihilists are full of disbelief and hate and unfit to give the people what they truly want: freedom and their own nation first, their own people first and most of all no more illegal immigration. — Geert Wilders (@geertwilderspvv) November 6, 2024 In the wake of the horrific attacks on Jews Thursday night, Wilders, known for his hardline views on immigration and opposition to Islam conceivably taking over the Netherlands, wrote, “Looks like a Jew hunt in the streets of Amsterdam. Arrest and deport the multicultural scum that attacked Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters in our streets. Ashamed that this can happen in The Netherlands. Totally unacceptable.” “A pogrom in the streets of #Amsterdam,” he continued. “We have become the Gaza of Europe. Muslims with Palestinian flags hunting down Jews. I will NOT accept that. NEVER. The authorities will be held accountable for their failure to protect the Israeli citizens. Never again.” “Condemning the Amsterdam Jew hunt is not enough,” he stated. “The perpetrators must be expelled from the country. I have been warning for over twenty years about the growing hatred of Jews in the Netherlands due to the ongoing mass immigration and Islamization of our country. I want an emergency debate with @MinPres Schoof.” A pogrom in the streets of #Amsterdam. We have become the Gaza of Europe. Muslims with Palestinian flags hunting down Jews. I will NOT accept that. NEVER. The authorities will be held accountable for their failure to protect the Israeli citizens. Never again. — Geert Wilders (@geertwilderspvv) November 8, 2024 Looks like a Jew hunt in the streets of Amsterdam. Arrest and deport the multicultural scum that attacked Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters in our streets. Ashamed that this can happen in The Netherlands. Totally unacceptable. https://t.co/Ju54TO27Ks — Geert Wilders (@geertwilderspvv) November 8, 2024 Het veroordelen van de jodenjacht in Amsterdam is niet genoeg. De daders moeten het land uit. Ik waarschuw al ruim twintig jaar voor de groeiende jodenhaat in NL door de voortdurende massaimmigratie en islamisering van ons land. Ik wil een spoeddebat met @MinPres Schoof. — Geert Wilders (@geertwilderspvv) November 8, 2024 #BREAKING Footage shows rioters break into a hotel to search for Israelis pic.twitter.com/VjOBE0vxmA — Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) November 8, 2024 The attackers are posting photos of Israeli passports stolen from their victims. pic.twitter.com/fdHjC9HTz2 — Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) November 8, 2024 In May 2024, Wilders told the Dutch Parliament: I lived in Israel for a while, a long time ago. I’ve seen it too. Then it was still from Jordan where the terrorists entered. I also experienced what it was like when those terrorists crossed the border and how you had to take shelter in air raid shelters. And how then the army, with helicopters and magnesium bombs lightings, looked where people were, to protect their population. “I know one thing, it’s hatred from these kinds of Islamic groups like Hamas, the Islamic Jihad group, and also Hezbollah,” he continued. “There are many of those groups. And they deny the Jewish state’s right to exist.” “They are being attacked by people who want a country and a people not to exist,” he said Israel. “That’s not what Israel does. Israel puts the Arabs in the Knesset, in parliament. In Israel, they are full-fledged citizens, who are better off living in Israel than living in the Palestinian territories. Israel does not attack another country and has never attacked another country without first being attacked itself. Not in the Yom Kippur war and not in any war.” “And for me and my political party, it is not difficult to see with whom we stand in solidarity,” he concluded. “Are we with the Jewish people, who are fighting for their existence, or are we with Islamic extremists, terrorist scum who want to exterminate them? And I tell you, until the very end, I support the State of Israel.” Meanwhile, in the heavily-Jewish town of Bergenfield, New Jersey: The pro-terror mob is marching through Bergenfield, New Jersey screaming to “globalize the intifada” as we read reports of Jews beating brutally beaten on the streets of Amsterdam. These thugs support that violence against Jews. pic.twitter.com/FwJpgjjFBR — Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) November 8, 2024

Shoe company Steve Madden announced it would slash Chinese imports up for 45% over the next year shortly after the re-election of Donald Trump, who has pledged to place tariffs on imports from China as high as 60%. The company’s CEO, Edward Rosenfeld, stated that his company in recent years had been examining alternatives to importing goods from China, naming Brazil, Cambodia, Mexico and Vietnam, CNBC reported. “As of yesterday morning, we are putting that plan into motion,” he said. “And you should expect to see the percentage of goods that we sourced from China to begin to come down more rapidly going forward.” He estimated his company’s imports amounted to roughly two-thirds of their business, with about 70% of that coming from China. “Our goal over the next year is to reduce that percentage of goods that we sourced from China by approximately 40% to 45%, which means that if we’re able to achieve that and we think we have the plan to do it, that a year from today, we would be looking at just over a quarter of our business that would be subject to potential tariffs on Chinese goods,” he added. Trump has been outspoken about his tough attitude toward China. In October, he told The Wall Street Journal how he would react if China invaded Taiwan: “I would say: If you go into Taiwan, I’m sorry to do this, I’m going to tax you at 150% to 200%.” During Trump’s first term, he imposed tariffs of as much as 25% on Chinese imports. With China’s economy slowing considerably, a 60% Trump tariff on Chinese imports could reduce China’s exports by $200 billion, Zhu Baoliang, a former chief economist at China’s economic planning agency, claimed. “The IMF now expects the Chinese economy to expand by 4.8% in 2024, at the lower end of Beijing’s ‘about 5%’ target. Next year, it projects China’s annual growth rate will drop further to 4.5%,” the BBC reported. “China’s yuan is sliding for the sixth consecutive week as investors grow anxious about potential tariff hikes following Donald Trump’s election win,” Finimize reported on Friday, adding, “… the yuan weakened by 5% after initial US tariffs in 2018, with a further 1.5% dip as tensions grew.”

A viral post shared on X claims Vice President Harris purportedly said she won’t attend the “presidential induction ceremony.” ? Kamala Harris has announced she won’t be showing up for the presidential induction ceremony. pic.twitter.com/OrYuZpiJU3 — ???? (@DestUTD) November 6, 2024 Verdict: False Harris has not referenced the claim via her 2024 campaign website, verified […]