CNN Republican commentator Scott Jennings delivered an election post-mortem on Wednesday, and explained how the Democratic Party’s tunnel vision — with regard to removing now-President-Elect Donald Trump from American politics — backfired in such spectacular fashion. Jennings began by saying that he certainly understood why members of a party that had been entirely dedicated to that particular mission would be feeling upset after dedicating nearly a decade to it. “As Joe Biden speaks today, his legacy is that Donald Trump has never been more popular or more powerful,” Jennings posted on X, sharing a clip of the discussion that took place on CNN the night before. “Obama produced Trump in 2016, and Biden only served to strengthen him. Total failure of the Democratic Party.” WATCH: As Joe Biden speaks today, his legacy is that Donald Trump has never been more popular or more powerful. Obama produced Trump in 2016, and Biden only served to strengthen him. Total failure of the Democratic Party. Last night on @cnn. pic.twitter.com/cZrd4pr6BA — Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) November 7, 2024 “The Democratic Party — you’re right, it is hard to lose. You know, Republicans went through this after 2012,” Jennings said. “And I think about the condition of the Democratic Party — it’s been almost fully oriented around Trump for a decade.” “And look at Biden. His basic campaign promise, initially, was to rid the country of Trump and Trump-ism,” Jennings continued. “And as he leaves office, Trump, Trump-ism, and the MAGA movement is stronger than ever. So not only are you just dealing with the wreckage of having lost an election, you’re dealing with the total failure of the project of the current president as he set it out when he got elected in the first place.” MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+ Jennings went on to argue that the Democrats should not be looking at the election loss as simply a tactical failure, but that deeper questions about what the party stood for still needed to be answered. “I think both parties go through this after these kinds of losses, but when you look at how Biden is leaving, the very thing he vowed to rid us of is now the ascendant political movement in this country,” Jennings concluded. “It’s got to be a pretty demoralizing feeling.” Of Trump, Jennings said, “He’s never been stronger, he’s never been more popular, and he’s never been in a stronger political position to execute.”

It’s hard to believe we are just weeks away from the new year. But let’s not rush things quite yet. While it’s still 2024, let’s enjoy what’s left, including the wonders of nature. If you’ve missed previous opportunities to view the aurora borealis or northern lights this year, tonight might be your chance. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, there’s a geomagnetic storm watch for November 7 that will help make the sky beautifully colorful. @thetoddgross ♬ original sound – Todd GrossMeteorologist The Northern Lights Will Likely Be Visible For Three Days The NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center continually updates its website to help guide those looking to catch a glimpse of the northern lights. Right now, the best chance to view the light show is on November 7. It may be visible for a few days after that, but scientists believe Thursday will be the peak. In Alaska, you have the best odds of seeing the sky painted with colorful hues. Those in Washington, Montana, Idaho, North Dakota, Minnesota, and Michigan may also get a peek. To have the best view of the northern lights, the NOAA recommends getting away from urban areas and heading to the country. Additionally, the darker, the better. If the sky is too bright, it will be difficult to see. “[The] best aurora is usually within an hour or two of midnight (between 10 PM and 2 AM local time). These hours of active aurora expand towards evening and morning as the level of geomagnetic activity increases. There may be aurora in the evening and morning, but it is usually not as active and, therefore, not as visually appealing. The best Seasons for aurora watching are around the spring and fall equinoxes. Due to subtleties in the way the solar wind interacts with Earth’s magnetosphere, there is a tendency towards larger geomagnetic storms, and thus better auroras, to occur near the equinoxes,” the NOAA advises. The source of this story’s image can be found here. The post Here’s Where You Can See The Northern Lights This Week appeared first on InspireMore.

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Trump Announces Susie Wiles As Chief Of Staff

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DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Republican challenger Dave McCormick has defeated incumbent Democratic Sen. Bob Casey in Pennsylvania’s pivotal Senate race, according to The Associated Press. The AP called the race Thursday afternoon, projecting that McCormick will narrowly win with 49% of the vote, compared with Casey’s 48.5% share. As of Thursday, 99% of the votes had been counted, and the Casey campaign has highlighted that the tight margin might ultimately trigger an automatic recount as required by state law. Statement from Casey campaign on the vote count in #PASen: pic.twitter.com/1YDfQt1PtG— Maddy McDaniel (@maddymcdaniel14) November 7, 2024 “As the Pennsylvania Secretary of State said this afternoon, there are tens of thousands of ballots across the Commonwealth still to count, which includes provisional ballots, military and overseas ballots, and mail ballots,” Casey campaign spokeswoman Maddy McDaniel said in a statement released moments after the race was called. “This race is within half a point and cannot be called while the votes of thousands of Pennsylvanians are still being counted. We will make sure every Pennsylvanian voice is heard.” The Pennsylvania Senate race was widely touted as one of the most important and competitive Senate races in the country in the 2024 election cycle. Cumulatively, the Casey and McCormick campaigns, as well as a number of aligned outside groups, spent almost $300 million on the race, according to PennLive. McCormick is a veteran and successful businessman who ran against Casey after failing to secure the GOP nomination in 2022 for the U.S. Senate seat that was ultimately won by Democratic Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman, who defeated Republican nominee Dr. Mehmet Oz. Casey, whose father formerly served as the governor of Pennsylvania, was seeking his fourth term in the Senate. Throughout the campaign, McCormick worked to tie Casey to the record of the Biden-Harris administration. Casey voted with President Joe Biden 99% of the time through the first two years of the Biden presidency, according to FiveThirtyEight. Casey enjoyed a commanding advantage in the polls early in the race, leading McCormick by as much as 9 points in the RealClearPolitics polling average at the start of March. The polls tightened significantly as the election drew closer, and McCormick ultimately surged over the top to unseat the longtime incumbent Casey. President-elect Donald Trump also managed to flip Pennsylvania on Tuesday night, winning the Keystone State by about 2 percentage points. If ultimately seated, McCormick will join the GOP Senate majority in the next Congress, joining fellow incoming Republicans Jim Justice of West Virginia, Tim Sheehy of Montana, Bernie Moreno of Ohio, and potentially others. Originally published by the Daily Caller News Foundation The post Recount Likely After McCormick Upsets Democratic Incumbent Casey in Pennsylvania appeared first on The Daily Signal.

A Few Democrats Suggest Trans Issues Played a Role in the Election Outcome

With no White House press briefing since October 30, Thursday’s briefing was the first since Tuesday’s general election and, with the massive red wave yielding a Trump presidency and possibly a Republican Congress, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre faced a room of reporters (ostensibly most being supporters) full of questions about the administration’s reaction to this thorough rebuke. Starting at the end of the briefing, Fox’s Jacqui Heinrich patiently sat and heard Jean-Pierre’s only definitive excuse be that pandemic fallout was why Democrats were shellacked, so she had enough.     After a follow-up to a question from The Washington Post’s Matt Viser about any chance President Biden would pardon son Hunter, Heinrich read a viral tweet from Congressman Richie Torres (D-NY) before wondering: “[I]s the administration, campaign, the Democratic Party, looking at the pandemic as the cause rather than — is that easier than looking in the mirror?” Jean-Pierre doubled down on “respecting” what voters decided and that “incumbents” across the Group of Seven countries have “pretty consistently” been blamed for the pandemic upheavals. A long, winding word salad later, Heinrich was more direct: But is that examination happening at all inside, though?...[T]his administration’s message to millions of Americans that they’re going to wake up the day after the election if Trump won and have their rights stripped away, that democracy would crumble and the President said today we’re going to be okay. So how do — how do you square that? As shown in the above video, Jean-Pierre offered a non-committal answer and promise for a peaceful transition, which led Heinrich to interject: “So, you’re saying that leading by example is the message to people who are fearful based on what the messaging was about the stakes of what would happen?” Jean-Pierre wasn’t amused and told Heinrich she was “just twisting everything around and that’s really unfair” since she had “been standing here trying to be very respectful to what happened the last two nights — uh — two nights ago, being respectful.” Rewinding back to the beginning, things started off easy and almost like a group therapy session. The AP’s Zeke Miller twice asked whether Biden believes he feels any responsibility or “take any accountability for his party’s defeat,” including here: AP’s @ZekeJMiller: “[W]hen the President spoke in a little bit ago, one thing he did not do was take any accountability for his party's defeat on Tuesday night. Does he feel any sense of responsibility for the outcome? Does he feel he would have — he should have done things… pic.twitter.com/qmOEDuVAPi — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 7, 2024 His third question was a silly softball of sadness, wondering if Biden “feel[s] like he has let down America’s allies and partners that now someone with a very different worldview than him will now be in the Oval Office.” CBS’s Nancy Cordes kept pressing on this “regrets” angle: CBS’s @NancyCordes: “Does the President have any regrets about when he chose to leave the race or any regrets about deciding to run for a second term?” KJP: “Um — so — look — um — the President is very proud of what he was able to accomplish. He was very proud and when he made… pic.twitter.com/tp77SSuRim — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 7, 2024 ABC’s Selina Wang followed with an important line of questioning that Jean-Pierre tellingly didn’t give a firm answer to: ABC’s @SelinaWangTV: “Does President Biden believe he could have won if he stayed in this race?” KJP: “President Biden believes that he made the right decision when he decided to step aside — uh — and — uh — immediately endorsed the Vice President and you saw the party come… pic.twitter.com/zGHrGNdGlV — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 7, 2024 Reuters’s Jeff Mason made it even more personal for Jean-Pierre and her aides, noting the “criticism in the last couple of days directly addressed at President Biden for some of the questions that have already been asked — running in the first place or not stepping aside faster.” “Some of that criticism has also been directed at his team and the advisors around him for advising him to do what he did. Can you address that criticism,” he wondered. Interestingly, Jean-Pierre seemed to tout Biden’s rise to the presidency as a backdoor way of saying yes to previous questions about whether Biden would have won this time: CNN’s Kayla Tausche snuffed out this rosy picture about voters having spent years clamoring for a second Biden term: CNN’s @KaylaTausche: “You talked about the influence that the 2022 midterms had on the President's thinking to decide to run for reelection. But, around that time in 2023, polls showed that roughly 80 percent of Americans believed at that time that the President was too old to… pic.twitter.com/HAdUQWpNuQ — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 7, 2024 In a follow-up, she hit the nail on the head: “But around that time in 2023, the President’s team also very firmly encouraged other rising stars, luminaries in the party, people who had participated in the primaries in the 2020 cycle — um — to rally behind the President and not to consider their own ambitions. Was that the wrong call?” After Tausche, it felt like a voicing of laments by liberal reporters wondering what will happen to leftist priorities when Trump takes office (click “expand”): SWAPNA VENUGOPAL RAMASWAMY [USA Today]: So, does the President believe that he could have beat Donald Trump? (....) RAMASWAMY: So, Republicans have threatened to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act.         Does the White House have any plans to take any actions to safeguard some of the measures such as, you know, clean energy investments, for instance? (....) JON DECKER [Gray TV]: One of the issues debated, discussed quite a bit during the course of the campaign was the issue of reproductive rights. Is the White House, President concerned that with a Republican in the White House, Republicans controlling the Senate, a super conservative majority on Supreme Court at the very least — we don’t know what’s going to happen in the House — that reproductive freedoms for women will be rolled back? (....) KEN THOMAS [Wall Street Journal]: President-elect Trump has heard from a number of world leaders, uh, since the election. Xi, Macon, Zelenskyy, Netanyahu. What is the level of concern that Trump may try to conduct foreign policy in this transition period and — and get in the way of some of the President’s foreign policy [inaudible]? (....) THOMAS: And does the President see this election as a setback to some of the efforts he’s been making to try to get the hostages released to try to, you know, bring peace to — to Gaza? (....) DANNY KEMP [AFP]: Does President Biden fear for Ukraine’s future after Donald Trump’s victory given that he’s — you know, talks about cutting aid, about pushing through a peace deal? (....) KEMP: Vladimir Putin said today he was ready to talk to Donald Trump. Would that be a good idea? (....) ANITA POWELL [Voice of America]: And would [inaudible] with the next administration may be finalizing the deal and getting the credit for that, if you wind it up? (....) POWELL: And then, at APAC and at the G-20, what is the President’s message to China and the other 19 members of the G20, especially vis-a-viv climate change, which, you know, President Trump has a very different policy? (....) GERREN KEITH GAYNOR [theGrio]: Considering the outcome of the election, what is the White House’s message to black and brown communities, LGBTQ Americans who are fearful of the vulnerabilities of what Trump administration given some policy proposals like eliminating DEI mechanisms, banning LGBTQ — bans in healthcare and classrooms and how is the — is the president thinking about ways he can advance or preserve civil rights — uh — his agenda in these final days? While on the subject of the ridiculous, Time magazine’s Brian Bennett had this: IRONY ALERT! Time’s Brian Bennett: “You know, Donald Trump had classified documents at Mar a Lago that he did not secure. Does the President have concerns about information being given to Donald Trump in the next 74 days as part of the transition that Donald Trump would not take… pic.twitter.com/Vcoz1vf7Sl — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 7, 2024 Wang’s ABC colleague Karen Travers had this interesting question many liberals must be thinking fearing now that America’s elected a man they find so odious: ABC’s @KarenTravers: “We’ve heard the President say recently and the summer that the — former President Trump's vision for America is dark and it's not who we are. But given the results on Tuesday night, does he think he misjudged where the country is right now?” KJP: “Look, the… pic.twitter.com/025vpfVH7O — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 7, 2024 Behind Heinrich, the questions of the briefing came via NBC’s Gabe Gutierrez. He started with this stinging probe about Biden’s white-hot descriptions of Donald Trump as a threat to democracy: NBC’s @GabeGutierrez: “Just a little bit earlier, you said that the White House's view when it came to reproductive rights did not change from pre- and post-election. The President repeatedly referred to Donald Trump as a threat to democracy over and over again, and this morning… pic.twitter.com/erQByf8SWq — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 7, 2024 After a follow-up and unrelated question, he concluded by invoking the viral tweet: NBC’s @GabeGutierrez: “Senator Bernie Sanders — he says that — he has suggested that party leadership abandoned the working class. What's the White House response to that?” KJP: “I mean, look, obviously we respect Senator Sanders. He's been a partner with us in many of the… pic.twitter.com/OPKxapupq4 — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 7, 2024 Prior to Heinrich, Real Clear Politics’s Philip Wegmann was up and tried again on Gutierrez’s questions: .@PhilipWegmann: “Does the President still stand by his description of the former president, now president-elect, as an existential threat to democracy?” KJP: “I don't have anything else to share beyond what I said. The President believes, when he said it at the time, he… pic.twitter.com/5NZ1QQWeYY — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 7, 2024 Wegmann also brought up concerns the federal bureaucracy could already be working to undermine a second Trump administration (click “expand”): WEGMANN: What is President Biden’s message to career civil servants who will carry over into the next administration. Does President Biden believe that they should be fully cooperative as the next president seeks to put his agenda into action? JEAN-PIERRE: Fully cooperative? WEGMANN: Not slow things down. JEAN-PIERRE: Oh, no. Absolutely, no. WEGMANN: Republicans are voicing a lot of frustration. JEAN-PIERRE: We’re — we’re saying that we want a good, a peaceful transition. We want an effective, efficient transition. That’s what we’re saying, and that’s in the President’s administration — career, political — uh — we want to make sure that that transition happens in an orderly way — uh — and we’re not looking to slow down anything. We want it to happen — to happen. That’s what the American people deserve. This is not political here, folks. This is not about politics. This is about the right thing to do for the American people. They’ve made a decision and we’re respecting that. To see the relevant transcript from the November 7 briefing, click here.

The CEO of the Zillow real estate app was pressured in an interview with CNBC to say whether mass deportations would improve the crisis of housing affordability in the U.S. Jeremy Wacksman was discussing the company's earnings call on the "Squawk on the Street" show when he was asked about President-elect Donald Trump's plans for mass deportations. 'The structural challenges and changes we need to make as a country are really around affordability and availability of supply.' "Both candidates were talking a lot about housing affordability clearly a front-and-center issue for Americans in the campaign," said Sara Eisen. "What President Trump said about it is that a lot of the affordability problem is due to illegal immigration and that after he carries out the largest deportation operation in history, that will ease prices by reducing demand. Do you agree? Are you optimistic that that can help?" she asked. "The big challenges in the real estate market are affordability and availability. Those are the two structural problems we have to work on," responded Wacksman. "Affordability as we talked about, is around what has happened with home prices and inventory, and inventory is our biggest challenge. We are missing listings, listings are up a little bit from last year, but if you look back to pre-pandemic levels, we're down sharply, and we're chronically underbuilt as a country. And so bringing more inventory, more new home starts online, is gonna be one of the things that really helps the supply demand imbalance. "But have immigrants been a big source of demand for that, and lack of availability?" Eisen pressed. "We've seen demand across all segments, the buyer demand is there," Wacksman replied. "Any time rates move a little bit you see demand spike on sites like Zillow," he added. "The pent up demand, the desire to buy is always there. Again the challenge for buyers is affordability and what they can buy. And so the structural challenges and changes we need to make as a country are really around affordability and availability of supply." The housing crisis in the U.S. has led to a shortage in inventory and high prices with some of the worst housing affordability rates in decades. Economist Chloe East told NPR that illegal immigrants might have a small role on affordability but blamed other factors for the housing crisis. But some research has found that illegal aliens increase demand for limited housing, leading to higher rents and higher prices for housing. Video of Wacksman's appearance on CNBC can be viewed on its 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!