President-elect Donald Trump's big victory is not only a historic return to the White House, it likely spells the end of four long-running criminal prosecutions of him by the Biden Justice Department and Democratic state prosecutors.
Making a political concession speech is a difficult, emotionally fraught task. In Vice President Kamala Harris‘s concession remarks Wednesday afternoon, she ably upheld the civic imperatives of the moment. Let’s not parse every word to identify phrases from Harris that critics believe are disingenuous. Sometimes the cause of statesmanship requires a sort of civically lofty […]
At long last, the vaunted “red wave” that eluded the Republican Party two years ago washed over the United States and carried President-elect Donald Trump back to the White House and likely with it a Republican-controlled Congress. Two years ago, Republicans stood at their election night watch parties in disbelief as the sizable House and […]
By noon on Election Day, the Washington Examiner had two editorials ready to publish once the voters’ choice for president was revealed some hours later. Both assumed that former President Donald Trump would win, which is what we expected. The first examined Trump’s comeback, the most astonishing in America’s political history, from indictments, impeachments, and […]
For reasons of culture and history, Russians respect strength. They despise weakness and enjoy devouring those who offer it. President-elect Donald Trump prizes himself as an artist of effective negotiation. Trump’s negotiations delivered some dividends in his first term. The former president transitioned U.S.-North Korean relations from the precipice of war to an eccentric but […]
Former President Trump’s performance among Latino and Hispanic voters offered one of the brightest spots for Republicans on Election Day, as the former president made inroads with the critical voting bloc. Despite the backlash Trump received for a rally featuring a comedian making racist jokes about Puerto Rico and Latinos, the former president appeared to...
Former President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama congratulated President-elect Trump on his election victory and urged the country to have “good faith and grace.” “In a country as big and diverse as ours, we won’t always see eye-to-eye on everything. But progress requires us to extend good faith and grace — even to people...
The head of the Navy’s Leadership and Ethics Command (NLEC) San Diego was fired Wednesday over a “loss of confidence” in his ability to command, according to a service statement. Capt. Lester Brown Jr. was relieved of his duties and has been reassigned to Naval Surface Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet, the Navy said, offering no...
Democrats spent the immediate aftermath of election night on Wednesday looking for answers. In the early hours of what one called a “bloodbath,” they repeatedly questioned how Donald Trump and Republicans beat them for a second time. And who, they wondered, was responsible for such a stunning defeat? For the most part, they did not direct...