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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) said being chosen as Vice President Harris’s running mate and campaigning with her over the last several months was the “honor and privilege” of his life. In a statement posted Wednesday after Harris conceded the election to President-elect Trump, Walz thanked the vice president for choosing him. “Thank you Vice...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) formally asked House Republicans to reelect them to their leadership posts in letters sent to GOP members on Wednesday. The asks come ahead of leadership elections scheduled for Dec. 13. They also come as election forecasters at Decision Desk HQ and elsewhere have not yet...

Eric Trump, one of President-elect Trump's adult sons, said Wednesday that his father will go down as one of the most “remarkable candidates” in history. He joined Fox News’s Laura Ingraham 24 hours after polls began to close across the country to celebrate his father’s election victory. “I think the media and this whole process...

Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) said on Wednesday he was concerned about the potential lack of checks and balances across government branches, especially if Republicans keep control of the House. In a panel discussion on CNN, Kinzinger said he couldn’t imagine a Republican majority ever bucking President-elect Trump and providing a check on executive power....

Former first lady Melania Trump vowed that the incoming Trump administration will “safeguard the heart of our republic” and push the country forward. “The majority of Americans have entrusted us with this important responsibility,” she said in a Wednesday post on the social platform X. “We will safeguard the heart of our republic — freedom. I...

Boeing machinists voted Monday to end a strike that has hobbled the company for the past 53 days. The new contract includes a 38 percent wage increase over the next four years and a $12,000 ratification bonus. According to Boeing, the average machinist will make $119,309 per year at the end of the four years,...

Vice President Harris on Monday night delivered her final pitch to voters in Philadelphia, leaning into the image of herself as an underdog as her fast-tracked campaign against former President Trump reaches its conclusion. “Philadelphia, you ready to do this? Are we ready to vote? Are we ready to win?” Harris asked the crowd. “It’s...

A Nevada politics expert has predicted that Vice President Harris will narrowly clinch the Silver State in the 2024 presidential election. Jon Ralston, the CEO and editor of The Nevada Independent, said in a Monday piece for the outlet that the vice president will garner 48.5 percent of the vote and former President Trump will...

Nevada Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar (D) is expressing optimism the state could avoid a repeat of 2020, when it took until the weekend for media outlets to project President Biden as the winner of the key battleground. "We reviewed the Nevada statutes; we found that we had some opportunity to increase the efficiency of the...

Vice President Harris went door-knocking in Pennsylvania one day before this year's presidential election. Harris was in Reading, Pa., and stopped in a residential neighborhood Monday night, according to a pool report. After she made her way over a driveway, the vice president met with a family that included two parents and an adult son....

Podcaster Joe Rogan on Monday endorsed former President Trump in the presidential race on the heels of an interview with billionaire Trump supporter Elon Musk. Rogan promoted the interview with Musk on the social media platform X, saying the Tesla CEO "makes what I think is the most compelling case for Trump you'll hear, and...

Former President Trump on Monday held two rallies in Pennsylvania, capping his campaign efforts in a crucial battleground by levying attacks on Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), musing about college athletes wrestling migrants and welcoming Megyn Kelly onto the stage. "We’re certainly on the two- or three-yard line, and the only way we can blow it...

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, will hold a final campaign rally with Michigan voters Monday night in Detroit. Along with his wife, Gwen, he will speak to supporters at an event that will include musical performances by the Jon Bon Jovi, the Detroit Youth Choir, and The War and Treaty. The...

Ohio Sen. JD Vance, the Republican nominee for vice president, on Monday riffed on recent comments from President Biden in which he appeared to compare former President Trump's supporters to garbage, stating that Vice President Harris is "trash." “And our message to Kamala Harris is very simple, the citizens of this country, they are not...

Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security   The Big Story US quietly carries out counter-ISIS operations U.S. forces in the Middle East have killed 163 Islamic State group militants and captured another 33 in dozens of operations in Iraq and Syria since late August, U.S. Central...

Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a prominent election forecaster, predicted Monday that this year’s elections will result in a House divided by one vote. “Just like the presidential race, the battle for the House has been a Toss-up for essentially the whole cycle,” Sabato’s Crystal Ball Editor-in-Chief Larry Sabato, Managing Editor Kyle Kondik and Associate Editor J....

It’s time. The campaign for the White House is almost over and, on Tuesday, the voters will deliver their verdict. Around 75 million people have already cast their ballots. The election will likely be decided in seven battlegrounds: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The opinion polls are tighter in more states...

Bernice King, daughter of civil rights icon the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., is calling for a Trump-supporting social media account to remove an ad featuring her father generated by artificial intelligence (AI).  In a video posted to the social platform X, the account @MAGAResource shares a "deepfake" video of King praising former President Trump. ...

U.S. forces in the Middle East have killed 163 Islamic State group militants and captured another 33 in dozens of operations in Iraq and Syria since late August, U.S. Central Command said in a Monday statement. Since Aug. 29, more than 95 Defeat ISIS (D-ISIS) operations, some of which included strikes in Syria, “resulted in...

P'nut, an Instagram-famous squirrel that was seized and euthanized by New York state, has entered the political fray, with Republicans saying its killing is representative of "Democratic overreach." “Our government will let in 16,000 rapists, they will let in 13,000 murderers, they will let in 6,00,000 criminals across our border, but if someone has a...

NBC News aired a short video message from former President Trump on Sunday evening in an effort to provide the leading presidential candidates with equal air time after Vice President Harris made an appearance on “Saturday Night Live” (SNL). The network was broadcasting a NASCAR playoff race but toward the end of its broadcast,...

New security fencing went up around the White House, U.S. Capitol and Vice President Harris’s residence in Washington, D.C. as authorities prepare for Election Day in the event there may be political unrest in the coming days. The Secret Service constructed eight-foot-high metal fences around the White House and Treasury Department complex and the adjacent...

Former President Trump raged in a post online after a shocking Iowa poll found Vice President Harris leading in the state. “No President has done more for FARMERS, and the Great State of Iowa, than Donald J. Trump,” he shared Sunday morning to his Truth Social site. “In fact, it’s not even close!” A poll...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) said New Yorkers who vote Republican in the state’s tight congressional races are “anti-woman” and “anti-American.” “If you’re voting for these Republicans in New York, you are voting for someone who supports Donald Trump, and you’re anti-woman, you’re anti-abortion, and basically, you’re anti-American because you have just trashed American...