President Obama did the right thing this Wednesday morning, because that is who he is and what he does.
The President showed Donald Trump more courtesy and respect than the birther powered to the White House by the KKK and neo-Nazis deserved by calling Donald Trump to congratulate him on his victory.
For more than eight years Democrats have been on the defensive against the Republican attack machine. Republicans never had to be accountable for anything because they could always blame President Obama. Now, the shoe is on the other foot, and it is time for Democrats to dust themselves off and fight back.
“Tonight, there are millions of Americans who, I am sad to say, fear their liberties will be challenged by a Trump administration.”
“Now it’s time for America to bind the wounds of division. We have to get together. To all Republicans and Democrats and Independents across this nation, I say it is time for us to come together as one united people. It’s time.”
Sometime in the wee hours of the morning, after 2 am Eastern Time, Hillary Clinton called Donald Trump to concede, something Trump had promised never to do, even if he clearly lost.
The nation’s largest non-partisan voter protection organization, Election Protection, issued a statement detailing the nationwide acts of voter intimidation by Trump and the Republican Party.
This is the first U.S. Senate seat picked up by Democrats on the evening.
This is the kind of happy talk that one may expect from Democrats – not a prominent Republican pollster.
PoliticusUSA’s Sarah Jones is live blogging all of the results and action from election night.
“Wait, wait. At least” 4 grandparents? Just how many are we expected to have? We’re not all Trump children with three possible moms.”
Hillary Clinton’s superior organization is routing Donald Trump on the ground according to a new election day exit poll.
A hero judge stood up to the Trump campaign’s crazed Nevada conspiracy and dismissed their attempt to undermine democracy with a bogus lawsuit.
Donald Trump is filing a lawsuit because officials in Clark County, Nevada legally kept the polls open so that people who were waiting in line could vote:
People in Rochester, New York are waiting in line at the grave of voting rights activist Susan B. Anthony so they can thank her and leave “I voted” stickers on her grave.
More than half of the voter intimidation reports being logged in the entire country by Election Protection are coming in from the must-win state of Pennsylvania.
CNN caught Republican nominee Donald Trump looking over his wife’s shoulder as she voted as if he needed to verify her ballot for some reason.
Asked on Instagram, “Gisele I heard you and Tom were backing Trump! Is that true??” Tom Brady’s wife responded with a resounding “NO!”
Donald Trump was booed as he arrived at his polling place, a New York City school, P.S. 59 around 11 a.m this morning
“Only In States Controlled By Republican Legislatures Has Early Voting Been Reduced”
“You have to take all of this incredibly seriously. We are the oldest political party and we are under constant attack from Russia and/or maybe others.”
The blatant expression of hatred for all things not white, not Christian, and not conservative over the past year brought shame on America.
“In the case of Jay Z, the language he used was terrible. She talks about me and the language was unbelievable that Jay Z and Beyoncé used.”
“America was great, is great and will stay great, and might perhaps get even greater, but not if it elects a great pretender like Donald Trump.”
‘It’s late,’ tweeted CBS News’ Sopan Deb, ‘but a decent chunk of the crowd here started filing out shortly after Trump started speaking.’
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump both ended their campaigns with late night rallies that could not have been more different. Clinton’s North Carolina rally was a loud party, while Trump’s event in Michigan was a dark slog that was exactly like the incoherent nonsense that marked the launch of his campaign.
Donald Trump closed his campaign by going off script and having a breakdown in New Hampshire after Hillary Clinton drew a bigger crowd to her rally than any of his rallies during the campaign.
The numbers are in and the crowd count at Hillary Clinton’s Philadelphia rally was even higher than originally estimated, reaching 33,000. Several thousand additional people also watched from outside.
A late early vote surge shows an uptick from 2012 in two Democratic counties, causing Michael McDonald of Elect Project to say that Hillary Rodham Clinton might have pulled off Ohio. At the very least, the late surge has swung Ohio toward Clinton.
Clinton said tomorrow is “just the beginning” of the work ahead.
It was a classic moment at Hillary Clinton’s gigantic Philadelphia rally. As the Democratic nominee expressed regret over the anger in the campaign, a woman in the crowd shouted back, “Not your fault.”
“We are one day away from once again making history,” the First Lady said.
The Boss, a staple of Democratic politics, outlined Trump’s dangerous policy ideas and said: “Tomorrow, those ideas and that campaign is going down.”
The choice in this election could not be any clearer, and it’s not just because Donald Trump is so dangerous.
With 24 hours to go, the wind is at Hillary Clinton’s back as she stands on the doorstep of history.
The DOJ’s Civil Rights division is “charged with enforcing the federal voting rights laws that protect the rights of all citizens to access the ballot on Election Day.
This has been a painful election to cover.
At times I haven’t been sure I could continue. I know I’m not alone in those feelings because I read your messages and tweets, and I could feel the horror and outrage growing into an eventual numbness, which manifested in a choked silence.
With hours to go before Americans vote, Democrat Hillary Clinton has about a 90 percent chance of defeating Republican Donald Trump in the race for the White House, according to the final Reuters/Ipsos States of the Nation project.
The final day of the presidential campaign is here, and the Politicus Presidential Projection map contains more clarity as election day awaits.
A poll of early voters nationwide conducted by Politico/Morning Consult found that Democrats are more motivated and they are early voting or voting by mail in larger numbers than Republicans and Independents.
Republican strategist and commentator Ana Navarro voted for Democrat Hillary Clinton, saying that Florida is too close for her to cast a symbolic protest vote. She said she voted “AGAINST Trump, and FOR HILLARY.”
President Obama got to the heart of the problem with Donald Trump Monday saying it’s bad enough being arrogant when you know what you’re talking about, but “It’s really bad being arrogant when you don’t know what you’re talking about.”
A new Monmouth University Poll has found that as the election draws to a close, Hillary Clinton’s lead is growing. Clinton now leads Trump 50%-44%% nationally.
Fox News’s poll released on election eve shows support for Hillary Clinton doubling in three days to four points 44%-40%) over Donald Trump.
“I just don’t put a whole lot of faith in polls…Like I’ve said before, polls are only good for strippers and cross-country skiers.”
Trump fan in Minnesota sports t-shirt saying ‘Rope. Tree. Journalist. Some Assembly Required.’
“Her plan will import generations of terrorism, extremism, and radicalism into your schools and throughout your communities…we will keep them out”
Things are getting ugly in Trump Land as some supporters are outraged that Trump is running more than two hours late after scheduling five rallies for Sunday and not being on time.
In moments of the campaign when his polling has improved, the markets went into a freefall.
*The following is an opinion column by R Muse* Over the past eight years it has been glaringly apparent that Republicans are opposed to democracy and their attempts to either obstruct or suppress voting have resulted in several federal court rulings ordering them to stop; to absolutely no effect. Fascist Donald Trump’s takeover…
“I’ve got your blue state right here, baby,” Nugent said.
“If somebody starts tweeting at three in the morning because SNL made fun of you, then you can’t handle the nuclear codes.”
A state that was once thought to be safely in the Trump column is now in play in the Politicus Presidential Projection Map for November 6, 2016.
The Cleveland basketball star knows a thing or two about comeback wins.
The Trump campaign has spent months questioning the legitimacy of the FBI.
FBI Director James Comey tried to clean up the mess caused by his first letter by issuing a new letter that has once again cleared Hillary Clinton of any crimes related to her use of private email. The letter comes on what is nearly election eve and amounts to a final kick in the teeth for the downtrodden and desperate Republican Party.
This is just a confirmation of what most of us have known all along: The Hillary Clinton email story is much ado about nothing.
After it was reported that Mrs. Trump worked in the US illegally before becoming a citizen, the wife of the Republican presidential nominee was reported to US Customs for immigration violations.
As the presidential campaign closes, Donald Trump is in full Richard Nixon mode and plotting to use the presidency to get revenge against his enemies.
Even Republican pollsters are projecting that Hillary Clinton will win well above the needed 270 electoral college votes to win the White House.
Both the NBC/WSJ and Politico/Morning Consult final national polls show Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump by at least 3 points. The worse news for Trump is that undecided voters are not breaking his direction.
The election results will the story of the hopes and dreams this country has for its future.
Donald Trump talks tough, but the Republican nominee was rushed off stage by the Secret Service during his rally in Reno, Nevada after he and the audience mistook a sign for a gun.
Trump has effectively functioned as a smoke screen for the remarkably consistent orchestration of a Republican scorched earth policy at the state level
On Saturday morning, the Supreme Court reversed the Ninth Circuit’s ruling involving an Arizona law, H.B. 2023, that bans “ballot harvesting†by making it “a felony for anyone other than election officials, mail carriers, family members, or caregivers to collect early voting ballots.†In that order, the Ninth Circuit would have allowed ballot harvesting until…
President Obama will appear in Michigan on behalf of Hillary Clinton at a public “Get Out The Vote” event in Ann Arbor on Monday
Trump claims he is going to “drain the swamp.” The problem is he plans to fill it up with Russians only too eager to take the job of running our country
“Can we wonder that many reformers think that measures are not likely to be taken on behalf of women, unless their wishes could be publicly represented by women?”
“I’ll tell you what. He should not be campaigning for Hillary Clinton. He should be at the Oval Office working on jobs.”
This isn’t the first time there’s been controversy surrounding Trump and Ryan. It likely won’t be the last.
According to documents obtained by the Associated Press, Melania was paid $20,056 for 10 modeling jobs that occurred in the seven weeks before she got a work visa.
Clinton used her final TV spot to end the campaign on a positive note.
The FBI and U.S. intelligence agencies are examining faked documents aimed at discrediting the Hillary Clinton campaign as part of a broader investigation into what U.S. officials believe has been an attempt by Russia to disrupt the presidential election, people with knowledge of the matter said.
“Trump’s commandments are like the regular commandments with LOL at the end. Adultery? Check. Cursing? Check. Stealing? Check. Bearing false witness? Check”
“It very well could be the Hispanic vote that saves Hillary Clinton in Florida.”
Trump is breaking federal law and Trump Hotel Las Vegas is operating illegally. He should accept the federal government’s order and treat his workers with respect.
Nobody seems to be paying attention to Iowa anymore, but it’s a tight contest that Hillary Clinton’s ground operation could quietly steal it from Trump.
“Trump/Pence supporter comes to press pen to express displeasure w/ Univision: ‘F*ck Jorge Ramos!’ Tells me he’s not ‘a real journalist.'”
The presidential election is definitely shifting, but not in the direction that one party was hoping for. Here is the presidential projection map for November 5.
“!!!! Trump just said he’s never used language like what Jay-Z said last night in his life! (“Locker room talk”?)”
Donald Trump is the candidate who campaigned on building a wall, but it is Hillary Clinton who has built an early voting firewall in Nevada and Trump is paying for it.
“‘He became unhinged!’ … And he spent so much time screaming at this protester and frankly, it was a disgrace.”
Republicans may pay by losing elections for a generation after nominating Donald Trump, as Hillary Clinton is building a new and even more diverse coalition within the Democratic Party
With 4 days before the election, Fox falls for poorly-sourced FBI leaks, elevates Tucker Carlson, and becomes fodder for Megyn Kelly’s book.
Donald Trump couldn’t hide his jealousy as Jay Z and Beyonce held a concert in Cleveland, OH to get out the vote for Hillary Clinton.
President Obama has US military hackers ready to make Russia pay if they try to cyber attack the presidential election.
A Democratic electoral college elector in Washington state is refusing to vote for Hillary Clinton even if she wins the popular vote. If he sticks to his word, Clinton will need 271 electoral college votes to win the White House.
The FBI has been leaking information to the Trump campaign, and top House Democrats are calling for a federal investigation. If Trump loses on Tuesday, the FBI could be facing a world of trouble.
A bad day for Chris Christie has gotten even worse as the New Jersey Governor has been reported to the Department of Justice for violations of the Voting Rights Act.
President Obama showed what it means to a president for all Americans by defending a Trump supporter during a rally for Hillary Clinton in North Carolina.
Donald Trump’s campaign manager Kellyanne Conway mimicked the irony-impairment of Melania Trump by accusing Hillary Clinton of running the “nastiest, most substance-free campaign in final days. Even sadder? Comes from a woman.”
Our map has seen a few changes since yesterday, so here are the projection maps for the best and most likely scenarios for Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump on election day as of November 4, 2016
Republican Governor Chris Christie’s (R-NJ) former aides Bill Baroni and Bridget Kelly charged with 7 counts and found guilty on all counts in the Bridgegate trial.
Latino voter turnout is skyrocketing, as Republicans are facing a rout with Latino voters thanks to Donald Trump.
Donald Trump’s gloom and doom campaign may have been dealt a final blow by an October jobs report that showed unemployment falling below 5%, and 161,000 new private sector jobs created.
Trump told Americans that if elected, Hillary Clinton will import 650 million immigrants into America a week and lose control of the country.
“Trump does his totally false they-don’t-show-the-crowds riff again as — you guessed it — the cameras are showing his crowds.”
“I think they’re different. I think the endorsement is far different than who you actually vote for. And it’s the one vote I actually do for myself”
“It is a mortal sin to vote Democrat … immediately after death the souls of those who die in a state of mortal sin descend into hell.â€
F.B.I. directors are supposed to be above politics, not in them. Mr. Comey has to do the right thing – resign.
The Republican nominee – a guy who calls himself a champion of the people – is only truly good at championing one person: himself.
