Nancy Pelosi

Jan. 6 was not “an insurrection,” but “a protest that became a riot when a woefully insufficient security plan collapsed,” argues Jonathan Turley at The Hill.

Once again, Newsom gets Trumped by the calendar.

The J6 riot was not an insurrection but a protest that escalated into an out-of-control riot.

"Every dollar of federal spending has its own constituency. Even the slightest trims are deemed 'draconian' and raise dire alarms about grannies being rolled off cliffs and children left to misery," Finley writes.

The Illinois Supreme Court ruling in favor of Jussie Smollett threw a surprise wrench in Kim Foxx's valedictory tour.

A Capitol Police officer takes a photo as a Marine helicopter carrying Barack and Michelle Obama lifts off from the East Plaza of the Capitol on Jan. 20, 2017, following Donald Trump's swearing-in as president. The Bidens are slated to take a similar ride in two months. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)

In the forthcoming cli-fi book, "Shutouts," the author speculates about the motives of the super-rich in not working in unity with climate scientists and activists to reverse the ravages of climate destruction. The author, Gabrielle Korn, tells a tale of...

Kamala Harris could count on winning California’s 54 electoral college votes as she campaigned for president, and the state’s voters delivered. In fact, California’s electoral votes were almost a quarter of the 226 she won nationwide, 44 short of what she needed to defeat Donald Trump. Simultaneously, however, Harris’s party fell short of regaining control of the [...]

Kamala Harris could count on winning California’s 54 electoral college votes as she campaigned for president, and the state’s voters delivered. In fact, California’s electoral votes were almost a quarter of the 226 she won nationwide, 44 short of what she needed to defeat Donald Trump. Simultaneously, however, Harris’s party fell short of regaining control [...]The post Demography Drives Destiny and Right Now California Is Losing appeared first on GV Wire.

Resistance to the Chinese Communist Party's suppression in Hong Kong has garnered bipartisan support in the United States.

“It's an honor to stand on the shoulders of Speaker Nancy Pelosi,” he said Sunday.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Sunday that House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has been "incredibly respectful" of him.Why it matters: Some of Jeffries' Democratic colleagues told Axios last week that Pelosi's public comments in the aftermath of the 2024 election are unfairly eclipsing his leadership.Pelosi told the New York Times that President Biden should have dropped his re-election bid earlier and that, if he had, Democrats may have had the opportunity to run an open primary."She needs to take a seat," complained one senior House Democrat.What he's saying: Asked about the report in an NBC "Meet the Press" appearance, Jeffries said Pelosi "has been incredibly respectful of the entire leadership team.""It's an honor to stand on the shoulders of Speaker Nancy Pelosi, an incredibly consequential public servant in the history of America, and to continue to work closely with Speaker Pelosi," he said.Pressed on whether he believes Pelosi's remarks to the press are undermining his leadership, Jeffries said simply: "No."

In an exclusive interview with Meet the Press, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) says Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi has been “incredibly respectful” to Democratic House leadership as some members privately say she needs to “take a seat.”

“If you really wanted to decapitate democratic government, the way to do it would be to wipe out the House of Representatives.”

The Democratic Party’s chickens have come home to roost, as Lisa Douglas, Sam Drucker and Eb Dawson would have put it on the old TV sitcom “Green Acres.” Even Arnold Ziffel and Hank Kimball, two other red-state rubes from the popular 1960s show set in Hooterville, USA, could have told the D.C. talking heads that [...]

Slinker isn’t charged with theft, but an FBI agent’s affidavit suggests that he left the Capitol with the stolen computer inside his backpack after other rioters helped him remove it from a conference room.

Donald Trump has chosen Fox News host Pete Hegseth to be his nominee to serve as secretary of defense. If his nomination is successful, Hegseth will be in charge of the most powerful military in human history, and his decisions will have a ripple effect that will eventually touch the lives of every person on Earth.This is quite a portfolio to put in the grasp of a man who claims he didn’t wash his hands for 10 years, has a well-documented history of bigotry across religions and gender, and whose biggest qualification seems to be his frequent appearances on Trump’s favorite propaganda outlet.Here are 17 wild things we know about Pete Hegseth.

At least there was no singing?

A viral post shared on Threads claims Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi purportedly said Democrats would impeach President-elect Donald Trump before he gets elected. View on Threads Verdict: False The claim is false. A spokesperson for Pelosi denied she made the purported remark in an email to Check Your Fact. Fact Check: MSNBC host [...]

Vice President Harris’s defeat in last week’s presidential election raises a thorny dilemma for Democrats as they look ahead to future election cycles, including the 2028 presidential race. Twice in the past three presidential elections, Democrats have nominated a woman. Both times, they have lost. The sole Democratic victor in those three elections was President [...]

Progressives are urging Democrats to pursue a path forward that prioritizes America’s working-class population, the coalition that overwhelmingly rejected their party and supported President-elect Trump for a second term. Leftists believe moderates have failed to uplift economically marginalized people, deviating from their decades-old mandate and leaving that group open to Republicans’ message. Failing to keep [...]

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) said it’s wrong for Democrats to call American voters 'sexist and racist.'

Joe Biden doomed Kamala Harris' presidential campaign when he opted to run for a second term, podcaster and former Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau argued.

The former House Speaker also seemed to reject any analysis blaming Democrats for their election loss on a failure to win over working families.

‘I knew it was my time'

The former House Speaker reflects on Donald Trump’s victory, Kamala Harris’s candidacy and the future of the Democratic Party.

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s return to the White House will put him in a position to push for criminal charges against his political opponents, such as former Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other members of Congress. The soon-to-be president expressed support for that tactic on the campaign trail, but former Justice Department officials and legal experts say there are various guardrails set up to ...

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) questioned President Biden's decision to endorse Vice President Harris for the Democratic nomination in an NYT interview published Friday.Why it matters: Democrats are deeply divided over what went wrong this election cycle. As those debates rage, the bad blood between two giants of the Democratic old guard seems to be getting worse.What she's saying: "Had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race," Pelosi said on "The Interview" podcast. "The anticipation was that, if the president were to step aside, that there would be an open primary.""I think [Harris] would have done well in that and been stronger going forward. But we don't know that. That didn't happen. We live with what happened.""And because the president endorsed Kamala Harris immediately, that really made it almost impossible to have a primary at that time. If it had been much earlier, it would have been different."The intrigue: Pelosi was one of the most influential members of a quiet movement to push Biden out of the race after his disastrous debate in June.She told the Guardian last month that she hadn't spoken to Biden since, and that some in his orbit "haven't forgiven" her. She defended her efforts to move the party onto a "better course" with a new nominee, while also praising Biden's accomplishments.The White House did not offer on-record comment for this story.Flashback: Within 24 hours of Biden bowing out in July, as the momentum swung behind Harris as the nominee, Pelosi offered the VP her "enthusiastic support." In the lead-up to Biden's bombshell, though, Democratic elites had been debating whether to rally behind Harris or to hold some kind of "mini primary," possibly including the likes of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, California Gov. Gavin Newsom or Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro.Most senior Democrats found that idea too risky, and none (including Pelosi) challenged Harris for the nomination or criticized Biden for his endorsement. Pelosi is now arguing that the Democrats would have been better off if Biden left more time for the party to settle on its candidate, even if it still ultimately chose Harris.Between the lines: If Pelosi had those concerns in real time, she didn't raise them publicly. She also called for Biden to run in 2024 before he entered the race.What to watch: Pelosi weighed in on another hot topic in the party's post-election soul searching: why working class voters went so overwhelmingly for Trump.Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said the party had "abandoned the working class" before it abandoned them.Pelosi rejected Sanders' analysis and said the issue was culture, not policies. "Guns, God and gays — that's the way they say it," she told the Times. "Guns, that's an issue; gays, that's an issue, and now they're making the trans issue such an important issue in their priorities; and in certain communities, what they call God, what we call a woman's right to choose."Go deeper: Deep Democratic depressionHarris, Biden camps blame each other for loss

A viral post shared on X claims votes cast for Green Party candidate Jill Stein in the 2024 election prevented Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris from winning the state of Virginia. We couldve secured Virginia if 20k woke twt warriors hadn’t voted for Jill stein pic.twitter.com/5nzAT6Cioc — onikaperry (@perryminajgaga1) November 6, 2024 Verdict: False [...]

Call it schadenfreude. Or, call it a healthy desire to witness just deserts. Either way, watching the world’s worst people wallow in their own well-earned misery gives one immense satisfaction. [...]The post Watch: Nancy Pelosi Appears to Be Having a Hard Time Dealing with Kamala's Loss as Cameras Capture Tense Moment appeared first on The Western Journal.

A post shared on social media purports that President Joe Biden posted “that’s what you get” in response to the polls on election night. pic.twitter.com/0VNzO8WH9l — AB (@AB84) November 6, 2024 Verdict: False The claim is inaccurate. Fact Check: Vice President Kamala Harris conceded the presidential election at an event at Howard University and told supporters [...]

Every seat in the U.S. House is up for election and polls show either party could win control.

Conservatives—both media pundits and Republican officeholders—love to make election predictions. Curiously, most of those predictions tend to see an upside for Republicans. But many of the right’s most infamous predictions go wrong, spectacularly so. Here are 13 of the right’s worst predictions, plus one so wrong it had to be noted.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) disclosed a new round of trades that includes bets on billionaires Warren Buffett, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk ahead of the 2024 presidential election.What Happened: Greene disclosed purchasing multiple stocks on Tuesday, with the trades all made on Nov. 1 and tracked on Benzinga's Government Trades page for the representative.Here are the stocks bought by Greene, with each trade disclosed in a range of $1,000 to $15,000:Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD)Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL)Berkshire Hathaway B (NYSE:BRK)Corning Inc (NYSE:GLW)Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR)Duke Energy (NYSE:DUK)Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC)Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META)Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA)Hershey Co (NYSE:HSY)Greene previously disclosed several trades in October, which included buying some of the same stocks, including Berkshire Hathaway, Intel, Tesla and Meta Platforms. In September, Greene also bought Berkshire Hathaway and Intel shares.In May, Greene disclosed her first stock purchases in several years, which included Berkshire Hathaway and Hershey shares.Since May, Greene has been actively trading and adding to positions ...Full story available on Benzinga.com

When the 2024 presidential campaign began, it looked a lot like the last one. Former President Donald Trump and sitting President Joe Biden became the presumptive nominees for their parties in March. This year was set to be the first U.S. presidential rematch since 1956. We all know sequels are rarely more interesting than the original, and it seemed like this election might be downright boring. But the joke was on us, because Americans have just lived through the most dramatic, eventful, unexpected presidential campaign of our lives. We revisit the key moments that brought us to this point in the race.For sponsor-free episodes of Consider This, sign up for Consider This+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org. Email us at [email protected].

Hakeem Jeffries has said this election is about the economy, and stopping Project 2025 and MAGA extremes. And after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, he says it’s about democracy. Yet Jeffries, who is in line to make...

While Republicans are favored to win the Senate, the outcome for the House is uncertain. Fox News' Chad Pergram shares his thoughts on 2024's Congressional races.

Mail and phone service can be unreliable. Sometimes polls simply don't open if there's no trained election worker. Hundreds of people can be disenfranchised.

American voters are approaching the presidential election with deep unease about what could follow, including the potential for political violence, according to a new poll.

Election Day is less than two weeks away, but Donald Trump is laying the groundwork to challenge the election if he comes up short against Vice President Kamala Harris.On Wednesday, NBC News reported that Trump's allies expect that he will quickly declare victory on election night, regardless of whether the election has been called. One Trump ally said Trump would declare victory again if early returns skew more Republican, which is likely to happen again since they won’t include mail-in ballots, just like in 2020.“There is no part of me who does not think that is part of the conversation,” a Trump donor from North Carolina told NBC News. “We have seen him do it before, and if he is up on election night, I think his campaign—maybe smartly—will try it again.”As in 2020, Trump and his allies are spreading the same baseless lies that voting machines are stealing votes from Trump, a lie that cost Fox News $787 million in a defamation suit."Reports from Whitfield County, GA that Dominion machines are flipping votes," far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia wrote in a post on X, with no proof to back up her claim. "This is exactly the kind of fraud we saw in 2020."

It’s unclear who installed the monument.

John Kelly denounces his ex-boss in a series of interviews with the New York Times. What will Trump allies do in response to Donald Trump's former staffer.

I've been on the ground here. What I know is that no matter what the polls tell you, Donald Trump is winning in Pennsylvania. I'm not saying it's over, but this is more than momentum.

As the contest speeds to its conclusion, Harris and Trump are embracing wildly different strategies.

Former President Trump stood by his comments that political opponents are the "enemy from within" in a Fox News interview aired Sunday. The big picture: The GOP nominee has dug his heels in on controversial rhetoric, even as it has garnered scrutiny, while his language becomes darker ahead of Nov. 5. Since he suggested in a Fox interview aired last week that the National Guard or military could be used against the "enemy from within," including "radical-left lunatics," in the case of Election Day chaos, Trump has doubled down on his comments. He has, on multiple occasions in recent days, named Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as examples of the "enemy."In a separate head-turning moment at a Univision town hall Wednesday, Trump downplayed the events of January 6, where around 140 police officers were assaulted, as "a day of love."Zoom in: He reaffirmed his contention that the deadly Jan. 6 attack was a "day of love" in a "MediaBuzz" interview aired on Sunday with Howard Kurtz.Pressed on the comment he made at a Univision town hall, Trump bragged about the crowd size at the rally preceding the Capitol riot, saying there was "beauty" and a "love" in the "tremendous crowd." He again claimed "strange things" happened at the Capitol on Jan. 6, falsely alleging police were "ushering" rioters into the building."I'm saying that when I saw that tremendous crowd — the largest group I've ever spoken to — in front of these beautiful monuments, I thought it was actually a beautiful thing," he said. "It was a peaceful [protest]."The GOP nominee also argued there were "no guns" at the site of the riot (there were).What he's saying: Kurtz highlighted the former president's "enemy from within" phrase, saying it is "a pretty ominous phrase if you're talking about other Americans."Trump replied, "I think it's accurate," saying a "smart president" can handle the "so-called enemies" like Russia and China but that there are also enemies within the U.S. He again pointed to Schiff, who probed Trump during his time as chair of the House Intelligence Committee, as a "crooked politician" and "an enemy.""Of course, he's an enemy ... he wanted to put my son in jail," he claimed, calling Schiff a "threat to democracy."He added he thinks "Nancy Pelosi is an enemy from within," reiterating false claims that the former House Speaker rejected National Guard troops during the Jan. 6 attack.Zoom out: Trump also responded to criticism from former Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley and Defense Secretary Gen. Jim Mattis, calling them "woke" and saying he does not "respect them as soldiers.""I don't consider those people great generals," Trump reiterated.Go deeper: Trump downplays Jan. 6: "You had a peaceful transfer of power"

Ingraham has been a Fox News contributor since 2007 before her own show in 2017. She also served as a speechwriter for the Reagan administration.

The following is a transcript of an interview with Rep. Mike Lawler, Republican of New York, on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" that aired on Oct. 20, 2024.

While China isn’t enamored with either U.S. presidential candidate, conversations in Beijing indicate a clear preference for the continuity of Kamala Harris over the unpredictability of Donald Trump.

For over two decades, often-hysterical opposition from the American political left stalled deployment of an operational missile shield. Their hysteria was a fossil rite drawing on their Cold War opposition to President Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative.

As the presidential race moves into its final weeks, Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump embarked on an interview blitz that offered new details about their policy priorities and their political strategies.