Nancy Pelosi

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.

This spending bill funds the government through October, November, and just before Christmas, setting up another showdown just before Christmas eve.

Whether or not members of Congress have insider knowledge of a business is irrelevant: they certainly have insider knowledge of the government, legislation, and foreign affairs that will impact the stock market and the stocks they own. That's why members of Congress so often outperform the broad market and why more investors than ever are following their trades. MarketBeat.com has tools to help investors track Congress's most recent and hottest trades, but other tools are available. Investors who want to use an ETF for broad exposure with less hassle may choose one of these aptly ticketed issues.Democrats Lead the Charge in Technology-Focused InvestmentsThe Subversive Unusual Whales Democratic ETF (BATS: NANC) uses data aggregated by Unusual Whales to produce a portfolio based on the trading of Democratic members of Congress. The ticker symbol NANC is an homage to Nancy Pelosi, among the richest members of Congress with a net worth near $0.250 billion and a prolific trader. She and her fellow Democrats tend to invest heavily in technology stocks, with nine of the top ten portfolio holdings in that sector. The number one is NVIDIA, at more than 10%, followed by Microsoft, ...Full story available on Benzinga.com

Rep. David L. Hobson, R-Ohio, sits in the House Energy-Water Appropriations Subcommittee hearing room on June 9, 2006.

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz on Saturday told a Longview crowd that Democrats have created an illegal immigration crisis and that his Democratic opponent doesn’t reflect the values East Texans hold dear.

Reporters were heard gasping when the president entered the room

Between racist asides, Trump managed to make light of a gunned-down supporter at a big-ticket fundraising dinner

'[The president] works around the clock'

Former Rep. Liz Cheney closed her first appearance on the campaign trail alongside Vice President Kamala Harris in Wisconsin on Thursday with a plea for voters to support Democratic presidential nominee to ​“help us right the ship of our democracy.”

Trump attorneys filed a memo Thursday in support of their motion to dismiss all charges brought against the former president by Special Counsel Jack Smith.

If cynics are people prematurely disappointed about the future, they might now constitute something recently elusive: an American consensus.

A majority of voters blame "extreme political rhetoric" from some politicians and media figures for contributing to the assassination attempt targeting Trump.

More often than not, the two major political parties directly oppose each other on major issues, which explains why those issues tend to linger, unresolved, for years or even decades. Occasionally, however, there are issues that deviate from the partisan pattern, creating odd-bedfellows alliances. One of them is a 2017 overhaul of federal income taxes [...]The post Trump Killed a Tax Break Popular in CA. Now He Agrees with Pelosi and Wants to Restore It appeared first on GV Wire.

The former president presided over a dramatic spike in crime, which has steadily fallen since he left office

The decision is a major blow to efforts attempting to rein in the homegrown industry that is rapidly evolving with little oversight.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill to create safety measures for large artificial intelligence models in what would have been the first such law in the country.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday vetoed a landmark artificial intelligence bill that was designed to have first-in-the-nation safety regulations against AI misuse.The big picture: Backers of the bill that would've required AI developers to comply with certain rules before developing models had argued it would provide safety with workable provisions at a time when Congress has stalled on the matter and the EU has taken a lead in regulating the sector.The bill had divided the tech industry. The likes of Google Meta, and OpenAI opposed it amid concerns that it might hamper innovation and Anthropic and Elon Musk cautiously supported it.This is a tough call and will make some people upset, but, all things considered, I think California should probably pass the SB 1047 AI safety bill.For over 20 years, I have been an advocate for AI regulation, just as we regulate any product/technology that is a potential risk...— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 26, 2024Driving the news: Newsom said in returning Senate Bill 1047 without his signature that while SB 1047 was "well-intentioned," it didn't take into account "whether an AI system is deployed in high-risk environments, involves critical decision-making or the use of sensitive data." Instead, he said "the bill applies stringent standards to even the most basic functions — so long as a large system deploys it. I do not believe this is the best approach to protecting the public from real threats posed by the technology."What they're saying: Google in an emailed statement Sunday thanked Newsom "for helping California continue to lead in building responsible AI tools" and said it looked forward to "working with the Governor's responsible AI initiative and the federal government on creating appropriate safeguards and developing tools that help everyone."OpenAI said in an emailed statement Sunday that the company appreciated Newsom's "commitment to maintaining California's role as a global leader in AI innovation, and look forward to working with him and state lawmakers in well-defined areas of public interest such as deepfakes, child safety, and AI literacy."Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said on X Sunday that "AI springs from California" as she thanked Newsom "for recognizing the opportunity and responsibility we all share to enable small entrepreneurs and academia — not big tech — to dominate."The other side: Scott Wiener, a state senator from San Francisco who authored the bill in California's Senate, said in a statement Sunday the veto represented a "missed opportunity for California to once again lead on innovative tech regulation — just as we did around data privacy and net neutrality — and we are all less safe as a result."Nonprofit Accountable Tech in an emailed statement Sunday called Newsom's veto "a massive giveaway to Big Tech companies and an affront to all Americans who are currently the unconsenting guinea pigs of an unregulated and untested" AI industry."This veto will not 'empower innovation' — it only further entrenches the status quo where Big Tech monopolies are allowed to rake in profits without regard for our safety, even as their AI tools are already threatening democracy, civil rights, and the environment with unknown potential for other catastrophic harms," it added.Editor's note: Axios' Ina Fried contributed reporting.

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday vetoed a landmark bill aimed at establishing first-in-the-nation safety measures for large artificial intelligence​ models.

Trump’s speaking style has always been defined by braggadocio and exaggeration, but, these days, he is making more comments that are outright bizarre.

Sen. Ted Cruz's primary opponent is being hit with a $3 million ad buy over his vote on a bill defending girls against boys playing in girls sports.

In a surprising turn of events, the Biden administration has expressed skepticism about Ukraine’s strategy to combat Russia, despite a substantial military aid package.What Happened: President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is scheduled to present his war-winning plan to President Joe Biden on Thursday. However, the Biden administration is reportedly unimpressed, deeming the strategy merely as a rehashed plea for more weapons and the removal of constraints on long-range missiles, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.Despite Zelenskyy’s persistent promotion of the plan as a roadmap to defeat Russia, U.S. and European officials with knowledge of its general outline see no clear path to a Ukrainian victory, especially with Russian forces gradually making headway on the battlefield."I'm unimpressed, ...Full story available on Benzinga.com

A blind squirrel is probably still far wiser than the collective co-hosts of the daytime talk show “The View” — but even those screeching leftists can occasionally stumble on a [...]The post Biden's Response Raises Eyebrows When 'The View' Asks if He Was Forced Out of the Race appeared first on The Western Journal.