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Trump has remade Americans, and to defeat Trumpism requires nothing less than the left doing the same.

People are hurting, and millions of them didn’t vote either way. They just didn’t vote. I want people to hear that. The vote totals went down. They didn’t go up. They went down. And we have to take this very seriously.

The country is evenly divided when it comes to party preference. Trump did not win a landslide like FDR in 1936, Johnson in 1964, Nixon in 1972, Reagan in 1980, or Obama in 2008. He won by a small margin in the Electoral College and popular vote.

Voters for the first time elected two Black women to serve simultaneously in the Senate and sent an openly transgender lawmaker to Congress on Tuesday. Their victories raise the number of Black members of the Senate to five.

Donald Trump has won the majority of white women voters for the third straight time. Exit polls reveal a stunning race gap in how people voted in the 2024 presidential election.

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The Trump campaign has portrayed the Vice-President’s father as a Marxist. He insists he’s been caricatured.

What explains Kamala Harris’s poor numbers with voters who belong to unions? The decline in real wages for union members under Biden may have something to do with it.

This isn’t a normal election. My community has been deeply traumatized by the genocide in Gaza and now the devastating war on Lebanon...Explain how punishing Vice-President Harris and enabling Donald Trump to become president will end the genocide...