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President-elect Trump’s plans for historic migrant roundups and generous tax cuts next year will cost Republicans, perhaps beyond their budgets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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President-elect Trump wants Washington to take him seriously — and literally. After promising voters he would rewire U.S. governance, he’s putting his political heft to the test in a Republican-led Senate already balking at some of his controversial Cabinet picks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“Isn’t it nice to win? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

President-elect Trump is in Washington today, meeting with Hill Republicans before heading to the White House for a sit-down with President Biden. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Congress is back in town. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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As the remaining ballots are being counted in House and Senate races, Congress returns to Washington next week for the lame duck period. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vice President Harris’s speech Wednesday about President-elect Trump’s decisive victory on Election Day made no mention of how he won or why she lost. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trump wins; Republicans capture Senate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s Election Day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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While Vice President Harris and former President Trump crisscross the country in the final stretch of the presidential campaign, a second race is taking place — for GOP leadership in Congress. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Americans still believe the economy, or at least their finances, are a wreck. Former President Trump while campaigning Wednesday called the economy “a disaster” and promised that if he’s elected, “we will rapidly defeat inflation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vice President Harris and former President Trump will both campaign today in North Carolina and Wisconsin, agreeing on the stakes and the states with voting power to write their futures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Is it possible for the 2024 presidential election to be tied all the way to the end? In a word, yes, according to polling. And each campaign can read the signs on the ground. There are eight suspenseful days to go. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the final sprint of a historic presidential election, Vice President Harris’s biggest challenge has become turnout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If there are 17 people out there who have not made up their minds to vote, or how to vote, Vice President Harris and former President Trump are determined to break their bitter deadlock by converting those fence-sitters into election participants. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two weeks out from Election Day, Republican leaders in the House and Senate are already eyeing potential leadership shake-ups for the one hundred nineteenth Congress. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What are Vice President Harris and former President Trump not talking about in the final days of this campaign? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vice President Harris visited a Georgia Baptist megachurch Sunday and spoke about kindness. And voting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in Gaza has raised big questions for the future of Israel’s wars in the Middle East and whether cease-fire negotiations can get back on track. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vice President Harris and former President Trump are racing toward the Election Day finish line, stacking their schedules as they work the airwaves — and the voters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the final weeks of the presidential campaign, Vice President Harris and former President Trump are ramping up efforts to reach voters where they’re at — and directly addressing those who aren’t traditionally part of their base. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vice President Harris insists she’s the underdog in the presidential race. This week, she’s campaigning that way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There are three weeks to go in a presidential contest so close, the result will depend on whether former President Trump or Vice President Harris does the superior job of getting their respective supporters to the polls while raising voters’ doubts about the competition. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former President Trump will campaign in blue states during the final weeks of an election that will be won or lost in swing states. The question this week has been why the Republican nominee wants to eat up valuable time in terrain where Vice President Harris is widely expected to defeat him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

White caps, driving bands of rain and deadly tornadoes were among Hurricane Milton’s earliest warnings before smashing into Florida’s Gulf Coast south of Tampa Wednesday night and making an exit this morning as a Category 1 storm into the Atlantic Ocean. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hurricane Milton, which regained Category Five strength on Tuesday, is barreling toward the Gulf Coast of Florida early this morning and is expected to strike much of the state in darkness tonight. The storm has sustained winds of one hundred sixty miles per hour and is centered on a diagonal trajectory about three hundred miles southwest of Tampa. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vice President Harris today will appear on ABC’s “The View,” Howard Stern’s Sirius XM radio show and CBS’s “Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” seeking to expand her support among younger, college-educated supporters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Election Day is twenty-nine days away and polls continue to suggest a breathtakingly close race nationally and a margin-of-error contest in key states in which Vice President Harris and former President Trump fly in and out, spend campaign advertisement money and focus their rhetorical appeals during rallies and interviews. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Conflict in the Middle East is heading toward a tipping point, and Washington is scrambling for de-escalation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vice President Harris, in the final few weeks of her presidential bid, has been pressed by events to juggle dual roles in governance and politics amid domestic and international crises. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The presidential contest featured plenty of convivial rhetorical flourishes Tuesday between vice presidential candidates Minnesota Governer Tim Walz Democrat and Ohio ’s Republican Senator JD Vance on big issues that divide the electorate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vice presidential debates in contemporary election cycles have tended to be the opposite of bruising cage matches and often duller affairs for live TV than the faceoffs between presidential nominees. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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With four months left in his term, President Biden is zeroing in on two key foreign policy issues: ensuring aid to Ukraine and brokering a cease-fire in the Middle East. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shutdown averted — for now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Congress is almost at the finish line for this month’s spending fight, but lawmakers are kicking the proverbial can down the road until December. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former President Trump couldn’t miss the headline in his hometown paper, The New Times, Monday. “Trump’s best poll results in weeks. … He leads in three Sun Belt battleground states. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

No one knows this morning how this presidential election will end in forty-three days. Not voters, candidates or paid political advisers. Pollsters greet daily survey results with head shakes and eager calls for fresh polls. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lawmakers in the House are launching plan B to avert a government shutdown at the end of the month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) funding gamble didn’t pay off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Forty-seven days remain until Election Night, but the 2024 election is already underway. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It is impossible to gauge this morning whether an assassination attempt in July and an apparent thwarted attempt Sunday directed at former President Trump will change the presidential race. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former President Trump said he was uninjured Sunday after the Secret Service disrupted what the FBI described as an “apparent assassination attempt” at a Florida golf course where he was playing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

No debate rematch, former President Trump announced Thursday in response to the urging of Vice President Harris, through her campaign, to stage another televised faceoff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two days after Vice President Harris and former President Trump faced off in their first presidential debate, one question looms large: Will it move the needle? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices