Just like in 2016 and 2020, former President Donald Trump outperformed the polls in Georgia, and many other swing states.
Going into Election Day with a 0.8% lead in the polling average, Trump ended up beating Vice President Kamala Harris by 2.24% of the vote.
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The prognostications within the Vanderbilt University Poll released by its Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions missed the actual intentions of Tennessee voters by up to 20 percent.
Published in May, the Vanderbilt poll failed to capture the size of the lead achieved by Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) in her race against State Representative Gloria Johnson (D-Knoxville), with the pollsters ultimately off by 20 percent.
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Against all odds, former President Donald Trump was reelected on Nov. 5, ousting Vice President Kamala Harris, winning the popular vote for the GOP for the first time since 2004, decisively winning the Electoral College and reclaiming the U.S. Senate, all as only the second former president to win reelection after Grover Cleveland did it in 1892 with non-consecutive terms in what can only be described as the greatest political comeback in American history.
Trump dodged bullets, prosecutions, convictions, censorship and overcame the historic incumbency advantage — first term incumbent parties usually win about two-thirds of the time, but not this time — able to capitalize on inflation outpacing incomes, wages and earnings for too long during the Biden-Harris administration as Americans paid the price at the grocery store and gas pump, more than 8 million illegal border crossings by illegal aliens who Trump promised to deport and endless foreign wars that threaten to spark a wider conflict or even nuclear war.
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Jon Stewart, the comedian and host of “The Daily Show” revealed on Tuesday that Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) abruptly canceled a scheduled appearance during his Election Day coverage.
Though veiled in comedy, Stewart expressed that Fetterman was scheduled to join his show until, “30 seconds before we were supposed to have him as a guest.”
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I-40 in Cocke County at the Tennessee-North Carolina state line is expected to be reopened to traffic by New Year’s Day, the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) announced Tuesday.
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Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday afternoon conceding defeat in the presidential election to now-President-elect Donald Trump, delivering remarks at Howard University.
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Wisconsin voters approved a state constitution change requiring someone to be a citizen to vote in elections.
The ballot measure had 75% approval with more than 95% of the statewide voted tallied.
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A shift in Hispanic American voters in key swing states helped reelect former Republican President Donald Trump to the White House over his Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, and that expansion was critical to his victory, according to several reports.
The Democrats spent much of their time building a campaign strategy that depicted the former Republican president as a dangerous threat to democracy while polls repeatedly reported that their key issues were inflation and the escalating cost of living.
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In the second major defeat for a pro-abortion ballot measure since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, South Dakota voters rejected a referendum that would have added the “right” to an abortion to the state’s constitution.
According to the Washington Examiner, 61% of South Dakota voters rejected Amendment G, which would have been enacted with a simple majority. The Associated Press called the race in favor of the “no” vote at about 3:00 AM Eastern Standard Time, with 65% of the vote in.
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California and Colorado have successfully stripped definitions of marriage from state law, repealing same-sex marriage bans that have not been in effect for nearly a decade.
Californians are poised to pass Proposition 3, according to the New York Times, guaranteeing a constitutional right to marriage between same-sex couples and striking down Proposition 8, a previous law passed in 2010 banning same-sex marriage in the state. Colorado is poised to pass Amendment J, according to the NYT, striking similar language from the state’s constitution prohibiting the act.
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Florida voters gave a victory to Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday by rejecting two ballot initiatives on recreational marijuana and abortion rights that the second-term Republican opposed.
Amendment 3, a proposed recreational cannabis program in the state, failed with 55.75% approving out of 10.35 million ballots cast and 44.25% opposed according to preliminary results from the Florida secretary of state’s office.
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Voters nationwide approved seven of 10 ballot initiatives preserving abortion rights.
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Vice President Kamala Harris has called President-elect Donald Trump to concede the race for the White House, Fox News’s Peter Doocy reported.
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Republican leadership in the Tennessee General Assembly filed new legislation on Wednesday, the Education Freedom Act of 2025, to support Governor Bill Lee’s universal school choice plan.
House Bill 1/Senate Bill 1 was filed by House Majority Leader William Lamberth (R-Portland) and Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson (R-Franklin).
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U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar won a fourth term Tuesday night after beating Republican challenger Royce White by double digits.
Klobuchar, a Democrat, has represented Minnesota in the U.S. Senate since first being elected in 2006. She won her first three elections for the seat by more than 20 points.
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Democrats expanded their majority on the Michigan Supreme Court, picking up an additional seat, multiple outlets reported.
Both of the Democrat-backed candidates defeated their Republican-backed opponents, shifting the Democratic majority to 5-2, according to multiple reports. Nominees for the state supreme court are chosen during party conventions, although the race is listed as nonpartisan on the ballot.
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After canceling her post-election speech at Howard University last night, Kamala Harris is expected to officially concede the 2024 presidential election to Donald Trump in a speech to the country at her alma mater in Washington D.C., at 6:00 pm this evening.
Last night, after Trump had won the crucial swing states of North Carolina, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, the Harris Campaign told tearful Harris supporters at her watch party at Howard University that there were still “votes to count.”
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Voters handed control of the U.S. Senate to Republicans Tuesday, although the contests in several battleground states won by Donald Trump were still too close to call Wednesday morning.
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It’s morning in America again for the stock market in the wake of Donald Trump’s second election, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average jumping more than 1,200 points or 3 percent, the benchmark S&P 500 up 1.9 percent and tech-dominated Nasdaq Composite up 1.8 percent, Yahoo Finance reports.
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Donald Trump pulled off the most improbable comeback in American political history Tuesday night, securing a likely return trip to the White House by beating back a relentless tide of media, Big Tech and Democrat opposition that stretched from the courthouse to the social media sphere.
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The results from Arizona’s election began trickling in Tuesday at 8 p.m., and within a couple of hours it became clear Trump was leading by a few thousand votes, with his lead steadily increasing to 9,316 votes. Kari Lake lagged behind Ruben Gallego in the U.S. Senate race by a little over 100,000 votes. However, the preliminary results were based on early ballots, and ABC-15’s “Data Guru” Garrett Archer acknowledged on X that Election Day ballots had not been counted yet, but when they did they would favor Republicans.
By late evening, 10 percent of precincts across the state had reported their numbers. Archer observed that independents surged in Election Day voting. While they trailed Republicans in early voting, by late afternoon 83,000 independents had voted on Tuesday, compared to 79,100 Republicans and 43,800 Democrats.
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Registered voters who signed a Constitution-supporting petition by Elon Musk filed a class-action lawsuit Tuesday, claiming a giveaway for petition signers was fraud.
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The thing that Democrats, Republican NeverTrumpers, and their media cohorts hate most about Trump has nothing to do with his rhetoric, policies, morals, or personality. Rather, they despise Trump’s highlighter. They respected Obama’s pen and phone, but when Trump first wielded his brazenly bright, blondish-orange highlighter on the 2016 primary trail — shining a politically incorrect light on issues like immigration and international trade policies — it terrified them.
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Inspired by their conversations with friends, family, and neighbors, Heartland felt called to write “What Happened?,” a song they hope will help Americans come to their senses.
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Another electric vehicle startup is struggling in the face of a difficult EV market.
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Former President Donald Trump has outperformed his 2020 margins in every major swing state, though most of the key battlegrounds remained uncalled as of Wednesday morning.
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Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell’s multi-billion dollar transit plan was approved by voters on Tuesday, according to unofficial election results published by the Davidson County Election Commission.
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Rachel Alexander, lead reporter at The Arizona Sun Times, is warning that Arizona’s final election results may be “dragged out” for days after Tuesday night as an opportunity for Democrats to “figure a way to change the results.”
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Jack Windsor, president and editor-in-chief at The Ohio Press Network, said the “anticipatory energy” in Ohio for Tuesday’s general election is “different than it was four years ago.”
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Matt Kittle, a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist, said conservatives should be keeping their “eyes wide open” tonight and in the coming days as ballots are being counted across the nation, specifically in swing states.
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The co-founder of the Black Lives Matter Rhode Island chapter, who demanded Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse resign or give up his membership in an “all white” club, made a clean break with Democrats this week.
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Bernard “Bernie” Marcus, who helped build The Home Depot into one of America’s most iconic brands before turning to philanthropy and conservative politics and unabashedly backing Donald Trump’s rise in politics, died Monday night at the age of 95.
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In the sultry days of summer 2020 as Donald Trump contemplated a second term, his aides engaged in a quiet conversation with members of the emerging digital media about an audacious idea.
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Secretary of State Adrian Fontes was ordered on Thursday to turn over by Monday the voter registration information on 218,000 voters in Arizona who are registered to vote but who failed to provide proof of citizenship. He appealed the decision immediately afterwards, with two organizations submitting amicus curiae briefs supporting him, but the Arizona Court of Appeals issued an order Monday morning affirming the lower court’s decision to require the list in response to a public records request from America First Legal (AFL).
James Rogers, America First Legal Senior Counsel, said in a statement regarding the case, “When Secretary Fontes discovered the glitch that allowed 218,000 individuals to register without providing proof of citizenship, he should have immediately shared the list of affected individuals with Arizona’s county recorders, who are in charge of verifying the citizenship of voters. Instead, he has jealously guarded the list, refusing to share it with anyone.”
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Rob Bluey, executive editor of The Heritage Foundation’s The Daily Signal, said conservative media has flourished within the last 15-20 years as a result of the legacy media becoming “too lazy and corrupt to report the news truthfully and accurately.”
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The Biden-Harris administration’s open borders policies are facing increased scrutiny after a House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security and Enforcement report revealed an alliance with United Nations bureaucrats.
The committee reported that U.S. taxpayer funding was directed to the salaries of UN bureaucrats who staffed migration centers set up throughout South and Central America.
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For Ohio, Monday is the calm before the Election Day storm.
Early in-person voting ended Sunday, leaving Tuesday as the final day to cast a ballot. Polls open across the state at 6:30 a.m. and close at 7:30 p.m.
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Who actually are the “garbage” people?
Are they one and the same with Joe Biden’s “semi-fascists,” “chumps,” and “dregs of society?”
Or Barack Obama’s “clingers?”
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Minnesota state leaders are facing a new lawsuit from the Heritage Foundation, which alleges the state has not disclosed crucial details on an estimated 1,000 voters who were removed from the voter rolls.
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Lancaster County Commissioner Ray D’Agostino on Monday updated voters on an investigation into 2,500 suspicious voter registration forms that were flagged to the county’s elections board last month, confirming that 17% of the forms so far are fraudulent.
A total of four Pennsylvania counties are investigating possible fraudulent voter and mail-in ballot applications in the final spin into Election Day. Those counties are Cambria County, Lancaster County, Monroe County, and York County. York and Lancaster both uncovered thousands of potentially fraudulent applications, while Cambria and Monroe saw less than 50 each.
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The Georgia Supreme Court ruled Monday that Cobb County may not accept absentee ballots after Election Day.
Last Thursday, the Cobb County Board of Elections said that it had not sent out more than 3,000 absentee ballots in a timely manner and would mail them via express shipping or overnight delivery the next day, according to Democracy Docket. Three voters sued, arguing that there was not enough time to ensure the ballots would be received in time to be counted.
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A Pennsylvania judge on Monday ruled that Elon Musk’s $1 million giveaway can continue through Election Day, after attorneys for Musk’s political action committee said the results of the giveaway were not “random” like Musk had advertised.
Musk launched the daily giveaway last month, which was organized to give $1 million to one voter from a swing state every day, if they signed a petition in support of the First and Second Amendments of the U.S. Constitution.
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In battleground Michigan, two swing counties may determine which presidential candidate will clinch the state’s 15 Electoral College votes.
Oakland and Kent counties have undergone major demographic changes over the past two decades. Both used to be Republican strongholds, but growth in the Detroit suburbs and the city of Grand Rapids turned the counties from red to blue in 2020.
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The Republican National Committee has filed a lawsuit against the Milwaukee Elections Commission over the city announcing that it will limit the number of poll watchers at certain polling locations on Election Day.
Milwaukee limited poll watchers at three early voting polling locations, according to the lawsuit.
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Arizona has seen a decline in early voting compared to recent years, with only 51.7% of registered voters voting early – about 300,000 less voters than in the 2020 general election, according to data compiled by Uplift from Arizona county recorder offices.
Most notable is the drop in registered Democrats voting early. In 2020, 36.5% of early voters were Democrats.
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Virginia GOP Attorney General Jason Miyares said this week that he is worried about the potential influence of foreign money impacting U.S. elections through the Democratic online fund-raising platform ActBlue that he is investigating.
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On October 30th, the Music City Walk of Fame inducted The Fairfield Four, Colin Reed, Bill Cody, and Jimmy Buffett at their 27th Hall of Fame induction ceremony.
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Noelle Toland describes her music as modern, old-school country. Although she didn’t come from a musical family, her family were huge music fans.
Toland said, “My mother introduced me to Patsy Cline. She loved singer-songwriters, and my dad loved soul music.”
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Ruben Gallego has been able to outraise Kari Lake by about three to one, but some are questioning the sources. In addition to large amounts of money from out-of-state donors, a significant amount of his contributions come from “Smurfing,” donations from elderly unemployed Democrats who are unaware their names are being used to donate to Democratic candidates.
According to Arizona Capitol Media, Lake has raised over $19 million throughout the race, while Gallego has raised almost $54 million. Gallego currently has $7.2 million on hand, while Lake has $4.5 million in the bank.
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Social media’s influence is causing Gen Z’s interest in skilled trades to rise, according to a report by Thumbtack – something a trade organization co-director said is “inspiring and eye-opening.”
“55% of Gen Zers are considering a skilled trade career (up 12% from last year) – including 72% of those with a college degree,” Thumbtack’s report stated.
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