Donald Trump was declared the winner in Arizona early Sunday, completing a sweep of Republicans in the so-called battleground state and adding to the Democratic Party’s wounds with the announcement that the president-elect is scheduled to meet with Joe Biden. I applied salt to it. The White House will discuss the presidential transition Wednesday.
In what was expected to be an extremely close national election, Mr. Trump ultimately won easily. In Arizona, Trump won 312 electoral votes to Kamala Harris’ 226. The state joins other Sunbelt battleground states (Nevada, Georgia, and northern states). The Carolinas and three Rust Belt states that vote Republican: Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. All were expected to be very competitive, but all ended up favoring Mr. Trump, albeit by a fairly close margin.
Republicans regained the majority in the Senate, where they hold 53 seats to Democrats’ 46, and are likely to maintain their majority in the House. Twenty-one races remain unvoted in the House, but Republicans currently hold a 212-202 advantage, giving them a “three-game winning streak.” This will give the House and Senate, as well as the presidential office, nearly free reign for at least the next two years.
This political realignment comes after a painful election that paved the way for a reassessment of the Democratic Party’s platform, which appears to have been rejected by a majority of American voters. Trump also won the popular vote, the first time a Republican has done so since George W. Bush in 2004 after the 9/11 attacks several years ago.
At Biden’s request, Trump is scheduled to visit the Oval Office on Wednesday, a format Trump himself used in 2020 when he lost the presidency to Biden but refused to accept the results. I didn’t protect it.
“I direct the entire administration to work with my team to ensure a peaceful and orderly transition of power,” Biden said in a speech last week.
However, as president-elect, Trump has reportedly yet to submit a set of transition agreements that include an ethics pledge to avoid conflicts of interest. The agreement is necessary to lift briefings from the outgoing administration before the transfer of power in 72 days.
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan told CBS Face the Nation that Biden will brief Trump on foreign policy on Wednesday, saying, “The president will explain to President Trump how he sees things.” There will be opportunities.”
Asked if Biden would urge lawmakers to pass additional aid to Ukraine before he leaves office, Sullivan said the president “is committed to the need for continued resources for Ukraine beyond the end of his term.” I will insist.” Trump allies said the incoming administration’s focus is on peace, not territory.
Sullivan also said that the international community must “intensify the pressure on Hamas to come to the table for a deal in the Gaza Strip,” given what Hamas has told mediators. Because the Israeli government has said it is ready to take temporary steps in that direction. “There will be no ceasefire or hostage agreement at this time,” he said.
The political fallout from President Trump’s victory continues to affect the Democratic Party in particular. Harris-Waltz’s campaign is estimated to have spent $1 billion in three months and is now reportedly $20 million in debt.
Republican pollster Frank Luntz told ABC News This Week that those who “directed” Harris to focus on Trump during the presidential campaign “committed political misconduct.” .
“We all know who Trump is,” Luntz said. “We went through him for four years.”
Sen. Bernie Sanders, a progressive who votes Democratic, defended Harris’ campaign and refused to be drawn into further analysis of whether Biden should have backed away from his re-election bid sooner. did.
“I don’t want to get involved,” he told CNN. “We have to look forward, not backward. Kamala did her best. She showed up and won the debate with Trump. She worked as hard as she could.”
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“This is the reality. The working class of this country is angry, but they have reason to be angry,” he added. “We live today in an economy where 60 percent of the population is living paycheck to paycheck, while those at the top are doing surprisingly well.”
Meanwhile, Republicans say that while President Trump and many members of his party maintain that last week’s election was free and fair, there was no evidence of any fraud in the 2020 election, even though all lawsuits alleging fraud have been dismissed. You haven’t explained why you’re making the claim.
Jim Jordan, the Republican chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, called Trump’s victory last week “the greatest political reversal.”
On Friday, Mr. Jordan and fellow Republican Rep. Barry Loudermilk sent a letter to Special Counsel Jack Smith requesting that his office preserve records related to the Justice Department’s prosecution of Mr. Trump.
Asked by CNN if Trump intended to go after his political opponents, Jordan said: “He didn’t do that in his first term. The Democrats went after him and we all understand what they did. .”
“I don’t think that’s going to happen,” Jordan repeated. “We are a party against political prosecution. We are a party against using the law to pursue our enemies.”
Florida Republican Rep. Byron Donald told Fox News that the list’s claims are “lies from the Democratic left.”
“Let me tell you, this is absolutely nothing Donald Trump has ever said or promised. There is no list of enemies,” Donald said. President Trump regularly refers to his political opponents as the “enemy within.”
