Vice President Kamala Harris has finally called Donald Trump to concede the presidential race, admitting defeat hours after the race was called for her opponent. According to a senior Harris aide, she discussed the importance of a peaceful transfer of power and of being a president for all Americans—the very thing she said days ago that she would be and Trump wouldn‘t. Voters clearly disagreed. Trump has already locked in more than 20 electoral votes than he needed to cross the finish line. He is on track to win every single battleground state and even the popular vote. Trump’s spokesperson said he praised Harris’ campaign and agreed on the importance of unifying the country when the pair spoke on Wednesday. After supporters waited at Howard University to hear from the vice president on election night, only to leave in the early morning hours without hearing from her, Harris is set to speak at the site of the abandoned party later in the afternoon. Joe Biden, who also called Trump to offer congratulations and arrange a meeting with him at the White House, will speak to the public about the transition on Thursday.

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Kellyanne Conway, formerly Donald Trump’s campaign manager and one of his White House advisors, extended her personal thanks both to “the ladies of The View” for the outcome of the 2024 election. Contributing to the coverage on Fox News, Conway suggested that the daytime talkshow hosts did Trump a favor by asking Harris “easy questions that she couldn’t answer,” Newsweek reports. Conway is likely referring to Harris’s October sit-down on The View, during which she was asked what parts of Joe Biden‘s presidency she would do differently. Harris replied that “there is not a thing that comes to mind,” which, given Biden’s low approval ratings, probably wasn‘t the best answer. For Conway, it was evidence that Harris is “just a flawed candidate” who “speak well, ... doesn‘t work hard,” and “couldn‘t make the case” for herself. If the implication is that Trump, by contrast, succeeded in making a coherent, logical argument for himself, well ... Conway must’ve missed all of his rallies.

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Cardi B posted some fiery remarks on her X account as the election results rolled in Tuesday night. “This is why some of y’all states be getting hurricanes. That’s what I’mma say,” said in a now deleted video. Donald Trump beat Kamala Harris in a decisive victory, with Southern swing states Georgia and North Carolina surging red earlier in the night. She also posted a photo of herself on Instagram stories with the caption “I hate yall bad.” Cardi B campaigned with Harris in Milwaukee on Friday. She told Rolling Stone in June that she wouldn’t vote for Trump or Joe Biden. But the Democratic Party’s switch from Biden to Harris changed her mind, a sentiment she echoed in a statement after Harris’ loss. “No one has ever made me change my mind and you did!” the rapper wrote Wednesday. “I never thought I would see the day that a woman of color would be running for President of the United States, but you have shown me, showed my daughters and women across the country that anything is possible.”

If you’re looking to get rich you might want to consider running for president. Donald Trump’s shock election victory Tuesday saw stock in his Trump Media & Technology Group, which owns Truth Social, spike by roughly 35 percent, with his 114.75 million shares skyrocketing to $5.3 billion in premarket trading—up from $3.9 billion at close of markets on Election Day. Trading of the stock was halted three times after the market open on Wednesday, with the shares still up around 16 percent when stopped for the third time. That would value Trump’s stake in the company at $4.6 billion if the 16 percent hike were to hold throughout the day. Matthew Tuttle, a frequent Fox Business News panelist and CEO of Tuttle Capital Management, told CNN it’s hardly surprising to see this sort of surge given how often the stock has been used by traders wagering on a Trump win. Shoring up profits in the longer run, meanwhile, will take some further finessing, being as the company itself has little revenue, and that Truth Social holds only a tiny share of the overall social media market. “The magnitude of his victory helps, but longer term they need to come up with some sort of strategy,” Tuttle said.

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Donald Trump has just secured yet another battleground state: Michigan. The former (and incoming) president has just won another “blue wall” state, joining Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Last night, the race in Michigan was too close to call, but showed Trump leading Kamala Harris, the Democrat nominee. The Harris campaign team was counting on the blue wall states before Election Day, which gave a pathway to win the presidential race. Once a leaning-Democrat state, Michigan turned red in 2016 for Trump, and President Joe Biden won there in 2020. Since 2000, the state has voted for Democrats in the presidential race 83% of the time, according to Ballotpedia. The race was called by AP, and awarded Trump 15 electoral votes.

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Whoopi Goldberg made clear on The View on Wednesday morning that her policy against uttering Donald Trump’s name isn’t changing despite his victory. After expressing her admiration for Kamala Harris’ relentless campaign, Goldberg acknowledged, “People didn‘t come out, I don‘t know why, and it doesn‘t even matter. He’s now the president.” She then added, “I’m still not going to say his name. That’s not going to change.” Goldberg has refused to say Trump’s name on The View since he first took office in 2016, explaining that she “can’t” bring herself to put the word “President” before the name Trump. “I know people don’t like that I don’t do it. I’m fine with that. There is lots of stuff I do people don’t like, you know. I can live with it,” she said in 2018. The View moderator has only broken her self-imposed rule a handful of times, including deliberately after he was found guilty on 34 felony counts and accidentally following his debate against Joe Biden in June.

Entertainment blogger Jason Lee was elected to the Stockton, California city council, Media Take Out reported Wednesday. Lee founded Hollywood Unlocked, a popular gossip news site. The Stockton native won his seat with 56 percent of the vote, according to ABC 10. “Now I begin the work of creating safer and stronger communities, improving our quality of life and charting our next chapter,” Lee wrote in his victory post on Instagram Wednesday. “Heck, forget the next chapter. We will write a whole new book!” Beyond Hollywood Unlocked, the 44-year-old has launched a multi platform media brand and carved out a space for himself in Los Angeles’ social scene, particularly in Black media. “I’m respected, but I’m not a journalist,” he told the Los Angeles Times in 2022. In 2006, he moved to L.A. and directed a labor union representing healthcare workers. During that time he also started to make a name for himself around Hollywood. He left the union in 2009 and dedicated himself to building Hollywood Unlocked, which started as an Instagram page and has grown into a website. Lee came under fire in Feb. 2022 when he mistakenly reported that Queen Elizabeth II had died. “People expected a person who says f--- cancel culture to be hung on the cross for a moment of imperfection,” he said in 2022. “I’m going to continue to be as great as I am.”

The Badger State is best known for its cheese and its football team. Now Wisconsin will take its place in history as the state that clinched the 2024 presidential election for Donald Trump. As inevitable as the outcome appeared as one battleground state after another surrendered to the former president, he still needed to get across the line with more than 270 electoral votes to reclaim the White House. At about 6.15 am ET on Wednesday morning, the networks started calling Wisconsin and its 10 Electoral College votes for Trump, putting him out of reach of his Democratic Party rival with 276 electoral votes, six more than required. Trump hadn’t exactly enamored himself with people in the “Blue Wall” state after calling Milwaukee, the location for the Republican National Convention, a “horrible city.” But he made amends with cheeseheads after riding a garbage truck to a rally in Green Bay in response to Joe Biden trashing MAGA fans.

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One of President-Elect Donald Trump’s closest advisors says he won’t be joining the Republican candidate in the White House next year. Corey Lewandowski told the Daily Beast in an email that he “will not be a government employee” in Trump’s second administration. Lewandowski served as Trump’s campaign managed in 2016 but was fired in what Donald Trump Jr. called an “amicable” split. He remained close with Trump, meeting with him at the White House multiple times as a private citizen, and went on to become a TV political commentator in addition to his job as political strategist. He reemerged on the Trump campaign this year in August as a volunteer advisor, after the president-elect reportedly reached out and told him he missed the “fun” and “freewheeling” ways of his 2016 campaign. The Atlantic reported Lewandowski went “rogue”—much to the chagrin of other senior Trump aides—in encouraging Trump to return to his “killer” nature from 2016, which coincided with a raw and seemingly less disciplined Trump in the final weeks of the campaign. Unleashing the old Trump didn’t seem to dent his prospects, however, as the Republican pulled off the best electoral performance of his political career.

Donald Trump appears to owe a significant debt to rural voters for his victories across several key battleground states that ultimately secured him Tuesday’s historic vote, with an inverse swing away from the Democratic candidate in more urban areas. CNN reports that the incoming Republican president’s margins across rural counties appear, in many cases, “to have been simply too large to overtake.” These include Huntingdon, central Pennsylvania, where he’s apparently on track to beat both his total and margin of votes from 2020. Early stats indicate that Harris, meanwhile, appears to have significantly underperformed compared to Joe Biden’s big city and suburban wins in 2020–such as in Montgomery County, where she secured just 60 percent of the vote at 2.5 points lower than Biden four years ago.

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