Kamala Harris officially certifies Trump's landslide victory



Vice President Kamala Harris, who spent the entirety of her presidential campaign labeling her opponent a threat to democracy, officially certified President-elect Donald Trump's election on Monday following his landslide victory on November 5.

As vice president, Harris also serves as president of the Senate, leaving her with the responsibility of certifying the electoral results. Despite her humiliating electoral loss, Harris vowed on Monday that she would follow through with the certification.

'CONGRESS CERTIFIES OUR GREAT ELECTION VICTORY TODAY — A BIG MOMENT IN HISTORY,' Trump said in a Monday post on Truth Social. 'MAGA!'

"Today, I will perform my constitutional duty as Vice President to certify the results of the 2024 election," Harris said. "This duty is a sacred obligation — one I will uphold guided by love of country, loyalty to our Constitution, and unwavering faith in the American people."

"The peaceful transfer of power is one of the most fundamental principles of American democracy," Harris said. "As much as any other principle, it is what distinguishes our system of government from monarchy or tyranny."

Although the certification process has historically flown under the radar, Trump's electoral loss in 2020 threw the congressional procedure into a tailspin when he urged former Vice President Mike Pence to block the certification. Trump, and many of his supporters, believed that the 2020 election results were fraudulent and invalid, famously prompting a protest at the Capitol grounds on January 6, 2021.

This time around, there has been no such protest. Capitol Police pre-emptively established a perimeter surrounding the Capitol, the House office buildings, and the Senate office buildings. They also used additional police departments, including the New York Police Department, ahead of the certification.

"CONGRESS CERTIFIES OUR GREAT ELECTION VICTORY TODAY — A BIG MOMENT IN HISTORY," Trump said in a Monday post on Truth Social. "MAGA!"

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Why Tim Walz was NOT the ‘lovable goofball’ the liberals wanted



Kamala Harris’ loss was devastating only for those who supported her, but if her campaign truly wanted to win, it probably should have made some different choices.

Her VP pick, Tim Walz, was one of those choices — though he doesn’t seem to know it himself.

In Walz’s first television interview since their defeat in the presidential election, he claimed to be “a little surprised” that he and Harris lost to Donald Trump.

“It felt like at the rallies, at the things I was going to, the shops I was going in, that the momentum was going our way,” the Minnesota governor told KSTP, one of his state’s news outlets, in an interview. “So yeah, I was a little surprised."


“I thought we had a positive message, and I thought the country was ready for that.”

Mike Cernovich, on the other hand, was well aware that it might have been one of the campaign's biggest missteps.

“Tim Walz triggers me psychologically,” Cernovich tells James Poulos of “Zero Hour.”

“They picked him because they thought that white men would say, ‘He’s one of us’ not realizing that he’s the archetypal blowhard coach that we all hated, and he had some weird position of authority over us that was unearned.”

“In a hierarchical structure among men, he would never have earned it. Put him in a room of 10 men, this guy is not running things,” he continues, adding, “You guys thought that he’s somebody that we would look up to because you’re so in the DEI world, but he is someone that we would loathe.”

Cernovich believes that Walz is more of a “reply guy” than anything else, noting that he’s the type that feels “like they have to say something just to say it.”

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Democrats' losing strategy could push a political realignment



President-elect Donald Trump officially flipped Lake County, California, one month after the November 5 election. Trump's electoral win in Lake County is the latest indication of the landslide victory he enjoyed in the 2024 cycle.

Trump became the first Republican presidential candidate to win the popular vote in two decades, even sweeping all seven swing states. The last candidate to win all battlegrounds was former President Ronald Reagan in 1984.

'It could actually be the beginnings of a Reagan-style political realignment if the Democrats don't make adjustments and do so in a hurry.'

Trump also flipped over 50 counties this cycle while Vice President Kamala Harris failed to flip any in her favor. Of those counties that flipped in Trump's favor, roughly half of them had not voted for a Republican presidential candidate this century. Trump also managed to shift every single state toward Republicans. Roughly 300 counties shifted more Democratic, without any actually flipping blue, while over 2,600 shifted more Republican.

"The data suggests that this was more than simply a decisive victory for Donald Trump," Len Foxwell, a Democratic strategist based in Maryland, told Blaze News. "It could actually be the beginnings of a Reagan-style political realignment if the Democrats don't make adjustments and do so in a hurry."

One of Trump's most notable flips was South Texas' Starr County, a predominantly Hispanic border county. This ended one of the longest Democratic voting streaks in history, with the county voting for a Democrat in every presidential election since 1896. Trump also made inroads with Latinos in Florida, enjoying a double-digit swing in Miami-Dade County compared to his results in 2020.

Democratic support slipped across every demographic the party has historically held onto. Even with a black female candidate and a white working-class running mate, voters turned to Trump.

"We are losing, in front of our very eyes, some of the core elements of the Democratic coalition that we have held onto, to varying degrees, since the age of Roosevelt," Foxwell told Blaze News. "We have become a party of inner suburban wine clubs and book clubs. A relatively small, culturally homogeneous group of inner suburban, highly educated, relatively affluent liberals and progressives."

"That, to be sure, is a part of a strong Democratic coalition, but it cannot be the only part," Foxwell continued. "It cannot and it must not be the centerpiece around which we base our national political strategy, and I'm afraid that's what we're at risk of becoming."

Foxwell points out that the downfall of the Democratic Party is largely because it demands a highly stringent form of political and social orthodoxy from its voters that has become incompatible with many moderates. Although Democrats have championed diversity of identity, the party has remained intellectually homogeneous, which is exclusionary by nature.

"Democrats used to be the party of disruption, debate, and change, and now we have become a more intellectually homogeneous party in which we are not necessarily supposed to look alike, but we are certainly expected to think alike," Foxwell said. "When that happens, you become intellectually stagnant, and I honestly believe that this is one of the major reasons why the Democratic Party is losing its natural advantages."

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