Politics
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Gavin Newsom Calls for Trump Safeguards and Assures California ‘Won’t Sit Idle’
The Golden State governor wants a special legislative session to plan against potential Trump administration actions
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Sabrina Carpenter, Billie Eilish Share Support for Women After Trump Win: ‘I Hope We Can Be a Moment of Peace for You’
“Someone who hates women so, so deeply is about to be the president,” Eilish tells her crowd before performing her Roe v. Wade-inspired track “TV”
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Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook Were ‘Courting’ Donald Trump Before Election, NYT Reports
A handful of tech execs are looking to help their businesses by flattering the former president turned president-elect
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Biden Promises Peaceful Transfer to Trump, Says 2024 Election Result ‘Can Be Trusted’ | Video
“We all get knocked down, but the measure of our character, as my dad would say, is how quickly we get back up,” the president says
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Seth Meyers Says We’re Trapped ‘in an Infinite Time Warp’ Where Trump Is ‘the Center of the Universe’ | Video
“There can be no escape. All hail our powerful and benevolent supreme leader,” the NBC host says
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Jimmy Kimmel Admits Trump’s Victory ‘Was a Terrible Night’ in Emotional Monologue | Video
But, the ABC host adds, “we don’t storm the capitol because we don’t like the result”
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Stephen Colbert Says What ‘We Most Want’ Is ‘to Be Not Alone’ Following Trump Victory | Video
“The Late Show” host tells his audience “I’m so grateful” to be with them, “especially in times like this”
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Chris Hayes Says Trump’s Win Is a ‘Rejection of the Status Quo’ — Even for Kamala Harris Voters | Video
Support for “dark fantasies of smashing the administrative state” like Project 2025 was not “the source of this victory,” he adds
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Adam McKay Blasts Democrats After Election Results: ‘It’s Time for a Real Opposition Party’
The “Vice” director blames the party’s loss in part on the “embracing of fracking, the Cheneys, and a yr long slaughter of children in Gaza”
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Seth Meyers Says Watching Election Results Come in Was Like Christmas Eve if Santa ‘Took a Huge Dump in Your Fireplace’ | Video
The “Late Night” host also repeatedly refers to himself by his last name: “A good sign that something in Meyers’ brain broke a little bit last night”
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Claire McCaskill Tears Up on MSNBC Over Kamala Harris After Election Loss: ‘I’m Just Very Proud of Her’ | Video
“I don’t think people realize how hard it is to get where she was,” the former senator adds
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New York Times’ Astead Herndon Says Trump Won Because of Democrats’ ‘Ridiculous’ Refusal to Hold a Primary, ‘Racist Assumption’ of Black Vote
“The biggest character in this race to me was not on the ballot. It was Joe Biden,” the national politics reporter and host of “The Run-Up” adds
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NewsNation Touts Its Own Election Night Win for Being First to Call Trump Victory | Video
A new ad campaign shows Chris Cuomo celebrating the networks’ decision to make “the biggest call of the night” before competitors
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Charlamagne Tha God Aims for Optimism After Trump Win: ‘We All Want What’s Best for This Country, I Hope’ | Video
“I hope all the nut-ass things Trump said he was going to do, he doesn’t do,” the radio host says, while crediting Trump for speaking “to people’s grievances better than the Democrats”
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Jay Leno Says Trump Win Is ‘A Great Day for Democracy’ Because the Election Was ‘Fair, It Was Honest’ | Video
The former “Tonight Show” host also laments the need to “take a side” politically in late night today