Stunningly Wrong Iowa Pollster, Des Moines Register Face Another Fraud Lawsuit

Latest complaint follows Trump complaint alleging newspaper and pollster engaged in 'brazen election interference.'

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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Kamala Harris' moment to shine has come: She gets to certify her electoral better's landslide victory



Kamala Harris suffered a historic humiliation on Election Day, losing in a landslide to President-elect Donald Trump by 86 Electoral College votes. Today, as president of the U.S. Senate, Harris must suffer another humiliation: presiding over a joint session of Congress to certify her defeat.

Despite previously characterizing Trump as unstable, a "petty tyrant," a would-be dictator, a "fascist," and a threat to democracy, Harris confirmed just hours ahead of the session in a Monday video message that she would indeed certify the results.

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

Harris noted further that "democracy can be fragile" and that the certification of the results is a "sacred obligation" that she would uphold, "guided by love of country, loyalty to our Constitution, and my unwavering faith in the American people."

'She believed she should have won the race.'

A White House official told CNN that the 60-year-old Democrat's role Monday "will be solely ministerial."

"The vice president understands that our democracy requires elected leaders who have taken the sacred oath of office and everyday citizens alike to actively preserve it," said a senior Harris aide. "It is with this deep sense of responsibility and duty in mind that the vice president will certify the presidential election on January 6 and reaffirm the will of the American people."

While Harris is apparently ready to execute her duties, a former longtime Harris aide told NBC News that the certification will nevertheless prove an emotional feat for the vice president.

"There's definitely sadness and frustration," said the former aide, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. "She believed she should have won the race, but the country didn't want to go in that direction."

'A BIG MOMENT IN HISTORY. MAGA!'

Harris, who told the co-hosts of Disney's "The View" in January 2024 that she was "scared as heck" that the American people would re-elect Trump, is not the first among incumbent vice presidents to certify the results of their own losses.

The Washington Post noted that despite accusations of voter fraud in 11 states, then-Vice President Richard Nixon certified his loss — by 0.2 percentage points — to John F. Kennedy on Jan. 6, 1961.

Whereas Harris appears to be approaching the event soberly, the Post noted in 1961, "Nixon seemed to enjoy doing it," even "pump[ing] humor, life and even a little political sense into the nearly two-centuries-old ceremonial."

After George W. Bush beat him in the 2000 election, then-Vice President Al Gore reportedly also tried to bring some levity to the certification process.

Former Democratic Vice President Hubert Humphrey was supposed to certify his massive defeat to Richard Nixon in 1968 but apparently couldn't face the music. According to the New York Times, he instead attended the funeral of the first U.N. secretary general and left the duty of certification to Democratic Sen. Richard Russell (Ga.), the president pro tempore of the Senate.

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

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Wisconsin Capital City Under Investigation Over Failure To Count Nearly 200 Ballots

'I thought this was so egregious that it was important that we move immediately,' said Ann Jacobs, chairwoman of WI Elections Commission.

'So egregious': Wisconsin officials launch investigation into nearly 200 uncounted ballots



The Wisconsin Elections Commission held a special meeting on Thursday after learning that 193 absentee ballots from the city of Madison were never counted in November's election.

Of the uncounted absentee ballots, 125 were from Ward 56, 67 from Ward 65, and one from Ward 68.

'That's very, very disturbing.'

Elections Commission Chair Ann Jacobs (D) called the error "so egregious." She questioned why it took more than six weeks to report the issue to commissioners.

"We are the final canvassers," Jacobs said. "We are the final arbiters of votes in the state of Wisconsin, and we need to know why those ballots weren't included anywhere."

Personnel with the Madison Clerk's Office reportedly first discovered some of the unprocessed ballots on November 12.

While city officials learned of the oversight a week after the November election, the news did not become public until mid-December.

The clerk's office released a statement announcing it would contact the affected voters and issue an apology.

"Moving forward, every polling location will receive a list of absentee envelope seal numbers that will be verified as counted on Election Day. The goal of the Clerk's Office is that each eligible voter will be able to cast a ballot and have that ballot counted. Falling short of this goal for the November 2024 Election, we sincerely apologize to our voters and will strive to make sure this never happens again," the statement read.

The clerk's office noted that the uncounted ballots would not have impacted the outcome of any of the races.

Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway (D) addressed the error in a separate statement, calling it "a significant departure from the high standard our residents expect."

"Unfortunately, Clerk's Office staff were apparently aware of the oversight for some time, and the Mayor's Office was not notified of the unprocessed ballots until December 20," she said.

Rhodes-Conway stated that the city would "conduct a thorough review."

The commission typically opens investigations in response to complaints, and one has not yet been filed for the uncounted ballots. However, the commissioners voted unanimously this week to open an inquiry into the issue.

During Thursday's commission meeting, Jacobs said, "Given the seriousness of what happened here, our lack of knowledge (and) information that was not given to us in a timely fashion, I think we need to do something more formal."

Commissioner Don Millis (R) remarked, "My biggest concern is why it took a month and a half for this to come out."

"That's very, very disturbing," he added.

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'Kamala was forced on us so hard you'd think she was patented by Pfizer': Comedian Whitney Cummings roasts DNC live on CNN



Stand-up comedian and writer Whitney Cummings unleashed an uncensored fury of roast jokes live on CNN's New Year's Eve show, shocking host Andy Cohen multiple times.

Along with performing at comedy roasts, Cummings is well known for creating two successful sitcoms, "Whitney" and "2 Broke Girls."

Cummings appeared on the CNN live show just after 10 p.m. ET at Times Square and delivered material new to the airwaves of the cable news network.

While discussing her new "Friends" trivia show, Cummings noted that she had recently been playing to larger theaters of about 3,000 audience members, which she noted was "about the viewership of CNN these days."

Cohen then asked where Cummings would be when midnight struck, to which she answered, "After what I'm about to do, I think I'll probably be in a huddle with a bunch of lawyers or something."

At this point, the comedian let loose and started firing shots in every direction.

Cummings said 2024 needed to be held "accountable" because that is "what white women do now" because they don't understand irony.

"We started being wistful about murderers," Cummings continued. "Remember, this was the year where we were like, 'Were the Menendez brothers so bad? Were we too hard on the Menendez brothers?'"

'The pro-choice party didn't give their voters one ...'

Cummings went on, saying 2024 was a year when the number of "white supremacy groups reached record highs. It got so bad, Ariana Grande became white again."

"2024 totally broke our brains. ... We started watching the WNBA. Was that — what happened?" she asked.

The 2024 election "fried our brains," Cummings then told CNN viewers, before delivering her biggest laughs of the night.

"The Democrats couldn't hold a primary because they were too busy holding a body upright," she said about President Joe Biden.

"Are we still rolling?" she asked. "It was amazing that the pro-choice party didn't give their voters one when it came to the presidential candidate. Kamala was forced on us so hard you'd think she was patented by Pfizer or Moderna."

The comedian then checked with her co-host and said he was giving her a "very scary look" because of her jokes.

'I can't believe you guys are still letting me go.'

Other hits included Cummings calling cryptocurrency "astrology for men" and claiming the government "totally knows what the drones are and aren't telling us." She then dedicated her last minute on the air to listing news stories she thought establishment media will never cover:

"Okay. Ready? Go! Trump's shooter didn't have any silverware in his house. No one thought that was weird. Are we still rolling?"

"Crown prince of Saudi Arabia put money into Disney, so just know there won't be any girl characters in the next 'Cars' movie."

"The wife of so many presidents' chefs died. Weird. Boy Scouts of America, they renamed itself Scouting America. You know who else changed their name? Sean Combs. Just saying."

Cummings was shocked by the end of the broadcast that her feed wasn't cut, calling it "amazing" that CNN wasn't censoring her.

"I can't believe you guys are still letting me go. ... No censorship on CNN. Thank you. Love you guys."

Before the segment ended, CNN's Anderson Cooper — who remained stone-faced for the majority of the jokes — revealed that he didn't understand most of Cummings' pop-culture references.

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The growing list of lawmakers ditching the Democratic Party



The Democratic Party is hemorrhaging not just voters, but lawmakers too.

Most recently, Florida state Rep. Hillary Cassel announced Friday that she would be switching her party affiliation from Democrat to Republican because she believes in "their vision for a better, more prosperous Florida."

There is no greater evidence of this shift than the overwhelming loss Democrats endured on November 5, especially among constituents and voting demographics that have reliably voted blue for decades.

"As a mother, I want to help build a world where our children are judged on their character and their actions, not on their labels," Cassel said. "As a proud Jewish woman, I have been increasingly troubled by the Democratic Party's failure to unequivocally support Israel and its willingness to tolerate extreme progressive voices that justify or condone acts of terrorism.

"I'm constantly troubled by the inability of the current Democratic Party to relate to everyday Floridians," Cassel continued. "I can no longer remain in a party that doesn't represent my values."

Although she is switching her affiliation, Cassel points out that her values won't necessarily always be in line with the entire Republican conference.

"I know I won't always agree on every detail with every Republican, but I do know that I will always have input, collaboration, and respect," Cassel said. "The House Republican Conference empowers members to find common-sense solutions to real issues facing all Floridians. They welcome different ideas and collaboration, which is the cornerstone of effective government. Those are my values."

Cassel is the second Florida lawmaker to switch her party affiliation this December. Recently re-elected Florida state Rep. Susan Valdes also announced that she will be changing her affiliation from Democrat to Republican in a statement echoing Cassel's.

"In the House, I have long known that no one has a monopoly on good ideas," Valdes said. "I will not waste my final two years in the Florida Legislature being ignored in a caucus whose leadership expects me to ignore the needs of my community."

"I want to roll up my sleeves and work," Valdes continued. "I want to be a part of solving problems for West Tampa. I'm tired of being the party of protesting when I got into politics to be part of the party of progress. I know that I won't agree with my fellow Republican House members on every issue, but I know that in their caucus, I will be welcomed and treated with respect."

This change of heart from Valdes and Cassel is not an isolated incident. California state Sen. Marie Alvarado-Gil also announced in August that she would be abandoning the Democratic Party and switching to the Republican Party.

“In the past two years that I’ve been working in the Senate, I have not recognized the party that I belong to,” Alvarado-Gil said. “The Democratic Party is not the party that I signed up for decades ago.”

Among the lawmakers and voters who have increasingly rejected the Democratic Party, the common thread has been the fact that the party has become unrecognizable. There is no greater evidence of this shift than the overwhelming loss Democrats endured on November 5, especially among constituents and voting demographics that have reliably voted blue for decades.

Whether Democrats decide to correct course for the sake of political viability is yet to be seen.

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Obama ally pushes Raskin plan for Congress to nullify election, install Harris: 'Insurrectiony'



Despite spending years complaining about threats to democracy, Democrats are scheming to thwart the collective will of the 77.2 million Americans who voted for President-elect Donald Trump in a fair and free election.

In a Dec. 26 op-ed for The Hill titled "Congress has the power to block Trump from taking office, but lawmakers must act now," David Schulte, a Chicago investment banker friend of both Barack Obama and failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, joined the former Democratic president of the New York City Bar Association, Evan Davis, in echoing Rep. Jamie Raskin's (D-Md.) February call for Congress to block Trump from taking office.

The Democratic duo accused Trump at the outset of being an "oath-breaking insurrectionist" — not against the government but against the Constitution — then tried standing up this allegation on the unsuccessful attempt by Democratic lawmakers to convict Trump in early 2021 for supposed incitement of insurrection; on the say-so of the Democratic appointees on the Colorado Supreme Court; and on Democratic Jan. 6 committee members' partisan rhetoric.

Apparently convinced that their appeals to the perceived wisdom of fellow Trump-haters was sufficient to justify their scheme, the duo argued that it was still possible to void the Electoral College votes of the American people when sent to the president of the Senate — failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris — and to give the Washington establishment the unearned win they so desperately crave.

According to Schulte and Davis, the U.S. Supreme Court's 9-0 decision in Trump v. Anderson concerning Democrats' attempt to keep Trump off the ballot in Colorado does not prevent Congress from rejecting electoral votes on Jan. 6 on the basis of a supposed 14th Amendment disqualification.

'Watching Trump's most fanatical opponents argue that they have the right on January 6 to reject his Electoral College victory is one of the funniest things ever.'

Schulte and Davis accused the conservative majority on the high court of "overreach" when indicating that "there must be new implementing federal legislation passed pursuant to the enforcement power specified in the 14th Amendment" and claimed that the Supreme Court does not have a say about the counting of Electoral College votes "because the rejection of the vote on constitutionally specified grounds is a nonreviewable political question."

The Democratic duo then identified the way by which the 2024 election could be stolen and Harris installed as president.

The Electoral Count Reform Act of 2022, a rewrite the Electoral Count Act of 1887, identifies two grounds for a congressional objection to an Electoral College vote. The first objection calls into question whether the votes by electors were "regularly given" and whether the recipient was an eligible presidential candidate under the Constitution. The other basis on which Congress could object is if the document submitted by a state governor identifying the electors was defective.

Schulte and Davis figure the way to go would be with the first objection.

"To make an objection under the Count Act requires a petition signed by 20 percent of the members of each House," wrote the Democratic duo. "If the objection is sustained by majority vote in each house, the vote is not counted and the number of votes required to be elected is reduced by the number of disqualified votes. If all votes for Trump were not counted, Kamala Harris would be elected president."

While Democrats may have the numbers in both the House and the Senate to make their objection known, numerically, this strategy is little more than the wishful thinking of anti-democratic radicals. Rep. Raskin contemplated going this route during a Feb. 17 panel discussion at a D.C. book store.

Raskin correctly and begrudgingly predicted at the time that the U.S. Supreme Court would rule that Trump could not be disqualified from Colorado's presidential primary ballot under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, calling the imminent decision an "abdication of [the court's] very clear duty to disqualify Donald Trump."

Raskin said on camera, "[The justices on the Supreme Court] want to kick it to Congress, so it's going to be up to us on Jan. 6, 2025, to tell the rampaging Trump mobs that he's disqualified."

While apparently open to the idea, the Democratic congressman noted that the repeal of the people's will at the counting of the Electoral College votes "really could lead to something akin to civil war."

Raskin indicated further that after lawmakers disqualify the would-be president-elect, "We need bodyguards for everybody in civil war conditions all because the nine justices — not all of them but these justices who have not many cases to look at every year, not that much work to do, a huge staff, great protection — simply do not want to do their job and interpret what the great 14th Amendment means."

Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer responded Thursday to Schulte and Davis' op-ed, writing, "Surprised it took so long but the Left is back at trying to subvert the election."

"You people are sick," tweeted Eric Trump.

BlazeTV host Steve Deace wrote, "This ... feels very insurrectiony."

"Oh, look. Democrats want to steal the election and invalidate the will of the American people," wrote Steven Cheung, a spokesman for Trump. "Threat to Democracy."

"Hey look insurrection," tweeted BlazeTV's Auron MacIntyre. "If people just standing outside the capitol can go to jail for years then journalists absolutely can."

Journalist Glenn Greenwald noted, "Watching Trump's most fanatical opponents argue that they have the right on January 6 to reject his Electoral College victory is one of the funniest things ever. I hope it spreads."

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Marianne Williamson launches her bid for DNC chair



On Thursday, former Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson announced her campaign to chair the Democratic National Committee.

Williamson, who ran for president in 2020 and in 2024, launched her bid to serve as DNC chair in an attempt to correct the devastating loss Democrats endured on November 5.

"This year’s election of a DNC chair feels different than in past years," Williamson said. "Before now, the party had faced defeats to be sure. But our playbook still basically worked. The waters were turbulent at times, but our ship was steady."

"This year, the party faces a more critical problem than we have ever faced before," Williamson continued. "The MAGA phenomenon now challenges the very way that politics are done in America, and the traditional tool kit of party organizing will not be enough to meet the moment."

'In fact, it’s important that we recognize the psychological and emotional dimensions of Trump’s appeal,' Williamson continued. 'We need to understand it to create the energy to counter it.'

Williamson recognizes that the only political viability for Democrats going forward is to reinvent their playbook by abandoning the social and political policies that turned people away. Rather than continuing to demonize and discredit President-elect Donald Trump, Williamson insists that Democrats work to understand his appeal.

"President Trump has ushered in an age of political theater — a collective adrenaline rush that has enabled him to not only move masses of people into his camp but also masses of people away from ours," Williamson said. "It does not serve us to underestimate the historic nature of what he has achieved."

"In fact, it’s important that we recognize the psychological and emotional dimensions of Trump’s appeal," Williamson continued. "We need to understand it to create the energy to counter it. MAGA is a distinctly 21st-century political movement, and it will not be defeated by a 20th-century tool kit."

Williamson is not the only Democrat who has set sights on DNC leadership roles. Gun-control activist David Hogg announced earlier in December that he would be running for vice chair of the DNC.

Like Williamson, Hogg has been critical of the Democratic Party's performance in the most recent election.

"You raised an absurd amount of money," Hogg said of the Harris campaign. "This was our race to [win], and we lost it. And it's time to really peel back the curtain and say 'OK, what did we do wrong?' instead of just protecting the consultants that brought us into this place in the first place."

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The Most Politically Absurd Things Americans Had To Endure This Year

If this presidential election year taught us anything, it’s that there is no bottom in matters of the politically absurd.