2024 election is live: Trump tells Senate to skip cabinet review as details of Putin calls emerge

The special counsel marks the end of a years-long investigation into Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

He will probably escape, Alex Woodward report:

After Donald Trump’s landslide victory, Republicans turned their attention to those in the judicial system who are fighting the president-elect in court.

Speaking on Fox News on Sunday, Florida Representatives Anna Paulina Luna and Cory Mills floated the idea that criminal charges could be brought against Judge Juan Merchan — and his daughter Loren Merchan.

Texas Senator John Cornyn, who is competing for the position of Senate Majority Leader, agreed with Donald Trump that the next Senate leader should allow the president to make recess appointments for the cabinet.

“It is unacceptable for the Senate Ds to block the appointment of the President’s (Trump) cabinet. If they do, we will remain in session, including weekends, until they are fussy. In addition, the Constitution expressly gives the President the power to make recess appointments,” Cornyn said hours after Trump sued over Truth Social.

Recess appointments allow the president to appoint people to the cabinet during the Senate recess, bypassing the typical confirmation process.

Radio host Charlamagne Tha God reflected on Vice President Kamala Harris’s failed presidential campaign saying he believes Harris did not effectively deliver the consistent message that ultimately hurt him in the polls.

Bernie Sanders has doubled down on his remarks about the Democratic Party “abandoning” working-class voters, despite criticism from friend and ally Nancy Pelosi.

The veteran Vermont senator says the US working class is “outraged” but rejects the idea that the problem this election cycle has to do with the party’s “message”.

“The bottom line is, if you’re an average working person out there, do you think the Democratic Party is going to go to the mat … and fight for you? I think the answer is overwhelmingly no. And that’s what needs to change,” he said on Sunday.

Applying loyalists to executive branch positions, forcing local and state law enforcement agencies to comply with mass deportations and taking a confrontational approach to relations with China are all policies promoted by the America First Policy Institute, a right-wing think tank that has influence on Donald Trump. .

Ariana Bayu broken is:

Several Democrats who were elected because of their party’s failure delivered a coherent economic message to voters on Sunday as a post-mortem began on the left after the stunning defeat of Kamala Harris.

Although the warning has met with some resistance, Democrats including Chris Murphy, Ro Khanna and Bernie Sanders have sharply criticized the party’s rapid loss of working-class voters of all races, especially men, as well as other constituencies that were once considered a core part of the party. mentioned. Obama’s coalition, like Latino voters.

John Bowden a closer look:

MAGA Rep. Jim Jordan stumbled over his words when he confronted him live on air with his claim that Donald Trump and his supporters only cried election fraud when they lost.

The Ohio congressman appeared on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday where he was asked several times by the Dana Bash host if he thought 2024 was a “free and fair election.”