Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley’s (D) team announced on Thursday that he’s received support from more than 50 current and former mayors in his bid to take the helm of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). Among some of the prominent names featured include Mitch Landrieu, a former New Orleans mayor who also served as a co-chair for the Harris campaign and in the Biden administration as a senior advisor; Manny Diaz, a former Miami mayor who also served as a chair of the Florida Democratic Party; former Atlanta Mayor Shirley...

Biden and Harris campaign battleground director Dan Kanninen said Wednesday that President Biden being on the presidential ticket wouldn’t have changed the outcome of the 2024 election. “I think that if he was the top of the ticket, versus Kamala Harris, who did an excellent job performing over 107 days, I don’t see how that changes the outcome,” Kanninen told NewsNation’s Blake Burman on “The Hill.” During a recent USA Today interview, the outlet asked the president about his chances of securing the White House again in the last election,...

A handful of Colorado Republicans in the state legislature have registered a protest vote by refusing to join the certification of the 2024 election. According to Denver Gazette, Reps. Ken DeGraaf and Scott Bottoms of Colorado Springs, Brandi Bradley of Littleton, Stephanie Luck of Penrose, Ron Weinberg of Loveland, and Representative-elect Larry Don Suckla of Cortez refused to join the majority in the state House in certifying the results. They explained a problem created by the state secretary of state’s office made it impossible to determine the results were accurate....

CNN’s Harry Enten said President Biden’s recent comments about securing a victory in the last election against President-elect Trump if he had not dropped out are “flat out bonkers” in a video posted to the social platform X on Wednesday. “Joe Biden in his exit interview with USA Today claims that he could have beaten Donald Trump had he stayed in the race,” Enten said in the video. “So, this begs the question, could Biden have won the 2024 election had he [stayed] in the race?” “Truthfully, I categorize his...

Former Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn, who defended the Capitol during the attacks on Jan. 6, 2021, said President-elect Trump’s victory in the 2024 election felt like a betrayal by the American people. CNN’s Sara Sidner asked Dunn whether he feels more betrayed by the American people “who put Donald Trump back into office” or by Trump and his allies who “used language like ‘this was just a peaceful march’” to describe the riots. “It’s a little bit of both,” Dunn said. “I mean, Donald Trump is who he says...

“It’s presumptuous to say that, but I think yes," he told the newspaper. Biden says he could have won 2024 election, undecided on issuing preemptive pardons President Joe Biden believes he could have won the 2024 election if he had decided to stay in the race, he told USA Today in a wide-ranging interview. "It's presumptuous to say that, but I think yes," he told the newspaper during a nearly hourlong interview on Sunday. He said his view was based on polling he'd seen. The president's comments come as he...

Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) endorsed Democratic National Committee vice chair candidate David Hogg on Wednesday, referring to the candidate as a generational changemaker. “I was there days after the Parkland shooting, organizing with him, other survivors, and parents to fight to make sure that what happened at Marjory Stoneman Douglas never happened again anywhere,” Frost said in a statement. “Seeing his leadership then and working with him for many years since, has shown me how important he is to advancing this work, and why we need him to be the...

President Biden said he told President-elect Trump not to try to settle scores in their first meeting to start the presidential transition process after Trump’s victory. “I was very straightforward with Trump when he got elected. I invited him immediately to the White House,” Biden said, referring to their Nov. 13 meeting, an interview with USA Today’s Susan Page. “I spent two hours with him.” “I tried to make it clear that there was no need, and it was counterintuitive for his interest to go back and try to settle...

President Biden said early Wednesday that he thinks he would have beaten President-elect Trump if he stuck with his reelection bid in an interview with USA Today. “It’s presumptuous to say that, but I think yes,” the president said when reporter Susan Page asked if he could have won. Biden added that he based that view on polling he reviewed but didn’t elaborate on where the data came from. When the president dropped out of the 2024 race in late July, he was behind Trump in national and battleground polls...