2024 election Archives

Americans Chose a Criminal Over the Constitution

February 8, 2026 Buck Banks

“Whether you liked Ms. Harris or not, this last election was a choice, a very simple one. You had the choice between the Constitution and the criminal. And this country chose the criminal. You put a criminal at the top of America. A convicted felon.”

— Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura (I), on a podcast.

2024 Was Not a Repudiation of Democratic Party

November 5, 2025 Buck Banks

“Tuesday’s results back up my oft-stated argument that the November 2024 election was a highly focused repudiation of President Biden, the Biden-Harris Administration, and, by extension, Vice President Kamala Harris, not the top-to-bottom repudiation of the Democratic Party that many have made it out to be.”

It’s been six months and still the Dems don’t understand
What happened in the election and how the disaster began.
Their ideas so far have been anemic,
But now they’re going psychologic
With SAM — short for “Speaking with American Men: A Strategic Plan.”

Democrats Gradually Recovering from Post-Election ‘News Fatigue’

February 19, 2025 Buck Banks

83%

A new Puck/Echelon Insight poll finds that “news fatigue” is dissipating on the left with 83% of Democrats either “very” or “somewhat closely” following political news right now.

Biden in the Bardo

December 10, 2024 Buck Banks

Being Joe Biden these days really sucks.
He’s checked out while the transition’s in flux.
Trump is acting like a president;
Joe acts like a White House resident,
And he has indeed become the lamest of lame ducks.

Trump Paid $100,000 for RFK Jr.’s Capitulation and Endorsement

December 9, 2024 Buck Banks

$100,000

“Weeks after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dropped out of the presidential race in August and endorsed Donald Trump, the Trump campaign paid a California law firm that lists Kennedy among its lawyers,” NBC News reports. “The Trump campaign — now known as Never Surrender Inc. — disbursed $100,000 to ‘JW Howard Attorneys’ on Sept. 13, just three weeks after Kennedy bowed out of the race and backed Trump, FEC records show. Financial data for Trump’s campaign, which was converted to a leadership PAC, appears in FEC filings under the new Never Surrender name.”

Carville Assesses the State of the Democratic Party

December 7, 2024 Buck Banks

“The damage that the 2024 campaign has done — the damage that this decade has done to a Democratic brand — is almost unfathomable.”

— James Carville, quoted by USA Today.

Less than 2% Is NOT a Mandate

December 1, 2024 Buck Banks

1.55%

In his victory speech on Nov. 6, President-elect Donald Trump claimed Americans had given him an “unprecedented and powerful mandate,” the Los Angeles Times reports. However: “The latest tally from the Cook Political Report shows Trump winning 49.83% of the popular vote, with a margin of 1.55% over Vice President Kamala Harris.”

Trump Beat Harris with Low-Info Voters by Double Digits

November 19, 2024 Buck Banks

14 points

NBC News: “According to the final NBC News poll of the 2024 race, 76% of registered voters said they follow public affairs and politics closely. The poll showed Harris winning among that group by 5 points over Donald Trump, 52% to 47%. … But among the remaining quarter of voters who said they don’t follow politics closely, Trump was ahead by a much greater margin — 14 points, 54% to 40%.”

Trump Received Less than 50% of Popular Vote

November 17, 2024November 19, 2024 Buck Banks

49.99% to 48.22%

With 152.7 million votes now counted in the presidential race, Donald Trump leads Kamala Harris 49.99% to 48.22%, according to the Cook Political Report.

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Americans Chose a Criminal Over the Constitution

“Whether you liked Ms. Harris or not, this last election was a choice, a very simple one. You had the choice between the Constitution and the criminal. And this country chose the criminal. You put a criminal at the top of America. A convicted felon.”

— Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura (I), on a podcast.

2024 Was Not a Repudiation of Democratic Party

— Charlie Cook

Hey, Young Dudes!

Democrats Gradually Recovering from Post-Election ‘News Fatigue’

83%

A new Puck/Echelon Insight poll finds that “news fatigue” is dissipating on the left with 83% of Democrats either “very” or “somewhat closely” following political news right now.

Biden in the Bardo

Trump Paid $100,000 for RFK Jr.’s Capitulation and Endorsement

$100,000

Carville Assesses the State of the Democratic Party

“The damage that the 2024 campaign has done — the damage that this decade has done to a Democratic brand — is almost unfathomable.”

— James Carville, quoted by USA Today.

Less than 2% Is NOT a Mandate

1.55%

Trump Beat Harris with Low-Info Voters by Double Digits

14 points

Trump Received Less than 50% of Popular Vote

49.99% to 48.22%

With 152.7 million votes now counted in the presidential race, Donald Trump leads Kamala Harris 49.99% to 48.22%, according to the Cook Political Report.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“We’ve spent $8 trillion in the Middle East. And we’re not fixing our roads in this country. How stupid is it? We’re not fixing our highways, our tunnels, our bridges, our hospitals, even.”

— President Trump, speaking in 2020.

— Derek Thompson

“The defense secretary [Pete Hegseth] appears unable to approach matters of life and death with even the slightest bit of reverence or humility.”

— Peter Wehner

Numerati

56%

G. Elliot Morris: “According to a simple average of new high-quality surveys, 38% of Americans approve and 49% disapprove of U.S. military action in Iran. … When ignoring ‘don’t know’ respondents, 56% disapprove.”

92,000

“The U.S. lost 92,000 jobs in February, a sign that the job market continues to struggle across a broad range of sectors,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “The unemployment ticked slightly higher to 4.4%.”

72%

A new Fox News poll finds 72% of independents disapprove of President Trump’s job performance and 78% think he is focused on the wrong issues.

+47,000

54% to 41%