Donald Trump will continue shaping his second administration this week while the Republicans edge towards full control of Congress with the trifecta of White House, Senate and House..
The 78-year-old is set to make more cabinet picks from his Mar-a-Lago nerve center after choosing Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik to be his U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and former ICE director Tom Homan.
Meanwhile the GOP are four seats away from taking control of the House, after cementing the presidency and the majority of the Senate.
The battle among Republican Senators is now focused on the leadership, with Trump allies pushing Rick Scott as a challenger to the favorite John Thune.
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FEMA under fire after admitting to ‘discriminating against Trump supporters’
Kari Lake still awaiting fate in Arizona Senate race
The Arizona Senate race has still not yet been called by the Associated Press almost one week after Election Day.
Kari Lake is trailing Democrat Ruben Gallego with 92% of votes in.
She’s at 47.8 percent compared to Gallego’s 50 percent.
Trump completes clean sweep of all seven swing states
Donald Trump officially flipped the state of Arizona on Saturday to sweep all seven swing states in the 2024 presidential election.
With 87 percent of the votes counted in Arizona, Trump captured 52.6 percent compared to Kamala Harris’ 46.4 percent. The state had previously been won by Joe Biden in the 2020 election.
The nationwide results will hand Trump virtually unchecked power when he takes his oath of office in January. The Supreme Court, which includes an unprecedented three appointees from Trump, maintains a six to three conservative majority.
After months of neck-and-neck polling with Vice President Kamala Harris in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Michigan, Trump soundly won every single battleground state.
With 312 Electoral College votes, Trump’s shocking and decisive win saw him earning the largest margin of victory since the 1988 election for President George H. W. Bush.
Biden battles on the sand during weekend in Delaware
Kamala Harris paid Oprah Winfrey $1million during her failed presidential bid
Kamala Harris paid Oprah Winfrey $1million to help her failed presidential bid that cost a whopping $1.2billion.
Winfrey’s Harpo Productions received $1million from the Harris campaign on October 15 after Winfrey hosted a star-studded town hall event for the Vice President in September, the Washington Examiner reports.
Winfrey also participated in the Democrat’s last campaign rally in Philadelphia on the night before Election Day.
The legendary talk show host is not the only entertainer who received money from the Vice President in the hopes of helping her presidential campaign.
Harris reportedly spent six figures to build out the set for her October appearance on the hit podcast ‘Call Her Daddy’, where she sat down with the show’s host Alex Cooper.
In total, the Harris campaign spent $1.2billion on the race while Trump’s campaign spent $750 million, a Financial Times analysis found.
Republicans only need FOUR more seats to keep House majority
Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter
There are still 18 races left to be called in the 2024 U.S. House elections.
As it stands Monday morning, Republicans hold 214 seats so far and Democrats have 203, according to the Associated Press.
To get a majority, a party needs 218 seats in the lower chamber of the 435 for the 119th Congress starting in January 2025.
This means the GOP only needs four more seats to secure their majority and give president-elect Donald Trump a Republican trifecta.
The above graphic is not reflected to update the one more House seat that was called by AP for Republicans as of Monday morning
Trump announces his new ‘border czar’ Tom Homan to lead the biggest mass deportation in U.S. history
Donald Trump announced late Sunday that his former ICE director Tom Homan would serve as ‘border czar’ to oversee the largest deportation of immigrants in US history.
The president elect, 78, said on Truth Social that Homan would oversee the country’s borders in the incoming administration just days after his landslide victory against Vice President Kamala Harris.
‘I am pleased to announce that the Former ICE Director, and stalwart on Border Control, Tom Homan, will be joining the Trump Administration, in charge of our Nation’s Borders (“The Border Czar”),’ Trump posted on his social network Truth Social.
‘I’ve known Tom for a long time, and there is nobody better at policing and controlling our Borders.’
It comes after Homan said that Trump will use the US Army to round up and deport ‘the worst of the worst’ illegal migrants in an unparalleled crackdown.
Homan said all of the estimated 20 million people residing in the US illegally would be targeted by the unprecedented campaign. ‘Bottom line: if you come to the country illegally, you’re not off the table,’ he added.
Trump offers Rep. Elise Stefanik role of US ambassador to the United Nations
President-elect Donald Trump has offered the role of US ambassador to the United Nations to Elise Stefanik.
The House Republican and ally of the president accepted the UN gig after it was offered on Sunday, according to a report.
‘I am honored to nominate Chairwoman Elise Stefanik to serve in my Cabinet as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Elise is an incredibly strong, tough, and smart America First fighter,’ Trump told the New York Post.
The move to pick Stefanik appeared to be a snub for Haley, who did not appear on the campaign trail for him despite repeatedly claiming she was ‘on standby’.
Stefanik had appeared at Trump’s now infamous rally inside Madison Square Garden last month as the race for the White House intensified.
Exclusive:Trump allies head to Las Vegas to celebrate historic election win
By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter
Members of Donald Trump’s inner circle are heading to Sin City to celebrate his 2024 presidential election win.
The president-elect’s eldest son Donald Trump Jr. and incoming White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles are joining the party, a person familiar with the movements this week told DailyMail.com.
The individual said Trump ‘might’ head to Las Vegas, as well, just two days before he’s set to meet with President Joe Biden at the White House and a week after his historic win in blue-leaning Nevada.
