Thursday, November 7, 2024

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1/ Biden vowed to ensure a “peaceful and orderly transition,” calling on Americans to “accept the choice the country made” and to “bring down the temperature.” During his six-minute remarks, Biden said he hopes the 2024 election “can lay to rest the question about the integrity of the American electoral system. It is honest, it is fair, and it is transparent, and it can be trusted − win or lose.” He added: “I’ve said many times, you can’t love your country only when you win. You can’t love your neighbor only when you agree.” Biden’s speech comes exactly four years to the day he was declared the winner of the 2020 election against Trump, who refused to accept his loss, attempted to have the results overturned, and spent the years since insisting that the election was rigged. (USA Today / Axios / Politico / Washington Post / ABC News / NBC News / CNN / NPR / Associated Press)

2/ Trump’s MAGA allies admit that “Project 2025” was always “the agenda” for a second term. Project 2025 outlines a plan to expand the power of the executive branch, purge thousands of civil servants and replacing them with Trump loyalists, eliminate of the Department of Education, dissolve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, shrink the social safety net, end student debt relief, deport immigrants, and a de facto national abortion ban. “Now that the election is over I think we can finally say that yeah actually Project 2025 is the agenda. Lol,” right-wing podcast host Matt Walsh wrote on social media about the 900-plus-page extremist guidebook. Steve Bannon quickly praised Walsh and amplified his post on his podcast. And, then right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson said, “It is my honor to inform you all that Project 2025 was real the whole time.” Even though Trump spent the campaign distancing himself from the draconian policy package prepared by the Heritage Foundation, Russell Vought, a potential next chief of staff, said that Project 2025 was the plan and the distancing tactic was just campaign necessity. (Axios / Mother Jones / Rolling Stone)

3/ Trump said there is “no price tag” on his plan for the “largest deportation effort in American history.” In an interview, Trump reaffirmed his commitment to mass deportations, saying his top priority is to make the U.S. border “strong and powerful.” He credited his immigration stance for drawing a diverse voter coalition, including notable gains among Latino voters, despite the logistical and financial challenges officials have warned such a plan would entail. Nevertheless, Trump said he has a mandate “to bring common sense” to the country and tha...

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