Trump, allies eye transition process as GOP hopes to control the White House, Congress and more top headlines

Will the big money interests and well-paid consultants who control the Democratic Party learn any real lessons from this disastrous campaign?”

he said

A healthy party is challenging itself to do that kind of an autopsy and hear what we did wrong,

he said

They feel lied to by the campaign,

the official said

David Plouffesenior adviser

We dug out of a deep hole but not enough. A devastating loss,

David Plouffe, senior adviser to campaign, wrote on X. Biden and Harris' support of Israel during its assault on Gaza split the Democratic Party, with many progressive Democrats calling unsuccessfully for the U.S. to curb its military aid to Israel

While I concede this election, I do not concede the fight that fueled this campaign,

she said

If you were going to be turned off by Trump’s rhetoric, you’d already be a Harris supporter,

said Republican consultant Jon Fleischman

I do think as clumsy and as weird as the animal-eating conversation has been, it did put a big magnifying glass on what is happening in some communities in the country that are being overwhelmed,

said Roe, the Republican strategist

They're eating the dogs!"

Trump shouted

He handled it in a more executive way than he usually would,

said the operative close to the campaign

America has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate,

Trump said early on Wednesday to a roaring crowd of supporters at the Palm Beach County Convention Center

There is not a thing that comes to mind in terms of – and I’ve been a part of most of the decisions that have had impact.”

When asked last month what she would have done differently from Biden, Harris answered

It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them,

he said

We still reiterate that this is a tossup, and one in which more pre-election uncertainty exists than perhaps any presidential election in recent memory,

Split Ticket said

Even the tiniest polling error in favor of Donald Trump could hand him the presidency—after all, polls in Pennsylvania currently show him down by only half a percent, and we've seen high-profile misses bigger than that in both directions,

Split Ticket wrote

Between the aftermath of inflation, an unpopular President Joe Biden still in office, and the GOP issue edge on the economy and immigration, Trump has a number of winds blowing at his back,

the Split Ticket team wrote

But between the GOP pivot away from the economy and immigration in favor of anti-transgender ads (which virtually nobody ranks as a top priority), and between a series of undisciplined comments from Trump and the folks in his orbit, he also seems intent on squandering every advantage he has in what remains a very winnable race,

they added