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68% : Susie will continue to work tirelessly to Make America Great Again," Trump said in a statement.
68% : How Trump spent his first day as president-electDonald Trump spent his first day as president-elect receiving congratulatory phone calls from his defeated opponent, world leaders and President Joe Biden as he began the process of turning his election victory into a government.
66% : She largely avoided the spotlight, even refusing to take the mic to speak as Trump celebrated his victory early Wednesday morning.
66% : The Dalai Lama congratulates Trump on his election win"I have long admired the United States of America as the champion of democracy, freedom and the rule of law," the Tibetan spiritual leader said in a message to Trump from the northern Indian town of Dharamshala where he has lived in exile since fleeing Tibet in 1959.
60% : It was a fitting coda to an election in which Trump once again won the support of about 8 in 10 white evangelical Christian voters, according to AP VoteCast, a sweeping survey of more than 120,000 voters.
60% : It was a fitting coda to an election in which Trump once again won the support of about 8 in 10 white evangelical Christian voters, according to AP VoteCast, a sweeping survey of more than 120,000 voters.
60% : Turkey's president spoke with Trump late on WednesdayTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan conveyed his hopes in a call for strengthened cooperation between their two countries during Trump's new term in office, according to a statement from the Turkish president's office.
60% : His team is also pledging that the second won't look much like the first one Trump established after his 2016 victory.
59% : That level of support -- among a group that represented about 20% of the total electorate -- repeats the similarly staggering evangelical support that Trump received in 2020.
59% : Trump was reelected this week.
59% : Trump succeeded in locking down his traditionally older, white base of voters, and he slightly expanded his margins with other groups into a winning coalition.
58% : Now, Trump is going back with a healthy Senate majority -- at least 53 seats -- and a party transformed by his MAGA movement.
58% : Updates on the last two presidential races left to be calledWith a win in Wisconsin early Wednesday, Trump cleared the 270 electoral votes needed to clinch the presidency.
56% : That margin -- among a group that represented about 20% of the total electorate -- repeats similarly staggering margins of evangelical support that Trump received in 2020.
56% : Baldwin narrowly won reelection to a third term over Republican businessman Eric Hovde, who was endorsed by Trump.
53% : Biden said he had spoken with Trump and assured him that he would direct his administration to ensure a "peaceful and orderly transition," because that's what the people deserve.
49% : The Ohio Attorney General's office also said it was looking into the matter.Republicans' comfortable Senate majority grows their powerWhen Trump entered the White House the first time, Republicans held a 51-seat majority and many within the party were willing to resist his plans.
49% : Vatican No. 2: Holy See hopes Trump will help end the wars in Ukraine and Gaza"At the start of his mandate, we wish him much wisdom because this is the main virtue of rulers according to the Bible," Cardinal Pietro Parolin said, speaking on the sidelines of a Rome conference on Thursday, according to Vatican News.
46% : His election has also raised the specter of meddling by the White House in the Fed's policy decisions, with Trump having proclaimed that as president he should have a voice in the central bank's interest rate decisions.
45% : Lula in 2022 defeated the far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro, who was known as "Trump of the Tropics.
44% : Trump didn't mention the Jan. 6 defendants, whom he's called "hostages" and "patriots," during his victory speech Wednesday.
44% : Trump picked up a small but significant share of Black and Hispanic voters and made narrow gains with men and women.
43% : Vice President Kamala Harris called Trump to concede the race and to congratulate him, while Biden invited the man he ousted from the White House four years ago to an Oval Office meeting to prepare to return the keys.
42% : "Parolin also said he hoped Trump would work to end polarization in the U.S., including over abortion.
41% : While acknowledging no one had a "magic wand" to end wars in Ukraine and Gaza, Parolin said the Holy See hoped Trump "can indeed be an element of détente and pacification in the current conflicts that are bleeding the world.
40% : ▶ Read more about how five key demographic groups votedMany European leaders at summit stress the need for defense self-reliance in wake of Trump's reelectionAround 50 European leaders on Thursday called for a stronger defense posture across the continent that no longer necessitates a fundamental dependence on Washington as they gave a guarded welcome to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump.
40% : Trump was keeping a low profile, staying out of the public eye after addressing supporters in Florida during the wee hours of Wednesday morning.
39% : A couple of Republican senators are still willing to publicly buck Trump.
39% : While such memos are rare, it is not the first time the military's top civilian leader has pressed the force on its duty to the Constitution in regard to a changeover of control under Trump.
37% : Evangelicals said they believed Trump would implement their policy priorities on religious as well as general issues such as immigration and the economy.
36% : "Not permitted under the law," Powell said, when asked if he was worried that Trump could demote him or other Fed officials, such as Michael Barr, the Fed's top banking regulator, who has sought to tighten financial regulations.
33% : The Iranian rial, in a free fall for years, hit its lowest value against the dollar on Wednesday before slightly recovering.▶ Read more about the response in Iran to Trump's election winWhat could US diplomacy look like under Trump?Trump's second term could realign U.S. diplomacy away from traditional international alliances and more toward populist, authoritarian politicians, according to both those leaders and outside observers.
31% : "Wisconsin Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin pledges to work with Trump and calls for less divisionDemocratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin pledged during her reelection victory speech Thursday to work with President-elect Donald Trump when possible, but she also vowed to fight him to protect the national health care law and abortion rights.
28% : Trump hasn't explained how he'll decide who gets pardoned.
28% : But he's suggested he would consider granting them even for those accused of assault as well as the former Proud Boys leader convicted of orchestrating a violent plot to keep Trump in power.
27% : As Trump chipped away at parts of the Democratic coalition, Vice President Kamala Harris wasn't able to make enough of her own gains.
25% : ▶ Read more about Trump and the Capitol riotersDemocrat Laura Gillen wins election to US House in New York's 4th Congressional District, beating incumbent Anthony D'EspositoDemocrat Laura Gillen won election to a U.S. House seat representing New York on Thursday, defeating Republican Rep. Anthony D'Esposito.
24% : A multimillion-vote gap between 2020 and 2024 fuels false election narrativesLess than 24 hours after Donald Trump was elected the 47th president of the United States, social media users began pushing two conflicting narratives to suggest election fraud, one that revived false claims by Trump that the 2020 vote was stolen from him and the other questioning how Vice President Kamala Harris could have received so many fewer votes in 2024 than President Joe Biden in 2020.
23% : The three largest cable news networks -- CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC -- accounted for just over 10 million of the lost audience.▶ Read more about the election night ratingsTrump says there is 'no price tag' for his mass deportation planTrump said in an NBC interview that he has "no choice" but to move forward with the plan he plugged on the campaign trail to carry out what he and aides promised would be the largest deportation effort in American history.
18% : Most experts agree that a president generally doesn't have the authority to fire a member of the Fed's governing board, but there is more ambiguity about whether Trump could remove Powell as chair while leaving him as a member of the board.
18% : Yet during his previous term in the White House, Trump publicly attacked Chair Jerome Powell after the Fed raised rates to fight inflation, and he may do so again.
17% : President Joe Biden won approximately 20 million more votes in the 2020 election than Vice President Kamala Harris earned in the 2024 race, proving either that Trump has cheated his way to a second term or that there was widespread fraud four years ago.
14% : Donald Trump's photo book, "Save America," was in the top 30.Federal Reserve Chair says Trump has no legal authority to fire himAt a press conference today, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said he would not resign if President-elect Donald Trump asked him to, and underscored that in his view, the president wouldn't have the legal authority to fire him, as Trump reportedly sought to do the last time he was in the White House.
14% : Biden was subtly nodding to how Trump, in 2020, refused to accept he lost the election.
13% : There are concerns, too, that the robust military aid Ukraine has enjoyed under President Joe Biden will be cut under Trump, particularly if Republicans take control of the House.
4% : And while Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has final say on all matters of state, has repeatedly expressed his own disgust with Trump, Iran's new reformist president has kept the door open to talks with Trump to seek relief from international sanctions to buoy a cratering economy.

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