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Trump names Rep. Matt Gaetz his pick for Attorney General.

Wednesday was all about Donald Trump and that's just how he likes it. The President-elect rolled into Washington D.C. in triumph on Wednesday, landing at Joint Base Andrews and taking a motorcade into the capital city where he got a thunderous welcome from his party, followed by a return to the Oval Office.

President-elect Donald Trump joked about running for a third term as he addressed the House GOP conference Wednesday morning. Trump triumphantly returned to Washington, D.C., a week and one day after his election victory, for a meeting with President Joe Biden at the White House. Prior to his meet-and-greet with the Democratic president, Trump addressed members of his own party on Capitol Hill.

Donald Trump called politics a tough sport when he met with President Joe Biden in the Oval Office on Wednesday, but he thanked Biden for a smooth transition. 'You're welcome,' Biden replied. Biden congratulated the man who proceeded him and will replace him in the White House.

President-elect Donald Trump made a triumphant return to Washington, DC on Wednesday bringing a full entourage of loyal long-time staff members and advisors in tow.

President-elect Donald Trump's newly appointed 'border czar' Tom Homan isn't afraid of engaging in debate on controversial border policies.

Donald Trump officially flipped the state of Arizona on Saturday to sweep all seven swing states in the 2024 presidential election.

Democrat Sen. John Fetterman is facing backlash after cursing out thousands of voters in his home state. Republican Dave McCormick was recently announced as the winner of the Key Stone State's razor-thin Senate race by the Associated Press, though some outlets have not called the race.

Special Counsel Jack Smith has asked the judge overseeing Donald Trump's January 6 criminal case to halt further proceedings after his astounding Election Night victory.

Donald Trump has pulled off an astounding political comeback and regained the White House as he's declared the winner of the 2024 U.S. presidential election. He becomes the first president in over 130 years - and only the second in history - to win a non-consecutive second term. His defeat of Vice President Kamala Harris marks a remarkable return for a twice-impeached president, who left office in 2021 on the back of claims that he had incited an assault on the U.S. Capitol building, and who was convicted earlier this year on multiple counts of business fraud.

Former President Donald Trump took the stage and declared victory in the early hours of Wednesday morning, cementing an extraordinary political comeback. Minutes earlier news organizations called the 2024 presidential race for him. 'We made history for a reason tonight, and the reason is that we overcame obstacles that nobody thought possible,' he said.

Nevada's top election prognosticator made a bombshell prediction about who would win the Silver State. Nevada is one of seven expected battlegrounds in the 2024 election. It narrowly went to President Joe Biden during the 2020 election and wasn't called for days due to mail-in ballots still needing to be counted.

Welcome to DailyMail.com's politics live blog where Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are neck-and-neck with just two days to the election.

Kamala Harris is showing a last-second surge in an unexpected area, the typically bright red Iowa.

Donald Trump cut a briefly forlorn figure on Friday afternoon as he told his supporters that after nine years he was holding some of his last ever campaign rallies. 'We're winding down,' he told a crowd in Warren, just outside Detroit, Michigan. 'Nine years we've been doing it, right? And now we're winding down.'

Donald Trump became the first of the two main candidates to visit the Muslim capital of the nation when he stopped in at a halal cafe in Dearborn, Michigan , to court Arab-American voters. 'This is Trump country,' shouted a guest as the former president toured The Great Commoner restaurant. Trump told reporters traveling with him that the visit was part of an effort to make inroads with Lebanese people and Muslims.

Jennifer Lopez expressed outrage at the Puerto Rico dig expressed at Donald Trump's Madison Square Garden rally and asked voters in Nevada to give Kamala Harris a 'Hollywood ending.' J. Lo made her campaign trail debut Thursday night at a rally at the Craig Ranch Amphitheater in Las Vegas, calling it the 'most important stage I've ever been on.'

'How do you like my garbage truck? This truck is in honor of Kamala and Joe Biden,' he told reporters in Green Bay.

A top election data guru revealed a major sign that former President Donald Trump could win the presidential election next week.  CNN senior political data reporter Harry Enten said a key metric going into the election in six days is the low number of voters who feel the country is on the 'right track.'

Vice President Kamala Harris breaks her silence on Biden's 'garbage' comment amid fallout over the president's latest gaffe.

The 81-year-old commander-in-chief was responding to a speaker at the former president's Madison Square Garden rally comparing Puerto Rico to a 'floating island of garbage'.

Vice President Kamala Harris slams what she called 'billionaires club' after the owners of major newspapers decided not to make endorsements in the presidential race.

Kamala Harris can't seem to stop code switching her accent. The vice president is once again being roasted online for using a 'fake accent' to assimilate to a predominantly black audience. While speaking at a church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, social media users highlighted a point where they said Harris began speaking like a southern Baptist preacher and quoted from the Bible's book of Psalms.

U.S. ELECTION LIVE BLOG: Follow all the action from the campaign trail with just nine days left of the election.

For two decades Kari Lake 's throaty voice and pixie cut were fixtures on Fox 10 in Phoenix, providing the sort of comforting presence common on local news channels across the nation: Introducing cooking features moments after relaying details of grisly murders. That all seems like a long time ago.

Former First Lady Michelle Obama hit the campaign trail with Vice President Kamala Harris with ten days to go before Election Day.

Donald Trump is expected to sit down with podcaster Joe Rogan on Friday in a highly anticipated wide-ranging interview with 11 days to the election. And given the pair's past incendiary comments about each other, there are bound to be fireworks.

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Barack Obama make their first joint appearance on the campaign trail with a rally in the Atlanta suburbs.

Donald Trump hammered Kamala Harris for her border security and immigration plans in front of thousands in Arizona Thursday, saying she's made the U.S. a human 'dumping ground.' Speaking to brimming Mullett Arena, in Tempe on Thursday the former president sought to make immigration the central theme of his address in the border state. 'Kamala's migrant invasion given to us by gross incompetence disqualifies her from even thinking about being president,' Trump said.

Vice President Kamala Harris will deliver her 'closing argument' to voters one week before Election Day at a symbolic spot - The Ellipse - where former President Donald Trump addressed supporters before they attacked the Capitol on January 6. This move comes as Harris has pivoted from her 'joy'-filled campaign, to one with darker themes - warning Americans about the danger a second Trump term poses.

Despite her 'Brat' attitude and Gen Z appeal, Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris turns 60 today.

Tucked away in the far northwest corner of country just before the cliffs drop off into the Pacific Ocean lies America's last true bellwether county. A decidedly purple place, this small, rural region boasts an unmatched record of voting for every presidential election winner since Ronald Reagan in 1980.

Donald Trump claims that his struggle with the support of women voters is 'all nonsense' and claimed 'without abortion' women love him in an appearance on Fox & Friends where he also took aim at Nikki Haley.

The former president put on black tie and tore into Kamala Harris at the annual Al Smith Dinner in Manhattan after the VP opted to send a video instead of coming in person. Trump called it 'disrespectful.' He pointed out the last Democrat to skip the dinner in an election year was Walter Mondale, who lost in a landslide.

Vice President Kamala Harris had a series of heated exchanges with Fox News' Bret Baier over immigration in her first sit down interview with the network as Election Day nears.

Former President Bill Clinton had a bizarre moment while eulogizing the late Ethel Kennedy before a crowd of influential politicians and Kennedy family members. During his remarks at the Kennedy matriarch's funeral Wednesday afternoon in Washington, D.C., Clinton revealed to the crowd what he really thought of Robert Kennedy's widow.

Donald Trump has sparked outrage from conservatives and liberals after announcing a new nickname. He dubbed himself the 'father of IVF' during a Fox News town hall event.  Trump has shifted on the issue of in-vitro fertilization (IVF) multiple times as he tries to placate evangelical Republicans and keep female voters onside over the tricky issue of reproductive health.

The first casualty was an inconvenience that halted Donald Trump for a minute or two while midflight answering questions about home prices, the border and small business. By the time the second person collapsed in the heat of the overcrowded exhibition hall, people were headed for the exits and the former president went for plan B. 'Let's not do any more questions,' Trump said to his audience in suburban Philadelphia. 'Let's just listen to music.'

Tiffany Trump is expecting her first child, her father Donald Trump revealed in a speech at the Detroit Economic Club on Thursday. The former president was recognizing several guests in the crowd, including businessman Massad Boulos, who is Tiffany's father-in-law, when he announced the good news. 'He happens to be the father of Tiffany's husband, Michael, who's a very exceptional young guy,' Trump said. 'And she's an exceptional young woman. And she's going to have a baby. So that's nice.'

The comments were quickly seized on by the Trump campaign, which accused Walz of preparing the groundwork to claim a win by the Republican candidate in November was illegitimate.

Kamala Harris said there is nothing she would change in terms of what President Joe Biden has done during their time in the White House. 'There is not a thing that comes to mind,' Harris said. Her comments were made to the hosts of ABC's The View when she appeared on the show Tuesday morning for a softball interview where she was fawned over. Whoopi Goldberg introduced her as 'the next president of the United States.'

Vice President Kamala Harris grilled by 60 Minutes over the Biden administration's slow response to the border crisis as well as her flip-flopping positions on a series of issues from fracking to health care.

A new poll reveals how the fallout from the Hamas assault on Israel last year has divided American society with the potential to influence the outcome of November's election. It found that almost four in 10 American Muslims believe Hamas did not commit murder and rape on October 7 last year. Some 31 percent said they did believe the gunmen were responsible for such crimes.

Kamala Harris struggled to explain her economic policies and how she will get them through Congress in an interview with CBS' 60 Minutes, where she was repeatedly asked about its details. 'My plan is about saying that when you invest in small businesses, you invest in the middle class, and you strengthen America's economy. Small businesses are part of the backbone of America's economy,' she said.  But when CBS' Bill Whitaker continued to grill her what her plan does and how she would pay for it, Harris didn't offer any specifics, just staying she knew lawmakers agreed with her.

As Trump returned to where he was shot there was an opera singer, tolling bells, Mexican waves, a flyover, parachutists, and a dramatic cameo by a scene-stealing Elon Musk.

Tesla boss Elon Musk was seen jumping on stage with his fists in air as he joined  Donald Trump to address his supporters at the Butler Farm Show in Pennsylvania. This is the first time the former President has returned to the state since his attempted assassination two months ago.

Nikki Haley may have endorsed Donald Trump but her campaign lieutenant Jimmy Greene, a Republican since Ronald Reagan and a fixture in the local Michigan party for years, has not. So when Donald Trump took the stage in his hometown of Saginaw on Thursday, the 62-year-old was nowhere to be seen. He was at home watching 'Gray's Anatomy.' 'In years past, the party was a little bit of everything under Bush, McCain, Romney, we really were the big tent,' he told DailyMail.com 'There is no big tent right now. It's a MAGA tent. And if you ain't under it, you ain't in it.'

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are locked in a neck-and-neck battle for the White House with just one month to go before Election Day. Polls show the presidential race could be the closest in modern history and is likely to be decided by just thousands of voters in seven battleground states.

President Joe Biden shocked reporters Friday by showing up to the White House briefing room for the first time of his presidency. As the Friday briefing moved past its scheduled hour, the door to the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room swung open to expose the 81-year-old president carrying a binder.

President Joe Biden's team is scheduling his meetings and events in an even narrower window in an effort to 'manage his stamina,' Axios said in a report Friday. The news organization has tracked the 81-year-old president's schedule since his July 21st decision to bow out of the presidential race.

President Joe Biden was asked Thursday evening if what states in the 'storm zone' of Hurricane Helene needed. After a pause he responded they were 'happy across the board' and 'getting everything they need.' His response came after Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp ventured criticism, saying he was 'outraged' at an early emergency declaration, and called the White House seeking a boost. Donald Trump has blasted the response and accused FEMA of diverting money from illegal migrants - although funds for migrant housing are appropriated under a separate category by Congress.

The disaster response agency FEMA is out of money to help Americans in distress after Hurricane Helene despite blowing billions on illegal migrants. Over the last two years, FEMA has been given over one billion dollars to specifically support illegal migrants. But now money is coming up short for American citizens in need after over 150,000 households impacted by Hurricane Helene have reached out to the federal government for assistance. 'FEMA does not have the funds to make it through the season,' Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas shockingly admitted Wednesday.