Election 2024 live: Trump tells Senate to let him bypass cabinet checks while details of Putin call emerge

The special counsel is signaling an end of a yearslong investigation into Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

He is likely getting away with it, Alex Woodward reports:

In the wake of Donald Trump’s sweeping victory, Republicans are turning their attention to those in the judicial system who went up against the president-elect in the courts.

Speaking on Fox News on Sunday, Florida Representatives Anna Paulina Luna and Cory Mills floated the idea that criminal charges could be brought against Judge Juan Merchan – and his daughter Loren Merchan.

Texas Senator John Cornyn, who is vying for the Senate Majority Leader position, agreed with Donald Trump that the next Senate leader should allow the president to make recess appointments to his cabinet.

“It is unacceptable for Senate Ds to blockade President [Trump’s] cabinet appointments. If they do, we will stay in session, including weekends, until they relent. Additionally, the Constitution expressly confers the power on the President to make recess appointments,” Cornyn said hours after Trump demanded so on Truth Social.

Recess appointments allow the president to appoint people to his cabinet during Senate recess, bypassing the typical confirmation process.

Radio host Charlamagne Tha God reflected on Vice President Kamala Harris’s failed presidential campaign saying he believes Harris did not effectively communicate a consistent message which ultimately hurt her in the polls.

Bernie Sanders has doubled down on his scathing remarks about the Democratic party having “abandoned” working-class voters, despite criticism from longtime friend and ally Nancy Pelosi.

The veteran Vermont senator reiterated that the US working class is “angry” but rejected the idea that the issue this election cycle had been with party “messaging.”

“Bottom line, if you’re an average working person out there, do you really think that the Democratic party is going to the mat… and fighting for you? I think the overwhelming answer is no. And that is what it’s got to change,” he said on Sunday.

Implementing loyalists to executive branch positions, forcing local and state law enforcement agencies to comply with mass deportation and taking a confrontational approach to relations with China are all policies promoted by the America First Policy Institute, a right-wing think tank with influence over Donald Trump.

Ariana Baio breaks it down:

Several elected Democrats sounded off on their party’s failure to present a coherent economic message to voters on Sunday as the post-mortem begins for the left in the wake of Kamala Harris’s stunning defeat.

Though their warning is already meeting some resistance, Democrats including Chris Murphy, Ro Khanna and Bernie Sanders offered stern critiques of their party’s accelerated losses with working-class voters of all races, especially men, as well as other constituencies once considered core parts of the Obama coalition, like Latino voters.

John Bowden takes a closer look:

MAGA Rep Jim Jordan stumbled over his words as he was confronted live on-air with a claim that Donald Trump and his supporters only cry election fraud when they lose.

The Ohio congressman appeared on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday where he was asked multiple times by host Dana Bash whether he thought that 2024 had been a “free and fair election.”