Following Republicans’ sweeping defeats this week in off-year elections, President Donald Trump says Republicans need to focus on affordability. “As Republicans, you have to talk about it,” he told Bret Baier of Fox News. “Because if you don’t talk about it, you know, I saw that they kept talking about affordability. Well, Biden was a disaster with affordability. He had the highest inflation rate in the history of our country, but you have to talk about it. It’s no good if we do a great job, and you don’t talk about it. And I don’t think they talk about it enough.” Trump called it the party’s “biggest problem.” “I think the biggest problem is Republicans don’t talk about it. They don’t talk about the word affordability. And the Democrats lie about it.” “You know, [Republicans] have this new word called affordability and they don’t talk about it enough, the Democrats did,” he continued. “And the Democrats make it up because we took over a mess. Think of energy. Energy was so expensive, and now I have it down to half what it was.” Trump boasted that energy, gas, and grocery prices are down. “Groceries are way down, other than beef,” he said. “Now, beef is going to come down. You know, we have to do that.” “You remember when I started, eggs were up by four times what they were previously,” he said. “I was two days in the office, and they tell me about eggs. I solved that.” Trump said “we’ve got to” continue to get prices “way down.” “Look, when I took over, and I said this, inflation was so bad under Biden, remember, he had the Inflation Reduction Act. It was a scam. And he tried to lower inflation. But he caused the inflation, then he tried to lower the inflation,” he said. “He took over my economy where inflation was at 1%, which is perfect, 1%. He drove it nine or 10 times higher than that in a short period of time. When I took over it was a mess. I have inflation way down. I have it down to a normal number right now, lower than a normal number, in my opinion, I think.” The post Trump Reveals Key for Republicans to Win Elections appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., America’s first female speaker of the House and longtime top House Democrat, will retire from Congress at the end of her term, bringing her historic multi-decade career to a close. In a video posted Thursday morning, Pelosi, 85, bid farewell to her San Francisco district. “I will not be seeking re-election to Congress. With a grateful heart, I look forward to my final year of service as your proud representative,” Pelosi said. She did not give a detailed explanation for her decision in the video. Pelosi, the daughter of Democrat Baltimore mayor Thomas D’Alesandro Jr., first came to Congress in 1987. She became the first female congressional leader of a major party as House minority leader starting in 2003 and became the first female speaker in 2007. She would return to the speaker’s office a second time in 2019. Thank you, San Francisco. pic.twitter.com/OP8ubeFzR6— Nancy Pelosi (@TeamPelosi) November 6, 2025 Pelosi helped pass the Affordable Care Act under President Barack Obama and was a leader of the opposition during the first Trump administration.  She handed the title of House minority leader to Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., in 2023. Her retirement will reinforce a broader changing of the guard in the House of Representatives, as 78-year-old Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., will also not be seeking reelection in the midterms. “It was the faith that you have placed in me, and the latitude that you have given me that enabled me to shatter the marble ceiling and be the first woman speaker of the House,” Pelosi says in the farewell video. She adds that the speakership empowered her “to bring home billions of dollars for our city and our state,” and spoke glowingly of her own work on the Affordable Care Act and infrastructure projects. “I say to my colleagues in the House all the time, no matter what title they have bestowed upon me—speaker, leader, whip—there has been no greater honor for me than to stand on the House floor and say: ‘I speak for the people of San Francisco.’” The post Nancy Pelosi to Retire at End of Term appeared first on The Daily Signal.

The CBS News program “Sunday Morning” has been hailed as one of the “crown jewels” of the network—which means it’s larded with liberal bias. Last year, it was a conveyor belt of Democrats. It aired puffball interviews with Pete Buttigieg, Doug Emhoff, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Kamala Harris. So, it was typical when CBS reporter Seth Doane traveled to Italy for this week’s show to get the hot interview with “Hollywood icon” George Clooney. Things got spicy when they discussed what went wrong in 2024. Doane asked Clooney if he still felt good about his New York Times op-ed calling for Biden to step aside. “Yes. We had a chance,” Clooney answered. “I wanted there to be—as I wrote in the op-ed—a primary. Let’s battle-test this quickly and get it up and going. I think the mistake with it being Kamala is that she had to run against her own record. And it’s very hard to do if the point of running is to say, ‘I’m not that person.’ You know, it’s hard to do. And so, she was given a very tough task. I think it was a mistake, quite honestly.” So, Clooney wanted a primary, which obviously did not happen. It could have happened if Democrats had pressured Biden out in 2023, but they denied and delayed until the disastrous debate, and then it was too late for a primary. It left them with the irony of being the Democrats without any actual democracy. Then Doane asked Clooney, “Did you see Hunter Biden’s reaction?” Hunter Biden was naturally furious that his income source was forced out. “I love George Clooney’s movies, but I don’t really give a s— what he thinks about who should be the nominee for the Democratic Party,” he told one podcaster. He also claimed Barack Obama gave Clooney “the blessing” to speak out, and said, “F— him! F— him and f— everybody around him.” Clooney said yes, he saw that, but who needs a family feud? “I could spend a lot of time debunking many of the things he said, because many of the things he said were just outright lies. You know, Obama didn’t put me up to it. It wasn’t my fundraiser.” He’s going to be the bigger man, he told CBS. “But the reality is, I don’t think looking backwards like that is helpful to anyone, particularly to him. I don’t think it’s helpful for the Democratic Party. And so, I’m just going to wish him well on his ongoing recovery, and I hope he does well, and just leave it at that. I have many personal opinions about it, but I don’t find it to be helpful to have a public spat with him.” The pro-Democrat networks never want a “public spat” between Democrats. It killed them to spend a few weeks as the party elites forced the feeble elder Biden out. But there’s a dirty little secret about this interview: None of this political section of the interview was aired nationwide on CBS. You’d have to find it online. They can’t talk about a “public spat” in front of the public. Instead, CBS plugged the “highlights” of the interview at the top of the show as Doane oozed, “It’s hard to beat a tour of Venice with George Clooney. He talks fame, relationships, and aging.” Clooney mused, “I watch what I eat. But, you know, everything in moderation, including moderation.” This kind of partisan editing is exactly what the Democrat enablers inside CBS News want to preserve and protect under Bari Weiss and their new ownership. COPYRIGHT 2025 CREATORS.COM We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post CBS Ever-So-Gently Asks Clooney About Forcing Biden Out appeared first on The Daily Signal.

You’ve probably heard by now the blockbuster news that Microsoft founder Bill Gates, one of the richest people to ever walk the planet, has had a change of heart on climate change. For several decades, Gates poured billions of dollars into the climate-industrial complex and was howling that “the end is nigh” unless we stop using fossil fuels, cars, air conditioning, and general anesthesia. Now, he says he rejects the “doomsday” predictions of the more extreme global warming prophets. Some conservatives have snuffed that Gates has shifted his position on climate change because he and Microsoft have invested heavily in energy-intensive data centers. What Gates has done is courageous and praiseworthy. There are not many people of his stature who will admit that they were wrong. Al Gore certainly hasn’t. My wife says I never do. Gates still endorses the need for communal action (which won’t work), but he has sensibly dissociated himself from the increasingly radical and economically destructive dictates from the green movement. For that, the Left has tossed him out of their tent as a “traitor.” I wish to highlight several critical insights that should be the starting point for constructive debate that every clear-minded thinker on either side of the issue should embrace. 1) It’s time to put human welfare at the center of our climate policies. This includes improving agriculture and health in poor countries. 2) Countries should be encouraged to grow their economies even if that means a reliance on fossil fuels, such as natural gas. Economic growth is essential to human progress. 3) Although climate change will hurt poor people, it will not be the only or even the biggest threat to the lives and welfare of the vast majority of them. The biggest problems are poverty and disease. I would add to these wise declarations two inconvenient truths: First, the solution to changing temperatures and weather patterns is technological progress. A much smaller percentage of people die of severe weather events today than did 50 or 100 or 1,000 years ago. Second, energy is the master resource, and to deny people reliable and affordable energy is to keep them poor and vulnerable—and that’s inhumane. If Gates were to direct even a small fraction of his foundation funds toward ensuring everyone on the planet has access to electric power and safe drinking water, it would do more for humanity than all the hundreds of billions of dollars that governments and foundations have devoted to climate programs that have failed to change the globe’s temperature. COPYRIGHT 2025 CREATORS.COM The post Bill Gates Gets Mugged by Reality on Climate appeared first on The Daily Signal.

In this segment from today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler break down how DEI was a “shelter” for the likes of former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, and former first lady Michelle Obama whining again about how the Obamas had it rough in the White House because they’re black. Also on today’s episode, Hanson and Fowler take a deep dive into the partisan, perhaps impeachable, misdeeds of Judge James Boasberg, plus California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s incomprehensible comments about former President Joe Biden’s lucidity.  This transcript has been edited for clarity.   Victor Davis Hanson: Yeah, I remember the cemeteries thing about all the …  Jack Fowler: So many churches burned down for nothing.  Hanson: I don’t think anybody realizes, and I don’t realize, that everybody talks about DEI, DEI, but it is very pernicious because it does two things. It doesn’t just destroy meritocracy, but it encourages people to use criteria other than empiricism for an agenda that you can do almost anything by a DEI argument.  You can say, “I didn’t get the job because of this. The job wasn’t done. I didn’t come to class because of this. The bomb didn’t hit the target because of this. The plane crashed, it wasn’t my fault because of this.” It’s like Marxism in the Soviet Union. It really was an ideological shelter for people to flee to who were incompetent.  And you know, it’s just gonna be very good for black people, anybody who’s not white, it’s gonna be wonderful because if you truly get rid of it, you will see, I think, some really wonderful people who will compete fine in the meritocratic field of ideas and performance. And then nobody will be able to say, as a lot of people did, “Karine Jean-Pierre was that brilliant press secretary because she was black.”   Fowler: Yeah.   Hanson: No, they’re not gonna be able to say that. But when you look at her or Kamala Harris, you ask yourself, did the Democratic Party have a more competitive vice president as a future president than Kamala Harris, or was that the level of word salads they all had?  And you look at Karine. I wasn’t a big fan at all. That’s an understatement.   Fowler: Right.   Hanson: Jan, is it Jean or Jan? Jean Psaki. John. I forgot her name.   FOWLER: Jen.  Hanson: [Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki]. But my gosh, she was cunning. You know what I mean? Anytime she got trapped with a deer in the headlights, she “Psaki’d back” and she evaded. But she had the facts. Karine, every time she’d say a statement, the next statement would contradict it or it would be completely antithetical to what she just said. She was even unaware of it. And she had that little girl, she’d go like this with, you know, and then throw little temper tantrums and walk out or say, “This is closed.” And is it [Fox News correspondent] Peter Doocy she despised?   Fowler: Yeah.   Hanson: Every time she called on him, he made her look like a fool. And then she got angry at him. It was just pathetic.   Fowler: But she’s getting criticized now. She has her book out. And Jim Geraghty [National Review’s senior political correspondent] wrote something to the effect of: Where were these reporters who are now giving her some grief for not acknowledging Biden’s dotage. Where were these same people when they were covering Biden and her at the White House a year or two ago? So, I’m not feeling any sympathy for her, Victor.   Hanson: I am not either. Everybody knew what was going on. Everybody knew.  What she did was, when she wrote this pathetic memoir, and she said she’s no longer a Democrat, she opened herself up to vituperation because it’s so incoherent and consistent. She says, “Well, the Democrats did not support him enough. They should have supported Joe Biden, but you know what? Because they were racist, they didn’t help Kamala Harris win.”  Well, I thought you didn’t want her to be a candidate. Was that racist of you? Preferring a white man to a black vice presidential candidate? And then she says, “And I’m gonna become an independent because they didn’t support Joe Biden enough.” So you’re quitting the Democratic Party because they didn’t support Joe Biden enough, but they didn’t support Kamala Harris enough? Who did they support? Who did they not support and why would you tell us until the last day of office that Joe Biden is completely capable? And now you’re mad at people who in your own party said, “No, he is not. And I’m glad he wasn’t the candidate.”  It didn’t make sense. And is she an independent because the Democratic Party is racist or not racist, too conservative, too left? I watched about four of those things she did. I swear, every time she did, within 90 seconds, she said, “As the first black gay immigrant woman.” “As the first woman who was gay and an immigrant and black.” “As the first black person, but also gay person, but also immigrant.” I don’t get this. She was saying how awful she had it, and how mean people were to her.  And then, almost at the same time, Michelle [Obama] came out with her latest whine that, “Oh, you know, it just was so unfair that they didn’t even give us a honeymoon. They just expected us because we were black to do so much better than anybody else. And then”—as I’d said earlier—“we had to pay for our own food. And when the girls went on my plane, we had to pay for their fare. Nobody liked us and it was so hard. It was just mean, ’cause we were black.”  No, you were elected probably because you were black. That helped you. That was an asset. More white people—Michelle. Michelle—more white people voted for Barack Obama in 2008 than white people did in 2004 for John Kerry. So don’t say that. And I ask you another reason: If 53% or 50%, I don’t know what it was, 50% of white people almost voted for Barack Obama, that shows you that there was still racism when 96% of blacks voted for Barack Obama. So, if you have 96% of one race voting for a person of the same race, it is a sign that they’re not racist? And if half the other people still vote for a person of the opposite, that’s a sign that they are? It doesn’t make sense.   I think everybody’s so done with her. It’s just with him too. Here in California, Jack, he’s on every night. All during the World Series, we had to see Barack Obama on Prop 50. “Prop 50. Prop 50.” You know? And, “[President Donald] Trump did this, this gerrymandering. Stop the gerrymandering. Stop the rigging of the election by rigging [the election],” Jack. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Victor Davis Hanson: DEI is an ‘Ideological Shelter’ for the Incompetent  appeared first on The Daily Signal.