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“President-elect Donald Trump is expected to nominate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) to serve as Secretary of State,” The Hill reports. “Rubio’s selection to serve as Trump’s top diplomat completes a drastic turnaround from 2016, when the two were fierce rivals in a GOP presidential primary. Earlier this year, Trump nearly chose Rubio as his running mate before selecting Sen.

“The election campaign is over. To achieve success in the election, Donald Trump relied on certain forces to which he has corresponding obligations. As a responsible person, he will be obliged to fulfill them.” — Russian presidential aide Nikolay Patrushev, quoted by TASS.

“As Democrats continue to shift into recrimination mode about exactly what happened last Tuesday evening, they’ve found blame in lots of places — demographic shifts, inflation, concerns about immigration and even the wide world of podcasts,” Politico reports. “But digging into the raw vote totals in the Senate and the presidential race suggests the problem may have been more about Kamala Harris — or perhaps more likely, her ties to the Biden administration — than the party itself.” “In presidential election years, when voter turnout swells, presidential candidates often receive more votes than Senate candidates, even Senate incumbents.

Republicans are projected to keep control of the House of Representatives, handing the party total control of Washington with former President Trump back in the White House in January, The Hill reports.

President-elect Donald Trump has asked Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) to serve as his national security adviser, CNN reports. Last year, Waltz penned an opinion piece for Fox News in which he argued that “the era of Ukraine’s blank check from Congress is over.”

Late Sunday night, President-elect Donald Trump announced one of his top picks to staff the incoming administration: Tom Homan as the “border czar.” Homan “will be in charge of all deportation of illegal aliens back to their country of origin,” Trump posted on social media. “I have no doubt he will do a fantastic, and long-awaited-for, job.” There was no surprise there.