Republicans Take Control of the House of Representatives

Elizabeth Weibel11 Nov 2024

Republicans are projected to take control of the House of Representatives, giving the party a trifecta as Republicans also took control of the Senate and the presidency.

Decision Desk HQ projected that the Republicans had won enough seats for them to take control of the House. Republicans were projected to have secured a 218-209 majority.

House Republicans ended up making gains over their Democrat colleagues in the election. Republican candidate Rob Bresnahan won the race for Pennsylvania’s 8th Congressional District over incumbent Rep. Matt Cartwright.

Republican candidate Ryan Mackenzie also unseated incumbent Rep. Susan Wild (D-PA) in the race for Pennsylvania’s 7th Congressional District.

The Hill reported that there were “three freshmen New York Republicans” who were unseated in their races.

The news that the Republicans had won the majority in the House comes a week after the presidential election in which President-elect Donald Trump won the election over Vice President Kamala Harris after he secured a pathway to over 270 votes in the Electoral College.

Breitbart News’s Bradley Jaye previously reported that theRepublicans taking control of the Senate would ensure that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) would lose his gavel.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/11/11/2024-republicans-take-control-house-representatives/

President-Elect Donald Trump Chooses Former Rep. Lee Zeldin to Lead the EPANov. 11, 2024

President-elect Donald Trump has chosen former New York Rep. Lee Zeldin (R) to lead the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

In a statement, Trump highlighted how Zeldin has a “very strong legal background” and had been a “true fighter for America First policies.”

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Trump added that he had known Zeldin “for a long time,” and that he had seen Zeldin navigate some “extremely difficult and complex situations.”

“As the 45th & 47th President of the United States, I am pleased to announce that the Highly Respected former Congressman from New York, Lee Zeldin will be appointed to serve as The Administrator of The United States Environmental Protective Agency (EPA),” Trump said in his statement. “Lee, with a very strong legal background, has been a true fighter for America First policies. He will ensure fair and swift deregulatory decisions that will be enacted in a way to unleash the power of American businesses, while at the same time maintaining the highest environmental standards, including the cleanest air and water on the planet.”

“He will set new standards on environmental review and maintenance, that will allow the United States to grow in a healthy and well-structured way,” Trump added. “I have known Lee Zeldin for a long time, and have watched him handle, brilliantly, some extremely difficult and complex situations. I am very proud to have him in the Trump Administration, where he will quickly prove to be a great contributor.”

In a post on X, Zeldin responded to the news that he was joining “Trump’s Cabinet as EPA Administrator,” noting that they would be restoring “US energy dominance,” and would “revitalize” the nation’s auto industry.

“It is an honor to join President Trump’s Cabinet as EPA Administrator,” Zeldin wrote in his post. “We will restore US energy dominance, revitalize our auto industry to bring back American jobs, and make the US the global leader of AI. We will do so while protecting access to clean air and water.”

The announcement of Zeldin joining Trump’s cabinet comes after it was announced that House Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-NY) was chosen to join Trump’s cabinet as the Ambassador to the United Nations.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/11/11/president-elect-donald-trump-chooses-former-rep-lee-zeldin-lead-epa/

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Nigel Farage Most Popular Party Political Leader in Wales, Poll Finds

Kurt Zindulka11 Nov 2024

In a sign of the shifting landscape in Britain, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is now the most popular political leader in Wales, according to a recent survey.

A poll conducted by Survation has found that NigelFarage would be the most popular political party leader in Wales if he were formally designated as the party chief for Wales.

The survey from the pollster that correctly predicted the 2016 Brexit Referendum found that 30 per cent of Welsh voters back the Reform UK leader, compared to 21 per cent of Labour Party Welsh First Minister Eluned Morgan, 19 per cent for the Welsh Conservative’s Andrew RT Davies, and 22 per cent for the leftist Welsh nationalist leader Rhun ap Iorwerth.

While Reform does not currently have a leader specified for Wales as Mr Farage serves as a UK-wide chief like Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer for the Labour Party and Kemi Badenoch for the neo-liberal Conservatives, thesurvey will come as a boon for Farage as he seeks to overthrow the Tories as the principal opposition party to Labour in Wales.

Speaking to GB News as he rallied for Reform in Newport, Wales, Mr Farage said: “I think the voters in Wales don’t look at the Conservative Party as a viable alternative.

“Our aim is to replace the Conservatives as the main opposition to Labour and to take the fight to them in the Senedd elections.

“If you believe the opinion polls that are out this morning, we already are making real progress.”

In addition to his personal popularity in the UK country, Farage’s party has surged to 19 per cent in the polls for the 2026 elections for the locally devolved Welsh Senedd parliament.

This represented an 18 per cent increase over the 2021 election when Mr Farage was not leading the party and puts Reform ahead of the Tories in Wales for the first time.

The increase in support did not just draw from Conservatives, however, with the scandal-ridden governing Welsh Labour Party falling by seven points to 29 per cent.

As in the UK more broadly, MrFarage’s strategy will be to win over disaffected working-class Labour supporters, whom he has argued have been forgotten by the left-wing party in favour of woke urban elites and ethnic minorities.

Reform’s working-class appeal was demonstrated by its support in the de-industrialised South Wales Valleys, where the party has climbed to 26 per cent support.

At a rally in Newport over the weekend, Mr Farage said: “Labour’s national government is bad enough, buthave a look at what Labour has done in Wales with devolved powers over the last few years.

“The biggest waiting lists for the NHS in the whole of the country, failing education, lunatic woke policies on a scale that is almost unimaginable,not to mention 20 mile an hour speed limits.

“Thanks to Labour’s devotion to the net zero agenda, primary steelmaking in South Wales is at an end. I think they’ve failed completely.”

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/11/11/nigel-farage-most-popular-party-political-leader-in-wales-poll-finds/

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