The Obama-Romney race in 2012 was the last in a familiar pattern in U.S. politics, which has since become defined by Donald Trump’s conservative populism.

President-elect Donald Trump promised mass deportation on the campaign trail, and while the scale of it remains vague, the elements of the plan are an unlikely call back to former President Barack Obama who was billed the “deporter-in-chief” by Democrats and immigrant advocates.

President-elect Donald Trump has surpassed former President Barack Obama as a successful president and leader.

Van Jones said the president-elect "is not an idiot," crediting his success, in part, to his "massive media ecosystem."

At the Atlantic, Russell Burman details this reasoning in his new article “Maybe Democrats Didn’t Do So Badly After All ”: Now a clearer picture of the election has emerged, complicating the debate over whether Democrats need to reinvent themselves—and whether voters really abandoned them at all.

NBC National Political Correspondent Steve Kornacki detailed Sunday the divide in voter demographics between President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President

Trump’s popularity has climbed, though he's still less popular than former Presidents Biden, Obama, Bush and Clinton were at this point in their transitions.

You can take some risks by putting a couple little extra things on a plate, even if it’s not asked for,’ Andre Rush says

President-elect Donald Trump’s border czar pick Tom Homan ... the elements of the plan are an unlikely call back to former President Barack Obama who was billed the “deporter-in-chief ...

The possibility that the United States could assume powers that violate the sovereignty of its southern neighbor forebodes a period of extraordinary tension in the bilateral relationship

A returning president who expects to govern without constraints leaves his opponents hoping to benefit from the blowback.