EXIT POLL
Americans started furiously researching how to move to a different country as a looming second Donald Trump presidency was confirmed this week. Google searches for “move to Canada” spiked 1,270 percent in the 24 hours after East Coast polls closed Tuesday, according to Reuters, while similar queries about moving to New Zealand jumped almost 2,000 percent and those for Australia increased 820 percent. A Google official told the news agency that late Wednesday on the East Coast, searches about emigrating to those three countries were at an all-time high. While Google doesn’t disclose raw numbers, data from New Zealand’s immigration site showed around 25,000 new U.S. users visited on Nov. 7—compared to just 1,500 on the same day last year. Evan Green, a managing partner at Green and Spiegel—the oldest immigration law firm—similarly reported being inundated with interest. “Every half hour there is a new email enquiry,” Green told Reuters.
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Ted Cruz’s Daughter Visibly Grimaces at Dad’s Trump Praise
‘DON’T CLAP FOR THAT’
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz‘s daughter subtly pushed back at her father’s kind words for Donald Trump during his victory speech earlier this week, according to a viral video making the rounds online. The Republican senator, whose 180-degree turn on Trump during his first presidential campaign has been well documented, said: “I hope and pray that Donald Trump will be re-elected as president of the United States,” drawing a grimace from one of his daughters, who stood on stage beside him. Moments later, she appeared to tell her mother, Heidi, “Don’t clap for that.” In the 2016 Republican primary, one of the more personal attacks Trump made against Cruz involved insulting his wife‘s looks. Cruz, who around that time called Trump “utterly amoral” and “a narcissist at a level I don‘t think this country’s ever seen,” ended up endorsing Trump wholeheartedly months later.
ICYMI — Ted Cruz’s daughter says “don’t clap for that” about Trump getting re-elected pic.twitter.com/S9dwWYb9iE
— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller)November 8, 2024
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John Hinckley Jr. Tells People to Quit Asking Him to Kill Trump
‘PLEASE STOP’
John Hinckley Jr., the man who tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan, really wants people to stop asking him to kill Donald Trump. The 69-year-old spoke up on X Thursday after some users replied to his posts after Trump’s election win—which were innocuously promoting his art and website—with comments saying “We need you” and encouraging him to come out of “retirement.” “I’m a man of peace now!” Hinckley wrote. “Please stop with all the negative comments!” A Secret Service source told TMZ earlier in the week the agency is “aware of the social media posts” but wouldn’t comment “on matters of protective intelligence.” Hinckley shot Reagan along with his press secretary, a Secret Service agent, and a police officer outside the Washington Hilton Hotel on March 30, 1981. He did so in an effort to impress the actress Jodie Foster, with whom he’d become obsessed after seeing Taxi Driver. Hinckley, who was found not guilty by reason of insanity, was released from a psychiatric hospital in 2016 under restrictions that were eventually lifted in 2022. Earlier this year, he condemned the attempted assassination of Trump in Pennsylvania, saying that violence “is not the way to go.”
I’m a man of peace now! Please stop with all the negative comments!
— John Hinckley (@JohnHinckley20)November 8, 2024
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Rashida Jones Pays Tribute to Her Late Father Quincy Jones
‘AN ICON’
Actress Rashida Jones memorialized her father, legendary music producer Quincy Jones, in an Instagram post Thursday after he passed away over the weekend at 91. “My dad was nocturnal his whole adult life. He kept ‘jazz hours’ starting in high school and never looked back. When I was little, I would wake up in the middle of the night to search for him,” Rashida wrote, along with a baby photo with her dad. “He would never send me back to bed. He would smile and bring me into his arms while he continued to work…there was no safer place in the world for me.” She continued, “He was a giant. An icon. A culture shifter. A genius. All accurate descriptions of my father but his music (and ALL of his work) was a channel for his love. He WAS love. He made everyone he ever met feel loved and seen. That’s his legacy.” She finished with, “Daddy, it is an honor to be your daughter. Your love lives forever.” Rashida directed a 2019 documentary on her father’s life, which won a Grammy.